"Was that it?" Melissa muttered to herself. She peered through her windshield into the dusky twilight ahead of her.
"I think it's the next exit..."
Melissa was just coming into town for the first time.
Shoulda gotten better directions
, she thought now.
As she continued checking for her exit, Melissa thought again how elated she was to be in a new town, yet again. She has moved from job to job for the past six years; never putting down roots in any one place. As soon as her co-workers start trying to turn into her friends, she gathers the few absolutely necessary items she owns and drives to a fresh milieu.
Melissa always saves a portion of her salary into a 'rainy-day fund,' as she thinks of it, so that when she gets to her new zip code she's got some funds to see her through. This is why Melissa is now driving to the motel she booked online last night, and hoping to get there before full dark.
Some, in fact, many people would feel that she was shirking her responsibilities. Melissa saw her life differently, however. She enjoyed learning about new places, and she always did her job well.
'Why aren't you married, with kids?' was a common question. Usually she just answered that she hadn't found the right man, but in all actuality, she didn't know if there would
ever
be a right man.
Melissa looked down at her body and at her face in the mirror.
Why
aren't
I married?
she wondered.
Nice legs, full hips, narrow waist, firm breasts... Long auburn hair, pretty face, no wrinkles... I just don't understand it...
The truth was that no man ever really satisfied her. Melissa tried to date, but every man she was attracted to wasn't able to appease her sexually. Sometimes she wondered if she might be a lesbian, but the thought of another woman revolted every time it crossed her mind.
As she pulled off the freeway and turned into the motel drive, Melissa shook her head to clear her thoughts. She got out of her car, stretched, and went into the office.
"Room twenty-two, ma'am," as the clerk gave her the key.
Melissa thanked him, got back into her car, and pulled into an empty spot fortuitously right in front of her room. She popped the trunk, got out, and grabbed her suitcases. Melissa opened the door to her room and set the suitcases just inside. Just as she was about to walk inside, she snapped her fingers, went back to her car, not bothering to shut the door to her room.
Can't forget my book...read a bit, have an early evening, start job hunting in the morning...
she thought to herself.
As Melissa entered her room, she thought she noticed a shadow at the corner of her vision.
* * * *
Melissa tries to open her eyes, but nothing happens. After a few more attempts, she is able to ascertain that yes, her eyes are opening, but the darkness persists.
Am I blind?
she thinks in panic.
Dark thoughts flick through her mind with sickening ease. Melissa wonders if she is dead. She slowly takes deep breaths and tries to move other parts of her body. Her arms and legs respond sluggishly, but it is enough to calm her.
If I can move my body, I can't be dead,
she thinks confusedly.
As Melissa tries to figure out what might be happening to her, she becomes aware of movement- she's in a car! She feels for the sides of the blackness and quickly realizes she is in a long, narrow container with a domed lid.
Almost feels silky, like the inside of a ...oh no, NO...
"NO, NO, NO!" Melissa screams as she becomes more acutely attuned to her surroundings.
* * * *
As she rose up from the depths of her mind, Melissa became aware of being tilted first one way, then another. A feeling of brisk movement; then minute squeaks reached her ears. Melissa sensed diffused light above her, then a sharp, acerbic smell. On the way back down to the pit of her despair, Melissa thought she heard a soothing voice.
"Rest for now...we'll start tomorrow..."
* * * *
As Melissa awoke, she felt a rough hand rubbing her gently. Once again, she couldn't see anything, and now, he couldn't move either. Melissa began to thrash about as much as she was able, but then she heard that same, soothing voice yet again.
"Be calm, love. You are blindfolded and restrained. No harm will come to you here."
The voice kept repeating this for some minutes, until Melissa had begun to calm herself. She wondered what was going to happen to her. She had heard of people receiving impromptu organ removal, but the voice said she wouldn't be harmed....
What are you doing believing this maniac?
she berated herself.
"What do you want with me?" Melissa tried to ask her captor, but she received no answer. After a period of time (Melissa couldn't tell how long), she felt something at her lips.
"Water, love. You may be here awhile. It's important to keep your strength up."
Melissa opened her parched lips and let the cool liquid slide down into her throat. After several swallows, she thought she smelled soup and eagerly opened her mouth again. As days went by, she came to realize all her needs would be taken care of, sometimes to her humiliation. Her body was cleansed, from head to toe. Melissa was fed and cared for.
"Please tell me what you want," Melissa begged for several days. Finally, she received a response.
"I want you to release yourself to me."
Melissa felt those same rough, yet gentle hands on her body, caressing every inch. As she felt a hand slide up to her shoulder, and start back towards her chest, she realized she wasn't repulsed by the touch of these hands. Melissa battled this feeling in her mind.
I'm being assaulted and I'm practically enjoying it,