”“Too bad. But you need to share your secrets. Willingly. I’d hate to have to beat it out of you.”“I’d like to see you try.”“It’d be...easy,” said Mark from the doorway. I hadn’t noticed him there. “I’d hold you down, and he’d torture you. Simples, like, innit?”After eating in the canteen—the food hadn’t gotten any better during the first week, but I still held out hope—there was time for a shower and shave before most of the hall’s residents met up in the common room. There was more free booze. At times like these, Karen sometimes wished things would go back to the way they had been when she had first 'come out' to her fellow students. What a night that had been, all suspicious looks and talk of betrayal! And for a couple of weeks after Emily and Janet had been very cagey around her, locking their bedroom doors each night and never appearing in the living room unless fully dressed, and certainly not as almost undressed as Emily was now.However the tense atmosphere had gradually eased. ?He's seen me in full makeup and painted nails, and they've dropped me off in drag downtown, telling me to sell my ass and my mouth and bring home some money for them. Tom has also thrown darts at my bare ass when I'm bound, the same way he and I used to throw darts in bars (at the dart board). ?The first time Gretchen had Tom whip my ass, I was absolutely mortified, but now I'm used to it. He goes over my chore list, and checks to see if there's a hair in the bathtub I've just scrubbed, and if. As much as he did not want to abandon her right then, he knew that he had a very early football practice that was mandatory. He gently unwound himself from the entanglement of her arms and the bed sheets, but his movements were enough to bring her out of her sleep. When she realized that he was moving away from her, she quickly threw her arms around him again and tried to pull him to her. He kissed her tenderly but then pushed away again."Come back to me, please..." She pleaded, tears already.