Prologue: "NWMD!" identifies this as a part of the "Not With My Daughter!" series of adventures befalling Marnie, her friends and family. Each stand-alone part derives from the initial story where a man named Larcher under the threat of unleashing his son on Marnie's daughter, Brenda, blackmails and humiliates Marnie. This is a part that would pass the age submission guideline. If you want to read these in the order that I wrote them, feel free to contact me or visit my site. Others to follow. Please enjoy.
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"Roger, Honey, Brenda should have been home hours ago. She left from the picnic before we did, and we've been home several hours. What should we do?" Marnie said, beside herself with worry.
"They probably stopped for something along the way. If she doesn't show up in the next half an hour, we'll call, and report it, okay?" He said, trying to disguise his own worry from his wife.
As Roger gave her a hug, the front door opened, Brenda walked in, slammed the door, and went straight upstairs, with a curt, "Hi."
"I'll go upstairs and see what's eating her." Roger said.
Marnie sat down in the living room staring anxiously at the bottom rung of the stairs, which was all she could see of it from there. "Oh no, what if they told her about me! Oh god, what if they did the same to Her! Oh what am I going to do? What is going to become of us?" Marnie thought, torturously wringing a side pillow, sniffling back tears. "The clock on the mantle, it never made that ticking sound out loud before, did it? Oh, what is taking them so long?"
As Roger entered the living room, Marnie got up and reached for him. "Is she okay?"
"Of course she's okay. Why would you ask that? Don't you want to know why it took them so long to get back?" He said.
"Yes, that's what I meant. What happened to her, them, that took them so long to get back?" She asked clinging on his every breath.
"Well, Mr. Larcher, Sr. needed to check in with his crew chief at the office, he works at our building you know, and showed her around the place. That's something I should have done a long time ago. Where has the time gone? I never even had the time to show my own daughter the ins and outs of where I work. I guess I was just too busy or maybe she just wasn't that interested in . . ." He was saying until Marnie cut his pining short.
"Did she seem upset, angry, withdrawn, anything unusual, when she talked to you?" Marnie interrupted.
"No just frustrated that it took so long to get home, I think. But, now I'm beginning to worry about you. You were acting concerned about Brenda earlier, and now you're acting like you believe something bad has happened to her. Are you all right?" He asked.
"Do you think I should go talk to her?" Marnie said, looking around his shoulder at the stairs.
"Suit yourself. She's fine, really. Why don't you relax a bit. You're the one that had the eventful day. I'm concerned about how stressed out you've been getting these days. Why don't we go straight to bed and warm each other up, so we can sleep nice and cozy. Sound good?"
"That always sounds good, Dear. I suppose it can wait until morning."
"That's my girl."
The next morning Marnie awoke to find Brenda rummaging around in Marnie's walk-in closet. She was leaving out the door with a pair of her mother's high-heels and a couple of her more slinky dresses. Then Marnie woke up completely, realizing that Brenda was leaving her room with some of her things. Now was a good time to have that talk with her. Roger was asleep, so instead of calling out to her, and risk awakening him, Marnie got up, peed, grabbed a light robe, and went looking for her. Brenda was no longer upstairs so Marnie went down and found her on the front porch with the items in a paper grocery sack, that had been placed in a plastic grocery bag so it could have handles.
Marnie confronted her with, "What do you think you are doing with my things, and without asking first?"
"Oh, you were asleep. I didn't want to wake you." Brenda answered matter-of-factly.
"What is that supposed to mean, and what are you doing out here?" Marnie asked, worried, concerned, and annoyed.
"I'm being picked up for a photo shoot. I'll have these back to you early this afternoon."
Marnie nearly fainted. This was so unexpected. "Let me see what you have in here." She said as she pulled out the garments and found the heels at the bottom. You're not taking these to be photographed in. What are you taking about? Why are you doing this? Who's doing this shoot? What is it for?" Marnie said peppering the questions at her.
"Geesh! You don't even give me a chance to answer. Oh, here's my ride, gotta go." She said as, she took the garments back from Marnie, who was now frozen in a trance of horror seeing the Larcher mobile pull across the driveway.
Marnie didn't snap to until Brenda was almost at the car. "Brenda! Wait!" She said running after her.
Brenda was in the car sitting down in the back when Marnie reached her. "Brenda get out of there this instant." Marnie said as the car started to pull away with the door open that she was holding.
Marnie jumped in and closed the door so she would not fall out of the accelerating car. In her hasty entrance, her mid-thigh robe and short nightie were scrunched all the way up her legs and she found herself bare bottomed in the filthy back seat on some old magazines with naked women featured in them.
"Stop this car this instant! This instant I tell you! You're not going anywhere with my daughter! Do you hear me? Right now!" Marnie screamed, red-faced, the veins in her neck and temples throbbing.
"Nice to see you too, Missy." Larcher teased.
"Where are you taking us." Marnie said more reasonably, recognizing how much power she actually had in the situation.
"We're headed to the beach to catch the sun before it gets too high in the sky. But don't worry," he said, looking over his shoulder at her trying to pull her robe down and unstick the magazines from her bottom, "you'll fit right in."
"What do you have planned there?" Marnie continued with cautious anticipation.
"We're going to capture some sun for photos, Missy. We'll take some of you too, now that you're here."
"Don't give me that. You're not a photographer. Turn around now, this is illegal. You'll be put away for this, you pervert." Marnie fought back.
Missy, Missy, Missy. Such language in front of Brenda, and so belligerent too. Don't you think you owe me an apology?" Larcher said calmly, knowing how it would torment her.
"Let us out of here now you Bastard. This is kidnapping." She accused.
"I didn't ask you to get in this car. You forced yourself in. Here, you can get out." He said, as he pulled over to the curb in front of a large cathedral taking in parishioners for the early service.
Marnie was about to get out. "Come on Brenda, you're coming with me."
"No Mom, this is my chance."
"Larcher, what is the meaning of this? What are you planning to do with Brenda, my child?"
"Mom, I'm not a child, I am a woman. I have breasts like you, I have pubic hair like you, and I can have babies. That makes me a woman like you, only Walter tells me I'm better looking."
Larcher smiled.
"Brenda, Honey, you don't know what you are saying. You are still a child. You are turning into a beautiful young woman, yes, but you are still only a child right now, nevertheless. Come with me now." She said, holding out her hand to Brenda, opening the door, and stepping one foot out. She pulled it back in when she got stares from the couples passing on their way to church. "Larcher, can't you let us off some place else?"
"Missy. You want out? Get out. Otherwise, you're riding with me. Get it?"
Marnie pulled the door shut, folded her arms, pouted a second, and said, "Brenda, Honey, you don't know what you are doing."
Larcher drove off.
"Brenda, tell me, what do you think you are doing with this man?"
"Walter said he has connections. He's going to get me a modeling contract. If I'm lucky, maybe even a spot in a movie."
Oh god, Brenda, don't! This isn't the sort of thing for you. Believe me."