Sasha barked "Tina, love what you've done with your nails. Don't forget, you're singing in class this afternoon."
The others in class started waving "Hi Tina."
One girl, standing next to her on the barre smiled "I knew you were a girl, why did you try to act like a boy around campus?"
Tina smiled "I thought I had to or nobody would like me."
Sasha laughed "Tina, everybody LOVES you. So much more REAL than Ted ever was!"
Tina smiled "Thank you Sasha, I'm so glad you feel that way, because I really love you guys too!"
The work-out was light, not too intense, and Tina had to leave to get ready for her next class. She put on the jacket, fixed her make-up and pouted out her lips. She'd rehearsed this number about two dozen times with Anna. She pulled on her wrap skirt and fastened the button. Anna gave her a prop top-hat.
When she got into the class, she was late, again.
The teacher smiled "You must be this Tina I've heard so much about. I see you're wearing your Mu Phi skirt. Can you sing for us today?"
Tina went to the front of the room, popped the top hat, and the pianist played. Tina sang "Falling in Love Again" but it was sweet, sentimental, wistful. As she sang, she remembered the wonderful women she HAD fallen in love with, and finally thought of Alice.
The song ended and the class started cheering!
The teacher shook her head. "I'm absolutely amazed. I know you have a bass-baritone voice, but you made it sound so feminine, so beautiful, so sweet. Are you singing at the dance Saturday?"
Tina smiled "Yes ma'am, I am."
"Wonderful! For your next song, I want you to do Don't Tell Momma, from Cabaret! I suspect that this is a song you might relate to?"
Tina giggled. "Yes, ma'am, most definitely!"
The next song up was a number between Anna and Shelly, that Tina had coached and directed. The two played off each other brilliantly, and the song reached a fever pitch of emotion and then broke into sweetness and love. It was quite beautiful.
Jan, the teacher, joined the cheering of the rest of the class. "That was so beautiful! It was almost like the two of you were in love! There was so much passion and intimacy. I was really moved, touched, and inspired."
Anna nodded "Tina helped us with this one. She's an amazing coach, she helped us to explore the song from angles we had never seen. She seemed to know exactly how to create the intimacy as well."
Jan looked at Tina "Well Tina, it looks like I'm going to have to assign you some more challenging work. I want you to work with some of the freshman, Cheri and Liz, to start with. You can pick the number, but I want a stirring duet or two stirring solos."
Tina nodded. She knew both girls' voices, and began to consider the possibilities. "Yes ma'am, I already have a few ideas."
Cheri and Liz squealed with delight. They were Mu Phi pledges themselves, and had heard about Tina when she was proposed.
The rest of the week was a whirlwind. Tina seemed to be spending a lot of time coaching and directing, as well as preparing her own scenes and songs.
On Tuesday, she had stage crew. Tina pulled on her overalls over her tights, removing the skirt and putting on the apron over the overalls. Tina got straight to work welding. She had finished about 30 welds when she lifted her mask to inspect her work.
Joe looked closely "Damn, for a girl you're a pretty fine welder. I'm glad you're on my crew and not down there in the costume shop. Please promise me you won't leave. I want you on my team for the whole year!"
Tina looked over at Joe and smiled "Hi Joe"
Joe laughed "Tina, you weren't much to look at as Ted, but now, you're a stunner. I mean it, I want you on my team! Your one of the best trouble-shooters and problem solvers I've had in years."
Tina giggled "Well, I guess I'll just have to redo my manicure more often then." She nodded, "I'd be glad to work the year, but I do have to wear the apron as a concession for not welding in my miniskirt and heels."
Joe laughed "Yes, I remember that Vicky had the same problem. She had to wear the mu-phi skirt, but she had to do stage-craft. That's when we came up with the pink apron. It ties in the back, so it's almost a skirt, but still provides safety."
As he walked away, Joe gave her butt a little pat. Tina had seen him do it to the other girls, they knew it was just a fatherly gesture, not really a grope or sexual. Tina smiled because Joe had accepted her as one of the girls.
Thursday, there was another rehearsal for the performance on Saturday night. Tina was looking forward to singing with the girls, and dancing with Alice in her little black dress.
At stage crew, Tina not only did her own welding, but trained several of the freshmen on how to weld good solid joints that could support dancing and stage fencing that looked like real mortal combat. One of the kids was going to be doing the fencing, and when he realized that a bad weld could mean he would fall twenty feet to the stage below, including some metal objects below, he got very interested in getting it right.
Joe called Tina over "Tina, could you help Liz with the lights, she needs you to aim, and she'll direct you."
Tina nodded "Right on it boss. And headed up the ladder, 60 feet into the air. Tina was wishing they could use the lighting loft, but she understood the need."
Joe inspected the boys' work. "Great job boys, you’re learning from the best. Tina may be one of the cutest chicks on campus, but she's also one of the best welders on the team."
On Friday, Tina sang her Cabaret number. She had so much fun with the Don't tell momma number, the whole class was cracking up, but they also were touched because they saw that this was coming from the heart. She had thought about changing the words to "Don't tell Papa", but decided to only remember his rejections of Tina. As it was, the rest of the class was awed. Tina had transposed it down a fifth because he couldn't sing it in the original register, but the octave lower was too low. This way, the high notes were Fs with an A in the finale.
When she was done, the class cheered. Jan cheered with them. "I'm really happy with what you're doing with this number. Next week I want you to do the title song from Cabaret. I want to hear the pain as well as the laughter."
On Friday, Tina went to see Nancy. This time she wore her Mu Phi skirt, tan hose, and 3 inch heels. There was no doubt, she was all girl today.
Tina told Nancy all about the meeting with Kelly, the acting assignments, the singing assignments, and the new directing and coaching assignments. She got excited when she told Nancy about being accepted into Mu Phi Epsilon.
Nancy was thrilled. "It sounds like you've already committed to going full time. You'll be ready for the blockers and hormones in a month, much more prepared than most girls like you.
Tina nodded "I started to do toe in the water, but I have some really great friends who wanted to get me to dive in, or at least jump all-in."
Nancy wanted to know more about the confrontation with Kelly. Tina went into more detail, and described how he thought things had been left. She also mentioned Sarah's rape.
After the meeting, Nancy went to Kelly's office. They had a long talk. Kelly wanted to protect the cadet, but considering these other incidents, Kelly realized he needed to talk to Gordon.
"Gordon, I got some additional information on that Tina situation. Things don't look good for your boy..."
Trouble
Saturday night, Tina was singing with the Mu Phi sorority, it was a short concert, before the dance. Tina was wearing her little black dress, like the rest of the girls. Alice could barely keep her hands off Tina before the concert, but made sure Tina looked good for the concert. Sarah's up-do worked beautifully, and Tina loved the look.
They sang 5 songs, including 2 classical, 2 from musicals, and a pop number. Tina's bass voice gave the group extra depth and richness. Overall, it was a beautiful way to start a dance that would have been homecoming at a college with a football team.
In addition to over 100 girls, there were about 50 Cadets in their Dress uniforms.
It was beautiful, like a formal dance.
Alice couldn't wait to start dancing with Tina. There were more slow dances tonight, so it was very romantic. Finally, they sat down with the rest of the group.
Shelly smiled "Alice, Tina, have some punch!"
Tina took a large sip "That's got a kick! What is it?"
Shelly giggled "I knew they would do fruit punch, so I brought some brandy to spike the punch."
Then everybody talked for a while, checking out the cadets, the various dresses, the music, and plans for winter break.
Tina had been looking "Looks like Tom isn't here tonight. Maybe we'll all be safe tonight!"
Sarah nodded "Yeah, no more of his stupid bets!"
They went back out on the dance floor, and again, Alice and Tina danced, it was beautiful and romantic.
Alice was surprised when she was tapped on the shoulder by a pretty red-headed girl. "May I cut in?"
Alice wasn't going to be rude to a girl she didn't know, so she nodded and stepped away.
The young girl, held Tina close "My name's Beth. I'm one of the nursing students, senior year. I'm doing my internship but I didn't want to miss this dance."
Tina smiled "Hi Beth, that explains why I didn't recognize you. So, you know Alice? She's going to be a psych nurse and maybe a Certified Social Worker when she's done."
Beth shook her head "I'm sure I've seen her around, but I don't know her."
Tina laughed silently "She's the girl you just cut in on."
Beth went wide-eyed "I hope she's not the jealous type!"
Tina gave her a flirty smile "Not usually."
Beth smiled. "Are you that girl who used to be a guy?"
Tina smiled "More like that girl who used to pretend to be a guy, and not very well."
Beth went wide-eyed "Wow, that is so sexy! I've always wanted to dress up one of my boyfriends, but they always freak out!"
Tina nodded "They're probably happy being guys. I wasn't."
They talked for a few more minutes, and then the music got loud and fast. Both Tina and Beth were dancing vigorously. Tina looked for Alice, hoping she would come to the rescue, but she didn't seem to be anywhere in the room.
"I seem to have lost Alice?"
Beth giggled "She's probably checking out some hottie on the patio. I think I saw her with one of the cadets a few minutes ago."
Tina looked confused "Alice isn't really into cadets, or boys for that matter."
Beth winked "She was a lady cadet."
Tina started to worry "I'm going to go look for her."
Beth smiled "OK, let me get a couple of drinks, and we can look together."
Tina was thirsty from all the dancing. "OK, that would be great, I'll get my purse and wait for you over by the door. It's quieter there. Maybe she just had a headache."
Tina came back with two red Solo cups full of punch. Tina could taste the booze. "I think the punch was spiked twice!"
Beth nodded "I think you're right. I saw one off the cadets adding vodka, and I thought I saw your friend add brandy."
Tina laughed "Well, at least they didn't spike it with aftershave. They had a Colorado Kool-Aid party at the dorm, everybody adds a bottle of vodka, southern comfort, or everclear to a tub with Kool-Aid mix and a little water. One of the cadets, decided to dump a bottle of after-shave into it. I was throwing up all night long."
Betsy laughed "Can't hold your liquor?"
Tina huffed "No, I can't hold my aftershave! Liquor isn't that much of a problem. However, I've been known to do stupid things, so I usually don't drink that much."
Tina saw Alice out the back door, she was with a couple of the girls from the dorm, laughing and talking.
She called out "Alice, hi, I thought I'd lost you!"
Alice smiled "It's OK honey, I'm just hanging out with my friends, I'll be up in about 10 minutes, OK? Keep the dance floor warm for me!"
Kidnapped
Betsy waited for Tina to turn around, "Let's go this way, it's faster"
Tina nodded "I guess we can get in easier from the front door."
As they started climbing the stairs, Tina started to feel a little light-headed. "Lord! That punch was stronger than I thought. I'm gonna need some coffee."
As they rounded the corner to the cafeteria Tina began to lose her footing and tripped.
"Betsy, I'm sorry, something is wrong. I'm dizzy and sick to my stomach. Everything is spinning."
Betsy smiled "It's probably that little powdered pill I put in your drink. Tom is my brother and thanks to you, he's about to get kicked out of the academy. He couldn't leave the Academy, so some of his friends came by to say thank you for him."
Tina tried to fight the drug, but finally passed out.
Betsy called out. "I got him! Help me get him out of sight!"
Ten guys got out of their cars. They wore civilian clothes, but their buzz cuts and military boots made it obvious that they were all Cadets.
They propped Tina up between them, and walked her to a spot behind the art studio, where nobody would see what they were doing. Nice and out of sight. Then they dropped her on the ground.
Betsy tried to shake him "Wake up faggot, your friends are here to say thank you for Tommy!"
The guys got restless. "We could work him over while he's asleep!"
Betsy snarled "I want this little sissy faggot to feel EVERYTHING. He thought he was being raped, we'll show him what it's like to REALLY suffer."
Betsy reached into her purse to get some ammonia to wake Tina up, but Tina was already starting to come out of it. Suddenly she snapped awake "What's the hell are you doing, where am I and who are these goons, rejects from the Academy? Or just Fort Carson Jar-heads!"
Tina was on her knees and about to get up when Betsy knocked her off balance and back onto the ground. Tina knew what was coming so she turned face down.
The Attack
The guys started to kick her, and she curled into a little ball. They kicked for about 5 minutes, but Tina was still moving.
Betsy snarled, "Fuck that shit little cunt fairy. Curling up like an armadillo, I got a fix for that. You four, flip her on her back and hold her down spread eagled."
Tina spread-eagled face down, spreading her arms and legs, but Betsy kicked her in the face and the guys turned her onto her back.
Betsy snarled "Tommy told me that you're a little sissy cunt who hates being a guy, so we're going to help you with that."
She nodded to a tall guy about 200 pounds of pure muscle. He took a big swing and kicked Tina right between the legs. They were all in shock when Tina didn't buckle or scream.
Betsy pulled up the skirt. "No wonder, he’s packed his family jewels up inside. I can fix that!"
Betsy pulled off the tight panties, and pulled the balls so they were dangling. "Now, kick it hard! Show Tinkerbelle here what it's like to be a girl who's been raped!"
This time the big guy swung hard and hit right in the right spot. Tina instinctively tried to curl, but the four soldiers held him down tight. He couldn't move, he couldn't even close his knees.
Bruiser came down hard again, stomping on the little nub above the nuts, then he kicked again. Four other guys each took a turn, taking two kicks each, trying to find the most strategic attack.
Tina started to pass out from the pain but Betsy saw, "Oh no you don't. I want you to feel every single kick, every single punch." She hit Tina with the ammonia until she was fully awake and alert. Then she stomped on Tina's lump with her spike heel, then again in her abdomen.
"Remember, no broken bones! Everything else is fair game, go ahead and kick IT as hard as you can, at least three shots each."
Soon the other boys were stomping her thighs, her stomach, and they finally turned her onto her stomach and stomped on her back. The boys who had been holding switched with four other boys and took their turns.
One of the guys came over with some rope.
Betsy smiled "Yeah honey, you got some nice legs, but you ain't
gonna want to show them for a while. A month at least!"
They tied Tina's legs and arms, and began dragging her through the rose bushes out to the pavement. Then they took turns dragging her across the pavement, first by her arms, then by her legs. At one point, Betsy even sat on Tina's legs while she was face down.
Just then, Alice came over the top of the hill with some other girls. They saw what was happening and started blowing their rape whistles!
Betsy heard the whistles "Get out of here quick, the cops could be here any second and I don't wanna go to jail again." They piled into 3 cars, but Alice and 6 other girls were watching and took down plate numbers.
The security team did arrive within about two minutes. One of them used his radio to get police and ambulance.
Tina was awake, but couldn't even move. She was crying.
The guard calmed her "Don't worry miss, the ambulance is on the way, we'll get you to a hospital immediately."
Emergency
The nearest hospital was Phillips, the 7th day Adventist hospital. The medics in the ambulance could see that Tina's heart rate was irregular and couldn't even get a blood pressure. They kept trying to wake her up. "Stay awake miss, we can't let you sleep until the doctors look at you."
When they arrived at the hospital, the paramedics took Tina into the emergency room. "She's been beaten badly, and she's coded twice. I need a doctor."
The nurse on the ward saw the mess "I need a doctor here STAT!"
Tina was starting to fade. Her eyes were rolling into the back of her head. The nurse called for Oxygen and an IV. "Do you know your blood type honey?"
Tina could barely speak "A positive
Doctor Freed came into the examining room, "OK young lady, let’s take a look at you and see what we can do to help you."
He started to examine Tina's arms, they were cut and swollen, but there didn't seem to be any breaks. Then he started to look over her legs, and saw that there was blood coming from under the skirt.
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