Loretta
2.5 years ago, Yellow Fern Medical center.
They are cutting me again, jagged long strips across my arms and back. They are testing to see if physical pain will push me into a seizure while I'm on this new medication. What they don't seem to notice is that after years of this I don't feel anything at all.
My mind goes off to its own place, far away. In my mind I'm on a beach I seen on a poster. I've never felt sand between my toes, well not that I can remember. The only tangible thing I remember now is this place, life before a blur. This endless dark, the endless poking and prodding, them using my body against me.
The whispered name in the dark, is it mine? Or is it her's the shadow of a woman I see. Flickering about in the recesses of my brain. Tiny, graceful and so very worried all the time.
Worried over me, over what will become of me, I wish she wouldn't. There are far better things for her to waste her time on... My life is already gone, the day I was given to this facility.
Medical research they say. My sacrifices make life easier for others to live, I should be proud that my waste life makes others worth living.
I can't help the resentment that burns in my stomach, what about me? What about my life?
That voice again, the pain taken away, I'm free she tells me, free as long as I hide from the world.
Today
It has been 4 months and 3 days since Miki found me cowering under his stairs. Life is peaceful, I've settled into a routine of sorts. Miki makes me breakfast every day, followed by question time, then I dance for hours, I practice every style I can find videos on, then he leaves and I read while he's gone but he always comes back in a few hours, true to his word every day he brings me a new book I shyly giggle over and take. Lately, the books have been getting increasingly naughtier. The last one describes a woman being spanked and fingered while other men watched. I read that part a few times. My face bright red, my hands shaking, my breath panting and a pool of wetness forming between my legs.
I like to pretend the books he brings describe what he would like to do to me. I see him when I read them, it's me and him. I really don't think he does, to be honest, I don't think he has read any of them or even thinks of me that way. Besides Miki is always the gentleman. Never touching me unless I touch him first. Always keeping his eyes on my face.
Sighing to myself as I sit and wonder what he would do if I walked into his office naked right now? He probably wouldn't even notice, or just tell me I would catch a cold. He doesn't see that I want him, that I want his attention more than I want any silly books. He is real, so close to me but still so far away.
I wish I was like the other women, the ones who come here after dark, dressed in pretty shinny dresses, high heels and beautiful makeup, so carefree and happy. I sit in my window seat and watch them all arrive night after night. Beautiful glittery butterfly's. Miki asked me to stay in my room after dark, he says it's for my own protection. That I might see something that I won't understand.
I'm not stupid, I've seen enough before he found me that night, I watched and listened from the shadows. I know this place isn't what it seems from the outside. Plus my room might be far away from the main bar but the dungeon is directly below me, I hear the screams and moans of pleasure every night. I feel the thump of my own jealous heart as I wonder if he has a pretty butterfly of his own he makes moan that way and knowing it will probably never be me. I'm to damage to look at, to broken to fix. Too dark to love.
Seth has become a stead friend, he doesn't ask questions he just offers help and affection, comradeships and laughs. He brings me clothes, food and teddy bears. I think he understands my hidden frustrations, my lack of self-worth as much as anyone ever could. I've seen the same look on his face when he looks at Miki sometimes. He loves him too. What a pair we make, a love-struck mute and a harden criminal both wanting someone who will never notice us. Sometimes I wish I felt the same deep yearning for Seth that I do for Miki, it would make life so much simpler. He is as attractive as he is different, he's as dark as Miki is light, he's open and free with his words, giving me compliments and touching me often. It just doesn't burn my skin the same as Miki's hands do.
Sighing, I stand to my feet tugging my skirt back into place, I decided that today is not a day to be caught up on my own feelings, I will practice my cooking instead, I've been watching cooking shows a lot. I'm set on proving to myself I'm capable of living a normal life. Today's experiment is a chocolate cream cake. It's supposed to be a simple recipe even a child can make. Hopefully, I won't mess up too bad.
I mix the cake batter and place the tray in the oven and start to prepare the cream filling dumping everything into a mixer ready. Dancing around to the music blaring from my headphones I don't notice the eyes on me as I sway. Lost in the music my heart light and free even if it's only for a moment.
I pull the tray out a poke a tiny hole with my knife, still bent over my skirt slipping around my hips, it's just a little bit too big, it pulls down when I bend over flashing the band of my yellow panties. Still, with one hand on the knife, I reach back trying to adjust it and humming out a breath of frustration. Cakes still not done. Gah.
Time for the filling still swaying my hips to the music I turn to switch the mixer on and get the fright of my life at seeing Miki leaning against the kitchen bench watching me with a mixed look, amusement and something else? Something dark and forbidden? Is it lust in his eyes?
My lips part in my shock, my fingers jerk on the dial. One slip and the cream is flying out of the bowl, covering my face and chest, splashing me, still liquid and runny, dripping down my chin in what has to be an obscene way.
My face red, fingers clenching and unclenching in shock I pause, frozen in place.
The look on his face is priceless, that dark burning heat, blazing a trail of lust across my lips and chin, the image in my mind of him licking me clean, lapping all the spilt cream of my face has me shifting from foot to foot. I slowly reach up and pull the headphones from my ears.