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.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKB14AWCoay
"I've had enough of this, where are you taking me."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAvgN3MZKw
"We need you to change. Right now."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgqVROi8u0Z
"Why I thought you wanted me to wear this dress."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTXEPhoHY2
"I've changed my mind."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrzATNFNbBJ
She continues to drag me to another room where Melanie was.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHEOEvvTpVZ
"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.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiLediJgmS
I face Melanie. "What the hell is going on today."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95a72qbZoU
"Mi dispiace tanto tesoro." she begins to say as she starts to cry.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡijxLGz6wNv
"Mel, why are you crying? What's going on?" I say gently as I place her head in between my hands.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO7TgjJGzVM
"They're planning on selling you. This isn't for your birthday Adara. This is an auction house." she weeps.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sRS6SxZUN
"How do you know this place?"415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQguEuMY9Tx
"This is the same place where I was brought and sold to your family. You need to run, go anywhere but here."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8Gh9hZqzj
"You're coming with me."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmUB0MtAfM
"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."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGTvsd5MnC
"To me, you're a mother, my mother."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8u682BB57
The door opens and two men barge in. A third comes in and he points at me.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8q0j7UvNPD
"Take her and put her with the others."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡreZto9eNtD
"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.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlUHnKx2vh
"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.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4mPXL1rIk
"It's no use. We've all been in the same situation you're in right now."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTLakL6tNR
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.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjhqaaWP3l
"What is happening?"415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8pxDRTfHU
"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."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZiWL5nG0pZ
"Well you are and ya ain't leavin' so get over it."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7MikrRWiL
"Listen here you fire-crotch bitch-"415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBz3WJP0vDt
"What'd you just call me?" she questions as she comes closer.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt5JZABpMBy
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."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyyIg9QUhz
"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.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOD0bhSCbOw
"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."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROSwOwkVin
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.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksZMKQWZ3C
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-"415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2soycOcgl
"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.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pPkIO5JD2
"Going once, going twice."415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOPejUf9LtN
Again, the sound of silence.415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVELYqjPB9
"Sold to none other than Mr. Rey Cacciatore!"415Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4X4KQfh3Yb
