also picking up their pace. Again she increases her speed, but now the guys are running to catch her and start hollering lewd comments as they get closer to her. Mariah stops and turns to face her four assailants.
“Hey, we are new in town, Kitten, how about showing us around and we can have lots of fun. We’ll be real nice to ya!” Another pipes up “We’d like to meet a few people, being new and all. We can go someplace nice and quiet and get to know one another. Mariah shakes her head and undeniable NO. and turns for home again thinking, it’s a small town, nothing will happen. They may think she was the town snob, but she didn’t care.
This time when they come up behind Mariah, two grab her arms while another pushes open a fence gate on the left that surrounds an abandoned property. Mariah tries to scream and as she panics and tries to kick, grab, scratch, punch, just anything for them to release her. Then she opened up her mind and screamed for her twin, Maranda, as a last effort to save herself.
As Mariah is going through the happenings in her mind, she was aware of the removal of her shoes and clothing. Mariah retreats into her mind and prays her sister heard her and will come rescue her soon.
Across town, Maranda and Tyler were sitting in a small diner sipping on cokes and eating pie as they laughed and joked. Learning much about each other and enjoying the quiet and privacy they had come here for. Then SLAM, Maranda sits straight up pales and says “Mariah, we have to find Mariah right now. NOW Tyler as she stands to head out of the door. My sister is in some kind of trouble!! Tyler throws money on the table and they flew out of the door. As they approach Tyler’s truck, Maranda keeps trying to communicate back with Mariah. “I’m on my way, please know I’m coming to you as fast as I can. Hold on Mariah!”
When Tyler and Maranda get back to the party no one knows or has seen Mariah. “Tyler we have to find her, she’s not here so she must have headed home after we left, let’s go!” Maranda pleaded.
Two blocks later Maranda sees a lone tennis shoe sitting on the sidewalk, red to match Mariah’s outfit. “Stop” Maranda screams as she is jumping out of the truck. Maranda runs to the fence and slams past the gate, then stops dead in her tracks. “Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Tyler call 911, now Tyler NOW!”
As Maranda leans over her twin sister, Mariah tries opening her eyes, but she has been beaten so badly she can barely see, but knows it’s her twin. “Maranda, help me please” is all she says before she passes out.
The ambulance along with the local police show up and did a great job of keeping onlookers away while the EMT’S did what they had to do to get Mariah ready for transport. The forensics lab was already on scene and getting pictures and samples. As they were all doing what needed to be done, Maranda texted her two older sisters and her parents. Maranda answered questions about allergies, medical background, and anything else they needed to know. Completely numb both mentally and physically, Maranda prayed for her twin, for it looked like they didn’t leave a single square inch of her body untouched or unabused.
As they rushed the gurney into the emergency room, both Mariah’s parents came rushing across the parking lot. Mom in a panic and Dad looking completely pissed. They wouldn’t let any of us in right away, then they finally sent for me, knowing we had a twin connection and I was suffering in Mariah’s place as she had receded into a comatose state.
Both parents and both older sisters got to come in when the test results came back, so the doctors could explain to us all at once and answer questions.
Mariah was hooked up to several machines, there were tubes running everywhere, it was a nightmare seeing her like this, for all of us.
“I’ll be blunt” the doctor started.” There are a lot of test results to get through so if you will hold your questions until I have finished, it’ll be faster and easier. “Mariah was both raped and sodomized. Raped by at least three and sodomized by at least two. Along with the multiple abrasions to her face, she has sustained 27 bite marks, many breaking the skin, 17 pinch bruises many in sensitive areas, multiple scratch marks and apparently the perpetrators saw the need to stand on her outstretched arms while actively violating her because her left wrist is broken in two places and her right badly bruised but not broken. Mariah has 3 broken ribs and is extremely lucky to be alive, however I’m not sure how. She has lost a lot of blood and we are going to give her a live transfusion from her twin, if you’ll agree, as they won’t be 18 for another month. We’ll need signatures on all the treatment paperwork. We are crossing our T’s and doting our I’s on this one so there is no questions when they catch these guys. As to be unconcious, I believe it was her escape route to what was happening to her. She should awaken soon once she feels she is in a safe enviroment, so any and all of you please talk to her, touch where you can and let her know you are all here.
There will be security guards assigned not only at Mariah’s room but downstairs and out front. Now, questions?
John jumped in first. “Is she being medicated to keep her asleep?” Replying the doctor told them Mariah was given some medication, but not enough to keep her comatose. I suggest we put her twin in the other bed in here, sedate her and start the blood transfer. Although Maranda wasn’t the victim she has suffered tremendous psychological and pain trauma herself since the twins records show they have a very strong connection. This has been excruciating for Maranda.
“Of course,” replied. “If Marnada wants to be with her as well as medicated, it is her decision, I’ll sign if that is what she wants.
So this was the trauma that shaped out entire family forever after.
Chapter One
Seven years Later…
Three of the assailants were caught and in prison…the other still at large. Three months after the court hearings John and Marilyn were killed in a strange car accident. While traveling down the interstate a cinderblock was thrown off the bridge as they passed underneath, smashed their windshield and caused a major accident. Still under investigation, nearly seven years later, it was considered a cold case and rarely looked at…life goes on for the Marten girls.
Skeeter and Sparky moved back home to be with the twins and they could all help each other any way they could. There was enough insurance money for all four of the sisters to finish their college education with the older two also working to take care of household expenses. Maranda finished her degree at the university campus, and Mariah finished hers mostly online, taking only the required classes for her degree at the University.
After over four years of therapy and many sit-down sessions with her three sisters, Mariah was finally back into public life. She still didn’t like large social gatherings, but then she’d never liked those anyway. After getting her degree in animal biology, she worked on her Masters concentrating of the American Wolf. She needed a job that would put her out in the field so she could experience the application of her studies and get her doctorate. After looking for several months, Mariah finally found just what she was looking for and needed to finish writing her doctoral thesis, although it was 500 miles away. The job was perfect. A government job with ARM, animal relocation management, on government protected land in the tri-state area of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. The company was supplying her with a four-wheel blue SUV, had payed the lease on a cabin for a full year and it was within a 2 mile drop-range for the wolf pack she would be studying to insure the location could work with the right circumstances. The area had already been surveyed for water and food resources, as well as caves and such for living spaces for them. Other than her three sisters flipping out on he. all was perfect.
Chapter Two
Maranda was working at the
