Good Evening, Boys and Ghouls.
Below is my spooktacular entry into this year's Halloween story contest. I've entered it into the interracial category but there are also elements of non-consent/reluctance to it as well as some other stuff. I know that it's a category that not everyone likes and it's a bit of a departure for me but if you give it a chance you may see how, in it's own way, it fits into some of my other stories. You may even come to like it, mua-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ack *cough* *wheeze*
Sorry about that. No more talking like Mrs. Cryptkeeper. Word of genuine warning, I do drop the dreaded N-bomb at one point in the story which I hope doesn't offend and can be read in context.
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The street was dark. So dark that I was beginning to have second thoughts about my decision to walk to where I was going. It was only a short trip from the bus stop to where I was going but when I'd first envisioned the neighbourhood I was walking through I'd pictured it like the clean, suburban neighbourhood I'd grown up in with well lit sidewalks and pristine houses. It hadn't taken me long to realize that wasn't going to be the case. This was clearly a bad part of town. I'd seen enough movies to recognize the ghetto. Small, dingy looking houses with heavy metal bars on the doors. I felt ridiculous walking through it dressed the way I was. It was Halloween and, much like every other female student at my college, I'd chosen to dress in a costume that was less about creativity or frightening people than it was about showing off my body to male admirers.
I was dressed as Little Red Riding Hood but certainly not the one from the kiddie books. Underneath my short red cloak my tight red dress hugged my every curve, was open enough at the front to show a great deal of cleavage and stopped only an inch or two past my well rounded ass. The perfect little mix of innocent and downright slutty. As I'd walked through campus and onto the bus I'd received many admiring stares and a whistle or two. That had grown even more pronounced as I'd arrived at the bad neighbourhood. Guys were walking past me and openly staring at my tits or turning to watch as I walked past. A pick-up basketball game on a poorly lit court came to a dead stop as I walked past and I could feel every single eye glued onto me as I sauntered past.
I suppose I couldn't blame them. I know how black guys love curvy white women and, well, that's what I am. With long sandy-blonde hair wrapped tightly in two little pigtails, bright green eyes and a body that measures at 32F-24-36, I'm sure I would have made every single one of them hard even if I'd been wearing the drabbest possible clothes imaginable. As it was, with my every curve being tightly clung to and exposed and my ass being well presented by a deadly pair of three inch red heels I'm sure I must have looked like the epitome of their cute little white girl suburban fantasy.
I laughed at that thought at first. If only they knew how I'd been raised. My parents had raised me in a safe, gated community in the most lily white of suburbs. They'd sent me to an all-girls high school that only had one black student on scholarship and a few Asian girls for anything resembling colour in the student body. My parents weren't racist like the KKK or anything, but I'd frequently hear my father complain about how most black people were lazy and how he didn't want his tax dollars to go to their welfare checks and my mother would often "tut, tut" during the evening news. Whenever some crime story involving anyone black she'd always say how "those people" deserved what they got for not working hard enough.
So I'd certainly been raised to keep my distance and, walking down the dark street at night, keep my distance I did. I didn't want any of them coming on to me for very good reason. So not only did I keep my distance but I picked up speed, eager to arrive at my destination. In fact, I was so focused on walking faster through the neighbourhood that I began to lose my bearing. I had looked up where I was going on the internet before I left the dorm and it had said it was a straight line south from the bus stop along Lincoln Heights Boulevard.
But as I reached the end of the block I looked up and saw that the street sign said I was walking down something called East Wickford Street. I knew that was wrong. I was lost.
I paused. Not knowing what to do. I considered calling a taxi but I remembered hearing from certain students that cab companies often wouldn't send cars out to this neighbourhood out of fear that they might get robbed. I considered backtracking the way that I had come but I knew that meant walking back past the basketball game and I knew for a fact that meant that one of the black guys there would say something to me. Faced with two options that I didn't like, I decided on a third. I pressed onward. I figured that at the very least I would either find my way back to Lincoln Heights or I would find a better neighbourhood from which I could call a cab.
I kept up my speed, walking faster and faster, keeping my eyes down at my feet so as to avoid any potential eye contact. I felt like I was making good progress, I could see a major intersection ahead that looked at least like it might have a convenience store open so that I could ask for directions and I was just about to walk even faster when I heard yet another voice from one of the darkened porches.
"Hey girl, wait up."
I froze. There was something about the voice that just stopped me in my tracks. Low and dark, a thick bass, my legs just froze at the sound.
I turned around to look at who it was who was talking to me. It, to no surprise, was another black man. But this one was, I could tell at just a glance, different. He was massive first of all, with jet black skin and a shaved head. A lot of the men I'd seen had been big but this one was a giant. I'm not tiny, I'm around five four or so, but he looked to be at least a foot taller than I was. He was thick too, his arms, shoulders and chest clearly well-defined and not hidden by the tight white tank top he had on. He was wearing baggy black shorts and sunglasses to complete his low-rent ensemble. His shaved head which made it tough to pinpoint his age but he looked to my eyes to be around twenty-six or seven to my having just turned twenty. He looked like my parent's worst nightmare only twice the size.
He also had a big and mean looking dog to his side, a rottweiler mix of some sort, that he was holding on a tight leash. The dog clearly wanted off, however, and the huge man was clearly straining to hold him at bay. I looked at his arm for a second, half interested in the amazing muscle definition he had on display and half at the tattoo that decorated it.
I was so entranced, however, that I barely even noticed as the man tied his dog to the porch and approached me.
"Looking for your Grandma's house?" he said with a smile as he walked towards me.
"No," I barely managed to mumble out, ignoring the joke. I was practically shivering. I'd like to think more from the cool October air than from the thing I felt deep in my stomach, "I'm on my way to a party."
"Mmm, if it's got girls like you it sounds like the party I'd like to go to." he said. It was clear to tell, even with his glasses on, that he was looking up and down my body, "You need a date for the party?"
"No," I said, trying to maintain my composure.
"That's not very nice," he said, although his voice remained at an even keel. He was directly in front of me now, I had to crane my neck just to look into his face, "Where's this party at?"
"1074 Lincoln Heights Boulevard," I said, reciting the now memorized
"Shit, girl," he said with a chuckle, "That's on the other side of the freeway, got a mile to go before you get there."
"Oh." I said, feeling my nerves grow.
"And shit ain't safe around here. Not with the kind of thugs we got out here and definitely not like you dressed the way you are." he said again, "Girl dressed the way you are makes a man think all kinds of things."
I paused, feeling my mouth dry. It didn't take a genius to figure out what he was getting at. He was all smiles as he said it but it was with an unmissable air of menace. Again, I could hear my parent's sensible voices telling me to run but in the heels I was wearing and as big as he looked even if I could run I knew he'd just catch me.