Part 1-Check Your Mailbox
My name is Kelly Grant. I'm 24 years old. I was always fascinated by computers. I got my first computer when I was very young. After that I was hooked. Years went by and one small computer led to a bigger one, and then a more complex one, gadgets and programs, and then gaming.
By the time I was 18, I was a computer whiz. I studied everything I could about any and every aspect of computers and how they work. I got a scholarship to a major university to learn more about my passion.
My interest in computers also expanded into digital cameras. Pretty soon I was producing my own You Tube content. Pranking my friends, and daily vlogs about a girl's life. That's when I got into trouble.
One day during my freshman year at college, I decided to make a video record of my sex life. Not that there was much to record, because I was a virgin saving myself for someone special. I did record myself masturbating on my bed, in the shower, and on the couch in front of the TV.
I thought it might be fun to share with my future husband someday. It would allow him a glimpse into my past as I eagerly anticipated having sex with him in the future. Being a normal red-blooded female, the footage started to add up to hundreds of hours of digital film.
To be discreet, I never kept any of the sex footage on my vast computer network. It was always saved to an external flash drive that could be easily hidden for safety. The drives were kept hidden in a red shoe box in my bedroom.
I am considered by most to be an attractive woman. I was proud of the way my body had matured. My breasts had developed into a nice 34B cup with no sag at all. I was born with naturally blonde hair, and I usually kept it in a ponytail, but not always. My 5'8" frame was slim and sexy, with curves in the right places, and my tummy was flat. I ran three miles every other day and did Pilates twice a week.
I was not popular in high school. I was too tall, I thought. My Mom really discouraged me from ever learning about clothes and makeup and hairstyles. Besides, I really didn't care back then. I was a computer nerd
I didn't really fit in my skin until I was 19 and a freshman in college. My roommate Sandra took me under her wing and taught me what I needed to know. She said that I had a very nice body, but no one could appreciate it under the frumpy clothes I wore. She taught me about hair, makeup and clothes and how to flaunt what I had instead of hiding it and keeping my nose glue to a monitor.
That's when things began to change. Suddenly, I was getting hit on everywhere I went. Guys were lining up to ask me out. All the boys that asked me out were quite nice. I gave each one a chance to prove to me that he was the one. Although many of them were nice, no one ever seemed to give me the special feeling I was looking for in a guy.
I went out with lots of guys in college. Many young men attempted to fondle my breasts, and I let them. I even let them fondle my pussy sometimes when I wore jeans. When I wore skirts, I never allowed them to cop a feel. It was too risky. Too accessible. I was determined to remain pure until I was married.
My breasts were extremely sensitive, so I loved having them fondled, but I never allowed anyone to touch or see them bare. I loved making out with guys, but I was determined to save my most intimate secrets for my future husband. I had given a few hand jobs when things got a little too intense, but only to preserve my virginity. Most of my dates went home with a serious case of blue balls.
As a result of my determination to remain pure and virginal, I got a reputation as an Ice Queen. After three or four frustrating dates with me, most of my pursuers moved on to more accommodating companionship. It was fine with me because there always seemed to be another admirer waiting in line.
After college, I got a job as a computer solutions director at a large manufacturing facility. There were over four hundred and fifty employees at the plant. The guys who worked there were constantly hitting on me, but I kept it professional. I never went out with any of them.
My job paid well, so I bought a three-bedroom house in a nice community. The house had a privacy fence in the back with a pool.
I set up my computers in one extra bedroom and used the other bedroom for a guest room. Sometimes I had my girlfriends and some guys over to cook out by the pool, so the guest room came in handy if anyone got too drunk to drive.
Things were rocking along pretty good for me. I had a good job, good money, a nice place of my own. I had friends and guys were asking me out all the time. Every time I said to myself, "Maybe this is the one." You never know, right?
Then one day the shit hit the fan. I had hosted a party at my house the night before. Some of them were friends I had met at the coffee shop, some from the gym where I worked out, and others just casual acquaintances. There were about 30 people all in all. Some were just friends of a friend.
We grilled steaks, hamburgers, and hot dogs, whatever you wanted. There was plenty of beer, wine, and some hard stuff too. It was a Friday night and the party lasted until well after 2 am.
The next morning, I woke up with a hangover, but not too bad. I got up and took a shower and brushed my teeth. I threw on a pair of jeans and a T shirt and went to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee. While I waited on the coffee to brew, I went to my computer room. That's when I got the shock of my life, a shock that would change my life forever.
Someone had changed my screen saver. Instead of a picture of a kitten, it was a scrolling message. It said, "I have your sex tapes. I have your sex tapes. Check your mailbox soon!"
Oh God! Oh no! This must be a prank. This isn't happening. My whole body flushed with embarrassment. My privacy had been invaded.
Swiftly I went to the bedroom where I kept my private films on USB flash drives in a box in my closet. I threw open the closet door and gasped. The red shoe box on the shelf was gone.
Franticly, I began to pillage the closet in hopes that it was just misplaced. I threw everything out to find it. Nothing.
"Stay calm." I told myself. "Don't panic." Easier said than done. Maybe I had stashed them someplace else. For the next hour I searched the entire house. I found nothing. The message on the screensaver was clear. Someone else had the flash drives containing my sexually explicit videos. I went back to the computer room and read the screensaver again.
"I have your sex tapes. I have your sex tapes. Check your mailbox soon!"
Who had them? Then it dawned on me that someone at the party who had access to my home last night must have stolen them. I knew they were there just a week ago, because I had recordd myself shaving my crotch and returned the drive to the red shoe box.
Oh my God. Whoever had them must be watching them right now. I felt a wave of nausea overwhelm me and I ran to the bathroom and threw up in the toilet. My body broke out in a cold sweat. Just the thought of someone seeing me nude, masturbating, possibly masturbating to my images made me cry. Tears began to roll out if my eyes. I collapsed to the floor in a fetal position, sobbing in humiliation.
After some time, I dried my eyes and began to compose myself. Then a thought entered my mind. "Check your mailbox soon." I ran to my computer to check my email account. Surely there would be some clue there.
Much to my dismay, there was no email from anyone about the stolen flash drives. I tried to pull myself together. When they contact me, I will track that bastard down. I was good at internet security, and if they could be tracked, I could do it. I was good at it.
All day Saturday and Sunday I waited for the expected email. Nothing came. I tried to convince myself that maybe they had lost their nerve. Maybe it was just a joke. Maybe they had second thoughts about it all.
Monday passed with no message or contact from the pervy thief. How could I get those drives back? I had about $18,000.00 in savings. Would it be enough? My nerves were on edge. I was checking my emails every twenty minutes.
Then on Tuesday, when I got home from work, there was a yellow manila envelope addressed to me with no return address and no postage. A light bulb went off. "Check your mailbox." The computer geek in me had never considered a physical mailbox as a possibility.
I ran inside and opened the package. Inside was a letter and a CD.
I read the letter. It was typed and printed out, not handwritten.
"Kelly, I watched your performances. Very impressive. You have a hot little body. If you want your drives back, you must meet with me. Otherwise, the drives will be uploaded to every major porn website in the world. Also, copies will be sent to your parents, your friends, and your employer. I know you and I know them. In short, your entire life will be ruined. The time and place for our meeting will be disclosed to you by email. I have set up an email address for you to use. It is HotPussy567@gmail.com. The password is Slut9876Whore. You will receive further instructions at that email account. Tell no one about your little problem. If you do, one click, and the upload begins. Within 5 minutes, you will be a very well-known porn star."
I popped the CD in the computer. There was the proof that my tormentor wasn't bluffing. A video appeared on the screen. I recognized it. It was one I had made in college of me in my bedroom masturbating. They did in fact have my drives. They had used them to make this copy as proof.
If these people were ever to see the library of erotic film, made of myself being intimate over the years, I would be ashamed to show my face anywhere. I would lose my job. My parents would forgive me, but I could never look them in the face again. My life would be over.
Clearly this was an inside job. Someone who knew enough about me to know my parents and friends. But who? No one knew of the existence of the drives or files but me.
I logged in to the email account provided by the letter. I was totally humiliated to use the phrases they had assigned to the email. Hot Pussy. Slut. Whore. It was totally disgusting to me.
There was an email waiting to be opened. I hesitated to open it. What if opening it released a virus that would infect everything? It was risky. I had no choice, however. If I had any chance of getting the drives back, I had to comply. I opened it.
The email merely said, "Hello Kelly." That was all. But there was an attachment. Apprehensively, I opened it too. It was a film of a purring cat. The cat was being stroked by a female hand. At the sixty second mark, the cat disappeared by the sudden appearance of a scary clown and a scream, and I was scared, shitless.
The stupid son of a bitch was trying to mess with my head.
For the next five hours I did everything I could think of to trace the email account to a name, but it was all impossibly encoded. I could not do it. They had hidden anything that would lead me to them.