Karen was to scared to do anything else and shook her head yes and then begged in a soft whisper, “Please let me go. Sob…sob… Please……….”
Darrell let her go and Karen ran to her house. She stopped on the front porch for a moment or two to compose her self. Then remembering Darrell’s warning about not saying anything to anyone, she opened the door, and made a beeline up the stairs toward her room as she yelled to her parents, “Mom… Dad… I’m home. I’m tired and am going to bed.” She then ran up the stairs and to her room.
Karen went into her room, closed and locked her door and undressed. Noticing the blood and cum stains on her dress, she took the dress into the bathroom and rinsed out all of the stains, hoping that her mother wouldn’t notice anything when she took the dress to the cleaners. She then took off her panties and buried them in the trash which she planned on taking out to the outside trash at the first opportunity the next morning. She noticed thankfully that there had not been any bruising on her face other than a split inside her lower lip that wasn’t too noticeable, but the bites and bruises on here breasts, she noticed, would take a while to disappear and she hoped that her mom wouldn’t notice. She knew if she played her cards right, she might be able to actually hide her rape from her mom and dad. She didn’t have any friends at school to worry about. The only thing that continued to haunt her was the thought that she might get pregnant. She hoped that by some miracle that she didn’t get pregnant after just one time. Karen then lay down on her bed and silently cried herself to sleep.
Karen was able to put on a tremendous act over the weekend and her parents never realized what had happened to their precious little girl. She acted as if she had the most wonderful time, which in reality she did up until Darrell raped her, and told them everything about the evening with the exception that she led them to believe that Darrell brought her straight home from the dance. She blocked out of her mind the fact that she had been raped.
The following Monday at school went as normally as could be expected. Darrell kept his promise and had not said anything to anyone about Karen. She hoped that at that point this was the end of it and she would not have to see Darrell again.
After a couple of weeks as a matter of fact, everything seemed to be going her way. A month later at the end of May things got even better as she graduated from her high school as valedictorian. She gave what everyone said was a good speech. They congratulated her on her speech and her accomplishments at such a young age. The newspaper even did an article on her. She also had received a letter of acceptance to Harvard along with a full ride scholarship. In short Karen was on top of the world and felt as if everything was going her way. If she would have stopped to think, she would have realized that she had missed her period earlier. But things were so hectic that she didn’t even think about it.
She had a wonderful sixteenth birthday party on the 8th of June and celebrated with the family. Her parents had invited their siblings families and she got to spend some quality time with her cousins, Krystal, Nika and 10 year old first cousin Jasmin, whom she loved dearly. It was a wonderful birthday and at 16 she felt she was ready to take on the world. All thoughts of the rape had been forced so far to the back of her mind that she never even thought of it anymore.
During the second week in June, around the 12th, her world came to a crashing halt. Karen’s period didn’t start on time. She feared what that meant and realized that she hadn’t had a period since the night she was raped. She didn’t want to be pregnant. She didn’t want to have to tell her parents. She absolutely didn’t know what to do if she was, but she had to know. She went to the drug store and bought an early pregnancy test. She went home immediately and took the test. She waited in the bathroom the appropriate amount of time and then with closed eyes took a deep breath trying to calm herself and holding the test stick in front of her and opened her eyes. The results showed a little blue cross indicating the test was positive. All of the worry and memories of the rape came flooding back to her. She wailed in despair and collapsed to the floor, sitting down hard. She just sat there in a daze staring at the test results.
That is how her mother found her two hours later when she came home from work. When her mother came home, she had called out for Karen but didn’t get an answer. When she went searching to see if she was all right, she walked in to the bathroom and saw Karen sitting there focused on something in her hand. She couldn’t quite tell what it was, but from the catatonic state that Karen was in she suspected. It was definitely something that was obviously bothering Karen. She stepped closer and the pregnancy test came into few. Her heart sank as she saw that the test was positive. Karen had gotten herself pregnant. She immediately yelled, “How could you. You are nothing but a little whore of Babylon. That is why we didn’t want you to go to that stupid dance but you insisted. You just aren’t ready to make good decisions about sex and this is the result. You are nothing but a filthy little tramp.” When she finished screaming at Karen she turned and stormed out of the room and Karen just returned to sobbing and starring at the positive test as if starring at it would make it change to negative.
When Karen’s father got home a few minutes later he briefly talked to his wife and found out she had not gotten Karen’s side of the story. He went up to her room where he proceeded to yell at her and berate her just as his wife had done saying. “Well look what you’ve done now you tramp. We told you not to parade yourself around and teasing the boys. We told you that nothing good would come from you going to that dance. But you insisted that nothing would happen to you if you went and that if you could be graduating high school then you should be able to handle a chaperoned school dance. Now look at you. You enticed that good young man into having sex with you by dressing up in that sluttish outfit you wore and now you’re paying the price.” After about 15 minutes of berating her, he finally calmed down enough that he asked her to tell him how it happened.
Karen then tried to explain, “When the dance was over, Darrell took me to a hotel and tried to get me to go in but I refused. We argued and argued and finally he got back in the car and I thought he was going to take me home. I didn’t notice until too late that he drove to the woods where he raped me. Waaaaaaaa Sob……sob…sob….” She began crying again before she could get any further.
Her parents, especially her dad, just couldn’t/wouldn’t believe that as happy as she had seemed the day immediately after the Prom, that she had been raped. Her dad said, “If he raped you, then why didn’t you tell us that night. You acted so happy the next day that we can’t believe that you’re telling us the truth. You’re obviously lying to deflect your whorish behavior from yourself. I won’t hear any more lies from you. Now tell me, how many boys you have had sex with you whore of Babylon”
Karen squeaked out in misery, “Just Darrell……Sob…sob…sob.”
Her mom spoke up and said, “Well for now just go to your room and stay there. We won’t do anything until we find out for sure at the doctor’s tomorrow morning.
Karen’s mom and dad took off from work the next day and accompanied Karen to the doctor’s office. As expected, the test came back positive. Once they got home from the doctor’s office, Karen’s dad called Darrell’s parents and asked them to come over for dinner that night as they had something very important to discuss. They agreed to be there at 7:00 pm.
Now Darrell’s parents were some of the nicest people that you could know on first appearance. Both appeared to be religious and were a gentle and soft spoken couple, almost the exact opposite of Darrell who tended to be a bit of a braggart. After a dinner where Karen sat and ate looking as if it was her last meal before going to the electric chair, they all sat down in the living room to discuss the situation. Her mom and dad were in easy chairs while Nancy and John Mitchell were on the love seat together. Karen and Darrell sat on the couch at opposite ends from each other. Karen looked like she was about to be sent to the gallows. Tears were streaming down her face. She had been told by her mom and dad that she wasn’t to say anything.
Karen’s Dad explained, “John and Nancy… The reason we asked you here is because yesterday we found out that Karen was pregnant. We know for a fact that she has only dated Darrell and base on what she has told us, we believe he is the father. Apparently she enticed him to have sex with her at the prom. You know how hard it is for a boy to resist the wiles of an evil woman. But since he is the only boy she has dated I ask that he do the honorable thing and marry Karen and take care of her and the baby.
Darrell’s dad explained, “Of my three children, Darrell, the youngest of the three always did seem to cause the most discipline problems. We agree that if he is the father that he should do the right thing and marry Karen. I can’t promise anything at this point because he is nineteen and an adult. We need to discuss this tonight and let you know tomorrow if that is all right. By the way, what does Karen think of this?”
As Karen began to speak up to say she could never marry Darrell her father broke in ahead of her and said, “If he is the father, she’ll marry him and that’s final. I will not have my daughter having a bastard child. She doesn’t have a choice in the matter. That’s something she should have thought about before getting herself pregnant.”
Late the next morning, Darrel’s parents called and said that Darrell had agreed to marry Karen. They decided to get together again that night with the two kids there and discuss the arrangements for the wedding. Karen’s dad hung up the phone and went straight to Karen’s room. When he opened the door he found her lying on the bed crying. He said, “Your worries are over now. Darrell has agreed to marry you. They’ll be here tonight and we’ll iron out the details. Now get a hold of yourself and clean up so you look presentable for you fiancé tonight. You will accept his hand in marriage and I expect you to love and obey him. The bible says you are his help meat and I expect you to obey him without question. You must submit yourself to him as your lord and provider. You will support all of his decisions for you and your child or your mother and I will disown you.” Karen looked at her father as if he had just landed from Mars but didn’t say a word to him. She turned over and buried her head in her pillow and began bawling again even louder and harder than before as she saw all of her dreams of a future being dashed against the rocks.
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