*Trigger warning. Chapter recommended for 18 years old and above.*
Chapter 1. A Factory
Jade's POV
I woke up to the noise of something falling with a thud next to me. My eyes jolted open and I looked around myself. My mouth dropped in shock as I took in the surroundings. It was a girl who collapsed on her head beside me.
"H-help me... P-please help me." She wept and got up, then ran in another direction.
"Huh," I held my head as it was throbbing as I tried to brush away every fragment of pain that soared in my ankles when I attempted to get up.
I collapsed, my hands going to rub my sore ankles. They were tied with rusted chains. What the? My hands were cuffed too. It's just that I was way too surprised and thrilled with my surrounding that I didn't notice it earlier.
"Where am I?" That was the question that erupted in my head, the very first question.
It was because my surroundings were heinously dark. There were red dim bulbs glowing overhead. They were arranged with at least one metres gap between two bulbs. It was a very very huge room. Like a big wedding hall. Except for chairs and tables, there were small tents made out of tearing dirty rugs. Or else majority of the women remained in the open just like me.
"Nooo, let go. Please... Let go." My heart skipped a beat.
A woman was dragged out of the huge door before it went shut.
I brought my eyes back to my left that has left me aghast. I was apparently in a brothel for there were girls of all age struggling to cover their naked bodies. Some were emotionless. Some blinking silent tears while some screaming their lungs out as they cried to set themselves free.
One thing was constant among everyone- scared, enlarged and alert eyes. Their eyes held fear of something I was only beginning to experience.
I was okay until I saw a pair of woman walking in. "Shania, where are you? It's your turn next." They were dressed in a blue uniform and a wooden shaft in their grips.
One of them was thin and the other one quite obese that her shirt's buttons could barely cover her thick belly. Her walk was confident and scary. No doubts why the girls were cowering away.
They looked everywhere around the room. Girls stuck together as they tried to avoid crossing their paths. There was instant rise of fear and slow whimpers as they walked inside the room.
"Don't make us hunt you, Shania. Come out... Now!" The healthy one shrieked.
I was in a painful position. I was supporting myself to sit up on my left elbow while both my legs were folded. Suddenly a brutal pain shot through my ankles, like a current passed through them, and I hissed loudly.