It was another reason she liked getting out on the trails.As Monday rolled around she decided not to cancel the job interview. The experience would be...worth working without pay. After all it was her field and it would be a valuable experience to have and good resume filler, even if she didn’t get hired on full time. She had half a mind to just let Dorsey down easy when she arrived at the shop, but when she got there she already saw his opening the shop and an old lady was milling through. The lights were quite bright, and I felt horribly vulnerable upthere. Aki grabbed the microphone and flicked through the song choices onthe karaoke machine in front of us. "Do you know this one?" he asked,pointing to Happy by Pharrell Williams on the screen. I nodded, everyoneknows that one.The music started and everyone started to clap. When Aki began to sing, Iwas astounded to find he had a very good voice. I smiled at him and hegestured me to join in. To be honest, I have a decent voice. I was invisible to them.The room numbers were a countdown of sorts as we reached number 2. Whatever life I had with Amanda was about to change. That was the point of the surrender. I remembered everything. The humming from the street lamps. The booming base from the music coming from one of the vehicles parked in lot. Pot smoke billowing from the windows.Amanda knocked on the door. The sounds of high-heeled footsteps behind the door soon followed.Hearing the door unlock, it slowly opened, but. Where do you think you’re going?” he asks. I’m shaking so badly I can hardly move. Then his hand is around my throat as he forcefully turns me to face him. “You were warned. Now I have to punish you.”Dragging me by my hair, and me kicking and begging him not to hurt me, he leads me into the living room. Rips my t-shirt off of me and bends me over the coffee table. Straddling my back he ties each one of my hands to a leg of the table. “You have forced me to do this. If you would have just.