Chapter 1 My Name Is Juniper

• JUNIPER Point Of View
• "Hey! That's my dress!"
• "Pick up your clothes!"
• "There's no time!"
• "Get out of my way!"
• I keep hearing voices around me. Who are they? Where am I? Who am I?. I slowly open my eyes. The room is bright and large, girls are moving left and right getting ready. What's going on? I raise my body to sit, the girl beside me is rubbing lotion.
• "Who are you?" I asked. My voice is strange to my ears. I don't know it.
• She looks at me and then goes on with her business. I turn to my right and she averts her eyes. Why are they ignoring me? Am I dreaming? I pinch myself and it hurts.
• "Please can someone explain what's going on?" I asked, raising my voice, so the rest could hear me, the room was as long as a hall. Many eyes turned towards me, but they kept silent and continued with their tasks, questioning each other about clothes and screaming about little time. Slowly standing up, I walked to the window, looking at my body. I was naked, my hair was black and long and curly, and my arms and legs were slender. Why can't I remember anything about myself?!
• "You have very little time! You're not yet dressed!" A loud man barks and I turn to stare at him at the door dressed, yet he walks into a room filled with naked women and no one is flinching.
• "You!" He says, pointing at me.
• "Me?" I ask and I hear some snickers around.
• "Yes you, come with me now! And put on some clothes! This isn't a nude colony!" He barks, walking out.
• I looked at the bed I was lying on and picked up the thin dress on it and rushed after the man while putting it on. He's a fast walker and sprinting behind him, he turns to the left and walks into a small office. All the walls are made of brown marble. He went to a seat on the large chair behind the long black desk covered in leather. He's a short man and has some ugly sidebars. Who is he?
• "Sit" he ordered, pointing at one of the little stools before me.
• I took my seat wincing at the hardness of the wood on my bare ass, the dress material was too thin.
• "The doctor said when you woke up you wouldn't remember much of anything from what happened. Is that true?" He asks, looking over some papers he brought out from a file.
• I looked at him confused. I've tried squeezing my eyes and forcing memories to appear, but nothing. Maybe he knows who I am and why I'm here.
• "I don't remember anything Sir", I told him, hopeful that he would be of help.
• He smiles. "Well. That's perfect. It saves us the unnecessary explanation. Welcome back onboard Juniper."
• Juniper? Is that my name? "My name's Juniper?"
• "Yes yes! Welcome to Dakars Ladies! I'm Mr. Dakari and you belong here now. I'll just give you a few rules we have that keep everyone safe and-"
• "Who am I, sir? I can't remember anything at all!" I felt a lump in my throat. "Please, I have no idea who I am!"
• I see him roll his eyes and whisper 'handful' "See here Juniper, you were wasted, basically. On the road after a hit-and-run, about to die. Out of the goodness of my heart which you will always have to remember, I rushed you to the hospital and brought you home and, so you see, I have no idea who you are but definitely what you're doing here, so if you let me explain ever-"
• "I should have a family! I can't be here" I stand up "They might be looking for me! Please, sir, you have to help me find them", I pleaded.
• He stands up and walks to me, and then he holds my wrist and squeezes it so tightly I start to scream.
• "Now, Juniper, I barely let the girls talk while I'm talking, but you've interrupted me twice while I'm being very nice, and you've done too much already." He looks at me angry, and I try to release my wrist, but he doesn't budge.
• "Please don't hurt me" I pleaded as tears fell from my eyes.
• "Dear Juniper, I wouldn't do such a thing unless you behaved yourself, so would you behave now darling?" He asks, squeezing my wrist tighter.
• I nodded my head agreeing.
• "I can't hear you!" He barks
• "Yes sir!" I screamed, the tears wouldn't stop falling from my eyes.
• "Good girl, now let's sit back down" he says and pushes me down on the stool, not letting go of my wrist, he sits on the desk. "Now Dakars Ladies is a very prominent organization, and we're known for our good charity around Venice. We just provide our sponsors with a little service, you know. But you don't get to do that yet until I've seen you repent and behave. Now you're going to join your mates and be on clean up duty. I'm pretty sure you have no family because you were half dead on the highway, so stop babbling about them and earn your keep", he instructs.
• "Please, let me leave" I cried. I don't feel safe here, and I don't know where I am.
• He folds his fist annoyed and then punches me and I fall off the stool crying. He kicks my stomach multiple times, and I'm screaming but no one is coming, it's like the house is dead. He raised my chin up to face him.
• "I paid billions for your surgery you bitch! And until you can pay me back you're going to work here and if you can't, I'll gladly send you to the hell you were headed to in that accident. Do you hear me girl?!" He barks. I nod my head agreeing, and he pushes me back to the floor.
• "Come pick up this bitch!!" He screams and a guy rushes in and picks me up from the floor, pushing me outside the door.