That Morning

I manage to get up and walk as best as I can considering what happened to me and where I’ve been sleeping. The front door was already open and when I went in the only sounds came from the dining area. Someone had just went out the back door, leaving Hattie as the sole occupant of the room. I didn’t want to confront her but I did find myself hungry from the activity of the previous night.

I was hoping that I could sneak in and get a piece of toast before that bitch saw me. But of course that was when a twig caught in my skirt decided to snap in two to alert Hattie that I was there.

“Well if it isn’t Ella!’ Hattie sat at the table with a shit eating grin plastered all over her face. “Don’t tell me, let me guess you had a ‘date’ after the Harvest Ball?”

I didn’t let her jab get to me, I just moved closer to the table and reached out for a piece of toast. But the next thing out of her mouth got to me.

“Say Ella, is it true that you wouldn’t say no to any of my friends trying to cop a feel of you?”

Before I stopped myself I responded in such a way that my mother would have turned over in her grave when she heard me say it. “Bitch! Your friends would never get from me what they get from you nightly since you came to Frell!”

Hattie bolted out of her seat. “You take that back!” then after coming around the table to grab me by the lapel of my blouse “Or better yet, why don’t you go find the stable hands and tell them to fuck you!”

I wanted to say something to her but once more my birthright prevented me by making me move to the back door and going through it. In my mind I could picture Hattie standing there with an even bigger shit eating grin on her face. I screamed inside to stop but my legs took me straight to the stables where the hands were gathered preparing to do their assigned tasks for the day.

Going in through the open door, I close it behind me loud enough to get the attention of all the hands. In a confident voice I spoke up “ Fuck me!, all of you fuck me!”

The two youngest looked scared and turned to go to the rear exit of the stables, the remaining four came at me and just like the previous night, my peasant blouse and skirt were off and I was escorted, nay pulled into a vacancy stall and made to lay down.