Taking a Prisoner
Part 2
The plan was simple since church wouldn't start until one p.m. since we had the late schedule from one to four. Dad helped me and Jared to a wheelchair. Making sure we were both well-covered so we wouldn't be exposed to the public. After both of us had refused to wear the girlish hospital gowns and put us inside the car. Mr. Vincent brought us to a guy who does special effects in movies known as a makeup artist. Which was the coolest thing since sliced bread. And what boy in their right mind would turn down a chance to be in a movie or dressed up looking gross that would curl your mother's toes?
It wasn't hard to lie on your stomach for at least three hours, as the latex dried. Considering you couldn't move anyway, other than slight movements that didn't hurt or made you too tired to even try. As they airbrushed and painted your backside as you looked into a mirror. Watching them turn your back into a gross mess of open wounds as if Jared and I had been whipped severely by a cattail whip, a real one and not a fake one. Mom did her best to keep us modest enough but gave up because it only made things more difficult for the guy and his wife painting our backsides.
Dad helped kill the time by telling me all that had happened after our escape. Telling us the moment they saw us leaving they wasted no time chasing after us. I said. "We hadn't noticed." Causing Mr. Vincent to laugh telling Dad our side of the story regarding Jeff's help and how we managed to scare off our would-be attackers and kidnappers. Asking Mr. Vincent if he could identify them, watching him shake his head said. "They were all wearing dark clothing and were wearing masks that all he knew was that they said Crawford wanted us really bad."
Dad continued stating that everything had been taken care of once the police arrived. That he had made a quick copy of the evidence tape of what had happened during my test. The only thing the cops would find would be a tape of Gloria when was standing over me as she tied me to the floor of the tub and tried to drown me, forcing me to have sex with her while being handcuffed to the floor. And then as she raped me and Jared.
I didn't know that she had until Mom said she had taken Jared and locked him in my room and tied him to the bed and raped him. Using the same fake penis as she had with me. I didn't tell her I knew Gloria had taken Jared or the fact I had heard what was going on behind the door where I was held, prisoner. Mom said Gloria was angry because Jared didn't scream like she wanted him to, and neither would he rape his brother, Jason, as Shawn and Arthur did.
Instead, she threatened him that if he couldn't convince me to have sex with him, she would kill him. The tape showed her whipping me, fake blood or not, it looked real enough to me and the cops. Wanting to charge her with child abuse and attempted murder once they find her. All the sex we had together was missing from the video, except where she had me tied down to the tub floor.
In some ways, I was glad because personally, it was one thing I really didn't want to remember how good the sex was with a cold-hearted monster. I asked Mom about her family and her husband named Hank. Mom said she has two girls around my age fifteen and sixteen and two boys' twins who are both seventeen, and they go to my school and so do their sisters, but they live with their father Hank. He divorced her several years ago and he has been remarried since then.
He worked for Mr. Vincent as his Gardner for the last ten years when he moved here from the nudist colony. She said. "No, they weren't being threatened in any way or form. It was a lie, like everything else she told you and Jared. So you would think that she was only doing her job under the same pressure by the people that she represented if that's what you are thinking?"
I didn't tell her that Jeff had told me that, yet did prove once again he wasn't lying to me. As far as I knew, he had never once lied to me, why did I keep accusing of him doing so I didn't know. I didn't want to know the truth about the people around me.
I nodded it was, and she said. "You should know. Those people she represented are no longer living as nudists. Nor have been in over twenty years. They were looking for revenge for what your Dad and I had done, choosing not to be a part of butchering children. Instead of finding a different solution because many of those children could have been helped. The ones that couldn't have, we believed they should have been kicked out and sent to live somewhere where they could live out their lives in peace or until they raped someone else, then send them to prison." Again, proving that Gloria had lied to me and that her own body told me she was when she was naked in front of me.
"We hadn't heard from Gloria in years until she had been hired on as a housekeeper. We didn't have any proof regarding the death of the two boys, or that she had poisoned the other boys after she had tested them and found them not being involved other than being raped by your Dads father. Again, without proof, we couldn't act or prevent Gloria from working as a housekeeper. So instead, Mr. Vincent placed cameras all over the house. And we had decided it was best to keep her close and our eyes open. Instead of worrying if she was killing other people's children. It wasn't a risk we were willing to take once we had her in our grasp."
Dad took over taking a seat as Mom gave us each a sip of water from a straw as we laid as still as possible. Waiting for the latex to dry that we would wear when we are out in public, or while we went to church and school. True we could have been home-schooled like last time, but Dad and Mr. Vincent said it would be better if we were seen out in the open for their plan to work. Jared and I thought it would be neat to be pushed around in a wheelchair. Letting the girls look at us without our shirts on and we could go barefoot if we wanted to, and the school couldn't stop us. With the doctor's order where they got one, I could only guess that Mr. Stringham was involved.
Dad continued and said. "Years went by and so far, Gloria seemed to have kept her promises regarding housekeeping, and she would fill in from time to time babysitting our children. Knowing we were watching her. After all the boys and the girls that she had been hired to test had to be at least fifteen, according to our laws. She had proven that she was capable of being trusted again. How stupid could we be to believe that knowing what we know now?
" Anyway, we didn't have proof regarding what happened in the nudist colony, and we agreed to the usual coming-of-age tests that we give all our children when they have turned fifteen or sixteen. To see if they can handle responsibility, not proving if they were tainted, not proving they had been violated, or if they were willing to do so if they buckled under the pressure. We even modified them so they became routine, and became the new standard we would use for the test.
"By the time we had stopped Shane from being drowned, it was too late as she was giving him mouth-to-mouth. Apologizing to us that the tub faucet malfunctioned and started to fill the tub on its own. Unlike you, she didn't try to freeze him to death with hypothermia. Nor did she do this kind of test with any of your sisters. The moment we had taken Shane out of the tub and got him out of the room we found that someone had rigged the faucet to burst open, but we couldn't prove it because it looked like a blown gasket. But she said she had seen enough that Shane had passed the coming-of-age test. The next time the test was given was Jody's turn.
"We had the room checked from top to bottom. Mr. Vincent personally checked the faucet and made sure everything was brand-new and in good working order. We also made it clear that none of our children would be tied down like you and Shane were. She didn't have a problem with that and even allowed someone to stay in the room just in case there was a problem. When they are told to remain seated, and not to remove the blindfold, proving they could follow orders regardless of not knowing why.
"Something we knew would test them if they removed the blindfold to see if we were kidding after sitting there forever, in total silence, as the room temperature drops as you sit there in the dark. Wondering what the heck is taking her so long as the room grows colder. If you removed the blindfold you would have failed, the test proving you couldn't be trusted to follow orders we would give you in the future.
"We would retest you again when you reached your next birthday until you did pass the test. Then given another test proving that you could be trusted under pressure. Not by extreme torture like she did with you. Knowing that your parents had beaten you many times, as well as I, had done when you first came to live with us. We told her not to even think about it and she agreed that it would only provoke an episode. Yet again she lied to us, soon after when her people stormed the house and took us all prisoner.
"Shawn too was tested, but at the time Gloria wasn't available, and Shawn was about to reach the age of testing. We had decided to do it so we could give him more responsibilities, like taking care of Arthur when Shane needed to help me with the other boys we had decided to foster. Making sure they stayed at their tasks each day and under control. Mom and I oversaw the tests, she and I would each do a part of the testing to see if Shawn was capable of following our orders to the letter, no matter who was giving the orders. Not the test you were given, as she whipped you hoping to either put you into an episode or break you.
"He had passed, and we assumed at the time that we could handle doing our own testing. Well until you came along, and your friend Jeff turned our lives upside down. Finding that Shawn wasn't capable of the responsibilities we had given him. Yet as you know at the time, we didn't know about Shawn raping other boys or his own brothers for that matter. We didn't even know that other boys we had taken in had been doing so for a very long time as we do now. Or even about him and Arthur, but now we know, and we both know that we were wrong, but all we can do is move on. Making sure Shawn and Arthur are kept on a very tight leash, unable to hurt anyone, unable to rape anyone including each other.
"Perhaps Gloria was right if she had given Shawn the test knowing what his grandfather had done and what Shawn and Arthur had done. We wouldn't be in this mess right now. But neither would we have killed them or beat them into submission, like Gloria tried to do with you and Jared, and then move on down the line to your younger brothers if we didn't stop her when we did.
"It was a miracle that Bishop Sakes and Bishop Earl and as well as Bishop Lanwall and our good friend Brother Nile's showed up when they did. I am assuming I have your friend Jeff to thank for that. Considering they had all gone out of town for a conference in Salt Lake City regarding church business."
I nodded that it was Jeff that brought the Calvary; it also explained why it took them so long to rescue me. It didn't explain why nobody responded to the alert when he pushed the button.
Dad said. "It makes me so angry that we trusted her all these years. Thinking she wasn't the person we had thought she was. After all, we never proved that she had killed those boys, Thinking all this time they had ended their own lives. We didn't know until it was too late when Hank her ex-husband broke open the door before she could kill you and Jared. Being so startled she made a quick decision rather than kill you too just tranquilized you both.
"Knowing, either way, you and Jared were still going to die and by that time she would have fled before it happened, leaving Mr. and Mrs. Vincent and us to be charged for killing you and Jared, but most of all getting her revenge.
"Like Mom and I have said we were locked inside a room unable to stop her, as we watched you and Jared being tortured. If it wasn't for Hank and them breaking the door down and stopping her, we hate to think what could have happened. Once we discovered that she had modified the whip to make it look and act real as well as the knife. We had no proof that she tried to kill you, considering she made it look like she had, by using the tranquilizer as we watched you fall to the ground as she smiled telling us that she hadn't killed you. Showing us the tranquilizer and the knife that she used was fake telling us to check you.
"Once we had, found that you and Jared had only been tranquilized and unharmed, telling us that you both had passed the test. We removed you from the room thinking that she had done nothing more than prove her point that you couldn't be broken. It wasn't until we had captured her and taken her prisoner. Finding out that she had been ordered to kill both of you if you had chosen to sexually rape Jared, or if you had chosen the third option of total isolation.
"She didn't expect you to choose to die. She had expected you to do what the other boys have done. Given the same tests she had given in the past when she and we lived at the nudist colony. When other boys and their Dads are caught raping each other as well as their friends. As I have told you, it was a rarity, but it does happen.
"But she didn't tell us that she had poisoned you both. Instead, she packed her bags and was about to flee when she called Crawford and told them were you are and your brothers. Thinking she was just calling for help to help her move out of the house after being fired and considering the police were still investigating, and yet hadn't proven that she tried to kill you by providing a distraction that would keep us busy protecting you while she made her getaway.
"Hoping that by the time you boys have died she be halfway around the world. So now you know everything and why we have decided that it would be best to play along with her cruel little joke. Making it impossible for her to get away with it as she sees your boy's back, and that you are indeed still alive. Hoping to not only expose her, but also Crawford and the people he has organized to carry out his orders. Dad didn't say it, but I knew that he lied to me when he said, it only had been a half hour or so before he revived me and Jared with the anti-tranquilizer.
It wasn't a big deal and personally, I really didn't want to know. Yet it also said I needed to really find out how fast the drug works. That meant I needed to tell Stringham so he could test the theory in real-time. Man, I hated keeping secrets, but with Jeff back and knowing those missing tranquilizers were still missing. I knew it was better to find out if the anti-drug works and how long it takes to work. Jeff agreed that I shouldn't take the chance with everything that was happening. I asked him if he knew where they were hidden. He shook his head no as he watched and listened.
Dad asked if I had answered all of his questions. I couldn't think of anything, other than what happened to Gloria, and where Sparky was being kept. Dad said. "Gloria is being detained for the time being, until we have her confession on tape, and then will be tried in the United States Courts and punished, and will spend the rest of her days in prison. For the murders that she has committed and for attempted murder, as well as sexually abusing you and Jared as well as physical abuse and torture.
"Perhaps even placed in an isolation cell for the rest of her life, and Sparky is busy keeping the Vincent's boys and your two younger boys occupied at the hotel with Mrs. Vincent until we meet back up at the church. That Bishop Sakes had agreed that Sparky could come to church with us as a service dog. Helping his best friend and his brother be good during church rather than sitting alone wondering where you went in such a hurry."
Dad rubbed mine and Jared's head and then kissed us both on the back of the head. Asking them how soon they would be done and telling them we looked like we had just been through a meat grinder. Jared said cool and I gave him a sloppy fist bump as our hands touched at our sides.
Like I said the plan was simple as Dad and Mom dressed us in a pair of borrowed PJ bottoms and boxers, considering the clothing store wouldn't be open until Monday and looked more real that we indeed we were hurt wearing PJ bottoms and were barefoot. She then folded a warm blanket over our legs and feet and another over our bare shoulders being careful not to ruin our paint job that was still drying.
She felt mine and Jared's cheeks telling Dad and Mr. Vincent that we were both running a slight fever, but she didn't think it was anything to be concerned about. After all, it could be caused by several things and not just the poison. While Dad hooked up the IV bags and long tube and taped them to our arms to make it look real without the needle. It would drain into another bag hidden in a backpack behind our wheelchairs, so it looked as if the nurses really needed to be there.
Once they had made the final touches, they quickly loaded us into a small bus that had the special handicap lift, and seats for the rest of us. Mr. Vincent hired a driver who we didn't know his name and wasn't important as he drove us all to the church house, and told to wait for us and would be driving us to and from school. Unlike Jared and me, they were all dressed in their Sunday best.
Dad said kissing us both, unafraid if anyone in church saw us. That we had been given places to sit, sitting up on the stand with Bishop Sakes. As Jared and I were presented to the ward as boys that Gloria had beaten to get us to sexually abuse other boys. That we had refused, and we had spent the night in the hospital but wanted to show what she had done as a warning to the other boys if they were sexually abusing other boys.
That this could happen to them or if Gloria and the people she represents try to kidnap them naming Crawford as one of those people, even though he wants us sexually abusing other boys for drugs and money. It might help bring those people to justice if parents know what could happen to them if Crawford is willing to betray them to save his own skin and try to kill them once he has them under his control.
All Jared and I had to do was show them our backs and look like we were in severe pain as they placed the blame on the congregation, on Gloria and Crawford. Mr. Vincent has hired a nurse or someone who looks like a nurse to pretend she is looking after us during church and during the time we are in school. All we had to do was play our parts for a whole week or longer to draw out those that Crawford had taken in and go in for the kill. I had no doubt it would make him and Gloria angry knowing we were using them and their hatred to our advantage. As I have said before bullies get sloppy when they angered or accused of something they didn't do, and we were counting on that.
Dad didn't say anything, but I knew he was hiding something. So I did the one thing I knew I could count on was Jody, I said. "Dad, before we go in, is it alright if Jody takes me to the bathroom so I can go pee?"
Dad rolled his eyes and said. "Fine by me, I needed to make sure that Gloria is being "handled." He didn't say how she was being "handled" or where she was being "handled." And I didn't ask because I really didn't care or wanted to know. Dad and Mom asked me beforehand if I had anything I would like to ask her.
I said. "No, Jeff has already told me all I needed to know. Just tell her I hope she has nice dreams. She'll know what I mean."
Dad nodded and Jody took me into the bathroom, she was about to yell a girl coming in. until I stopped her and said not to, she smiled at me said. "Fine by me if we catch some boys peeing," knowing that we had watched a group of boys go inside. She went in backward, and the boys screamed as they noticed her as if they were peeing. She removed the blankets and helped me stand up at the stall making sure the I.V. line stayed attached to me as I tried to act hurt, which wasn't hard because it did hurt after being tied up and beaten for such a long time.
Two of the boys stood watching as Jody dropped my pants and boxers and reached around me and stroked my penis giving her something to hold on to while I held on to the stall with my hands. One of the boys said. "Aren't you, his sister?"
Jody smiled as I peed. "Yes, what about it?" She followed his eyes to my penis and my naked body as she was being careful not to touch my back. She giggled. "He's my brother, I have the right to see him naked and his penis belongs to me. It's one of the things I like to do for him besides lick every inch of his naked body and ride him like a wild stallion."
She smiles as they gasp as she turned me around letting me hold onto the stall to keep my balance as I watched her get on her hands and knees and put my penis inside her mouth. As we watched two boys licking their lips, Jody giggled and said. Sorry boys," standing up. "I only have time for my brother today." She quickly pulled up my PJs, placed me in my wheelchair and walked right behind them and slid their pants down stroked them.
She whispered something in their ears as I watched them each unbuttoned their shirts and took them off while she continued stroking them, once they had she quickly zipped them up and said. "Nothing wrong in having a good penis boys, but if you ever stick that penis inside a boy's butt and I find out. You won't live long enough to try it again." They nodded and opened the door for me I asked Jody if she knew those boys she said. "Of course I do. I used to babysit them. They are Gloria's two boys."
That certainly explained why they licked their lips and didn't freak out running out the door like the other boys did and were willing to take off their shirts for her and now both of them were barefoot as I watched them smile at me as they quickly went inside the chapel. It also proved they weren't being held prisoner I asked her what Mom and Dad weren't telling me,
She shrugged her shoulders and said. "What does it matter? You and Jared are alive, we're all safe including Sparky. Now look hurt and give them a good show. Then when we get back to the Vincent place. I am going to make good on that promise, and lick every inch of you and ride you like a wild stallion. And perhaps do the same to your friends Jake and Adam. I have been looking forward to riding their cobras ever since I have seen them naked and lick every inch of them as well." I ask if I can help, and she smiles. "Depends if you're a good boy today?"
Chapter 9-2
Taking a Prisoner
Part 3
Dad waited with Jared until the chapel had been mostly seated as Jody and Mom took their places behind our wheelchairs with our pretend nurses. Mom whispered. "Showtime boys," Dad put Sparky on my lap, and they wheeled me and Jared down the aisle with our nurses. Each wearing a uniform and a stethoscope around their neck. With everything else inside our backpacks, to make it look real as they play nurse.
Once we had arrived with everyone's eyes on us and guessing what the hell was going on as Mom and Jody brought us to the front with our nurses. Mom waited as Brother Niles and Bishop Sakes came to get us and took Sparky from me. Giving him to Jody as Jody took one of the chairs where Jared and I would be sitting during sacrament meeting, Letting Dad take his seat with the rest of our family.
Brother Niles picked me up as if I was no bigger than a small boy like he used to, way back when letting the nurse follow me with the backpack and I.V. as well as my blankets. All he said was. "Man, you have gotten big Kid'o." Watching Jared follow me with his nurse and supplies while Bishop Lanwall my old Bishop moved mine and Jared's wheelchairs to the side and out of the way for now.
Back then they didn't have the ramps as they do now. Bishop Sakes and Brother Niles put us in our chairs, letting the nurses make us comfortable and attend to us during the meeting.
Letting Bishop Lanwall take his seat next to Bishop Sakes as his First counselor and Brother Niles as his second counselor who was being released today and a new one would be called next Sunday.
It gave Brother Niles a chance to say goodbye to all of us. Something I had been dreading all week long knowing he would be leaving right after church. Once more I tried to feel numb not wanting a face that goodbye, as my tears looked as if I was in pain. That was true, just not that kind of pain. Seeing my best friend leave me, knowing I would most likely never see him again.
I tried to smile seeing my best friends at the sacrament table as well as the boys I knew by name from school, and some I didn't know being a new ward and all. All had chosen to take off their shirts and go barefoot. Seeing Gloria's two boys whispering to each of them as I watched them do it and slide their shoes under their seats as Bishop Lanwall gathered their shirts in his arms and came up to the stand and laid them over the railing, to prevent them from getting dirty and wrinkled, not that matter considering they would be wrinkled anyway by the time church ended today.
The chapel was full of whispers as they noticed the boys and the Bishop and his two councilors. Picking up the boy's shoes and lined them up in front of the podium. Like it was a shoe sale as the congregation watched the three men remove their shoes and socks and add them to the boys. Leaving on their shirts, only taking off their ties and adding them to the boy's shirts. Wondering what was going on, asking each other if they had been told ahead of time. That today was one of those special days that Bishop Lanwall had them do this every once and a while. Having them flip through the program finding nothing mentioning it.
Bishop Sakes stood at the podium as he waited for the organist to stop playing as the congregation stopped talking watching the seats being filled slowly. Bishop Sakes said "Today I have asked the boys to take off their shirts and walk barefoot today inside our church and during our meetings in remembrance of our savior and the burden of which he carried his cross. I am not asking you to do likewise. I am hoping that you will be willing to sacrifice a little of your normal Sunday modesty for our two boys who have suffered personal injury at the hands of their enemies. Like Jesus did when he walked the streets carrying his cross that his enemies made him carry so they could put him to death.
To show God and his son Jesus Christ that you do remember his suffering. I am asking you to choose as my councilors and I have chosen as well as our boys that will be participating in our sacrament today."
After he had asked the congregation to participate, he sat down and the organ started to play as people finished taking their seats and the whispering began again. Jared and I watched to see how many would participate. Finding very few boys were willing to participate or overheard parents telling them no or asking them to do so. I saw the look on Bishop Sake's face turn red with anger, and disappointment as a few of the parents of the boys that had been chosen to bless and pass the sacrament. Were told to grab their shirts and shoes from the podium. Ordering them to put them back on and take a seat in the audience, leaving them short-handed.
He couldn't stop them, because it was their choice regardless of if the other boys and their parents were willing to let them participate. Like I have said earlier when Bishop Lanwall was our Bishop, he would ask us to do it at least once a month during the summer months and sometimes during the winter turning up the heat and turning off the air conditioners after giving his talk God Doesn't Care.
Some even tried to leave the building entirely. Telling people that they cannot support a Bishop who is willing to ask them to be immodest on Sunday. Whispering Bishop Crawford would never have asked them to do this. I watched as the people that were leaving were told to retake their seats and be quiet as they were not permitted to leave as the Police Officers, manned the doors. Telling them they can leave after sacrament meeting if they still choose to.
I didn't know how many laws Bishop Sakes was breaking by holding everyone prisoner, but I simply didn't care. Knowing that people who are trying to leave or the people unwilling to participate are the very people who could be the ones out to kill me and my family as well as my friends.
I looked out into the crowd finding a video camera had been set up to record this meeting. Most likely so Gloria and Crawford could watch it personally. I smiled seeing the Vincents and their two boys participating as well as Mr. Vincent seeing his bare shoulders in the audience they had chosen to sit towards the back of the congregations while Dad and my two brothers sat somewhere in the middle of the chapel. I watched Shawn and Arthur shake their heads when Dad asked them for their shirts as he had done with my two brothers.
Dad grew angry, but kept the monster inside, letting Arthur and Shawn keep them on. I smiled seeing Dad taking off his shirt as well as Kerry's husband Tom as Kerry folded it into her lap and smiled at me. They weren't the only fathers that had chosen to participate, but it still was just a handful and so were the boys in the audience and I knew Bishop Sakes looked concerned because of it. Prompting him to change his talk as I watched him take the one, he had prepared today and stuffed it inside his briefcase angrily and pulled out another crisp one.
Once the clock on the wall read 1 p.m. Bishop Lanwall stood up to direct the meeting, as he conducted ward business. I knew once he had concluded it was my and Jared's turn to play our parts before the sacrament started, which we were told that we wouldn't present ourselves until after the sacrament, but apparently, that had changed as well, and had to do with what had taken place a moment ago when very few boys and men refused to participate.
It wasn't because they were breaking Sabbath law on Sunday it was because they felt threatened by Crawford and the people he represented. That had tried to get Bishop Lanwall excommunicated for letting this kind of behavior happen in the first place. Sure it was ok for the boys not to wear a shirt or go barefoot outside or in the gym during a game, it was because he was asking them to do so in the chapel on Sunday. I knew for a fact that in some countries where the population is poor. That it is common for boys and men to go without a shirt or go barefoot in church or in school.
Yet we live in the United States where people believe that it is a sin against God unless you were a baby or young toddler who doesn't know any better. Even women and girls sometimes run barefoot during church. Today though Bishop Sakes and his councilors were making a different statement to the way they were implying this dress code today and had nothing to do with Bishop Lanwall's talk God Doesn't Care talk. Today he was telling the congregation what Crawford and Gloria have done and are willing to do to anyone who stands in their way.
Mr. Niles helped me up to the side of the podium and placed my arms around his neck and walked me to the podium as Bishop Lanwall picked up Jared having both the nurses follow us with our fake I.V.s, as Mom and Jody picked up the blankets we were using too keep us warm, even though we were sweating to death because how hot the chapel was with the heater blowing at full capacity plus the fever it wasn't high enough for it if was my teeth would have been chattering instead it was on the brink.
Once we made it to the podium Jared and I were turned around and placed on stools with our backs to the congregation while Bishop Lanwall and Brother Niles made sure we didn't fall letting us lean on them to prevent us from falling. Because of how weak we were, and we had to pretend how much pain we were truly in for this to work.
I didn't have to fake a groan because I was still very much in pain more, so my bottom and back where Gloria had whipped me and forcibly raped me. I heard the audience gasp seeing our backs that looked like they had been through a meat grinder. Bishop Sakes said standing up at the podium between us and adjusting the microphone. "These boys were taken from their schools last Friday and by Gloria West, Mr., and Mrs. Vincent's housekeeper, and with the help of Mr. Crawford and the people that have been supporting him and her. They beat these boys, tortured these boys, and sexually abused these boys, and tried to kill them … either by torture or by poison.
"All because they had … and their friends have refused to join their organization. Where they sell their young children to child sex rings and making them become drug mules. To distribute their drugs across the county. If it wasn't for Eric's monitoring device these two boys would not be with us today letting us know where they had taken them. I am asking the congregation to take a good look at these boys knowing that this could happen to them.
"If they allow Gloria West and Mr. Crawford to commit these crimes and go unpunished, knowing your children could be next because they have participated at his discretion, having them or you vandalize their homes, rape your children telling you that he is their prophet, he is their way to salvation … that this church is corrupt as well as our teachings.
"I ask you, where in our teachings that say we must kidnap young boys such as these two, and beat them so bad that nearly kills them? Then poison them leaving them at the side of the road in a ditch so they can die painfully and slowly as they make their getaway. Where does it teach us that we should torture them because they do not want to belong to an organization that participates in raping children, raping each other, doing drugs, drinking alcohol, and forcing them to have sex with them and each other?
"I am asking you to come forward and tell us who these people are that are doing this to our children and to our families, to our husbands and wives, our friends, and our neighbors. I am giving you one chance to come clean and so we can walk our streets once again in safety, knowing that these criminals have been stopped.
"Either inform me, an officer at the door, or give them an anonymous tip on who these people are and where we can find them, before we have more violence, and before we not only have these two boys, but others in our ward and our town of Highland living through the horrors they have put these innocent boys through. And take the chance of them killing your sons and daughters.
"All because you, my friends have trusted Mr. Crawford to look after you when all this time he has turned his back on you, forcing you to do things for his unjust cause. And his revenge for being excommunicated by the church and is now being hunted for his and Gloria West's crimes by every lawman on the streets."
Bishop Sakes paused as he looked out into the audience hearing people telling him that it was nothing but lies and we were trying to destroy a man of God and a woman's life with lies and false crimes. Bishop Sakes continued as some of the congregation booed and hissed at him causing him to raise his voice. "Right now he is laughing at you because he has you by the balls, right where he wants you. Right now he is running for office to be our new Mayor.
"Using the drug money, using the money he gets from selling your children to child sex rings and prostitution for his campaign funds. Yet he remains in hiding letting people like you to do his dirty work as he buys his way into a high-ranking office with bribes and favors. Using people like Gloria West and the people like her to commit these crimes, knowing you will let them get away with it.
" I want you to take a good look at these two boys in front of you. I want you to take a good look at your son's backs as they either sit with you or as they bless and pass the sacrament and walk these halls as if on holy ground. I want you to think that this could be your sons, your daughters, your husbands, and your wives.
"I want you to ask Mr. Crawford and Gloria why he is willing to torture, rape young children, and force you out of your homes, so he and his organization can ridicule you for going against him if you do not participate or feel you no longer want to be a part of his organization. As he burns your homes to the ground like he had the Olson home not more than two weeks ago.
"How he and his organization have vandalized neighbors' homes like the Rothwell home, butchered all their animals, painted devil signs on their walls, and houses, covering them in blood and human waste. Vandalizing private property and government lands where people like to go and camp out, destroying the land and ponds where we like to fish and swim during the hot summer months.
"Ask him this. What has God taught us when it comes to loving your neighbor regardless of what they believe in or who they are? If he says to you that God wants you to do everything that Mr. Crawford and his friend Gloria say for you to do. Then you have fallen so far off the path God himself put you on. I would pray for your souls, and we will weep for you, as Crawford and his organization and Gloria have taken your children and brutally tortured them as they have to these two boys.
"Perhaps even killed them to show you that he and his organization and Gloria are more powerful than God himself, and can do whatever they want, when they want and how they want. You may take your seats, Eric, and Jared, and pray that these people here today who have caused this may be stopped. May your recoveries be swift, and justice be done for what they have done to you both."
The moment we sat down letting our nurses make sure we were comfortable Bishop Sakes let them open the doors to the ones that wanted to leave can. I noticed that Shawn's and Arthur's faces, as well as many of his friends, were angry, as they hissed and booed, causing Dad to become quite angry with Shawn and Arthur as he moved them out of their seats and forced them out of the chapel. It was almost after the sacrament meeting was about to be let out as Bishop Lanwall was finishing his talk on God doesn't care, then changed to God Does Care in regards to how we love one another. When Dad had them retake their seats, neither of them was wearing their shirts and was barefoot. I knew they were angry because of it and embarrassed because Dad forced them to participate.
Jared and I let the nurses play their parts throughout sacrament meeting, checking our temperature, or listening to our heartbeat, as well as having us sip water and wipe the sweat from our faces because of how hot the room was getting. We would nod off every so often from the lack of sleep and the room being so hot after sitting with blankets around us until we couldn't take it any longer as they handed them to Mom. After the meeting had concluded Brother Nile's and Bishop Lanwall returned us to our wheelchairs. Mom placed a warm blanket on our shoulders, mostly to keep anyone from looking at our backs up close, and placed Sparky on my lap.
Dad and Tom took over so Mom and Jody could go to Relief Society where all the women go while we boys and men go to priesthood. Letting the nurses follow us as they were told to do. Dad handed his wheelchair duties to Jake and Adam so he could go to his class, and he handed Jared's wheelchair duties to his friends like Jake's brother Billy.
Dad told Shawn and Arthur that I was in charge of them. I saw the anger in their eyes when he said it. It was bad enough that Dad had forced them to take off their shirts and made them go barefoot like the other boys. Once Dad had left with the nurse after they had changed the I.V. and took my empty water bottle to refill it with her as planned.
Knowing Shawn and Arthur wouldn't dare say anything to me with him being in the same room. Shawn and Arthur growled at Jake and Adam to leave the room. I handed them Sparky to take outside so he could do his business. I nodded that was exactly what I wanted them to do, so we could be alone in the room.
I wasn't afraid of them because I knew I needed them to focus on me and their anger. Shawn said. "You and Jared are such liars, Bishop Crawford and our friends never touched you. They didn't kidnap you from school either. I know that for a fact because I knew where you had gone all this time. You had been sent to the Vincent's; to throw us off the track." Shawn waited to see if I realized what he was saying.
I smiled and said. "I figured as much, hearing the phone click three times instead of two when Mom and Dad called to check on me and our three younger brothers had no clue where I was until they had arrived that following morning at the Vincent's house.
"Then when Gloria tried to make her escape knowing she had poisoned Jared and me and was about to get caught and wanted to leave before Crawford's boys came to kidnap us so she wouldn't be in the crossfire. The question I have is if Mom and Dad were on both of the phones and the one in my room had been removed. Knowing that both of you were down locked in your rooms. How were you able to listen in on our conversation?"
I waited until Arthur blurted out. "We have our own phone." Having Shawn tell him to shut his mouth.
I said. "Are you sure that Crawford and his pals didn't catch us last night? Or do you think that this is just something we have cooked up?" Shawn was about to take off the blanket as my hands quickly grabbed him and twisted it, forcing him on his knees as my left foot kicked him towards the door. Proving I wasn't all that helpless watching his eyes light up. He was about to launch himself at me when Jake opened the door with our teacher with my nurse right behind him. Arthur looked to Shawn asking him what we should do now.
Shawn said. "Nothing, Crawford, and the boys will handle it. And our God will save us."
I said. "Thanks, Shawn that's all I needed to hear," I lifted the small tape recorder up and clicked it off and rewound it, and replayed it so they could hear their confession. Shawn and Arthur's faces turned white.
Dad came back in and said. "I guess we know who tipped them off now don't we Shawn? We thought it would have been Gloria, but she had confessed she didn't know anything about them showing up at the house. It was you and Arthur who was giving away the information." I didn't tell Dad that she had lied about that it didn't really matter anymore, so I didn't say anything.
Dad grabbed Shawn and Arthur by the ear and took them out of the room, letting the nurse attend to me. Jake and Adam took their seats next to me handing me Sparky's leash and smiled, Jake said. "Your Dad just invited us and our families to dinner at the Vincent's place." Jake and Adam whispered in my ear and said. "And for chocolate-covered penis."
I smiled and said. "My favorite."