As we ate I saw that table manners were totally unimportant to Mark and Matt, and they hadn’t even bothered to wash their hands before eating. While... washing up the dishes they joked about being overdressed due to my presence. Apparently, they usually walked around the trailer naked. They always left a pair of shorts over a chair at the front door in case of unexpected visitors. I was starting to realize why my mother would have found life with my father such a strain, because she was very. . , “ Pepper began.He was going to continue his rant, but John backhanded him across the face knocking him to the floor. He shook his head trying to clear it.“I told you not to swear in front of my wife,” John said shaking a finger in Pepper’s face.Pepper glared at John wishing he knew how to fight. He hadn’t ever been in a fight, not even as a schoolboy. He knew that he would probably just flail away without accomplishing anything.He said, “I don’t care. Everything I own is back there, and. His soft slow touches are driving me crazy. I hear you walk to the bathroom and run water. I lay there anticipating what he will do next. I notice there is a towel or something underneath me."You trust me?" you ask again."Of course I do," I answer."Then lay back and let me do this." Ok, what are you going to do?" I ask, becoming a little impatient.With that I feel a scarf or something around my wrist. You tie them together and then to the bed. "Are you comfortable?" you ask."Yes," I answered. The nightmare was coming true. She ran to the laundry room and hid in a cupboard. She could hear him moving around through the house and then he called for her. “Annie, come out come out where ever you are. I know you’re here alone. You can’t get away Annie.” Ron was slamming doors and checking rooms. She could hear him getting closer. He had looked in the laundry room but not in any of the cupboards. Maybe he wouldn’t find her. Annie stayed very still. Oh, dear God she had only herself to.