"What a day," thought Paula, as she sped down Marine Blvd. on her way to the
bank, "it's just one thing after another!" She knew that she was speeding, but what with
the stop at the bank, grocery shopping, and a visit to the beauty parlor, she would be hard
pressed to make her six o'clock appointment with her husband. Drinks, dinner, and the
opera, if she could just get through the day, she might even get to enjoy the evening! She
wheeled into the bank parking lot and practically ran through the front door and into the
main lobby, and thankfully, for once there wasn't a line, so she went directly to the teller
window and withdrew two hundred fifty dollars. Back in her car, she put the big Caddy
in gear and headed off to the market, paying little attention to what was going on in the
back seat behind her. As she fumbled with the CD player, her blood ran cold when she
glanced into the rear view mirror and was stunned to see a young black male pointing a
gun right at her head! "Don't make a move bitch, or I'll give it to you right here," he said
with a vicious snarl! Paula froze, struck with absolute terror, unable to take her eyes off
the menacing presence behind her. She was brought back to reality when he barked,
"Watch the road you dumb cunt, you're gonna crack it up if ya don't pay attention!" Paula
jerked her eyes back to the road and tried desperately to think of a way out of this jam.
Finally she offered, "I have money, you can have it all, just get out, and leave me alone!"
He laughed a derisive harsh laugh, and spat, "You rich bitches always think that money
can buy you everything, well, bitch, this time it can't!" "W-where are you going to take
me," she stammered, the cold hard facts now beginning to take shape in her mind? "Just
keep driving, I'll tell ya when to stop," he ordered, "and just remember, I can take ya out
any fucking time I like!!!"
They drove for about twenty minutes, with Paula following the directions her kidnapper
gave to her. The neighborhoods were getting rougher and rougher, until finally they were
in an area that Paula had never even seen before, let alone having walked through! "Pull
over right here," the young man ordered, "and get out of the car!" They had parked in
front of and old abandoned building on a deserted dead end side street, a street that
rarely if ever saw any police traffic. Even though her late model Caddy stuck out like a
sore thumb in the dilapidated neighborhood, the chances of the cops accidentally running
across it were slim indeed! With cat like quickness the young black man was out of the
rear seat and right next to her when she exited the vehicle, and even though he wasn't
particularly big, when he took her by the arm, she could feel real power in his firm hand.
Practically dragging her, he lead her into the vacant building and took her to the second
floor where he had set up the living room as his bedroom. There was a fireplace for heat,
some old broken down furniture, and an old mattress over in the corner. Not very
hospitable to say the least! He threw on to the bed and grabbed her purse, dumping the
contents onto the floor. He opened her wallet and pocked the two fifty she had just
withdrawn from the bank, and then slowly went through her credit cards. He looked up
at her and said, "So your name's Paula, huh, ain't nobody named Paula anymore," as he
continued looking at the rest of her identification. While watching him go through her
things, Paula finally began to settle down a bit, to the point that she asked him, "You
know my name, can you tell me yours?" Her gave her a quizzical look, and the answered,
"Yeah, it won't do you no good any way, it's Lemont, my name's Lemont!
Paula guessed that he must have been about twenty five or so, and if you were just
looking at him, he wasn't bad looking at all, but what impressed her the most about him,
however, was his cat like reflexes, he seemed to move with an effortlessness that was
truly amazing. When he was finished with her purse, he turned his attention back to her.
"Stand up and get over here," he ordered, all the time keeping his eyes glued to her body.
She felt another chill go through her, only this one was sexual in nature, as she could feel
his eyes looking right through her clothing. She was repulsed to be sure, but the sexual
aura in the room could be cut with a knife. She definitely came from a white bread
world, upper middle class, never deigning to mingle with the "little people", and the only
sex she had ever had was with her lawyer husband, and they didn't exactly have the most
passionate relationship in the world, in their twenty three years of marriage, it was
normally sex with the lights off, and her hubby on top, so at forty two, you could say that
she had lived a very sheltered life. Now she was standing in the middle of a dingy dirty
room, with an obviously unstable young man who had just robbed and kidnapped her,
and to top it all off, she was pretty sure that he was going to rape her or worse, and for
some strange reason she didn't feel terrified at all anymore!!!