"Come here baby. I promise it won't hurt." The voice was inviting, the excited tone masked by a motherly one instead.
"Will it hurt?" A young girl only around 10 asked with unmasked excitement.
The woman looked down at the girl with loving eyes. "Of course not, you will be greatly helping your sister doing this." The woman gave the young girl security, something she hadn't felt for a long time.
The young girl took the hand of the woman, it was warm. Kind, full of love...
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The shower masked the noises of excessive rubbing, Stella kept rubbing her leg. Not stopping until it was clean...
She froze, realizing that her skin was tearing away she slowly pulled away from the soap.
In the mirror, a person would say that this woman looked sickly, Stella was looking increasingly pale by the day. The difference between her pale skin to the rash on her leg was striking...
Stella stood up and methodically cleaned herself. Making sure she wasn't filthy. The scars on her back weren't unsightly to her. Rather She had no expression to seeing them.
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Stella dressed in a set of baggy clothing. She went for comfort and left the apartment with her hands in her pockets.
Stella walked in the cold night, the end of spring was coming, as the stars in the sky twinkled and the moon shone. Against the bustling city backdrop, the picture was serene.
Stella walked aimlessly around, her face seemed to be in complementation.
People wouldn't be able to understand what goes through her mind, her thinking was too critical and deep. What she thought would be more extreme and complex than what many people put together could think.
Now Stella was left in a dilemma, she isn't able to do what she planned due to the extreme measures Mou has decided to enforce on her.
She was stunned for the first time since knowing him, and she couldn't predict such a strange offer from him. But, to achieve what she wants, it will help her...
Stella's blank and brooding face cracked a smile, whether or not that smile was something others would like to see... Was a question of itself.
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"Hey, are you sure that this would work?" In a dark alley in a dirty side of the city, a couple of people stood against a wall.
A tall man with a black outfit took a puff of his cigarette and threw it on the ground. "Sure? Maybe, maybe not. But do we have a choice? This is an order, so we must complete it." The man had a gruff voice, while he also seemed to have a slightly kind tone.
An order... Their first assignment together, it had been a couple of months since they were picked up by a mysterious person, the words he said to them still repeated in their ears to this day.
"I will be saving your life, but remember, from now on. I own you." Both of them were in a desperate situation of poverty, they hadn't eaten in days, slept in the biting cold every night. So they took it without hesitation.
Since then they hadn't seen the man very often, he only told them to find people to send to him, so they decided to do something to help society.
They set up a homeless shelter, taking in people who needed help without hesitation, those who were physically able, would eventually be sent to the mysterious man after a certain amount of time.
They knew that when he saved them, he was a good person, those homeless people could find jobs and gain more support like they ended up having.
*Sigh* "I'm just nervous, I didn't expect something like this to be our first mission, I never expected that he would ask something like this." The woman next to the man had a desolate face.
She thought the man was benevolent, so when she learned that he wanted them to kidnap a teenager from this house... She was stunned into silence.
But what could they do? Refuse? That would just lead to them dying, they only had one option...
"Let's get this done, the less you think about it the better." The man lightly tapped the woman's shoulders, opening the door quietly in the meantime.
The house was quiet, they heard that this teenager only lived with his dad, who worked nights constantly. It made him a prime target for anything to happen since they had the key mould...
The woman sneaked through the small apartment, some might say that this father and son needed sympathy for the way they were forced to live.
The teenager was asleep, as per what the mystery man told them, the boy worked from early hours until just before school every day, then he would pick odd jobs up after school to make more money. It was truly a hard life for the boy.
Her partner walked in behind her, his footsteps made a slight sound, causing some rustling on the small sofa in front of the woman.
She signaled to him to be quiet, while pointing to where the boy was sleeping. The man nodded, and proceeded to lift the young boy.
"I would have never expected you two to be kidnappers." The baggy clothed teenager spoke, spooking the two people.
Shit, what should they do? The mysterious man requested this teenager to be brought to the homeless shelter, but he just woke up?
The man got nervous and moved away from the teenager, he wasn't someone built for this line of work, despite how big he looks, he was a slight softy.
The teenager turned to face them...