The victim’s view of Room Service – a companion story
I finally have my ad for “Missed Connections” in the weekly free paper ready to submit. I can’t believe I am doing this.
“Seeking former staff person from the Starlight Motel who provided me with room service on the afternoon of Thursday, December 12th. I was in room 321, and I never got the chance to thank you or to give you my contact information. Please drop me a note at box 4312. Marianne.”
If he sees this, he will probably think I am out to track him down and have him arrested, or maybe have his balls cut off by my big brother. I don’t even have a big brother. I was too embarrassed and ashamed to tell my husband. Or anyone for that matter. Certainly that is how I should feel after what he did to me. The bastard. I am appalled and humiliated and ashamed that just thinking about my rape is still making me wet. I can’t believe I have sunk so low that I am actually considering placing this ad, not to punish this man, but to have him take me again the way he took me that afternoon.
That day is still alive for me, and it made me feel more alive sexually that I have ever felt in my life. I had just gotten finished with my morning meeting, had lunch, and gone back to my room to pack up and head home. I am an attorney in a small town about four hours drive from the big city, and I occasionally have to come to town on behalf of my clients. I had finished my shower and I was in the middle of dressing. I had on my nice, tight jeans and my favorite silk blouse, without a bra. I love the feel of my breasts moving against the silk rather that all bound up. Since I plan to be in the car, I wear a light jacket so that I am not too obvious. It is one of my little luxuries on a long car trip.
When the guy knocked and announced room service, he said it with such authority and conviction that I just assumed he was delivering room service, but he just had the wrong room. I opened the door without thinking or setting the chain. That was stupid. I opened the door to tell him I didn’t order room service, and he was on me before I knew what was happening. He pushed me back into the room, and I fell on my ass by the bed.
No, you didn’t order this room service,” he said to me. “I did.” He closed and locked the door.
Then I knew I was in trouble, big trouble. I knew all the things to do. I should scream. I should get up and fight. I am trained in self defense. I know where to kick a man to put him down. At least down long enough for me to get out of the room. I didn’t do any of those things I was taught. I just sat there, dazed, looking up at him. He was a big man, at least 6’1” and well over two hundred pounds. He was built like a linebacker, with strong legs and a strong upper body. When he came at me, he moved quickly and smoothly.
Something in the way he looked at me was totally disarming. He acted as though he knew me, as if he was familiar with my looks and my body. Most disturbing, he acted as though he knew my darkest desires. I felt as though he were looking directly into my soul, seeing things that only came to me in troubled sleep and upsetting dreams, dreams that woke me flushed and wet. I crawled backwards until I bumped into the bed.
“Why are you doing this to me?” I pleaded. That made a wicked smile cross his face.
“Shut up, bitch” he commanded.
He grabbed me by the hair and pulled me to my feet.
“Let’s see what we’ve got here.” he said, ripping my blouse open, exposing my bare breast to him.
“No!” I exclaimed. I raised my hands to him. I wasn’t trying to hit him. They just came up to cover myself. Like lightning, he grabbed my hair again with just one hand and slapped my face with the other. Any thoughts of defending myself evaporated.
“Please don’t hurt me! I’ll do whatever you want.” I whimpered.
“That’s better.” he said to me. “Get those jeans off.”
He held my hair firmly while I dropped my jeans and stepped out of them. The he pulled the torn silk blouse completely off, leaving me there before him in nothing but my new lavender silk panties. He just stared at me with that familiar and wicked grin on his face. He looked like a big kid that had just opened the one toy he really wanted for Christmas. The toy he really, really wanted. I was to be his toy. I felt a twinge of something as I looked at his face, something I knew I shouldn’t be feeling, and I looked down at the floor, ashamed of my thoughts. I thought he was attractive and very self assured. The cool air was making my nipples harden, I was sure. I looked down at the floor.
He put his hands on my shoulders, very lightly, gently, and moved them over my skin. I expected the hands of this big man to be rough, but they weren’t. I expected to be handled roughly but I wasn’t. He traced a lined down my chest with a finger, circling my right nipple with a finger. He took the nipple between his fingers. playing with it, toying with it slowly. I expected more, harder, faster. I wanted him to just get on with it. Where did those thoughts come from? Was I enjoying this? I felt my face flush with anger, anger at myself.