My name is Laila, and I'm screwed. I'm going to die in a horrible way, but I'll get to that in a moment.
I'm twenty-one and the daughter of a well-off mixed couple. My dad is black and my mom is white, and they're both attorneys for a prestigious law firm in the city. We live in the country, or I guess they do now that I'm attending a university out of state, but I came back for my summer vacation. You see, I want to be a professor of cultural studies with a focus on racial conflict, but that dream is not going to happen now, not after this fucked up situation I'm in, but like I said, I'll get to that in a bit.
I'm five-ten with a lighter skin tone than most other African-American girls. I keep fit for the most part, and I have an athletic build with a decent muscle tone for a girl my age. I have rich black hair that curls down near my shoulders, but I have small breasts, only a B-cup in size. I'm not ashamed of my breast size, however. I've always been confident in my good looks, not a diva or anything, but I've never had low self-esteem over my body image.
Anyway, I came home for summer vacation, and my parents promptly left for their summer vacation, a five-week cruise to the Caribbean. I was four days into my little downtime here at the family home when an intruder decided to break in and try to steal my mom's jewel's out of my parents' bedroom. I caught him by getting the drop on him with my dad's Glock-19, and I handcuffed him to the 'guest' bed in the basement, that same bed where I'm now naked and handcuffed. That's right...naked and handcuffed.
You see, this young white man has some very defining features. He's five-eleven, kind of thin with a slender face topped with short black hair, and he has a thin ring shadow of a beard and mustache around his equally thin lips. He was dressed all in black, with a black long sleeve (which I cut to pieces with scissors...I'll get to that, so be patient), black jeans, black socks, and black sneakers. He even had on a pair of black boxers (I know, because I took them off him. I'll get to that in a bit as well). He has a long scar across his slender throat, as if someone had cut him, and this was why he was mute. His eyes, though, were what really got to me. They're an off color of blue, a dull-blue mixed with grey, and he has these golden circles around his pupils, like a ring of light reflecting off of dark water.
Anyway, I caught him and handcuffed him to the 'guest' bed in the basement. I had to play twenty-questions with him, receiving a nod or a shake of the head as an answer to get information from him. I should have called the police, but idiot me wanted to interrogate him. I found out that he's twenty-eight, he was trying to rob the house, he killed someone in the past, he has no STD's (I'll explain that fact in a bit), and he had a single child, but that child died. I didn't know his name, so I just called him 'Sam' for 'Silent, Accepting, and Mysterious'. In truth, I knew absolutely nothing about Sam.
This is where things went wrong. You see...I...might have...accidentally...raped him. One thing led to another, and before I knew it, we were both naked, and I was having wild and screaming sex on the bed. After we climaxed the first time, I even went so far as to give him anal, and I've never done that with a guy before. I've had one boyfriend in the past, and we'd had sex, so I wasn't a virgin, but...it never occurred to me in my wildest fantasies that I'd just up and fuck a complete stranger who was also a criminal that broke into my house with the intent to rob it.
But that's where I went wrong. I made a mistake, and I undid his handcuffs. He immediately disarmed me of my dad's Glock and then handcuffed me to the bed in his place. Then he snatched up his pants and shoes and fled, leaving me here to die. He didn't know the bed was bolted to the concrete basement floor, so I can't move the bed to go anywhere. I can't get out of these handcuffs, and my parents won't be back for four and a half weeks. That means I'll die of thirst in about two days, and I'll be laying in my own filth when it happens, because I'm going to have to answer the call of nature at some point, and no, I'm not looking forward to it. So...yeah...I'm fucked.
So here we are, all caught up.
I sobbed into my hands at the prospect of dying a slow and painful death. I misjudged Sam and treated him like a new toy instead of the dangerous intruder he was, and now I was screwed because of it.
I moved the handcuffs down the metal bedpost they were locked around and laid flat on my belly on the bed. It had to be nearing ten o'clock, because I was getting tired, sleepy, and this was my normal bedtime. There was also the fact that I was tired from the sex I'd had, sex I was now regretting, and in the worst way. I'd fucked a complete stranger, a dangerous sociopath at that, and it was my fault it happened, so it was my fault I was in this situation now. The sad thing is...I ended up crying myself to sleep over it. This absolute fuck up and failure of mine was all I could dwell on, and I actually fell asleep to that misery.
I don't know how long I was out, but considering how groggy I was when I came around, it couldn't have been long. I awoke to the sound of the basement door opening and footsteps trudging down the stairs. Sam appeared at the bottom of the stairs, but he was only wearing his black jeans and his shoes. His boxers and his socks were still on the basement floor, and his black long sleeve was a shredded mess, because I'd cut it off him with a pair of scissors.
I was groggy at first, but seeing him return popped me back into a state of full awareness.
"Oh, thank God!" I choked out. "Please, don't leave...me...here..."
My voice trailed off because of the expression on Sam's slender face. His thin lips were pulled down into a terrible scowl, and there was a fire in his dull-blue eyes, a cold hatred that was impossible to miss. He tromped up to me and gave me the most chilling look, a look that made me freeze in fear.
"Sam?" I asked in a meek voice.
He reached down, undid my handcuffs, and then yanked me up off the bed. I cried out in slight pain as he pulled my arms behind me and then handcuffed me again, this time with my hands behind my back. He pushed me forward toward the stairs, and I found myself being forced up those stairs by the twisting of my arms behind me.
"Ow! That hurts!" I cried out, but I knew I wouldn't receive a response.
Sam pushed open the basement door and forced me out into the kitchen. I stood there in stupid confusion, still naked, still terrified, as he pointed at the white refrigerator door. Upon the fridge was my mother's little writing board, stuck to the door by magnets, something she would write on with a dry-erase marker for handy little notes during the day. It was what was written on there now that gave me pause.
It read: "YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID."
"I...I...I'm sorry, Sam," I stammered out. "I'm sorry. That's not like me. I'm not that kind of person..."
He took a dry washcloth from off the kitchen counter, erased his message, picked up the black dry-erase marker, popped the cap off it, and wrote another message.
It read: "YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID."
"Pay?" I asked. "What? What do you mean 'Pay'?"
He wiped off the board and wrote another message, but this one chilled me to the bone.
It read: "YOU WILL BE PUNISHED."
I studied Sam's narrow face for a glimmer of understanding, but there was nothing but cold rage in his eyes. He looked fully intent on doing something terrible to me, and I did not want to find out what.
"Oh...Oh, please don't," I begged. "Please? I'm not that kind of person, Sam. I don't do things like that...I really don't...I don't know what happened! You have to believe me!"
Sam shook his head no, wiped off the board, and wrote another message.
It read: "YOU WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN. I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE OF IT."
The blood drained from my face as I read that ominous message. I was shaking now, naked, handcuffed, and shaking in fear in my family's kitchen.
"Wha...What are you going to do?" I asked in a quavering voice.
Sam erased the ominous message and wrote in an even worse one.
It read: "SURGERY."
He walked over to the wooden knife block on the kitchen counter and pulled out the butcher knife. Mom's butcher knife was immaculately clean, sharp, and practically unused, and I panicked at the sight of it.
"Oh, please don't," I begged. "Please, Sam? It won't happen again. I'm not a bad person...I'm not...and...and you're not a bad person, either. I wasn't going to hurt you! I wasn't...I really wasn't going to call the police. I was going to let you go! Please, believe me...Please, Sam? Please?"
Sam took the message board off the fridge along with the marker and washcloth, tucked them under his right arm, held the butcher knife in his right hand, walked forward, and spun me around with his left. He forced me forward toward the living room, but my feet hesitated, and I paid for it. He gave me a hard smack on my bare ass, a bullseye to my right butt cheek. It hurt, actually stung, and I jumped and screeched from the impact of it. Unfortunately, this motivated me to walk forward as Sam guided me across the living room to my parent's bedroom. The lights were on now in the living room and bedroom, though the bedroom light was on before because I'd forgotten to turn it off.
I was terrified. I did not know what Sam was going to do to me, but I got a glimpse of that punishment as we walked into the bedroom. On the wooden floor was a large ceramic bowl filled with water, next to it was the pair of scissors I had used to cut Sam's shirt with, next to that was a sewing kit with needle and thread, and finally there was a large bottle of rubbing alcohol to round off what looked to me to be the perfect recipe for some kind of hideous, incredibly painful torture.
"Wha...What is all that for?" I stammered.
Sam didn't answer me but forced me down on my parents' bed instead. He rolled me from my face down position to a face up one, and the handcuffs binding my wrists dug into the small of my back, causing me to wince in slight pain.
Sam set the butcher knife down on the nightstand next to the bed, wiped off the dry erase-board with the dry washcloth, and wrote another message.
The message read: "YOU WILL BE PUNISHED. YOU WILL NEVER DO THIS AGAIN."
I was in a panic now. I didn't know what was going to happen, so I had to ask.
"What are you going to do to me?" I choked out.