"You again?" The headmistress sighed and shook her head. She was tired, and so was everyone else.
Adena has been a thorn in their flesh ever since she came into the school. She held the record for the school's biggest tyrant.. and she wasn't ashamed of it.
"What did you do this time?" Mistress, as they usually called her, She asked.
"Flooded the kitchen" Adena bravely replied, standing boldly before the headmistress.
Despite her rotten behavior, Adena was quite a beauty to behold. She was stunning. Red hair, green eyes, and snow-white skin. Anyone would admit, that she was the prettiest in the whole school.
"You're grounded for a week. You will stay in your dorm until I come up with a punishment fitter for your disobedience" Mistress said and sent her off.
Adena couldn't care less. She walked proudly out of the office and into the hallway. Other girls stared at her and gossipped about her, but she paid no heed to them and went straight to her room. This wasn't the first time she'd been grounded, it was a weekly routine for her.
Adena wasn't always like this. After she was sold by her uncle to this boarding school, her sweetness turned sour. Every day, along with other girls, they're put through various tasks and difficult tests to get them ready for their masters.
These girls have never left the school gate. The ones who left, with their masters, are never heard from again. It was a cycle. New girls come in and groomed ones are sold off.
Not knowing what was waiting for her in the outside world, Adena has spent nights, petrified.. and thus becoming a shell of her old self.
The mistress summoned her deputy to her office to discuss Adena's issue. They had grown tired of her attitude and countless crime streaks. They wanted to get rid of her as soon as possible.
"I cannot stand that girl anymore, She's such a bitch" the mistress said, falling back into her swivel chair. She sighed heavily.
"Why don't we sell her off? I mean it's the easiest way" Miss Peri suggested.
"Oh common Peri, what are you saying? It goes against our policy. She's only 18 and we can't sell her off until she's 20" the mistress reminded, staring intensely at her deputy who scoffed.
"Forget about policy! I mean, you're the headmistress and you can bend the rules just a little bit to appease yourself" Peri smirked.
"I see"
"All you have to do is add her name to the group of girls going off in three days, and pray that she gets chosen by one of our customers," Miss Peri said in a sinister tone.
"I see where you're going with this Peri, and I like it," the headmistress said. She opened her drawer and brought out a file. She scribbled down Adena's name on it and put it back into the drawer. She smiled in satisfaction.
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Adena was sitting in her dark room when she heard voices outside her wooden door. Some girls were talking, very loudly and she didn't like it.
She was about to yell out her aggression at them, but she stopped when she heard what they were saying.
"Some cars just pulled up at the gate did you see?" The first voice asked.
"Yes. It's that time of the year again. They're back for more girls. Those are the masters" the second voice came.
Adena rushed to look out from her window. They were saying the truth. She saw them. The supposed masters. Every year, they come here and stay at the guest house at the far end of the school.
No girl is permitted to go there. In fact, no girl has ever seen the inside of that guest house. They are usually blindfolded and taken in there and each of the masters picks a girl and leaves with them.
Adena watched in awe as the masters came down from their cars, and walked into the gate with a fleet of bodyguards behind them. They were welcomed by the teachers and headmistress and led through the garden, to the guest house.
"I'm going to be sold to one of them one day," Adena thought. She knew very well what her fate was and it scared the hell out of her.
Adena got goosebumps when she got a glimpse of one of the masters. He had a strange aura that loomed around him. A dark, gloomy aura. She couldn't place a finger on why she picked so much interest in him. Although, she didn't see his face.