Paralysed By Choices ✔️

Chapter twenty eight: You Pathetic Idiot.

Alexis.

In one swift movement, a bag was removed off my head and a bright light shined in my face. I squinted, not being able to see anybody in the background. I heard a snicker as my eyes finally adjusted to the brightness that shined brightly in my face; I saw a ghostly figure only to realise that it was Joe Lock.

"Oh, look who finally decided to wake up." Lock glared at me like I've betrayed him in an inhumane way. I was tied to a wooden chair, my freedom had been taken from me and I was wondering why I was here. I was studying Criminology at college; I had good friends and somebody to catch me when I fell. I loved to fight, punch a bag and yell sarcastic comments at the people who annoyed me or even to annoy them.

I was happy.

All of that washed away from my mind in an instant when I felt a hard slap hit my face. I winced in pain as it went through my entire body in one moment. That hurt like a bitch but I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction and besides, pain didn't bother me anymore.

I slowly looked back up at him, a smirk forming at the end of my lips. I wanted to know how much this wasn't affecting me in the slightest and I wanted him to know what it felt like to hit a teenage girl. "I thought you needed me for your little business," I intended to wind him up, "why aren't you making me more beautiful like the other girls you sell for sex, or do some men like their woman looking a little bit dirty and covered in blood before they do their deed?" My voice had no emotion in it, I was quite surprised that I could get this low but I might as well have some fun before they sent me off.

For good.

He slapped me again and a sharp pained lingered on my cheek, it stung and I felt my lip begin to open from a cut at the bottom. He shook his hand and circled around me, like he was thinking of something sarcastic to say. "Oh, come on, Joe." I leaned back in my chair. "Can't think of the sarcasm quick enough, do you want me to teach you?" I let out a small snicker.

I could feel his rage from behind me as he grabbed my hair and yanked it, my neck was stretched over the chair and I was looking up at the ceiling. I closed my eyes as I could feel my hair fall out one by one and he never let go as he whispered into my ear, his hot breath against my skin made me shudder. "Oh, you would be surprised by what we have installed for you, sweetheart."

He flung me back and my scalp, where my hair was being pulled, began to throb like everything else in my body. "And what would that be?" I looked at him once again, a devilish smile playing on his lips.

I wanted to slap it off his face, my anger was beginning to get out of control and I was eager to get out this damn chair and knock him on the side of his head and let him bleed a slow death. That would be nice, only if I wasn't stuck in this chair with no chance of moving. He moved the light away from my face, giving my eyes to look around the room.

It was plain and the chair that I was currently sitting on was the only object in this room, apart from the light and a table. No windows were visible for me to get a peek of what was outside this room. I was quite sure if it was daylight or if it had been days since I've been in here, why was he torturing me if he was going to let me go into the trafficking world anyway? I shook the thought away, not ready to go there yet.

"Your so called best friend might pop in for a visit, I'm sure you have a million questions to ask her," he leaned on the wall opposite me with a suspicious smile, "and maybe you'll feel the burn of what your father caused."

I haven't thought about anybody in the outside world since I woke up. My friends, my father, they hadn't come to mind because it was easier to forget them. If I was getting sold off to some random guy for sex, I might as well wipe my memory out now. It would cause less pain. "Your people deserved to get arrested, to rot in jail for the rest of your pathetic lives!" I screamed back at him, my face beginning to go red. "You were kidnapping girls and selling them off to horny men who were twice their age!"