When we first met she had just turned 16 and was volunteering at the same Senior Home as me, well she was volunteering I was doing community service to avoid jail. Right when I saw her I knew I was in love. Thick blond hair, deep green eyes and flawless skin. I don't know what attracted her to me. I think she was trying to piss off her parents. They were the social elite of our town and were probably more than a little embarrassed by their only daughter dating a kid from the projects nearly two years older than her. It took me ten years but I finally got them to love me as a son.
During the course of our marriage our life has been as close to perfect as one gets. The only real complaint I ever had about Stacy was that she was too giving. She was always donating my hard earned money to every charity, homeless man and fundraiser that put it's hand out. All the way down to our annoying little, formerly stray dog, snowflake. It’s not that im against charity, I just never got any. I worked hard my whole life to get where I am without any real help so I don't like giving it away. Anyways, I went to work for a big investment firm, Stacy teaches yoga and pilates four days a week and we've started to talk about possibly starting a family and then one weekend two years ago it all went haywire.
Eventually I got a huge promotion but it meant relocating. They put me in charge of running the Washington D.C. office and we were just getting to know our new neighbors when I got a call from our real estate broker telling me he had found a buyer for our Cape Cod summer house. We had decided to sell it months ago since it was now much further away from our new home and not very practical. Since Memorial day weekend was coming up we decide to make a whole production out of it. We rented a moving truck, packed up snowflake and left on our seven hour ride immediately after work on Friday night, with any luck we would be there around midnight.
Well, luck wasn't on our side. It got dark, we got lost and Stacy had to pee. I hadn't seen another human on our road for almost an hour when we pulled into a rest stop. Stacy got out of the cab and ran in while I shut my eyes for am minute. The next thing I know I'm awaken by an awful roar only to see three of the fattest, dirtiest bikers ever pull up beside me. It immediately dawned on me that Stacy might no longer be safe but when I jumped out of the truck the bikers immediately got in my face. I tried to calm them down but they started grabbing and pushing me. For some reason I thought the best way to handle it was to throw a punch. Bad idea. I missed and got hit with a barrage of them. The next minute or so was a blur put I remember them picking me up off the ground when I heard Stacy scream. I looked over to see her being dragged from the ladies room by one of these thugs. She had managed to pull up her panties but her jeans hadn't made it all the way.
"Look what I found!" the piece of shit said.
"Bring her over!" said the apparent leader.
I could see she was crying as her dragged her to our truck. One of the bikers had me in such a choke hold that I couldn't breath. I tried to escape but it was futile. The leader grabbed her away and the other one started rummaging through her purse. I watched as the leader roughly pawed at her breast inside her shirt, she tried to escape but he was too strong. I remember how scared I was and the crazy thoughts I was having. I knew they were going to rob us and probably rape Stacy, but would they kill us to? By now the leader had Stacy’s shirt ripped wide open and groping her while he licked her neck. I prayed for a miracle and I got it, I think.
Out of nowhere a voice boomed. "LET THEM GO!" everyone froze to see where it came from when out of the shadows stepped the biggest, blackest man I have ever seen.” I said, Let them go!"
"Get lost nigger, this is none of your business. Don't get yourself hurt too." Said the leader. I saw the punk who was holding Stacy's purse start to walk towards him.
"Ain't nobody gotta get hurt here. Just let the nice couple go." And with that the punk made a move towards him. Now the next couple seconds are a blur but that black guy move like a panther and before I knew there were three unconscious bikers and dead silence. I quickly moved to console my wife and soon turned to the man to thank him. He was picking up my wife’s things and putting them back in her purse when I babbled my “thank you's” and some other erratic nonsense.
He just smile and handed me her purse,” it’s no big deal, why don't you get your wife out of here, I’ll stay and teach these guys some manners."
He didn't have to tell me twice. I quickly shoved Stacy in the truck and sped off to the nearest police station, Stacy was very shaken up but calmed as we gave the description of the account to the officers. All in all we wasted over five hours at the inefficient police station. the sun was coming up when we left.
By now Stacy was no longer scared but excited. She was talking a mile a minute about it. It was kinda cute the way she acted like a shocked school girl. "Did you see that!" she kept saying. "He was like super-hero! POW, BANG, WACK" she'd say as she mimicked the punches our savior threw. "I wonder what he did to them when we left, I hope he cut their wieners off. Filthy punks! I wish I was that tough because I’d......" She went on forever but I was relieved to see her happy. I was afraid she' be scarred for life.
We still had a five hour ride in front of us and we were both hungry so we decide to eat at a diner we found. Stacy was still talking when we finished and as I went to ask for the bill I noticed him. Our savior was in the corner booth sipping on a coffee. I pointed it out to Stacy and heard her gasp.
"Look at the size of him", I did. He was huge 6'5" maybe. shaved head. probably my age, maybe a little older but not more than 30. "what should we do?" she asked.
"Well we should at least thank him, maybe offer him some money. I got a couple hundred on me."
"You're gonna give him all our cash?" She asked.
"We have to do something nice for the guy. There must be something he needs and if it’s money we can stop and get more, besides don't you think the bikers would have taken it anyway? Either way I think we should try to help him out.” For once it was me being charitable.
"I know, but I just feel weird, after all he saw my boobs." I laughed at how young she sounded.
"It could have been a lot worse!" She smiled at that.
"Good point. lets go." she said and grabbed my hand as I walked her to his table. The closer I got to him the more I was impressed with his stature. I nervously said, "Hi." he responded with a grunt, never looking up. "Do you remember us?". He finally looked up and smiled
"Oh yeah. How are you?" he said very politely." I hope the rest of your trip has been safer. Please have a seat." We sat with him and thanked him repeatedly. He introduced himself as John. Stacy was uncharacteristically quiet as I think it was as close as she's ever been to a black man. He told us he was heading toward Boston to find work so I offered him a ride. He hesitated at first but eventually accepted. When he got up to pay his tab Stacy voiced her objections. "Do you think this is safe?"
"Sure, He seems friendly and it should be a good way to find something nice we can do for him. Besides, if it weren't for this guy those bikers would have taken our money, our truck and maybe even our lives." I said.
"I know. I'm all for helping him, I just don't want to invite any trouble. I'll relax once we get to know him." Boy did she. Once we were in the tight cab of the truck she started rattling off questions like a curious school girl. Who was he? Where was he from? What did he do the bikers when we left? and then the question with an unexpected answer, "Why are you hitchhiking all the way to Boston?"
"I wasn't planning on it." He looked perplexed and breathed a big sigh,"O.K. here it goes. I was released from prison three days ago. Don't worry, I'm not a violent criminal" I looked at Stacy,. She looked shocked but very interested. "I was so excited to see my girl I took a bus to Baltimore, I even bought protection see." He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a pack of condoms. I'm sure it was lost on Stacy but I noticed they were extra large Magnums. Stacy's job dropped and she started to blush but he just continued on with his story. "but when I got there I found she had married another man." He looked really sad and his voice got quiet. "I guess four years is too long too wait. So then I just kept walkin and here I am."
Stacy immediately felt bad for him, "You poor guy." she rubbed his arm. "Don't worry girls go crazy for guys like you. You'll find a new one in no time." I knew she was lying but it was her style. she could tell the guy needed encouragement and she was there to give it. "Besides we have a long trip in front of us and we're gonna have fun and forget all about what''s her name." She was right. We had some good laughs. John told some stories about prison, all light and funny. Then he told a couple of black jokes and even some racy ones. All in all we were having a great trip. Stacy asked all sorts of questions about growing up black. She was acting like a girl with a new toy. Then she told John we wanted to help him out. He was too proud to take money for nothing so I came up with a proposal. Since he was in no hurry to get to Boston, he could help me move all the furniture into the truck and I would pay him for his services then drive him to the bus depot. Since it was heavy lifting I told him the price should be high, $200. He knew I was overpaying him but accepted the job with a "thank you".
We were about six miles from the house when we blew a tire. I didn't want to leave Stacy alone with John so I said we should all just walk to the house and call AAA. We packed up snowball, grabbed just the valuables and started walking. We were just about 2 miles from the house when out of nowhere the sky opened up and the rain came pouring down. We picked up our pace but still got to the house soaked. Stacy scrambled to find us some dry clothes but only found some old beach towels and a bathrobe. We all took our turn in the bathroom getting out of our wet clothes. Stacy looked stunning in just the robe and I was starting to get a little nervous with her so scantily clad around a stranger who just spent four years in prison. When John came out of the bathroom I really noticed his sheer size. The towel looked like loin cloth and his buff body was something out of a football lockeroom, I know I heard Stacy gasp. Lucky for me there was a "Crack" of thunder and then total darkness. Not only had the power gone out but the phone was dead too. Twilight was fast approaching and we realized we were stuck for the night so we found some candles and dry firewood and broke into the liquor cabinet. Within an hour we were very comfortable sitting in the den laughing about our bad luck.
Stacy and I were curled up on the couch and John was in the recliner directly across from us, separated only by a coffee table. I was in the middle of a story about work when Stacy moved jumped abruptly while half yelling/half laughing, "John, what are you looking at!" I looked over at John and saw him snap from a trance where he was staring right between my wives legs.
"Oh, My! I'm so sorry ma'am. I didn't mean that. I didn't even see much." He stammered.