Before the party ended, at around 2 in the morning and all the guests left the large mansion in their automobiles, the General told me that he required me the following day, which would be my birthday. I was a little surprised, because he had told me before the performance that I could take the day of my birthday off, but smiled and nodded nonetheless. He didn't smile back,
The following day, the day of my nineteenth birthday, I woke up not as excited as I had been with any of my previous birthdays, given that that day I would have to go to General Winter's house. Not that I didn't like being around the General, but I wanted to spend my birthday with my sisters at home... even with Natasha, who upon coming into my bedroom and hugging me tightly around my neck, whispered something that sounded horribly like "Brother, the next year, when I'm of legal age, we can get married" that made me shudder, but discarded it as it was, because she had always been like that and nothing would change. Not even now.
"Happy birthday, brother! I'm sorry you have to work today, though"
I smiled a little sadly and then received a kiss from Ekaterina, who had managed to take Natasha off my neck, which she kept hugging tightly. After a couple minutes, I got dressed and was ready to go with Ekaterina to the General's house. He had seemed very cold when he told me he needed me in the office the previous night, and it was weird because we had been practically alone in the ballroom and he was always warm and affectionate when he was near me in private, and strictly professional yet not too cold, when we were on public. I didn't think that much about the General's attitude as I walked the ten miles that separated our humble home from the General's mansion.
When we arrived I knocked on the giant double doors of the General's private study and waited from a reply. His voice sounded a little hoarse when he told me to come in. I found him staring out the window with his arms crossed behind his back, looking absentmindedly at the snow falling from the clouded skies. My sister was sitting in her office and asked Anna to bring her a tea, like she always did, even though Anna didn't like it. She didn't like many things about us, or perhaps she just didn't like us at all, but never mind that.
"I saw you last night with Sadiq"
I was frozen in my spot. He had seen my kiss with Sadiq. Of course he had! Anyone who was looking out the windows could have seen us and perhaps that was what the General had been doing the previous night. How foolish was I. The General turned around and I flinched back: the look in his eyes was of pure hatred and even disgust. He gripped my shoulders tightly when he reached me from the other side of the room, walking in long strides.
"I made you what you are, without me you would be an ignorant with no talent whatsoever and this is how you pay me?!"
The General said angrily before pushing me against his desk. I turned around and looked at him as a feeling of terrible guilt came over me. He was right and even if he wasn't, I would have believed it anyways at that moment.
"I'm going to show you who do you belong to"
He quickly opened his pants and walked over to me. I immediately knew what that meant and tried to fight back, but he was much stronger than I was and he managed to pin me down and tie my hands with the ends of my scarf, almost choking me in the process. I was squirming underneath him as he opened and pulled down my pants and underwear and positioned his member against my entrance.
"General, stop!"
He penetrated me with all the force he could muster and I screamed in utter pain as I felt blood trickling down my thighs. Suddenly, the doors were opened and I could see my sister running over to both of us with a look of complete horror in her face.
"Let him go!"
She attempted to pull him away from me, but he was stronger than both of us, so he pushed her aside. She grabbed a heavy paperweight that had fallen to the floor when I had been thrown against the desk and hit the General in the head with it, forcing him to pull out and stumble backwards. She wrapped her arms around me and I could see that she was crying. I didn't understand why she was crying, when I should be the one crying. And I noticed that I also was.
"He's not going to hurt you anymore"
She continued to hug me and cry as I managed to pull my pants and underwear up though feeling an unbearable pain in my backside. Upon hearing the commotion, Sadiq entered the General's private study: he looked at the man clutching his head, sitting in the floor, with a little blood covering his face and his gloved hands, then up at me thrown over the desk with my clothes dishevelled and my sister hugging me and crying.
"What happened here?"
My sister tried to explain to him with a broken voice and hiccupping all the way. I still couldn't understand why she was crying so much. Sadiq's eyes widened and he punched the General in the jaw when he got up and tried to speak up, still clutching his head with his bloodied hand. Some droplets had even stained his white uniform. He fell backwards again.
"You despicable bastard"
Sadiq said with all the anger put in his deep voice. I couldn't take it anymore and left the room as fast as I could with that numbing pain in my lower back. My sister tried to go after me but Sadiq stopped her and followed me instead. I couldn't run much farther, as I collapsed at the foot of the stairs, the pain being too much for me to take. I felt Sadiq hugging me from behind and I flinched a little. My sister came down the stairs quickly and caressed my hand.
"Everything will be okay, brother"
Ekaterina said reassuringly, but at that moment I had only one thing clear, my teacher had failed me and had done something horrible to me, something that I couldn't even had thought of in my worst nightmares, he was my fallen hero and I had to get out of that house as soon as possible.