My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

Her martial arts experience was apparent as she easily threw me to the ground with a few moves. She kicked me in the ribs with no mercy in sight.

As her patience wore thin, she stopped wasting time talking to me. She took my fingers and the pen, then forcibly signed my name on the document. She then grabbed my fingers and pressed them onto the wound on my forehead.

After a moment, my blood- stained finger was pressed on top of my signature on the document. She had done everything so smoothly, as if it were routine done a hundred times before. The door closed behind her with a 'bang.1

I laid on the ground, my body still shaking as the pain began to spread through every part of my body.

I couldn't imagine the mess I'd gotten into.

I laid on the ground, motionless.

Three days later, I was dragged into a car by two women. My eyes were blindfolded. The time I spent in that car felt like it stretched on for hours.

By the time the gauze strapped around my head was removed, I had alread been locked up in an unfamiliar, filthy place.

with asbestos tiles that formed a triangular shape on

a woman cry out. I pulled myself

straw, my hands and feet tied up. Needless to say, after days of use, my clothes were in torrid

women were sitting next to me, shivering

woman in her early twenties. Though her clothes were filthy, her features were sprightly. I could tell at a

the other girls stopped crying and

trembled as they asked, "What's

obvious that we're in the countryside. Let's figure out where we are and how to escape!" The sprightly woman said as she looked around, her eyes

be a countryside, but which countryside is it? We don't even know exactly where we are, so how can we escape? If we ended

going to send us to the borders," I said. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the FindNʘᴠᴇl.nᴇt website on

and were stunned for a moment.

point of taking us

were going to sell me to other countries, but what they'd said the other day had me a