Mother's Day By A.J. Brown A battle of pro-life vs. pro-choice **I can be reached by email at ajbrown2005@yahoo.com with any questions, story feedback, or if you're interested in having me write you a Custom Story** Keenan looked at all of the people that had shown up for his march and he couldn't help but be proud of himself. The 30-year-old, preppy guy, had plenty of money since he was now running his father's business. But what really made him feel good was making a difference - and he really felt like he was doing that with the pro-life group that he had gotten started. Both of Keenan's parents were Republicans. He respected his parents and followed in their footsteps with their views. But being pro-life was the one that really hit home with him. He remembered his buddy knocked up some girl that they were friends with a few years earlier and that was when he really began feeling strongly about the issue. His friend's name was Max, and Max and a girl, Chloe that they knew, hooked up one night. When they found out Chloe was pregnant, Max and Chloe didn't think twice about the abortion, they just went ahead with it. Though Keenan understood that it would have been tough for Chloe and Max to have a baby together when they weren't even dating, he was in disbelief how they were able just to destroy the baby for that reason, without thinking twice about it. They both had good jobs and could have afforded it. So it was after that that Keenan began fighting for abortions to be made illegal, with the exceptions of cases of rape, incest, or protecting the life of the mother. He looked back at the group of people, his followers, who he had gotten to march with him that day. There were over 200 people there who were excited and ready to support the cause. He couldn't even keep track of everyone who was there, there were so many of them in the large group. And they were marching on what Keenan thought was the best day of the year for a march like this - Mother's Day. There was only one thing, or actually one person, that could have put any kind of a damper on the Mother's Day march. That person was Jennifer Ryan - a 26-year-old woman who was the president of the local feminist chapter. Jennifer was a hardcore Democrat, and being a feminist, women's rights was number one on her agenda. And one thing that Jennifer was extremely passionate about - her body, her choice. A couple of months earlier, Jennifer had orchestrated a rally of her own, supporting pro-choice and a woman's right to choose. Keenan wasn't quite sure why she spent the time to do so, as with abortions already legal, he didn't know what she was trying to gain by the whole ordeal. Nonetheless, he thought it would be a good idea to counter her rally by bringing some of his own followers downtown to where her rally was being held and causing a bit of a disruption. It started with both sides yelling in their faces, turned into some shoving and objects being thrown, and then ended up being all-out violence, with multiple fights breaking out among the two groups. Jennifer knew who Keenan was and made sure to track him down once the chaos started that day. She was a thin woman, standing at about 5'7 and probably weighing less than 140 pounds, though she did have thick legs for an otherwise thin woman. The preppy Keenan stood at 5'10 and weighed about 190 pounds. Once things got rowdy enough where any one of act of violence by anyone wasn't going to be noticed, Jennifer joined in on it. After some more arguing between her and Keenan had ensued, she wound back and she punched him right in the face. Her fist connected right with the center of his cheek and it hurt far more than he ever though a punch from a woman would have. Keenan, a religious, respectful man liked to think that he was a gentleman and that he never would have raised a hand to a woman. But feeling the pain of that punch, from this woman who was there interrupting his cause, thinking it was OK just to destroy an innocent living thing as a matter of convenience, thinking that she could just punch him in public and get away with it, set him off. He threw a punch right back at her, aiming for her nose, but rather than eating the punch like he figured she was going to, she got in a stance where she was completed prepared for it, and moved her head backwards. All he ended up doing was grazing her chin with his knuckles. Cracking a bit of a smile on her face, like his punch had indicated to her that she was not fighting someone who was very tough, Jennifer prepared to throw another punch. Keenan tried to defend against this was but she was so quick. Her fist connected with the side of his mouth and the punch was hard enough that it almost knocked him over. He was preparing to strike back but was a bit woozy from already taking two of her punches. There was no way he could have been prepared for what happened next. Jennifer jumped in the air, did a spinning kick in the air, and at the end of it her foot connected right with the side of his head and knocked him over. Once he was down she kicked him in the leg then kicked him a few more times. Had Keenan had any idea before that day that Jennifer had actually been studying martial arts for the previous eight years and had a black belt in karate then he almost definitely would have made sure to avoid a physical fight with her. But he had only learned of all of this after the fact. After she had beaten the shit out of him right there at his own rally. A black eye, a limp that he didn't get over for weeks, and just various bruises all over his body, made Keenan think he had plenty of evidence to file an assault charge against Jennifer. If criminal charges against her would finally shut her up, he would have been happy to be the one to take the beating for the cause. But when he tried to file the charges, things didn't go the way that he had expected them to. There were plenty of fights that had broken out at that even, and although no one had been beaten as badly as Keenan had been, it had been looked at as just a chaotic event where it was impossible to assign any blame. There was so much going on at that point that even though a lot of Keenan's followers had been with him there protesting, not all of them realized the beating that he took from Jennifer. The ones that did, didn't seem to lose any respect for him, just seeming to think he was being respectful any not wanting to get too violent with a woman. The truth was that he tried his hardest to defend himself and fight back but she was just way too tough for him. He still didn't want there to be another incident with her, knowing that if something like that were to happen again, those who he led may lose faith that he was the strongest one to support their cause, and some might even stray from the cause altogether. Luckily for this Mother's Day march that Keenan had orchestrated, there were plenty of police officers there, not wanting the same kind of violent outbreak that happened at the rally Jennifer led, to happen again. As they got prepared to get going, Keenan looked around at all of the protection his group had. He was really excited about making this an important day. Ed was a 21-year-old college junior who was also happy to be at the march. He had been a pro-choicer for most of his life. His main argument for that was 'What if the woman gets raped? That is unfair to force her to have the baby.' But then he came across Keenan's website. The three exceptions that Keenan had on there for when he thought abortion should be legal - rape, incest, and to protect the life of the mother. Ed thought that made a lot of sense. Because in any other circumstance other than those three, he thought abortion was just people that didn't want to take responsibility for their actions. He liked the rest of what Keenan said, followed him on Facebook, and became a supporter of Keenan's agenda. Ed was still a 21-year-old single guy and the number one thing that was on his mind was getting laid. Normally on a Sunday morning he'd be sleeping over a hangover after being out the night before trying to pick up chicks, and he certainly wouldn't be outside at some rally. Of course, that was part of his motivation for coming out to the rally. Even though most of the people he knew in his age group were pro-choicers, he figured there would be some pro-life girls his age that would show up to the event. And since most guys his age didn't hold that view, maybe he'd be one of the younger guys there and would be able to distinguish himself that way. He was passionate about the cause but he definitely had some other motives for being there as well. Initially, when they were all out there together and ready to get their march going, and they were casually talking to and getting to know each other, Ed saw some good looking girls there and felt good about his prospects. There weren't that many but there weren't many guys his age there either so he thought his odds looked pretty good. The first girl he talked to was a girl named Rose. She was dressed well, looking elegant, was well spoken, and she was just overall very beautiful. She was 21-years-old and about to graduate college. She had a good sense of humor and she and Ed seemed to really be getting along. So it didn't make him happy when she told him that she was going to be getting married in a few months. He overheard her talking to someone else when they were done talking and she seemed to be a religious type. He ended up talking to another girl, also very well-dressed, well spoken, and attractive. There were definitely some good looking girls that wanted to support the pro-life movement. This girl's name was Betsy and she got along well with Ed as well. But she quickly started talking about how religious she was and how she was 'obviously' going to wait until marriage to have sex because not doing so would be wrong. That was all Ed needed to hear to know that this wasn't going to be a girl that he would be pursuing. He wondered if Rose was also a religious version and that was why she was getting married so young just so she could finally had sex - he supposed that made sense. Before Ed got a chance to scope out any of the chicks that were there, Keenan stood up in front of everyone to address the group. The guy was charismatic and he was certainly making everyone feel appreciated for being there and he did a good job reiterating that they were there for a great cause, adding by saying how confident he was that the statement they were making was going to pay off in the form of saving 'millions of lives'. So the march began and Ed really felt great about what he was doing. He quickly forgot about the fact that he probably wasn't going to meet any girls that day and just walked with everyone else, doing some chanting of his own, and kind of wishing he had brought a sign like a lot of them did. Once their march got going he really started to feel good that he was supporting a great cause and was happy that he came. As they marched down the road Ed looked around and saw that this rally had drawn quite the outside crowd. There were plenty of pro-choice people on the sidelines which were blocked off by rope, mainly women, holding signs themselves supporting pro-choice, and yelling chants back at the marchers. While his group was most definitely passionate, some of these pro-choice women had looks of sheer hatred in their eyes. He respected that they had a different point of view on the matter, especially since he used to agree with them himself, but he just didn't understand why they looked so angry and hateful towards his group. Couldn't they at least respect that the marchers just believed that life began at conception and at least agree they were coming from a good place? Seeing some of the pro-choicers with their anger, their yelling, and their signs upset him, but he was glad to see that there were plenty of people on the other side of the ropes that were supporting the marchers. People that clearly agreed with them but just weren't a part of Keenan's following yet. "Protect the lives of babies!" Ed then heard an extremely loud female voice yell next right next to him, close enough to sound like it was part of the marching group, but a voice that he didn't recognize. "Protect the lives of all! Shut down Planned Parenthood and make sure those monsters never mutilate another human life again! All of these baby killers should be imprisoned!!" Ed looked to see who was screaming this and it was a girl that was a part of the marching group that he either hadn't noticed yet or just joined in recently after the march had started. He guessed it was the latter because if this girl had been there the entire time he definitely would have noticed her. She was a thin, blond-haired woman that stood at about 5'7, looking to be in her mid-twenties. She wasn't the best looking girl there, in fact she wasn't even close. She had extremely fair skin and with the sun getting stronger he could see lots of freckles on her. He hoped that she had sunscreen on or she was going to fry like a lobster out there. The reason he knew he would have noticed her earlier had she been there earlier was that she was really dressed slutty. She had on a skimpy tank-top that was loose and even though she had extremely small tits, he could tell that she didn't have a bra on. He could almost see them down the front of her shirt. She wore a short skirt and high heels with no socks on or anything so he could see her dry, rugged looking feet. She was dressed more like a stripper than someone protesting abortion. He hated to think it but she looked like the type that would go out there and get herself knocked up, then abort because she didn't look like the type that could take care of a child. He didn't know why she would wear heels to a march and he figured her feet were going to be hurting her soon if they weren't already. If she often wore heels to events like this, he could see why they looked so rugged. Her face wasn't nearly as pretty as the Bible-girls he had spoken to, she had rugged feet, no tits, and pale skin - but she was dressed slutty, and he was a 20-year-old guy whose first priority was getting laid, so he did feel horny looking at her. "Life begins at conception!" the slutty girl yelled right at Ed when she realized that he was looking at her, and she yelled it with passion, looking like she was trying to get him as fired up about the whole thing as she was. "Equal rights for ALL FORMS of life. Down with Planned Parenthood! Down with the baby killers!!" "That's right!" Ed yelled and it was the first time since the march started that he actually yelled something. "Down with Planned Parenthood!" "Thatta boy!" the slutty girl yelled as she held her hand up to give Ed a high-five. He held his hand up and she slapped him five so hard that it actually hurt him. He tried his best not to show that it did. "Thanks," he said, feeling a bit embarrassed, unsure of exactly how he wanted to respond. He was clearly not as diehard about this issue as she was but he respected her passion. "I'm Jenny," she said and she held out her hand, giving him a handshake that was a lot firmer than he expected from a thin girl. "Glad you could make it out today. I really want to show these baby killers how evil they are so I couldn't wait for parade. And to do it on Mother's Day - yeah that'll really show 'em!" "I'm Ed," he said. "It's nice to meet you. I just started following Keenan recently, but ... " "Go home, you brain-washed hater!" a woman holding a pro-choice sign who was behind the ropes but leaning over as far as she could yelled right at Jenny. "You're part of the problem supporting these men that want to control our bodies!" "Fuck you, you baby killing piece of crap!!" Jenny yelled back at her with such volume and hatred in her voice that it made Ed actually feel afraid of her. It scared him just being next to her yelling like that at someone else so he couldn't imagine if she had yelled at him like that. "I'm here to stop murderers like you so get the fuck out of here!" Ed wished that Jenny hadn't done that. He believe it the cause and was glad to see so many people out there supporting it. But the pro-choicers that were out there against them had their right to free speech too. He didn't think that yelling back at them and calling them murderers was any kind of solution to the problem. He once thought like they did and it wasn't like they weren't coming from a good place too. But he definitely wasn't going to say any of that to Jenny. "Murderers, that's exactly what they are," Jenny said to Ed as she looked forward again and continued to march, Ed just thinking about how extreme she was and the more she talked like that, the more he wanted to side with the woman that had yelled at her. "Cold-blooded murderers. You actually look younger than most of the people out here protesting. Most people your age are in that brainwashed millennial group that thinks it's OK to kill innocent babies. How old are you, anyway?" Ed was watching her talk and her lips were jittery as she talked. Even after she was done talking her lips were still jittery. He thought she must have drank a couple of energy drinks before she came out to march. Or maybe she was on some kind of antidepressant or something. He knew someone else once who took those and that person was always jittery. "I'm 21." "Really??" she said and she excitedly grabbed his arm which turned him on - it didn't take much. "That's awesome that you're out here protesting with us and that you understand. I think that's awesome that you get it - it's pretty hot too." She grabbed his arm tighter and then she looked him directly in the eyes. She then pulled him closer to her so she could talk to him without anyone else nearby hearing. "One thing I know about guys your age too is that they are a great fuck. I'm 26 and even guys around my age can't fuck like they used to. I haven't had a good college guy in a while. My office for work is nearby and I got the keys to it. Wanna ditch this thing and go do it? "Heh," he chuckled uncomfortably. "How about we wait until after the march?" The look on her jittery face quickly turned from excited to angry. He certainly didn't want her feeling angry towards him after the way he saw her treat that last woman - plus he didn't want to blow his chance. "A sexy woman is here and she wants to have sex with you and you're worried about some stupid march?? Haven't you learned yet that when a woman tells you she is horny that you take the opportunity when it's there? It's now or never! It's not like anyone is going to notice that we left. They have a long walk ahead and we'll probably be back before the thing is done. I'm not looking for some romantic morning, I just want to get laid real quick and then we'll be back." Ed took a quick look around at all of the people. He did want to be a part of this but the fact of the matter was that his primary motivation for coming to the even was to meet chicks. That opportunity was now there and he knew that if he passed it up for this march, that Jenny correctly told him that it wouldn't be noticed if he left, then he'd regret that for quite some time. "Alright," he said and her intense face looked excited again. "Let's go." She tightly grabbed his wrist and pulled him away. He went along with her as she moved fast, seeming very eager. It was true that no one was noticing their departure at all. There was just too much going on and both sides were too busy worried about making their own noise and yelling at anyone who was challenging it, to realize anyone that was trying to get away from it. It wasn't long before she had pulled him away from the crowd completely and now they were just walking away from the crowd and noise that was all behind them. As he felt her hand grabbing his wrist and watched her walk ahead of him as she pulled him along, he started to think it was awkward that they weren't talking. He also figured he should at least try and get to know her a little bit. "So what do you do?" he said. She abruptly stopped in her tracks when he asked that then turned to him and gave him a look like it was the stupidest question he could have asked. "What do I DO? I give a really good blowjob, that's what I do. You're about to find out how good." She then cracked a bit of a smile, winked at him, then turned around and started pulling him along again. Based on talking to her he figured that she wasn't anything more than a receptionist or someone just pushing papers at an office. He figured someone like that wouldn't be too interested in discussing her profession anyway and that it was probably better he just not try and small talk and give this horny girl what she wanted. Her last comment made him even more excited about that happening. He just hoped that no big time CEO or someone was going to walk in on them and have them both arrested for having sex in his building. But Ed wouldn't imagine Jenny would do anything that would put her at risk of losing her job, even if she didn't seem like the brightest fish in the sea. He watched her continue to walk along with him and he was impressed at how fast she was able to move wearing those heels. He wondered if maybe she had danced on some poles wearing those heels and that was why she was so agile in them. Strippers normally didn't have small boobs like she did but he had seen uglier strippers before. She was in a hurry and she sure seemed eager to have sex. If all older women like her were this horny then he was going to have to stop wasting time at college parties and just start hanging out at bars where older women hung out. He was so excited about getting into this office of hers that he wasn't paying much attention to where they were going. She led him to the side of an office building so he never got a chance to see what kind of business it was. She opened a side door with a key and let him inside. She led him up a flight of stairs and into an office. It was a big office and he wondered if this was the office of her boss or at least one of the higher-ups at the company. He couldn't imagine this airhead worked in a big office like this. Once they got inside, she quickly shut the office door and was standing between him and the door. He looked around at the walls. There were lots of pictures on the walls and most of them were of female politicians, a few photos of the most recent female presidential candidate. That woman most certainly opposed abortion which made him think they weren't in Jenny's office. If they were, then he was even more confused about her views, but there were plenty of people that had views that he couldn't figure out. He watched her kick her shoes off and he got excited - she was not wasting any time getting undressed. He moved in to try and kiss her and she put her hands on his shoulders to stop him. He didn't like the sudden hesitation but of course he had to be a gentleman. "So what happens?" she said. "If we have sex and you get me pregnant. Are you going to tell me that I'm a baby killer if I have an abortion? And if I don't have an abortion, are you going to love me for the rest of our lives, drop out of college, and emotionally and financially support me while I raise this baby? Will you do that?" He actually did think that she had asked some good questions for him to ponder. But at that moment, his dick was super hard thinking he was going to have sex, and he didn't have any answers for her. The only answer he was pretty sure of was that she was a pro-choicer that had just lured him away from the march. He wanted to confirm to be sure, though. "I take it you don't really want to bang," he said, not thinking much about his words. Jenny wound back her arm and then she punched him right in the face, sending him back a few steps. He had seen women hit men in the face on TV, a couple of times even in real life, normally with a slap, but sometimes with a punch. All of the times he had seen that happen, the guy took the hit, just looking annoyed, but not actually looking like it really hurt them. Either those guys were able to take pain a lot better than Ed was or Jenny hit a lot harder than the average female. He had never been punched in the face at all in his adult life and it really hurt. He felt pain shoot throughout his face, his eyes watering up, and he even felt a bit woozy like he may fall over. When his vision cleared up and he could look straight ahead, he looked at Jenny. Maybe it was because he was a bit messed up from the punch to the face that he just took, but the expression that he now saw on Jenny's face, looking at him seriously like she was above him and better than he was, changed his impression of her. Instead of looking like a slutty, unintelligent woman, she now looked to him like a smart, confident woman that had a calculated agenda on her mind. "My name is Jennifer Ryan," she said to him, her speech just sounding more articulate and intelligent than it had up to that point. "I'm the president of the local Feminist Chapter. I'm going to give you a little lesson on respecting women, their rights, and their bodies." "I don't listen to anyone that sucker punches me in the face. Please move out of my way. If you try and hit me again I WILL hit you back." He tried to walk past her but she stood in front of him and actually grabbed him at the shoulders, quickly starting to seem worked up again like she did back at the march. "I'm not getting out of your way," she said. "I'm not letting you go back down there to join your group of women-haters. I'll tell you what though. I'll give you one free shot. Go ahead - punch me in the face. If you can knock me over you can go back out there and yell with all of your women-hating friends all you want. Come on - do it!" She was really getting riled up and speaking in that jittery way again. That aggravated him and being called a woman-hater really aggravated him. He prided himself on being a gentleman but hearing her call him that and watching her lips and teeth jitter so anxiously as she waited for what he was going to do, put him over the edge. He wound his arm back and threw a punch right at her face. With speed and skill that the average citizen didn't have, she raised her arm up and easily used it to block his arm so he couldn't connect with the punch. Her forearm connecting with his was painful for him. Showing more of her impressive speed, she punched him in the face again, this was really hurting and shaking him up. Next thing he knew, she had her left hand on his throat, digging her fingers into his Adam's apple. He started backpedaling just to prevent her from really getting the choke in and he almost fell backwards. Just when he thought he was going to fall, he felt his back and the back of his head slam up against the wall, having that backboard really allowing her to start choking him good. He grabbed her forearm with both of his hands trying his best to pull it off of his throat as he was sweating and felt his face getting extremely red, while he tried to breathe as much as he could. Her skinny arm felt a lot stronger than it looked and he could not move it away. He could just watch that intense look on her face as she choked him harder. "Who do you think you are to try and control women's bodies?" she said as she choked more, looking like she was completely content to knock him out. Fighting her wasn't doing any good and all he could do was stand there and take it. "I'm going to see how you like when I control your body by beating the shit out of you. I trained hard and got my black belt so I could keep sexist pigs like you from causing trouble. You are so done." As she pushed her left hand into his throat even more, she wound her right arm back, and then punched him in the face again. Right after connecting, she already had her arm wound back again, and she delivered another hard punch to his face. She just held his throat and kept punching him in the face over and over. As painful as it was, after he lost count of how many times he had been punched, his head actually started to feel numb and it was hurting less. Part of that could have been that he was punch drunk, but it still lessened the suffering either way. He figured she had to tire out soon enough. She finally let go of his neck and he started to take a deep breath, feeling the scratchiness in his throat when he did. Jennifer took a couple of steps back, lifted her leg, and then delivered a side kick, the bottom of her bare foot connecting right with the center of his stomach, a kick that he didn't have a chance of trying to defend against. Being punched was painful but he had never experienced anything nearly as bad as that kick to the stomach had been for him. The first thing he felt was pain starting in his stomach, that rapidly shot throughout his entire body, pain that he had never felt before. It felt as if she had done some serious damage to his insides with the kick. It was the first time he ever was hit to the point where it felt like his body was damaged. He started to feel like he was going to vomit but as he tried taking in a breath he realized he couldn't get any air in at all. That was when he fell right to the ground. He lay there at Jennifer's bare feet, still in serious pain, finally just starting to get a little bit of a breath in. He looked up at Jennifer who was looking down at him with a stern look on her face. "You know what happens when you make abortion illegal?" she said. "Women have no choice but to get illegal abortions. You know how painful it is to get an illegal abortion in some alley? It feels like this." Ed was in such rough shape after that first kick that he could that he didn't even consider that she would kick him again as he figured that was now putting at life at risk and that she had to know that. But either she didn't think about that or she just didn't care as she lifted her leg and brought her foot down right on the center of his stomach. The pain initially felt worse and he thought he was going to pass out for sure but right before it seemed like it was definitely going to happen, he stayed conscious. He just lay there in that state where he was barely able to breathe, the pain still awful but his body somewhat feeling like it was at least getting used to it. It wasn't that it was getting any less painful but he could deal with it a bit better just because at least it wasn't getting worse. What was worse was that his ribs and the rest of his insides felt like they had taken such a pounding that they wouldn't be able to work properly. He felt like he was going to vomit again, this time the feeling being stronger than it was when he felt it still standing on his feet. It came up and he puked blood all over the floor. He looked at the mess on the floor. It actually didn't resemble vomit in the least, just pure blood, like he didn't actually throw up, but his insides were bleeding so badly that a bunch of blood just came up his esophagus and out his mouth. "See that blood?" he heard her say. "That's nothing compared to the amount of blood that a woman that has an illegal abortion has to deal with. And the pain they feel is much worse too. You want to force women to have illegal abortions you piece of shit!! I'm going to show you exactly how it feels for them." She lifted her leg high, her face red with anger, as she brought her foot down on his stomach again. It almost felt like it was slow motion at that point, feeling that foot backed from that powerful kick of hers, just crush his insides. He didn't know how he was conscious still, the pain getting so bad he was started to get confused as to what was going on. She lifted up her leg and kicked him in the stomach hard again, Ed now not able to get even a little bit of air in, and in too much pain to try. He watched her bring her leg up for another kick but that was the last thing he saw before he woke up in an ambulance. Keenan had a big smile on his face as the march was getting towards the end of it route. It couldn't have gone better. The turnout for people that came to march was even better than he expected it to be and he really felt good about the support. There were plenty of pro-choice people that were on the sidelines looking angry as could be and Keenan loved it. If that many of those people were bothered by the march then it was worth it. The cops were there to make sure things didn't get out of control so those people couldn't do a thing other than yell and bitch. Seeing how angry they were and how ridiculous some of the things they were saying and how ridiculous some of the signs they were holding up were - the ones calling them women haters when at least a third of the marchers were women were the ones he thought were especially ridiculous - made him feel like his followers and even people that were unsure on the issue were seeing how illogical these pro-choice people were and would support Keenan even more or even do so for the first time. He looked ahead at their finish. There were some tents set up with refreshments there for everyone who marched to hang out a bit and get to know each other better. The group was still loud and passionately yelling, Keenan happy they were all so into it, and he was looking forward to everyone socializing a bit. Behind the tent and refreshments was a grassy hill. Keenan looked to the top of the hill and saw that someone was dancing on it. The person dancing was dancing foolishly with no rhythm and wearing a clown mask making them unidentifiable. But then he looked at the body of this person. This person was a woman dressed absolutely ridiculous and not just because of the clown mask. She wore a white tank-top, just a pair of red and white polka-dotted boxer shorts and had colorful socks that didn't match, pulled halfway up her thick legs. She also wore white tennis shoes. He looked at her awful dancing, jerking her arms around, and shaking her flat butt. He knew immediately by looking at those skinny feminine arms and her thick, strong legs that it was Jennifer Ryan wearing that mask. He watched her continue to dance ridiculously and it wasn't just his attention that she had gotten. His large crowd of marchers were starting to quiet down as they noticed her. He heard some of them talking about her and a lot of them were laughing. Most of them were laughing at her and not with her but Keenan still didn't like that. Her goal was to take attention from his march and that was exactly what she was doing. He should have known that the march wouldn't have gone smoothly without any kind of intervention from her. Of course she had to pop up right at the end of it. He didn't know exactly what she had in mind but he could feel his stress level starting to rise. As they got even closer to the end, he looked at her bend over and it looked like she was reaching for something on the other side of the hill. She struggled a bit when she grabbed it and then he watched her roll the human-sized thing down the hill. As he watched it roll down the hill he became afraid as it looked as it was, indeed, a human. He abandoned his group immediately and sprinted towards the bottom of the hill to see exactly what, or who, it was. Lots of other people from his group followed him and plenty of people from the sidelines did as well. Whatever this was had completely killed the end of the march. There were plenty of cops around at the main part of the march but he looked around now and didn't see any nearby. They seemed to all have been hanging out more near the beginning and the middle of the route, thinking things would be OK near the end. Keenan was in front of everyone, running as fast as he could to get closer. He saw, what was definitely a human body, now lying at the bottom of the hill. It was a male body that had been stripped down to his boxer shorts, was clearly not conscious, and he looked badly beaten, with blood all over his stomach and chest. As he got closer he could feel his stress turning to fear. Keenan got down on his knees next to the body and when he looked at the bruised and bloody face of the guy, his stomach dropped. It was Ed. Keenan really liked Ed as he was young for a pro-lifer, but really believed in it, and Keenan just thought the kid had a ton of potential as someone who would fight hard for the cause as he got older. Keenan looked at Ed's face with a black eye, bruised in other spots, and blood all over it. He was completely out cold and Keenan felt his eyes water up as he looked at him. He felt Ed's heart and was relieved that it was at least beating. He looked at the blood that was on Ed's chest and belly. It wasn't just blood. The blood was written into words that read - "K. - COME SEE ME ALONE - NOW" Keenan looked up to the top of the hill. Jennifer was not there and he was sure she was long gone. Everyone had been so distracted looking at Ed rolling down the hill that they weren't paying attention to the nut job in the clown mask and boxer shorts at the top of it and she had plenty of time to get out of there. Keenan despised her but she knew that she was no dummy and that she was long gone. Keenan could hear ambulance sirens coming close. He looked behind him to see a couple of cops coming but they were clearly just arriving and didn't have a chance of catching up to Jennifer. And Keenan knew Ed's personality. He was a great kid but he had an ego and there was no way that he was going to admit that a skinny woman beat the shit out of him. If she had that clown mask the entire time, Ed wouldn't be able to identify her better than anyone else that was out there anyway. "Get out of the way!" Keenan heard one of the cops yell to him and anyone that was near Ed once they saw how serious the situation was. "Everyone, get out of the way, NOW!" Keenan moved out of the way, feeling awful as it sunk it what had happened. He watched ambulances move in and just watched all of the commotion. The pro-lifers and the pro-choicers, for that moment, didn't seem to be arguing anymore as they were talking amongst each other trying to make sense of what had happened. However Jennifer had lured Ed to her, she did so discreetly and no one had any idea what had caused a guy to be beaten the way he was. But Keenan knew. He felt like the whole thing was hit fault and he was going to have to go talk to Jennifer. As he saw the ambulances driving away, he felt so much guilt that he didn't consider trying to bring police or anyone with him to go meet her at her office, where he assumed that she wanted her to meet him - without a spot specified, that was all that made sense. He immediately walked over to the building and approached it all by himself. Jennifer buzzed him in the main door and it locked behind him once he walked in. He knocked on the door to her office, his hands shaking as he did. He thought about the beating that Ed had taken. Why was he coming to Jennifer's office to meet her by himself? He wanted to support his people but it was starting to sink in that he had made a bad decision. The door opened and there she stood. "Why hello!" she said, speaking friendly with a smile on her face. "Come on in!" There was no turning back now. She led him in the office, closed the door behind him once they were both inside, and locked it. She had certainly gotten dressed quickly since being on that hill. Her long blond hair was tied above her head in a bun. She wore a green button-up business shirt with black dress pants and heels on. She even wore a nerdy looking pair of glasses. She definitely didn't look like anyone that had just been in a fight and if Keenan had decided to bring the cops with him, they would have laughed at the idea that she had been the one that had beaten up Ed. "Like my door?" she said. "It's soundproof just like the walls are. I suppose it's not necessary for me to make you strip down to see if you're wearing a wire. They wouldn't have a wire on you for something like this and it's certainly not something they'd be able to set up this quickly. That's one of the reasons I told you that I wanted to see you immediately. I am going to haJacve to just check your pockets for a recorder, though. I doubt you would have had time to get one but it's still something I need to do." She smiled at him and then patted around his pockets, her hands coming very close to his dick. He couldn't imagine how she'd react if a man was touching her like that. She stopped doing it once she was satisfied. He just wanted to go deal with the situation and hadn't thought about a wire, tape recorder, or any of that. Jennifer was always thinking one step ahead, though. She walked over behind her desk and started to pour herself a cup of tea. He looked around to see if there was any traces of blood in the office. If this was where Jennifer had beaten Ed up, she had done a good job of cleaning it up. "Have a seat," she said to him as she poured the tea, him feeling himself get more nervous. He didn't buy her welcoming act for a second and as he thought more about the soundproof door and walls he became more afraid. At any point she could just beat the shit out of him like she did to Ed and even someone walking by wouldn't have heard. He considered just making a run for it but with the door locked he wouldn't have gotten away. "Care for a cup of tea?" she said when she was finished pouring her cup and she turned to face him. "Yeah right!" he said and he wished he hadn't phrased his decline that way. She smiled a bit at his response and had a seat on her side of the desk. "What, you seriously think I would poison you?? It's your type that likes to hurt other people with all of your guns and everything. I would never hurt someone simply because they disagreed with me." Keenan thought that poor Ed who was going to spend most of his summer vacation recovering from injuries would have disagreed with that - but he didn't have the guts to say it. "Anyway, have a seat," she said. "We can get down to business." He slowly sat down. "What do you want?" he said. "Well - what I'd like is just a chance. A chance to speak to your group of people. Educate them a little bit. Help them see the other side so they just don't believe whatever you've gotten them to believe." "They found me on their own!" He started to stand up aggressively and then quickly sat down, realizing that wasn't in his best interest. There was so much more he wanted to respond to that - but he didn't. "Just get them together once. I just want to speak to them. Introduce me to them and say you'd like for them to hear what I have to say. You don't have to say you agree with it or anything like that." Keenan thought - 'how nice of her!' "They're not going to want to listen to you," he said. "And I wouldn't feel right allowing you to speak to them. They follow me for a reason. You have your side, we have our side. How about we leave it at that?" She smiled, and tried to stay patient, but he could tell that he had angered her by saying that. She tried giving the impression that she was this open-minded, respectful human being. But Keenan knew that was all only as long as you agreed with her and gave her what she wanted. She abruptly stood up out of her chair and he flinched. There was nothing he could do. He was always told that it didn't matter who was stronger but in this case, she was the stronger one and that meant she'd always ultimately get what she wanted over him. As she walked towards him he looked at the ground, fearing what she was going to do. "So that's how you want it to be?" she said as she poked his chest, no longer speaking with a friendly tone, a tone he knew was ultimately coming even when she was speaking kindly to him. "You want to have your side and I have my side? Sounds like a battle to me. You want to be at battle with me?" The well-respected man who had so many people that looked up to him and followed him, hated how afraid she made him feel, but he couldn't help it. He remembered the beating she had given him when he had shown up at her rally. He thought about what Ed looked like bloody, bruised, and unconscious. He was all alone in this office with her and even if she decided not to act right then, she'd find a way to get him or another one of his people at some point. He never would have thought she would have found a way to beat one of his people so badly at a public event with so much law enforcement around. She'd find a way. She always found a way. "Maybe we can start battle right now," she said as she poked his chest again, he looked up at her, but then quickly looked back down. "Or maybe next time I'll let you watch when I take care of one of your women-hating foll ... " "Alright!" he snapped at her and he looked back up at her to see that she was now satisfied again. "I'll let you come ONCE. I'll get them together and you can say whatever you feel you need to say. But that's it - ONCE!" Her grin got bigger. He was trying to sound tough but they both knew he wasn't tough at all. The fact that he was letting her do this showed how weak he was. Keenan stood at the podium in front of a group of over 100 of his followers that he had called together for this meeting. At the time, when he was in Jennifer's office, she had made it seem like this was the right thing to do. Now that he saw all of those people that believed in him were there looking at him, he seriously questioned himself. It was too late now - they all had come out and wanted to see what it was all about. "I appreciate you all coming out today," Keenan said to the audience, clearly not speaking with the normal confidence and passion that he did. "We all have a cause here that we believe strongly in. But we are open-minded people and even though we always stand behind our beliefs - we are open to hearing the other side of things too. So I wanted to give the president of the local feminist chapter the opportunity to speak to all of us so we can fairly have an understanding of those that believe differently than we do. So let me introduce to you, Miss Jennifer Ryan!" There was a very small amount of clapping from the crowd and Keenan got the feeling that they weren't sure if they were supposed to be clapping or not. He supposed that he wasn't quite sure what the answer to that was either. Jennifer wasn't bothered by the lack of enthusiasm for her appearance, though. She walked out of the podium wearing her black blazer and black pants with a blue shirt underneath the blazer. She had the nerdy glasses on as well with her hair up in a bun above her head. She wore a huge smile trying to make herself look like a friendly good person - a smile that Keenan saw right through. Her smile looked even faker when she walked right up to Keenan and gave him an extremely firm handshake. "Thank you very much everyone!" she said into the microphone, looking at the audience, with Keenan still standing right next to her. "It's an honor to be here today and I appreciate you all coming out to hear what I have to say. All I ask is that you hear me out. I'm here to educate, not change your minds. Keenan, if you would step aside, please." He had already 'stepped aside' but Jennifer clearly didn't want him up there with her, wanting him out in the audience with everyone else. She was smiling at him and trying to look professional but he could see the threatening look in her eyes. Once again, he did what she wanted and walked out into the audience. "Ladies and gentlemen!" Jennifer said and she was already starting to get fired up. "I know why all of you believe what you do. It's not because you are bad people or because you have bad values. It's simply a matter of you not being educated enough about this subject. But there is a deeper issue here. What the real issue is, is about a woman's right to choose and the government not being able to tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body!!" She got louder towards the end of her sentence and even made a fist that punched the air to show how fired up she was. Keenan couldn't believe that she was going there already. He figured no one was going to buy into this, but he looked at the crowd and it looked like there were definitely a few people whose attention she had caught. "In absolutely no way, shape, or form am I going to stand up here and say that you need to believe in abortion!" she continued and she was getting louder and more passionate the longer that she spoke. "If you don't believe in abortion it is simple - do not have one! It's a sensitive decision that should be made between a woman and her doctor. But the government should have nothing to do with that decision. The only one that should be able to decide what a woman does with her body is that woman! Our society needs to stop trying to take control of women and respect women's rights! People that want to outlaw abortion are not 'pro-life' - they just want another way to control women's bodies!!!" Keenan couldn't believe what he was standing there listening to. He doubted there was one person in his entire group of followers that didn't respect the rights of women, especially since a good percentage of them were women. And he was certain that none of their motivations was just to 'control women's bodies'. That had nothing to do with it. The people in that audience believed that life begins at conception, that was why they were there and so passionate about their own belief. Keenan knew that at conception one had their own unique DNA and parents that wanted to have their babies treated it as their own child since conception. If Jennifer was up there providing alternate evidence to that he would have been interested to hear her side of the story and maybe see that he was missing something. But as he listened to her talk so passionately up there, her only agenda was just talking about women's rights and women's bodies, the entire time. She was distracting this audience from what their whole belief was - that life began at conception and that therefore abortion was murder. He had no desire to take away rights from women, he just wanted to protect the lives of the unborn. It saddened him to see that a lot of the people there were buying into it. But he looked at the powerful woman up at the podium that had beaten him up and really beaten Ed up. And just stood there like a coward, too afraid of her to stop her. "The Local Feminist Chapter is having a meeting over in the forum of my building in half an hour," Jennifer said, Keenan being glad that her speech was finally winding down. "I invite all of you to join. I'd like you to hear from some women who have had abortions and how they've still lived fulfilling lives since then, and how their abortion empowered them ... " Keenan wanted to be sick. She was actually going to have women who had abortions getting up and speaking about how it was a good thing? He didn't know how anyone could justify that. Surely no one in the group would follow her to go listen to people speak about something so awful but Keenan's people were not going to be happy that he had brought Jennifer here to talk about this. "I'm on my way over there right now," Jennifer said. "I encourage all of you to come follow me now - thank you very much!" Keenan felt his heart completely melt as he watched and listened to Jennifer actually get a respectable applause from the crowd. She gave Keenan a smile, putting on the act like it was just a thanking smile, but he knew that she was doing it because she was so pleased about what she had accomplished there. It got worse for Keenan as she started to walk away from the podium - and a large percentage of the audience started to follow her. All of the people that were leaving were people that he thought were passionate about the pro-life movement and all going to be critical pieces in ultimately help the murderous procedure of abortion become illegal someday. Although Keenan listened to what Jennifer said and didn't hear her make one strong argument supporting her cause - she was a very powerful speaker and as he watched that room clearing out he could tell that she had won over the majority of the crowd. A frightening thought crossed his mind - that most people hadn't really made their own strong opinion on this matter and just followed whoever seemed passionate about it. That saddened him as well. When Jennifer, and all of those that she had convinced to follow her had left, he saw that only about 25% of the initial crowd remained in there. Those people obviously didn't buy into Jennifer's speech - but they knew Keenan was the one who allowed her to be there. He knew they were never going to respect him either. He had worked so hard to start his movement, Jennifer challenged it, and Jennifer had won. **For more information on my Custom Stories, please email me at ajbrown2005@yahoo.com**