Chapter 55: Innocence and Punishment.

Walking out of the park, Grace sees that Rachel was about 100 to 150 yards ahead of her but decides not to catch up to her. It takes several minutes to get home from the park for the both of them. Though not yet 6o’clock, Rachel gets home to Grandmother finishing up dinner. Grandmother see her enter the door and walk to the stairs.

[Conversation is translated from Spanish unless otherwise stated.]

“Stop right there young lady.”, Grandmother says out loud as she cuts some meat on a cutting board with a large knife. Rachel freezes in mid-step. “Sit down right there quietly until I tell you otherwise.”, Grandmother tells her, pointing the knife to one of the chairs at the dining table. Rachel complies but does not know why.

“Where were you going?”, Grandmother asks.

“Upstairs to my room to be with Fernando.”, Rachel answers, trying to hide her nervousness.

“He is not be disturbed right now. Furthermore, I have a few questions for you.”, Grandmother tells her as she continues cutting the meat on the cutting board.

“Uhm... OK.”, Rachel responds.

Grandmother places a small fancy bowl of Jello cubes in front of her, placing a spoon next to it. She then crosses her arms and looks down at the girl, “Did you tell any of the girls that you were raped?”

Rachel froze in place for a moment as she was about to get the spoon. She puts her hand down by the spoon before withdrawing it on her lap. “I did, but only Grace, Rachel and Wandaline. They came over after Jorge left after he raped me.”, she tries to explain.

“How soon they came after he left?”, Grandmother asks.

“I don’t know. Five or ten minutes. Maybe longer.”, Rachel answers.

“It may have been longer.”, Grandmother says, then continues, “What about anyone else?”

“No. Just them.”, Rachel answers.

“You think they will tell anyone else?”, Grandmother asks.

“No. Why?”, Rachel answers and then asks.

“Any secret that compromises this family will cause us to move again.”, Grandmother tells her. “Now why didn’t you call the police?”

“Because I did not want to break up the family and get any of us in trouble.”, Rachel answers. A tear starts to roll down her cheek.

“But you do want him in trouble to pay for what he did to you, right?”, Grandmother asks.

“Of course I do! He raped me!”, Rachel almost yells at her.

“First - mind your tone of voice around me.”, Grandmother snaps at her. “I decide what happens in this family. And I will punish Jorge as I see fit.” Rachel tries to hold back her tears but the flow increased on her. “Now, what have you done to my number one grandson?!!”, Grandmother asks in a threatening tone.

Rachel closes her eyes to try to stop the tears from flowing but in even telling the truth, they continue, “I did not mean to give him too much, that’s why I called Dr. Leary, to make sure he was OK. And she said that he was OK. I don’t know how many pills he took.”, Rachel almost pleaded.

“You did not give him the pills?”, Grandmother asks.

“No. I gave him the pill bottle. He took the pills.”, Rachel tells her.

Grandmother just sighs and then thinks before making a comment or statement.

“I see.”, Grandmother begins, “Turn off the water works and enjoy that Jello. We’ll discuss this later in detail.” Rachel was not much in an eating mood. Grandmother went back to cutting the meat and vegetables on her cutting board. “Don’t think about going upstairs.”

Rachel could not hold in any longer, so she yells at Grandmother, “WHY NOT!”

Grandmother puts the knife and meat back down and rinses off her hands quickly before stepping out of the kitchen as she wipes her hands on her apron. She signals to the girl to come to her as she steps towards her direction. Rachel refuses to budge.

“Girl... If I have to get to you, I’m going to flame your tail something good. Now get over here before I light up that rear end of yours.”, Grandmother growls at her.

Rachel slowly gets up and steps over to her, just short of going past the service island. Grandmother grabs her by the arm and hauls her into the kitchen area. Rachel raises both her hands to protect herself from a blow that never comes, a reflex reaction she learned from her mother’s abuse. Grandmother knows the reaction quite too well, and understands why it is there. She gives her a hard shove to knock Rachel sitting up flat on her ass.

“If I am going to punish you, you would be on my lap with your tail raised and your panties pulled down and spanking that rump of yours until it was raw.”, Grandmother tells her as she has her arms crossed under her breasts, “Now, I’m not denying what happened to you as a lie. I know you feel betrayed, your trust for this family devastated, but I’m the King and Queen of this house and family. What I say goes. Go against that, then your ass is going to grow hard from the spankings I’ll give you. Now you are not going to see your loving brother until I get some answers first. Until then you are going to remain here with me. Got that!”

All Rachel could do was bow her head and silently nod slightly.

“Of all and everything I will ever tell you, I am not the enemy. I would not have adopted you for my number one grandson if I were. But I don’t want you to be emotionally half cocked into taking actions against him when you do not mean to do it. That boy loves you than life itself.”, Grandmother tells her sternly.

“I’m sorry.”, Rachel says softly.

“You are not to be sorry to me. You need to make it up to him. You need to apologize to your brother - Fernando. Yes, your brother. First and foremost.”, Grandmother tells her. She looks up at her. “Yes, he’s your brother, and you betrayed him in trying to cover up what your other brother did to you. Brothers and sisters will fight, they will try to kill each other. They will try to make the other do what they think they are right. You can’t get in the way of that. Jorge needs his ass kicked, and only Fernando can kick it to where it belongs. Now Jorge is a girl, more than being castrated, less than being a eunuch. Forced to be something that he targets, he is now a target. As a girl he loses everything – status, power, money, girl friends. As a girl, he does not understand what he can have in those terms and thinks he lost it all. He raped you, he will forever be scared of his only brother raping him. His punishment will be thorough as it is complete. You need to see that. You also need to see that you will be punished as well. Not by me however but by the one you tried to silence.”

“I really am sorry. Really.”, Rachel says to herself.

“Save it for him.”, Grandmother told him.

End of Chapter 55