Chapter 3 The Auction I

• CHAPTER 3
• The Auction I
• Narrated by Alyson
• If I go, I don't come back
• - What is he going to do with me? - I ask in despair, to those three women he left there in my room.
• The two women who came in with them say nothing, I could swear they are deaf and dumb, because they don't change their expression once, looking as if they didn't even hear me.
• I look at Elise, the housekeeper.
• She's a woman in her thirties, she's pretty, but I never understood why she became a housekeeper as soon as she came into the house, which made my father mercilessly fire the housekeeper who had always been with us, ever since we moved here.
• - I promise you that you will like what he has in store for you, it may be hard at first, but you will eventually like it, you just have to learn to relax and let the moment pass, that's all. If you are a good girl, it will be easier for you," she smiles mischievously. - Now come on, we have to hurry. - she says to the women, standing there in front of me.
• I realize I'm shaved, they must have done it while I was sedated.
• My intimacy has no hair on it. Were it not for the circumstances and, I would even admire that work, but the only thing I think is that that cannot be a good sign, at least for me.
• The sexy lingerie is put on me and then the short, red dress with a generous neckline.
• An exaggeration is what I think.
• With a dress like this, I might as well just go in lingerie anyway, wherever I go.
• They put on makeup and do my hair, leaving my shoulder-length hair loose.
• Elise admires me and speaks.
• - Look how beautiful you look! It's going to be a very profitable business.
• - Business? But what kind of business? What are you talking about?
• I'm panicking, I don't like the way all this is going.
• What are you up to?
• - You'll see! - she tells the two women to leave, who promptly leave - You just have to agree with everything, it won't always be good, but at least they'll be rich, possibly powerful and if you're lucky, they might even be home a little because of business. It won't be that bad, I promise - she winks at me.
• And then she opens the door, where my father and two other huge men are.
• - Let's go, what's taking so long? - he comes close to me - Don't get smart, otherwise you'll get very bad. - he threatens me.
• I go down the stairs, with my father in front with the housekeeper, who looks more like the owner of the house than anything else, she's not even wearing a uniform, she's dressed normally, in a long black dress, as if she were really going to a party, but I'm sure I'll be the only one who won't like the party.
• And behind me, those two thugs.
• I realize that we are heading in the direction of the big party hall, which we have here at home.
• But nothing prepared me for what I saw, when I entered the huge hall.
• The hall looks like a conference room.
• In there, you only see men, men of all religions, I dare say.
• As soon as I enter and their eyes turn to me, right away I see lust in their depraved gazes.
• Oh, how disgusting.
• I try to turn around and run away, but I have the huge security guards there who immediately grab me and turn me around.
• - I've already warned you Alyson... - he whispers in my ear - for your own good, do everything right, do what I tell you and everything will be fine.
• We continue on our way.
• I feel so exposed, as if I were naked.
• I am taken to sit in a big black armchair, which I have never even seen here, it must be new.
• The two huge security guards position themselves one on each side of the armchair.
• My father and Elise sit behind a table at the side.
• I discreetly pass my eyes through the audience, who look like hyenas waiting.
• I feel a shiver run through my entire body.
• I am afraid, I am terrified.
• My father begins to speak.
• - My dear friends, let's begin what you have been waiting for, the auction of this young lady, my daughter, Alyson. - He points at me and I open my eyes wide in amazement.
• Auction?
• He's going to sell me?
• But is he crazy?
• I try to get up, but the security guards with their huge patolas and, without even moving a muscle from their faces, hold my shoulders, one on each side, for me to keep still.
• One of them looks at me and signals for me to shut up, not to say anything.
• I stay still and quiet, as I listen, me being solicited for thousands.
• I am horrified by this.
• My own father, doing such a thing to me?
• There are beautiful, ugly, hideous, disgusting men there, young, middle-aged and old.
• After half an hour, I end up being solicited by a young, handsome man, and a middle-aged, ugly one.
• Oh how lucky I am, that I have so much, that I am sure it will be the middle-aged and ugly one who will stay with me.
• What I would like to know is, what do these men want me for?
• Is it to serve in their house as a maid, a slave?
• I don't know, but I find it all so strange.
• In the end, the one who asks for me for an amount that I don't even remember, because by now my mind is not even here, I am numb from sitting and, terrified of what is still to come, is the handsome new man.
• I don't know whether to be happy or sad, because I still don't know what this is all about.
• The handsome man gets up and walks over to my father at the table, where he is looking triumphant, while everyone else gets up and leaves.
• But I still hear two of them talking before they leave.
• - Maybe in a year's time one of us will have better luck. - says one, who seems to me to be Arab.
• - Yes, we'll see, it can't be so expensive anymore, because by then it's not pure. - says the other, who looks Italian to me.
• And they laugh heartily as they leave the room.