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she had missed a few tests and things that she had to make up! So! This was the last day she was going to let him talk her into cutting class in the afternoon, she thought to herself as she turned into the filling-station.
    She was telling him that as he was undressing her, he was already undressed when he let her in the back door. She was also taking a drink of her Coke and whiskey as he laid her down and was kissing her beautiful body all over, loving itssmoothness and softness. He excited her body and she put the drink down tho she wished he wouldn’t hurry so! They were moving up an old road for him and a new and unfamiliar one for her.
    BAM! The window next to the door was broken in and Mrs. Hammon looked through the opening! “Andy! Open this got-damn door!” She screamed, looking like a crazy woman in a frame. Mr. Hammon was speechless and could only stare at the broken window and shift his gaze to the door as she kicked it! He wished he could stop moving on top of Lida Mae, who was trying to push him off, but he couldn’t. Lida was scared and wanted to run but he wouldn’t stop and she began to have a climax just as Mrs. Hammon came through the window and lifted her knife and started trying to cut Lida Mae’s face (which Lida hid with her arms) but cut her arms instead; then her husband was reaching for her, trying to stop her and hollering to Lida Mae to run! Get her things and run! Which Lida Mae, wide-eyed and frightened nearly to death and bleeding from numerous cuts, tried to do! She had to grab clothes, dodge the knife, open the door all at the same time. She was crying too and couldn’t always see. Finally she got the door open and there were all those people who had heard the noise and come to see what was happening. Lida was naked and bleeding … what a sight! She had just begun to run when the knife flicked across her buttocks and she screamed as she ran into the arms of Smokey who “just happened” to be standing there with what looked like hate in his face. He grabbed her and helped fight Mrs. Hammon off because Mr. Hammon couldn’t stay outside long with no clothes on, til he hit her on the chin, knocking her out, and put Lida Mae in his car to take her to the hospital.
    They were almost there when he stopped the car near a wooded area. He slapped her already bloody face saying “Whatcha wanna go with that sucker for? I’m glad I told on you cause that’ll keep your ass away from there!!!” She wasin shock, so she couldn’t say nothin as he wiped the blood away from her face and kissed her as he removed the clothes from her, laying her back. She started to struggle and he said “I just saved your life, bitch!” He slapped her again so hard her ear ring flew off through the window. He made sex with her, dirty as she was, and bloody, then drove her to the hospital and helped her go in. Needless to say she carried those scars the rest of her life, the ones outside … and the ones inside.
    Lida Mae didn’t get to her graduation. She did not want anyone to see her again, ever. The doctor had sewn her up; 72 stitches on her arms and buttocks. They had also decided to fix her insides (since she had already started trouble so young) so she would not be bothering the state with bills for children. She didn’t know it, no one but the doctor and the nurse did.
    When she went home, she was so unhappy there, her mother sent her to live with a sister of hers about 15 miles away in another little town. Lida Mae was glad to go. She packed her new long-sleeved blouses and the rest of her things and left without looking back.
    She was very quiet the first month or two she lived in the new town. Going to church with her aunt who was very religious. School was out, so she helped around the house and with the few animals they had. Everything was fine and Aunty was pleased cause Lida was no trouble at all and she must be a good person cause the preacher started stopping by two or three times a week to