F U T U R
E B A R R I E R
( The 3rd Novel )
Secret
Technology, Unrequited Love,
Absolute Vengeance
© January 2018
Written by David Wicker
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CHAPTER
38 - "Beaten And Broken"
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I
awoke an unknown time later to see
that Stefani had returned and her and the girls were standing in a cluster several feet from where I was.
They were talking quietly and while
I tried to pretend I was still
unconscious, I couldn't. I started
crying I was in so much pain and my
muscles hurt so much right now.
If anything, my discomfort appeared
to amuse Stefani, greatly, as she
tilted her head a little to the left
and looked down at me with a soft
smile on her face. Just what was she
up to ?
Stefani addressed the pair who had
both hands outstretched, "Alright.
You did just fine in your
Karate instructional. Here is 50 Arkos
Credits for each of you. That's 100
total." and she handed them two proprietary
silvery coins.
"I thought it was supposed to be 100
for each of us ?" Yin quipped in
complaint putting the money back in
Stefani's hand. Yang did likewise.
Stefani wrinkled up her mouth in
anger but quickly caught herself.
What was money to her ? She had
unlimited finances in this company,
but she also didn't want to appear
overly generous.
"Sure," she said carefully putting
the coins back in her purse, "Then
HERE is 200 for each of you
instead." and she reached in the
purse again and this time pulled out
4 golden discs with the Arkos logo
emblazoned on them and this time,
without waiting reached down to
forcefully raise up Yin's hand and
solidly put 2 of the discs in her
palm, and then the same for Yang.
The girls eyes widened. This was
certainly more than they expected.
"Yes ma'am !" Yin said and Yang
spoke something in Japanese in
agreement. Then the wall that I
couldn't open up earlier slid
sideways revealing the hallway. They
darted through, headed to the
elevator, likely to spend their
ill-gotten gains on candy and
costume jewelry.
"Children." Stefani huffed,
disgusted, watching them for a
moment. Then she went to regard me.
She stood right beside me and
clearly she expected me to lean
against her leg for comfort as she
put it right up against my side. But
I wouldn't do that ! I was so mad
with her right now. I wouldn't - I
... I curled my fists up in rage - I
...
Despite what I wanted in my head, I
hurt so much, I relaxed my hands and
clung onto her leg and looked up at
her with a completely pitiful
expression and cried my eyes out
trying to meet her eyes. I never -
EVER - wanted to go through this
kind of punishment again !
She regarded me with total contempt.
"Had enough ?" she quietly toned
down at me, with no regard as to how
much I hurt or what I went through.
I nodded and hugged her leg again
and looked down at her toes
miserably, as she was wearing a
pretty open-toed shoe. I put my head
down as if to kiss her foot, but she
stopped me, patting her hand on my
head, to show me, that was enough of
me apologizing to her.
Then her mood softened. She stooped
down and looked me in my face,
wiping one finger across my wet face
and licked that finger as if my
salty tears tasted good to her. She
spoke quietly to me but with
severity. "You see what happens when
you don't mind me, now do you ?"
It was difficult to speak I was
crying so hard right then, "Yes
ma'am." I said softly and looked
down at the floor at her sparkly
shoes again.
"Good." she said, with crispness and
authority returning to her voice and
she stood back up to tower over me.
"Then come on. Let's go home."
This time I didn't make a comment as
to which home I was going. She had
me, lock, stock, and barrel. I stood
up, painfully, and held my hand up
for her to take. She took it and
rubbed her thumb in the hollow of my
palm assuring me it was downhill
from here. I smiled and she returned
the smile. But it was more like she
knew that she won and I had totally
lost.
I staggered on my feet for a moment
pulling on her hand for a moment for
support. "Do I need to carry you ?"
she said, anger returning to her
voice. I stopped. I really was in a
lot of pain.
"I can you know." she said and
reached down to grab my waist to
pick me up.
"No," I said in a quiet gasping voice, "I
can walk."
"Then come on. Let's go." she said
indifferently, standing back up, and
holding my hand, we left the
training room by the exit door which
had somehow reappeared. We passed by
some other people, some had children
of their own by the hand and they
pointed to me and laughed. But at
first I didn't know for what ?
It was then I realized I was still
wearing that stupid karate skirt and
undergarments. I walked faster,
encouraging Stefani to keep up so we
could get to her quarters quickly.
But clearly she was in no hurry and
even slowed her stride.
I hated what was happening and she
was making it worse by slowing her
steps, as if she WANTED to showcase
how ridiculous I looked.
I heard someone giggle walking by
the hall and I flashed a look of
anger at them but they were already
past me, a boy a few years younger
than me. I sighed and pulled on her
hand. Tween kids were the worst.
Everything was a joke to them. I
knew this cause I was 14 only a
short 3-years ago.
Let's go ! Let's get out of the
hallway already !
"My aren't you eager to get home."
she said and continued to walk, but
at half the speed she normally did,
as if to punish me more than I
already had. 3 counselors entered
the long hallway holding on the
hands of 3 different girls, and they
too each had to whisper and gossip
about how silly I looked as the
passed by on the opposite side.
I couldn't hold it back anymore. I
cried again. And I didn't care if
others saw ! It seemed like it was
forever before we exited that damned
public hallway and finally reached
an elevator.
I prayed it be an empty lift but to
my horrors I saw it was filled with
more children and their counselors
who each in turn had to gasp, smile,
open their mouth in shock and then
gossip and whisper as hard as humanly possible
to their friends about how
ridiculous I looked.
I couldn't take it anymore. "Alright
I KNOW ! I KNOW goddammit ! I'm
wearing a skirt ! Does ANYONE have a
problem with that !?" I was ready to
punch someone right then and gave
them that look. Everyone stopped
gossiping and looked to me with
interest to see what else I would
say.
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Stefani,
clearly displeased at my sudden
outburst reached down and pushed
firmly on the back of my neck to get
me to painfully bend over, then
spanked me hard 3 times on my
pantied butt bringing more tears and
wiping the anger right out of me.
This brought a round of amused
laughter, mostly from the counselors
in the lift.
I stood up in an instant tugging
down on that damned skirt but it
refused to cover my shame. I cried
more in my misery and huddled up
against Stefani hoping she wouldn't
do that again.
Stefani rubbed my head soothingly
but spoke to me in a condescending
tone in front of everyone, "You had
better show respect when you're with
me, or you'll get worse, little
mister." and she tapped me twice on
my head like 'good boy.'
A kid behind me guffawed, "Little
mister." and then started whispering
to his friend beside him about the
way I was dressed. The gossip
started up again, worse than it was
earlier. My butt burned red where
she smacked it, but I did my level
best not to rub it and bring more
attention to myself.
I just lowered my head in shame.
This couldn't get any worse. Jeez,
even in school, at least I had Marty
as a friend. Here, no-one would be
at all, and worse, for anyone who
WOULD'VE been my friend, they
wouldn't after seeing my earlier
childish display of anger.
As if that wasn't bad enough, one
little girl was absolutely
fascinated that I was wearing girls
clothing and kept tickling me by
tugging on the elastic band from the
back of my underwear as if to pull
them down. I did my best to ignore
her and stared at my socked feet.
Pink to complete the ridiculous
outfit.
Stefani, fortunately, did notice the
little girl's curiosity, but instead
of slapping her like she did me, she
turned around still holding my hand
and got down on her knees to address
the child in a soothing tone.
"Now now, sweetie," she said in her
best child-learning voice, "he's had
a really hard and busy day. Why
don't you keep your hands to
yourself, can I trust you to do that
?"
"Yeth ma'am." she lisped
respectfully and rocked her
shoulders back and forth knowing she
was got caught for doing something
she wasn't supposed to.
"That's a good girl." Stefani said
and caressed her on her head with
her free hand for a bit before
standing back up to give me a
reassuring smile that this nightmare
would be over soon. Finally our
floor arrived.
Everyone exited the elevator and
blessedly no-one was going in the
direction we were. It was then I
thought about Tyr. Tyr. Tyr ! "Tyr
!" I clapped a hand over my mouth
realizing I had said her name out
loud.
Stefani didn't slow her stride
however but replied as we walked,
"Well, I don't know, dear. She
should be there by the time we
return."
So now I had a mission. I'm glad I
didn't escape earlier ! Not without
Tyr. Stefani fumbled with her keys
for a second and pulling free of her
hand I ran in the door as it opened.
"Tyr ! Tyr ! Where are you ?" I
cried out. I staggered on my legs,
it felt like my calves and arms were
on fire, but I wasn't going to
collapse until I found her first !
"Here I am, Dev !" she said from the
bedroom. I ran full-tilt into their
and saw her. That was it ! I won !
All we had to do was hold hands and
we could create the BARRIER again
and Stefani couldn't touch us ! No-one could hold us down ! We
could walk out of here !
Tyr, as if sensing my thoughts
raised her hand up. I held out my
hand and almost afraid as if I was
going to get a shock I stretched out
my grip to hers. We were inches
apart !
But I didn't get very far ! Stefani
suddenly took my left arm and yanked
hard on it, nearly pulling it out of
joint and knocking me to the floor.
Suddenly both my arms were wrenched
behind me and Stefani growled in the
back of her throat.
"Oh no you don't ! I've had enough
of your tricks for one day." and I
knew she was addressing both of us.
"Where are you supposed to be,
little missie !?" Stefani snapped at
Tyr.
"Let him go !" Tyr said and I saw
her start to cry and put a finger in
her mouth.
Oh God this was too much
! It was bad enough I was hurt but
now Stefani was making Tyr cry as
well ! I pulled on my arms angrily
and yelped out in pain as Stefani
tightened her grip, threatening to
break both my arms off I didn't quit
fighting her.
"Where are YOU supposed to be, GIRL
!?" Stefani shrieked to Tyr in such
a scary tone I felt like I could
pass out in fear from it. Tyr
screeched suddenly in fright and ran
into the little bathroom Stefani had
locked her in earlier.
Stefani lifted me by the back of my
arms and I cried out in pain from
that as my feet were lifted up off
the ground, my entire weight on the
back of my arm muscles now, when she
suddenly threw me with full force on
to the bed in the bedroom.
I groaned long and deep. I couldn't
move at all now. I was in such pain
and agony and my muscles were
totally spent. Stefani looked at me
a moment with a victorious smile on
her face and then walked out to the
bathroom and locked the door to it.
She spoke straight at Tyr beyond the
frame, "You'll stay in there until I
find something -suitable- for you."
We had to get out of here ! This
woman would wind up killing us both
in her sick mind games ! I struggled
but found I couldn't even flex my
hands and my head was spinning so
hard now the room wasn't staying
straight.
Then she stormed back into the
bedroom. "And you ! If you know
what's good for you, you'll STAY PUT
!" and she slammed the bedroom door
closed. I knew there wasn't a lock
on it, but I didn't dare want to go
against her.
I tried to stay conscious but
couldn't and collapsed on the bed,
breathing heavily. Tyr whimpered
quietly from in the bathroom.
Stefani went to the computer and
started typing rapidly into it. I
had no idea what she was doing but
she was definitely going at it.
Someone arrived at her door. I
didn't know who. I heard her talk
quietly to them. Then I recognized
the sound of the laundry chute being
opened and she put something in
there, apparently to wash, and then
closed the chute again.
Several hours later Tyr was still
whining in the bathroom. Stefani had
enough and unlocked the bathroom and
got up in her face and shouted at
her, "Shut the F**K up you crying
little B***H !"
Suddenly Tyr was quiet, sucking on
her finger for all it was worth to
comfort her, though she continued to
shake in fear at the imposing and
fearful sight of Stefani towering
over her, her saucer-wide eyes
unblinking in terror.
Stefani went to her and tickled her
fingers in her hair her demeanor
totally reversed, "I'm sorry
sweetie. It's been a long day for
your aunt. Are you hungry ?"
END
OF CHAPTER 38
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