Ellie didn’t know how many strokes she had received. She just knew it must be lots and lots as the pain engulfed her. The stinging was more intense ...han she had expected, certainly much more than when she had been disciplined at the correctional centre. She knew more now, much more than when she first entered the centre of course, and she knew Katherine was close-by. Watching her. The pain though was greater than she had expected by a long long way. Enough for her to be crying out loud, not. ‘Thing about stains,’ he said, ‘is they don’t change anything. You can spill blood on raw silk, but it’ll always be raw silk.’ He waited a beat or two to see if she was going to reply, but she didn’t. He started the car and spun back on the road. ** The air almost felt cool by three in the morning. It wafted through the open window of Hayden’s hotel room, but sleep was eluding him with a deliberate vengeance. The whole day had become a repeating loop in his mind of those ten, surreal minutes in. We knew a person who was going to ANOTHER COUNTRY! We shimmered with our newfound self-important self-image.Right about the third week of November, our church bulletin announced a Christmas Social for the teenagers in church, to be held the second week of December.My folks dropped a couple of hints about my going, and maybe Cindy would like to go. I ignored them. The hints became more like suggestions, and the suggestions more like interfering in my life.Still, I was silently enamored of her.. She’d pulled trains before, but had never hadmore than one guy on her at the same time. On to the Story! Jessie’s First Sandwich Jessie was slowly becoming my girlfriend, rather than awhore that I fucked along with the rest of the house.She still fucked other guys from time to time, but shewas no longer the drunk girl being passed around atevery party. We spent time together, got to know eachother, and began to fall in love. This was nice for a while, but I had, after all, fallenin.