Free Pretty Cow - The Making of a Hucow by Cindel Sabante Page B

leaving her
with uneven tufts over her small head. Her face was swollen too, with
noticeable bruises over her arms. My sister had tried to fight back.
    She was still asleep and I hoped that she stayed that
way. Whatever was happening, I didn't want her to be awake for it. I tried to
look around, but as soon as I raised myself up off the chair to look behind me,
pain shot through my body. I screamed loudly as electricity poured through me, channeled
through my most sensitive body parts.
    "Stay still and stay quiet," said a tinny
voice from a speaker in the wall. "Testing will begin in a moment."
    "Fuck y- IIIEEE!!" Another round of pain
flooded me before I settled back into the chair and pressed my head against the
soft pillow behind me. Tears slipped down my cheeks but I didn't make a sound.
I wish I could say the same for Nikki and Kim.
    They woke up screaming and I knew the cause. Whoever
had us, whoever was doing this to us, he had used the wires to wake up the
others. To my right I could hear Kimmie crying softly to herself. But off to my
left, Nikki stayed silent. And when I looked over, she was staring back at me.
One of her eyes was swollen shut and her lip was split, but her other eye, green
like my own, burned with fury. She just stared at me, with neither of us saying
anything, before she faced forward and leaned back.
    The speaker hummed. "Testing will begin in thirty
seconds. Please keep your eyes open and on the screen. If you do not, we will
shock you until you comply."
    What is all this?
    The room darkened and the wall in front of us lit up
like a movie screen. Ethereal music filled the space. I felt my whole body
relax as the sounds washed over me. But as I watched random images and words
flash across the screen at a rapid pace, I couldn't figure out what was going
on. And when I noticed that the wall in front of me was showing different
slides than the walls in front of Nicole and Kim, I was even more confused.
    I couldn't help but watch. Images of puppies, horses,
pigs, and cows were interspersed with random words like bitch and milk and good
girl. And randomly, images of naked men and women would flash across the
screen. The images came and went too fast for me to make out details, but I
swore I saw one woman being walked around on a leash, while another wore some
crazy leather outfit with a feathered plume. I noticed quickly that most of the
images were of men and women on all fours, smiling.
    The music cut out and the speaker crackled to life
again. "Series one complete. Next series will begin in two minutes. Please
keep your eyes on the screen in front of you."
    The lights came back on and movement to my left caught
my attention. I turned toward Nikki in time to see the men from earlier appear
next to her. They were pulling the electrodes from her body and loosening the
restraints. I watched as Nikki kicked her legs free and wrestled her arm from
one of the straps. Her hand moved so fast that I nearly didn't see it when her
fingers scraped across the face of one of the men.
    He yelled loudly and my breath caught in my throat.
His body blocked the blow from where I was sitting, but the unmistakable sound
of skin slapping against skin filled the room, followed quickly by a gasp that
could have only come from my sister. The man she scratched grabbed her by her
short hair and threw her to the ground. When she tried to stand, he kicked her
in the small of the back, sending her sprawling. In the thick voice, he growled
at her. "No. You crawl like the bitch you are."
    My sister just looked up at him from her spot on the
floor. We might have been twins, but we couldn't have been more different.
Nikki was a fighter, always quick to argue. I was also the quiet one. The one
who thought things through. And right now, it looked like Nikki was trying to
get herself killed.
    "Fuck you," she said from her place on the
floor. I couldn't see the man's face, but I saw him tense at her words. And
when he dropped to a knee