Morbid

“On that happy note, I have got to go and buy some groceries.” Annie said.

“We can all go.” Kelly said and stood up.

“That's okay. I'm a big girl and I can push a cart all by my lonesome.” Annie said with a chuckle. “You two stay here and visit with each other and I'll be back in a little while.”

Kelly watched Annie grab her keys and walk down the hallway, then the front door opened and shut.

“We have about three hours before she comes home.” Arnold said, which was one of the first times he actually volunteered information and didn't wait to be asked.

“Three hours.” Kelly said and he nodded. “Then... then we can...” She stopped talking and took his hand, then led him up the stairs. They went to his old room, which was also her new room, and she had him sit on the bed. “I've been thinking about this for a while now, and...” She walked to the side two paces, turned around and walked four paces to the left, then crossed her arms and looked at him. “Arnold, I want to try sex.”

“Okay.” Arnold said and stood up, then stripped off and put his clothes on the chair by the desk. Kelly's face was red at how quickly he had stripped off in front of her and now she could see all of him. Her body reacted to her mind making the decision and she blushed as she felt warm all over. She didn't move and Arnold did the same to her and undressed her.

Kelly trembled a little from excitement, because she had finally decided that this was going to happen, and Arnold kissed her several times and then laid her down on the edge of the bed. He knelt between her legs and got to work preparing her. She moaned as he kissed and licked her all over her special place and then he used a finger. After a few minutes, he used two and tried to stretch the hymen.

Kelly twitched when he did and he gave her a few extra licks to distract her. Arnold knew what was going to happen when he tried to put his penis inside of her, so he stood up and sat down beside her.

“Arnold?” Kelly opened her eyes and looked at him. Before she could ask him what was wrong, he spoke.

“Kelly, this is going to hurt.” Arnold said and put a hand on his hardness.

Kelly let out a sigh. “I know.” She said. “I've read a lot about it and I also talked to Annie.”

Arnold turned his head to look at her. “I read a lot, too.”

“I'm sure that... I can take it.” Kelly said. “She said it would only hurt a little.”

Arnold recalled the words that Doris said and repeated them for her. “Kelly, it could be anything from a light pinch to feeling like being stabbed.”

Kelly gasped and put a hand over her mouth. “R-really?”

Arnold nodded. “You are really sensitive down there and when I lick your hymen, you really feel it.”

Kelly reluctantly nodded. She really did enjoy it a bit too much. “Arnold, I... I still want to try.”

“I don't want to hurt you.” Arnold said.

Kelly caught her breath and sat up. “Arnold, I... if it does hurt, I forgive you in advance.” She said and hugged him, which pressed her breasts into his chest. “I love you and I won't get angry at you. Okay?”

Arnold nodded and Kelly laid back down, then he dug into his backpack and pulled out an unopened box of condoms. The sight of that touched her heart, because it meant that he hadn't opened them and used some with anyone else.

“You haven't had sex with anyone since you broke up with Heather.” Kelly whispered.

“No.” Arnold said and put a condom on. He used a tissue to wipe off his hands, then he bent down to kiss her between the legs. Kelly squirmed at the intimate touch, then he placed himself near her opening. Her hymen was only a couple of centimeters from the surface, so it wasn't going to take long for them to find out if it was going to hurt or not.

Arnold looked at her face and she nodded. He rubbed himself up and down on her, then pushed forward slightly. Kelly grit her teeth as she felt it, then he pushed a little more. The condom squeezed him down a little, so the tip wasn't as pronounced as it usually was, so it moved in a bit further than if he didn't have the condom on. Kelly grunted at the pressure and she gripped the blanket she was on as Arnold pushed in a bit more, then Kelly felt like someone punched her in the vagina as her hymen started to tear.

“Owowowowow!” Kelly said in a continuous stream and Arnold pushed the tip through. “OWWW!” She yelled and pushed him off, then she grabbed herself between the legs and she cried. “Owowowow.”

“Kelly?” Arnold asked and she shook her head. He looked down at himself and the condom was covered in blood. He bent down and looked to see a lot of blood between her fingers as it seeped through. He immediately thought of the warnings about rare cases of excessive bleeding when a thicker hymen was torn and he went to the bathroom and grabbed the small first aid kit.

“N-n-no, I'm... I'm fine.” Kelly said, her eyes full of tears.

“Kelly.” Arnold said in a stern voice and that made her gasp, because she had never heard that tone from him before. “Move your hands.”

Kelly thought about refusing, then slowly moved her hands out of the way. A steady stream of blood came from her and the blanket was getting soaked. Arnold did his best to try and stop the bleeding and it seemed to slow down a little... but, it didn't stop.

“It's not stopping.” Arnold said and picked up his phone and hit the auto-dial for his mother. “Mom, I need help. I don't know what to do.” He said and explained what was going on. “Okay.” He said and hung up. “She'll be right here.”

Kelly shook her head and grabbed some gauze and covered herself to try and staunch the bleeding. “No, I'll be fine.”

“We're going to the hospital.” Arnold said and took off the condom and washed up, dressed in a flash, much faster than he had undressed, then he replaced the gauze Kelly held and then put her panties on. He grabbed a skirt and put it on her and then put a shirt on her.

Once they were dressed, he carefully took her downstairs and opened the front door to wait. He didn't have to wait long as Annie screeched the car's tires and barrelled down the street. She jammed on the brakes and pulled into the driveway, then she was out of the car and helped Arnold put Kelly into the backseat.

Arnold climbed in with her and held her as Annie drove them to the hospital. To their extreme luck, it was early enough in the day that the emergency room at the hospital wasn't very busy. They only had to wait twenty minutes to see a doctor and she gave Kelly a terse and thorough examination.

“Your case isn't as rare as you think.” The doctor said as she grabbed some stitching supplies from the cabinet, including some topical anaesthetic, then explained how the body seemed to put veins and arteries in places where you wouldn't think they should go. “These stitches dissolve on their own, so you won't have to worry about coming back in here to get them removed.”

“Stitches? But...” Kelly looked at Arnold's blank face.

“Yes, I know.” The doctor said and kept working. “You might have this problem again if... ah...” She looked at Arnold's crotch for a second and Kelly understood. “You'll need to be careful for a few weeks, at least until the stitches dissolve and the soreness fades, then you can try having sex again.”

“Will it be as...” Kelly glanced at Arnold's face and then at the doctor. “...painful?”

“You've got a good tear down there now, so it shouldn't hurt as much next time. It was just bad luck that it tore right on a blood vessel, so you need to be careful about how... vigorous you are.”

Kelly nodded and she couldn't meet Arnold's eyes this time.

“Thank you very much, doctor.” Annie said, her voice full of relief.

“I'm an attending OBGYN, so you were both unlucky and lucky today.” The doctor said and smiled as she tossed out the disposable things she had used and put the tools she used onto a small rack beside the door marked 'sterilize'. “It balanced out, hopefully.”

Annie let out a sigh.

“You can rest here for a bit and I'll come back to check and see that you're okay.” The doctor said. “If everything is good, you can go on home.”

“Thank you.” Kelly said.

“Just make sure you wash well after you pee and I suggest taking a stool softener for a few days, just to ease the stress on that part of your body.” The doctor said and left them in the small curtained off area.

“I'm really glad you're okay.” Annie said and gave her a hug.

“Me, too.” Kelly said and still couldn't look at Arnold. They stood and sat there in silence for several minutes, until a familiar woman's voice cut through the nearly empty ward.

“Where's my little girl?!?”

“In here, mom.” Kelly said. A second later, Katheryn was through the curtain around the bed and hugged her daughter.

“My baby.” Katheryn said and had tears in her eyes when she let Kelly out of the hug. “Are you really okay? We talked to that nice doctor and she said you were.”

Kelly nodded, then the curtain moved again and her father stepped in. He took Kelly's hand for a second and then glared at Arnold.

“You hurt my daughter.” Kenneth said accusingly and Arnold looked at him with a blank face.

“Dad!” Kelly said loudly.

“He hurt you and he needs to answer to me for that.” Kenneth said.

“Now isn't the time for this discussion.” Annie said and took her son's hand.

“Yes, I hurt her.” Arnold admitted.

“Arnold, I said not now.” Annie said.

“It's been nothing but one bad thing after another with you around my daughter.” Kenneth said. “I don't want you dating her anymore.”

“DAD!” Kelly yelled.

“Kenneth!” Katheryn gasped.

Arnold looked down at where Kelly's crotch would be if it wasn't covered by the bed sheet and then looked back at her father. “Okay.”

“Arnold!” Annie exclaimed.

“You said... you said that we wouldn't break up... if we couldn't have sex.” Kelly said with tears in her eyes and her mother nodded.

“You asked me for sex and I couldn't give it to you.” Arnold said. “All I did was hurt you when I tried. I don't want to hurt you anymore.”

Kenneth nodded and Annie shook her head.

“No one should be making rash decisions right now.” Annie said. “We should wait and...”

“No.” Arnold said and cut her off. “Kelly needs to find someone with a smaller penis, so she can have sex that won't hurt her.”

Katheryn and Annie caught their breath and Kenneth closed his eyes to try and forget what he just heard.

“A-Arnold, you... you're hurting me by breaking up with me.” Kelly said as tears rolled down her face.

“You can still live with my mom for the rest of the summer. She needs your help until then.” Arnold said and stepped towards the curtain and turned back to look at Kelly's crying face. “I'll see you again when college starts and you move into my dorm room officially.”

“WHAT?!?” Katheryn and Kenneth yelled.

“Kelly's my roommate.” Arnold said. “The room's paid for and there's an extra bed. It's Kelly's. She can keep an eye on me for my mom and you don't have to pay for her to stay at the college.”

Katheryn was stunned to hear this, and Kenneth couldn't string two words together to say anything. Arnold waited for a moment for someone to speak, then opened the curtain and left.

“Is that true?” Katheryn asked and looked at her daughter's embarrassed face.

“It's true.” Kelly said and looked at Annie. “But... that was when... I was his girlfriend.”

“Don't give up on him yet.” Annie said. “I'll talk to him and...”

“He won't change his mind.” Kelly said and a few more tears rolled down her face. “If there's one thing I know about him, it's that once he decides something, then that's it.”

“Kelly.” Katheryn said. “Why didn't you tell us?”

“That's why.” Kelly said and nodded at her father, who looked like he was in a catatonic state.

“When were you going to tell us you would be living together?” Katheryn asked.

“I wasn't planning on telling you at all.” Kelly said. “It was going to cause too many problems.”

“You... are not... staying with... that...” Kenneth mumbled.

“Go pay the medical bill, honey.” Katheryn said and her husband nodded and left. She waited for a few moments and spoke. “What do we do now?”

“Is there anything we can do?” Annie asked. “I think I have to agree with Kelly on this. Arnold won't be easily convinced to be her boyfriend again.”

Kelly touched her pelvic bone with her hands and let out a sob and started to cry in earnest. Both her mother and Annie reached for her and put hands on her shoulders and on her hands, almost as a direct mirror to the other woman's movements. Annie and Katheryn exchanged similar sad looks in understanding. Katheryn looked down at her daughter and Annie looked down at the girl she had thought of as a daughter-in-law.

Neither of them knew what they were going to do now.

*

Arnold took the bus back home and walked the two streets to get back to the house. Just as he arrived at his yard, the bushes nearby rattled and Kevin jumped out and tackled him. Arnold rolled with it and grabbed on, then the two of them rolled for a few feet and Kevin landed on top.

“I got you now, you fucker!” Kevin said and hauled his hand back to punch Arnold in the face. Arnold reached up and raked his fingernails across Kevin's face. The punch turned into a hand covering his face from a follow up attack and then strong fingers dug into his neck. Kevin choked and brought his arms down to break the hold Arnold had on his neck and then punched Arnold in the face.

“You killed my best friend!” Kevin said and punched him again. When he tried the third time, Arnold moved his head and grabbed the sleeve of his shirt to hold him and then punched Kevin in the side, right where his kidney was. Kevin grunted from the shot, because it was a solid shot, then Arnold did it again and again.

Kevin tried to roll away from the heavy body shots and Arnold kept a hold of his shirt. Instead of escaping, it pulled Arnold over on top of him and now it was Kevin's turn for a few hits to the face as he tried to scramble away. Arnold didn't stop at just one hit, though. He remembered the last time they had a fight and there was no vice-principal to intervene this time. It was unfortunate for Kevin that Arnold had learned from his mistake last time and he didn't use his fists.

Arnold used his elbows and forearms.

“FREEZE!” A woman's voice yelled and the sound of a gun being cocked was superfluous to her shout. Kevin's face was a mangled mess again and Arnold's forearms had some blood on them.

“Get up off of the victim slowly.” Detective Tanner said.

“I'm the victim.” Arnold said and stood up with his hands in the air. “He tackled me from the bushes there.” He pointed. “We landed and rolled there.” He pointed again and clear signs of a struggle could be seen. “He hit me several times and I managed to turn the tables on him, just as you miraculously showed up.”

“That's a likely story.” Detective Tanner said and didn't lower her gun. “I only saw you assaulting the victim.”

“You're wrong.” Arnold said. “I have a restraining order against him. He violated it. I want him charged and arrested for assault and criminal trespassing.”

“I'll be the judge of who gets charged with what.” Detective Tanner said and Arnold smiled.

“Then I am very glad that the neighbours are all standing around and staring at you.” Arnold said.

“What?” Detective Tanner kept her shooting stance and only moved her eyes as she glanced around.

“Beth was nice enough to keep one of her security cameras on my mother's house after it was vandalized.” Arnold said and waved one of his raised hands. “Hi, Miss Smith.”

“Hi, Arnold.” A woman's voice said from behind the detective.

“Did you see everything that happened?” Arnold asked.

“I called the police immediately.” Beth said. “I'll give them a copy of the footage when the proper authorities get here.”

Detective Tanner took in a deep breath and let it out, then eased herself out of her shooting stance. She put the safety back on her gun and holstered it.

“You followed me from the bus stop to here and I asked if you were here to see someone or if it was because of a crime. You said no and left.” Arnold said. “Did you lie? Did you know this was going to happen and came back?”

“WHAT?!?” Beth yelled and stomped over around the detective and glared at her. “You intentionally put this wonderful young man and his mother in danger?” She said loudly. “You horrible woman! What's your name? I want to make sure my call to the police station has your name right!”

Goddammit. Detective Tanner thought.