Breaking Free From Bondage: Courtney's Journey To Liberation

I blinked rapidly, waking up to a pair of bright green eyes peering down at me. For a moment I thought it must be Erin, my roommate back home, but then my mind cleared enough to notice the dark skin and long fangs. She smiled, her full lips spreading wide revealing even more teeth.

“You’re awake!” she exclaimed. “I was beginning to worry about you.”

“What?” I muttered groggily. “Where am I? Who are you?” Then I looked around and realized that I was on a strange looking spaceship. The walls were a dull, metallic color, and there was no gravity pulling me down towards the floor. Instead I just floated around, hanging loosely from the bed underneath me.

She frowned at my question and looked away for a moment before turning back with a sheepish smile. “Well, you see, it’s kind of complicated...”

The way she said it made me feel uncomfortable as if she had something bad to tell me. The last thing I remembered was being in a bar in Sao Paulo; after my third drink the next thing I knew I woke up here floating in this room with this strange woman staring down at me with giant teeth... None of this made any sense at all and the lack of a hangover wasn’t helping any either.

As if reading my mind she continued, “You see, we met in a bar and went back to your place to sleep off your drunkeness. You passed out on your bed and we did something that changed your body into mine-” She gestured down at her body before continuing again, “And now we have to keep you drugged up so you don’t freak out too bad or try to find another way home.”

I sighed heavily and stared up at her ceiling; that would explain why nothing looked familiar anymore. Not only had my hometown been on the other side of the world but everything about this place was alien to me now too: the room itself, the woman staring down at me with those glowing green eyes and razor sharp teeth, and even her voice... Everything sounded like it was recorded on an old tape recorder playing through some tin cans duct taped together as a speaker… It was grating on my ears too... But that didn’t stop my embarrassment from blooming deep inside me as I stared up at her in silence while she watched me expectantly for a response... This situation was beyond anything I could have ever imagined happening to me but what choice did I have but to accept it?