Chapter 1. Brought to the city.

At Madam Alora's brothel. 

Janet and Lara both stood outside at the gate entrance of the brothel house.

Janet said, "Come, Lara, let us go inside."

Lara replied, "No, Janet, you did not tell me that we were going to a hotel."

Janet frowned as she had previously traveled down to her village to bring Lara, all because she wanted to help Lara move out of poverty. 

Janet replied, "Lara I cannot keep standing outside here with you. Is it okay if you do not want to go inside? You can continue to stand outside here alone, as I am going inside and I have a lot of work to do, as my madam has been calling me since morning."

Lara frowned, as she is a light-skinned beauty. She is very attractive, and she isn't foolish not to know where Janet took her too.She knew that Janet's parents were also poor and in the village, but with the kind of lifestyle and beautiful dresses that Janet wears, she could not help but admire them and beg to follow Janet to the city, as she mostly wore rags.

Lara replied, "I cannot go inside there with you, Janet; I need to go back home to the village."

Madam Alora, the owner of the brothel house, stepped out of the building, and she saw Janet standing outside by the gate with a young lady as the gate was slightly opened. 

She remembered that Janet had taken permission from her hand to travel down to her village and bring her best friend, Lara Almond, to the city, as Janet also promised her that her best friend was cute and super attractive.

It was 6:30 p.m., and soon, most of the eligible men that usually patronize her young ladies would soon be arriving, and she only has four young ladies working for her, as she didn't accept too many other ladies. As they prove too stubborn for her to handle and also want to know her secrets. Also, she mostly has younger men coming into her brothel house to patronize her ladies.

So she walked outside to the gate to find out what was going on, and she asked Janet, "What's going on here, Janet?."

"Good evening, ma. Is my friend that I spoke to you about named Lara Almond? She doesn't want to come inside, and we have been standing here outside the gate since we arrived."

"Hmph," Madam Alora sighed. 

"Is alright. You can go inside; I am coming." She dismissed Janet, and she stepped out from the gate and stared at the pretty young lady in a yellow gown and black slippers. Her eyeballs grew bigger and nearly popped out of her eye socket as she saw how beautiful and cute the young lady looked.

Lara immediately greeted the black woman in a black short gown: "Good evening, ma."

Lara was carrying her traveling box up to her shoulder, and Madam Alora replied, "Yes, welcome, my dear. Why're you standing outside here by the gate?. Come inside."

Madam Alora ushered Lara into her compound, but Lara replied, "No, ma. Is this not a hotel?."

Madam Alora frowned, and forcing a fake smile, she replied, "No, my dear. What do you know about a hotel?. Have you been to one before?."

Lara shrugged and replied, "No, ma, but..."

Lara walked closely to the gate. She peeped inside the compound through the black gate, and she saw some young ladies like her size, dressed in almost exposed wear. She gulped hard and pulled her beautiful head out of the gate, as she told Madam Alora, "Please, ma, help me to call Janet outside. As I need to go back home to the village, I cannot go in there."

Lara began to cry, and Madam Alora frowns, as she has been getting calls from higher-ranking men in their city that were requesting for young, beautiful ladies from her to warm up their beds and seeing how naturally beautiful Lara looks without any makeup on her face. 

Madam Alora sighed and asked, "Do you have your transport fare to go back home to your village?.

Lara sniffed and replied, "No, ma."

"Then you need to work for it. Are you coming inside or not?. And mind you, here is not a hotel, as I actually gave Janet the money that she used to travel down to your village and to bring you here. And inside of you, thanking me for my kind help, you want to still go back home to your village. How ungrateful of you to come to my home and insult me first instead of saying thank you, ma?." 

Madam Alora glares at Lara, and Lara was still holding her tattered travel bag closely at her chest. She apologized, "I am sorry, ma."

"Oh, please keep your stupid apology to yourself alone and come inside now! Else, I ask my guards to lock back my gate." Madam replied.

Lara stood speechless, not having any other option. She finally walked into the compound with Madam Alora.

They walk up to the white bungalow house at the front, and as they step inside, Madam Alora calls out to Janet.

Janet replied, "Yes, Madam."

"Show your friend to her room and prepare her." Madam Alora said:.

"No," Lara refused to move, and Madam Alora yelled at her, "No what?. Aren't you going back home to your village again? ... Look, I don't have time to waste here on you, and you better be quick to move with Janet, Else! I will call my guards now to throw you outside at this minute!."

Madam Alora warns, and Lara gulps heavily. She stared at the rest of the young ladies that were standing in the living room with her, and not having another option, she finally followed Janet as she heard Janet say to her, "Come, Lara, let us go to my room."

Lara knows that the beautiful black woman named Madam Alora wasn't joking about throwing her outside, and she finally walks away from the living room with Janet. They followed a passage, and Janet took her to a room that was painted pink, as the room belonged to Janet.

Janet kindly collected the black tattered traveling bag from Lara's hands, and she said to Lara, "I know that you're not comfortable staying here, and you're still finding it hard to believe that this is what I do here in the city, but it is not prostitution."

Lara yelled at Janet, "Lies! You're lying to me, Janet. You should've told me before now that it is prostitution that you do here in the city, and I won't have to follow you here, as I told you that I don't want to sleep with a man for money; I don't want to lose my virginity until I am married." Lara cried.

"Hmph. I am sorry, Lara, but what is the point of you keeping your virginity when you, your siblings, and your mother in the village could barely feed, as your father is already old, and your mother knew this before she ran to him and got married to him? Knowing fully well that he was already married before, and he has a family before her. Did your mother think about her virginity or about any of you that she brought into this world?." Janet asked, and Lara yelled at her, "Don't you dare to insult my mother, Janet!."

"I am not Lara. I'm just being honest with you. Look! I am using the latest iPhone; I've got a car here; and do you think I have all that by keeping my virginity?"

Lara replied, "That's you and not me, Janet, as if you had told me before now that it is prostitution, then I wouldn't have followed you here. Now your madam said that I have to work for my transportation to go back home to the village. How do I work for it?. And if it is with my Vee-J, then know that I cannot sleep with any man for money. Is it best you borrow me the money, Janet? Let me go back to the village this night." Lara begged, but Janet burst out laughing.

Janet replied, "No, Lara, you are not going anywhere. I wish I could borrow your money and give it to you for free, but you see... Any money that I get from going outside and sleeping with a man, my madam actually takes 70% of the money, and she gives me only 30%, and it's not even enough for me to take care of myself, let alone to give to you."

Lara cried, "Why Janet? You should have told me before, why?."

Janet apologizes: "I am sorry, Lara. Let us hurry up now and bathe before 8 p.m., so we can have some time to prepare and eat before we leave to work."

Lara replied, "Leave me alone, Janet. I'm not eating or preparing to go anywhere with you. You wicked fellow."

Janet burst out laughing, and she walked away to her bathroom to bathe, while Lara continued to sob.

A few minutes later, Janet stepped out of her bathroom, as the room was hers, and her madam hasn't given Lara a room yet.

Janet was tying only a white towel around her chest, which barely covers her thighs, as she is a brown-skinned beauty, unlike Lara, who is very yellow and almost white in complexion.

Water was still dripping down from Janet's body as she loosened up her towel and said to Lara, "Is it your turn now to go bathe?"

Lara replied, "No, Janet, I am not going anywhere with you."

Janet frowned and shouted at Lara, "What has come over you, Lara?. And mind you, my madam is a little hot-tempered. Ifyou don't do quick, then be ready to leave!."

Lara snuffles, not having any other option. She walked towards the bathroom and stopped, and she asked Janet, "Where is the towel that I will use?.

Janet replied, "There are still about five neat towels in there, as I hardly use them, and we have dry-cleaners that come to wash our clothes, so I am sure that the towels are still neat."

Lara stomps her feet to the ground, and she angrily walks into the bathroom to take her bath. 

The bathroom is big and very beautiful, with white tiles on the wall, compared to the local outside bathroom that Lara uses at the village with her mother and siblings, as they are truly poor and managing. Even as her mother later sold fruit in the village square, it was not enough to feed them.

Lara knew that Janet was right, but she has vowed never to sleep with any man until she gets married.