The car is speeding up the highway once again. The night air is chilly. But inside the car, there is warmth.

"Are you sure you don't want us to take you to a hospital ?", Frost asks, tensed. "Yes. I'm alright now, just a wound on my thigh. The bleeding will stop soon.", the girl replies. She is in pain, but she is afraid to tell this bunch of strangers about her condition. It was her mistake after all, she thinks, strolling on the highway. Was she drunk ? She can't recall. Why was she out on the road ? She can't remember anything, like a gap in her raw memory.
Sh just hopes that these people will drop her somewhere, a place she knows, and then she will run.

"No dear, the wound is bad.", Evergreen says. Just minutes ago she had been so wobbly, thinking that they had done a murder. And the girl had been unconscious for a while, Evergreen had fastened her handkerchief around the wound, to stop the blood from gushing out. But she wasn't a paramedic, and care couldn't heal everything.

"No it's okay. Just drop me in front of the bar that is approaching.", the girl points to a neon lit signboard that was coming up.
The car speeds past.
"Hey ! Wait !I told I had to get down there....where are you taking me ?! ", she screams her lung out. She is shaking.

" Calm down ! We can't just leave you anywhere at this hour, can we ?", Frost turns over to face her, his hands still on the steering wheel.
The girl stops screaming. She had not been able to look at the guy properly until now. But now, one look at him...and she is taken. Her stomach gives a lurch forward, like the feeling when she is on a roller coaster.

"I will take you to our apartment..stay over for this night, tomorrow maybe we can find a way where you must go.", Frost speaks again. Evergreen shoots a glance at her boyfriend from the backseat. She looks confused and annoyed. She turns up the volume of the music that is playing, and hums along; suddenly not interested in anything but the song.

The girl can't revolt. She has to do what ever he is saying. Not out of compulsion though, she wants to go anywhere he is taking her.

"We don't even know her name ...", Evergreen whispers to herself, her eyes looking out of the window.

The girl smiles. " It's Mauve", she says, " And you are....? "

** The song that is playing is 'The Lonely' by Christina Perri.
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