Tied Up

A Coincidence? I Think Not

I stood in the dimly lit room, observing the creature on the stage in front of me. His dirty clothes, torn and stained, clung to his muscular frame. Despite his obvious strength, he kneeled before us with his arms chained behind him, his face covered by a harsh muzzle and blindfold. The whispers of the wealthy people around me became a buzzing in my ears, their greedy words and condescending tones cutting through the silence, "The things I'll make that dirty creature do when I get it in my possession" murmured a rich man to my left "does it really think it's one of us" A woman with a tight red dress and pearls around her neck whispered to her friend, "I would hope not" her friend whispered back, Can no one else see this injustice, this cruelty? I don't understand how anybody can treat anyone like this it was beyond me, it disgusted me.

I watched as one by one the rich people bid on the hybrid, their voices filling the room with a chorus of greed and entitlement. "3,000" One yelled "40,000" another yelled But I had no interest in prolonging this spectacle. As the auctioneer called for one final offer, I stood calmly and raised my hand. "I'll bid 6 hundred thousand dollars," I said, my voice firm and steady. A smile creeped up on my dad's face, The room fell silent as all eyes turned to me. Nobody seemed willing to top my outrageous offer. I do admit even for me spending this much money on something I just had no interest in is a little crazy but something in my heart told me to do it. "going once? going twice? sold to the pretty lady in the black dress". I was happy for a minute till a saw 2 man pulling the hybrid to the back by its collar "what's happening dad" I said "they're just bringing it to the back so we can go fill out the paperwork before they give it to us" My dad says. The way my dad always referred to the hybrid as an "it" kind of made me a little bit uncomfortable, his dehumanizing language made it seem as if the hybrid wasn't a human, like he was belittling it.

Me and my dad went around back of the stage and I filled out the paperwork and signed my signature to signalize that the hybrid is now belongs to me. "okay great now where is he" I said to my dad "we're not riding in the car with that filthy thing, it'll be riding in another car" my dad says, this is the first time I've ever been to an auction and my dad's been buying hybrids for a while now or should I say abusing hybrids. my family has been buying hybrids for generations now and when my dad found out I had no interest in doing his little torture tradition he flipped out and forced me to come to this auction. although I have no intention in torturing hybrids I'm excited to see where this may lead. "it should be waiting for you at your house by the time we leave, what you do with it after that has nothing to do with me" my dad said after looking up from his phone, "okay" i say in response. Me and my dad got into the car and he drove me over to my house before dropping me in front of my front doorstep "Elena I'm proud of you" my dad says probably referring to me 'fallowing in his foot steps'."uh huh" I say before turning back around and putting the keys to my front door in the lock.

I open the door to my house and I see two of our butler from my dad's mansion standing in front of me but their backs turned to me facing a wooden chair that the hybrid is tied to, it hands behind his back chained to the chair the hybrids long black hair almost covering the blindfold. One of the butlers realized I was there and turned around, "Ms.Cornell it's good to see you" the butler says "thank you" i say, "is he okay" i said as I look at the hybrid slouched over in the chair "it hasn't moved for over 20 minutes we didn't know if it was sleeping or if it was dead but we didn't know how you wanted it to be presented to you when you got back so we didn't touch it" The butler says "you guys can go home now thank you so much for your time" " no problem" they say if they walk out the door closing it behind them, The loud sound of them slamming the front door woke up the hybrid, he jumped a little bit and sat back up in his chair before saying "hello, where am I" I didn't say anything, I didn't know what to say " I know you're there I can sense you" he says in low an aggressive tone. "I swear when I catch who did this to me, ILL KILL ALL OF YOU, YOU HEAR ME" he yells, he's clearly overflowing with rage and anger. "Im not here to hurt you" I say, he's mean growl drops for a second, "ah so you're a girl" "uhm ya?" "good, CUZ THEN ITLL BE WAY EASIER FOR ME WHEN I KILL YOU" he yells, for a second I thought I made a mistake, maybe buying a hybrid wasn't the best idea, I walked around the chair so now our bodies were facing each other I was looking down at him sitting in the chair he couldn't see me but I could see him all the scars on his arms of the blood smudged on his face. he's clearly been through hell.