(Note: this story is based on people I have actually known. Some pieces of it actually happened. I won't tell which, though... ;) )
Ch. 1: Capture
I'd known Sherry and Julie since we were in the 7th grade, in 1971. They had been best friends practically from the cradle β and as such seemed to be two girls with one mind. They were inveterate, unrepentant teases, and made a sport of crowding against me on the lunch line β "Come on, Mikey, give us a kiss!" β and encouraging their friends to do the same. They were each a year older than me, as I had skipped a grade. The teasing and the flirting continued through our middle- and high-school years β even during the summers as the girls and I went to the same pool club. Sherry grew to be 5'5, 125 lbs., with long straight black hair and piercing blue eyes. She had nice, muscular legs and perky 34B breasts. Julie was stockier, about 5'2, also 125, with larger breasts β about 36C β with curly brown hair, warm brown eyes and a full, voluptuous figure.
Later, Sherry's two-years-younger sister Rachel joined in on the teasing. Rachel was model-gorgeous β 5'9, 120, 34C, blue eyes like her sister, amazing figure, brown hair cut in a bob. Even though I was outgrowing my shyness β and my baby fat, as I grew to 6 feet and 165 lbs., a weight I still proudly maintain today β I still was embarrassed by the teasing and didn't really want to engage any of them, even though they would sometimes break the ice by inviting me to play backgammon or volleyball with them. I was an aspiring musician, a bass player and singer in a local cover band, and I would often see one or the other, and sometimes all three, at my shows. They would often hang on my side of the stage, but again, I didn't really want any part of them.
It was the late summer of 1979. I was 19 and about to start my junior year of college. My parents had gone for a week's getaway, and I was alone. Despite my being in a band, I wasn't into drugs or wild parties and my parents knew it, so they knew I could be left to my own devices for a week. I also didn't have a steady girlfriend at the time so I was kind of free as a bird. I was walking through the neighborhood in the early afternoon, alone in my thoughts, when I heard the sound of clacking feet on the sidewalk and a voice calling, "MIKE! Thank goodness it's you! PLEASE help me!!!"
It was Sherry. I still recall she was wearing a form-fitting black t-shirt, a denim mini-skirt and those wooden heels that were popular back in the day. She threw herself at me, grabbed a hold and said, "Some guy's been following me for the last few blocks. I think he wants to rape me. Mike, you've GOT to walk me back to my house! It isn't that far... but I'd feel SO much safer if I were with a guy. PLEASE say you will!! PLEASE!!!!"
I looked around. I didn't see any strange guy but believed he could be hiding someplace, or that maybe he'd seen her come up to me and peeled out. I then looked at Sherry, saw she had been crying and that there seemed to be genuine fear in her eyes. I nodded, and she grabbed hold of my arm and said, "Thank you. You've always been such a sweetie. I feel better already!"