by Shannon Cook
"Lee!" Barb frantically shouted from the kitchen. "I need help!"
Lee ran into the kitchen as fast as he could thinking his wife was in danger! "What is wrong my dear?"
Barb pointed to the trash can. "My wedding ring slipped off my finger as I was tossing out the eggshells!"
Lee looked at the trash can. He took a deep breath and stuck his hand into the trash. "I'll find it for you." Lee grabbed another trash bag and began transferring the trash from the can into the bag trying to find the lost ring.
He ended up pulling out one of his car keys from the trash. "What is this about?" he asked as he held up his keys to show Barb.
Barb turned around and looked at her husband. "What are those doing in there?" she asked surprisingly.
"I know why they are in there!" Lee stated with anger in his voice. "Our daughter doesn't want us going to this party today!"
Lee marched right into the dining room with his finger in his key ring twirling his car keys around his finger. "Mandy, what is this?"
Mandy's face immediately went from a smirk to complete fear! "Uh oh." Mandy said as she took a deep gulp.
"You need to stop this nonsense!" Lee scolded. "Your mother and I are going to this party today, and there is nothing you can do to stop us!"
Mandy jumped up from her chair and stormed out of the house. She got into her car and rushed over to Alex's house.
When she arrived, she ran up to the front door and began pounding on it as hard as she could. Alex opened the door and could see the fear in her girlfriend's eyes. "What is wrong, Mandy?" she asked.
"We have a problem." Mandy said huffing and puffing.
"What's the problem, Mandy?"
"Your mom works with my mom, and your mom invited my parents today. They still don't know about me."
Alex's eyes were filled with shock. "Oh no! We got to stop this party from happening!"
The two ran into the kitchen where Alex's mother and her father's best friend Sal were busy in the kitchen putting out paper plates, and opening bottles of wine for the party.
"There's the two lovers!" Rose said cheerfully.
Sal turned away from what he was doing to greet the two young women. "There's the two love birds!" he smiled. He pointed over to two bags on the kitchen table. "I got you both a nice new suit to wear at the party! Hope they fit! Nate gave me an estimate of what size you both wear. He's usually pretty accurate!"
"Mom, we can't have this party." Alex abruptly stated.
"Why not? There are over a hundred people coming, and it starts in an hour. This party is happening."
"Yes, but mom-"
"Don't but mom me!" Rose interrupted Alex.
Sal sat down the bottle of wine he was currently pulling the cork out of. He could tell something was bothering the two young women. "Hold on. What is going on?"
"Mandy's parents are coming and they don't know about her yet!" Alex stated in a panic!
Sal looked at Mandy with great concern. "Are your parents homophobic?"
"My father is." Mandy answered. "I'm not too sure about my mother."
Sal looked at Rose. "Maybe this party isn't a good idea."
Rose slammed her fist down on the kitchen counter. "I've spent hundreds of dollars on this party! It's going to happening!"
Alex looked at Mandy "I'm so sorry." she said softly.
"Well, it is what it is I guess." Mandy proclaimed.
The two young women went up to Alex's bedroom, to get changed into the suits that Sal had brought over for them. Mandy sat down on the edge of Alex's bed. "My life is over." She said as she fell backward onto it.
"Looks like you need some cheering up." Alex told Mandy. She gave Mandy a simple wink, and Mandy nodded.
Alex slowly removed Mandy's pants and underwear. She got down on her knees and began to eat her girlfriend out. Mandy swung her legs onto the bed and took off her shirt and bra. Alex removed her clothes and got into the bed with her girlfriend.
For those five minutes, time stood still. The noises from downstairs faded away as the two young women pleasured each other. Mandy forgot about her stresses as she felt Alex's smooth yet strong naked body upon hers. Alex stuck her tongue in Mandy's mouth, and Mandy stuck her tongue in Alex's mouth. Slowly kissing each other as their hands migrated down to the other one's pussy. Grasping and rubbing each other.
Their silky smooth legs slowly rubbing against each other. Mandy rolled over placing Alex under her now. Mandy slowly moved her head down to Alex's pussy and began to eat her out. She didn't pull her head away until she knew her girlfriend was fully satisfied.
Mandy and Alex got done having sex and got dressed for the party. Mandy took her suit and went into the bathroom right off Alex's bedroom.
Mandy was in the bathroom for five minutes putting on the suit. "How do I look?" Mandy asked as she walked out of the bathroom wearing dress pants, a teal button-up shirt with a black suit jacket and tie.
Alex's eyes glowed with amazement like a child on Christmas morning. "You look dapper!" She was already dressed in her suit. Same as Mandy, except she was wearing a red button-up.
The two walked downstairs and went out to the back yard where the party was. There were already many guests there. Mandy scanned the area to try to find her parents. She spotted her parents talking to a few of the guests over by the punch bowl. "Okay, see those two, we need to avoid them at all cost. Those are my parents." she told Alex.
"Agreed."
Nate came outside and found them. "Hey, you two! Come over here!"
They walked over to Alex's father, and he had a microphone. Nate put the microphone up to his mouth. "Thank you, everyone, for coming out and celebrating this special day with us!" He said into the microphone.
All the guest turned and looked towards the deck where Nate was talking from, and where Alex and Mandy stood side by side. Mandy scanned the guest again and could see her father was beginning to become furious.
"I would love to congratulate my daughter Alex, and her girlfriend Mandy on their coming out!"
Everyone cheered for them, except Mandy's parents. Lee threw his can of beer on the ground and stormed up to the deck. Barb tried to stop him, but he broke away from her grasp.
Mandy saw her father charging at her and she tried to make a run for it. Lee caught up to her and tackled her to the ground. All the guests cringed. They knew that had to hurt!
Lee was a six foot tall, 250-pound man made of muscle. Mandy is about eight inches smaller and over a hundred pounds lighter than her father. The competition was not fair.
Mandy pleaded with her father. "Please! Get off of me!" she cried. "You're hurting me!" as her body was being smashed into the ground face first.
Alex ran over to try to help her girlfriend. She got over and tried shoving Lee off of Mandy. "Get off of her!" she screamed.
Mandy looked over at Alex. "Alex! No! I don't want you to get hurt!"
"Well, I'm not going to stand by and watch my girlfriend get treated like this!" She put her hands back on Lee and used all her strength to shove him off of Mandy.
Mandy rolled over slowly. "Ugh," she grunted. "Alex, I didn't know you were that strong!"
Alex wiped her hands clean. "I live on a farm. What do you expect?" she laughed. "Now, here." she reached out to help Mandy up.
Before Mandy was completely back on her feet, Lee shoved Alex to the ground. This infuriated Nate! He charged over and tackled Lee to the ground. "Touch my daughter again, and I will kill you!" Nate threatened Lee.
Lee smiled. "Oh, you mean like this?" He took his foot and kicked Alex's leg.
Barb ran over to Lee and smacked him across the face. "Why are you acting so immature?" she scolded.
"Why did you smack me?"
"You know exactly why I smacked you!"
Lee glared at his wife. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to make a delivery." He walked towards Mandy who was just getting to her feet.
Nate stood between Lee and Mandy. "I believe yo
u've harmed her enough! I should call the cops on you!" he scolded pointing a firm finger in Lee's face.
Lee shoved him aside, picked Mandy up, and tossed her over his shoulder. "You're coming with me. Whether you like it or not!" He reached inside Mandy's pants pocket and pulled out her car keys. "Here!" he shouted as he tossed her car keys to Barb. "Drive her car home. I'll be home late."
"What are you going to do with our daughter?"
"I'm sending her away. Far away."
"Lee, you are not taking our daughter to that place that still performs electroshock therapy are you?"
"Indeed I am."
Barb dropped to her knees crying as Lee walked out of the back yard with Mandy. All the other guests looked on in disbelief. Nobody could believe a father would be that cruel to their own child about their sexuality.
Chapter 5
Lee tossed Mandy into the backseat like a sack of potatoes and tied her hands and feet together so she couldn't escape.
"What are you going to do with me?" Mandy asked her father.
"I'm taking you away! Far away!" He told her as he bucked the middle belt around her. "Can't have you flying around the car now." He slammed the back door, nearly missing the top of Mandy's head. Lee got into the driver's seat and sped out of the driveway as everyone watched in horror not knowing what to do.
Rose ran over to Barb and tried to comfort her. She knelt down on one knee and put her arm around Barb's shoulders. "I'm so deeply sorry that this happened!" she looked into Barbs eyes and then into her daughter Alex's eyes. Both were filled with deep pain. "This party was a huge mistake." she said somberly.
Rose looked at her daughter. Alex stared blankly back at her mother. "I told you we shouldn't have this party!" Alex snapped.
"I know Hun, I should've listened to you. I'm sorry." Rose told her daughter.
"Sorry isn't going to cut it this time mother!" Alex shouted as she ran into the house.
Barb stood up and looked at Rose. "I believe it'll be best that I get going now."
"Okay. Do you need Nate or myself to do anything for you?" Rose asked.
"No. I think you've done enough!" Barb snapped.
Barb walked over to Mandy's car, got in and slowly pulled out of the driveway.
Meanwhile, in the backseat of Lee's car, Mandy struggled to get herself loose, but no luck. "Why are you doing this to me? Let me go!" She pleaded.
"If you think what I did to you was bad. Where I'm taking you it'll be worse! I raised you better than this! As far as I'm concerned, you're no longer my daughter! You're a filthy disgusting animal!"
The rest of the long car ride was silent. Not a single word was exchanged between them. Mandy laid still watching the trees went by the window. She knew exactly where he was taking her, and there was nothing she could do about it.
A few hours later, they arrived at a mental institution. "This will be your new home until you change your ways!" Lee stated. He got out and carried his tied up daughter into the facility.
Inside there was a lot of anti-gay propaganda on the walls. "What do we have here?" the man at the front desk asked.
"A lesbian." Lee responded. "Give her the most intense treatment you've got! I want to make sure when she gets out she will never have sexual desires for a woman again!" Lee laid Mandy on the floor.
"Will do. This might take a few months." the man behind the desk stated.
"Whatever it takes. Give her the most intense treatment. I will pay top dollar."
"Deal!" The man said. "Now, I just need you to sign these papers and we'll call you when she's ready for pickup."
"No problem." Lee picked up a pen and began signing the papers. Once he was done signing, Lee and the man shook hands.
Lee walked out of the building and drove away. Leaving his daughter behind. He watched in his rear-view mirror as the mental hospital became smaller and smaller. "I'm doing the right thing." he told himself as he wiped a single tear from his eye.
Inside the lobby of the mental hospital, Mandy squirmed on the floor trying to break free from the ties. A man came out from another room and snatched her up as if she wasn't a human being at all. He untied her and slammed her down on a metal table, strapping her arms and legs down. He began yelling at her and calling her terrible things. He attached wires to her, which was attached to a computer monitoring her heart rate. He forced Mandy to watch multiple videos of two women being intimate. Every time she showed any pleasure, that man would do something painful to her.
That lasted for twenty minutes, but it was the longest twenty minutes of Mandy's life. She cried in pain. The man unstrapped her and locked her up in prison cell.
Mandy looked around. There wasn't much. Just four grey concrete block walls, a steel door with a little window, a torn up sleeping bag on the floor and a toilet. Mandy sat down on the sleeping bag and began sobbing. She looked up towards the ceiling. "Please help me! I can't change who I am! Please get me out of this hell!"
Lee got home just a little past midnight the next morning. He went up to bed, and Barb was laying on her side crying as she looked at Mandy's baby picture. "Why did you do this to her?"
Lee took off his shirt, and pants and climbed into bed wearing just his boxer shorts. "Give me that picture."
Barb refused, so he snatched it from her hand. "I said give it to me!" Lee snapped. He took the photo and ripped it up. "She's dead to us now."
Barb got up from the bed and headed for the bedroom door.
"Where are you going?" Lee asked.
"I'm sleeping in my daughter's bed! I can't believe you would favor your twisted beliefs over your own child!" Barb slammed the door behind her.
Lee wasn't about to have his wife get the last word in this argument. He stormed out of bed and rushed over to Mandy's bedroom. He tried turning the door handle, but it was locked. "Open this door!" he demanded. "Open this door immediately!"
Barb covered her head with Mandy's pillow, sobbing herself to sleep. How could her husband do such a thing? She wondered. That was definitely not the man she had married twenty-three years ago.
Later that same evening, Alex locked herself in her bedroom and just stared quietly at the ceiling. The guilt that she had made her heart heavy with sadness. She felt responsible for her girlfriend being sent away. If she didn't come out to her parents, then that party wouldn't have ever happened and Mandy would still be a free woman.
Instead, Alex knew where Lee had taken her girlfriend. She knew deep down that Mandy was now living in hell and she felt that she was to blame.
She heard a gentle knock on her bedroom door. "Alex?" she heard her mom softly say from the other side of the door. She rolled over to her side and looked over at the door. She didn't respond.
Rose knocked again. "Alex, honey are you okay?" she asked. "Do you need to talk?"
Again, Alex didn't respond. A lone tear left her eye and slowly dripped down her cheek. She opened up her nightstand drawer, took a pen and paper, and began to write a letter.
Outside her bedroom door, Rose was sitting with her back against the door. "Alex, I know you are upset with me right now. I can understand why you wouldn't want to talk to me. Your father and I never meant for anything bad to happen."
Alex still ignored her mother. She got done writing the letter and stuck it in her back pocket. She took the sheets off her bed and knotted them into a rope. She opened her bedroom window, tossed the sheets out and tied one end to something in her room. Alex climbed out the window, then carefully climbed down sheets.
Once her feet hit the ground, Alex ran over to the barn where she, and Mandy spent most of their time together. It started to storm outside. The thunder was clapping loudly and the rain plummeted against the metal barn roof!
She grabbed some rope that was hanging on the back wall, and she hung herself from a rafter.
Inside, Rose and Nate had no idea what had happened. They both assumed their daughter Alex was still locked in her bedroom. Rose had fallen asleep by Alex's b
edroom door. Nate came out of their bedroom and went over to his wife.
"I think it's time for you to come to bed." Nate said as he placed his hand softly on her shoulder.
Rose opened her eyes slowly. She got up from the floor, and they went to bed.
The next morning, Nate went out to grab the morning newspaper, when he noticed the sheets handing from Alex's window. He ran back inside in a panic. "Alex ran away!" He shouted to Rose frantically!
Alex's parents frantically checked the farm for any signs of their daughter. Rose went into the barn, and let out a horrified scream. Alex's lifeless body was hanging from one of the rafters.
Nate heard the scream and came as fast as he could. When he got into the barn, he noticed his wife was dropped to her knees crying hysterically. "Darling what is wrong?" he asked.
"Why?!" Rose sobbed.
"Why what?" Nate asked. He hadn't noticed his daughter hanging towards the back of the barn.
Alex's mom pointed over towards the back of the barn. He looked over, and his heart sank. He dropped down to his knees and held his wife tight in his arms. He was in such a shock, the tears wouldn't come out. He helped Rose back into the house, and they called the police.
Within minutes, the police and paramedics arrived. They carefully got Alex's body down and put her lifeless body into the back of the ambulance. An officer, named James checked her pockets and took out a letter. He unfolded it, and read it hoping it would determine if this was a murder or a suicide. James was saddened when he found out why the young woman took her own life.
He walked up to Alex's parents and handed them the letter. "This was in her pocket. I hope you don't mind, I read it already. I am deeply sorry for your loss." Officer James left, and the ambulance pulled out of their driveway with their daughter.
Nate unfolded the letter, and read it out loud.
"Dear Mom and Dad,
I know that this time is hard on you, but I couldn't live with this guilt. I feel horrible that I forced Mandy to come out. It is my fault that she got sent away. It is my fault she is going through all the pain right now. I shouldn't have forced her to come out. I can't live without her and I can't live with this guilt!"
