Luxuria's Darkness

Chapter 7: Mean.

Sophia was in the changing rooms, she had found Jasmine's seat and her picture was still glued on the mirror. She took the photograph in her hand and smiled, her sister seemed happy in it.

"So you're the new meat." A girl spoke behind her. She couldn't miss the mockery in her tone.

Sophia kept on smiling, even if she didn't feel like it. "Yes. I'm new here."

The girl scoffed. "I heard you got awfully touchy with Jimin."

Sophia rolled her eyes, the girl was clearly jealous. "He thought me some moves, not that it's any of your business."

The girl smirked and snatched the picture from her hand. "Don't think that if you are new here you get to act like you are better than us."

"I'm not acting like nothing. Give me back my picture."

The girl pushed her and looked at the picture. "What do we have here?" She said in a mockery tone. "The queen bitch." She snorted.

"Don't you dare talk about her like that." Sophia was furious. She didn't care what the girl had against her, but nobody had the right to trash talk her sister. Her tiny palms formed into fists.

"Enough." Another girl yelled, getting the attention of all the others around them. "Melanie, give her back the picture." Melanie scoffed, threw the picture at Sophia and when she tried to storm out, but the girl who yelled grabbed her hand. "I told you many times you don't talk about Jasmine that way. I don't care how pissed off you are because she dated Jin."

Melanie snapped her hand free. "I'm going to take him back. Just watch me. I'm so glad that bitch is gone."

Sophia eyes started tearing up. Not only she realized that Jasmine really had a relationship with Jin but also it seemed that everybody hated her. Was her sister really different from how she was at home? In her opinion her sister was close to what she thought of perfection, everyone gravitated towards her. Not only because of her beauty, but for the sincerity of her eyes, her words and actions.

The other girl slapped Melanie. "I'm the oldest here. I won't allow you to talk about her like that. Leave my sight before I'll make you." She yelled. Melanie rubbed her cheek and ran away. "Hi." She said towards Sophia. "I'm Rachel. And you are?"

"Sophia, I'm Jasmine's sister. Thank you for what you did earlier." She managed to say. She was fighting the tears in her eyes, trying to keep herself together.

Rachel shrugged. She took the picture and smiled while she looked at it lovingly. "Jasmine was very precious to me."

"Were you friends?" Sophia asked shyly.

"As best as any of us can be in this place. Sometimes it feels like a snake nest." She gave the picture back and shook her head. "If you need anything don't hesitate to tell me."

"Do you know what happened to my sister?" She hastily asked.

Rachel sighed. "Unfortunately all I know is that she disappeared right after she stole some money from Jin."

"So it's true then... She did steal the money." Sophia murmured sitting down.

"Yes. However, I think something else might have happened. Jasmine was really good, she would never do that."

"I thought so too, but the recent events made me doubt that."

"I would never doubt her if I were you. I'm sure there had to be a reason."

"You are awfully chilled about it."

Rachel ran a hand through her hair. "I knew Jasmine, maybe better than anyone. I was in a terrible place in my life when I met her. She was the only one who looked at me like I was a normal human being instead of just a sex worker. She helped me get this job, I will be forever grateful for that."