The weather was generally very hot, and I was glad I was not on one of the crowded troopships.As we turned at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and bega... another week of sailing, this time northward, I was taken to one of the ships that carried General Howe's horses. The sailors called their ship a ketch, and it held three large pens of horses, all in various states of distress. I was a replacement for several men who had died or had fallen or been kicked overboard. A half dozen cavalrymen or. .. My wrists hurt so bad from the thin plastic strap around them. It all hurt so bad. Then he finally let go of my scarf. I fell forward as he started to slap me hard. And not with his hands this time, but his belt :o Fuck it hurt and I squealed and cried, and he got just harder and harder on my ass. I was breathing heavily as he grabbed his big hands around my neck and started to choke me out again ... -"Fuck, I should rip your head off for being so cute! Men shouldn't be cute, fucking faggot.. Birgit turned, gave Kara a ‘do NOT bother me’ look, then turned back to Felipe.Jessica and I exchanged a look and both of us fought mightily to not burst out laughing as Felipe mimicked Birgit’s look with a smirk.“Birgit Elizabeth!” Kara said firmly. “Right now! And YOU Felipe, do NOT encourage her!”“That kid does NOT need any encouragement to be a pistol,” Sensei Jim said quietly from behind me.“No shit,” I replied quietly.Felipe grinned sillily, in a way that only a grandfather could, and. I KNOW YOU’RE IN THERE!” came a shout from the other side of the firmly locked door to her home. She remained silently defiant, her chest moved slowly as she tried to breathe and not make a sound.She could hear feet shuffle as the person behind the door became increasingly impatient at her defiance towards him. Then once again “LOOK LOVE, BE REASONABLE, IT HAS BEEN 2 MONTHS NOW!” she had not paid her rent as money had been tight since her father died and left her in so much debt, her mother.