Chapter 68: Summer Extension Dinner and Off to Bed. As they wait for a corner section to clear, Mary goes off into the main mall area where the elevators and escalators are to look over the mall map, though she was only there a couple a times for the movies on the fourth floor of the mall and to buy a bikini in the Teen Girl Section of the department store on the third floor. Studying it intently, she now sees more things that were not there before like Sonia and Bart’s arcade which is on the second floor with access from the restaurant or from the mall’s second floor. Fernando walks up behind her quietly. “What are you looking at?” He tells her. Mary holds back from jumping out of her skin, calming herself down as quickly as she could before turning to face him. “Don’t do that!” Mary holds back from yelling at him. “You need to be aware of your surroundings and not to a map of the area.” Fernando tells her. “Besides all that, you got a couple of dollars to give me?” Mary eventually asks, “What for?” Fernando asks. “They got an arade upstairs!” Mary answers excitedly. “Maybe next time.”Fernando tells her. “But I want to play now!” Mary complains. “We are going to have dinner now and then maybe hang outside afterwards.”Fernando tells her. Mary growls to herself as Fernando tells her, “It looks like they are going in. Lets go.” Fernando starts to take a couple of steps, but in realizing that Mary was not following him, he turns around to face her. “Come on, Mary.” Fernando tells her as he approaches her. “I want to go to the arcade...” Mary tells him. Once he was close enough to her, he gives her a swat to her rear end. She jumps forward with a yelp before turning to face him and rubbing where he hit her. “You did not had to hit me!” Mary tells him. “You were not listening.” Fernando tells her, he then takes her by the arm, “Look. One day I’ll take you to the arcade myself but right now everyone has gone in to eat and then go home, so lets go.” “You better take me out before school starts.” Mary says to herself but he hears her. “You want another swat to your tail? I will take you out when it is your turn for me to take you out for there are other girls for me to take out. Now if you start giving and be less demanding, maybe you an be moved up on the dating line. Until then, you have a lot to make up for, a lot to atone for.” Fernando tells her. “Atone for?” Mary almost yells, stopping them in their tracks. Stepping in front of her, Fernando tells her, “In being a fuck toy bitch for the gang, many, including some of the girls in my group, believe that some of the murders the gangs did came from orders you and the other fuck toy bitches made. Whether it is true or not remains to be seen, and I’m going by that you told me the truth that you didn’t. But if one of those boys in prison say that you girls had something to do with the murders, you are going to be in a lot of trouble. Furthermore you will need to convince me that you had nothing to do with it if you want me to back you up if this happens. Right now I’m going by blind faith and trust for you in this relationship. Don’t do anything that would take that away from you.” Mary could only look down at the floor as she says, “I had nothing to do with the boys going out and killing, all I did was not to fight back as they raped me, forcing myself to enjoy it and being a willing participant so that Tonya and I would not be targets of their killings.” A couple of tears from her drop to the floor. Fernando puts his han under her chin and lifts her head up to look at him, “Look. I’m backing you in that. But if you are holding anything back or lying to me, then you better fess up to me as soon as you can before you are taken out of your house in handcuffs. I want us to have an honest relationship, free of stories or lies.” Mary wipes her eyes with the side of her fists before looking at him. “Then I want to know, is it true that you are going to die because of something in your head could burst without warning?” “Who told you that?” Fernando asks. “They all did.” Mary answers. “Look...”Fernando begins but Mary interrupts him. “Is it true?” Mary asks. “It depends.” Fernando answers. “It depends?” Mary asks in shock as is he was being lied too. “Mary... There is a blood vessel in my head that swells up and can burst if it swells up too much, which can kill me.” Fernando begins to tell her. “No... it cant be true...” Mary says to herself, interrupting him. “Look, Mary. So far I have been lucky in that when it swells up, I pass out and the swelling goes back down, but I’ll be out for a long time, perhaps days when it happens. It has sent me to the hospital several times.”Fernando tries to explain. “Can’t they put in a shunt in that blood vessel?” Mary asks, interrupting him again. “No, doing that would put the the high blood pressure into another area which may be weaker and it will burst there and kill me. It is better to leave it alone.” Fernando explains. “Then what causes it?” Mary asks. “Everyday stress everyone goes through. In my case fighting with Jorge when he was a boy. You know it’s the fight or flight reaction we all go through for what ever reason and you know me – I fight back.” Fernando explains. “Which can kill you. So, that is why you’re screwing everyone in your group except for me until I get the SIV results.” Mary says. “Well, sex relieves those stresses so I can deal with things better and the blood vessel not to swell up in my head. But no, I’m not doing Jorge or his girlfriend Francis though I’m being told that I should with at least him.” Fernando says. “Jorge is now a girl, so you should go do her, and rape her because as a boy she did not care about you. Even I heard about those fights you two had.” Mary replies. “How do you know about the fights?” Fernando asks. Mary looks down at the floor for a moment, “Jorge was one of the gang boys though he did not raped me, he may have raped Tonya. I don’t know if he actually did. But he would brag about taking you down.” Mary answers. “You sure its my brother Jorge and not blonde hair Jorge that Wandaline turned into a girl?” Fernando asks. “Black hair, grey fur, green eyes. It was your brother.” Mary points out, “He has raped so many girls, you should rape her now that she is a girl for raping them. But before you do that, she needs to be SIV tested too. Like me and Tonya, he – she could have caught something from the gang.” Fernando thinks about it for a while, then asks a semi-unrelated question, “Was Jorge part of the killings?” “I don’t know.” Mary answers. “It’s OK.” Fernando says, releasing a sigh, “I’m going to have to deal with it but I wont rape her, not now.” “Why not?” Mary asks. “Because she is expecting it, and would enjoy if I did, defeating the purpose of raping her in the first place.” Fernando explains. “Then we’ll get somebody else to rape her.” Mary says. “And what would that accomplish? Nothing. It is my problem to deal with, not yours. And if Jorge shows up home crying and bruised, grandma will want me to take action against those who did her wrong! So no. It can’t happen like that.” Fernando tells her. Mary looks at him sternly. “Look – If Jorge has SIV, who ever rapes her is going to get it, even if they are not a squirrel and become carriers and spreaders of the disease. And from there – its going to spread to all over Pouncefeild. I am not going to let that happen.” Fernando tells her. “That what are you going to do about it?” Mary asks. “I don’t know yet, but when I do, you will know about it.”Fernando tells her. “Then you better act before school starts, because after that, anything can happen.” Mary tells him. “Don’t rush me into a decision. OK?” Fernando points out to her, “You force me to decide and you will get the decision you will not want.” “You need to make a decision for all of us, not just me.” Mary lets him have it. Fernando lets out a sigh before taking her arm again and hauls her into the diner, “My decision is for you to join us for dinner and I’m not taking ‘No’ for an answer.” It only takes him a minute to drag Mary about and find the rest of the group. He points for her to sit by her sister Tonya before heading to his seat with Rachel, Jorge, and Dr. Aiesha, sitting next to Rachel. He orders his meal, meat lasgna with garlic bread and a soda. Everyone else was having the chicken meal with rice and vegetables or the stewed beef over butter noodle pasta. Fernando did not want to pay attention to any questions being asked of him, he only gave his attention to his meal. They eat their meal in less than an hour, making small talk of what they would like to do for the night and the rest of the week excluding the sex as they did not want Dr. Leary to hear of their plans. With the bill paid, the girls walk out of the restaurant. Fernando asks Dr. Leary to wait for a moment. “You need something?” Dr. Leary asks as the girls walk out the restaurant. “I need to talk you about Jorge.” Fernando replies. “What about her?” Dr. Leary asks. “Mary told me while we were outside that Jorge when he was a male, he was part of the rape group. Though he did not have sex with Mary, according to her he may have had sex with Tonya as part of their daily rape ritual.” Fernando explains. “And Tonya is SIV False Positive.” Dr. Leary says to herself. Fernando nods at her. Dr. Leary takes a few moments to think about it. “Alright. We can discuss this tomorrow.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - End of Chapter 68 - - - - - - - - - - - - -