This is Chapter 5 of a nine chapter story. In Chapter 4, Nancy and Billie Jean get it on. The sex is so good, that it rocks Nancy's world. She begins to question her previously never questioned lifelong belief that she is straight. But the beauty and serenity of the afterglow from her time with Billie Jean is ruined when Mike puts on a video of Nancy's undoing in Indiana, when she was known as the Slut of Brown County. She returns home devastated, only to discover Diego has stalked her and is at her apartment, ready to resume their "relationship." Perhaps in part to reassure herself as to her sexual orientation, they end up having a second "one night stand."
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The next day, even though it was Sunday, I reported for work. I worked at one of the nice hospitals on the East Side of Manhattan. It was a long subway ride and to save time I wore my nursing outfit under a light coat. People are sick all week long of course, so nurses have to come in when they are needed, which is most of the time!
Luckily it was a busy day. I was kept running around and had no time to think about Mike, Al, Billie Jean and the restaurant. I began to suspect some force of nature that constantly shoved Billie Jean into my life.
Not that it was a bad thing: I had come to like Billie Jean. A lot.
It was two weeks later, and I had not heard from Mike. Well, I thought, it was fun while it lasted, although it was certainly bizarre at Al's palace on Park Avenue. But now I guess it was over. I would probably never see him again. It made me sad; I guess I had fallen for him. Hard. Well, too bad, I thought. I was working intensive care. There was no time for idle ruminations; I had to pay attention.
I had just been wondering whatever happened to Billie Jean, whom I also had not seen for two weeks, when suddenly she appeared as a patient. She was moved to my floor after her entry to the emergency room. Being in intensive care after the ER was not a good sign. Billie Jean was too young I figured to have had heart problems; it had to be something else. Perhaps it was a car accident?
Billie Jean was out, dead to the world (bad phrase for a nurse, I know) as the orderly wheeled her in. I read her chart. She had alcohol poisoning and had been seriously beaten. She had endured a bad cut below her left breast. She had almost bled out. She had lost 4 pints of blood, and that's close to a fatal loss. She had been found just in time. (She had been found curled up, naked, in an alley on the Upper East Side.) She had been shackled and starved over an extended period. She was full of semen, both inside her and on her body, and she was suspected of having been raped.
I stood there in shock. I had left her happy with Mike and Al on Friday night only two weeks earlier. What could have happened to her? I lurked near her room as much as possible to see what was happening. Two hours later a doctor emerged from her room. I knew him: He was Dr. Goldsmith, one of the best all-around doctors in the hospital, according to the opinion of the nurses.
He left the room, saw me, and told me to follow him. I did, of course. We went out to where two police detectives were waiting. Introductions were made. Dr. Goldsmith led the three of us into the room with Billie Jean. The second bed in the room was empty. They had already done the rape kit. Semen had been saved for possible DNA testing. They did not know who she was. Apparently, she had no ID with her.
"I know the patient," I said. Six eyes swiveled and looked at me. Dr. Goldsmith looked quite surprised. "I met her at the women's march down in DC three weeks ago. I ran into her again in NY in a restaurant, where she was with her 'sugar daddy.' Her name is Billie Jean Stallworth. She hails from Louisiana, I believe."
"Well this is a stroke of luck," the lead detective said. "What else can you tell us?"
"Can't you wait until she wakes up and ask her?" I asked.
Dr. Goldsmith looked at me tenderly. Gently, he said, "Nancy, read her chart. She may not wake up."
I fainted but only for an instant; as I fell the lead detective caught me, his hand brushing my boobs. He subtly felt me up as he righted me. What is it with men, I thought to myself? Get over it; they're just mammary glands.
I began to cry. I had already seen too much death. I like Billie Jean. I remembered so vividly how she kissed me and how she fondled my boobs. I remembered how she tasted of a mixture of alcohol and tobacco, the smell of her hair, and her soft manner of speaking. I even loved her accent, and the trite way she would say "honey chile." She was so alive; she lived hard, more than most people ever do, I thought.
Please wake up, I thought. Please come back to us. I silently said a prayer for her.
The two detectives led me away to interview me. I told them everything: I told them of Mike, the restaurant, the taxi, and most of all of Al's apartment, and how I abandoned Billie Jean to the two men (and the hot and cold running servants). I told them of our lesbian sex show for the men. I even told them of Clovis and the video, and why I walked out, never to see any of the three of them again.
The two detectives looked stunned. I inferred that most people would not readily contribute all those humiliating and degrading sexual details. But I wanted to help to find the villains who did this to my sweet Billie Jean. I figured telling the whole truth, telling everything, was the best way to help.
But there was another reason I revealed so much of my sexual history. It was perverse, to be sure. I actually enjoyed shocking the two detectives with the tales of my wild sexual antics. One of the detectives was cute, and he tried not to show it, but he looked at me with sexual interest. I had some fun. I idly wondered if I made them hard. When we all stood, I saw that indeed I had. I smiled.
The detectives thanked me and left. I had asked them who had brought Billie Jean into the ER? A local merchant had found her and called the police. Two cops responded and they found her naked and unconscious in an alley and they called for an ambulance. How horrible!
Not knowing what to do, I sent a text to Mike, letting him know "our friend" Billie Jean was unconscious in intensive care in the hospital. He wrote back right away, and said he was coming over to the hospital. I texted back that it was pointless; she was in intensive care, and unless he was family, he could not visit. But maybe he could let Al know the news?
Mike did not reply to the suggestion re Al. Well, I could not think about it, because we had an emergency, one of those 'all hands on deck' emergencies. It was an exhausting day. When my shift was over I was too tired to change. I decided to go home in my nurse's outfit. It was certainly not the first time I had been too tired to change for the trip home.