<span style="font-style: italic">“I had done everything that Randall had wanted that day. It was a normal day just like all the other days. I had been in the kitchen working on dinner and he had just come home from his job. Out of nowhere he walked up behind me and hit me with the frying pan that was on the stove.”</span><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">“He drug me into the bathroom yelling at me telling me that I was a disappointed and if I would have been a better slave then everything that was about to happen would have never happened. He told me to run the bath and while I was running it he grabbed his whip and just whipped me over the tub. All the while telling me that I was a disgrace and that I didn’t deserve to be anyone’s slave. I was 15 years old what more could I do, this was all I knew.”</span>Max sighed.<span style="font-style: italic">“He made me strip and get into the bathtub and before I knew what was happening he had me by the top of the head and he was pushing me under the water. He was stronger than me and no matter how much I fought I couldn’t get out of the water. Then he placed three cinder blocks on my chest to hold me down.”</span><br/><br/>Max pushed away from Rimi and looked him in the eyes,<span style="font-style: italic">“I can’t explain it, but I was actually dead and he left me in the water. I was in the bathtub frozen for what seemed like hours. He had sent someone I had never seen to get rid of my body. I couldn’t move or talk, I was supposed to be dead, should have been dead.”</span>Max took a deep breath,<span style="font-style: italic">“This guy took me out into the woods and threw my body just out there like I was nothing and to this day I cannot explain why I am alive. But I cannot even sit in the bathtub alone anymore, let alone with someone else.”</span><br/><br/>His eyes fixed on Max, listening intently to his words. As the man's story continued, Rimi slowly began to smile and leaned to give Max a kiss on the lips. "If I can share my past with you, you shouldn't feel scared to share yours with me. You'll hate me for it in the future, but I'm not gonna tell you "You're not alone anymore." He leaned in, smacking his lips into Max's once again. "I'm gonna make you believe it... Every... Single... Day."<br/><br/>Though if what Max had said was correct, then it is by odd occurrence that Max is still alive to tell the tale. "But enough about the past... Let's enjoy the shower... And then I need to get this taken care of." He said, turning to little Rimi. He wasn't so certain about what to do with little Rimi, but he wasn't going to have Max do it. He was as much a free man as Max was. The least he could was learn to take care of himself here and there.