Chapter 2: Eyewitness to a Bang
"This could be more brutal than we want to admit."
Marsha stirred the cream in her coffee once as she nodded at the truth in Holly's words. She shrugged and looked across the table at her best friend as she said, "The price of stupidity."
"That she was," Holly nodded, finishing off her coffee. "What a dumb bitch. Forty year old woman, schoolteacher woman, pops the cherry of a seventeen year old boy and expects him not to tell his mother? Momma goes berserk. What was she thinking?"
"Yeah," Marsha nodded, still thinking, "but no way she could have figured this would be the cost."
"What?" Holly laughed. "You think Momma would have thanked her? Either way she was going to pay."
"True," Marsha nodded again. "What a choice. Have your career destroyed by letting it out she's a child molester or consent. Consent to all takers. Yeah, this could get real brutal.
"We're going why, again?"
"We're Barb's friends, baby," Holly said quietly, glancing at the clock. "She did wrong, but we're her friends. Somebody's going to have to clean up the mess. The aftermath. To get her home. It's supposed to start in about half an hour."
"Maybe we'd better get over there then," Marsha said with another shrug, rising to put her coffee mug in the sink.
"You want to see this?"
Marsha stopped in her tracks as she realized the truth in her heart. She looked at Holly for a moment and then slowly placed the mug on the counter before she quietly said, "Yes."
"You kinky bitch," Holly laughed. "So do I."
The two women laughed hysterically at their own curiosity, snatching their purses and making their way to Holly's car. Two ladies out for an evening's lark but deep in Marsha's soul she wondered. Wondered where it was all heading.
Three months before she'd been such a "good" girl, the happily married woman rapidly approaching fifty. Now she was fifty and she'd had a lover. Not just a lover, a stallion Holly had turned her on to. Three times a week she went to him and let him. Let him do her, do her like a man should. She knew Holly got some now and then but John was her stallion. He made her feel so good, so very good. It was a one man gang bang every time she got into his bed and now she was going to watch a real gang job. Their good friend Barb, stupid Barb, was going to get her brains screwed out and they was going to watch it. Marsha shook her head and realized they were there.
She saw the look Holly gave her as they got out of the car but there wasn't anything to worry about. She wasn't going to try to stop this. Barb had been stupid, she was getting punished. If it would have been her, if it would have been Holly, it didn't matter. You don't go after a kid and expect not to pay. Marsha glanced at the driveway as they walked up the steps and then down the street. Apparently several were more than happy to benefit.
The form of a woman appeared in front of them at the door. Holly and Marsha stopped and looked into the eyes of a wronged mother.
"You're the ones here to get her home or....."
"Her helpers," Holly said with a nod.
The woman stared blankly at them and then turned away without another word. Holly and Marsha followed her through the house to a family room in the back. At least a dozen men and women stood in small groups, enjoying a drink as the stereo returned to the Eighties. The woman strode to the middle of the room, turned slowly once to look at all in attendance and then motioned for the stereo to be turned off.
"The party will now begin," she announced. "As you know, you are here of your own free will. You may leave at any time. While you are here, there are rules.