Have you ever just sat back and reflected on your life to see how far you've gotten? Or maybe to just look back on all the good memories you've made over the years with your family, friends, and sometimes even complete strangers? I have, and it made me want to curl up into a ball and cry my eyes out. Depressing, I know. But that's life for you, well, my life that is…
I'm sorry…you most likely don't understand what I'm talking about. My name is Xion and I'm sixteen years old. I'm very different from the normal American teenage girl in just about every way. I don't go to school, I don't date guys, I don't have a family, and I pretty much have no life. I live in the basement of a man named Jake Evans (if that even is his real name) and have been his…"pet," as he calls me. You see, he's what you would call a pimp and I'm a sex slave in human trafficking.
I was sold as soon as I was born by my own parents, their seventh child they've done this to from what Jake has told me… The other girls though, they were picked up when walking home from school or they were running away from home. They still resist and fight to escape, but it's only a matter of time until they give up like I did. Whenever they disobey or don't submit to Jake or a patron, they get beaten, rapped, and starved. The only choice they have is to give up…or die…
Jake says I'm his most prized possession, partly because I've lost all hope of escaping him since the first time I disobeyed him when I was six. He decided it was time for me to learn to have sex, and when I started to cry because he was hurting me, he beat me and raped me. When he was done, he held me and stroked my hair, telling me that everything will be ok if I do as he says. Having been raised on this fear of him, I never disobeyed him ever again.
As a reward for being so good, I'm well fed and not beaten like the other girls anymore. The only thing I have to do to keep it this way, is please Jake and every man he sends me to late at night. It's not often that I am sent to pleasure men, mostly because Jake is greedy and wants me for himself as well as the fact that I'm his most expensive girl. But when I am sent off, I have to follow some rules.
I'm not to talk unless told to.
I am to do everything the man says.
If the man beats me, I'm not to stop him in any way.
The last rule is because when I come back, Jake will demand more money from the man for damaging me.
According to Jake, I'm more expensive than the others, because I'm so beautiful and young, yet so experienced. But since patrons aren't willing to pay that price for me as much as they used to, he says it's time I'm to be sold off for good. I'm not sure weather to see this as a good thing, only having one person to please from then on, or if I should be scared… There have been times when Jake sold a girl off, knowing the buyer's intention was to abuse her and didn't care…
He tells me he loves me, calls me his baby, but I know it's not true and that when someone comes along with enough money for me, he's going to send me off without a thought. I'm not a person to anyone; I'm nothing. I'm a Nobody.