Flashback
Let’s call it a day see you next semester’ those where the only words Salina heard from the school counselor who was giving them advice concerning job offers as they just concluded their final college exams… the air was thick with the imaginary aroma of the potato porridge , her mother’s special dish that she promised her for acing her final exams and making her proud.
It was her own little way of celebrating the milestone in her child’s life.
The dish was all Salina could think about on the familiar windy path as she made her way home that she did not notice the careful steps behind her even as the leaves ruttled as though telling her to run..
she didn’t notice the man behind her all covered up in black until he covered her face too was covered with a brown towel, screaming and kicking in fear as the chloroform chemical began to choke her, but that didn’t do much as the a white car pulled over almost immediately as though it had been tolling behind her and she was dragged inside by this time she had passed out..
The last thing that flashed in her mind was her mothers smile and jubilation the day she brought her result home..
No body saw her being dragged and taken away like a furniture. Or if they did, they refused to speak out.
“l saw her leaving alone, as she always does after classes, where all the information the police could gather.. They didn’t care so much as they knew it was going to be a dead end as this wasn’t the first irst and won’t be the end of such stories from girls on the wrong side of town, it will always end the same.
An 18 years old college student was abducted was the news in the town but for only a few days, didn’t even last for a week.,.
but not for glocia, salina’s mother, who cried all day walking around thinking she would find her somewhere, it was the end of her little world and didn’t understand why the police where so care free, there saw her as a nuisance because she came to the station every single day, even that act didn’t generate enough sympathy in them to fake a little concern in her situation, knowing she was her only child..
the only one left after her father died working on a construction site to bring money home in hopes of a better future that died with him… she told this to any one who cared to listen and she was seen to have lost her mind.
Day’s later, hope or a glimpse of it got to her door but in letters and numbers she couldn’t seem to understand.. asking her to bring 1500 dollars in an secluded area in exchange for her child, the poor woman looked everywhere and begged, sold the miserable remnants of her life but couldn’t get up to 500 dollars,
Overwhelmed and desperate glovia took the money she got to the agreed place, in hopes to beg the perpetrators when they arrived with her e little jewel, not knowing that life had other plans in the form of a drunk driver who lost control of he’s vehicle and kicked her so badly she died a few hours later whispering the name of her daughter’s name.
What did people say? “ they are cursed”….
so no one came for her body and she was disposed off as mere trash.
Salina became a s*x object for the men, she no longer was a being with a name but and asset they didn’t yield interest “ since you can’t bring us money you can satisfy this , the short hairy one said while holding and stroking he’s d**k .
The other men laughed so roughly with smoke coming out from their nostrils and mouth and agreed as she has been there for a two months already without her family arranging the money.
Salina sat there with no feeling of emotion except hate for this men who have shown her nothing but wickedness and she thought she had seen it all, nothing prepared her that what was coming next will completely ruin her life.
“looks like you where a bad child saline” the other one that looked like the youngest said and they laughed again. Hope you are bad down there.?
They laughed at the young frightened and shocked Salina who sat at the corner of room, unkept and ill from being malnourished looking at them while they smoked and talked about the things they would do to her after she freshen’s up
“l like my food clean” the one that brought up the idea the leader grunted smacking he’s dry lips.
The water forced her to remember the fierce banging on the door when she tooled too long in the bathroom as she was doing now……
Present..
Dressing up mechanically her phone buzzed on the dresser, not a call but video thumbnail.
It was her own face, contorted in pleasure, with Derick just out of frame. The text below read: "Your mother couldn't pay $1,500. What's your price to keep this off the internet, 'Lustful Lunatic'?. Here eyes nearly popped out at the sight of her naked in deep pleasure, riding a man who looked blur in the video, who of course was derick.!
She looked up at the mirror, but she didn’t see a bitchy ceo who is dominating the digital world but an 18 years old girl who never healed from the trauma that has found it’s way back into her life…
but she wasn’t her mother … the terrified 18 year old girl was still somewhere in her mind asking questions which she was about to answer.