o get us for

y twiddling our thumbs and dreading what they'd a

notion of time I had was from a clock I noticed on one of

time she exhaled. I rested my cheek against

I mean that guy from the ship was gorgeous, " said

in a slightly lower pitch. I could tell by the way her voice

ith beds and a bathroom? They don't want us dead. They want to give us to men that want to fu

sounded debating on whether or not they were whored out to an attr

that's the point. How else do y

ike beauty cloud our vision. We're the perfe

t was unnaturally empty as if slowly, I w

usy voice said again, trying to defend this absurd all

dy. Or have you forgotten, because I can't. I watched Maple die l

efore the girl was angrily stomping toward me; at least as angrily as a person

ger. The girl was a tall blonde, with crystal blue eyes. She was pretty; beautiful i

We're not even prostitutes to them. We have no value.

o drink from us and then sooner or later, someone will loose c

ll o

k they'll care enough about

t shaking her

he knew that no one would want them. They weren't pretty enough. Clarice had that a

he dead girls like she would if s

l save you? Becau

erge of a mental breakdown. She could see the reality as clea

that I won't be

someone wanting to toy with a couple of lesbians like yours

han me but that didn't change the intensity of my glare; I wasn't afriad of her. It wasn't so much

in on her face wider. "De

silencing her. In fact, the way that my hands were tied in front of my body lended to this at

chest was heaving. I couldn't rem

y made her better than girls like me. She picked her teeth with girls like Melanie-- girls who were too small

igthened around her pencil neck. I could squeeze the life out of her, right here, right now. I

oug

hite by the force with which he was clenching his hand into a fist. There was a black bag in his right hand. The rage was radiat

eyes off of him as I sat back down on my mattress. Melanie was shifting beside me and I gave her my hands.

She must have woken up wh

he held my gaze, his eyes only flick

ht at my feet, his eyes finally level with mi

ally. The severed ropes fell to the floor from my wrists. A small key was suddenly i

e bag. "You can't run, " he murmured. His eyes had melted into emerald pools and

, taking the ropes off of the other girls' hands and t

h mine, " Melanie stuttered, g

d. "Of

the brush through her chestnut brown hair. It was an

iful." I told her w

brush mine; it wou

ss of curls-- not that any hairbrush has e

d, turning to face me wi

d fluffing the roots. I pulled a few strands over both shoulders, letting them fal

entrance, like a permanent fixture in the wall. His shoulders shifted

h me. All

t the rear of what had become our room. He took us

g from roof to ceiling and nearly the entire length of the room served as a partition. The other side of the

Law & Order S.V.U. this summer before my trip to Prague. It looked li

was pique

raised platform at the center of the room. If that indeed was a two way mirror, then

in my ear, clinging on to my

way mirror,

o you

not really. But i

there are peop

ed to say. 'There could be

soft voice sounded hollow and far away. "You can

ok her. Her eyes were wild and

have to take me. I won't let you go alone. But if anyon

to come with you. Please.." Hot tears st

h my thumbs. "Melanie,

ded child and I wondered if this was finally the thing that would

or a moment, holding her ti

if they only choose m

can't be sure, " she huf

es out there and if there is any chance that you get to be further away from those creatures than I

back to the room if t

y eyes darkened to color of steel

u to keep you safe, and this is

t you'll stay

e, " I repeated whe

d, with a small s

older but I was glad she had at least agreed to do as I aske

she left this room with some man- or woman- there would be too many variables

tough decision on her behalf, I would give her one later. Her anger with me, her frustation w

on my right side. The green-eyed vampire stood next me on my left and reached a hand down to

nd spoke into what must have been a s

eached fo