"Did you bring the hundred dollars," a sinister looking man held out his hand.
Why had she come here?
She thought it would be something new and exciting yet now a sense of foreboding had taken over her.
"Sign here and we'll check you in," the man held out a clip board.
She scanned for the "X", scrawled her name and handed it back.
"Right this way then," the man walked through a door. "Follow me."
Julie walked behind him.
"The hundred dollars was our fee," the man closed the door as they entered a room barely the size of a closet.
"What you arrange with the person you meet is entirely up to you, we are not responsible for anything beyond this point."
The words rang into her ears. It was all so foreign to her.
Last night she was commenting about needing extra cash to a friend and before she knew it she was set up on a "sex date."
"May I have your clothes," the man smiled and pointed at a sign that said all patrons must remove their clothes before continuing.
"Why is that?" Julie hesitantly tugged at her gshirt.
"We've had troubles with weapons, simple safety procedure," he smiled and gathered each piece as she slowly shred any sense of decency by undressing in front of a stranger.
When she finished she felt more naked that she had ever felt before. Naked to her core, almost like she had removed more than her clothes, she'd removed a part of her soul. She felt her body shiver.
"I'll be leaving you now," the man took her clothes and closed the door they had entered in behind her. A gentle clicking informed her that the lock had been set. There was no turning back.
She felt an intense fear overcome her.
"Please continue," she read the sign on the door out of the room.
She paused. What other choice did she have? She slid her hand around the door knob and turned. Slowly sliding the door open she looked inside.
Another room, slightly larger, with a sink and vanity.
A sign hung over the sink, "please freshen up."
Julie stepped inside.
She looked at herself in the mirror. Was she not fresh?
Again she paused, then slowly soaped up her body to make sure she was clean.
She turned on the hot water but it never warmed up. She waited several minutes before taking the frigid water and splashing it all over her.
She took on last look at her nude image in the mirror and shivered, both from the cold and the fear of moving on.
"Please continue," the sign again read on the doorway out. As if politely reminding her to move on.
She opened the door and slowly a barely lit room, as small as the entered here eyes. Another room? Why another room?
She hesitantly stepped inside and pushing the door behind her, she let her eyes focus in the dark space.
The darkness felt intense. The walls were painted black and the ceiling was barely over her head. It felt as if the room was closing in around her.
"Please continue," she could barely make out on the sign of the door in front of her. Again the gentle reminder.
Each door was agony. Why wouldn't they let her get on with it? Why were they pushing her through door after door? She wanted to turn back.
She reached out for the other door but there was no knob.
Julie panicked. She felt her heart race. She was stuck in that room unless she moved forward. She felt suddenly aware that she was not in control and began to sob. She slipped her hand over the only way out, the way forward and slowly it opened.
Still sobbing she entered the room, this one even smaller than the one before, causing her to crouch to her hands and knees to find the next door.
The door was had a spring on it, and she could tell that if she went further. If she crawled further, she wasn't going back.
She let out a whimper. Her breasts were already feeling heavy underneath her. Her knees aching from crawling. Why did they do this? To demean her before she even meets someone? Why didn't her friend tell her about this?
Still she crawled forward. There was no way back.
She started sobbing again as she felt the door snap at her back.
It was a few moments before her eyes could focus, going from the utter confining darkness to sudden light. When she could finally see, her heart raced.
She was looking through a cage door into a room with a desk. Her body confined so tightly she couldn't move forward or backwards.
She started to involuntarily moan. She felt horrified.
"Right this way sir," she heard a man's voice, "I think you'll like this one."
Julie heard rustling around her but couldn't see anything.
"She's got blond hair, nice bust, probably twenty-three years old," the voice continued, "no tattoos that I could see."
Suddenly the walls around her started shifting, and threw her sideways.
"She sounds perfect," another voice responded.
She tried to work up the courage to talk, scream, anything, but she couldn't, the sobs overtaking her.
"Put her on the desk," the box around Julie lifted into the air and landed with a thud. "Excellent."
She looked out across the desk between her sobs. It was bare dark wood, save for a couple of sheets of paper and a pen.
"I'm Bill," a man peered into her cage and smiled, "would you like to get out of there?"
She quickly nodded yes.
"Are you sure?" he smiled and ran his fingers over the cage.
"Yes," Julie finally managed to moan some words, "please."
"Alright then," Bill opened the cage and gently pulled her out, "but stay on your hands and knees."
Julie's mind was racing. She was scared and didn't know what to do. She wanted to leave, but something inside of her was keeping her from running. She was afraid. Afraid for her life.
"You are perfect," she felt Bill's hand running up and down her back and through her hair. "Yes you are."
Julie felt violated but unable to protest. His hands working her body, her hair then slowly around her ears. She gasped.
His hands grabbed her breasts and gently his fingers roamed over her. If she thought she had any shred of decency, it left her at that moment. She felt like the whore she realized she signed on to be.
"Please don't," she finally protested, his hands slipping between her legs, "please don't."
"I can't do this," she started sobbing. She couldn't go on with this. It was to degrading. Her body filled with pent up fear began to shake uncontrollably. Tears ran down her face.
The touching stopped.
"Are you sure?" Bill walked around so she could see him.
Julie nodded yes.
"Why are you here then?" Bill asked her in a surprisingly compassionate voice.
Julie didn't answer. She couldn't. Her tears were uncontrollable. It took her several minutes to finally compose herself enough to talk.
"I needed the money," she whispered.
"You needed the money," Bill stated, "and if you leave what will you leave with?"
"My dignity," Julie answered as defiantly as she could.
"Okay, you'll leave with your dignity but you'll owe me a thousand dollars," Bill laughed. "Didn't you read the contract you signed when you paid to put yourself into my servitude?"