Chapter 13

Muse pov The following Saturday, mama came to talk to me and my two traveling colleagues with whom I arrived here last week. She entered the room after our last session with coach Emma. "You are now ready to start your job. From the beginning of next week you will be able to go out and meet clients. They are eager to meet you. If you behave in an exemplary manner, you will see, you will have none. problem with me. You can have anything you want by doing this job. " Mama explains to us under my pounding heart. "As early? Mama, maybe we are not ready yet. It would be better if we still continue with the training to perfect ourselves, don't you think?" I ask mama looking anxious. "No honey, you're already fine the way you are. So, as early as next week, you can go out on your first mission. You'll see, it'll be so exciting! For a start, we won't be too hard on you." Mama retorts me and I'm disappointed with her response. At least I was hoping that day wouldn't come anytime soon. But there, I think I have no choice. I have to take action very quickly. Ever since the idea of running away had occurred to me, I tried as much as I could to take a good look around this brothel and rehearse any exit issues. All the time when we went out for fun in the brothel yard or at the swimming pool, I was just figuring out how I could escape. And I think I was able to find some loopholes in the surveillance system of this house. There are two guards posted at the front door. But at the back gate, there is only one guard. As for the walls forming the enclosure of the fence, I cannot risk fleeing through there. Indeed, not only are the walls highly constructed, but they are surrounded by electronic barbed wire. To take this path to escape would only be to opt for suicide. I only have the normal route left, namely the rear portal. Since the guard is there alone, it's easier to sneak outside through there. I'll just patiently wait until he gets enough sleep so that I can extract the key from the portal. So the next day during the day, we went out into the courtyard of the brothel for our usual stroll. Everything is going wonderfully. I'm waiting for mama to slip away so that I can take action. She stays with us for over half an hour, then she comes back inside the house. As for me, I watched her closely so that I could act when she entered. At this moment, I go behind the house where there is a small box where the electricity meters are kept. I check all around to make sure no one sees me. Seeing that everyone was busy, I insert myself delicately into the little box. It's so narrow that I barely have room to breathe inside so I sit down, bending my legs under me and my arms crossed over my chest so I can fit in that space. In the meantime, I could hear the other girls playing outside quietly. I stayed in this position for a very long time. I feel cramps rise on my legs from being in this position. So I stay in the same position without moving, it looked like my legs didn't work anymore because I didn't feel them anymore. I have no choice but to endure again until a suitable hour. I can't go out now or risk ruining my plan. As we often say, nothing is achieved in life without sacrifice. And freedom is one of the things that you have to tear off in your life. If I have to die in my quest for freedom, so much the better. I will stop at nothing at this point. This life has already taught me from the top of my few years of existence on earth that I must fight to achieve my goals. So that's what I'm going to do right now. Hours have passed while I am still hidden in the little hut. I no longer hear the sound of girls' voices in the yard. They have surely already gone inside the house. Towards sunset, which is normally the time all the girls are supposed to meet in the large living room, I hear loud voices coming from inside the house. I guess this is due to my disappearance. A few minutes later, the voices are more and more heard near me. I understand then that mama and the girls must have already gone out looking for me. "Go get her by the pool, from behind and even all around the house. Maybe she's started doing her / her whims again. As for me, I'm going to go see the guards to ask them if they are. didn't see her prowling around the gate. " I hear mama's voice surely giving orders to the girls. Because indeed, the sound of footsteps in front of the hut where I am resound in my ears. The girls are busy looking around the house for me. The hut where I am hidden is so small that the idea of coming to find me here will not go through their heads. "Haven't you seen her?" I hear mama asking to go back to the guards. "No! We can't find it anywhere. It looked like it had evaporated" The girls answer mama. "Even the guards haven't seen her either. Yet they claim to have seen her with you when you were out recently. Where could she have been at this time?" Mama replies. I can detect concern in the sound of his voice. "What if she had drowned in the water ?!" Another girl asks, whose voice relates exactly to that of Luna, my cochambrière. I guess she must be worried about me too. "No, that's not possible. If she had indeed drowned, her body would have been found above the water." Explains another voice. "You never know, any lead can be exploited. I'm going to go see the gatekeeper at the back to ask him in turn if Muse hasn't lapped around the gate. In the meantime, call me the gardener. He must come. take a dip to make sure Muse's body isn't at the bottom of the pool. " Mama orders, surely walking towards the guard at the back gate. About five minutes later, I hear mama's voice again, which must be back. "She didn't go through the back gate either. Hamza, can you check in the pool if we can find her body?" "Alright mama! But I think it would be better to empty the pool to see more clearly in case she actually drowned." The gardener replied to mom. "You're right, I'm so confused it just went out of my mind." After some twenty minutes without hearing a voice, I understand that the guard is emptying the pool to check if my body has not remained at the bottom. "There are no bodies at the bottom. I took a good look and the pool is empty." The gardener said, coming back to the hut where I am hiding. "Plague!" I hear mama say in an enraged voice. "If I can get a hold of her, I won't give much of her skin!" She continues to say the enraged voice. Finally, not having found traces of me, mama and all those who follow her go inside the brothel. I hiss in relief that they haven't thought about looking at where I'm sheltered. I was really hot on the buttocks. I imagine mama's anger right now. She must surely curse me by all her ancestors. It is for this reason that I must escape from this brothel at all costs. It's tonight, otherwise mama will do my skin. I felt chills earlier when she said she wouldn't give a damn about my skin if she managed to catch me. Late at night, there is a dead silence. This is the period that we often hear the howls of owls and the barking of dogs. During this hour of the night, everyone should already be sleeping soundly. So I come out of my hiding place making as little noise as possible so as not to alert mama or someone who has insomnia. Once out of the hut where I was hiding, cramps grab my feet. They are so violent that I feel the urge to scream. However, I calm down and try to endure without making any noises. So I sit down on the floor for them to go away. These cramps last more than ten minutes. Finally, they finally leave and I stand up. I walk slowly on my tiptoes to the level of the back portal. As I had hoped, the only guard sitting there is sleeping. He snores outright, yet those inside think they are being guarded. Fortunately, moreover, the brothel is isolated enough that thieves cannot venture there. So I bend delicately on the guard who is still sleeping and I manage as best I can to remove the bunch of keys which is hooked to his belt. I had already almost removed this when he moves and turns to one side. I stay still for a minute or so until he goes into a deep sleep, then I return to the load. Finally, I managed to remove the bunch of keys without the keeper waking up. Then I go to the gate. There are three large padlocks on the gate and the bunch of keys contains ten keys. I do not know which key is intended for which padlock. So I have to quickly find which key goes with which padlock and very quickly before the guard wakes up. Right away, I eliminate the small and medium keys, judging the size of the padlocks. I therefore start to open the first padlock with the first key of the series that I have chosen. On the first try, it does not open. I quickly change the key. Second attempt, the padlock finally opens. I'm happy. I therefore eliminate this key which has just opened the first padlock, then I open the second with the key that I had used on the first try. Lucky for me, luck smiles at me from the first try and the lock opens. I breathe a sigh of relief with a happy heart. Only the last lock is left now and there are three big keys that I haven't used for the first two locks yet. After three attempts, the first two of which were unsuccessful, the last key ends up opening the last padlock and I hissed with relief. I just have to push the portal to regain my freedom. This is precisely what I do without wasting time, but before the door opens, I feel a hand firmly stop my arm. "Where are you going to go like that you dirty kid?" I turn around in fear and I fall on mama. It is she who holds my arm firmly. Bad luck ! How did she know I was dating? My God, just a few inches from my freedom ?! "Mama ..." I stammer in panic. "Come in here you fool! You're going to pay dearly for this act. You should never have challenged me. Turn around and go inside!" She orders me, pushing me with all her might inside the portal. I fall on my knees while panicking. I feel little tingling on my knees, I must have had some scratches falling on them. Mama closes the gate by padlocking them quickly. I'm still sitting on my knees crying. She comes back to shake the guard who is still sleeping soundly. "Wake up you sloth! I wonder what you are really used for in this house! You are just poor incapable people. As if you are being paid graciously to do nothing but sleep all day long and nights. Here is one of the girls from the brothel who was going to run away, but you are asleep like a newborn baby. At this rate, they will come to rob us in this house and you will not know anything. " Mama chatted for a long time angry with the guard. She then comes back to me, pulls me up from the ground and forcibly pulls me inside the house. "Leave me mama, I want to go home. I don't want to stay in this house. Please, I don't like this job." I cry out at her tearful. I'm really sad she caught me. Mama stops, pulls my left ear once more and I scream in pain. "You are a very stubborn young girl! How many times have I wanted to put you in that ear that you will never escape from this house? You are already our property, your place is here and all your life, you will finish it here. " Mama told me, keeping her hand on my ear. "Stop, you are hurting me! I will never indulge in prostitution Madam! I am not a prostitute and I will have to go through my body to force me to sell my body! You only have to kill me , because I still prefer death to a dirty pervert defiling my body! " I tell him in a reckless tone. Mama looks at me with angry eyes, then she tells me in a defiant voice "That's what we'll do! We'll see who the two of us will win this fight. You are so insignificant and believe me, I have known dozens of rebels like you in this brothel and none of them are 'lasted a long time. I know how to tame girls like you. And to begin with, you'll get your punishment for the act you just did tonight. And for that, you're going to sleep in the dungeon. " Mama told me, pulling me back inside the brothel. I follow her in tears, having no idea where she was leading me. After having walked for more than ten minutes through corridor after corridor, we finally arrive at the back of the house where there are no other bedrooms after. It looked like it was the last bedroom in this huge house. But the appearance does not reassure me at all. I feel a terrible anguish invade me as we advance towards this room. Just arriving in front of this room, I begin to tremble with fear. Mama, accompanied by another of her big arms, are at my side. Each of them is placed on my side, so that I find myself in the middle of them. The guy opens the door to the tiny room. The smell that emanates from it is unbearable. It looked like there was excrement on the ground. This smelly place looks like a place where death reigns. I'm sure not even mice would frequent such a place, it seems so dismal. What does she want to do to me my God? Before I even had time to realize what's going on, she tells me "Come in, cheeky little one! It is inside this room that you will spend the rest of the night and all day tomorrow. I will see if you will still have the courage to hold the same discourse of everything in the time." "No no, I can't walk into this filthy place. Not that please mama!" I beg her in tears. "You have no choice but to go in my darling! You broke the rules of the brothel and you are going to suffer the consequences of your act. It is your punishment. And know that you are going to spend the whole day. without having enough to eat! It's to teach you never to stand up to me again and get rid of any idea of running away from your head. " Mama replied sternly. She orders me to enter the filthy room, but I resist. Although she tries to pull me by the arm to push me inside this room, I hang on to the door leaf and she can't. I then hear say to the big arm who was there silent "Take care of her!" She turns and walks away, leaving me alone with this gorilla. "No mama, don't do that, I'm not going to repeat any more! Please, I don't want to get into this rot!" I scream until I scream without her retracing her steps. It looked like she had a coin instead of the heart. Finally, the fat one walks towards me looking mean. "Do not touch me!" I threaten him by stepping back. But my threat doesn't seem to be treading on him. He carries me like a plus and throws me inside this room which stinks more than the pigsty. I fall on my butt. The time to get up and run to the door, he has already closed it. "I advise you to keep quiet. Because the energy you waste on gesticulating like a wasp, you will need it to hold out all day against the hunger that awaits you." The gorilla tells me before turning on his heels in turn and leaves me alone in this unlivable room. The smells are so strong that I wonder if they are not going to kill me before the time I'm supposed to be here. I lean against the door and tears are dripping from my eyes. What could I have done to make all this bad luck stick to my skin like a mystical garment? Is this how my life will end? When will all this excruciating suffering end? Is it so that I end up like this that my father died? If at least he was still, I was never going to find myself in such a mess. I am standing, unable to sit, so wet the ground and these smells do not reassure me about where I am. I'm sure there must be feces and urine on the floor. If mama has a habit of keeping girls in this place as a punishment and they often go all day or night without any possibility of going out, it means that they have a bowel movement and urinate in this room. . This would justify the fact that this place smells so much. Standing and leaning against the door, tired, thirsty and my stomach buzzing with hunger, my heart filled with hatred even more towards my uncle's wife and her lover. I had never wanted to do this to a person in my life, but now, if I had a gun, I wouldn't hesitate to shoot them. I don't know what the future holds for me, but if I leave this place, Pauline and Lens will have to behave, because I intend to finish them off.