What had happened? Why was Kate the one who
Mike “respected” the most? In reality, he was afraid of her, a fear that made
him tremble whenever she came into the room.
Not always, he knew she was kind and only
wanted to look after him; as his tutor, that´s her duty. It was in times of
despair, whenever he felt he did wrong and that she´ll get mad that he started
to quiver from the inside.
This was no irrational fear, he wasn´t afraid
of her because she was the tallest among all. This had a cause, a reason.
Back then, when Kate moved in; after Mike´s
grandma funeral. She knew one thing and one thing alone, she needed to do
something with him. The poor guy was depressed. She tried to go out with him,
she tried to add him on her routine, but she failed.
For starters, during her morning jogs, he was
too slow. She was over twice his height, his short legs couldn´t follow her
pace as she ran thru the park. Besides, he was half-sleep by then. She liked to
run at 6 am, sharp. By then, he didn´t woke up before 9 am.
The jogging idea didn´t work well, so she tried
something else. She looked for ways to become friends with him, become closer.
But she sort of… failed in every way. He was kind of lazy in some aspects she
thought were a must.
She discarded the cleaning, cooking, even
watching TV. She´s sort of… different when it comes to series, Kate likes some
soap operas he very much disliked since the first 10 minutes. Also, she´s sort
of a fan of documentaries. And he, well, if he wants to dig into something in
the search for knowledge, then he´ll grab a book. For Mike, TV was just a way
to spend free time, nothing more.
As the days went by, Kate noticed one thing,
they had nothing in common. She cooked for him, cleaned, went groceries
shopping; while he stayed inside, still sad by his grandma´s departure. She
gave him some time, but things must change.
Kate had to return to work, that was something
she very well knew. But the thing is, what will Mike do while she´s gone?
That wasn´t hard to guess. After that reunion
gave hosted, she met Diana. Now, she´ll be her savior, more like Mike´s
claviger while she´s working. She couldn´t leave the man alone, she just, can´t
trust him. What if she comes back from work and she founds him starving on the
floor, with a pale tone on his face.
Perhaps, Kate was sort of… overprotective. But
that´s just the way she was. She wanted to make sure everyone was taken care
of. More on Mike since he was “in her hands”.
So, back then, Mike was left at the library; in
the care of Diana every day. Kate explained to him that she was busy and
couldn´t take him to work with her, so, the best solution was to let him with
Diana from 8 am to 1 pm. Diana left the library by then and Kate will pick him
up and take him home for lunch.
After that, well, Kate´s lunch time was from
1-2, so she needed to find someone to keep Mike company until 5. There´s where
Abby shows up.
Abby will stay with him until Kate comes back
from work. He didn´t understood quite well why he couldn´t stay alone. A
21-year-old-man should be more than capable to live on his own, at least stay
home alone during 8 hours a day. But, Kate just didn´t see things that way.
At 3´ even, Mike was not exactly, good to be
alone, at least that´s how Kate saw the whole thing. But, deep inside, Mike was
pissed.
At first, he didn´t care. He just did what Kate
said, he was still too hurt by his grandma´s death to think straight. He just
wandered around the house like a lost soul. Alone, he thought he was alone in
the world.
Kate was with him but, it didn´t felt
completely right. She was not there to replace his grandma, she was very
different in a lot of ways; for starters, she was over a foot taller.
Mike often glared at Kate´s body, she had long
shapely legs, a round bust and a sexy body. Overall, she was like a super model
for him. He often felt how his heart´s beat quickened inside his chest.
She was a giantess for him, he was not even as
tall as her legs, her waist stood taller than him by a good three inches, but
he didn´t care, there was much more woman to lure at.
The only thing that bothered him was when she
tried to order him around. She was not demanding him to do stuff, she knew he
must be still in grief. But he couldn´t just wander around the house doing
nothing, that´s why she decided he had to do some stuff around the house.
She thought they could both clean, like a team,
but that didn´t work out very well. He pretty much hated to clean. His height
interfered with the way he handled a broom, a mop, the vacuum… he was
frustrated, and she could tell, so she decided to leave that to the side.
The problem was not when she wanted him to
clean, the issue was when, well, when Abby sort of pointed out the whole thing
just one day.
“What do you mean?” Mike asked one day while
Abby was around the house, “keeping him company”.
“I mean,” Abby started, “as a friend, I´m
telling you that Kate´s not treating you like the adult you are.” She declared.
“But, well, I´m an adult, she just cooks,
cleans, takes care of the bills…” he started.
“Exactly, what do YOU take care of? Have you
thought about it? Mike, you´re a grown man who´s life is handled by, well, her.
I mean, I know she´s like your guardian and all but, don´t you think a grown
man should be able to stay alone rather than having a babysitter?” she asked.
“A sitter? Like… who?” he asked.
“well… ME.” Abby spoke.
“You´re not my babysitter, you´re just here
hanging up with me while Kate comes back from work, that´s it.” He said.
“Haha, seriously? Can´t you see what she´s
doing? Listen, first of all, she drops you at the library with that girl
Diana…” she turned at him hoping he´d understand where she was going, but he
didn´t seem to get it yet.
“Yeah, so? My grandma did the same.”
“Ughh, ok, I´ll make things clear for you. Kate
pays me to come… I didn´t ask her but she insisted. She PAYS me to come and
LOOK out for YOU while SHE´S gone… do you get it?” it was too obvious now.
Mike´s eyes widened as he finally got the
point. Kate was, not only underestimating him, she literally looked for people
to take care of him while she´s gone. That couldn´t happen.
Mike was an adult, a man. Yes, he was 3´ tall,
but he turned 21 a while ago. He should be living on his own by now.
After that small chat with Abby, Mike opened
his eyes. He should be trusted to stay alone, no need for a nanny, a sitter,
anyone. He knew he couldn´t speak his mind to her just like that, but he had a
plan. He´ll show her who´s the boss. From that day on, he´ll be the one giving
the orders an not just doing what she says.
It all started as he planned. He rejected all
of her orders in a polite way. Like, “I can´t right now…” or “I´m a little
busy” she didn´t seem to mind, at first.
Over the days, she began to notice his lack of
interest in, well, socializing with her. He just ate with her, and then locked
himself in his room. Of course, she still drove him to the library; he mainly
didn´t protest because Diana was nice and, well, she had a huge rack he peered
at when she wasn´t looking.
Mike decided to turn ice cold to her. Barely
talking to her, barely listening. Their interactions became as dry as he could
possibly make them. Then, one day, things went a little different.
*knock* *knock* “Mike, we have to leave, it´s
getting late, are you ready?” said Kate as she knocked on his bedroom door.
He opened the door, and looked up at her, he
encouraged himself to pretend he didn’t care, he just played his best poker
face and said: “I´m not going.” Just like that.
“Excuse me?” said Kate, was he actually saying
that.
“You heard me, I´m NOT going.” He said once again.
“But, Mike, I can´t… I can´t leave you here…
you must come.” She requested.
“Listen, I´m a grown man, it doesn´t matter if
I´m short, I should be capable of staying home alone.” He protested.
“But, I´ll be gone for hours, even if Abby
shows up a bit earlier, you´d still…” he just cut her off.
“I´ll tell her to leave, there´s no need for
her to stick around every day… I can wait for you.” He declared, disliking a
little the last part. It sounded as if he still depended on her.
“But, what would you eat?” she asked, worried.
“Whatever I find, when I´m hungry I´ll go down
to the kitchen.” He replied.
Kate didn´t like this. For her, it sounded as
if Mike had turned into a brat. Just annoying her with his every argument. He
didn´t know what he was talking about. She must insist.
“Mike, we don´t have time for this, just go get
changed and then…” that´s when he lost it.
“NOO! I will not! You can´t order me around, I
won´t do as you say. I mean, why should I? This is MY house, you just… just
came here and started ordering me around, no, that can´t be happening. Besides,
you don´t even trust me to be alone. You asked Diana to look for me at the
library and also asked Abby to babysit me while you´re gone, how old do you
think I am?” he turned red by then.
Kate didn´t know what to say, he was enraged,
it seemed to her that whatever had bottled inside of him during the last weeks,
it seemed like years honestly, had burst out. And she didn´t like it.
“I´m a man, what´s more, this is MY house and
you won´t be the boss of me, you heard me?!” he stopped for a moment, but the
answer he got, was not the one he had in mind. But, to be honest, what did he
thought would happen.
“Enough! Listen Mike, you may live here, but
this is not YOUR house. You didn´t work for it, you didn´t struggle to pay for
the rent, the property, NOTHING. You just LIVE here, that´s it.” She was mad,
really mad. “On top of that, sorry but, if you were the one taking care of the
house, I ASSURE you this place would be in ruins by now. You don´t know how to
do SHIT on your own.” He had never heard her curse; things may have gotten out
of hand.
He tried to hide his concern, so he just
frowned and tried to speak again, gain control of the conversation, “S-so what,
what makes you think…” but she cut him off immediately, stomping one foot on
the floor.
*STOMP*
Se bent and, closing the gap between them, she
spoke, “Listen, I don´t care what you have to say… you wanna stay alone, FINE,
stay here ALONE while I´m gone. And don´t call me, cause I won´t come running
to you when you beg for my help. Wanna see how´s the world on your own, then
try it!” and so, she left.
Mike could listen to the sound of her heels as
she went down the stairs and then slammed the door close. He did piss her off.
Now, as he was alone, he swallowed. For a
second he thought she´d loose it. But he frowned again. He´d prove her wrong.
She will be back home to see a man, unfazed by staying alone.
But Kate, as she hopped in the car, she was
mad. She clenched her hands on the steering wheel as she drove off. These days
where he was stone cold silent, now they made sense. If he was going to hate
her, well, so be it.
She won´t beg him for anything. He´ll be the
one begging. And that´s something she knew for sure. She just drove to work,
not knowing what she´ll do next.
At first, things were easy for Mike. Breakfast
was served already. A bit cold, but eatable. Then, he just sat on the couch, he
watched TV until he got tired of it. He checked the time, barely 11 am. He
still had some time before Abby showed up.
He kind of lied to Kate, he was in fact looking
forward to Abby´s visit. He´d tell her all about his recent argue with Kate. He
would´ve called her, but he had no cell phone what so ever. So he waited.
By 12, he was already hungry. His last meal had
been ages ago, at least that´s how he felt it. He felt a void where his stomach
was. He needed food. He headed to the kitchen.
He knew nothing about cooking, but he could fix
himself a sandwich, something easy. He grabbed the bread, ham, mustard, mayo, a
slice of cheese… and nothing else but the butter knife for the dressings. Of
course, he needed a stool to reach some of the stuff, but he managed to do it
on his own.
Finally, a couple minutes after the clock
ticked 1:00, Abby knocked on the door. He rushed to it and cracked it open. He
had so much to tell her.
They chatted for a loooong time. She pointed
out the fact that he shouldn´t have said what he said. Kate was a kind person,
and she was doing so much for him, he should at least appreciate what she does
for him.
“What?! But you told me to do it.” He
protested.
“Me…? No, nah ah, I told you she´s not treating
you like the man you are, not to treat her like shit. Listen, I´m sure the main
reason why your grandma chose her as your tutor it´s because of how kind she
is… and maybe because she knows how to manage big loads of money you certainly
have… but that´s not the point. The thing is, you should apologize.”
“Come on, I should, ughh, why are your advices
so contradictory.” He said, she just leaned closer and rubbed her fist hard
over his skull.
“They´re not, you´re the one who doesn´t get
them…”
Abby did her best to wait for Kate, but after
the clock ticked 9:00, she had to go. Apparently, she wasn´t coming any time
soon.
She trusted Mike to be left alone, but not to
cook. She just made some mac and cheese, she was bad at cooking, and then left.
Mike waited, trying to picture what he was
going to tell Kate when she came back. How he was going to apologize. He
would´ve rather blaming Abby for all, but it was his fault; deep inside he knew
that.
Time seemed to go by really slowly, still, the
clock ticked 11:00 pm. She had been gone for over twelve hours now.
“I wonder where she…” Mike thought as he heard
a noise coming from outside. That was a cab parking right outside his house,
dropping someone.
He went downstairs to meet her at the door, but
he stopped when he saw the door being slam open. He froze for a second.
It was Kate, but, she wasn´t exactly… happy.
There was a faint light on the main entrance, but he could see her eyes, bright
red. Her face showed a gesture of annoyance, but it was her voice that
announced what was happening.
“Oh, so here you are… Mike…” her voice was the
one of a drunken someone. He never thought she´d be one of those people who hit
the bar to alcoholate themselves. No, there was something off.
“WHAT!? Why are you looking at me that way?
What´s the matter, am I late? Where you waiting for me to cook you some diner?
Hmm, is that it?” she said but, her tone was not necessarily friendly. It was
sort of sarcastic, annoyed. She wasn´t really asking.
“No, I just…” he tried to speak, but she cut
him off.
“SHHHHHH! Quiet, I don´t wanna hear a thing
about what YOU have to say…” she made her way to him, throwing her heels to the
side. She was stumbling a little, she almost tripped.
Mike took a step back, whatever the reason was
for her to step closer, it meant no good. But she continued.
“You know Mike, I thought this whole thing of
being your tutor would be… GREAT! But, you just proved me WRONG!” he had no
idea what she had in mind.
“YOU…” she continued, “you just proved to me
that you´re a tiny ungrateful man. I do soooo much for you, I believe you
haven´t even thanked me for what I do. NO! Instead, you just… just… WHERE THJE
FUCK ARE YOU GOING?!” he was moving to the side.
She was looming above him, so menacing, he
couldn´t help it he was just afraid of her. He started moving mainly because
she presented a treat to him.
She held him, grabbing his arm so tightly that
he couldn´t help but to complaint.
*Ouch*
“What?! Don´t tell me this hurts you… you know nothing
about what it is to be hurt.” He really knew nothing about what she was talking
about.
What actually happened was that Kate was hurt.
The second she step out of the house in the morning, she could feel some ache
in her heart. Mike´s rejection towards her was something she didn´t know how to
take.
Was it the sorrow of being alone? Was he
feeling somehow inferior? Or, was it Kate who bothered him?
She didn´t know what to think. But she was mad
by what he said. After work, she went straight to the bar. She thought: “He´s a
grown man, he said he´ll be fine…” and just drawn her griefs in alcohol.
She drank much more than she ever did. Her
thoughts on what she did wrong turned into how rude he was. She chose to blame
Mike. Her doubts became anger. Her guilt became rage. Now, she was there to let
Mike have some of it.
The amazonic woman loomed above him. So tall,
so imposing, so mad. Her firm grip on him was enough to make him tremble.
“L-let go! Kate… please.” He begged.
“Oh, now you´re saying please…” she commented.
“K-kate…” he tried to back off, look for a way
to let go. But she didn´t let him.
“Oh no, no, YOU ain´t going nowhere.” She
declared.
His eyes opened wide, what was she going to do?
But she answered his questions with one single blow. She slapped him right on
the face. So hard that it made him feel dizzy for a second.
“And that´s nothing! I´M going to make you feel
the pain I have. One blow…” she slapped him again, turning his face to the side
with a single blow, “at a time.”
This wasn´t right. He may have not expressed
himself in the proper way. But she didn´t have to do this.
“Kate! Please, I… you don´t…”
*SLAP*
“QUIET!” She said before she slapped him once
more.
*SLAP* *SLAP* *SLAP*
From one side to the other. His lip was
bleeding now. She was so much bigger, so much stronger. Now, Mike was at the
mercy of this giantess, who didn´t seem to regret anything she did.
In her current state, there was no way she´ll
stop. At least not unless she wanted to.
She let go of his arm and grabbed him by the
hair, pulling him as she walked. He drove his hands to his head. Trying to set
free, but she was too strong. Mike could feel how useless it was when he took
hold of Kate´s large hand. A single of her hands had much more strength than
both of his.
This wasn´t right. At least not fair. Why was
this even happening?
“S-sorry, Kate, I´m sorry! Please, please just…
s-stop… please.” He was desperate, he didn´t know what to do.
She said nothing. No answer came from her. He
just looked up to the enraged amazonic woman dragging him thru his house. This
wasn´t over.
She threw him right in the middle of the
kitchen´s floor. He immediately stood up, looking for a scape route, to somehow
escape and hide in some place of the house.
“Now…” she continued as she looked at both
sides of the kitchen, “You´ve done NOTHING around here. The same dishes on the
sink, the floor´s filthy. If you regrated anything of what you did, then the
house would be clean. But no, you regret NOTHING!” She grabbed him by the shirt
and rose him, his feet dangling in the air. He swallowed.
“I´m losing my patience Mike, I really am. If
you don´t change that shitty attitude of yours… then I have no other choice
than to punish you…” she sounded serious. She released him and he fell into the
floor once again.
“Now, I´ll give you one more chance. JUST one.”
She rose her finger, “But If you fail me… then,” she bent down and whispered to
his ear, “Then I´ll have no other choice than to hurt you… for real.”
His heart skipped a beat. Hurt him? Wasn´t she
supposed to look for him? He said nothing, she didn´t even wanted him to speak.
Protesting now will lead her to kill him. He just looked at her with horror in
his eyes.
“Now, clean this mess… I´ll be back to check on
you, and you better listen to me now… Or else…” and just like that, she turned
and left. Leaving the poor man alone in the kitchen.
After a few hours…
*YAAAAAAwwwn*
Kate woke up, but she wasn´t in her bed, she
had slept on the living room´s couch.
“Huh… what am I…” she found out, she also had a
headache, so she guided her hand to her head and closed her eyes. The light was
too bright.
She decided to drink some water, regretting
drinking so much. “Gosh, I haven´t done that in a while… I guess I should´ve…”
she froze for a second when she entered the kitchen.
There he was, scrubbing the kitchen´s floor
with a towel, or maybe a piece of cloth…? No, it was his own shirt.
Kate covered her mouth with his hand, Mike just
didn´t seem… well. She was more than sure that it was too early for him to be
awake, it was around 7:00 am, besides, she could see some bruises in him; from
when she let him fall to the floor. But the worse part was, when he turned.
“Come on, rub harder, or she´ll get mad…” he
thought as he turned, he was trying to somehow polish the floor.
The last thing she said, which was actually an
order, was for him to clean the kitchen. And after she left the room, he
focused on pleasing her. He thought about running, about getting out of the
house and look for help, but where could he go?
Run to Abby? Hide somewhere on the backyard?
There was no point on that, if she ever found him, then a fully enraged woman
will make sure to finish what she started. He feared the anger of the gigantic
woman. He didn´t even made it passed her hip.
He resigned. He went for a broom to swipe the
floor. He took the stool and washed all of the dishes. But that wasn´t enough.
How clean is clean? He needed to mop the floor, but that thing was too heavy;
even with the broom, Mike had a hard time cleaning.
The kitchen had a good size, but it took him
over an hour to wash the dishes and swipe it. Now, he didn´t know what to do.
He needed the floor to shine, he didn´t want to know what will happen if the
kitchen didn´t seem clean enough. Instead of a mop, he removed his shirt and
began wiping the floor. For hours and hours, he had no idea when Kate will come
back.
He was too afraid to even notice she fell
asleep on the couch the second she laid her head on one of the cushions.
Now, he was cleaning, and that´s what he had
been doing for hours. When Mike turned, he saw Kate´s feet. He stopped for a
moment and then looked up to her.
Her face showed some concern, she was
preoccupied, but he didn´t give himself enough time to analyze her and just
said as he fell backwards.
“J-Ju… I´m… I´M STILL CLEANING!” he declared,
grabbing the shirt again and rubbing even harder. “S-see, it´s clean… clean.
P-please… just… don´t hurt me.” He said, being afraid he hadn´t clean enough.
When he turned, she saw his face. Both of his
cheeks were red, and his lower lip seemed swollen, and it was red. She slip it
with one of her blows. But she couldn´t exactly remember… until, it all hit
her.
“Oh my…” she covered her mouth with both hands
as Mike didn´t dare to look back up.
“No… no no no no, Mike I…” she took a step
forward, but he just backed off, without saying a word.
She did it. She had actually done it. She hurt
him just like she promised she will. She had wanted to make him feel as broken
as her when he rejected her affection. But that didn´t gave her the right to
torture him.
Mike´s hands were red. He had been scrubbing
the floor for hours now. He didn´t know what else to do, so he kept going. Even
when his hands began to feel numb.
She did it, she caused him this. What had she
said? What had she done? Of course, nothing good. The poor guy was afraid of
her. In her attempt to approach to him, she had just casted him away. She not
only hurt him, but now, he was afraid of her.