They run through it all together

“Molly?!?”

She abruptly woke with a start as the shadowy figure loomed over her bed called out her name. Thoughts of the people chasing and attacking in her fitful nightmare still lingered in her mind and she instinctively tried to skitter across her bed away from the possible intruder only to find herself tied up in the sheets and comforter as her panic rose.

“Molly, sweety, what’s wrong?” called out the shadowy figure as Molly’s brain knew she had to get away, she had to hide. Suddenly her world was flooded with painful white light assaulting her tired eyes as she winced. Closing her eyes she could still see stars as she whimpered and continued to struggle to free herself.

With her eyes closed she couldn’t see the invader approach her eyes closed, she didn’t see the invader move around to the other side of the bed as she continued to struggle blindly against the sheets.

When she felt the hand from the other side of her, Molly nearly lept out of her skin as she was sure she was fully trapped by two people now and these blasted sheets were not helping her.

“Molly, sweety,” the voice called out, “it’s me.” Molly’s tired and still **** & migraine-fatigued mind tried to make out the hazy figure through her squinted eyes as her brain struggled to place the voice. The gears finally all coalesced together, and the pieces dropped into place as her eyes opened wide. Thrilled and excited she shouted, “Katie!” as she struggled to get her arms out of the sheets and plunged her body around her lifelong friend.

It had been a long time since Katie had seen her friend in this disheveled state. She wasn’t always put together, but she hadn’t seen her this panicked. With her panic and disorientation, she was a near wreck and after being nearly tackled by her, Katie was just glad she could keep her footing.

“Sweety, what’s wrong? What did Paul do?” Katie asked as she patted Molly’s head, but the mention of Paul’s name just seemed to trigger her even farther into despair as she started crying more. She could tell talking wasn’t the immediate need for Molly, so Katie sat down next to her and just embraced Molly while she sobbed at her.

After several moments, Molly finally seemed to be calming down so Katie ventured a question, “you ready to talk about what happened or you need more time?”

Molly sat up sniffling away her tears and trepidatiously offered, “I think I’m ready.” Molly then looked around and back at her friend, “chocolate might make it easier though.”

Katie then giggled at her friend, “it's all set up in the living room. Let’s go sit somewhere more comfortably.” Molly silently agreed as she hung her head while she followed her friend out to the family room seeing quite the assortment of confections and was glad to see the wine Katie was pouring.

Katie sat and waited patiently for her friend to pick out a couple of pieces. However, she knew Molly would just sit there in silence, so as soon as Molly was sitting, Katie pressed before she had to time to come up with an excuse, “alright, spill, honey. What happened?”

Molly choked down the chocolate in her mouth and then followed along with long swig of wine. Looking at Katie, she could tell she wouldn’t let up, so Molly pressed on through and proceeded to tell her the details after a deep breath.

Katie was shocked at the stories that Molly relayed to her going through everything. Katie finally found words as Molly described “Vyki” coming into the hardware store, “and he did this voluntarily in a translucent dress? Couldn’t he have been arrested?!?” Molly shuttered, “I don’t know; I guess he could have.” Relaxing from her second glass of wine, Molly then giggled remembering back to the parking lot and the scene she walked up on.

“What’s so funny?”

Molly wasn’t relaying all the sexual escapades in details, but had at least been letting Katie know the general items, “well, when I got out to the car, she was finishing up a hand job on the old guy; just not something I expected.”

“OMG! Seriously?!?” Katie asked, flabbergasted.

Molly just blushed and nodded as she finished off her glass and held out for another refill.

As she poured the wine, Katie realized something, “wait. You called Paul ‘she’ just then. Do you see him more as ‘Vyki’ then?”

“Huh?” Molly said questioning herself, missing nearly spilling the glass as she plopped back on the couch, “at that moment, I guess so,” she responded thoughtfully before chuckling, “just hard to think of Paul jerking off another man, so was seeing the slut he was playing to the hilt.” Then a shiver went down her back as her tone turned more serious, “but thinking about the situation I left him in, I still picture Paul just dressed up.”

Katie let it sit for a few beats as Molly nervously sipped her wine before asking, “and what situation is that?”

Molly took another sip and held out her glass with wine still in it to get a refill she knew she’d need before telling Katie about the trip out to the dungeon.

“...and that’s when I sent those boys to take Paul his inhaler.”

Katie just shook her head as she waited for Molly to regain her composure, before something dawned on her, “wait, didn’t they say there’s something wrong with using that stuff too much?” Katie asked genuine worry.

Molly gulped down, “I don’t know! Is there?”

Katie broke out her phone to see if she could find any details on it, but there was nothing. Reaching out to Nico and Xane, she could tell they were offline, but sent a message anyway. They continued to try searching for the name of the meds but couldn't remember the name and was coming up short.

Author's note: Sorry for the delay. Life still getting away from me. Still have a few more chapters with Molly and then you'll get to see Vyki return home! Thank you all so much for sticking with this and look forward to more in the near future!!