Free Silence of the Geisha Horror: Yukis Revenge by Bella Lamour, Ophelia Oomph

and discomfort. The rumors and whispers at school didn't abate like she hoped. If anything, they increased. She tried not to think of what she possibly could have done to deserve such harassment -that would just lead her down a spiraling path she might not come back from.
    Most days she just kept her head down and pretended she wasn't aware of the outside world. She was hustling to class in just that position when she heard a familiar voice.
    Mandy. The fellow med student who has visited her in the hospital.
    Her feet moved of their own accord, and the next thing she knew she was standing next to the plump blond. “Mandy?”
    She turned, surprised, but her eyes widened when she spotted the small Asian woman staring up at her. “Yuki! Oh my god!” She threw her arms around Yuki in a hug, which almost made her drop all her books. “You're back! I'm so happy!”
    But Yuki wasn't buying her act. “Did you tell everyone about me?”
    She looked shocked, genuinely shocked. “What? No! It's nobody's business!” She frowned. “Why, are people saying things?” Her already sizable chest puffed out. “Do you need me to take talk to someone? I can be pretty intimidating when I try.”
    Yuki shook her head. “No. It's just...I... someone's going around saying I'm a sex worker and I asked for it. You know, typical victim blaming stuff.”
    She had expected Mandy to disapprove, what she didn't expect was for the blond to turn vibrant red. “They
what?
Are you kidding me?”
    “Unfortunately no.”
    “That's ridiculous! This is the twenty first century! I...I'm going to talk to the counselor, see if we can get to the bottom of this. Don't worry, Yuki. You're not alone in this. I'm running a take back the night vigil. Would you want to be a key speaker there?”
    “Oh no, that's fine. I don't think I'm ready for anything like that. Sorry for thinking it could be you.”
    “Don't apologize. I'm the only one who visited you at the hospital. I would have done the same thing. But I'm on your side. I won't stand for this kind of harassment.”
    “Thanks.”
    *
    Victims typically do not lie about rape. The FBI reports that false accusations account for only 2% of all reported sexual assaults.
     
    Yuki sat on her second hand couch, huddled under a blanket with a cup of warm tea in her hands. She wasn’t used to having so much free time but her doctor still hadn’t cleared her to return to rotations. She knew why, considering she was still at a high risk for all sorts of infections and STIs, but it was fairly awful being so idle.
    She sat there, uninterested in watching television on her laptop, but also unable to study anymore. She realized that the darker it became in the sky, the less she wanted to be alone.
    A meow sounded from Buster beside her and she scratched his ears.
    “What do you think? Should I get up and actually socialize a little?”
    He let out a long purr that she took as a sufficient enough answer.
    Moving for the first time in a couple hours, she opened her laptop then loaded up the school website. It took a bit of navigating, and a trip to the site map before she found the event page. She scrolled through, looking for the location of the Take Back the Night assembly, and if she could get an escort there.
    Despite being able to attend her classes, nighttime was a foe she was still unable to defeat. Who knew what lay in the darkness, waiting to jump out at her and drag her into another nightmare? She just wasn’t ready.
    But when she reached the rather artistically done banner for the event, big red lettered were digitally stamped over it.
    Cancelled.
    “What happened?” Yuki murmured to herself. “Well there goes that idea.”
    She sat back, defeated again. Mandy had seemed so enthusiastic about the event. It just didn’t seem like she would back out on the night of.
    Oh no, what if she was hurt? What is something terrible happened to her too?
    Yuki looked back to the webpage and scoured the text under the