A short story.
Winona gazed blankly into the illuminated mirror at her dressing table. Looking back at her, at least briefly, was the fresh faced and freckled farm girl that she had once been. But she knew that was a lie. Nothing could be further from the truth now.
She had ceased to be that innocent and naΓ―ve farm girl shortly after she had made the fateful decision to walk down the dirt path from her grandparent's farm to catch the bus along the rural highway months before.
Her grandma and grandpa had warned her not to go. They had pleaded with her and begged her not to go. But the prospect of experiencing the excitement of the great big world beyond their remote Nebraska farm had been irresistible.
Win, as everyone called her, had ignored their warning. So now she sat at the dressing table in her luxurious bedroom suite that looked out over the San Francisco skyline and the bay beyond. She continued to ready herself for yet another night with the two men who now controlled every aspect of her life.
Her mother had recently died of cervical cancer and there had been nothing to keep her on the farm. She and her mother had been close, almost like two sisters. It had been her mother who had christened her Winona, an Indian word meaning first born daughter. Winona had been her mother's life.
And her grandparents treated both of them like wayward children, scolding them for their Godlessness, when they thought either of them were straying from the path of goodness.
Her former life on the farm seemed like such a long time ago now, as she finished putting up her hair, just as they liked it. Soon after her mother's death, they had provided her with a bus ticket and a train ticket, as well as a brand-new credit card in her own name to pay her incidental travel expenses.
Curious, she had often asked her mother and grandparents about them, but they would change the subject. All they had ever told her was that they lived far away. They had all agreed that the farther away the better.
They had offered to fly her to San Francisco, but she was afraid of flying. Win was afraid of heights in general, as she was of many other things. She had been timid and demur growing up on the remote farm. She had fit right in at the fundamentalist Christian school to which her mother and grandparents had sent her.
The school had taught her to be 'plain' just as it did the other girls. The girls were prohibited from wearing makeup or anything but the drabbest and most modest of clothes. But even then, it did not obscure Win's natural and radiant beauty. She had that rare 'IT' quality, and she had it in spades, she glowed as only rare beauties do.
The school had taught her to be obedient to her elders and to always obey her parents and family without question. Being naturally shy and timid, and fearful of anything she did not understand, which was much, she easily became the humble, impressionable, and submissive young woman into which the school and her grandparents were molding her.
Starting to apply her makeup, Win looked even more closely at herself in the lighted mirror. She stared briefly at the black leather collar that circled her neck. It reminded her who and what she was now.
She began to apply her eyeliner, just as they liked it. Next, she applied rouge to her full lips and to her nipples, then stood and applied the rouge to her outer labia, just as they also liked it. Win was careful to follow their precise instructions to the letter, lest she be punished again.