I was sat clothed, albeit scantily, in the small room with the door open and what would seem to be a short walk to freedom. I stayed sat where I was, looking at the door and not moving, I knew there was nowhere to go and besides I felt I didn't want to go anywhere. I suppose you may say I had become institutionalised to my captivity and it was now a comfort to me.
It hadn't always been so but by my reckoning I was now 28, maybe 29 and that meant I had been here 6 years or more. As I sat on the mattress that was still warm with the body heat and exertion of a short while ago I felt the seed of the man who had bought me for that evening at the auction run down my thighs as it leaked from my sex. He had been the one who had left the door open and gone. For the night, or just the moment I was not sure.
In this moment alone my mind went back to my capture and how I had come to be here so compliant to stay and now happy to earn money for the complex and my owner.
I went back in time, to the night of my capture.
It had been my 22 birthday and my night out with friends had gone well until as nights sometimes do it suddenly hit the rocks. I recalled the argument over nothing with Peter, my boyfriend, and the girls telling me how unreasonable I had been. Drunk and not in the mood for lectures, I was out to party. I told all that they could go rot in hell tipping over my drink and storming from the bar.
I was one of those women who had the beauty of the girl next door; dark hair to my shoulders, deep blue eyes, pale skin and just enough curves and confidence to know I was noticed in bars and clubs. I was not in anyway a supermodel but in this mood I had been determined I would show him, no all of them that I didn't need them to enjoy myself. On that night, my hair freshly done I knew I looked good and dressed as I was in low cut cocktail dress hugging just where it should I knew that I could have a good evening without them, though I did expect they would to follow later as I headed to the club we always went to.
The club was busy and loud and I placed my coat in the cloakroom heading to the bathroom to check my make-up. A fresh application of lipstick and I was set for a little dancing and harmless flirting so that when Peter did arrive he would see I was as happy without his attention as I was with it, or at least would appear to show that - whether it was true or not. A little adjustment of the breasts behind the dress, a spray of Chanel and heels clicked my way from the bathroom to the dance floor and I shook my ass for a few tracks before squeezing my way between the throng toward the bar.
"May I offer you a drink?" the man asking had obviously been watching my approach as he asked before I got to the bar as he leant back resting upon it.
"Thank you, a vodka and tonic though I insist on giving you the money. I'm waiting for friends and would hate to lead you on." He smiled, ordered the drink and passed it to me shaking his head. I returned his smile and sipped the drink buying him the next as we chatted. Then I headed to the floor and again danced. The knowledge his eyes watched me made me move my body a little more flirtatious with hips swaying and hands raised to sweep my hair more than once as I moved to the music.
Suddenly he joined me the next drink in hand. He grabbed me and twirled me about him with a swagger and knowledge of someone who knows he has the moves. We sat or danced most of the night and I would watch the entrance to see if Peter would arrive. At first I did this constantly then as the night wore on a little less avidly.
"I think your friends do not come." he said not as a question but a fact, "They have let you down." The phrase stung me, more than usual in my angry state.