He began to strip my clothes off. He piled them on the floor. He wrapped his hand in my hair as he pushed me to my knees. He walked to his room and re...urned with handcuffs. He brought my arms behind me. I knelt as I sobbed quietly with my head down. I’d angered Daddy and it hurt to see him like that.He sat in his chair as he ignored me. He picked up his phone to order a pizza for dinner. He walked into the kitchen to retrieve a beer and came back to sit in his chair. Being ignored by Daddy was. " When I told Alexandra what you told me about Judy, she started to cry. She said she didn't know and she'd been so mean. Turns out she was one of the girls who had teased her. She's really a sensitive girl most of the time, but she just didn't realize she was hurting someone by going along with the crowd. Now, she kind of leads the crowd and even suggested that they needed a friendship pact."Rhonda finally got to the mounting stump out in the woods. I still didn't like to look over to the tree. I decided I would try to get some rest, even though my mind was still trying to process my conversation from earlier.I had been in bed for about an hour with just a thin sheet on as my mind slowly started ease up and I felt my eyelids getting heavier. Then I heard my doorknob turn.Slowly my door opened and a figure entered. I could see clearly it was Janelle in the dim light of my room. She walked in wearing a long T-shirt that she normally wore to sleep in when she stayed over. ‘You. By the time I got home, I stillhad no ideas.When mom got home, I mentioned it to her in as delicate a way aspossible. To my great surprise, she had also been thinking about it,and had come up with an idea. When she told me I was at firstskeptical, then shaky about letting her try it, but in the end, Iagreed, and she made a quick run to the drugstore, the same one I hadvisited earlier. When she returned, she and I went to my room, a veryfull ice bag in one of her hands, a small plastic bag in.