Adara
My mother drags me from the room she locked me in. She claimed that there was a surprise for me in the hall that she didn't want me to see. I know better than to believe her but I played along with her little game.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2qHW9TUv1
"I've had enough of this, where are you taking me."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTYvJdLbl3
"We need you to change. Right now."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhA8rIKDSVn
"Why I thought you wanted me to wear this dress."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoz6e1XEdjs
"I've changed my mind."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYuyL8BvIS
She continues to drag me to another room where Melanie was.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXdxgcU0Yo
"Here, make sure she changes. And change her hair too, put it up in a bun. And wipe the makeup off. And make it quick the people will be here soon." she states before she rushes out.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOBt5u6OGo
I face Melanie. "What the hell is going on today."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbtAZS7Jkk
"Mi dispiace tanto tesoro." she begins to say as she starts to cry.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡro3ow5ZQJ7
"Mel, why are you crying? What's going on?" I say gently as I place her head in between my hands.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuv8zNv98Zm
"They're planning on selling you. This isn't for your birthday Adara. This is an auction house." she weeps.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPs7EfyQbvq
"How do you know this place?"343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtTQPw8op1
"This is the same place where I was brought and sold to your family. You need to run, go anywhere but here."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxYDguv97g
"You're coming with me."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauuD7HouSi
"No, you need to go by yourself. If I leave they're going to eventually find me and kill me. If you leave now, you might make it out safely. They won't question you if you go because you're untouchable. I'm just a mere servant."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cmctUVGBa
"To me, you're a mother, my mother."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqbbj01BAv
The door opens and two men barge in. A third comes in and he points at me.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiaDDkyOvAu
"Take her and put her with the others."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMqQTMhseL
"No. No!" Melanie screams as I'm being grabbed and pulled away from her.
Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion. The men drag me out of the room and bring me to another where there were many other women that seem to be around my age or younger.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jviyC136T
"Let me go!" I scream causing everyone's eyes to turn to me. The men let me go and they leave the room. I try to pull the door open but it doesn't budge.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡviLx9vLMgh
"It's no use. We've all been in the same situation you're in right now."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZ9cqk5EUL
I turn around to face the person who was speaking. It was a tall, redheaded woman who wore a deep green ballgown dress. What concerned me was that her dress was the same as mine. Everyone's dress was as I look around and notice.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHOn6GWJTW
"What is happening?"343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelXjzXo6US
"You're being put up for auction sweetie. We all are."
Melanie was right. How could they. My own blood, my parents. I could never imagine anyone doing this to their own child. I wasn't a captive, an enemy, or a bad person to them. My mother gave birth to me, raised me, and tried to spoil me with things I didn't want. And even though we got into arguments from time to time, this is what the fuck she does? Stab me behind my back and sells me off? I rather have her physically stab me.
"This is bullshit. I shouldn't be here."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBWTKX3LKNU
"Well you are and ya ain't leavin' so get over it."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPvR6tDbIZ
"Listen here you fire-crotch bitch-"343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡso66BZnfGp
"What'd you just call me?" she questions as she comes closer.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzU0SsuDOn
I look at her right in the eye. "You heard exactly what I said. I'm just trying to get some answers around here and you're no fucking help with that damn attitude of yours."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmW9Ai04co
"You little shit!" she yells out before she lunges for my hair.
Thankfully, since I already know that's how many people fight I quickly duck down and slam my head right into her stomach causing her to move back and fall to the ground. I'm on top of her within seconds, ready to knock her lights out but before I can I'm being held back by a pair of arms.
"Shut up! What is all this noise for? Look at the both of you. Luther separate them until they're sold. And have someone come to fix this one's hair," the man who entered states as he nods towards the redhead.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvFRJUsTHi8
"Yes sir," Luther replies as he lifts me off of the girl and takes me to the other side of the room. He makes me sit on a chair and stands directly in front of me to block my view of everyone. I sigh and lay my head on the small vanity next to me and close my eyes.
If I don't get bid on today, I swear on my own life I will make the lives of my family pure hell when I get out of this damn place.
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"Ms. Zarcone, step right here on this x please."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByUF9oS9Bm
I do as I am told and make my way towards the marking on the stage floor. They placed me in the last group of women to come up. I was hoping to be in the first group, that way many would forget about me. But no suck luck. That's what I get for having a last name that starts with z. All the girls around me are busy smoothing out their dresses, running their hands through their hair, as if this was Miss Universe and they had a chance at winning the title. I quietly laugh to myself but my smile falters just as I hear the auctioneer introduce our group just as the curtains rise for us to be gawked at by the crowd.
When it finally got to me, I closed my eyes as they announced my name. I could hear a few snickers and loud whispers from the audience. Ha, I was simply a joke to my family at this point. To humiliate me like this. I fight the tears back as the auctioneer begins the prices starting at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Come on, at least I'm worth more than that.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlMjAOtgL5z
A few people kept going at it back and forth, I was getting tired of this and I just wanted to scream and let all my anger out.
"Two hundred thousand dollars anyone? There you go how about two hundred and ten-"343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtLbi47F2X
"I'll take her for two million."
I open my eyes to see who this God-awful dumbass of a person was and why they would buy me for two million dollars. Our eyes meet and he gives me a slight smirk from down below. The entire room grows quiet and the auctioneer asks for a higher price but no one moves an inch. It felt as if everyone had stopped breathing and were frozen in time.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0aTZvPHRh
"Going once, going twice."343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbU7F1dqDIq
Again, the sound of silence.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRGgZBSWqr
"Sold to none other than Mr. Rey Cacciatore!"343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqua1MEbTHQ
