The bed was a double with a feather mattress. One chair graced the corner. I put the cases down and turned to Sarah, who was sitting on the bed."Tell ...e what happened? You had furniture and money when I last saw you." Oh, I have had the worst luck. One of the freighters lost the load that had my best things on it while crossing a swollen river. I finally reached my brother's. I hadn't seen him for years and he was nothing like I remembered. His house was a mess, just a shack really. He put the. Master untied the straps holding me down and told me to get up and follow them to the bathroom. They didn’t even lend a hand helping me up and I struggled to gain my feet. I refused to look down as I kept hoping this was all a dream and I stumbled after my owners to the bathroom.Upon entering the bathroom I was stood directly in front of a full length mirror and immediately burst into sobbing tears. It was awful! I was physically changed forever and my shock and degradation was like music to. “Harrumph! Not interested in my soft brown body! Don’t want to fool around, the least little bit! I heard that white boys were only after my black booty, and you—YOU-- cannot be bothered to take advantage of me, and my weakened defenses, when I’m simply burning for you to handle me, to take me, to strip my clothing from me, like some cave man! I’ve got your ‘wait until tomorrow’, your ‘convince your mother I respect you!’, your ‘finish our studying, we can take our time’, and I’ve got it right. He did, however, make sure to ask her what she wanted for refreshments before he headed to the stand himself. She asked for popcorn and a bottle of Coca-Cola, and he left the car to retrieve them. Not before giving her a firm peck on the cheek, though. She blushed.As she waited, Sarah looked around the interior of the car. Fuzzy dice hung from the rear-view mirror. She turned around to the back seat. Had he ever taken Penny back there? No, she had been a nice girl, he'd said. Not a whore.Not.