Cellar Girl by Josefina Rivera

Author:Josefina Rivera [Rivera, Josefina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448176786
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

At some point I must have dozed off because I was brought back to the present by hollering and banging coming from the hole.

For Christ’s sake – we couldn’t get a moment’s peace!

Ten minutes later Gary was downstairs with us.

‘Everything okay?’ he asked.

‘Them girls down there are getting on our nerves,’ I said. ‘They won’t shut up.’

‘I couldn’t hear them,’ he said, puzzled.

So then he went back upstairs and conducted a little experiment. He took his car out of the garage and they started hollering and banging again.

They could hear the vibrations of the car when he took it out and they figured he was out of the house so they could make as much noise as they liked.

He tiptoed back into the house and stood at the basement door, listening to the noise.

Then he pulled his car back into the garage and because they heard him coming back, they figured he was in the house and they shut up. So he came back down to the basement and realized they knew he must be back again.

So the next time he came down it was with the screwdrivers. He got Jacqueline and Deborah out of the hole and he put the screwdrivers in their ears, just like he did with me and Sandra.

If only that had been the worst of it. If only things hadn’t gone any further. Years later I looked back and wondered if things could have gone another way. Maybe if Deborah had submitted to Gary, just given in, he wouldn’t have thought of all these other forms of punishment.

Maybe. But then maybe he was so far gone at this point it was inevitable there would be another tragedy.

I don’t know. All I knew was that Gary’s next idea had devastating consequences for all of us. And perversely, it marked the start of the end of my incarceration.

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