Chapter 05
Dawn takes Cynthia's hymen.
Since she couldn't fall asleep, Cynthia decided to get up and get a snack. It was almost eight o'clock and she hadn't eaten since she had a piece of toast for breakfast. She wrapped a towel around her waist and went into the kitchen. The refrigerator had very little food in it, but there was a container of milk. She was drinking the milk and had a milk mustache, when Dawn walked in and saw her.
"Who are you, little girl, and where did you come from?" asked Dawn.
"Are you Miss Sterling?" Cynthia asked, and Dawn nodded.
The girl was flustered and, although she had been repeating her mantra, she forgot most of what she was supposed to say, "I'm Cynthia, your sex slave. I'm from the slave market. Paula and Heather bought me," she blurted out.
"Wha? What? They bought you? How much did they pay for you?" demanded Dawn.
"About forty five thousand dollars. Do you have any cookies? I'm hungry." Dawn opened a cabinet and handed Cynthia a box of Oreo's. "I've ordered some Chinese food. We'll eat as soon as I find out what's going on here," she said through clenched jaws.
"Damn, what could those two be thinking?" She stomped off looking for Paula and Heather.
"Wake up, you idiots. Who is this Cynthia?" Dawn demanded.
"Oh, you've seen Sin-thia? Isn't she beautiful? We bought her today at the 'slave market'. We'll close tomorrow when you write a check for about forty five thousand -- plus taxes and whatever," Paula said, half asleep. "We've had sex in her already."
Dawn was livid, "Do you realize what you've done? There's a law against slavery. Not only that, but that child can't be more than fifteen years old. Have you actually had sex with her?" Both Heather and Paula nodded. "I can't believe this. You've committed statutory rape. You'll be lucky to spend only twenty years in prison for kidnapping, child abuse, rape, slavery, and probably a dozen other charges. What in hell were you thinking when you brought that child here? Are you so sexually starved that you have lost your minds?
"Now I'm involved. No one will believe you did this without my knowledge. This
is
my apartment. My lord, I'm ruined; I'm doomed." Dawn conceded. Heather and Paula were still groggy and hadn't a clue as to what Dawn was talking about.
"Ahem. I'm NOT fifteen, Miss Sterling." Cynthia was standing in the doorway. She still had a milk mustache.
"My lord, you're not even fifteen? Are you eleven or twelve? I don't think I can go through a trial and the negative publicity. I may have to commit suicide. Can I do that from the third floor, or will I have to jump from the roof?" Dawn pondered, almost as if to herself.
"No, I'm
not
eleven. See." Cynthia pulled off the towel around her waist and showed the pad she was wearing."
"Are you having a period, child?" asked Dawn.
"Well, no, but I could be," answered Cynthia.
"So you're pretending to have a period? You're playing at it? Are you only nine or ten?" asked Dawn.
Just then, the doorbell sounded; Dawn figured it was the police coming to arrest them. Since the other three were naked, she went to the door; it was the Chinese food being delivered. She carried it into the kitchen, then sat down and cried; the other women rushed into the kitchen and put their arms around her, but she continued to blubber.
"Dawn. Dawn. You've got it all wrong. Everything's okay. Cynthia's not underage. She's tiny, but she's twenty-two. Please stop crying," Heather pleaded.
All four women tried to talk at once, but Cynthia yelled, "Quiet!" and the women stopped talking. By the time Cynthia explained who she was and what she was doing in Dawn's apartment, they were all crying and laughing.
"Cynthia, tell me again what you said to me when I asked you who you are," Dawn requested.
"Miss Sterling, I said, 'I am your sex slave. I'm from the slave market.' I meant I was from the car dealership, but I suppose I am your sex slave. These two bitches coerced me into having sex with them, or they wouldn't have bought the car. They knew I
had
to make the sale or lose my job. I'll keep my word, but they'd better keep theirs, or I'm out on the street. My rent's way overdue; my utilities are about to be turned off; My bills have bills; I am almost destitute. It was down to sell a car today or sell my body. It turned out that I had to do both," Cynthia declared.
"You still look like a child to me. How tall are you and how much do you weigh?" Dawn asked.
"I wear three-inch heels to cover up that I'm just about five feet tall, and I weigh almost a hundred pounds -- soaking wet. My size has been a problem all my life. No one will believe that I'm in my twenties. People keep asking me if 'my mother is home'. It's hard for me to get waited on in a store. Clerks look over my head and talk to the person behind me.
"Because I have a narrow waist and a big bottom, I'm out of proportion. I can't find jeans or pants to fit me, so I wear dresses. I buy dresses in the girl's or young miss's department, and they make me look even younger. It's almost impossible to get a job. No one takes me seriously because of my size. I have a degree in biology, but I haven't been able to save money to go to med school. I wonder if anyone will take me seriously when, or if, I become a doctor. Oh, and Paula, I did graduate Cum Laude, not cum loud. In fact, I graduated Magna Cum Laude. That was an awful pun you made at my expense," avowed Cynthia.
"Miss Sterling, your two friends here are going to tell you that I'm cherry, or at least I was until they got their grubby little hands on me. They took advantage of my situation. They've ruined my reputation. I'm joking, of course. I could have said no. I do have a problem though. I know the rule is, 'Do unto others as they have done unto you', but I'm a bit anxious,
no
, petrified. Paula and Heather have 'done unto me', and I know I will have to reciprocate; however, I'm straight, and I don't know if I can do
'that'