Beauty Rising by Mark W. Sasse

Author:Mark W. Sasse
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781481211284
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2012-12-03T18:30:00+00:00

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Nothing out of the ordinary happened the rest of the day, but I felt nervous and sick to my stomach the whole time. I never received a text message from Mr. Duc to meet him that night, but that fact was not anything terribly out of the ordinary. I never saw him every night anyways, but for some reason I attached great importance to not receiving a message that day. I tried to think rationally about everything, but the more I thought about it, the more anxious I became. At around 8:30 PM, Thu’s sister showed up again.

“I’m going to close the shop now,” she said as she dangled a large ring of keys.

“How is Co Thu? Is everything okay?”

“Yes, no problem. She is feeling a little sick today. She’ll be back to work tomorrow.”

I glanced slyly over to Hoa, who shook her head very slowly telling me not to let on that I knew anything.

“Okay, so I’ll see you at nine in the morning.”

Co Thu’s sister grunted a ‘yes’ and Hoa and I were off to try and get through the night and see what would happen tomorrow. We would most definitely be using the bottle opener on my keychain very liberally tonight.

Hoa and I both went into the shop around nine the next morning, but it was still closed. We waited. We waited until 9:30 and then 10 but no one ever came, so we finally went home. We wondered the meaning of this, but decided that we would just need to wait everything out. Hoa used her free day to visit her sister in Hanoi, so she caught the 11 AM bus while I headed back to my room and went back to bed. I was still feeling the effects of a restless sleep coupled with too much alcohol. I was gone to the world in about five minutes.

At about 12:30, I heard the outside gate swing open and the teacher’s dogs started barking and yipping. The chickens scattered , but I paid little attention and turned over to go back to sleep. A moment later, I heard the door to my room open, and I turned my head slightly, barely opening my eyes to see who it was. There was a quick movement across my room to my bed. Someone grabbed my hair and yanked it back quickly. Pain shot through my head.

“You little whore.”

I looked up and Hue, Mr. Duc’s daughter stood over me pulling my head back with my hair.

I let out a scream.

“Shut up, whore,” Hue yelled at me.

Another young woman was with her. She came and stood directly in front of me.

“This is what you get for seducing our father.”

She took her nails and ripped them across my left cheek as Hue continued to hold me up by the hair. Blood started running down my face and they mixed with the tears and screams that I kept yelling.

“Go ahead and scream you bitch. But you are going to pay for what you did.

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