I met you over an app, I know Tinder is popular but maybe it was Bumble or Hinge. Maybe I was even charming enough to message you on Insta and get your attention. Well, in person that charm is GONE. There's zero chemistry between us, we have nothing in common, and it feels like the check can't come soon enough. With all the lockdown and COVID, why did you even come out in the first place? Alone in the house too long, that's the only thing you can come up with.
Finally, mercifully, the bill is paid. I insisted on paying and by this point you acquiesced only because an argument would prolong this longer. You grab your coat as I grab mine and it's all you can do to not run out of the restaurant and back home. Thank god you only live a few blocks away, the walk will give you time to clear this night from your head...
Rain. It's raining. I'm offering you a ride but all you can hear is your internal monologue, asking how this night could get any worse. You mumble a "thanks but no thanks" as politely as you can, saying you had a nice time but you really need to get home. You barely hear my reply before you take off into the rain.
You walk quickly, checking behind yourself once or twice but the weather is picking up, your hair is plastering itself to your face and all you want is out of this downpour. You go around the side of your building, knowing it's quicker than the lobby. You pull open the side entrance, but as you try to pull it closed, a boot catches the door. The metal exit door pulls open quickly and there's a body on you. A hand around your throat. You can feel the rough unfinished concrete against the back of your head.
The figure pulls off his hood and it's me.
"I'm not ready for our date to end, bitch."
My hand is on your throat, hard, but all your instincts scream to fight. You swing out with your left hand first, then your right. The first swing misses but your right is fortunate. Your nails catch my cheek, one even drawing blood. A thin line of scarlet that you have little time to admire. I pull you forward then slam you back into wall, hard. The air knocks out of your lungs then your vision swims as the back of your head meets concrete. Your throat is on fire as I tighten my grip. Now I'm not just gripping it but pushing you towards the wall. It feels like I'm trying to push you through it.
"We can play that game if you like," and I slap you across the cheek. Another slap. "But I'm going to win. Now, I thought we had a very nice date back there. We were getting along real nice before you ran off. And now you scratch me?" As your face begins to turn beet red and burn hot I ease my grip enough for you to take in a breath. You do so, greedily, before I tighten my grip again. You manage to squeak out a response.
"Just...just let me go. Upstairs. Won't tell. Never happened."
"Never happened," I laugh. "No, I want this to be a night you remember. Here's what's going to happen next. You and I are going to get to know each other. Intimately. You can enjoy yourself, and accept what's going to happen next or you can keep fighting and I'll do what I want anyway, but you get to have a lot less fun." With my free hand I yank down the zipper of your coat, exposing your blouse. I slap your face again, then trace the outline of your breast. You can feel tears begin to stream down your burning cheeks.
"Please don't." There's no fight in this plea. It's soft and plaintive. All you get in response is a laugh, and another slap across the face.
"I told you your choices. Invite me up or right here but the next thing you're going to taste is my cock." And my free hand pats at my crotch, and bulge forming in the fabric.
With a hand you wipe at your tears before steadying your jaw. You can feel your heart pounding in your ears. It feels like hours but how long has it been since you left the restaurant? Fifteen minutes? Less? You want to check the time but you're not even sure where your phone is right now. You meet my eyes. You try to put all the hate you can muster behind your look but I just keep smiling.
"M-my apartment. It's only up a few flights." I smile, wide and beaming.
"A great choice. A cute little thing like you probably has a very comfortable bed. Well, lead the way, baby." I step back, gesturing towards the staircase. You suck in a breath, the first clean one you've taken since you entered the stairwell. You think, momentarily, about pushing me as hard as you can into the exit door. Throwing me into the street.
Screaming.
Yelling.
Fighting.
Clawing.
Yanking my dick as hard as you can and snapping the damn thing off.
But you don't. You begin to walk up the stairs with the railing in a death grip. And with every sullen step you take you hear mine behind you. You think about kicking behind yourself and almost immediately you feel my hand grip one of yours. You try to shake it if but my fingers interlock with yours tightly, so tightly it begins to hurt. In your mind you concentrate on that. Nothing hurts, not your cheeks or your head or your back. Nothing except those fingers.
We reach the landing and you pull open the door. As you walk with a head hung, staring at the floor and moving with stiff, quick movements I almost bound down the hall. As we reach the door and you slide the key in to your apartment you hear me whisper into your ear,