So last week I
patted myself on the back for posting my Monday SO story on time…and this week
I’m four days late…welcome to my life. LMAO
But at least I’m
getting it in the same week – and hopefully in three days I’ll have another one
up *crosses fingers*.
This is a
continuation of last week’s story…and it just keeps getting weirder. :) Ooooh…and
it has a title now too!
**WARNING—this story is out
of my comfort zone, but I think that will make it quite interesting…hope it draws
you in. :)
Prompt: I can imagine…
Parallels
Part 3
copyright © 2016 Havan
Fellows
Chapter Three
November 15, 1979
“Stupid fucking bitch! Your parents
are loaded, what the fuck do you mean they won’t set us up. You’re pregnant
with their goddamn grandbaby.” Chris headed for the front door. “You better get
your ass home and fix this. I didn’t fuck you just so I could live my life in a
trailer park. If I wanted that there were plenty of other bitches I could’ve
knocked up.”
He turned around and stared, jabbing
his finger in the air at her. “I’m serious. I will make sure your life is a
living hell.” He slammed the door on his way out.
“My life already is a living hell,”
Maggie whispered as she rubbed her growing belly.
A tear slid down her face, as she pressed
against the wall in the sparsely decorated family room of the one-bedroom
apartment. This was Chris’s place, well his dad’s and his. It wasn’t much to
look at, actually gave her the creeps knowing Chris’s drunken father was asleep
in the bedroom with only one warped plywood door standing between them—the man
was a slobbery pervert, constantly making rude comments to her and leering at
her breasts. But she wasn’t willing to leave the apartment right away either.
What if Chris was hanging in the stairway talking to someone?
She gingerly touched her cheek,
feeling the heat from his slap on her tender skin. She needn’t worry, Chris
never hit her hard enough to leave a mark…where people could see. Was it an
inherit trait that abusers knew exactly where to hit and how hard? She touched
the underside of her swollen belly, ignoring the pain from the dark purple
shoe-shaped bruise on her hip. She knew that if she pulled down her oversized
leggings and pulled up her bunchy sweater there would be a yellowing bruise,
almost done fading away. He didn’t actually hit the baby, he stated to her when
she accused him of trying to hurt their child. No, he said he hit under the
baby, no harm done.
That was the night he let it slip
that he purposely got her pregnant. It was all part of his master plan to get
out of the projects, away from his father, and start a promising life on the
other side of town.
What he just found out today, though,
was that Maggie’s parents had no intention of letting them live at Talcott
Manor. True, Maggie’s house—the only place she ever called home—was big enough
with eight bedrooms, seven baths, and over a dozen other various rooms. It also
boasted a full time staff including an assistant, cook, and ground’s keeper.
Maggie’s father was a well-respected chief of surgery and her mother a highly
sought after criminal psychologist and they demanded routine and order in their
lives always.
Their only child completely screwed
that up for them, and that was why her parents and none of the staff would lift
a finger to help her.
The doctor her mother dragged her
to—two counties over—estimated the due date as the end of February. Her mother
had the idea of wedding her off to Chris before she started showing, then
purchasing them a trailer in another town. Unfortunately, she got called
enveloped in a particularly heinous murder case that took all of her waking
hours—and probably some of her sleeping ones also. For close to two months,
Mrs. Talcott was hardly around the house, and since Dr. Talcott hadn’t spoken
to his daughter since August, Maggie was able to dodge the marital aspirations.
But now her mother was back and the
plans were in overdrive. It was highly important for Mrs. Talcott that the
parents-to-be be married before their little bundle of joy entered the world.
Maggie wasn’t sure why, it’s not like her friends weren’t smart enough to
calculate the dates in their head and figure out that conception happened many
months before marriage. But with her mother it was all about appearances, and
since Maggie wasn’t showing yet—thanks to baggy pants and oversized
sweaters—they could still make this work.
Maggie shook with the realization
that this was going to happen. She couldn’t stop it.
A noise came from the bedroom, a
cough then a bedspring squeaking. Chris’s father.
She ran out of the apartment and down
the first flight of steps. When she rounded the landing she smacked into a
solid chest, fingers circling around her upper arms and gripping her firmly.
“Hey, where’s the fire?” A slightly
familiar voice asked.
She looked up into the face of Greg
something or other—the man who lived next door to Chris.
“Whoa, why’re you crying?”
“I… I don’t…” she stumbled on her
words, trying to hold back the real loud sobbing tears that threatened to take
over.
He immediately turned her around and
led her back up the stairs. “Let me get you a mug of cocoa. You can relax,
catch your breath, and maybe let me know exactly why you look like your world
just imploded on itself.”
She resisted his direction, but only
a little bit. Right now she didn’t want to go home, she didn’t want to be at
Chris’s place, and Greg was being so nice to her. She hadn’t received nice from
anyone in such a long time. She could really use a little of it now.
***
“I can imagine her going with him is
a bad idea. Why is that?” Brother asked Sister as they followed the two into
the man’s apartment.
Sister giggled, “Because if it was a
good idea we wouldn’t be here, and you are much smarter than the average
sociopath’s mom.”
“Oh good, you’re encouraging your
sense of humor today,” he replied, glancing around Greg’s ramshackle apartment.
It was a mirror image of the one they just left except with marginally better
furniture and less pests crawling across the floor. “But I thought he was a
psychopath, not sociopath.”
“How does one determine how much
conscience a person has?”
“Isn’t that part of this experiment?”
Brother asked, sitting on the hassock.
Sister only shook her head as answer.
They watched Greg talk to Maggie, how
he gently probed the side of her face, where no bruise showed but the skin
puffed out a little.
It didn’t take long for Maggie to
open the dam and quickly fill Greg in on the pregnancy and forced marriage. He
listened, rolling a joint for them to share, telling her it would take away
some of her problems, if only for a short period of time.
Smoke filled the apartment as they
laughed together and finished off a bag of chips and pretzels. But as it always
happened, Maggie’s buzz couldn’t last forever and soon reality started invading
her mind again, bringing even more despair than she originally had. She
couldn’t help but cry.
“Shh, honey, don’t do that. I can’t
stand when a pretty girl cries…” Greg stood and walked into the tiny
kitchenette, with a counter separating it from the family room. “I have
something else…something stronger…that can help you forget your problems even
better than weed does.” He placed a makeshift cellophane baggie that came off a
pack of cigarettes on the counter next to a metal spoon. The baggie had a
little yellowish rock in it.
Maggie, who had walked to the
opposite side of the counter out of curiosity, took a step back, her hands
automatically going to her abdomen. “I don’t think I should,” she whispered.
Brother took notice that she
continuously blinked her eyes, her hands shaking uncontrollably pressed against
her midsection. “He did something to her,” he unnecessarily stated.
Sister nodded. “I suppose you
shouldn’t automatically trust someone who is willing to give you free
drugs”—she looked around at the slum apartment—“at least not in this
environment.”
Greg now stood next to her, working
her sweater up over her head. “I’m gonna make you feel so good…” he cooed in
her ear, pinching her breast through her bra before sliding it down over her
baby bump. “Damn you really are pregnant. He’ll enjoy it too.” He laughed.
Sister had obviously already done her
homework considering none of this surprised her. Brother, on the other hand,
didn’t have that luxury, and he felt as defiled as Maggie soon would be, if his
assumptions about Greg’s intentions were correct. “Why?” he asked out loud.
“What could he possibly gain from this except a quick orgasm. Surely the money
he spent on those drugs doesn’t warrant the few moments of bliss he will take
from her.”
“Oh Brother, not everyone thinks
solely of physical pleasure when in the company of the opposite sex.”
He raised his eyebrow at Sister. “I
have no desire to watch this scene.”
Maggie and Greg froze—her with her
eyes partially closed, him with her arm in his hands.
“He sees in her the potential to make
some quick money. Using her body for his own means is simply a bonus.” Sister
surrendered, leaning against the counter next to the frozen two. “If you give a
little something away for free, to—let’s say—someone completely desperate to
forget their reality who happens to have access to more money than you would
normally see…” She waved her arms out in a giving motion, letting her words
trail off.
“And anything she can get her hands
on at her house would be more than Greg is used to seeing.”
“Precisely, Brother. Sweet words and
gentle touches go a long way with someone starved for affection. You and I both
know what he’s doing, but she still sees him as the nicer of the available
evils.”
“And so it begins?”
“Yes,” Sister agreed, walking around
the frozen duo to look at them from a different angle. “We couldn’t do anything
at the conception, because without Roane in the womb there is no experiment.
Nothing could be done during the argument with her parents because—”
“She hadn’t done anything yet to harm
the baby,” Brother completed her sentence.
Again, she nodded. “This is when
Roane’s troubles began. Giving birth to an eight week premature addicted infant
is not recommended.”
“Okay,” Brother said.
Sister walked through the frozen
people to his side, taking his hands. “Yes?”
He removed a hand from hers and
cupped her jaw in his palm. “It will make you happy?”
She nodded even more rapidly this
time. “Yes…yes it would. I want to know.”
“Then we will learn together.”
***
They stood in the hallway an hour
earlier when Maggie ran down the stairs and swung around the landing to crash
into Greg.
“Whoa, why’re you crying?” he asked.
“I… I don’t…” she stumbled on her
words.
Brother leaned over, whispering in
her ear, “I’m sorry, I must leave now.”
Maggie stopped babbling and looked at
Greg with glossy eyes. “I’m sorry, I must leave now.”
Greg shook his head. “I don’t think
that’s a good idea, why don’t you come up and I’ll make you some hot cocoa.”
“No. I have to go,” Maggie firmly
repeated the words murmured to her.
Sister grabbed her upper arm and
guided her easily around Greg, and she ran down the next flight of stairs just
like she did the first set.
When she exited the slum apartments,
she immediately turned to the left—the way she would go to catch the subway to
home.
“Go right,” Sister informed her, and
Maggie did a one-eighty and headed in the opposite direction.
She followed the directions
beautifully, and before she knew it was at the doorstep of Caring Courage—a
non-profit organization that helped abused women escape from their lives and
start new ones.
“Um…” Maggie took a step back,
shaking her head. “No…this isn’t right…”
Brother looked over, but Sister was
no longer standing with them. He crossed his arms and waited.
A plain brown haired mousy woman
walked out the front door, followed by Sister. She quickly descended the half
dozen steps and approached Maggie. “Perfect timing, I just made some coffee,
would you like a cup?” She reached her hand out to Maggie.
“I’m not one of those women,” she
stated, gesturing to the building in general.
The woman smiled at her, and her
plain looks disappeared, her eyes shone and her smile welcomed. “You don’t have
to be anyone but who you are to accept coffee, promise.”
Maggie tentatively took the offered hand,
and they ascended the steps together, disappearing into the building.
To be cont’d…
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Okay, now you have me hooked. How will this 'experiment' change Roane's life? It will be interesting to find out.
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