The girl with the chocolate syrup

Part 3

It's like the world revolves around her. She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life. Unlike me, she is a brave woman with a lot of valor in her eyes. It looks like she wants the entire world to bend before her. I wonder what she wants from me when she purchased me. Women are not allowed to make decisions. They don't get to purchase their own slaves. But Paige, as I have been told to call her, is far from scared from such little things. If she wants something, she gets it by hook or crook. Mostly, she uses her father's name in such things without even telling him. She is never afraid of anything.After so many years of oppression in our society, I thought that the competents were very brutal and inhumane but looking at the women of their society, it feels like we are not the only ones suffering here. They never have a choice, although they are not beaten cruelly like us they are suppressed as much as possible. The male of this society are supposedly their protectors but it just gives them more rights over the women.I have a hard time imagining Paige like that.It's just like she becomes another person when she is with males, even if it is her father. She complies to everything and never questions them. Her father has chosen a very supreme leader for her marriage. She is to wed him after 6 months. Maidens are never asked for their choice in their marriage. She always acts so happily about the marriage although she hasn't met him. She won't be meeting him before the marriage. But when she is alone, all I see is rage so profound that she might explode the entire planet.Paige never abused me. She kept me as a personal maid to herself. She forbade me from going in front of her father. I was mostly locked up in my room when I wasn't serving her. It wasn't bad. I got food, clothes, and solitude. I think that's the best I can afford.Sometimes,I feel her stares at me when I work around her.It's like she is trying to learn everything about me. On the other hand,I never have the courage to look at her.I am so afraid of her that I can never look at her. She never complaint about it until one day,she asked me to strip before her.It was a strange request from her but I complied before she can get angry.She asked me to look into her eyes and for the first time after the capture,I was asked my name.She had a firm gaze on me while I was trying to remember.She gave me time while she t applied oitments all over my scarred body.She knew that I must have forgotten as we were numbered in the warehouse which becomes our identity.Finally when I told her that it was Joy,she smiled at me for the first time.It felt so nice that I wanted to smile back but I knew it was not asked for.Her smile looked familiar.Maybe it was just a reflection of my feelings on her face at that time.I stood there while she took measurements of my body.I felt happy thinking she might gift me some clothes that might actually fit me.She kept me in my room for the rest of the days till the day when she was going to be married.She gave me food and applied oitments everyday on my body.I felt so nice sitting in the room all alone healing from my past.But then hell broke out when she entered my room that day,she was angry unlike the past days.She roughly held me and started ripping my clothes off.She wasn't dressed for her wedding and she was cleaning me.Then I finally realised that she was going to replace her with me at the wedding.It was sheer panic that I felt,I wanted to run away from her.But when she realised that I understood her intentions so held me more tightly at my position.She gave me a glare that killed all my running desires.She finally told me,"You are the new Paige that this society will have.You don't have to worry.That man is as uninterested in this marriage as I am.For the people that know me,are never going to be near you because he is a very secluded man.So don't let your stupid blood ruin my plan.I have done so much for you ,now you have to pay me back and never let anyone know who you were.Just forget everything you remember about yourself.You just have to behave like a emotionless compliant girl you always are.Do you have any concerns?".When a single tear dropped from my eye on her tight grip,she removed her hands from me.She knew I was exactly what she wanted me to be.She was waiting for me to ask something and all I could think about was the cruelty she was doing to me .So finally I asked her ,"Why?".She was confused for a minute and then she spoke,"I don't hate you,I understand you.I know I am asking you or rather demanding you a lot.But I want my freedom.Its everything to me.I can kill anyone for that.I can kill myself if necessary but I won't be oppressed by anyone especially these men."She snorted at me.There was no other way to handle this situation except accepting it.After wiping my tear away,I asked her ," Where will you go?".She gave me a sinister smile and stormed out of the room saying,"That's not your concern."I was left on my own to get ready and think over everything that was happening.