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Isabella

I

She was only five years old when she asked her father for a pet as a gift. Her father asked her what kind of pet she wanted and she showed her a doll she was playing with and said smiling:

"One just like this one"

Her father just said"

"All right then, but you will take care of him, you will feed him and watch over him" he responded smiling.

Isabella, knowing her father only wanted to make her happy, smiled knowing she soon would have her own pet to play with.

The next day, her father knocked on her door and when she opened it a extremely skinny, in rags and bulgy eyed six year old boy was behind it. She could see he had not eaten in days.

The boy walked in and her father behind him.

"Precious" he said to her "what would you call it?'

Isabella couldn't believe how happy she was.

"His name will be Paolo, like the Apostil, Jesus servant"

Her father could not hold his laughter. She was pretty witty.

That is when Isabella learned that no matter how small or big her wish was, her father will always give her what she wanted, no matter the risk even to him or the cost. The servants at any of their houses obeyed her without hesitation.

When she was thirteen and a life of getting everything and anything she asked for, she asked one of the young maids while cleaning her bedroom where she and Paolo were playing, to remove her clothes in front of them. The young maid said no.

"Isabella, child, please ask of me whatever you want, but not that" Isabella was not used to get no's as answers. She did not say anything, she walked to the bedroom door, stood on the hall way and yelled:

"ENRICO!" one of the mansion's servants.

Enrico came running, almost without breath for coming as fast as he could upstairs.

"Did you call me child?" he asked.

"Enrico" she responded "do you like your job?"

"Yes child" he responded right away removing his hat.

"And Enrico, you know that if I want something, the best thing for you to do is get it or give it to me, right?" Isabella started walking around Lucia, the maid, slowly without taking her eyes off from hers. Lucia was looking at the floor.

"That is correct little one" what did she want of him now?

"Therefore Enrico, if I ask you to undress Lucia right here, right now, what will you do?" she asked him directly looking at his eyes and smiling.

Paolo said:

"Stop it Lucia! You are scaring poor Lucia here"

Isabella did not listen to him. She saw how Lucia began to cry.

Somehow, her crying made her feel good.

"Enrico! Would you like me to call for my father?" she said while walking to the door.

Enrico did not think about it anymore. He did not look at Lucia, or Isabella. Isabella closed and locked the door. Enrico tried to be gentle to Lucia, wanting to remove her garments but she would not let him even touch her.

If the Master, Isabella's father found out he did not granted one of Isabella's wishes he would suffer the consequences. He did not stop. He started pulling Lucia's uniform, ripping it, pulling her skirt down until she was left in her underwear.