Chapter 1 - The spun world

I woke up all of a sudden: one second I was floating in blackness, and the next I was perfectly awake, except for the fact that I didn't know where I was. I was sitting down on a couch in a wide living room with a very clean kitchen on one side, and beautiful and comfortable armchairs in front of me. There was even something that looked like a fireplace, but not quite.

All around the room there were beautiful paintings hanging. Some of them had common subject: there were a couple of still life, and a relaxing landscape at sundown, but most of them were portraits of the same woman. In every one of them she held a different pose: in one she was sitting on a blanket in a grove, beside her a basket of fruits. In one she was just smiling wearing everyday clothing. In another, she was laying on a bed, her naked body hidden by a blanket, while she read intently.

All those painting looked like they were made by the same artist, and I felt something looking at them, as if they were very dear to me. At the same time, however, I knew I had never seen them in books or in a museum.

I tried to focus on my predicament: my life was in shambles, and now I didn't even know where I was anymore. I stood up, trying to shake away my depression, and felt strange, as if the couch I was sitting on had been unusually low. I looked down, and what I saw made every thought in my head fly away: I had tits, and amazing one at that. Just below my nose I could see two soft mounds squeezed together by a tube dress, and what could only be described as one hell of a cleavage. Stunned, I put my hands on them, and felt their softness and firmness, and as my hands brushed my nipples through the silky fabric, I even felt a shiver climb up my spine.

Everything went black once again as I fainted.

I woke up feeling something cold on my forehead. It looked like somebody had put a wet towel on it. I slowly opened my eyes, and immediately saw my breasts. This time I was especting it, but this didn't lessen the shock that much. I still felt the urge to close my eyes, but resisted it, trying to find out who was the one taking care of me.

Looking at my left, I saw a beautiful woman kneeling beside me. She was wearing a very formal black women's suit, and her wavy blonde hair was tied up with some silver hairpin. She had something familiar about her. She looked scared and worried, but her beauty still shined through: her thin cheeks, her full lips, her slender nose and honest eyes had me in love right away.

I was still admiring her beauty when she asked me: «Are you all right?»

Her voice was so gentle and soft, I almost didn't notice how worried she was.

«I'm fine.» I said. «I just had a rough day.»

«I'm glad.» she said, smiling widely. «I was scared out of my mind when I saw you sprawled on the couch like that.»

That made me remember my situation. «I'm sorry, miss. I don't know how I ended up here, and I'll go away immediately. Thank you for your kindness.»

«Wait!» she said, keeping me down with her hands. «What did you say?»

«I said I'll be getting out of your house right away.»

«Have you gone mad? Oh, I know it, this is a joke. I can't quite figure out your plan, but this has to be a joke.»

«Excuse me?»

«Oh, fine, I'll play along. And why would you have to get out of your own house?»

I couldn't speak, I just gaped at her.

«You know, our home? The one we bought just a couple months ago?»

In that moment I realized she was the women in all of the portraits around the room.

«I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about.»

«Yeah, right.» she laughed. «Ok, girl, stop joking. We have dinner to make.»

«No, really, I mean it. And did you just call me girl?»

«Well, duh! Don't even think about giving me another lecture on how mature and grown-up you are. You're still nine years my junior, you'll always be my girl.»

Her face softened up, and her voice got warmer as she called me her girl.

«Am I a girl? Who am I?»

It was pretty obvious she wasn't expecting this question. «Ok, now you're scaring me. You got me, fine, now please stop joking.»

I felt bad for making her worry again. «I'm sorry, I'm really not joking.»

«Come on, I just found you. You can't run away from me. I don't give a damn if you're amnesiac or whatever, I'm not letting you go away. We're engaged, remember?» she swowed me her left hand, and a slim silver ring on her ring finger. «Please, tell me you're joking.»

I couldn't believe her. «We're engaged? But...»

«Yes! Yes we are. And we'll be getting married in June, in a few months. And we'll be the most stunning brides the world has ever seen. You're designing our wedding gowns, and Gloria's gonna weave them just for us.»

«I'm... Brides? So we're both women, is it legal here? Where are we?»

She couldn't answer me. Somehow my question left her completely speechless. After a while she managed to regain control.

«I don't know what the hell happened, but we'll get through it.» she said, looking straight at me.

«Could you please tell me where are we?»

She sighed. «Well, I guess we'll start from scratch. We're in Delphoi.»

«I've never heard of it. Where is it?»

She produced some kind of tablet from the bag she had on the floor beside her.

«Hey Aida.»

«I'm ready.» answered a synthesized voice coming from it.

«Show me a map of Delphoi, region-scaled.»

The tablet's screen lit up, and showed me a map. In the middle of it there was a grey spot with "Delphoi" written on it. Around it were large green areas and some yellow roads going through them. Near the edge of the screen there seemed to be a big blue area that took up the entire lenght of it, probably a sea, or an ocean.

I asked the first thing that came to my mind: «Are those green things forests?»

«Of course they are,» she said. «Delphoi is in the middle of a great natural reserve. One of the most beautiful in the world, even if it's not that big.»

I thought that the world I was in was very different from the one I left, because I was pretty sure nowhere in the world I knew there was such a huge forest, at least not just outside a city like Delphoi. I decided I'd rather not think about worlds and focus on my newfound engagement.

«I'm sorry, but I don't think it'd be a good idea for us to marry.»

«No way.» she said, putting away the tablet. «I told you already, baby. I don't care about whatever happened, I love you too much to let you go.»

I felt my heart skip a beat hearing such a wonderful woman say she loved me so casually.

«I'm really sorry, but I don't even know who I am anymore.»

«I don't care. I know who I am, and I know who you are. Did you change so much? Do you hate me now?» she looked pretty worried.

«Not at all. You're the most wonderful woman I've ever met.»

She smiled at me, and her smile melted the despair in my heart.

«Do you love me?» she asked, almost whispering.

«I fell in love with you the instant I saw you beside me.»

«Then it's settled.» she said, right before kissing me on the lips.

She caressed my lips with her mouth, before taking my lower lip between hers and sucking on it sensually.

«Come on.» she said, taking my hands and helping me sit up. «Get up and eat something, we'll figure out this mess after dinner.»