phdbimbo:

It was a week before the election, and the argument had started when he’d told her how she would be voting. She was 19, so it was her first time, and he said that since he’d voted several times before and she didn’t know what she was talking about, it was only right. The fact that she couldn’t name a politician when he asked had made it worse, not better. 

So they made a deal in the interest of democracy for all: if she could recite the alphabet continuously while he fucked her, he’d accept she had the mental capacity to make a legitimate choice. She’d lost the ability to speak within the first minute, but she’d been doing OK humming the tune for a little while. Then she forgot how that went, too.