"Brad began letting us out more frequently and sometime he would even change up the meals and give us soup and crackers instead of a sandwich. He would let us walk in the basement as a five minute timer counted down, then we would return to our cages, we would also get to bathe sometimes. It soon became a routine, but all of it stopped our seven hundred and sixty ninth meal. We were in our cages just staring at whatever we could see bored out of our minds and wishing we could die when it happened. Brad came down to give us our meal and I hadn't been feeling very good the past few days. I was very sore and my stomach was killing me. Brad said it was just a bug and I would get over it, but that wasn't the case. Blood. I had started my period in my cage. I began panicking because I had never learned about what was happening. I didn't know and I was scared. Olivia kept quite in her cage, as she had been doing a lot recently. Ever really since Emily died we hadn't been close. I ignored it because I knew she was scared and missed her parents, because I was acting the same way. Brad came back to collect our plates and when he saw what was happening he began to panic. He then pulled me from my cage and took me upstairs to the bathroom. He told me to stay quiet and to take a bath if I wanted. So I took a bath. I stayed in until brad knocked on the door and came in. I stayed in the bath as he sat on the toilet and he began talking to me. He told me how I was now a woman and I would be bleeding once a month for about a week and the whole talk. After that talk we started treating me differently. He began ignoring Olivia and paying all his attention on me. He didn't make me eat cheese sandwiches he moved my cage upstairs, out of the basement. He would let me take naps in a real bed and I didn't have to use the bathroom in my cage anymore and he even let me watch tv. I only had to be in my cage when he was asleep or not home. I sometimes worried about Olivia and if she was okay."
"What happened to her?"
"I'll get there I promise." I half smiled but then looked down.
"What happened next?" Elena proceeded
"I remember one day he told me to take a pill. He told me it was to help me not get sick but all it did would make me fall asleep. He let me sleep for a long time and when I woke up he made me pancakes. Twelve meals went by and I started getting really sick. I would throw up a lot and I just never felt good. Brad told me I was going to be fine and he would continue watching tv."
Elena looked scared like she knew what I was about to say.
"More meals passed and I had stopped counting and I began to get fat. Like really fat. Brad told me it was okay and that he knew it was going to happen, I didn't understand."
"You were pregnant." Elena blurted out sounding more of a statement than question.
I shook my head. "I had a baby."
"What happened?" Elena looked as if she needed to hear more.
"That's what happened. I had a baby..."
