Author's note: Susan's experience today is based on a story I read once about a girl being tortured during a concert. I have tried to find the original story or author to give proper credit but have not been successful. Obviously it made an impression on me, so I have tried to recreate it here as part of this series. My kudos to the original author and concept.
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On Wednesday morning, Susan Mitchell was surprised when the electronic lock on her cell did not open as it usually did. By this time, she would normally have been freed and presented with any special instructions from the headmaster. But instead the door to her cell remained locked. Someone had brought her breakfast, a couple of slices of toast and some cereal, and it has been placed just under the metal bars of her cell. She ate the food greedily. Susan needed to use the toilet, but the cage door remained firmly locked. The girl refused to piss herself so she avoided the water given to her with breakfast and laid back down on the cold floor to await today's punishment.
Susan fell back asleep. Her days of constant abuse left her exhausted most days, so she wasn't about to complain about a few more hours of sleep. She awoke when she heard the buzzer indicating the cell lock had been opened around mid-day. The woman found a note on the floor outside the cell on top of a large box. The note directed her to take a shower and come down to the school's auditorium by noon. It was already after 11 so Susan gulped down the juice left behind from breakfast and headed to the bathroom to relieve herself. She had little time to spare, so her shower needed to be a short one today. She returned to her room and opened the box as she had been directed. Inside was a pair of extremely high heels, white stockings and a thin white babydoll chemise.
She pulled the garment over her head, surprised to have been given clothing to wear and knowing there had to be a special purpose to it. She was never provided with clothes. Then the young woman pulled on the stockings and looked at the high heels. They were much higher than she would normally wear, but that wasn't what concerned Susan. Inside the shoes were small metal nubs which she realized would cause pain to her feet with every step she made. She considered not putting them on until they arrived at the auditorium, but she knew Headmaster Krutz was watching on the video camera somewhere, so she bent down and strapped herself into the heels. As she suspected, when she put her weight down, the metal nubs stabbed into her bare feet.
Walking downstairs to the auditorium was absolute torture for the young girl. It was hard to walk in the heels and the stabbing pain from the metal left her certain her feet would be bleeding by the time the day was over, if they were not already. She fought back tears as she made her way through the halls, her classmates staring at her as she tottered on the heels. She spent most of her time barefoot and learning to walk on heels again was not easy, particularly when the heels were six inches high.
Once at the auditorium, Susan was greeted by a woman she did not know. The woman escorted her into a dressing room and told her to sit down in a chair. Susan obliged and the woman began working on Susan's makeup. Susan was glad to be off her feet and sat back in the chair as the makeup artist got out her equipment. Susan's eyelids were painted with blue eyeshadow and outlined with dark black mascara, creating the stereotypical 'smoky eye'. After foundation and blush were applied to her cheeks, Susan's lips were painted cherry red. Susan wore very little makeup any more, except when commanded, and was very happy to see how she looked in the mirror when the artist finished. The woman took time to brush Susan's long blonde hair and then pinned it up so it framed her face. Despite everything she had been through this year, Susan Mitchell was still a beautiful young woman and the makeup only accentuated her natural beauty.