Drugging her and hiding her in my basement until she comes to. Gently explaining to her when she wakes up that I saw something beautiful in her. âI know this must be confusing, but thatâs okay. You donât have to understand yet.â
She keeps wondering out loud where her clothes are, asking for them back. I tell her I have them right here- a neatly folded pile of new and nicely made clothes with tags. I had burned her ill fitting jeans and the nice but ugly polo shirt she had worn on our date.
âThose arenât mine.â She says tearfully as I help her dress. Her hair is still fairly short. That will be fixed with a few months here in my basement. She weakly struggles as I strip her, sheâs pleading at me not to look at her. I donât, but I already take gentle note of how fragile and thin and frail she is. I click my tongue in disapproval.
âYour chest is horribly flat.â I say, with obvious disappointment, pulling a blouse over her shoulders. A modest plaid skirt follows. âYour skin looks like itâd bruise if I breathed on it. Thatâll need to be fixed.â
She asks me what the hell Iâm talking about. And she realizes suddenly what Iâm doing. Sheâs heard about those horrible transsexual groomers on the morning radio, the nightly news. The stupid girl finally puts two and two together. The strange and gangly tomboy from her tinder date didnât quite look the part of someone who could drug and kidnap her.
I had seemed too weak then, over coffee. Iâd made sure of it, my hoodie pulled up over my bright blue hair. Little pins of my favorite cartoons on my bag. I didnât look like the type who could drag a six foot woman into the bed of my truck.
Sheâs crying profusely, and trying to hide it. I grab her by the hair and slap her across the face, as hard as I can. She cries harder and tries to pull away so I wonât see. I wonât let her. I make her look up at me with that pretty face full of tears.
âLet it all out darling.â I tell her, âYou donât get to hide that face. Cry for me.â
Her pretty eyelashes shine with little tears. Sheâll grow to fit the nice clothes I bought her. I have chili simmering on the stove upstairs. I have my strap sitting cleaned and prepped on my bed to bring down soon, so she can practice servicing with her mouth. Sheâll eat and then weâll get to work.
âWhat was my name?â I ask her softly, âOn our date?â
She replies tearfully with a girlâs name that isnât mine.
âLovely.â I say. âThatâs your name now. You can call me Dad.â












