Girl Flesh by May Leitz

Author:May Leitz
Language: eng
Format: epub

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We drive up the hill and back to our private hell. Eventually, we find ourselves silently walking and then, couch.

Caro and I are next to each other on a dank couch. It looks like it already has blood on it. Our hands are bound behind our backs. Caro is in a state of post-drunken shock and can’t focus on anything other than her resignation and despair. It feels like she’s preparing herself for the pain and death that’s coming. She’s beating herself up for not being more protective.

I’m going to attempt to shoulder the majority of what’s coming. I’m very versed in pain, and in my own limits. I know what I can handle without losing myself. I can remain emotionless through a lot, which will be an asset in protecting Caroline. Her life and mine are similar in that they’ve both been relatively free of physical pain. But she doesn’t know all the damage I’ve caused myself. She doesn’t know that I’m conditioned to tolerate pain.

Jim and his shorter crony are standing before us, still aiming their guns at our heads.

“Why us?” I ask out loud, not expecting an answer.

“Well,” Jim starts, “We saw you chatting up that friend of yours at that bar.”

“And?”

I keep my eyes carefully on the floor. I was flirting with Daisy when I blacked out, but I never imagined that my attraction to her could have gotten me in trouble.

“You were all over her, and I turned to Alex here, and we bought y’all drinks.”

“What about me?” Caro says emotionlessly.

Alex starts laughing, and I look up at the two of them. Alex turns to Jim, and he nods in agreement.

“You were so fucking drunk,” Alex laughs, “we didn’t even have to try. You passed the fuck out in the parking lot.”

“It’s a shame about your friend, though.” Jim smirks and motions to me.

I never considered that Daisy might have been hurt or in a bad situation. I’ve hardly thought about her at all since meeting Caroline.

“She woke up,” he says. “Jumped outta the car and left a big grease stain up the highway.”

She what? That can’t be true.

“Daisy…” I trail off, not comprehending. “Daisy jumped out of the car?”

“She hit the ground so hard that she just fell apart.”

“Did the best we could to get her off the road. Tossed her in one of the rooms; we got a few bodies lying around here we still ain’t buried.”

“Like four or five, probably,” Alex confirms.

“So Daisy is dead,” I repeat.

“Something like that.”

Caro turns to me with a grim expression.

“Why are you doing this to us?” I ask, dizzy.

“I don’t know,” Jim says. “Because you were there.”

I shift violently and throw my hands in front of me, but they’re immediately caught. This pushes Caro into action, but Alex brings the butt of his rifle down hard on her lower face. She bucks backward. I watch and struggle as a rope is knotted around my wrists. Then I’m thrown backward on the couch next to Caroline.

She spits out a tooth and reels.

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