"Sorry. I didn't know what was happening until the police department stopped by the main entrance a little while ago. Seems I fell asleep after we…" Tom hesitated a bit, lowering his head and blushing.
Lydia giggled nervously. After what she and Tina had been through in the past few hours, that kind of bashfulness seemed out of place.
"After that, I fell asleep. Then when I got up, and started for the main entrance for my car I saw the cops coming in. Seems that one didn't radio in proper and the police were curious. They needed some help getting around the grounds and I offered to guide. We got up to the farm and saw you coming out of the stall with those guys. We figured something was up. Say, what were they doing with you in there?" Tom asked, tilting his head to one side and wrinkling up his forehead.
Lydia felt her head spin and her face flush as Rick, Doug and Jack laughed furiously. In the next few minutes the blonde and her friend were treated to the ultimate humiliation as the three men in tandem related what had happened and how the women had reacted.
Lydia watched the looks of horror creep over the men's faces as they turned their eyes from the men to the women, then back to the men again.
"Whew!" Tom said, shaking his head back and forth after they'd finished. "I don't know."
"We're willing to testify," Lydia suddenly blurted out.
"What?" everyone cried.
"It's no use, Tina. I'm not going to let these animals go on with this. I'll go to court."
"It'll be hell for you," Tom warned as the police led Rick, Doug and Jack out of the barn.
"I just can't let them go on like this," Lydia said, feeling shame at her nakedness now.
"Here," Tom said, looking around and finding several woolen blankets stacked up in a corner of the barn. He opened them and covered both Lydia and her friend.
"You think there'll be any kind of normal life for me after it's all over?" Lydia asked as Tom led her and Tina from the barn.
"I'll do what I can to make sure there will be one," Tom said consolingly, putting his arm around the trembling young blonde. As Lydia leaned her head against the big man's shoulder and followed him back to the main gate she was sure his words would come true.