Fitting in

Chapter One

Frankie was 14 and dressed in revealing clothes. The exit of the bar looked tempting but she knew unseen guards would grab her if she ran. She had been convincing her captors for past week that she was compliant. She hated to think of the things she had done to convince them. She kept reminding herself her best chance of escape was staying local. If they took her to Mexico or even to another State she would be trapped.

She had no idea where the girls she had initially been locked up with were. Most likely they had been transported far away. There were other whores here but they had all been here for a long time. She was the youngest one here. That was not true in the first place she was taken right after they bought her from Marvin. There had been some really young, innocent girls there. Red hot anger filled her when she remembered Marvin. She had lived with him for 8 months. She behaved really nice until the night when he shared her with his drunken friends. She wasn't strong enough to fight them off so she pretended to be compliant until the next morning when she took off while they were still passed out. Marvin had eventually found her and sworn that he had learned a lesson and if she would just come back he would never hurt her again.

Frankie knew better than to trust Marvin again. He was an average looking Black guy in his 40's and at first he had been easy to control. As time went by he became meaner and meaner. He never beat her too bad so she could have tolerated it if it was just that but things just kept getting worse and worse. He was determined to totally control her and expected her to do whatever he demanded. She had watched men like him control her Mother. Frankie was determined not to be like her Mother so after he shared her with his friends she took off for good. Problem is Marvin and his friends were always on the prowl for her. When they finally cornered her she pretended to forgive him. She had thought he fell for it but she was the one tricked when he turned around and sold her. She was not sure exactly where she was now but was pretty sure it was still in the same huge City she had always lived. She had lived in lots of different neighborhoods but she did not recognize this one. It was gang controlled but she was not certain exactly what the gang name was. She was careful not to ask too many questions and to pretend not to care too much. She took their drugs greedily so they never suspected she was flushing them.

Life sucked and she was sorely tempted to escape with drugs but she hated her druggie Mother and had no intention of being like her. She had not seen her Mother since she was only 11 but had heard her Mom went to Prison last year. She did not count on that tho. She was always careful not to let down her guard just in case her Mother was free. Frankie had screwed up big time with Marvin tho. Now she had to gain these peoples trust and escape. She would make Marvin pay. She forced herself to calm down and be patient

Today she was suppose to start work. She hated the idea of willingly having sex with strangers but she knew it would be worse if she was taken somewhere else. Especially if they sold her down in Mexico. She understood the language fairly well but she had heard stories. Once they broke her she would become like all the other whores. Like her Mother. Like the whores that guarded her in this brothel. She knew better than to trust these women tho they were broken. In their own way they were more dangerous than their Pimps. Frankie knew that finding an excuse to turn her her in would ingratiate them to those men and they were looking for any opportunity. It meant not only extra drugs for them but more importantly it would make them feel important.

Frankie took a deep breathe and smiled prettily at a guy about 50 with rotting teeth. Nothing in her expression showed her true feelings. Her plan was to steal a phone and call Carlos for help. She would promise to work for free. She was good at eavesdropping. She could remember word for word long conversations and Carlos had always paid well for that. She could also deliver packages without attracting attention and had a good reputation for not snooping. If someone questioned that package later she told them nothing. A few times she got hurt pretty bad but she knew nothing about nothing. Carlos rewarded her silence with cash and would help her out. Somehow Frankie was always finding herself in trouble and needing to ask for a favor from Carlos. Now she needed to ask Carlos for a really huge favor. Nothing she had done was worth what she was going to ask Carlos to do for her now. Probably he would just hang up on her and do nothing. She had to try tho. If this did not work she would have to try something else.