Sugar

She sat there plastered against the wall of the small room. Her heart pounding in her chest and the heat of tears brimming her eyes ready to spill over and run down her cheeks. What the actual fuck had just happened! He had been there, she knew he had the proof was on her face and in the pain that wrapped around her wrists. As she tried to slow her breathing and regain control of herself she just burned a hole in the bed with her eyes in shock. Slowly the words of a strange encounter from the previous week came to her mind.

"You are a lot more than you seem Miss."

She didn't believe him at the time and still had no idea what he had meant. To her he was just another chance to escape a punishment and possibly put food on the table for the night. She was just what she seemed, a pretty face displayed in a store front with a large picture window. Something to be bought and used as they saw fit, a cash cow to put money in the pocket of the man who visited nightly. The only life she had known. He was gone now though and she had no idea where to or even how. She tried to think, what had happened...what did I do...where did he go...would he be back? The last thought terrified her as she knew she would have to pay the price, for whatever it was that had happened, her fault or not.

As the tears broke free and ran down her face they made her skin sting like little prickles of pins and needles. Sliding down the wall she came to rest on the floor curled up in a ball hugging her knees as the last hour re-played in her head. She had woken up late and not feeling so well. She was behind schedule and should have been down in her window display already. She she had tried to spring up from the bed covered in dirty sheets and broken dreams but the door to her single room was busted through. He stood there shadowing the door frame with a look of disgust and hatred on his face. As his eyes narrowed he began to speak to her.

" You stupid, worthless bitch! You are costing me money! You should have been down there over an hour ago! I feed you! I keep this roof over your head! I knew buying you was a mistake, but when they are ready to off a bitch like you...you come cheap!"

His lips curled into a snarl as the last sentenced slipped out through clenched teeth and she knew what was coming next. As she tried to open her mouth to speak nothing came out but a small squeak of a plea as he had already made his way from the door to where she was, his hand firmly wrapped around her throat getting ready to force her down onto the bed.

Swallowing as hard as she could she took in a breath or at least as much of one as she could and softly whispered, " I'm sorry, I...I over slept. I wasn't feeling well this morning." Her eyes looked away from him as she let the words fall out something she knew was going to cost her even more.

As quick as a cobra strike there was a sting across her right cheek as his open hand struck it. " I didn't ask for your excuses and you know better than to look away from me....don't you!? DON'T YOU!" Another sting this time to her left cheek. As her lip began to quiver she looked up into his cold eyes and nodded.

As he shoved her down on the bed and pinned her down under him, kneeling over her body she dared not look away from him. Wrapping his hand around her dainty wrists he pinned them down above her head and leaned in close to her face. "You are worthless." He hissed into her ear, reaching back with his free hand and pulling out a blade. Without backing his face away from hers he slipped the blade under her chin and pressed it against her throat.

" I fucking saved you. Had you not been bought you knew were your worthless ass was headed? Huh...do you Sugar? To the factory...to be bought and then sold to the highest bidder to do what they wanted. Most those girls never make it out. They service those paying customers until their last breath, which is usually taken by the customer. That's right Sugar, they were going to send you to the snuff house, but I saved you. I am the reason you still breath."

Afraid to move she sat there. Him on top of her, hands pinned above her head and a knife at her throat. Worst of all she could feel he was getting joy out of this as the crotch of his pants started to press against her bare skin. She knew he would never use that part of him to hurt her as she was subhuman to him and not deserving of that treatment from him. Not answering him, he pressed the blade harder into her skin and stared down at her, his soulless eyes burning a hole into her.

" It would be so easy...so easy to just drag this across that pampered skin of yours. I can you know. Maybe I should. It would save me the trouble of dealing with you. For some unknown reason the customers like you, but I am sure I could replace you before the sunsets. Plenty of lost girls out there like you, nameless girls thrown away and forgotten. They named you Sugar, you know why? Because that is what all the customers said your sweet tiny cunt tasted like, A sweet sugary honey pot just begging for what they had to give you."

With each word she was filled with rage, disgust and pain, but she knew he was right. Every word of it. How much more could she take, how much longer until that blade was shimmering with the crimson fluid that flowed through her veins. Before she would be no more than a stain on the bed that another girl would soon occupy once he got all he could from her. Worst of all, no one would know, no one would care. She would just be gone and that is what he had to be...GONE!

As the last word rang through her head the rage of all the past experiences she had lived filled her and her body started to shake. He was a monster, he didn't deserve to breath, he didn't deserve to exist in this world or any other. As the rage and pain filled her more than she had ever imagined possible everything in her mind flashed a blinding white. As it faded she felt her hands freed and the blade slide down onto the bed next to her head. She slowly opened her eyes and saw that she was once again alone. He was gone but the knife was proof that he had been there. Leaping from the bed she felt the wall thud against her back as she could not and it would not let her get any further away. Where was he.....what happened!?!