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have done well for yourself.” She commented casually. Thinking to herself, “If he knew where I was just a few short months ago, he wouldn’t have had me out here.”
    “It wasn’t always easy, I was simply determined to get out of the hell hole I was in. Most of our problems are caused by something we either did or something we did not do. As children, we don’t have much input into what happens, but as we near adulthood we can start slowly changing that.” He told her.
    The driver turned the car down a tree lined drive like you see again, in magazines. Weeping Willow trees intermixed with Wisteria. Even at night, though slightly creepy, you could see that it was beautiful.
    “Well here we are. There probably isn’t anyone here yet, I don’t see any cars. This will give you time to change, I took it upon myself to provide you with your attire for the evening. Since this is a themed party, you will have to look the part.” He said. Inside he was still waiting for the panic button to push and for her to run. Finding someone new was not an easy task.“That’s fine, costumes are costumes. They aren’t a permanent wardrobe choice.” She answered.
    Opening the door, Adam stepped out. She hadn’t realized how tall he was before now. Maybe because she was looking up at him from the seat of the car. He extended his hand and helped her out of the backseat.
    Putting one foot in front of the other she nervously followed this stranger of a man into this mansion of a house. It was the hardest thing that she had to ever make herself do. She had to stop her mind from racing. He wasn’t a killer. The killer was stalking dancers from the club she actually worked at. This was some party for a bunch of freaks. That’s how she had summed it all up. Freaks, and yet here she was, here to put on a show for the freaks. Didn’t that make her one of them? In a brief moment of comic relief, all she could think was, “Let your freak flag fly.” She almost laughed out loud.
    Before they reached the main door, it opened before them as if on cue. The butler, (of course there was a butler, she thought as she rolled her eyes) opened it as if he were showing in a king. Then again, for all she knew, he could be royalty. She never thought to ask, but she knew it wasn’t royalty, they wouldn’t have had a childhood where they wanted to improve themselves to this degree.
    She had to admit, the foyer was beyond impressive. From the marble tile all the way to the domed ceiling. Breathtaking. There were two massive staircases off both sides of the foyer that led to a lofted area and the second floor. Walking through the foyer into the formal living room took longer than it did to walk across her entire new apartment. The art collection was amazing, everything about the house so far was insanely finished. She could get used to this, even though she would never achieve this level of wealth. This was beyond stability and crossed over into ludicrous.
    “If you will follow me, we shall go downstairs to what is affectionately known as the dungeon.” He told her as he smiled. He noticed her eyes grew larger when he named the room.
    “Okay.” She said, suddenly very unsure of her decision making skills.
    She looked around for the staircase and didn’t see one off of this room. He walked to a wall and pushed a hidden button. To her amazement the entire bookcase slid to the right and opened into a long narrow hallway. There were a few doors on each side along the hall but she had no idea where any of them might go. He kept walking until the hall ended in yet another giant expanse of a room. Suddenly, she knew where she would be. The seating in the room spread so that the stage was in the center of the room. There was a pole and ribbons. She wasn’t too sure about the ribbon dancing, she had only tried once and it was an epic fail.
    Looking around in her bag for her cellphone because this was the third time it had gone off, she saw that it was