Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 04:44:18 -0500 From: Tom Cup Subject: Jenny Chapter 7 - Lesbian/Young Friends Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002 by the Paratwa Partnership: A Colorado Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, except in the case of reviews, without written permission from the Paratwa Partnership, Inc, 354 Plateau Drive, Florissant, CO 80816 This is a fictional story involving alternality sexual relationships. If this type of material offends you, please do not read any further. This material is intended for mature adult audiences. Names, characters, locations and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. ************************************************************************ Chapter 7 Awakening The warmth of a hand in mine woke me. I tried to open my eyes but the harshness of the light prevented me. There was something stiff around my wrist and I found I couldn't move. I began crying. She hates me so much, I thought, that she won't even let me die. I felt soft lips on my cheeks. I turned and again tried opening my eyes. It was Sara. "Hi," she whispered, "You made it." I was stunned to be looking into Sara's smiling eyes. I wasn't tied to my bed again at the mercy of Mom. I was in the hospital. It took days for me to piece together what happened. When I didn't answer Sara at the 7-11, Sara guessed that Mom had found me. Sara was afraid that Chad and Tina wouldn't be home for another half hour. She didn't want to wait that long. She called Ms. Carmichael. At first, Ms. Carmichael was reluctant to help. But then Sara told her about the notes. By writing back and forth to Sara, I had given Sara the proof she needed to help me. Chad and Tina arrived home shortly after Tina talked with Ms. Carmichael and drove Sara directly to my house. Ms. Carmichael contacted Social Services and the Police. Mom was quite personable when Tina, Chad and Sara came to the house. Why wouldn't she be? There would be no signs of abuse. Mom smiled and told them that if seeing me would put their minds at ease they were welcome to have a few words with me. I guess Mom thought that with her standing there I would deny everything that I had written; Sara, Tina and Chad would look like fools and Mom would be free to continue her reign of terror. Sara began calling for me. Her voice was the last thing I heard that day. Her face the last vision in my mind. Because of the call to Ms. Carmichael, the police were already on their way. That call saved my life. Sara saved my life. Mom's powers of persuasion were stained by the red flow that emptied into the bath. She tried frantically to convince everyone she didn't know why I would do such a thing. In the end, Sara turned over the letters I had written to the police. Mom was charged with a list of crimes: reckless endangerment, child abuse, assault and a few others. All together she faced ten to fifteen years in prison. She eventually plea-bargained her jail time down to five years with three years suspended. Mom spent less than twenty-two months in prison for all the horror and pain she inflicted on my life. It's how it works I guess. I haven't seen Mom, nor do I wish too, since she was sentenced. I imagine she is quite bitter about how things turned out. I became a ward of the State. During that process, I learned that the insurance money that my Dad left was in a trust fund, in my name. Mom was just the trustee. The state took over the management of the trust fund until I turned twenty-one. I guess dear old Dad gave me the last laugh on Mom after all. Mom wanted to control me so she could control the money. She wanted me broken into submitting to her every will and desire. I can imagine turning twenty-one and being ordered to sign over the assets of the account to Mom. If things had continued along the path they were going, I would have signed, I would have done anything Mom said. What is sad, in the end, is that if Mom had just loved me, I would have taken care of her for the rest of her life. Without access to my money, and because I was no longer bent to her every will and desire, Mom would have to work for a living when she got out of prison. Perhaps that is her greatest punishment. I don't know and I don't really care. I am happy she's out of my life. I was placed in a foster home for close to a year and a half. Tina and Chad jumped through hoop after hoop and finally, between their petitions and my pleas, Judge Everest granted them custody of me. I lived with the Johnsons until Sara and I went away to college. We graduated four years ago and are celebrating our eighth union anniversary in June. I have to laugh. I thought that life for me would always be dark and lonely. I was the ugly duckling whose mother wished that she were never born. It's not that I've been transformed into some beautiful swan that makes me happy. It's that Sara saw something to love in me even when I didn't know it was there. She loved me then and loves me now. I have learned so much in my life thanks to Sara. I've learned not to give up when things appear hopeless. I've learned that there is help for those that cry out for it. I've learned -- thanks to Tina and Chad -- what it's like to have two loving parents. I've learned that beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder. Because of Sara's love for me, I have learned to love myself. Thank you my love. 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