Jade was on a subway train headed for the outskirts where the Arena was,a sports palladium which doubled as a venue for concerts,and that’s exactly what it would be, her first concert ever.Her nerves sprang in vibration.She was so close to her first taste of liberation only by chewing her gum did she remain somewhat grounded,but her hands shook.

It hadn’t been easy getting away, it had required a whole web of intricate deceptions with her friend Soraya doing chilling imitations of her Mom’s voice to finally make for a solid alibi.Years of built up trust being gambled for a girls night out.

She wore a hooded sweatshirt to fit in in with the theme of the evening and some loosefitting jeans which barely but decisively highlit the contours of her body.Jade generally avoided tightfitting clothing,she didn’t like the way it felt,cutting of her circulation, and she didn’t like the attention it drew,guys became weird,making gestures for her to come over,their beedy eyed stares and comehithery whisperings,but then again, try oh try as little Jade might there was no hiding her finest feature,for her face,one she hadn’t even yet learned to seductively express was out in plain view,there was no running from it’s naked beauty,and naked is a word I choose carefully,for she wore no make up,she’d tried once, but she could see in the mirror it cheapened her,it did nothing to accentuate anything,in this regard she was beyond improvement.

She was welltreated it must be said,and despite her modesty she was only rarely advanced upon,somehow males developed speaking impediments when adressing her,so much so, she naively began to think many boys were innate stutterers.

Within the last months however the advances had stopped completely she hadn’t even really missed them,they never went beyond a few lines anyway,but unbeknownst to her there was a reason for this cessation,namely that a particular,very popular basketballplayer going by the name of Justin had labled her of limits,she happened to like him ever so much but it seemed his every attempt to speak to her was thwarted by what were amounting to be a gross number of divinely inspired interventions.But tonight, it was she who would be looking to advance on him,she knew he’d be there and she was willing to be a poser and endure a masoginistic rap concert to prove it,maybe,just maybe, she could get him to kiss her ,oh, she could only hope!

Upon their arrival she and Soraya had quickly mingled into a mob of people surging through the front gates,most were half cloaked or somehow hooded,she was pleased at her choice of attire,she felt inconspicuous and overlooked,she had her ticket scanned and her hand stamped,but as she walked through the metal detector she bleaped like a censored profanity and was ushered to the side,she was relieved she would be searched by a woman,but the firmess of the frisking seemed exessive and the female guardian had a wry smile and one of her eyes was bloodshot and rabid looking,she got an uneasy feeling as unknown hands delved into her cushiony body for a thorough feeling up,but she shrugged it off as the beat of the opening act reverberated through her ears,all she could hear was a deafening base and some guy yelling like crazy,it was no gentle introduction and she didn’t like the feel of the place,there were far too many men in one overoccpupied space to her liking.She couldn’t see Soraya anymore,and for a second panic set in and she felt very vulnerable,as if anyone might drag her of somewhere unnoticed,it was chaos.

That’s when relief overcame her as she spotted her school’s basketball jersey’s,a whole swarm of them,and there he was, her hero,her saviour, she almost felt absolute love for him even though she could hardly recognize him under the shifting lights,she didn’t procrastinate,she saw this girl was trying to dance with him,but he didn’t seem interested,or even aware of her,come to think of it,he seemed a litle dazed.She pushed through the others lowering her hood slowly,like a virgin undressing in front of a man for the first time,and she gently stroked his shoulder.He turned to face her and that’s when she saw it,he was out of it,his pupils were summersaulting into narcosis,he recognized her, but called her another girls name,Justin was on drugs heavily,he didn’t even try to talk to her, he just began touching her body,fucking groping her like she was some stripper,she broke loose, pushing him off her,and he slurred spit, some of it on her jumper.She couldn’t hear what he said,the music which sounded increasingly aggresive muffled it, but he was swearing at her violently and he reached for her only to be blocked by some moving bodies,suddenly, as if waking from some dream she began hearing the lyrics which were first unintelligeble,something like”slap a bitch if she wants to come up for air,suck that jimmy ho,what’s that?,you won’t suck dat jimmy ho,fuck dat gimme yo -ass-yo ass….” it was like the whole room feel into trance and amidst the beargarden she could see girls being accosted and pulled on,she even spotted a girl in a darker corner having her face driven into what seemed to be this guy’s abdomen as other men circled round,one fellow even wore the eagle emblem of the to serve and protect security logo,she’d quickthinkingly recloaked her face and made for the exit,stage left,but what about Soraya?,oh god, whatever became of her?,she scanned around in wild desperation but realized immediately the futility of it,she’d call for help outside.As she dashed through the front gates she she was disgusted to see the security bouncers with their hands out,expecting tips.

But outside were just as out of sorts as in with the place swarming with cabs and people making a run for them,she was about to follow suite when a hand clawed on her and a voice said”you a girly lookin mufucka,isn’t ya?How bout some grand daddy black cock?”instinctively, she steered her face away from her assailent and broke loose,waving her hands in an sos pulling a hail mary on her run for dear life and as faith would have it, out the blue,a pumpkin-coloured cab skidded to a halt as she opened the door to her carriage,her own deux ex machina, right on the buzzer, and her driver bless his heroic soul was an innocently chubby middleaged man,with wide droopy eyes one of them crossed,in fact, she thought him to look a little mentally challenged,but with the warming sensation of sudden safety ,mixed with the aftershakes of adrenalin,she sank into her seat gasping,no questions asked.

“Well goodevening there little miss,it’s rough one out there huh?so where to?”

“Oh god thank you so much for stopping…” she ‘s out of breath

“Whoa there, just get settled now,everythings allright,you ok?”

“Oh god,my friend!,I have to call the police first,my friend might be hurt!”,she reaches for her phone,but her hand’s shaking so hard she can’t hold it still.

“Say,You ain’t on anything now is ya,I don’t want any troubles or strangeness,now let me take this for you[he pries the phone from her trembling hand] and let’s give your parents a ringeling”

As soon as he said the word parents a siren went off in her head and she yelled a sudden “No!”
Just as she did so a bottle shattered over the cab’s hood as some altercation broke out,she saw desperate hands clambering against the rear window as the cabby put the pedal to medal and spun the corner turning of onto the freeway,seconds later he pulled over to the side,the mood all changed, his car being scratched badly.

“now what little miss is problem with me phonen your folks up?”

“It’s just…”

“It’s just your a lying little hussy gone and snuck out to get high with your rifraffety friends and now youz running all witless clucking for help,well answer me this,YOU GOT MONEY!!??HUH!??” suddenly raising his voice furiously.


Her voice became very soft,right now things had escalated so far beyond her scope of engenderable horrors she sank into this calm passivity”No sir” she squeecked in barely more then a whisper

His face distorted into a grimace “take that hood down,show your face,and look at me when I speaks to ya?”

She felt totally overpowered and he hadn’t even touched her.Noone had ever spoken to her like this,and what he was asking from her,stripping her clothes would even be better,but she complied,the cab was dark,unsuspecting vehicles moved by,only one of the lights was on and it was dim,she slowly withdrew her vail hoping he would be mesmerized,go full retard on her like the boys at school and turn all mooshy and stuttersome,but Casby was a man,he was in charge and aware of it,and as his character deepened he became like quicksilver,she didn’t quite sense he was evil,but something about him was most surely amiss.Casby looked in her face,the addition of her hair was mindblowing,his expression softened and his jilted eye jittered with what one might think to be love,she actually saw a tear liquifying.