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I am currently in a ball room of a really expensive hotel surrounded by people that I have never met before in my life. Allow me to introduce myself my name is Alexandra Maria Russo I am 19 years old and I don't know how my life got to where it is now being sold to somebody I don't even know by my grandparents. Let me explain my parents died about a year ago in a car accident they were hit by a drunk driver and they both died instantly leaving me and my one year old sister Sophia Leah Russo behind to be taken in by my father's mother who is extremely wealthy her husband my grandfather passed away about two years ago. But back to the party this is my fifth party in two months my grandmother doesn't want the burden of me and an arranged marriage like hers and my parents would take too long so this is the quickest way but I refuse to leave my sister I will beg the person I am being sold too to also take my sister. Now something you should also know about me is that I'm a lesbian but my grandmother doesn't know that no one in my family knows well my parents did and they accepted me. I'm not allowed to know who I'm being sold too. My thoughts were interrupted by a hand grabbing my arm tightly.
"If you screw this up there will be hell to pay" grandmother says while looking down at my little sister.
I nod she knows she can do nothing to hurt me but she knows she can hurt me by hurting Sophia so I try to listen to her the last party we were at when I wasn't chosen she was furious she locked me in the basement and wouldn't let me see Sophia I heard her crying for me and heard my grandmother yelling at her to shut up and when she didn't I heard her smack her countess times. I look down at the sweet innocent little girl and smile she's in a light pink dress similar to the color of mine she looks up at me and smiles and I smile back but that is soon interrupted by the ball room doors opening to reveal the most beautiful girl I have ever seen she was in a skin tone floor length dress her chocolate brown hair is down a curled with a small tiara in her hair directly behind her are a very tall man in his mid-thirties in a black suit with a gold chain around his neck on his arm a woman also in her mid-thirties in a floor length red gown her in a bun. I gasped at the site of the girl and the glass I was holding slipped out of my hand and fell to the floor breaking causing the girl to look in my direction. My grandmother muttered something under her breath before tightening her grip.
I am currently pacing back and forth in front of the big wooden doors feeling extremely nervous about going into the party. At seven o'clock tonight something big is happening.I would like to say tonight is nothing special but I'm about to enter a party where I will meet a group of girls choosing one to become my bride the party is just a cover for what exactly is going on. My father puts a hand on my shoulder stopping me from pacing and scaring me in the process I turn to look at him.
"You keep pacing you're going to burn a hole into the ground" he says while laughing. I sigh. My mother steps forward and grabs my face.
"Mija calm down everything will be fine just be yourself and listen to your heart" she smiles and kisses my forehead. I sigh and smile slightly
"You're right mom. Okay let's do this" I run my hands down my dress and sigh one more time I nod to the guy by the door and step forward as the doors open. Everyone turns around to look at me as I walk into the room I hear glass breaking and look over and see a girl with black hair in a floor length pink dress with a little girl holding her hand and an older lady in her mid-sixties muttering under her breath and scolding the girl. I smile faintly at her and turn back as some of my family members come and talk to me and my parents. I couldn't focus on anything I was watching the clock waiting for it to strike seven. My father came to my side and put a hand on my shoulder I smiled shakily at him and let out a deep breath.
"Are you ready honey it's almost time?" I nodded and he took my hand leading me to a room connected to the ball room where five girls were waiting. I looked around the room and noticed the girl that dropped the glass was there. I was both nervous and sad that they were here of course their lives were in my hand but I could only save one of them and that's what broke my heart being sold by families or husbands.
"Hello girls my name is Rosalinda and I hope you all are having a good time tonight okay so let me explain things to you I will be picking one of you as my bride. But before that I'm going to go down the line and ask you guys your name and age. But so everyone feel more comfortable I'll go first as you all know my name is Rosalinda and I am twenty years old"
As Rosalinda went down to the first girl I tried to calm my breathing and trying not to sweat through the white gloves I was wearing I was the last girl in the line I've only been in the presence of this girl for ten minutes but she already has my stomach doing summersaults. As she got to the third girl in the line the doors flew open causing us all to jump