Loneliness contributed to Elaine's ultimate lapse of certain scruples
and principles. She succumbed easily to Miss Faversham's seductive
charm without realizing that what she was persuaded to do was wrong or
in any way abnormal. She craved affection, and Miss Faversham offered
love, but wanted to establish physical intimacy, to fondle and caress
the girl and be similarly kissed and handled. Elaine, mistaking sexual
longing for innocent and sincere devotion, allowed Miss Faversham to
indulge her depraved appetite. She obeyed all the scheming, middle-aged
teacher's demands or suggestions, until her naive philosophy gave way
to reality and Elaine realized she was participating in sexual orgy in
the guise of intimate friendship.
Her fastidious nature rebelled then, even though exposing herself to
Miss Faversham and repeatedly seeing the woman's coarse nakedness,
their mutual fondling and caressing of each other's secret parts, the
furtiveness, passionate entreaties, and suggestive coaxing, had not
seemed obscene, merely distasteful. The older woman had, in fact,
aroused Elaine's curiosity, and introduced her to mutual masturbation
and, eventually, cunnilingus, but in the end disgust had triumphed over
the girl's dormant baser emotions, and she had abruptly severed the
association. Now, Miss Faversham had another pet, probably several, and
she no longer pestered Elaine.
Standing naked before the long mirror, Elaine appraised her
voluptuous figure, and eventually made a study of her sex organs—a
firmly established habit performed semiconsciously—intrigued by the
softness of her vagina when she separated the moist, clinging lips. But
she frowned when she disturbed the silken bush of jet-black pubic hair
densely tufted around her puckering slit and sprouting from the pouting
vulva. She hated the long, shaggy growth which she considered coarse
and unclean. It made her feel like an animal. She had often tried to
get rid of it but it always returned thicker than before.
Contemplating her body, Elaine was reminded of the essential
difference between her genitals and the male reproductive organs. Until
she attended Cranfield High she had seen an adult penis only in books,
but her studies here included biology, and her education in sexual
matters was speedily accelerated both by Miss Faversham and the
school's caretaker, a vulgar, deformed creature whose attitude toward
Elaine was, from the very beginning, lecherously insulting. Elaine was
afraid of the man, not because of the grotesque hump on his back but
because his face was positively evil and his offensive manner repelled
her. Above all she resented being continually watched and followed. The
caretaker's eyes seemed to observe Elaine's every movement. They were
horrible eyes, bulging and bloodshot, and sometimes held an expression
of sheer malevolence. Wherever Elaine went Josh Meadows was there,
smirking and grimacing, making obscene gestures and remarks. He
delighted in taunting and tormenting her, deliberately fingering the
swollen front of his pants and drawing Elaine's attention to his
genitals, rubbing the large ridge created by his penis which seemed in
a perpetual state of erection. His furtive, suggestive behavior failed
to convince Elaine that Meadows was anything but a repugnant cripple
with filthy habits, disturbing but harmless. She ignored his crudely
lascivious attempts to convey carnal motives and establish intimacy,
but pitied rather than condemned him.
Eventually, however, his manner coarsened until it became, at times,
terrifyingly threatening and Elaine was reduced to a constant state of
fear, repugnance, and acute apprehension. She could no longer ignore
the hunchback's vile intentions. He made it increasingly plain what he
wanted from her. Elaine was not the only girl Meadows molested. Some of
them actually encouraged the man, pandering to his perverted instincts
and accepting candy and sometimes money in return. Other girls, aware
of the hunchback's lewd interest in Elaine, mocked her pitilessly,
playing on her fears with disgusting tales of incidents involving
Meadows.
Yet somehow it did not occur to Elaine to report the caretaker's
conduct. She suffered agonies of nervous tension. Inevitably, the time
came when she was faced with her moment of truth. She was passing a
clump of rose bushes growing beside the high fence bordering the campus
when Meadows suddenly appeared and trapped her in the restricted space
between the fence and a large tree. Unable to turn or to push past, she
shrank back. Some of the color left her cheeks. There was nobody else
within sight.
Meadows' slack mouth was working loosely. Saliva gathered at the
corners. His expression was maniacal, and he kept chuckling obscenely.
“Not so fast, girl,” he gritted. “It's time you and me had an
understandin'.”
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