Dark Room

"Nerfetiti!!!.." Rob cried as he watched the two hefty men take his sister away,Nerfetiti turned her

head and her sad eyes glanced at her brother who was standing by the door tears pouring from her eyes.

Rob wanted to run after her but she was stopped by a deadly-looking man,who dragged him out of the door.

Nerfetiti stopped moving as she watched her brother being hauled away,the man took her brother out of the house and slammed the door making her shudder,she swallowed hard trying not to cry again for something she couldn't change screeching her legs across the marble floor,she continued walking forward.

The two men led her down the hallway and to a room on the right, one man walked forward with a bunch of keys, he looked at the room number and searched for the keys after a little while,he found it and unlocked the door before she could say a word,she was pushed inside

She fell to her face as she heard the clicking of keys behind her and she knew she had been locked in.

Nerfetiti opened her eyes and she realized that the room was dark pitch black dark.

She couldn't even see her hands it was painful keeping her eyes open in such darkness,so she had to shut them and feel around with her hands inching to the wall behind her,she curled up herself like a ball shutting her eyes and drowning in her thoughts.

Life had been miserable so far, she was just twenty and everything,her dreams, ambitions ,joy, hope everything had been ripped away in the blink of an eye.

If one had the right to decide one's fate, she would have chosen to never have been born.

The tears she had struggled so hard to keep in kept rolling down again she sniffed as she rubbed her nose with the back of her hand ;the air in the room was so stuffy and she was sweating all over but all of that didn't matter at that moment; she wished it could all end quickly but sadly,her journey just started.

She didn't know for how long she lay there, eyes shut,and mind wandering.Because of the darkness,she was sensitive to every sound.

She could hear the stomping of feet on the floor above her,the creeping of insects around the darkroom and even the never-ending pumping of blood by her shattered heart.

Soon she slept off.

She woke up to the sound of keys being used in the key hole on the door, her body instantly sitting upright as she waited for the door to open the light from the hallway illuminated a patch of the room as the door opened.

She didn't have enough time to look the person who had opened the door because as soon as a bowl of food was pushed in the door was slammed close again.

Nerfetiti sat still for a moment as she listened to the retreating footsteps

She could not move,she hasnt had anything to eat since morning but the last thing on her mind at that moment was food, she didn't even have the appetite to eat anything not to talk of eating anything that came from that house.

And that was her routine for two days straight, crying, sleeping and thinking every day the door would open and a meal would be pushed in ,three times in the day but she touched none of them.

On the third day,she was already too weak her fingers barely moved and her eyes remained shut for almost the whole day. Fresh tears replacing the already dried streaks as she could hear the singing of the birds and she knew it was morning, then suddenly the lights in the room turned on.

Shocked and relived was an understatement to what she felt at the moment.

She had not seen such brightness for three days ,thus it was so illuminating that she raised her hands weakly over her eyes, the doors to the room opened and she heard people walk in.

Forcing herself to sit up straight she glanced at them ,there was an older man in his fifties and an older lady with him also as the older lady watched her for a moment then she ushered two men in and they walked forward and lifted Nerfetiti up and without waiting for her to stable her feet they dragged along.

Nerfetiti didn't resist them, she didn't even have the strength to as her feet scraped the floor as they pulled her limp body forward.

She heard a door being pulled open and she was dragged inside the sweet scent of strawberry wafted into her nostrils and she lifted her eyes to look at where she was.

There was a bath filled with water alongside steam was coming out of it,there were two maids standing beside it as though they had been waiting for her.

"Strip!"

The old lady commanded ,Nerfetiti looked at her and noticed her gaze was firm,there was not a hint of a smile on her face and she knew that if she didn't strip she would be forced to.

She had not been naked in front of people before and the way they watched her made her nervous before she could raise her hands to her clothes,the old lady.running out of patience instructed with the slight movement of her head that the men leave the room.

Quickly the men who had dragged her in walked out while the maid tore her clothes off her body one by one they fell till she was left with nothing but her bare skin

Nerfetiti looked down at her body,she hadn't washed for three days and after being locked up for so long she stank.

As though they had already been prepped on what to do, one of the maids brought a stool and made her sit, the other came with a toothbrush and paste.

"You do as you are told, open your mouth" The old lady who had not moved an inch from where she was standing since she entered the room commanded.

Nerfetiti looked up at her and she saw that she was gazing down at her with so much ferocity that she knew she didn't have a choice ,her mouth opened immediately and the maid washed it, she was so thorough that Nerfetiti felt blood seeping from her gums, she was still rinsing her mouth when a maid brought two little stools and placed in front of her,her brows creased as she wondered what they were for.

"Place your legs on top of them;"the elderly woman's voice rang in the room again and she did as she was told suddenly the maid, pushed the two stools apart making her legs open wide;

Her hands reflexively moved to cover her private part the old lady seeing this,walked to her and gave her a resounding slap "You do as you are told ,young lady."

Nerfetiti could swear that she saw stars, she definitely could hear distant echoes in her right ear where the slap had landed ,and she blinked severally,trying to hold in the brewing tears.

No-one needed to tell her to remove her hands afterwards, they shaved her private part till itbwas smooth like a newborn baby's after they were done shaving her private part and armpits,the old lady pointed to the bath and they helped her stand up.

The bathwater was hot as she was immersed inside it, it smelled nice like strawberry flavor and a bit of Chocolate, she soaked in the bath for about twenty minutes after which the old lady pointed to the shower area.

Nerfetiti was helped up to the shower and a maid washed her body thoroughly.

After she was washed she applied a sweet-smelling lotion which made her skin glow almost immediately.

After that,she was dressed in a beautiful satin gown and her hair was blow-dried,after which it was beautifully styled.

She was taken to a dressing table where she was made to sit as they applied some special lotions to her face, when her eyes met the reflection in the mirror she felt her heart squeeze.

She was a very beutiful woman and all her life,she had caused heads to turn but all that did not matter now, did they?

If she could decide her fate , she would rather be a measly beggar sitting by the roadside rather than to be his mistress.

Nerfetiti felt tears drop from her eyes and it fell on the maid's palm, the girl paused for

a second but didn't show any emotions towards her then continued applying the lotion.

Afterward she was taken to a dining room where assorted food was placed;a seat was pushed out for her and she sat down.

The old man and lady sat on the opposite side of the table and watched her with no facial expressions given off

The maids took out a plate and placed a lot of vegetables on it before placing it in front of her.

“Eat up you must be hungry” the old man said to her, sure Nerfetiti Was famished and she knew that if she wanted to live for the next one year and save her brother she had to eat, so without grudging, she picked a fork and began to eat.

The maids stood by and watch her eat until she was full, after the table was cleared she was taken to a room on the first floor and she was finally left alone.

Nefertiti heaved A sigh of relief when she heard the door close behind her ,she looked around the surrounding and noticed it was an exquisite room with a long curtain covering the floor to ceiling glass window on the other end also there was a large mirror Just beside the couch and there was the Queen’s bed which had a dressing table beside it and it was filled with varieties of lotions and make up, from a closer look she realised that they were familiar as they were the ones that were used on her earlier today.

Sighing, she walked to the bed and lay down shortly, she drifted off to sleep.

Nefertiti didn't know how long she slept But she awoke when someone tap that gently.

Her eyes fluttered open in response and she saw the old woman standing with a man who had a white coat on “ How are you Nerfetiti? I’m here to run some test on you, would you sit upright please? He said with a small smile and Nefertiti sat up right on the bed.

He opened his little box and took a needle and syringe; he took twine and tied her left hand before cleaning an area where her greenish veins were most visible with a cotton swab soaked in an antiseptic.

He pierced her skin and drew out blood and in a matter of seconds, he was done and started packing up his instruments.

Nerfetiti remained calm after they left though her heart was drumming against her chest .

They had taken her out of the dark room, cleaned her thoroughly now they were taking her blood sample for tests and it could only mean one thing, she would sleep with the monster soon.

The mere thought of that man touching her sent shivers down her spine; when she had agreed to be his mistress in place of her brother being his slave she hadn’t realised the depth of that sacrifice.