The Reclusive Wife

FLASHBACK Huge dark room bare of anything except it's high ceiling wall smelt of sweat, blood, urine and metallic scent of rancid blood probably, a 5 years old girl crying, trembling against the wall,....... "let me go" her tiny voice shook in fear. "please, i want my mommy and daddy" she said further trembling against the corner looking at the hulking figure in front of her in fear and shock She was crying so loudly, harder, but then what else to expect from a 5years old who had been taken away from her home, her family. The figure infront of her suddenly came closer and slapped her right across her face, so hard that she hit her head hard, lost her footing and fell face first. It shook her to the core, it was the first time someone put a hand on her, slapped her.....her ma and baba never did something like that, no one in her family did something like that, but that day she got a feeling that it maybe was the first but it wouldn't be the last. Her ears were ringing,..... her cheek felt numb, 5 angry red finger prints was very much visible to everyone in present in that room, it'll be forming a bruise tomorrow "one more sound and It'll end very badly for you" the figure glared and his threat came out in low rumble and then turn to the other children..... "for all of you" And no sound came, A pin drop silence,......she wasn't really hearing anything, she didn't care about others extremely scared and shocked, she stayed like that on that filthy floor, scared to even breath. After a while her breathing came out in hiccups. And she wasn't the only one, there were more than 15 children just like her ... Both, boys and girls. Scared, terrified! anyone could tell by the moldy smell that Sunlight hardly passes through this room. More like a bunker than a big room,... Huge Bunker full of kids and big bulky men, Armed men! And suddenly everything melted in black abyss! Almost 18 years later,......... somewhere in Oakland, California,... screams ear splitting screams.......cruel jeering mind numbing pain! hopeless tear soaked eyes, submission and..... then nothing!......... ----------