Chapter 5
A/N: To anyone who was actually reading this story, apologies for the delay. I have been having a hectic time but now things are tumbling and I can't cope and I need to release and this keeps popping up in my life so I feel I really need to get some closure with it...
For the rest of the day I was stressing. Worried about what the afternoon would bring. Alice was trying to calm me down but nothing worked. By the end of the day I was a nervous wreck. I said goodbye to Alice and went to the opposite gate, where Jacob had told me to meet him.
As soon as I arrived, he hugged me, kissed me and pulled me to his truck. We got in and he instantly took my hand in one of his.
"I know you are just going to love this. And everyone is going to love having you around" he said with a smile on his face.
"What do you mean everyone? I thought it was just you and me?" I said, scared.
"Bella baby, didn't you know? I work for a special little place designed for little girls like you" he said with a smirk on his face.
For the rest of the car ride we were quite. Except for the moments that Jacob was saying things like "Just you wait, it will be so much fun" or "I can't wait until the others meet you. They are going to love you as much as I do."
We drove for almost an hour and then the car stopped. I was so nervous and scared of what was going to happen to me. We had stopped in front of a building that was very easy to overlook compared to its surroundings. It was pretty shabby. Didn't draw too much attention. But it had Jacob's attention. I knew this was where we were meeting "the others".
We entered the building and it took a while for my eyes to adjust. There was hardly any light. From what I could see, there were about 10 little rooms each with their own door. Most of them were closed but we passed 2 that were open. In one room there was a girl, who looked to be no older than myself sitting on a bed in nothing but underwear and a weird top I had never seen before. She looked dazed and confused and really sleepy.
"Is she ok? What's wrong with her? " I asked Jacob, hesitantly
He turned on me with an utter look of hatred on his face "Bella, do not ask any questions. You don't need to concern yourself with anything expect what I tell you! Do you understand?" he spat at me
I just nodded. I was so scared. Jacob put me in the only other available room and told me to sit on the bed that was in there and wait quietly like a good girl. I did as I was told. After what seemed like hours, when in reality it was only 20 minutes, Jacob returned followed by 3 other guys that looked slightly older than himself.
"What did I tell you guys? Isn't she a scream? Won't all the clients love to be with her?" he asked the others.
"Well she definitely has the figure we want. That will definitely be a plus with the clients. But how does she look in the outfit?" one of the other guys asked. He looked to be the boss.
I was so confused as to what he meant when he said "outfit". Then Jacob turned to me.
"Bella honey, see that bag on the floor there?" he asked me. I just nodded. "I want you to take it behind that sheet there and put the clothes that are in it on for me. Can you do that?" he asked. Again I just nodded.
I went behind the sheet that Jacob pointed to with the bag and opened it. I gasped quietly. Inside the bag was a similar outfit to the one I saw the other girl in. I had no idea what was happening but I tried to do as Jacob said. When it came to the top I was completely stumped as to how to put it on.
"Jacob!" I called out hesitantly
"Yes honey?" I heard him call back
"Uh… I need some help" I called back
"So new and innocent" I heard Jacob mumble as he walked towards the sheet I was behind.
He smiled at the sight and helped me put the top on, teaching me how to as well. He just mumbled to me "You will need to know this for yourself" then opened the sheet to reveal me to the other guys in nothing but underwear and a top that felt like I was choking in it. (A/N: Please remember here that I was only 10 and very innocent. I had no idea what a corset top was. Let alone "sexy lingerie".) The other guys started to smile.
"Oh yes! She is going to be a money maker this one. I can see it now. We may even need to buy new outfits just for her. I can see the clients going crazy to get with her." One of the other guys said
They kept talking to each other about things I didn't understand, but as Jacob had told me before I didn't ask any questions as I was sure he would tell me what I needed to know when the time was right. I just stood there feeling very exposed as the guys kept looking me over and mumbling to themselves.
After an hour the other 3 guys left and I was left in the room with Jacob in nothing but what I was given to change into.
"So baby, do you understand what has happened to you?" Jacob said to me as he sat down on the bed next to me and wrapped his arm around me shoulders.
I just shook my head.
Jacob laughed softly "This building runs a very special business of selling children for pleasure of older males." He paused and looked at my face "Child prostitution honey" the recognition must have dawned on me. I had heard of places in the world where this sort of thing occurred but never thought it would happen somewhere like Australia (A/N: I know before I said I was innocent. But I was not sheltered. My mother told me about things like this that could happen to young girls)
"You are going to be our little money maker. Everyone knows it. So from now on, this is how things will work. You will go to school each day, and every afternoon I will pick you up and we will come here. To start with you will only be required for 2 hours a day. We don't want mommy dearest to pick up anything. You will tell her you are going to help Mrs. Cope with her project. And I will drop you off every afternoon back at school. You will do as you are told and you will not tell anyone what is happening to you or I will hunt down your entire family and kill them in front of you. Are we clear?" he said looking me in the eyes
I was so scared, I just nodded.
"That's my girl" he said smiling as he kissed my forehead. "Now let's get you home. You start tomorrow"
And with that he took me home.
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For the rest of the year, things went on like promised. Jacob picked me up after school every afternoon and took me to the building. I was sold for the pleasure of older men. Then I was taken home and acted like nothing was wrong.
And it worked. The one time I tried to tell my mother, she said I was being a drama queen who was seeking attention and shut down any hope I had that she would put a stop to what had become my life.
I'd accepted what had become of me, believing Jacob when he said that this was all I was good for/at. Alice of course was beyond worried about me. I was beyond scared by every male that came with in a 20 meter radius of me. It didn't matter what age, young or old, they all had the same effect on me. I had learnt to live with the fact that I would never be a normal child. My life had been changed in ways that I could never have imagined.
In some ways what I had gone through had given me a strength I could never have gotten any other way. I had made some changes to my life, I stopped eating. I thought that if I made myself beyond skinny I would be useless. It had the opposite effect though. I couldn't change though. To me, it was the one thing in my life I could control.
By the end of the year I had been with more guys than I could imagine. I had made more money than I knew what to do with, but of course I never saw one cent of it. Jacob took his share for "discovering the talent". The other 3 guys took their share and that left me with about $20. I gave that to one of the other girls, Jessica. I had become her rock. Took all the guys I could from her. She was only 8 and I felt this strange need to protect her the best I could. She had nightmares and every night, she would call me screaming that they were coming after her family.
We had a ritual. Every afternoon I would visit her room, hold her tight in my arms and let her cry out all her worries. I did my best. Most days she only had 2-3 guys. I on the other hand had anywhere between 5-8. Sometimes I had group sessions. These I made sure Jess never had. She was far too young to go through that.
So another chapter in my very sad story...
Thanks for reading if you are
Isabella Jame Swan Cullen XxX