Paige's Life - How It Began (1)

Paige plumped down on the bench in the garden. The last guests had just left, except of course the girls who were gonna stay over for the night. She looked at her phone: 4.32 am. It had been the best birthday party ever. Finally, she had turned 18. She waited for this moment for ages, and now it was there. Paige threw her long, dark blonde hair back, grabbed a cigarette out of the pack that was lying next to her and lit it up. For the first time this night she could relax a bit. She immediately felt the wine taking control of her body; during the party, she had drunk a lot of it without noticing, but now she felt the alcohol floating through her vains, making her body weak as a pudding.

A few minutes later, Paige threw down the smoked cigarette on the floor, between all the others. She’d clean that up tomorrow, after some well-deserved hours of sleep. She stood up, swayed through the back door and closed it behind her. She walked into the living room, where the three girls who were gonna spend the night at her place were lying against each other on the huge sofa. Everything in the house was huge, because Paige’s dad had a really good job at the local bank office. That was the reason he and his wife went on a two week vacation yesterday, letting Paige in charge of the house. She’d done that in the past, she grew up pretty fast and already was a real adult, so her parents believed she could easily be alone for two weeks. Paige stepped over to the sleeping girls, lying there, all in their panties and shirts, as if they were twin sisters. She grabbed a large blanket from the floor and threw it over the girls to cover their half-naked bodies. She walked to the kitchen to drink some water, in the hope her hangover in the morning would be a little less bad, and she walked up the stairs to her bedroom.

Without even turning the light on, Paige walked towards her double bed, taking her bra and pants off on the way there. Wearing just a thong and a shirt, she felt down in her bed. It felt like the room she was in was spinning around her head, something she always had when she drank too much, but she liked it. She closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep as soon as possible.

“Tired?”, a voice said. Paige was scared to death. What on Earth was that? There was someone in her room! Suddenly, the light was switched on. Paige’s eyes had to get used to the light a little, everything she saw was the shape of a tall, muscled person, probably a guy. She crawled against the wall, looking the person in her room straight in the eyes. “I’m sorry, sweetheart, did I scare you?” Paige wanted to scream, but there was no sound coming out of her mouth. “Don’t be afraid, Paige”, the man said. “I won’t hurt you… Yet.”

Finally, Paige was able to talk. “W-w-who are you?” she asked. “I better not tell you yet”, the man answered. “But don’t worry, you’ll get to know it later.” “Later?”, Paige replied. Why didn’t he just do or take what he wanted? Maybe because… He didn’t want anything, except her. “A-are you gonna rape me?” she stuttered. The man smiled. “Again, not yet”, he said. “Listen, we’ve wasted too much time already. Is 4.30 not a bit too late for a young girl like you?” Paige said nothing. The man went on, but this time he held a gun straight into Paige’s face. “So, here’s what we do”, and started explaining his plan.

She walked down the stairs, not being given any time to dress up. Still in her panties and shirt, she opened the door to the living room, feeling the gun pressed softly at her left shoulder. She stepped into the room and checked out if the girls were still asleep, and when she saw they were, she nodded to the guy. He walked straight through the living room, into the kitchen and through the back door. Paige walked up to the girls, just as he had told her to do. “Zoe?”, she whispered, softly trying to shake her awake. “Zoe!”, she said a little louder. Zoe woke up, but was still very sleepy. “What?”, she moaned. “Zoe, listen very carefully”, Paige said. “I have to go away for a while. I might not be back when you get up in the morning, would you please lock the door with this key?” Paige gave her spare key to Zoe. Zoe, still half asleep, whispered “Paige, what’s going on?” “Nothing, Paige replied. “Just do as I tell you, I call you tomorrow.” She left the key in Zoe’s hands and walked trough the kitchen to the back yard. The stranger was waiting for her. “All fixed?” he asked. Paige nodded. She had wanted to tell Zoe the truth about the man in the backyard, but she was way to scared for him and his gun. “Good”, the man said. “Come with me, no sounds.”

To be continued...