You went to the servants quarters realizing you had no idea where you were supposed to stay. You glanced in one room which had 2 beds in it, then looked in a different room which also had 2 beds. That was nice, rather than at Seishuu Ri's mansion where you had to share a bedroom with 5 other people, here you just had to share with 1. Still you needed to find out where you would get to stay. You started off to find someone to help you when luckily one of those bandaged maids showed up. This one had bandages covering her eyes.

"Excuse me, but I don't know where I'm supposed to stay." You said to her as you approached her.

She seemed to look at you and you wondered if she could actually see you. "Are you the new girl Prince Kouha bought?"

"Yep, that's me." Déjà Vu? It felt like you had been asked that before.

"I'm Junjun."

"My name's (Name)."

"Alright, follow me." She guided you without even feeling for her way around, but you didn't think there was no way she could see where she was going.

"We're short on staff, so right now you'll have your own room until we hire someone else." She said as she opened a door for you. You walked inside to see that it looked identical to the ones you had seen before.

"Thank you," you said as Junjun walked off. You sat on the bed, then laid back. You felt your nerves relax almost like you were melting into the bed. Now that Kouha was asleep you decided to take the opportunity to bathe and go to sleep early. As a personal maid to Kouha you served directly to him, so when he didn't need you, you could do what you wanted.

After taking a bath you went back your room. You opened up a closet near the foot of you bed to see if there were any clothes provided for you. Inside was a outfit, similar to the what the bandaged maids wore, and a night dress. You pulled the nightgown out of the closet and changed into it. Immediately you crawled into the bed and pulled the covers up to your chin then snuggled your nose into them. The bed was incredibly comfortable and had a nice scent. They treated servants better here than other places. It wasn't surprising, most people that work in the palace were pretty high-class people.

You began to doze off wondering what the next day had in store. Your stomach made a grumbling noise which reminded you, you hadn't eaten since yesterday's dinner. You decided to ignore it and wait until breakfast came the next morning. Soon, you entered dreamland and fell fast asleep.

Rays of the morning sun shone in your face. You held your eyes closed and shoved your face into your pillow. Something warm was wrapped across you stomach and surrounded your back. You cuddled into it. Whatever it was, it was nice and soft. You turned over and nuzzled your face against it. With you snuggled up against it, you slowly began to wake up. You pried opened your eyes, and realized you weren't in the room you had fallen asleep in. You were in Kouha's room, cuddled up against Kouha. In a hurry you pushed away from him and fell off the side of the bed. This made a loud *THUMP*. You jumped onto your feet to see Kouha waking up, he looked at you with tired eyes and gave a faint smile. Your loud thump must have woken him up.

"(Name), come here." He yawned while sitting up and stretching. You cautiously got back on the bed wondering why you had woken up in Kouha's bed in the first place. Did you sleepwalk? "Turn around." He said playfully and you obeyed. You were sitting on your knees with your back facing him. "Alright, now put your hands behind your back and close your eyes." Even though it seemed like whatever you were doing was really stupid you did it anyway. Around your wrists you felt something tighten. You tried to pull away but Kouha held you down by whatever was around your wrist.

"What are you doing?" You demanded while he pushed you down on your stomach.

"Yesterday, after I told you to never leave this room you didn't listen. So if you won't listen to me the only thing left to do is force you to." You realized he was tying you up. The tight ropes cut into your skin. After he finished your hands he began tying your feet.

Kouha flipped you back over then snaked up your body running his hand across your sensitive skin. His face neared yours. You turned away but he grabbed your hair and turned your head towards him. He shoved his lips onto yours, kissing you! He then moved his tongue across your bottom lip, toward the inside of you mouth. You noticed this and clamped your mouth shut trying to avoid it. You felt a sharp pain on your side which caused you to open your mouth to let out a moan. He took the opportunity to stick his tongue into your mouth and explore. When he slowly pulled away you noticed blood streaming down the side of your waist. He saw it too, a smile formed around his face. It looked as if he was about to go crazy. He touched where you were bleeding and looked at the red liquid passionately. "Now (Name), I have to punish you for disobeying me." Your eyes widened as you tried to struggle. He held up a knife.

"STOP IT, STOP IT!" You screeched as he began cutting through your skin. Soon your screams were silenced by Kouha covering your mouth with his. Your body slowly began to grow numb from loss of blood.

"You look so beautiful covered in blood," Kouha cooed in your ear. "I want to keep this beauty all to my self." You struggled up against the rope trying to tear away, but to no avail. Then there was a knock at the door.

"Come in," Kouha allowed. Jinjin entered carrying in a meal tray and Junjun followed her carrying another. He looked over to you. "I've already explained to them the situation."

You tried calling out for help but the maids ignored all your pleas and ran out the door. "It's useless, as a prince I can have whatever I want and no one can do anything about it." He caressed your cheek, "(Name), your finally mine." You pulled away from him.

He went over to the edge of the bed, "I guess we should eat now." He said picking up some bread off one of the trays and ripping a piece off. "Come on, (Name), open up."

You glared at him, "I'm really not hungry." Right as you said that your stomach betrayed you and let out a rumbling sound. You tried to keep a straight face but your cheeks flushed with embarrassment. "Fine, but I can feed myself!"

"No you can't!" He pouted, "look I tied you hands together." He pulled you up from your laying position and leaned you up against his chest. You were to weak to keep yourself up "Now, say ah." You didn't know what he might do if you didn't listen so you opened you mouth, but of course you didn't actually say "ah". Once breakfast was over he got up and got ready. As a prince he probably had some political affairs to attend to.

"Bye bye, (Name). I'll see you later today." He said as he walked out the door a maid entering behind him. This maid walked over to you and began to silently bandage your cuts.

"Please help me." You said breaking the silence of the room. She tried to make eye contact with you but ended up looking away. She continued to treat you cuts. When she finished she placed something cold and metal in you hands. You quickly looked at her, it was a knife.

"Don't get the wrong idea. I'm just jealous of you and want you to leave as soon as possible." She began to walk off.

"Wait, what's your name?"

"Reirei."

"Thank you, Reirei." She walked out of the door and you heard the lock click.

You struggled to sit up, using the headboard as your support. Once you were up you began sawing through the rope that held your feet. Soon they were free. You put the knife in between the pads of your feet and held it there. You moved the rope around your hands up and down across the blade until they were finally loose. You fell back down on the bed breathing hard. You rested for a while then tried to get up again. Your whole body ached as you slid off the bed. You dragged yourself over the the wall of the room and leaned against it to take another break. After you sat there for a while you forced yourself to get up and inched to the window. You shoved it open and looked out from the second floor. It would have been an easy climb down for you if you hadn't been in the state you were in. You had often climbed even more difficult things at your village. You examined what you would have to do to get down. Although you were hurt and weak, you were determined. After sitting next to the window to regain as much strength as possible you pulled yourself up and began you descent. Once you made it down you lay on the dirt floor gasping in as much air as possible. You started to feel your consciousness slip away.

When you opened your eyes again you looked up to where the sun was in the sky. Luckily, you hadn't been asleep long. From where the sun was it looked to be late in the morning, but still morning. You pushed your body up and began to stagger towards the main palace. Maybe now that you were in that sorry state you would be able to get help. After walking for quite awhile you were about to reach the main palace when some guards walked up to you.

"Who are you?" They demanded. You tried to explain to them who you were and what had been done to you. They just looked at you then escorted you off the palace grounds. You were too weak to put up a fight. They directed you to the nearest doctor then left you outside the palace walls. It didn't surprise you too much they didn't believe what you had said. You sat down against the big wall wondering what you should do. It came to you that Chiyo might help you. She had been the person you had gotten closest to since you came, even you hadn't gotten to know her that much. You stood up and staggered towards the direction of Seishuu Ri's mansion, where Chiyo should be. Hopefully you could remember the way.

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