"Pat Murphy - Rachel In Love" - читать интересную книгу автора (Murphy Pat)

remembers her mother; she vaguely remembers playing with other chimps her age. But she does not
know how to react to Johnson when he stares at her with great intensity and makes a loud huffing sound.
She gestures to him in ASL, but he only stares harder and huffs again. Beyond Johnson, she can see
other cages and other chimps, so many that the wire mesh blurs her vision and she cannot see the other
end of the corridor.

To escape Johnson's scrutiny, she ducks through the door into the outside run, a wire mesh cage on a
white concrete foundation. Outside there is barren ground and rabbit brush. The afternoon sun is hot and
all the other runs are deserted until Johnson appears in the run beside hers. His attention disturbs her and
she goes back inside.

She retreats to the side of the cage farthest from Johnson. A crudely built wooden platform provides her
with a place to sit. Wrapping her arms around her knees, she tries to relax and ignore Johnson. She
dozes off for a while, but wakes to a commotion across the corridor.

In the cage across the way is a female chimp in heat. Rachel recognizes the smell from her own times in
heat. Two keepers are opening the door that separates the female's cage from the adjoining cage, where
a male stands, watching with great interest. Johnson is shaking the wire mesh and howling as he watches.

"Mike here is a virgin, but Susie knows what she's doing," one keeper was saying to the other. "So it
should go smoothly. But keep the hose ready."

"Yeah?"

"Sometimes they fight. We only use the hose to break it up if it gets real bad. Generally, they do okay."

Mike stalks into Susie's cage. The keepers lower the cage door, trapping both chimps in the same cage.
Susie seems unalarmed. She continues eating a slice of orange while Mike sniffs at her genitals with every
indication of great interest. She bends over to let Mike finger her pink bottom, the sign of estrus.

Rachel finds herself standing at the wire mesh, making low moaning noises. She can see Mike's erection,
hear his grunting cries. He squats on the floor of Susie's cage, gesturing to the female. Rachel's feelings
are mixed: she is fascinated, fearful, confused. She keeps thinking of the description of sex in the Love
Confessions story: When Alice feels Danny's lips on hers, she is swept away by the passion of the
moment. He takes her in his arms and her skin tingles as if she were consumed by an inner fire.

Susie bends down and Mike penetrates her with a loud grunt, thrusting violently with his hips. Susie cries
out shrilly and suddenly leaps up, knocking Mike away. Rachel watches, overcome with fascination.
Mike, his penis now limp, follows Susie slowly to the corner of the cage, where he begins grooming her
carefully. Rachel finds that the wire mesh has cut her hands where she gripped it too tightly.

It is night, and the door at the end of the corridor creaks open. Rachel is immediately alert, peering
through the wire mesh and trying to see down to the end of the corridor. She bangs on the wire mesh. As
Jake comes closer, she waves a greeting.

When Jake reaches for the lever that will raise the door to Rachel's cage, Johnson charges toward him,
howling and waving his arms above his head. He hammers on the wire mesh with his fists, howling and
grimacing at Jake. Rachel ignores Johnson and hurries after Jake.

Again Rachel helps Jake clean. In the laboratory, she greets the old chimp, but the animal is more