The Military School (En)

unexpected visit

Maya and Carina had been back from Hawaii for three days already. They had gone straight to pick up Ford and the blonde hadn't let go of her dog for the rest of the day and evening. She had missed him so much.

The work had resumed and the two young women had returned to their routines. The same but more tanned.

Carina had a session again that day, it was Tuesday. She was devastated that evening when she got home. She had learned that Suzanne, one of the first girls in her sessions, had been sent back to Mali where her parents were from.
She, personally, had never lived there but her parents had immigrated to the United States before she was born.

The man she was supposed to marry lived there, and her parents having discovered pictures of a woman under the mattress in her room, had no choice but to send her there to chase away her impure thoughts.

She had managed to get all her information from Mady who was in the same high school as her. Mady had been introduced to her parents as her classmate, her best friend. In reality they had a little crush on each other and Suzanne had just had time to warn Mady before being put on a plane to a continent where she had only set foot twice, to meet Désiré, her promised.

When she got home Maya was on the couch with the little labradoodle on her lap, she had set the table and dinner was in the oven. She had cooked a roast chicken and the smell could be felt throughout the house.

Ford must have sensed that Carina was not well because he immediately came to her.

- "Hi little guy" she said as she bent down and ruffled the hair on the back of his neck, before kissing him on the top of the head.

Then she had entered the heart of the house, the large living room, living room, dining room and open kitchen.

- "It smells good" she said without much conviction and talking a little by the nose.

- "What's wrong my love?" Maya asked immediately.

Then Carina started to cry more and more as she explained Suzanne's story. She thought it was her fault because she had 'pushed' the girl to accept herself. And that she had been sent to a country where she had never lived, where 75% of the women were circumcised, and where she was going to have to marry a boy for whom she would never have feelings.

The blonde didn't understand everything at first because the Italian was struggling to express herself. She made a mix between words in Italian and words in English.

The captain had then taken her in her arms by explaining to her that it had not been her fault. That when she had seen Suzanne herself during her intervention, this one seemed well and that compared to what had depicted Carina during her first session, the young woman was better in her skin.

- "precisely, better to the point of not being on alert 24 hours a day"

- "but no my love, that's not what you have to tell yourself. She may have been relaxed with you, but maybe she wasn't letting her guard down at home. And maybe she had those pictures long before she met you."

- "Mady informed me that Suzanne had a note for me when she called"

- "Oh yeah? What?"

- "she said that she thanked me, that she had never been as happy and at peace as when she was at the sessions with us and that she would never forget me."

- "well, you see, she doesn't blame you"

-"But I'm mad at myself. Maybe without me ..."

Maya cut her off.

- "and maybe she would have been discovered before, maybe she would have had a tragic end in her room. There are lots of maybes that are possible. Maybe she'll even get married to this young man and she'll be able to be honest with him and he'll help her. Maybe when he's 18, he'll come here, or to Europe, and he'll give her her freedom."