
humiliation ritual: the night after my first rape, i wet the bed for the first time since i’d been potty-trained.
brought to mind by these joggers i’m borrowing from a friend while i sleep at her house, which is thousands of of miles away from my own and shared with her mother who’d rather not see me walking around pants-less at night.
point being, at that time, i hadn’t worn pants to bed since i was a kid and had matching sets of pajamas from Christmas. the night after it happened, though, i’d put on a pair of soft, hello kitty-printed pants to sleep in. something about the extra layer between my skin and my bedsheets was important.
i didn’t dream. or i didn’t remember it. i must’ve woken up within ten seconds of starting, but i’d already felt the warmth collecting at my pussy and down the top of one of my thigh, pooling where my hip pressed against the mattress as i laid in the fetal position. i sprang up, my hand clasped over myself, and bat-out-of-hell ran to the bathroom in frenzied, utter confusion with myself. words from all the educational sexual assault picture books available at the school library bombarded me at once. typical sign of sexual abuse. but i’m not little anymore, i’m not. so why’d it happen?
gross little angel. poor thing.