Upon knowing that Luisa have a relationship with two men at the same time, Carla was upset. she scolded Luisa that she put herself in danger, not only herself but all of them.
"I think you are right Carla, she was almost caught one time!" Lorna started to tell what happened the other week.
"Henry was here when Nicolas came!" Lorna continued while Luisa at the same time just laughing.
"You let the men here inside our apartment? When did it happened?" Carla was surprised and almost could believed that Luisa brought men inside their apartment.
"Last week when you and Thelma went for groceries!" Lorna answered Carla. "She and Henry were... you knew what I meant, when Nicolas came."
"And?"
"She quickly hidden Henry inside the closet! "Lorna continued.
"Henry agreed to be hidden in the closet?" Thelma asked.
"I told him that Nicolas is the owner of the apartment and that he must not be seen!" laughingly Luisa said. Seemed she had enjoyed what had happened.
"You brought men here in our apartment! I don't like it Luisa. You must stop it!" Carla was bit angry. "Don't do it again!"
"Okay, I only cannot said no to Nicolas because he was bringing me a gift. Look my necklace with a pendant. It's 22k pure gold!" Luisa showed to the other girls the necklace she received from Nicolas.
"And yesterday I sent to my parents 500 pounds! I told Nicolas that my father was sick and needed money for the hospital!"
"Don't be so confident about yourself Luisa. As I said, it's very dangerous what you are doing." Carla reminded Luisa again.
"Don't worry. I knew already how to play men in my fingers! And besides, two months more to go we are not here anymore."
The girls managed to have the money they needed. They did their best so that their next destination will be Europe. They heard from the other girls about Filipinas brought to Africa. To Lagos, Nigeria and to many places they never heard before; Cotonou in Benin, Dakar in Senegal, Monrovia in Liberia and many more. To them, Europe sounded more stable and alluring than Africa, Kings and Queens against tribes, civilization against the wild jungle.
When the plane that will bring them to Switzerland take off from Lanarca. the girls looked outside the window of the plane, until the sight of the island country fully disappeared, and they hoped, that the place, where for only a year made changed their personalities if not their souls, where they lost their innocence to the bitter reality of life, never to come back again in this country, to fully forgot what happened and take it as a nightmare, to wake up in Europe to still fulfilled their dreams.
Their thoughts were also to Grace and Luz. When they leaved the Philippines they were six and now they were only four. Could they saw Grace again? What would be the life of Grace in Cyprus with her man Dimitri? About Luz, if Luz was not really in the Philippines, where was she?
Chapter 3
LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND August 1986
After long hours the plane they boarded landed in Genève, Switzerland. The place looked different compared to Cyprus. Now, the saw many white people.
From Genève, they have to board or take a train to Locarno as instructed to them. A Filipina will picked them up at the train station.
They noticed that the language spoken was different from the sound of language they heard in Genève. They were right. In Genève, mostly the people spoke German and in Locarno, the language used was Italian.
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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...
