Chapter Sixteen - Eyes Wide Opened
Tabitha walks the long hall towards the hospital room where she had been told that Lori was. The Young Regan girl’s mind was full of worry for her friend, after the vicious beating she had taken a few short hours ago, but she tried to keep herself calm as she did.
The girl had been up with her the night before, comforting her because Yvonne had simply up and left her. Tabby just wanted to be there and do the same for Lori, as she knew the girl would do it all over again if needed. Lori had proved to be a good friend, she wanted to show how she felt, and return the favor.
Lori was just putting down the phone when Tabby came in. The blond girl smiled from her bed on seeing her friend come in to the room.
" How are you feeling?" Tabby asked shakily, coming straight over to Lori’s bedside.
Lori nodded tiredly, her face seemed also held the air of being sad for some reason.
" I’ve felt better... but I think I am alright." She said breaking a small smile. " The doctor said their was no internal injuries, but I would be bruised up quite badly. I can go home in a little while, they said too"
" Bruised? Even... down there?" Asked Tabby with a shy smile, knowing the private nature of where she had been injured in.
The blonde girl laughed nervously at the directness of the question.
" Let me put it this way..." She smirked a little"... it was an adventure trying to pee awhile ago."
" I bet!" Laughed Tabby, joining her friend in mirth.
The laughter subsided, and Tabby could see that the girl seemed to be still very troubled at the moment.
" Have you got a hold of your parents yet?" She asked, not knowing what else to ask.
" That was them on the phone..." The girl started. " They said after they first heard, they wanted me to go back to Haven for the rest of the summer to be safer, since they can’t get away from the movie shoot."
" At first?" Tabby asked, looking at the girl with a question in her mind. " They changed their minds?"
Lori nodded, and looked at her friends surprised look.
" I guess your father talked to them before I did, and assured them that your security will be beefed around the estate. That means that as long as I am comfortable with it... they are going to let me stay for the summer still."
" And are you?"
" Yes." Was Lori’s answer.
Tabby nodded, happy to hear that bit of news, but still saw a very dejected look on Lori’s face. She knew that there was something more going on inside of the girl than what she was telling.
" Your still scared, aren’t you?" Tabby said.
" Yes." She replied. " I just cant..." Her words trailed off right there.
The brown haired girl suddenly had an idea of just what Lori might be sad over.
" It’s not just the beating and the other, is it?" She asked with a confident question. " It is that boy’s words to you and Melody."
" Was that the maid’s name? Melody?"
" It is... She was downstairs getting checked out by a doctor too... my Dad is making sure she is ok, and will send her back to the Estate first." Tabby answered, then got serious. "That is her name... that jack-ass boy’s words that are really disturbing you, isn’t it?"
Lori bowed her head, after giving a nod of her head.
" Its clearly reminded me that life away from Haven is way more different..." She said. " It reminds me that my old friends might not understand, not to mention..." Her words trailed off.
Tabby looked at her friend, having more of a idea of just what the girl was trying to explain.
" I had forgotten you have not come out to too many people yet." She said, filling in the blanks quickly. " Living at Haven for over a year, you might not have had the chance to do that yet."
" Not even to my parents know I am a lesbian..." Lori admitted, her face so downcast. " I think they will be alright with it, at least I truly hope so... but some of my old friends would not be as ready to accept me."
" Being at Haven, it is different... We accept the homosexual thing more readily, I suppose." The girl said, knowing more of just what the girl was trying to say. " Even I was hit in the face by the words, and really reminded how intolerant the world is still towards girl’s loving girls."
" Then what am I going to do, when I need to say something to my family?" She said. " I cant see myself hiding it all my life."
Tabby just stroked her friend’s cheek, in an attempt to sooth the jangled nerves the girl clearly had.
" When your ready to tell your parents, tell them... the rest of your friends and other family members can wait." She said simply. " Your true friends will not care once you say it... remember that."
" It does not seem that easy." Pointed out Lori. " I admit, I have felt this way for years. I just had to accept the fact I am gay. Now the thing about telling people is even tougher."
" It is not easy... my parents accepted it only after a very long while..." Admitted Tabby. " It was something that did not take overnight for them, but I am proud to say that they have because they love me. I think your Mom and Dad love you like that too."
Lori nodded, understanding the girl. She watched as Tabby got off the bed and headed to the door.
" I will go see if Melody is alright..." The girl stated. " Then we will get you back to the estate."
" I don’t have any clothes to wear for the ride back, you know..." Said Lori, realizing that fact when the girl brought up leaving. She giggled and continued. " ...And this paper robe is not a fashion statement I want to show off."
" I took the time to get something for you to wear from your guest house." Smiled the girl. " I knew your other clothes were... shredded."
Lori nodded and thanked the girl for her foresight, much to her relief. The Regan girl shrugged and smirked at the blonde girl.
" I am organized... sometimes!" Tabby nodded with a small giggle of impishness, then left the room.
With the room silent again, the young blonde girl just layed back, feeling a little more at ease than she did. It still hung in her mind, but it did not feel so weighty any longer. She closed her eyes and waited for the doctor to come in for the last time before being released.
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A few hours later, found Lori back in the now familiar surroundings of the little house on the Regan Estate. It was almost like coming home to her, and still held a little bit of fear from the attack too.
Laying in her bed, as the doctor had requested her to do, she watched the television as she followed the simple prescription set out by the medical professionals. It was one that she was in no position to argue with, simply because every part of her ached..
Because of her injuries, she had went to bed wearing nothing other than the sheet to cover herself. Even though she usually did sleep naked anyway, she was sort of glad that was her practice, underwear would really hurt right now considering the wild lad used her for kicking practice on her womanhood area, not to mention the ribs and her jaw that he also had attacked. She was one big bruise.
She felt sleepy with all the pain medication she was on, along with the fact that she had stayed up with Tabby all night long did not help things. Her eyes were drooping closed, and she felt like she might fall asleep at any moment. She was not going to fight that, as she was just plainly tired, planning do just lightly doze for awhile.
She had been dozing for awhile, when a small noise woke her. She opened her eyes, reflexively pulling up the sheet to hide her state of undressed to whom ever it was that came in.
She saw the young maid from the incident standing there just outside the bedroom doorway, looking at her with great nervousness. The girl was dressed in a t-shirt and jeans, her hair flowing around her head unlike the ponytail she had earlier. She was prettier than what Lori had remembered.
" Am I disturbing you, Miss Brentwall?" She asked politely, with a shy half smile.
" I was just napping..." Lori said looking at the girl. Even with everything, she found odd tinge of attraction towards the girl almost the instant she had looked at the young girl.
" I could go and come back later, Miss Brentwall."
Lori sat herself up in bed, still clutching the sheet around her. She calmed herself from the initial emotions she felt, and looked at the girl.
" Come on in, Melody..." She said, feeling herself blushing a little. " I don’t mind one bit, other than the ‘Miss Brentwall’ thing. It’s Lori."
Melody stepped in to the room, and stood fairly close to the bed, her hands tightly clutched together in front of her.
" I came to see how you were..." She began, her nervousness now really showing. " and to thank you in person."
Lori felt herself blushing even harder, as the girl’s light hazel eyes caught her own. She felt herself shiver a little, then her sore body complained over that involuntary reaction. She realized the instant attraction she was having to the lass.
" What else could I do?" Was the answer she gave, feeling dumb with the plain answer right after it had passed her lips.
" It was brave of you to do that." She said, then stood up a little straighter. " That is why I am here. I have asked Mr. Regan if I could be your maid while you’re here, at least until you heal a little."
The blond girl was shocked by what the girl had asked her. She knew that the girl was also traumatized, like her, yet here she was, wanting to work.
" You have gone through something horrible too..." Began Lori, knowing that the girl was in shock at this point. " You don’t have to do that... you were being raped. You should be taking time off to help yourself."
The girl stepped even closer to Lori’s bed, almost touching it with her legs. She leaned over and took the blonde’s hand in hers and looked right at the milky white face that was bruised with great confidence. Lori’s whole body shivered when her hand touched Melody’s. The attraction was growing stronger.
" It would help me to work a little... and I just want to do it for you." She said, her voice never once quivering. " Please Miss Brent... er... Lori... let me help you. It is the least I can do."
Melody sat down on the edge of the bed, and looked down at the battered face of Lori with a angelic look on her. She smiled at the blonde girl , and stroked her face tenderly.
" After what you have done, I just want to really be there for you." The maid said.
" You don’t have to, you know." Re-stated Lori.
Suddenly, the pretty young maid leaned over and her lips touched the swollen lips of Lori’s. The girl’s lips tasted like strawberry lip gloss, and it made young Lori shiver a little bit. The kiss was lighter than any Lori had ever felt, and took her by complete surprise. Her passion rising, Lori began to kiss the girl right back, ignoring the small bit of pain that accompanied it. Her heart was racing, finding herself just wanting to wrap herself around the pretty girl that was kissing her.
For long moments, the two hung there as one, their kiss the only contact between them but that held as heat in itself. They parted lips and looked at one another, their breathing heavy and fast.
" I will see you later then, after I change into one of my work outfits." Said Melody, her cheeks reddened but her eyes twinkling. " You need anything, just use the intercom on the phone and dial star twenty three."
" Uh, yeah." Gasped Lori, flustered by the lip-lock that was just thrown on her.
In a instant, the young maid got up and quickly walked out of the room. Lori could hear a little titter of a giggle from Melody, as she hurried out of the small house. Lori just layed there in shock, her mind flying a mile a minute, trying to grasp what had just happened.
She touched her lips, realizing that she could still taste the Strawberry gloss on them. She felt her body tingling, and not from the pain for the moment. Something deep inside of her, had been ignited. Something she had not felt this strongly in weeks.
Lori’s mind flashed to the last time she had made love with Megan, only a few weeks now passed. She still missed her tall beauty, but now she was conflicted with the emotions that flew around in her.
" What have I done?" She asked herself, still unsure of just what happened.
In the quiet of the room, she clutched the covers around her naked form and tried to make sense of it all. To her surprise, she could feel her still sore womanhood actually getting wet, and tingling with urges she has suppressed even when she had been with Pasha. These ones, she was not reluctant to let loose.
She just did not know how to deal with it all, but she also felt a tinge of urge to have the pretty thing try it again. Confusion, mixed with the other things in her mind made her not know what to do even more.