Chapter 25

'Brandi'

Why is this happening to me? I am scared and don't know the languages that are being spoken. One minute I was singing on stage at a beach party. Then I feel a punch like impact on my hip, suddenly my whole side goes numb. It was strange my left leg, my back and left arm all went numb. Of course I fell to the stage as the rest of my body went numb. There was a ringing muffling like sensation as I blacked out. When I wake up my wrists and ankles hurt really badly. I am nearly naked as the only thing I have on is a string bikini and it really is just a string just a little less in width than my pinky finger. But what scares me the most are the metal rings that are in my wrists and ankles. They look like they are stuck into the bone and are probably the cause of the severe pain I am feeling. There is no way to pull them out or take them off. A woman opens the door and in bad English tells me to follow her. I refuse and tell her to explain what is going on and where I am ... but before I can continue to shout at her she points a small remote like device at me and I am suddenly doubled over in pain as it feels like something just crushed the insides of my lower belly and pelvic area. I can't breathe or speak as I flop on the floor. It stops just as quick as it started and the woman repeats for me to follow her adding 'NOW'. I get to my feet still in some mild pain from the unexplained pain and follow her. She leads me to a large room with other girls dressed similar to me they too have on the string bikini. The woman I notice for the first time is also wearing a string bikini but she also has a sarong wrap around her hips. I am told to bathe some of the other girls are entering the bath while others seem to be assisting. As I remove the string bikini I notice that only three of us have the metal rings attached to our wrists and ankles. One is obviously Asian maybe Japanese the other looks at me and calls my name "Brandi!" I ask who she is since I don't know her.