You hear of people being assaulted but you always think it won't happen to you. You wouldn't put yourself in that sort of a situation. They must have done something that caused the assault, led the man on, dressed provocatively, been at the wrong place at the wrong time.
We tend to have a subconscious tendency to blame the victim. After all, it wouldn't happen to us, now would it?
It turned out that it would, and in circumstances that I still find a bit shocking.
I started babysitting when I was sixteen and have been doing it for nearly four years. Even when I wasn't of legal age I learned to be careful of the husbands, brothers and boyfriends of the women I sat for. Quite a few didn't care about age limits and had wandering hands, but I became quite adept at avoiding them.
After I became legal age I permitted my boyfriend to broaden my education, shall we say, and a very interesting education it was. For all that, I still trod warily around the various husbands, etcetera, attached to the mothers who hired me. If anything, I was even more careful after I knew what they were on about.
In other words, I wasn't leading anyone on, or dressing provocatively, or finding myself in the wrong place at the wrong time, like being alone with a horny husband. Hell, I wouldn't even sit for single fathers.
This particular night I'd been sitting for Bill and Sonya Thorndyke. They were one of my more regular customers and I'd never had any trouble at their place. The kids were reasonably well behaved and I got along fine with them. Sonya was nice and Bill kept his hands to himself which was always a plus. Someone told me once that they had a bit of a reputation for being swingers when at parties, but they'd always seemed eminently respectable to me.
When the Thorndyke's got back from wherever they'd been they were arguing as they entered the house. Not a vicious argument, by any means, but a difference of opinion about something. Whatever they were discussing they broke it off when they walked into the front room.
Sonya suddenly gave a giggle.
"OK, Bill," she said. "Here's your chance. If I'm right you have to get me a new pair of shoes."
"And if you're wrong what do I get?" Bill asked her.
"Same thing you'll get if I'm right. There's only one real way for you to find out, and once started I expect you'll want to complete the job."
Bill looked at Sonya and laughed.
"OK. You're on," he told her, and then turned to speak to me.
"Suzy, do me a favour will you. I want you to stand on this side of this armchair and reach across it and hold Sonya's hands."
Puzzled, I did so. Why wouldn't I? It was a reasonable request, even if slightly odd. I leaned over the chair and took Sonya's hands and she took a firm grip on mine.
Just how firm a grip I found when Bill promptly reached up my skirt, took hold of my tights and started pulling them down, hooking onto my panties on the way. I squealed and tried to pull away but found myself trapped by Sonya's grasp. By the time I worked this out Bill was pulling my tights, panties and shoes right off.
The next I knew he was unzipping my skirt and undoing the button and it was heading down to join my other things, leaving me half naked. And the wrong half, for that matter. Losing my top would have been a lot easier to deal with.
"What are you trying to do," I wailed, trying to pull loose from Sonya, but she had a grip like a pair of clamps.
"We have a little bet going," Sonya explained. "Bill has the crazy idea that you're still a virgin and I told him he had rocks on his head. He's going to check. If I'm right, he has to buy me a new pair of shoes."
I was still struggling. Even harder now as Bill was pushing up my top and had already undone my bra. My voice was probably a bit muffled as my top was being pulled over my head, but I managed to ask why was he taking off my top and I was pointing out that all they had to do was ask me.
"Bill thinks that we couldn't really trust you to tell us honestly. He reckons that you'll just say whatever you think we want to hear, and he's probably right. So Bill's going to check in person, so to speak. Don't worry. It won't take long."
Somehow or other, after my top and bra had been lifted over my head and pushed down my arms, Sonya managed to complete their removal without really letting go of my arms, leaving me completely naked. Talk about embarrassing.
"This is indecent assault," I protested. "And why did you have to strip me completely just for Bill to touch me up?"
"Oh, Bill prefers his women to be completely naked before he touches them up," said Sonya, giggling, making me wonder just how tipsy she was.
So I stood there, naked, bent over the chair slightly with Sonya holding my wrists while Bill started rubbing my pussy. I squirmed and tried to move away from him. What the hell did he think he was doing, anyway. It should only take him a moment to get an answer to his question.
I pointed out that all he had to do was take a quick look, blast him, but Bill just kept on rubbing me and squeezing my pussy. It was almost a relief when he finally parted my lips and slid a couple of fingers inside me.