Insufferable Proximity
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Authors: Z Stefani
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-By Z. Stefani-
©Copyright Z.Stefani 2012
Table of Contents
Thank Heaven for Little Girls
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11
The Un-Heavenly First Encounter
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13
Sugar and Spice And Anything But Nice
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20
Another Day, Another Battle
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25
The Past Shall Come to Light
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174
Conversations with a Stranger
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179
Heaven Sevigne Deville had been born dead smack in the middle of an intense April storm. It had rained hard for thirty days straight, flooding the city streets, forcing businesses to close and all living beings to seek shelter.
The beautiful infant lay across the red, crushed-velvet blanket that covered the bed on which she had been born and conceived. The innocent infant lay unaware of the earth’s chaotic turn of weather or the scandalous reputation of the brothel that she had been born in.
“Hello Heaven, my precious darling.” Ms. Sybille Deville, the Madame of the disreputable establishment, beamed with pride as she stared down at her only child.
Never in Sybille’s wildest dreams did she believe this day would ever happen. She was thirty years old now and for the past fifteen years, every credible doctor had told her that she would never be able to have a child. Therefore, this little baby was a true miracle and the moment she was able to, she would teach her child everything she knew. She also planned to spoil her rotten and give her everything her heart desired.
However, for the time being, Sybille had some dues to pay.
Moments after Heaven’s birth, her mother had been whisked away by the local authorities and taken straight to the prison where she would begin serving her five-year sentence for tax evasion. Knowing their current governor as she did, Sybille knew she would be serving that sentence down to the last minute, there was no getting out of it. Even though over half of her cliental worked for the government, they were still able to get her on a fluke.
Their current governor was on a crusade to ‘eradicate’ all forms of pornography in his state and he had found the perfect “election winner” in Sybille Deville. For over a year, he tried everything in his power to get Sybille, but quickly found the woman was clever as well as resourceful, she never left an end untied. However, in the end, just a week before the election, he had found his pot of gold.
Although Sybille ran her business like a tight ship, she had made the mistake of trusting a friend. That friend had been cheating the IRS and pocketing that money, foolishly believing she would be long gone before it caught up with her. In truth if it was not for the governor’s war against Sybille, her accountant would have gotten away with it for much longer and Sybille would have owed much more.
Sybille had more than enough money to pay that debt off, but their governor to be, made sure she would not get off that easy. He needed her to be the big bad wolf and was eager to make an example out of her.
It was Sybille’s half-sister Coco, who would leave her career as an accountant to pick up the pieces of Sybille’s broken life. Coco’s personality was the polar opposite of her sister’s, where Sybille was romantic and whimsical, Coco was strict and disciplined.
Over the next five years, Coco had re-invented the brothel, bringing it to more of a business level. During it all, she had raised Heaven as if she were her own child, spoiling the girl within reason while focusing on her development and her education. Coco and her sister had different beliefs on sex and education, but in true Coco fashion, she taught her niece that a woman’s true power came from her intelligence. She kept Heaven under her wing, teaching her everything she knew and was proud to see the highly intelligent child’s thirst for knowledge increase by the year.
Coco had also been very careful with exposing the impressionable child to the inner workings of the brothel. She had set up boundaries and designated areas that Heaven could not enter under any circumstances. The only men that Heaven would be seeing were paying customers and Coco did not want the men that frequented the establishment to know that a little girl resided there.
Nevertheless, she knew that rules and boundaries would not be nearly enough for a girl as curious as Heaven. Coco decided to use fear tactics to keep Heaven in line. She taught Heaven all about the evil that men were capable of and trained her to avoid men like the plague. Coco worked on Heaven diligently, unaware that the child’s perception of the opposite sex was turning toxic. Coco had no idea that Heaven was beginning to equate men with criminally-depraved, sex-obsessed monsters that ate little girls for lunch.
Just as Coco had predicted, Sybille served the entire five-year sentence in prison before they released her. Sybille had returned to see her business had been very successful and she had an obscene amount of cash in her personal bank account. Even though Coco was more than happy to hand the business back over to her sister, she was reluctant to hand her niece over so quickly.
Heaven was standoffish at best when it came to anyone other than her aunt, so meeting her mother for the first time had not gone as smoothly as the women had hoped. The five year old refused to speak to Sybille and adamantly refused to go near her. Sybille was crushed, it felt like her whole life was over and she preferred the inhumane conditions of the prison to seeing her daughter’s hateful reaction to her. It was painfully obvious to Sybille that the little girl wanted nothing to do with her, no matter how hard she tried.
Coco also tried to help convince Heaven to speak to her mother, but the girl would hear none of it. At only five years old, she had already proven to be quite stubborn and made it a point to spend the next year avoiding Sybille.
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As the years passed, the little girl grew up finding life as strange as it was unsettling. She spent most of her time locked up in her bedroom, preferring to avoid the activities going on under her roof. Despite Sybille and Coco’s attempt to give Heaven the normal childhood that they did not have and the financial security their own mother could not offer, raising the girl in a brothel had made a negative impact on the child that would haunt her for most of her life.
Despite all of the strict rules she followed, Heaven had still seen things that no developing girl should see. A few pivotal moments had defined her personality, but it was the event that took place on her ninth birthday that would inevitably set her fate.
For Heaven’s ninth birthday, her mother had thrown her a party at the dance studio and Heaven refused to remove the new tutu she had received. Once they were home, she had rushed to show Maude, her Aunt Coco’s closest friend, her new tutu. She had looked everywhere for Maude, but could not find her and during her search, she had somehow wondered off into the forbidden wing. She was well aware of the fact that she was prohibited from entering that section of the house, but she was too anxious to find Maude to turn back now.
Heaven stood on the stairs, her warm brown eyes wide with curiosity as she peeked into the brightly lit waiting room. A huge silver disco ball hung from the center of the ceiling, scattering beams of holographic, diamond-shards across the room. She was tempted of course, but she knew better, she was turning to leave when she heard Maude’s distinguished laughter.
Deciding to throw caution to the wind, she snuck into the waiting room and saw a few of the working girls there, waiting on a large man. They all wore matching white dresses and were over accessorized with thick silver costume jewelry. Most importantly, their interest in the man was too deep for them to see Heaven sneak through the room.
She had just made it out of the waiting room and into an adjoining hallway when she heard a strange voice behind her. Not wanting to be discovered, she ran down the long hall and snuck inside of one of the unlocked rooms. The room was darker than the stark white area she had just left and it took her eyes a moment to adjust to the hot-pink-hued darkness. When they finally adjusted, Heaven watched the scene before her come into focus and felt her pulse race as her mouth opened with shock.
She took a step backwards, ready to throw her hands up to hide her eyes from the horrific scene when she heard a wheezy chuckle then turned to see a lecherous looking old man step out of the shadows.
“Well look what we have here, I didn’t know they served them so young.” he squawked, licking his thin lips before smiling wolfishly. Heaven watched as his long bony fingers reached towards her and she quickly turned to escape the room. The old man was faster than he looked and managed to grab the little girl.
Heaven’s number one rule at home was to avoid all of the men on the premises or she would be punished for her disobedience. Coco, knowing her nieces relentless curiosity and in order to get Heaven to obey had trained her to believe that men were bad and capable of doing terrible things to little girls. After years of believing that men were the monster hiding in the shadows, Heaven developed a strong fear of the opposite sex.