FOR the five Filipinas sitting by the table, the time was so long, seemed it became slow motion. They were so afraid and they don't know what to do, there eyes were focused to the door where the Greek came out dragging Luz. They were very anxious waiting for Luz, Nena and Dimitri to come back. Nobody talked to each other, just anxiously waiting.
Later, they saw Nena coming in when the door opened. No Luz, no Dimitri! Nena came to them and said.
"Come, you all can go home now!" Nena said to her fellow Filipinas.
"Luz, where is Luz?" a very worried Carla asked Nena.
"She's outside with Dimitri. They were now in the Van waiting." Nena said.
The girls all stand up and Nena guided them until to the parking lot where the Van was and inside the Van, Dimitri and Luz were waiting. Luz was crying.
"Okay, I come back to my group and we will wait Dimitri to come back to fetch us! Dimitri, please bring them safe home." Nena asked Dimitri to bring the Filipinas safe back to their apartment.
"Don't worry." and Dimitri started the car when all the girls already were seated and have fastened their seatbelt. When the car drove away, Nena heaved a deep sigh and came back inside the club.
Until they were back to their apartment nobody talked. Inside the car the only noise can be heard was the silent crying of Luz as she continued to sniffed and wiped her nose that started to water at the same with her tears. The girls saw that Luz was badly beaten. Her face was already swollen and her burst lips was bleeding.
"Use this tissue paper and just pressed hard against your lips so that the bleeding will stop!" Carla handed to Luz a tissue paper. Luz accepted it and pressed her lips so that the bleeding will stop.
When they stepped out the car, Dimitri said to Grace. "Be careful!"
Grace did not answered.
Inside their room, the girls were around Luz. They were very eager to knew what the Greek had done to her.
"Luz, maybe you need a doctor!" the girls were very worried.
"I don't like it here. I will go home. I will come back to the Philippines!" Luz said still tears streaming down her cheek, she pity herself.
Nobody talked. They were silent.
"You cannot comeback to the Philippines! Not yet, we have a three years contract!" Lorna later on said.
"I cannot do what they wanted me to do. They can kill me but I will not do it! I am not a prostitute! I will never sell my body, my honor" Luz said firmly.
S I L E N C E
"I think we all have to do it, to dance topless!" after a while Thelma broke the silence.
"We will work as a Hostess, a costumer entertainer!" Grace said.
"They cannot do it to us. Our contract was that we will only dance as a Cultural dancer." Lorna gave her opinion.
"If they force us, we can protest! We are a group. We are six persons!" from Luisa.
"What you must say is that we can do nothing! All of you had seen what happened? Did we did something? No, because we cannot do nothing! We were here in another country, we don't know where to go!" Carla said.
"And what do you mean by that? That we have to work like the other Filipinas? We are not prostitutes?" Thelma raised her voice upon hearing what Carla said.
"Will you please lower your voice? If the other Filipinas were already there in their room they will heard what you said!" Carla asked Thelma to lower her voice.
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One Road, Six Ways
General FictionSix Filipinas not knowing they would became victims of human trafficking were glad that they went abroad as cultural dancers as what promised to them, little they knew the dangers that awaited for them in another countries, first in Cyprus, and lat...
