It's been approximately four years since she was kidnapped.

Grace: 7 years old

Jen: 7 years old

Jaicee: 7 years old

Margaret: 12 years old

Someplace unknown. Basement. Grace's P.O.V. 11:39 p.m. December 7th, 2013.

I am laying in my bed awake because every day at exactly 12:00 a.m. Father comes in and gives us chores. The chores last around three hours and then we have to get up at exactly 7 a.m. to get ready for the day. We are only allowed to sleep for four hours. If we are not standing at the door nicely dressed, with our hair combed, then we will not get any food at all for the day, and if we're lucky then we may get one glass of lukewarm water to share.

Father makes us learn our ABCs and numbers. Then he makes us stand in front of him and his friends Jason, Thomas and BJ. If we mess up even once, then he whips us and sometimes lets his friends yell bad words at us. Once Jai-Jai was sick and she had to stop to couch in the middle of saying her numbers.

Father jumped up and yelled "You little brat, now I'm going to get sick!" It made Jai-Jai cry a lot.

Father also makes us do spelling tests. He makes us spell really hard words like: various, certificate, and meretricious.

I look at the clock and it says 11:42 p.m. I walk over to Jai-Jai and Jenny's cot and start to wake them up. Maggie is already brushing her teeth. She wakes up at 11:30 and starts to get ready so me and my sisters can sleep a little longer. I can't wait until help arrives. I miss my Mommy and Daddy so much. But I mostly miss my Aunt Jenny and her friend Emily.

Suddenly I hear a big bang.

"Oh, no!" I say. That's Thomas! "Maggie wake Jai-Jai up and get Jenny up. We can't let Thomas know their still sleeping or he'll tell Father that we missed behaved!

"Jenny, Jai-Jai it is time to wake." We say. I gently shake Jenny's shoulders and breathe a sigh of relief when they wake up immediately. They have only been here for two months and at first me and Maggie had to go without food for a while until they got the hang of the routine.

"Sissy I don't wanna. I tired." Seven year old Jenny says. Earlier tonight Father made her clean the entire bathroom. She only had 20 minutes and because she wasn't done when he went up there, he whipped badly. She cried for almost two hours before finally falling asleep. That was only an hour ago.

"I know you don't, but I don't know when Father is going to come in and I am really hungry." I say starting to panic. I haven't eaten in almost 3 days. "And Thomas is going to come in here." That makes both of them jump really quick. Thomas touches them in their bad places if he thinks they misbehaved by not being up when he walks in.

Suddenly the door opens and in walk Thomas. Thank goodness the twins are standing up.

"Hello girls, how are you this morning."

We're supposed to talk to him like little ladies, so I say, "Good Morning Thomas. We are doing well today."

"Well that's great." He smiles then frowns. He looks at Jai-Jai and says, "Why I don't believe this little lady is listening. I guess I'll have to talk to your Father about that."

Then I hear the door open again and a voice say, "Thomas! Leave those girls alone! Their doing just fine!"

I sigh a breath of relief when BJ comes in and gets Thomas. He is the only one that doesn't hit or yell at us. BJ makes Thomas leave and I'm happy about that.

Maggie comes over at that moment and gets Jai-Jai. She takes her to the sink and gives her the wash cloth and her tooth brush. "Here Jay, baby take this and wash your face and then brush your teeth." Maggie says. She then goes and gets everyone's clothes. Our 'cleaning clothes' consist of blue sweat pants, blue ¾ sleeve shirts and overalls.

Mags helped keep me calm when I first got here. She was 8 and I was 5.

I go over to Jenny and give her the wet wash cloth in my hand. "Here baby, take this and wash your face, ok. Then go to Maggie so she can brush your hair."

"Ok, sissy." She wipes her face and then walks over to Maggie. "Maggie help, p'ease?" She asked, holding out the hair brush.

Maggie takes the brush and starts brushing through her hair. Jenny used to have super long hair that went down to her waist, but Father took her to a place where you get your hair cut and now its only half way down her back. Jai-Jai's hair used to the same way, but he did it to her too. I think he hit her too, cause she was crying and he taked way our food when they got home. He told her that she will learn to listen or else.

I've leaned that 'or else' means him and his friends take turns hitting us.

It's 11:50 right now and I still have to brush my hair. I ask Maggie to pull it up for me, so she takes the brush and starts to brush it . Then she puts it up in a ponytail.

Finally, everyone is done and we are standing at the door waiting for Father.

This is my first try at a story with child abuse.

Please be nice and let me know if you would like me to continue.

Also, what do you think of Father's friend BJ? Will he help the girls or will he just stand by and let them get hurt?