After Annie escaped from the horror of her “employment physical” – or, as she started thinking of it, her medical torment and research guinea pig visit – she raced home to release all of her pent up emotions. She felt so violated and at a loss of control, she couldn’t believe what had actually happened.

Upon arriving, she immediately stripped down and jumped in the hottest shower she could ever remember taking. She just wanted to scrub from her body all of the nasty feelings and virtual film left behind by that leering male nurse and the stranger in the waiting room. Scrub as she might, however, it just wouldn’t leave. What did, however, was the remaining dripping secretions from her vagina that had built up from all of that intimate manipulation. She felt it ooze out of her, down her labia, before she took a well-sudsed loofah to her vajayjay. She scrubbed and scrubbed leaving it red and swollen, and in pain, making her cry all the more.

Why was this happening to her? Why did it happen, and most of all, why was it going to happen again? She was a librarian, for fuck’s sake, she wanted to be a mousy little nerd girl who helped people find books and information in the public library! It was so entirely inconsistent that her mind simply couldn’t grasp it all as her new reality.

After her nearly hour-long scrub down session, with the water turning luke warm as the hot water ran out, she finally turned it off and exited, drying her body off with the fluffy pink bath sheet she had waiting for her. As she dried, she heard her roommate come back home after work. Her roommate! Her lawyer roommate! She was the one who verified the paperwork she’d signed, why didn’t she warn her? It was time, as her father used to say, for a serious Come-To-Jesus talk right now.

Annie wrapped her bath sheet around her, tucking the top of it in over the top of her sensitive breasts. As she did, feeling the tender tissue underneath from all of the manipulation and injections, she started thinking again about this “milk producing study” she had been forced into. Would her breasts grow? Would she actually start expressing milk from her breasts without having given birth? Without even having had sex before, in fact? The Virgin Mother’s Milk Manufacturer, she nicknamed herself, laughing at her little joke for a split second before it immediately turned to tears due to the fact that it wasn’t just a joke but her new horrific reality.

Finally, Annie stomped out of the bathroom into the living area where her roommate was sitting on the sofa, head down in silence, no tv or radio on, nothing. As she heard Annie’s footfalls she lifted and turned her head, tears running down her face, as she looked at Annie. Within a mere moment, however, she covered her face with her hands and started crying.

“What the hell, Meredith? You saw what those papers said and you told me to sign them?? Do you know what they did to me Mer? Do you have any idea what just happened to me? I hopped around in front of all of them, practically peeing my panties, while they watched! Then th-th-they…. “ Annie stammered a moment as the memories came flooding back. “They basically molested me, Meredith! They hurt me, they used me for research! I was their guinea pig! For fuck’s sake, Mer, they basted my, my, my … “ Annie sniffed back her snot and tears again as she continued, “ they basted my boobies like turkeys on thanksgiving! Six needles, Mer, Six….!!!!” Annie couldn’t handle it any more, and she just broke down into tears and the sobs came out like a broken dam.

Meredith was an Asian girl of slight build, cute (but red and wet with its own tears) face, nearly no bosom to speak of, was still wearing her work pantsuit. Her tears had started flowing right when she saw Annie, and only accelerated as Annie’s exclamations grew in volume and emotion. When Annie was nearly done with her tirade, if you could call it that, Meredith stood up and ran to Annie and embraced her.

“I’m sooo sorry, I’m here now, it’s okay, I’m here, Annabeth, I’m right here, and I’m so, so, so sorry!” The two girls held each other tightly, both sobbing, but Annie taking the lead on that front, absolutely bawling into her friend’s shoulder. Annie was taller by a few inches, but given Meredith’s diminutive stature of not even 5 feet, that wasn’t saying much.

After a good minute of sobbing and embracing, Annie finally managed to started collecting herself. In an instant, she went from hugging and bawling on her friend’s shoulder to pounding on her chest with her fists. “Why, Mer, whyyy??? And how?? How could you let that happen to me? You were my friend! I trusted you!” She kept pounding on Meredith until her tirade finally ended, and the two girls, faces full of tears and, yes, a bit of snot, just looked at each other while they caught their breath. Alice had finally gotten all of her emotions, her feelings of violation and betrayal, out in the open, and Meredith… Meredith wore a facade of guilt that told Alice that her feelings of betrayal were valid.

Annie watched her friend as she wiped away the remnants of her sobbing and sat back down on the sofa.

“I…you don’t know…I mean, I–” Annie watched her friend stumble through whatever words she was trying to get out, and then went to sit down next to her.

“What? What happened? Just say it. Why did you sell me out like that?” Annie was angry, but while she wasn’t in a forgiving mood, she could tell there was another story there.

“Okay. Remember when you gave me those papers to look over for you? I started reading through them and … well, I had some concerns. So I brought it into work and showed it to my boss. And she showed it to her…client. In the mayor’s office. And they called me in for a meeting where … where …” Meredith started crying again, unable to finish. Annie picked up her hand and held it while she looked into her friend’s eyes.

“What did they say, Mer? Did they threaten you?”

“They…they pulled out the papers that they made ME sign when I started there, and…the same fucked up stuff was there. But I didn’t read those. I just signed them. I signed them, Annie, I signed them too!” Meredith fell apart all over again, but this time Annie leaned over, wrapped her arms around her and held her until she got it out of her system.

“Th–th–they said…They said if I told you that they’d send me instead. And… and then they started telling me about some of the research they were doing, and … I’m so sorry Annie, I’m so so so sorry, I was so scared, and I – I didn’t know what to do, so I … I just did nothing. And now you’re suffering, and I’m trapped, and … and … this afternoon, they …” Meredith stopped speaking.

“What, Mer, what did they say?” asked Annie, her friend’s hands in her own.

“They told me that I had an appointment scheduled. I’m going to have to go with you when you go. And…I’m sooo scared, Annie, sooo scared!!!”

The girls knew they had no choice. They both signed. They knew that they’d be ruined if they didn’t do as they were told. So all they could do was wait until it was finally time.

Fortunately, they didn’t have to wait long.