Adult's Halloween

                It was Halloween night and Larry Rozos was planning to stay in his apartment.  He had been living in this apartment for four years now and knew he wouldn’t be bothered by Trick or Treaters.  He put up no Halloween decorations on his door or in his apartment.  This was a holiday he despised.  When you’re young, Halloween is a great time where you dress up and go from door to door to get a bunch of candy.  When you’re older, it becomes a going out to get a different type of candy; eye candy in that women dress like sluts an call it a costume.  Most guys love this but Larry had gotten in trouble for treating the girl as a slut when she was dressed and acted like one.  To him, it wasn’t fair to men that you would give them alcohol and expect them to behave when half naked women were flirting with them.  It was a test of self-control that Larry wanted no part of.  His roommate agreed with him.  He gave facts to Larry’s fear because as a paramedic for the FDNY, he knew that rapes were most common on Halloween than any other day.  This is why, he never worked on Halloween because he hated dealing with rape victims. 

As the night progressed, Larry realized that he was out of contact solution.  Although some people can sleep in their contacts without a problem, Larry couldn’t.  Every time he did, his eyes would become bright red and be in a lot of pain.  He knew that the Duane Read was open 24 hours but it was six blocks away.  Although in Manhattan, anything can be gotten within two blocks, in Brooklyn, things were more spread out.  He decided that it was something he had to do so he set out and walked toward Duane Read.

 

Elena was out partying with some friends for Halloween in Brooklyn.  She was 24-years-old and very attractive.  She saw Halloween as a time when she could dress provocatively and show off what she worked very hard to have.  She wore a very short skirt that barely covered her buttocks, fish net stocking, stiletto heels and a leather shirt that hugged her body tightly to reveal the curves of her upper body and accentuate her breasts.  She put on a pair of cat ears and a mask around her eyes calling herself cat woman.  As the night got later, she decided she would leave the bar on Fort Hamilton and head toward 3^rd Avenue where most of the bars were in Bay Ridge.  She had come to the bar with a friend but she had found a guy she liked so she left her there and went out prowling for a man of her own.  3^rd Avenue was four long blocks away and would probably take her 12 minutes to walk.  Growing up in New York, this was nothing so she said bye to her friend and headed out.  She crossed the bridge separating Fort Hamilton going over the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and continued toward 6^th avenue.  As she did, a man was walking toward her, she paid no attention to him and tried to walk by him but he grabbed her and said, “Hey kitty, what’s your name?”

She was rather taken aback by how tightly he grabbed her arm so decided to be stern with him.  She pulled her arm away and yelled, “Don’t’ touch me sicko”

The guy shook his head, “calm down bitch, I didn’t do anything”

“Fuck you”

The guy became enraged, how could this girl be dressed like that and get mad when someone hit on her.  He grabbed her arm again but this time he yanked her forward and bent over wrapping his arms around her legs and hoisting her over his shoulder.  Elena kicked her legs and screamed but the man walked casually along Fort Hamilton knowing that no houses faced this street.  He knew of a fenced in playground two blocks away and even with Elena kicking, she didn’t weigh much and would prove to be of little resistance.  He used his left arm to wrap around her legs and slapped his right hand onto her ass and carried her the two blocks to the playground knowing that he now had privacy.   Since Elena was wearing a thong and the skirt barely covered her butt to begin with, there was skin to skin contact.  When he got to the playground, he jerked his upper body forward while pulling her legs close to him and slammed her upper body against the pavement.  He shoved her knees into her shoulder pinning her down, the first thing he wanted to do was remove her stiletto heels thinking those were her best weapons.  He undid the straps and pulled each one off while Elena was still recovering from the slam to the pavement.  He leaned against her feet to hold her in place as he undid his belt and lowered his pants.  Elena squirmed but her legs were being used to hold her down and was in a defenseless position.  After he had exposed himself, he split her legs and reached under skirt pulling down her thong.  Elena screamed but she didn’t think anyone would help her, she was behind a fence on a road that had very little foot traffic.  Even if someone did hear her, they probably wouldn’t get to her in time.

 

Larry began walking down Fort Hamilton toward 86^th St.  He knew that the blocks between the avenues were closer as he got toward 86^th since 6^th Avenue converged to Fort Hamilton eventually.  Since Duane Read was a couple avenue blocks away, going up Fort Hamilton and walking down 86^th would save him time than by going down his street and then heading up the streets.  As he did, he heard a scream coming from the playground that he passed. Larry always carried two knives on him and this time was no exception.  He entered the playground, knife drawn.  He saw a guy on top of someone and screamed, “Hey! Stop!” not knowing if the person underneath welcomed this.  He half expected to get yelled at by both parties for interrupting.  What happened, was far from what he expected, the guy on top leapt off the girl jumped on the fence kicking his pants off and climbed over the fence and started running with no bottom up the street.  Larry knew that he had plenty of time to stop him as he tried to flee since it took a little time to kick off his jeans but he didn’t see the need to attack the man considering he no longer was harming the girl so to him the problem was solved.  He walked up to the girl and leant out his hand.  She took it and he helped her up.  Elena pulled up her thong and pushed down her skirt which didn’t do much to cover herself.  Larry sized her up with his eyes and couldn’t help but be appalled.  He asked with no compassion in his voice, “You okay.”

Elena’s head was down and her mouth was open for she was embarrassed.  She could only manage to nod.  Larry said, “Good, I’ll see you later then.”

Elena grabbed Larry by the arm she didn’t want to be alone.  Larry turned around and said, “What?”

Elena stuttered a little bit before saying, “I don’t want to be alone.”

Larry glared at her with contempt.  He said, “Is that what you were wearing, or did he rip some clothes off you?”  Elena gave Larry a dirty look but then caught herself and wiped it off her face.  Larry said, “Do you want me to walk you home?”

Elena nodded lowered her head and stared up at Larry’s eyes looking vulnerable.  She had never been so scared in her life.  Truth is, she didn’t want to be alone but she didn’t fully trust Larry either.  I mean a guy just tried to rape her and now another guy had her in the same remote place.  She saw no other alternative than to have Larry walk her home but he didn’t seem to be very compassionate and didn’t really make her feel safe. Then again, she doubted any guy would. 

Larry had no idea what to do in this situation.  He wanted to just leave her in the playground by herself and continue to Duane Read but he also knew that he would always feel guilty because he wouldn’t know if she got home without being raped.  He kept telling himself that a girl who dressed that way almost should expect to be raped but he hated males being violent toward women, and rape was the worst thing a man could do to a woman.  He knew she was in shock and the best thing to do was keep talking.  He said, “Are you cold?” Again the girl just nodded.  “Come on, I’ll get you some pajamas”

Larry didn’t wear Pajamas but people had bought them for him and he kept them for reasons he really didn’t know.  Now he found a good reason for it.  He walked toward his apartment and Elena picked up her stilettos and followed him.  When he got to the entrance of his building, he walked through the door and Elena froze.  Larry kept the door open and smiled, “You coming in?”

Elena shook her head no  

Larry knew why she said no and he didn’t care.  He said, “Good call, I’ll be right back.”

Elena smiled.  She didn’t know how this guy would receive her refusing to go inside.  Part of her didn’t’ want to upset him because he may hurt her but the other part knew she didn’t want to be alone in his apartment with him.  All he had to do was lock the door and nobody could get to her and he could have his way with her.  She felt bad not trusting him when he had just rescued her but as of right now, she couldn’t trust men regardless how harmless the seemed.  She kept her stilettos in her hands to use as a weapon just in case something happened.  She was surprised how quickly Larry came back out with a pair of pajamas.  He threw them at her and she let them fall to the ground since her hands were full with her shoes. 

Larry lived on the ground floor so his apartment was really close to the entrance.  He opened the door, ran inside and grabbed a pair of pajamas and came back out and found the girl where he had left her.  He threw the pajamas at her and smiled when they hit the ground.  He noticed she didn’t want to let go of her stilettos.  He couldn’t explain it but he admired her more that she didn’t trust him.  He originally saw her as stupid for going outside dressed like that thinking nothing would happen to her but now she seemed to be learning from her mistake.  He said, “Are you going to put them on?” with an amused smile.

Elena dropped her stilettos and put on the pajama pants and then immediately picked up her shoes again.  Larry said, “Now where do you live?”

“90^th”

Do you want me to call you a cab?

“No, I don’t have any money.”

“I could give you some”

“It’s only 10 blocks”

“I know but it seems like you’re afraid of me so you may not want me to walk you home and you don’t want to walk alone since that’s how you got in trouble the first time so….”

Elena glared at Larry and was a little upset that he just smiled back.  She wanted to protest but he was right, she was afraid of him and angering him seemed like a bad idea.  Larry continued, “Let’s start simple, what’s your name?”

Elena smiled and said, “Elena, what’s yours?”

“Larry” as he stuck out his hand.

Elena shifted her shoe in her right hand under her left arm and extended her right hand and gripped his lightly and shook.  Larry’s grip was firm but didn’t seem aggressive and she said, “Nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you too” as he let go of her hand.  “Now, do you want to walk bare foot or put on your heels?”

“I’ll carry them.”

“Excellent” Larry said with a smile knowing full well why she wanted to but was unafraid.

Larry started walking keeping Elena to his side.  He didn’t know what else to say so he said nothing.  They walked in silence for a couple blocks before Elena said, “By the way, thank you.”

“Don’t thank me yet, you’re not home, I could still hurt you.” he said with a smile

Elena had found her voice now.  Although she didn’t fully trust Larry, she figured that if he was going to hurt her, he would have done it by now.  She said, “Why are you being such a dick?”

“Because I really don’t want to do this but I know that I would actually worry about you if I didn’t walk you home.  I’m not a hero, I’m not some great noble chivalrous guy, I just don’t want women to be raped.  I don’t go out on Halloween because so many girls go out dressed like sluts and get mad that guys are a little overaggressive toward them.  Nothing justifies what that piece of shit did, but now I got to go out of my way to make sure your safe because I happened to be the only one to be able to stop him at the time and I actually give a shit if something did happen to you if I left you alone.  Which makes even less sense to me because I don’t know you, why should I care, but I would, so I got to do this.”

Elena had no idea how to take what he just said.  There were so many things that offended her but other parts that made her blush a little bit.  She said, “Well, I’m not too happy about the situation either.”

“Exactly, here’s this random stranger that’s walking you home right after some other guy tried to rape you.  You probably hate all men right now, but you have to deal with me because I’m the lesser of two evils, some guy that saved you from being raped and being along making you a target again for some other asshole, or the same one just waiting for you to be left alone.”

“Well put, but some things are best unsaid.”

Larry was never a believer in that.  The thought that by saying what they were thinking it would take the awkwardness out of the situation…it wasn’t working.  He softened up a bit and asked the one thing, he was afraid to ask, “Just out of curiosity, I did make it in time right?”

Elena’s head snapped back, she didn’t see this question coming.  “What do you mean?”

Larry rolled his eyes, he thought it was obvious but it was time to be brutally honest again, “He didn’t, you know, pene…get inside of you?”

“What if he did?” Elena decided she’d play with him a little bit

“I’d feel bad.”

She smiled and said, “No, he didn’t, you stopped him right before he was going to.”

Larry nodded in acknowledgment.  He felt better to have the confirmation.  He figured she wouldn’t be walking as easily nor would she have ever smiled if he been too late but he had never dealt with a rape victim so had no idea what to expect.  They arrived at her apartment and Larry said good bye.  Normally he would end it with a hug and a European kiss but he didn’t deem that appropriate right now.  Elena walked up the stairs to her building and Larry turned his back to walk away.  Elena turned around and called out, “Larry?”

Larry turned back around and Elena ran up to him and hugged him.  She kissed him on the cheek and said, “Thank you” before scurrying back to her apartment. 

Larry smiled and walked back toward 86^th, he would finish his journey to Duane Read and go home.

Elena went into her apartment.  She knew where Larry lived now and he knew where she did.  That meant that if she ever decided to see him again, she could.  For now though, she didn’t want to be friendly with any men.  Her encounter with Larry did help her no vilify men but it would take a little while to get over it.  She got ready for bed and decided to sleep in Larry’s pajamas.  She didn’t think she’d ever go out in that outfit again.  Although the outfit provided it’s purpose of going out drinking without paying for a drink, there were some downsides that she just encountered that night.  She went to sleep vowing to never speak about what happened to anyone.  There was no point, she was okay, it would just unnecessarily upset people.