Circumstances Scene 43

Chastity turned an amused expression towards him. “Ooh, I think somebody’s afraid of the dark!” she cooed, her grin flashing in the dim fluorescent light.
“What? Am not!” Jack protested.
“I think you are.”
Jack leveled an even stare at her. “Am not,” he stated flatly.
“Right,” Chastity said, oozing disbelief, but she didn’t say anything further and simply resumed walking forward. Jack saw a perfect opportunity to get back at Chastity for accusing him of being afraid of the dark coming up, and he allowed himself a grin as he perfected his half-cocked plan and prepared to enact it. Oh, it was going to be so sweet…
There was a corner in the hallway they were walking down and Chastity stopped short when she rounded it. “Jack,” she whispered, beckoning him forward. His plan abandoned for the moment, he came forward to see what it was she was so concerned about. There was a light on in one of the rooms.
“That’s odd,” he murmured.
“No kidding,” Chastity murmured back. “Let’s go have a look.” And with that she was off, padding quietly towards the room, Jack following behind. They arrived to find that the room in question was furnished exactly as theirs were, only instead of pink or blue to denote which gender the room might be intended for, the colors were mostly a cheerful yellow.
“They must have done this while they were swapping out the food,” Jack mused.
Chastity nodded. “Makes sense.”
“Think we might be getting another ‘volunteer’?”
Chastity shrugged. “I suppose… but look at the colors. Yellow, instead of pink or blue.”
“I noticed that,” Jack said. “Maybe the new person knows what he or she is getting involved in and requested a certain scheme.”
“That’s one way to look at it,” Chastity said as she walked into the room and examined the various furnishings. It wasn’t long before she was looking over the changing table, identical to the ones in both hers and Jack’s rooms. “Well, whoever they are, they aren’t getting any special treatment in the diaper area,” she said as she held up one of the diapers for inspection. “Pretty much the same ones in our rooms and upstairs in that storage room.