They were served cold custard, water and hard bread which was already growing a mold on it. Faith hesitated eating the stale bread, giving its condition. She left the stale bread with the thought of getting food poisoning in the ship. She then decided to eat the custard and drink the water provided. she stared at her bowl of custard with various thoughts spiraling in her head. One of her thoughts were sneaking the bottle of water into the cell she hesitated but still carried it along. She hid it underneath her dress and decided to distract her self with her bowl of custard. After faith finished the bowl of custard she was lead back to the cell with the other people. When she got to her spot she hid the bottled water underneath a dirty ragged shirt. She often wondered what had become of her mother and supposed father, were they still fighting? Did her siblings miss her? Did people question her whereabouts? She never did have a lot of good memories with her parents. Faith forced her self to drif from thoughts of her family in Nigeria. She sighed and lifted her head to look sideways to see if anyone was watching her, then she spotted a red haired girl, it was the girl with the wounded back. Faith stared at her and got caught staring. She watched as the girl adjusted uncomfortably and hissed several times with her nose scrunched. She crawled towards the girl and sat opposite her and smiled.
"Can I help you with that?" faith said and pointed at the red haired girl back. She got a short response from the girl which implied for her to go ahead.
"How old are you and how long have you been here?" The red haired girl said and turned her back towards faith.
"16, will be 17 in a few months from now and I have been here since yesterday. What about you?" faith said in a dry voice and sighed while tearing off a clean side from her ragged dress.
"18 and I have been here for a month." The red haired girl said and hissed a bit as faith blew some air on it.
"Wait for me over here I will be back in a second." Faith said and crawled back to were she sat. She grabbed the water bottle from underneath the ragged shirt and crawled back to the red haired girl. The red haired girl stared as faith as opened it and poured some of the water on the ragged piece of cloth she tore from her dress.
"Turn around." Faith said and grabbed the girls stiff shoulders to get a good look at the wound. The wound was a deep cut, like that of a knife. Faith dabbed the wet cloth on the outside of the girls wound to clean the outside of the wound and prevent it fro t getting infected. After cleaning the wound a bit she tore a large portion of her dress and rapped the wound with it.
"This should prevent it from getting infected." faith said and smiled a bit at the girl.
"Thanks, What's your name?" The red haired girl asked and glanced at faith's torn dress.
"Faith, and you?"
"Crystal is my name, thanks for the help by the way."
"Yeah." Faith said and carried her bottle water while crawling back to her space.
She sat and stared in the dark at nothing in particular then suddenly she was pulled by the hair viciously and pushed to lie on the ground. Faith yelped in pain and tried moving her head but she could not move an inch of it.
"Stand up." A tall white man said with a deep masculine voice. Faith stood and she was lead out of the cell. She watched people watching her and whispering words of pity. She was lead to another place that was heavily guarded. She noticed how it looked like an office. She saw other girls in the office like room and then the blond white man and lady from the rape issue. She looked around and only allowed her eyes to stare at the blind man for only a few seconds.
"Are these the new batch?" The blond man said and looked at each of their faces.
"Yes Mr Smith." Monalisa said and stared at him with both fright and disgust But quickly masked her thoughts.
"Strip." Mr Smith said to all the girls and they quickly took of their clothes except faith.
I watched all the girls take of their clothes and suddenly had fright goosebumps all over my body. I could feel my adrenaline pumping and my body getting ready for the unfortunate event that was about to take place. I was immediately reminded of the look on the rapist face as he tried to force himself on me.
"Did you not hear me girl?" Mr Smith said and walked towards me with his hands behind his back and gaze on me.
"Is she deaf monalisa?" Mr Smith said and chuckled.
"Can you speak girl?" Monalisa said, with a bit of sarcasm.
"Yes I can." I said and stared at them in horror.
"She speaks!" He approached me and grabbed my jaw painfully, which brought tears from my eyes.
"Take off your fucking clothes or I'll blow your fucking brains out." He said and brought out a pistol, pointed it at my head and we stared eye to eye and I made sure to show no fear. He had siren blue eyes and a bit of Grey hairs on his chin which made him more intimidating. I dropped my eyes to the ground because I couldn't keep up with the death glare he Gave me. He released me slightly from his death grip on my Jaw and I took a step away from him and touched my jaw, I could feel my jaw getting sore, it was probably red. I undressed my self from the ragged gown and left my under wear's.
"Take off the underwear too." The blond man said and demonstrated with his gun, pointing it at my tummy. I took of everything and tried to hide my dignity. He removed my hands from my privates and stared.
"They will do. How many are they?" The blond man called Smith said.
"Thirteen Mr Smith." Monalisa said and smiled. She was about to say something else but got interrupted by one of the guards entering the office.
"Mr Smith the captain says to tell you that we will be hitting shore tonight." The guard said and walked out of the office, closing the door behind him.
"Get them ready for departure monalisa." Mr Smith said and stared a little at my boobs.
"Yes sir." Monslisa said and whispered to one of the guards.
'Departure! To where.. This is my chance to escape.' I need to talk too the red haired lady, maybe she would want to follow me.