Living In The Dark

She thought she had a good life, as she’s running through the woods. She thought she parents loved her, as she heat screams of men behind her getting closer. Emily didn’t expected that her parents would have sold her to man to be sold as a s*x slave. But they did. She replayed the final words her parents said to her before the men showed up. “Get up, you’re moving!” Her mother said coldly. “But where am I going?” Emily asked groggily at the alarm clock that red 3:23. “And why so early?” Her dad grabbed her wrist, dragging her to the living room. Emily stood there in shorts and her tank top. Her mom threw shoes at her. “Put these on, you will need them.” Emily blinked at her and did as she was told, but still wondered what was going on. As soon as Emily stood up from putting her shoes on, there was a knock on the door and 3 men came in. To Emily, they didn’t look like they had bathed in weeks. One by one they looked her up and down licking their lips. It made Emily feel self conscious about herself. “She’s perfect, the boss will love her.” One of them said. Love? What would they love about me? Emily thought to herself. Suddenly she got shoved by her mother, “good, take her, and where’s out money?” Money? What is going on here? Emily watched the man who spoke handing her parents a large envelope. And once they opened it and saw what was inside, they got excited. The man grabbed Emily by the wrist and started draging her outside as she screamed for help from the ones who created her. But all she got was a door in the face. So she did what the next best thing was, that she thought of, run away. Emily ripped her arm out of the man’s hand and ran straight for the woods. “Oh boy! Oh how I love a good chase!” He yelled out right before he ran after her and the other two followed close. What Emily didn’t know, was the boss was watching the whole thing. Emily got whipped, scratched, and tripped by many things in the words as she kept running, fearing for what may happen to her. Halfway through the woods, Emily tripped and fell straight into the ground. But, as she tried to get up, a vine wrapped itself around her leg, slowing her down. Once she got herself free, it was too late. The men surrounded her and started circling her, spitting out disgusting words about what the boss would do to her, and what could happen once she got sold. Fear grew brighter and brighter in her eyes as the moonlight danced around them. Her raven black hair with twigs, leaves, and who knows what else tangled in it, flowed in the wind. Just as the man who spoke, started reaching down, he froze in movement when a booming male voice called over all sounds. The men scattered towards the edge of the woods leaving Emily with this tall dark figure, but before she could see who it was, darkness overcast her eyesight, and she fainted from fear and exhaustion. Emily slowly opened her eyes to find herself locked up in a cage, her heart raced. The man who saved me, but why am I here? She thought to herself. She tried to get a look around the cage, but as much she tried, she couldn’t see anything. “What’s you’re name?” A female voice quietly called out. “Emily?” she said with a shaking voice. “It’s nice to meet you Emily, I am Liz. I am in the cell next to yours.” Liz spoke so softly, that Emily almost thought it was in her head. “We have to be quiet, or the boss would come down and beat us.” She said again. Emily nodded in the dark, what Liz just said scared her to the core.