Listening to her talk about her technical classes, I got the impression that she was quite brilliant, aside from the fact that she was carrying a 4.0 ...rade-point average (GPA). The more I learned, the more I found attractive about her. I was struggling to hang on to my measly 3.7 GPA … she was much smarter than I was. It was into our third month of dating before she invited me up to her dorm room. It was after a movie date, and her roommate Sandy was conveniently spending the night with another. As I got further away from the lighted area only the moon gave me light I could feel my nerves making me shiver.There were some palm trees and I decided to shelter a little as the rain became a little heavier. I walked into their shelter and as I did it became quite dark.“DON’T MAKE A SOUND!” it was an order not a request as a hand slipped over my mouth and I could see the gleam of a knife waving in front of my face.“Please don’t hurt me,” I whimpered through his hand “Just do as I say and we. I know your hurting; we all are. It’ll be okay, Baby; it’ll be okay,” she said as she whispered soothing platitudes into my ears over and over, as I wept and she gently rocked me.After a few minutes of her comforting me and letting me cry out my pain, she stood me up and pulled me into the bathroom behind her. I followed her morosely; my brain was in a funk. I couldn’t think coherently, and I stumbled like an automaton. Amber wet a cloth and washed my face with cool water, then she doused it. The third strike comes quickly after so there is no time for anticipation. I whip the cane and bounce it away quickly to maximize the sting. A dark thin welt begins to rise in a line across your buttocks. I ask you, how many welts can I raise before you let loose of the roll of quarters? A terrifying question. But you hold firmly to the quarters. It turns out you are quite a pain piggy. Slowly, methodically over the next fifteen minutes I apply the cane to your naked flesh, taking long.