Hoping to get a better education for Shae, her parents decided to take her to a bigger city to continue primary school. The day Shae had to leave, she woke up unusually early to find Wales was up too. Wales's mom made instant noodles mixed with vegetables. It was unusually quiet at the table. When it is time, Shae got on the car and Wales sat next to her. She drew a heart on the car window, Wales drew another heart next to Shae's. "Will you always open your doors for me?" Shae asks Wales, "My doors are always open for you" Wales looks at her and hugs her in his arms. Shae closed her eyes and tried to feel the beating two hearts, feel the peace and presence of each other, the proximity and warmth in the freezing winter.
After a few month in the city, it is finally summer break, Wales is coming to the city to visit Shae. Shae is super excited to see him. When he came, Shae still followed him. One day Shae was in bed, Wales followed to her in bed.
Next thing Shae realized, Wales put his hand onto her mouth and nose, sat on her waist and covered her with winter bed sheets. Wales had grown into a strong teenager boy while Shae is still an undeveloped teen girl. Wales weight soon become unbearable on Shae's tiny waist. "Shae struggles to fight back but Wales locks Shae's hands behind her back using his big hand.
"No.." Muffled and chocked....Shae is so powerless and soon she is gasping for air however the hand is so firmly blocking the air....Shae is so scared and she cannot see anything under the thick winter cover. "mmmm..."Pain starts to spread from her chest and she starts to sweat due to the cut off of air and the struggle from under the bed sheets.....Even the darkness under the bed sheets starts to get darker.....
Felt like forever has passed, Wales finally removes his hand and uncovers the bed sheet over Shae's hand while still sitting on her waist with the sheets covering the rest of her body. Shae feels a sudden brightness, too bright compared to the pitch darkness and has to close her eyes. She tries to suck in all the air she can get, brings life back inside her lungs. Unlucky for her, the privilege to breathe freely only lasted for a brief few seconds and the hand forcefully covers the mouth and nose again....."No....."Shae tries to fight back but as the suffocation continues...pain starts again from her chest....Slowly she gives up resisting and let the pain takes over...
As her conscious starts to fade away, Wales senses the quietness from Shae. He lets go of his hand while still locking in her hands. Shae breathes as hard as she can to grasp the most amount of air before the suffocation begins again...
Wales would keep pushing Shae's limit and increasing the time for the suffocations each time...Shae can not see, can not breathe apart from the few seconds of release once in a while. She feels like its eternity and slowly loses her strength and focus. Finally, Wales stops, stands up and gets off Shae's waist. Shae feels a huge weight lifted out off her body. Finally she can breathe freely without her lungs being squeezed from the pressure. Nor the fear of being suffocated in a few seconds and put in the dark.
Shae didn't move for quite a while, laid in bed with her lower body covered in bed sheets, same way Wales left it. Her breath slowly stabilizes. Her mind was blank. She could not comprehend what just happened from her very young age. She felt scared, confused, lost....and somehow...intrigued and excited.
Shae and Wales never brought up this ever again as if this never happened. Perhaps Wales forgot, but Shae's life track might have just derailed.... A tone has been secretly set for her for her future interactions with men.