Lucian and I had been friends for years. Not the sexual on and off relationship... just friends. We grew up together so I had never really thought of him as anything else. Don't get me wrong, he is fucking hot. My female friends always wanting me to hook them up with him, yet he never gets past one date.
So another year added to our friendship and like clockwork I am on guard for his latest trick. Every year we try to out do each other. Last year I got him. The boys at his office are still talking about that stripper.
Well this year it looks like I am safe. He had to fly out of town for his company and wouldn't be back until the 4th. Way too late to get me for our little annual contest. No big deal I needed a break from last year.
I wake up on April first and roll over to hit snooze, pausing just before my hand hits it I decide that I should get up any way. Even with him out of town does not make it safe. Tossing the covers back and turning off the alarm I slide from bed and head to the shower.
Standing in the hot shower allowing the water to assault my skin, I ca almost feel him behind me. His naked form pressed against my back. I sigh as I daydream being held in his arms. Shaking myself out of that little thought before it gets carried away I turn off the water and exit the shower.
As I am getting ready for work I am looking at everything suspiciously like he hid something in my house. He was good, I will give him that. Even if he didn't do anything he would have me paranoid all day.
The day went by without an incident. He called me twice just to check up on me and laugh at me for how jumpy I was.
"Relax, I'm not even there. Consider this year a gift, a reprieve before I get you next year. Enjoy it while you can." He chuckled and hung up with me.
Still something wasn't right. I could feel it. Its like I was missing something. In this age of cell phones I couldn't even check where he had called from. But I did verify that he flew out yesterday. I shouldn't be this jumpy. I really shouldn't.
Once home I began to relax more. The day was almost over and the end was in sight. I stripped from my work clothes and put on one of my huge baggy white button up shirts. I stretched out on the couch after dinner and flipped through the channels.
Soon I was dozing on the couch. I'm not even sure of what time it was or the last thing I had seen on the TV. I heard a soft click of my front door being unlocked but didn't think anything of it. The warmth of my dreams and only two people having keys to my house, it didn't matter. What happened next jolted me to life.
I was on my side on the couch but then I was face first on the floor, my hands pulled roughly behind my back and secured. Before I could scream I found a gag in my mouth and then my eyes covered.