When Tammy was about twelve years old, she started spending the night over her girlfriend Nikki’s house. They had a lot of fun listening to music, playing games, and playing on the phone. Nikki and Tammy would call people on the phone and ask them if their refrigerator was running. They would say hold on and the person would check, and when the person would come back to the phone and say yes, they would laugh at them and say, “You better go catch it,” and hang up the phone.
But one weekend, Tammy stayed over Nikki’s house, and her father was drinking some Cold Duck; he was a little drunk, and her mother was working the night shift. After Tammy and Nikki finished playing, they got ready for bed. Tammy was lying in the bed; it was late, and she was pretending that she was asleep, and Mr. Maxwell came in the room and laid down on the bed behind her when all of a sudden, he started rubbing her in between her legs. And then, it felt like she was peeing on herself. That’s when she felt his penis rubbing up against her panties, and the next thing she felt was his penis going into her virginal area. It hurt a little, but she didn’t say anything because she was afraid, and she didn’t want him to know that she was awake. Then she felt a warm sensation on her leg; Mr. Maxwell was moaning, and he said, “Oh, shit.” He stayed there for a few minutes, then he got up and left the room.
The next morning, Tammy got up and went to the bathroom, and she had blood in her panties. She couldn’t say anything or ask anyone because she didn’t want anyone to know what had happened. That morning at the breakfast table, Mr. Maxwell couldn’t even look at her, and she didn’t look at him either. Weeks went by, and nothing was ever said about it, except for the fact when Tammy’s mother was doing laundry, and she asked Tammy about the blood in her panties. Tammy told her mother that she was playing on the monkey bars at school; she fell and hurt herself. Tammy’s mother asked her was she okay, and Tammy said yes. But her mother looked at her as if she knew she was telling a lie. Her mother told her the next time something like that happens to let her know because she could seriously hurt herself and do some permanent damage to her kitty cat.
One day, while Nikki and Tammy were playing on the swings, she asked Tammy did she want to spend the night. Tammy asked her if her mother was going to be home this time, and Nikki said no, that her mother was out of town. And that her father thought it would be a good idea, so that I wouldn’t have to be alone. Tammy told her that she would have to ask her mother, and she would let her know, but the truth was, Tammy didn’t ask her mother because she didn’t want to stay over there anymore because of what he did to her. But when Tammy arrived home from school, her mother told her that she was dropping her off at Nikki’s house at six o’clock. She told her that Mr. Maxwell called and asked if she could spend the weekend with Nikki since his wife was out of town. That way, Nikki wouldn’t get lonely over the weekend with her mom being out of town. Tammy had no other choice; she had to go because she couldn’t tell her mother what had happened to her.
Her mother dropped her off around six o’clock; as her mother walked her to the door, something inside said to just tell her what happened. But Tammy realized this was something she could never tell because she was afraid of what would happen. Mr. Maxwell answered the door and greeted Tammy with a big hug but not like the kind of hug that you would give your daughter’s friend. Mr. Maxwell told my mother that he would bring me home on Sunday around four o’clock. My mother said that would be fine.
Mr. Maxwell ordered us some pizza and soda, and later that night, we had ice cream and cake. Tammy didn’t think anything of it at the time, but Nikki’s ice cream had some black things on it that looked like pepper. But Tammy didn’t say anything; she thought that was something that she would always have on her ice cream. While they were sitting watching the movie Salem Lot, Nikki said she didn’t feel good and that she was sleepy. Mr. Maxwell told her if she couldn’t make it to the end of the movie, it was okay; she could go to bed, and he called her a party pooper. Well, Tammy didn’t want to be up alone with Mr. Maxwell, so Tammy said she was going to bed also. He stated that she could make it to the end of the movie, and besides, it’s no fun watching it alone.
Nikki went to bed, and suddenly, he moved down on the sofa beside Tammy and he started saying things like, “You remember the last time when you stayed over here, and I came and got in the bed with you?”
Tammy told him that she didn’t know what he was talking about. Mr. Maxwell said he would refresh her memory because she knew what he was talking about. He put his hand in between her legs. Tammy pushed his hand away; she told him to leave her alone; she started to cry and told him if he didn’t stop that she would tell her mother on him.
Mr. Maxwell put his hand over her mouth, and he took her to his room in the basement. He had sex with her twice; he had his hand over her mouth and told her to shut the fuck up because he knew that she liked it. But he was wrong; she wanted to have sex but not with her best friend’s father. This wasn’t having sex; he was raping her. Mr. Maxwell told her if she told anyone that he would kill her and that her mother would never see her again.
He told her, “Besides, your mother wouldn’t care anyway,” and that she would say you were not telling the truth because everyone knows you are a big liar. Boy was he wrong. Tammy knew her mom and dad cared about everything that happened to her, and she was going to tell her mother when she went home. Tammy knew this would hurt her mom, and her dad would want to kill him. Tammy felt it was best that she never told, but Mr. Maxwell was going to pay for what he did to her.
Tammy stated, “I’m going to get him back if it’s the last thing I do.”
She didn’t care if Nikki was her best friend. He will pay out of his ass for what he did to her. She sat up and thought about what she was going to do to him; it got to the point that was all she could think about, and every time Tammy saw him, she would just smile at him and say to herself, You’re going to die.
Tammy started saving her lunch money so that she could buy what she needed to kill Mr. Maxwell because she didn’t want him to hurt anyone else. One weekend, Tammy asked her mom if she could spend the night over Nikki’s house. Her mother said it would be okay with her if Nikki’s mother Mary said yes.
Tammy went to the store to buy some rat poison when a lady walked up and said, “I have rats too, and I hate those things.”
Tammy got scared and put it back on the shelf and started to leave the store. The lady said, “You changed your mind?”
Tammy told her, “No, I forgot what kind my mother told me to get.”
She thought about pills; my mother takes pills when she was in pain, and they made her sleep, so Tammy felt if she gave Mr. Maxwell some of the pills, he would go to sleep and never wake up again. “Yeah, that’s what I will do. I’ll get some of Mom’s pills, and he will be gone.”
Her mom dropped her off about six o’clock. Nikki and Tammy talked and played games and watched TV. They had a lot of fun, but if Nikki knew what Tammy was about to do to her father, she would hate Tammy. Well, after dinner, they had ice cream, so Tammy took the pills and opened them and put them in Mr. Maxwell’s ice cream. She sat there and watched him eat all his ice cream; he even went back for seconds. Then Tammy wished she had not done it; she was afraid that someone would find out, but it was much too late. By then, Mr. Maxwell said he was going and take a shower and wait for Nikki’s mom to come in from work.
Mr. Maxwell took his shower and went into his bedroom and closed the door. Nikki’s mom came home about ten o’clock. She put the bags on the counter and asked, “Where was Steven?”
Nikki said, “Daddy is in the bedroom.”
Mrs. Maxwell put the things up she had in the bag, and then, she went into the bedroom. When suddenly, she screamed out, “Call the ambulance. Something is wrong with your father.”
The ambulance and the police arrived; the police officer asked a couple of questions, and then, Mr. Maxwell was taken to the hospital, but as they were leaving out the door with him, he looked at Tammy; she smiled and told him, “I hope you will be okay. But you won’t hurt me again.” But no one heard her; they were crying and upset. Tammy rode to the hospital with Nikki and her mother; they both were crying.