Never Let Them Hurt You

(Annabelle)


I waited for someone to come back. Anyone. I was so alone. Not even my cell-mate Hayley was here with me. They had left me in this dark room, all by myself. And I was very scared. I hadn't done anything wrong. I only whispered something I can't even remember to Hayley and one of the guards heard me whispering so now I was being punished.

It felt like days had passed before someone finally came in with a small plate of food. They stood me up and smacked me, laughing maniacally and placing the plate down on the ground. He grabbed me by the waist and kissed me roughly, beginning to forcefully slip off my shirt and shorts. I whimpered in fear but my attacker simply hit me again. I didn't know what was to happen next, but what did happen became all too familiar in my next few years at the slave hold. I was 16.

Now I was 18. The rapes had continued endlessly throughout the past few years. I was living in a hell. And it only got worse when the guards came up with other means of torture. Hayley had already been sold, so I was alone now. They came into my empty cell and pulled me out of it with so much force. They pushed me along to a room where the sick or badly wounded went to be treated by some scumbag doctor. One of them grabbed a scalpel and came at me with a menacing smile. They dug at my wrists and into my stomach and over so much of my body. There was blood everywhere, and it took me every whim of strength not to scream. I silently cried, biting my lip through the pain so hard my lip started bleeding. This truly was hell.

That same year I contemplated so many things. There was an easy way out, I was certainly aware of that. But I had no means of doing so. I didn't have anything that would help. And the guards wouldn't let me do that; they wanted me alive so they could see me suffer. So I had to stick it out. Maybe once I get bought, once I come of age to be sold, my owner can pluck me right off. Because I was done with this world. I wanted to leave it.

Notes

OKAY this was a super dark chapter but I feel it helps readers see what Annabelle went through, get insight and maybe persuade Gerard to further his actions against human slavery....! So stay tuned and do all that feedback joy. It means so much to me :) thanks for reading -Shannon xo