The following story is more of a confession. It is a true story, and it should have horrified me, but instead, has been a memory I draw upon when ever I am alone and touching myself. I use the word "confession" because I have never told a soul, and it is with shame that I admit what a turn-on the reality of the experience has become for me.
I was 18 years old, and worked after classes at a local convenience store. I had the usual regulars that came in, and a lot of them flirted and some were sorta cute, so I would flirt back. One guy came in every day, and I do not even remember his name now. I remember that I was not especially attracted to him, and he looked a lot like Gary Busey. You know, the actor that played Buddy Holly. Nevertheless, he flirted, I flirted back, and for some reason, I ended up having to stop at his house one afternoon. I wish I could remember why; looking back, I think I must have been the biggest fool, and just so gullible that I was a victim just waiting to happen.
What I remember about my first few moments in his house was that he was sitting in this large armchair, just watching me as I paced the floor, rambling on about something in a rather nervous stupor. He told me that he had been in Vietnam, and showed me a bullet hole in his leg. That's all I can recall about our brief conversation. I guess there was some part of me that felt danger, because I did feel excessively anxious, and was smart enough to say within five minutes that I didn't feel comfortable and had to leave.
He stayed in his chair as I went to the front door, still trying to maintain a cheerful disposition, when I discovered that the door latch was all the way at the top of the door. At 5"3', I couldn't reach it even on my tipsy toes. So, I asked, in a joking tone, if he could unlatch it for me. I didn't want to seem like an idiot if I came off paranoid, or untrustworthy. At that point, I was still feeling like I was being unfriendly, and he didn't deserve that. It wasn't until I heard him say, "no", did I start feeling like something was not right. I looked around for something to stand on, trying not to panic. He was just having a joke on me.......watching me lugging the ottoman across the floor. It didn't fit through the doorway into the foyer though, and at that point, I decided I needed to be a little more serious.
"I really have to go". I said it as adamantly as my 18-year-old, inexperienced, unsure self could muster. But he just sat there. I went into the kitchen to see if there was a back door. None. I don't know why, but I didn't even think to look for a telephone in there. (Hmmm. Funny, the things we think about in retrospect.) When I returned to the living room, he wasn't in his chair anymore, which I found very frightening.
At this point, I can recall every detail of this event as clearly as if it happened yesterday. I jumped at the sound of his voice, which came from behind me on the staircase. He told me to follow him. No way. That's what I said...I can hear my own voice saying it right now...very clear and a bit shrill. He came down the two steps to the bottom, grabbed my hair, and told me that I was a very naughty girl, and he was going to teach me some obedience. At that moment, the reality of my situation came crashing on me. I was no longer trying to suppress any feeling of unease I had felt, and I no longer doubted the alarms that were trying to warn me. I bolted, but his grasp on my hair was sure, and he had no trouble dragging me up the stairs. One of my hands was on my head, trying to keep the hair from being ripped from my scalp. The other hand was alternatively on the stairs or the banister trying to keep myself on my feet. I did lose my balance at one point, and that just made it easier for him to hoist me up the last steps and propel me into a room at the top. I tripped over a rug, and stayed there, half-sitting, half-prone, trying to sort out a million thoughts racing through my brain. I couldn't seem to process what was going on...make any sense of the situation, like it was a dream and sequences were moving at slow motion and out of order. I even remember thinking about whether or not I had locked the store up among the racing thoughts of how to kick someone in the nuts.
Frankly, if he had not slapped me across the face at that point, I may have stayed in that foggy state I had found myself. The stinging cleared up my head better than any shot of espresso or any cold splash of water on my face might have. I remember feeling almost relieved from it. In retrospect, I think my fight or flight response let go right then. One hard slap and all thought of what I should do left me. He asked me if I was going to be good, and I didn't respond, so he slapped me again. With my head spinning, I answered him with a quiet "yes" when he asked me again. He started to undress me, and in a way, I am glad he didn't ask me to do it myself. Although I am sure he could have gotten me to do it, I felt less responsible for what was happening to me. When he asked me to raise my arms, I did; when he asked me to lift my legs, I did. When I was naked, he stood back, and told me that I was a good girl, and as long as I did what I was told, I would be ok. Here is a confession; when he said that to me...when he said I was a good girl, I actually blushed a little. Immediately, my brain started analyzing why that would be. (I tend to over analyze things, much to many of my boyfriends' annoyance over the years) But really, in the few moments after his comment, a whole new aspect of my own psychology opened up to me....how I was always trying to gain my father's acceptance, and always disappointing him.
Apparently though, this was not the place this man wanted my thoughts to be. He slapped me again, which brought me right back to the fact that I was naked in a strange man's bedroom. Although I had pretty much resigned myself to what was happening, I tried very hard to be conscious of my surroundings. I noticed the room in such clarity and detail, that I could describe it better than I could describe my first car. What stuck out in my mind were the black curtains, drawn, so I couldn't see if there was any hope from that direction for escape, and the most awful bed I have ever seen. I know now they call it the pineapple bed; four posts, about six feet high with carved pineapples at the top of each.