One night Salt lay in bed thinking about the past week. Her mother had actually broke down in tears, surprising Salt, who expected her to scream. Her mother's pitiful existence had pretty much burned out any scintilla of emotion she had, so this display pierced Salt's heart. But how much could she care about a mother who she might see twice a week?
Rumors were rife in school. Rumors about Salt and jail, but nobody really knew what happened. Salt was back in school, after all, so how could the stories going around be true. Then, how could you explain the black town car that delivered Salt and Pepper to school every morning and picked them up after school? She was a little bemused about it, but basically, she didn't need it. Thank God, graduation was just a month away.
Salt had expected to hear from Benjamin and was surprised he hadn't called. She'd been browsing the Internet and Googling
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and, as a result she had some remote idea of how her finger in Ben's ass had brought the dead back to life. Even though she'd expected to hear from him, she lived in the fear being unable to repeat her 'miracle.' And what would he do then? She didn't know whether to be glad or sad that he hadn't contacted her.
Thoughts like this stole her sleep and after a while she got up, and without turning the light on, reached into the closet, found the fur safe and brought out the sable coat. It felt so good, she couldn't help striping her t-shirt and luxuriating in the feeling of the fur against her skin. Her mother was at work, as usual, and she was tempted to call Salt, when she heard a noise outside. Maybe Salt is tuned in to my brain, she thought.
But Salt didn't cause metallic noises at the door when he came to visit. He knew the door lock didn't work if you lifted hard on the door.
NO, SOMEONE WAS OUTSIDE WHO DIDN'T BELONG. Salt hesitated for a moment, not wanting to cry wolf, but the noise of the lock snapping from the pressure of a breaking bar resolved her hesitation and she quickly pushed the emergency button on the phone. She listened for an answer. Then she quickly stuck the phone under the pillow as she heard loud footsteps of men who were making no attempt at stealth as they ransacked the house searching for her bedroom. If she'd been clothed, she might have jumped out through the window, instead she dashed for the closet for the first clothes that came to handβa mistake she would live to regret.
She was trying to calm down enough to put her feet into her jeans when the door to her bedroom burst open with a bang and three men stalked in.
A flashlight searched the wall around the door, zeroed in on the light switch, and then the room flooded with light.
"That's the bitch!" shouted Martin Di Julio. He and the two teamsters with him were hooded and dressed in blue jeans. DiJulio growled, "This is the one who trashed my home and stole my wife's mink. She may have paid off the judge, but she won't be able to wiggle out of giving me satisfaction. Grab her, guys. I'm first," he yelled, confidant nobody in the trailer park would come to her aid, even if they were to hear her cry out.
The two men accompanying him grabbed Salt and threw her down on the bed. "Face down or face up, Boss?" one of them asked.
"Face down." Each of them grabbed a leg to spread her out for the leader, who cackled with maniacal glee as he thrust a finger into her without any attempt to lubricate her delicate vaginal membranes. It burned like fire and Salt screamed. The man laughed as he added a second finger and started to work the two of them around in her sex, enjoying the feeling of her tissues as they ripped and started to bleed.
"Good, she's bleeding. Don't want to hurt my cock, sticking it into a dry hole," he menaced. She felt his fingernails dig into her thighs as he lifted her legs up and pushed his rigid cock into her opening. After the pain of his finger nails, it was almost a relief, but his cock was longer than his fingers and tore up tissue that his fingers weren't able to reach and Salt started to whimper, "Don't, don't, don't."
Suddenly, he pulled out and she felt his ejaculate spraying against her back. That didn't take long, she thought. "Who's next?" she heard. The she was rudely flipped over and a new cock was thrust into her. This wasn't so bad. The damage was done and her blood, though a poor lubricant, was flowing freely. Still, the insult, alone, was humiliating and she knew there was still another to come. And now that she was on her back, she could see that the guy who was now fucking her was an enormously fat slob, and she heard the others laughing and making fun because his gross belly made it hard for him to penetrate her. He had to grab her legs and almost pull them out of their sockets as to pull himself into her.
"The third man already had his cock out and was stoking it. "I'm going to fuck her ass," he bragged.
Where's Pepper? she thought as her eyes frantically searched for help. She was dizzy but with the last flicker of consciousness she saw two shadowy figures creep into the room. Suddenly the head of the man riding her snapped back and his weight collapsed on her, smothering her so she missed the excitement of seeing Pepper and James flailing away on the remaining two men with lead pipes, avoiding their heads, so their enjoyment was uninterrupted by their foes' unconsciousness.
Moments later, the dead weight on top of her was lifted away and Pepper pulled her up into his embrace. "Where were you? What took you so long?" Then it went dark.
Salt floated to consciousness on a pink cloud of light. Her mind tried to understand and gave up. Her eyes opened to peek out into a strange room, sunlight making the drawn curtains glow. She craned her neck to look around and her eyes found Pepper. "Where am I?" she croaked.
"Hospital." Her eyes moved to find Benjamin, standing at the head of the bed, James huddled beside him.
"That's nice," she whispered and faded away.
The next time she awoke, her head felt clear and she immediately tried to sit up, only to be frozen by the pain that radiated from her sex. Any confusion she might have felt was suddenly resolved as recollections of her rape flooded into her mind.
At first she thought the room was empty and she lay there for a while, wondering what next. She saw tape on the inside of her elbows, where IV's had pierced her arms, but they were gone now. Suddenly she felt hungry. "Is anybody there?" she asked. She scanned the room and her eyes finally found the form of her mother, sleeping in a chair in the corner, next to the window.
"Mom?" her voice cracked and her mother didn't stir.
Suddenly the door opened and in walked James, carrying a tray, followed by a doctor, in white.
"By God, Doc, you sure called it right. She is, wide awake."
"No great skill necessary to know that when you withdraw sedation, a patient wakes up, hungry."
"Mom," Salt asked again."
"Let her sleep. She sat up with you all day yesterday and all night," said Benjamin.
Salt was starving, but it took hardly any food at all to fill her.