Chapter 54: A Movie, Dinner and Punishment.

Rachel takes to the escalators with Grace in tow once they entered the mall. It took some five flights of moving stairs to reach to the top of the mall where the theaters were. Rachel makes sure Grace does not slip away from her as she buys the tickets for the Captain America movie. After buying food, candy and soda, they enter the theater as its gets set to start the movie. They sit a few rows from the front rows in the middle seats.

They remain seated as the credits roll at the end of the movie, though many had started to leave the theater. 

“That was a man flick if I ever saw one.”, Grace complained.

“What you expect. It was an adventure film.”, Rachel replies.

“Well, now that you have me alone, what do you want to tell me?”, Grace asks of her.

“Look. Everyone knows that I was raped before and am told to suck it up and be brave. So far I have. But to be raped in my own house by a family that is supposed to love me, I don’t know what to do.”, Rachel explains.

“You need to suck it up and be brave. Fernando is not going to be there for you all the time and he needs more help than you do at times, so what are you going to do about it? You need to suck it up and brave for him because we all know he has for us when he can.”, Grace tells her.

“Now Jorge is a girl as his punishment, but that is no punishment at all.”, Rachel complains.

“That is no punishment. Like when Wandaline turned me into a boy, I was still me.”, Grace says.

“Is being a girl a bad thing? So bad that it would be considered as punishment for a boy to be turned into a girl?”, Rachel asks.

“No. Me being a girl is no punishment on my part in being and living this life as far as I know. The same applies to you, Rachel R., Wandaline, Mary and all the other girls we know and don’t.”, Grace answers.

Rachel just sighs as an usher walks up to their row.

“Excuse me ladies. You need to vacate the premises so we can clean the area. You can return afterwards if you like.”, the usher tells them.

“Alright, we’ll go.”, Grace says to him before getting up. Rachel follows her out the seats and out the theater. Once outside, Grace walks over to the concession stand and buys some more food. She walks over to Rachel who was waiting for her. “Lets go to the park for some privacy. I doubt you want to spill your guts with everyone around us listening.”

She just nods, then points to the paper bag Grace as carrying, “What’s that?”

“Hot dogs, chips sodas, candy, just like when we went in to see the movie.”, Grace answers before heading tot he stairs, “Lets go.”

In  few minutes they were in the park looking for a private area to sit down and have their talk. They find one off the beaten path under a tree with low overhanging branches. Together they sit down under the tree. Grace goes into the bag and pulls out the hot dogs and sodas, handing a set out to Rachel.

“Eat up. You need your energy.”, Grace tells her.

“I don think its fair at all.”, Rachel says as she looks at the food.

“Life is not fair. You cant rape a boy unless you butt fuck him in the ass, but you can rape a girl. You cant get a boy’s dick hard by force and force him to have sex, but you can pull down our panties and stick that dick in us by force. That’s not fair at all.”, Grace says before taking a bite out of her hot dog. After swallowing the bite she had taken, “But we’re better than that because we are girls.”

Rachel just sighs.

“Look. You are going to suck it up and you are going to go back into Fernando’s bed and you hold him and sleep with him and love him like you did before.”, Grace tells her.

“But it feels like I cheated against him.”, Rachel says softly.

“Why do you feel like you did?”, Grace asks.

“Because of that stupid thing – ‘If you’re going to be raped, lay back and enjoy it.’ And I forced myself to enjoy it but could not show that I did to him. He almost had me coming but he came first.”, Rachel says with a tear running down her cheek.

“You did what you could to not get yourself hurt. We all know that. We know that as much as you try, Jorge does not like you and you don’t like him. So why would you be dropping your panties for him to lay you down good? Don’t think that you cheated  on Fernando. You didn’t. You did what you could to save yourself. What would Fernando do if Jorge raped you and killed you or hurt you to put you in the hospital while raping you?”, Grace explains, and then asks.

“He would kill Jorge.”, Rachel answers, wiping a tear from her face with her arm.

“Alright then. You did what you had to do to keep the peace. Now stop worrying about it.”, Grace tells her.

“Its hard to do that.”, Rachel says.

“A lot of things are hard. But you will get over it.”, Grace tries to reassure her, “Get over here.”

“Huh?”, Rachel asks. But with  a flip of an arm throw, Grace take Rachel from her spot and picks her up from where she sat. Grace places Rachel down with Rachel’s back against her front with her legs straddling around her. She grabs the back of Rachel’s hair and forces her head onto her belly and looks down at her.

“I told you to relax and stop thinking about how hard it is to do.”, Grace tells her.

“But...”, Rachel tries to say.

“Hush!”, Grace tells her.

“But...”, Rachel tries to say once more.

“I said HUSH!”, Grace holds back from yelling. Rachel bites on her lower lip, holding back a whimper to as best as she could though a bit of it comes out. “Now relax.”, Grace tells her. Rachel lets out sigh. “Reee-lax.”, Grace says in a softer tone. Rachel lets out another but smaller sigh. Grace looks her over, taking the hot dog from her hand and putting it away along with hers in the bag for now.

“Now. There is nothing you can do that you have not already done. Your only mistake is do what you did to Fernando. You need to make that up to him.”, Grace tells her. Rachel tries to get up but Grace pushes her back down. “I told you to relax, didn’t I?”

“But...”, Rachel tries to complain.

“But Nothing! Now Relax!”, Grace tells her.

Rachel whimpers for a moment before Grace covers her mouth with her hand. “Hush Up, Will Ya!”, Grace keeps from yelling. After a second or two, as she begins to feel Rachel relax, Grace takes her hand from her mouth. “You need to lay there and not say a word until I tell you too. Nod your head if you understand”, Grace tells her.

Rachel nods her head short, fast and quickly.

“Good.”, Grace begins, “Now understand there is nothing you can do for the moment. You’re just a girl. Nothing more. You will be a target for rape like we all are, and though its unfair for it to happen to anyone of us, its more unfair that it has happened to you before. You dealt with it then, you are going to deal with it now. Jorge will be punished, so what he has been turned into a girl. That’s his punishment. Justified or not, you need to accept that.”

“But being a girl is no punishment!”, Rachel tries to complain.

“Being is girl is no punishment for us being born as girls. And like I said, me being turned into a boy is nothing either, but what about the other way around. Boys have this thing I felt that I don’t as a girl.”, Grace tells her but is interrupted.

“Its called a dick.”, Rachel interrupts her.

“Hush up.”, Grace tells her, then continues,  “Its more to it than just that. It’s a mental condition of sorts, which is probably why boys do those stupid things and think that they are above it all. Having to live with that all your life, and then have it removed, don’t you think it would be detrimental to him?”

“I don’t care.”, Rachel argues. “Except for a penis, a vagina, testis, ovaries and the plumbing that makes it all work, we’re the same.” She sighs before adding more, “I don’t believe that motherfucker was crying about being a girl.”

“Its because that which makes him a boy was taken away.”, Grace throws at her, “That’s why.”

“I Don’t Care”!, Rachel almost yells.

“You better care!”, Grace tells her loudly, holding her down, “You let Fernando know what happened, he’s going to kill Jorge and if he kills Jorge, he goes to jail and you will be alone in this world!” Rachel remains quiet, trying to not show any emotion but Grace can see the fear in her eyes. “I can bet that Jorge is scared, not sure what to do, everything put into his mind about not liking boys or dick in the way we do, and trying to be the Alpha Male of the house is all out the window because he is now a girl. Being without a friend, without his girlfriend, he in his mind is now a nobody. The idea of having something shoved into him even if he wants it as a girl sickens him. So whether you agree with it or not, he is being punished with a punishment that is haunting his mind and thrown off his center of being male. Only thing more fitting than turning a rapist into one of those he targets, would be throwing him to the wolves to be raped and gang raped like he had did to others.” 

She waits for Rachel to reply, but there was none.

“I’m not telling you what to do, but for Fernando, you better decide on what you need to do to bring peace to you and your family or face losing it all because you would not accept things as they are. I am not going to let Fernando go to jail for killing Jorge if I can help it. No fucking way if I can, if I was living in that house like you are.”, Grace tells her with some of her anger showing, “You are the Alpha of this group, be the Alpha. Or else if we lose Fernando because you would not do the right thing, I will snap your pretty little head from off from your neck.”

Rachel realizes that Grace’s hands were at the sides of her head, where she could do what she just threatened to do.

“You have nothing to fear anymore with Jorge as a girl. He won’t be able to rape you unless he puts on a strap-on or puts his fingers in you. He would be able to fight you like a girl. He does not know how to protect himself as a girl. He will not be able to do the things you and I know how to do because being a girl is a lot more than having a vagina, breasts and swaying our tail from side to side.”, Grace tells her. She reaches into the bag and takes the hot dog she put away before, seeing Rachel was about to reply, puts the hot dog into her mouth. “Now eat up. You need your strength.”

Rachel struggles with having almost half of the hot dog and bun shoved into her mouth, being held in place by Grace’s hand. Eventually she gets part of the hot dog out and chomp down on the rest to chew and swallow it while shoving the rest of it aside.

“What the fuck are you doing?!!”, Rachel almost yells at her.

“You need to eat to get your strength up.”, Grace tells her, “I am not going to follow an Alpha who will not take the initiative or take action in doing what has to be done. If you want to give up being an Alpha- then continue being this stupid. I’m sure that the others are willing to fight for the space you are abandoning.”

“I am not going to give up my Alpha Status to no one!”, Rachel holds back from yelling out.

“You know the rules- show weakness, be challenged. Lose the challenge, lose being an Alpha. All day you have been showing that you are weak. Weak enough for me to challenge you for the Alphaship.”, Grace tells her.

“You would not dare.”, Rachel hisses at her.

Grace puts her hand on Rachel’s pony tail, running its long hair through her fingers then slowly wraps her fingers around her neck. “You are so weak right now that you left yourself open to me.”, Grace tells her, giving her neck a slight squeeze and holding it there. “Face it, you need to do better than this, for I don’t want to be the Alpha, but the others do.”, she says before letting go of Rachel’s neck. She then pushes Rachel off her stomach, forcing her to sit up. “I don’t care if you was raped or not, that’s your business. Its what you are going to do about it that makes me want to care or not. And right now you are doing all the wrong things to recover properly. You need to accept what is being done as punishment on Jorge and you need to stand up to him, her, it, and the rest of us. Jorge needs help to adjust being a girl, you need to decide whether we do or do not help as a group. You need to make decisions to keep this group right, for if one of us questions your authority, you’re done for.”

Rachel bites on her lower lip as she listens to this, finally letting go at the end of Grace’s words where she releases a sigh.

“You’re right. But...”, Rachel says with her down, then looks up at Grace. “I’ll start with you first.”, she tells her. She takes in a deep breathe, letting some of it out before continuing. “You ever do this shit to me again, you’re out.”, she warns her.

“Good.”, Grace replies, “Now you better remain that way to the rest of us, and not just to me. I may not want the Alpha Status, but that because I don’t want to constantly fight for it. Not because I’m not up to it. There is a difference.”

“Between Rachel R. and Wandaline, you three share the second, third and fourth positions as far as I care. But right behind you is Juanita, the twins, Mary and Tonya. Three of those are willing to do anything to climb past you to challenge me. One does not care about what consequences may occur in knocking you down to the bottom of the pile. All I am going to do is watch it happen and stand my ground when she comes for me.”, Rachel explains to her sternly.

“I will take care of Mary if she comes after me. It is more likely that she would go after you first instead.”, Grace tells her.

“Mary is not a problem for me.”, Rachel says as she gets up. She dusts herself off before taking a few steps away from Grace.

“Where are you going?”, Grace calls to her.

“Home.”, Rachel calls out back to her. She continues to walk away, leaving Grace behind.

“Well, you better not do something you are going to later regret.”, Grace says to herself. Instead of getting up after her, she remains seated at the tree, taking to the bag of food and start eating, leaving when she had her fill.

End of Chapter 54