The bodies on Bourbon Street droned in and out of each other's space in a mesmerizing dance of drunken celebration and awed wonder. Mostly masked, faces searched for the most intoxicating paths, the most stimulating sights. Emily, behind the safe harbor of her feathered mask smiled broadly and for the first time in years felt completely free to be that person that she mainly hid behind polite chit chat and thoughtful gestures. She skipped along and pinched bottoms and sprightly blew on unsuspecting necks before disappearing back into the snaking crowds. She had been separated from her friends but they had all planned on meeting back at their hotel if just such a separation did occur, so she did not care in the least and continued her mad barrage of mischief and naughtiness.
Before long she turned onto a less crowded street and hunted for her next prey. Who would it be? The man with the fox costume, the woman with the peacock feathers or the shadowy figure in the cape? Oh, it would have to be the shadowy figure in the cape, anyone who thinks themselves that mysterious could use a big pinch on the ass, and she smiled to herself as she ran deftly up behind and grabbed a handful of a somewhat muscular behind. But before she could disappear back into the anonymity of the faceless crowds, the shadowy figure grabbed her wrist and held on tight.
"Let go of me!" she whispered excitedly as she struggled to get away.
"As you wish" a masculine voice said behind a black mask and he just as quickly let her go.
Emily ran blindly onto another street. That encounter had sobered her up completely and she vowed then and there "no more pinching!" Her heart slowly stopped its desperate pounding; her face reversed its flush downward into her chest and traveled pointedly in between her legs. The encounter frightened her, but it excited her a bit too.
She slowed her walk and within seconds the episode was forgotten and she even toyed a bit with another plan to pinch. Lost in her own silly blueprint of her next goosing she ran right into "the shadowy figure". She was a tall girl and he not as tall as she so for a moment they were a tangle of his head into her chin, her arms flailing to disengage herself from his chest. He calmly reached out and grabbed both of her arms; he firmly pulled her to his right, blew into her ear and walked out of her way but still very close to her neck. "You should watch where you are going, there are many hazards about." He whispered softly.
Chills ran up the back of her neck and that full flush that had vacationed in her loins now made journey back up into her face. Their eyes could not be separated, he held her clutched in his gaze and she could not escape it. Even as she slowly sleepwalked away, their eyes held hands and made promise that they would meet again that night. As she got further away from him she shook the daze out of her head and tried to shake the sparkle of his masked green eyes out of her memory. "Creepy..." she remarked out loud trying to talk herself out of the full on wetness that lay gathering in her panties.
Hours later as she yawned and thought about going back to her hotel, she sauntered slowly down the quickly emptying streets of the French quarter. She was amazed at how the flooding from the hurricane only added to ancientness of the city, that it only enforced its odd but beautiful history. The damage distressed the buildings and the streets and made everything seem even older, more haunted.
To her right just above one of the wrought iron enclosed patios she heard a somewhat familiar sound. Her head twisted to hone in on its location but also to identify what was so familiar about the sound. There again, like the crack of a child's cap gun, it fired two or three times, seemingly coming from the second level porch across the street. She looked in all directions and noted the emptiness and privacy that her surroundings provided. She stealthy stepped across the cobblestone surface to stand secretly under the sound of her curiosity. It rang out again, and again, like a child trying to finish a role of caps before a fictitious opponent had the opportunity to return fire. Now it was much louder and unlikely the sound of children at play. It was rhythmic, without precision, intermittent, persistent and quite familiar but still she was unable to identify what it was that sounded so distantly from her childhood, stirring some hidden emotions buried in her past.
The adjacent building looked deserted. Its entryway was partially boarded, a remnant of Katrina, and a playhouse for the child that stirred within. She stepped around the boards to the stairway that led to a porch above. She stilled her movement and her pulse in an effort to identify the primordial sound coming from above. Again it rang out, but this time accompanied by the murmur of voices. Steadily she climbed the steel stairs, cringing and twisting her neck both in the direction of the sounds and down toward the entryway being sure she was still alone. At the top of the stairs a door stood ajar permitting a long sliver of streetlight to illuminate the musty dankness that surrounded her.
Oh God no, she thought. It's a child being beaten by a ward; an aunt, uncle, teacher, or parent, but the sound unmistakably sirened an experience of when she was thirteen. Her father was soundly beating her girlfriend next door. She had ducked her head behind the curtain to watch her best friend lying across her father's lap in the bedroom window no more that twenty feet away. The sounds were harsh and exciting. She remembered the screams of protest while she witnessed a thrashing that stirred more than it frightened. She had found an unexpected wetness between her legs and stroked it while she watched.
Pressing her eye to the gaping door crack, Emily's heart skipped a beat as she recognized the caped stranger with a woman bent helplessly across his knee. Her bottom stood gloriously naked, panties hanging loosely around her ankles. The peacock feathered hat sat atop her blond golden hair hanging like a curly cape around her neck. She had dressed for the Marti Gras in a billowing red dress, now lifted to reveal a rainbow of frilly petticoats. Her legs were encased in black sheer hose held by straps that disappeared into a kaleidoscope of color.
His hand smacked the young woman's bottom ten or twelve times as her feet kicked wildly in the air. Instinctively, Emily's hand snaked down her body finding and lifting the hemline of her full skirt, pushing her hand beneath the silky cloth of her panties and finding her sopping pussy. Her head pushed against the door causing it to creak.
The light from the streetlight flooded the hall as the door squeaked its way fully open. Across on the opposite balcony, his green eyes glistened through the rogue mask that he wore, now cast her way. His hand flew into the air as he began to land a barrage of stinging blows to the ruby red surface of the writhing woman. His stare became hypnotic and any thought of concealment was lost in the moment. Her groping hand sought the center of her pleasure. With her free hand she lifted her dress and tucked it under her chin then tore her panties until her dripping pussy was fully on display. One hand sought to pinch and punish her clitoris while the other pumped two full knuckle lengths into her throbbing womb.