On a sunny Saturday afternoon I invited two of my good friends around, Lucy and Mark, for a quick catch up. We were well into our conversation when Ma...k said that he was going to get a few beers in from down the road. He said he would be five or so minutes, so Lucy and I allowed him to leave the room and out the front door. As soon as we heard the door close behind him Lucy looked straight into my eyes and winked, and I back.Lucy and I were very close together, we occasionally had the odd kiss. She couldn’t get comfy and he could tell she wasn’t. “Here, let me lay down beside you. How’s that sound?” In her girlish cute tone of voice, she opened her eyes, and spoke up, quietly. “Okay daddy if you want to,” she replied. She knew she’d like that a lot and smiled as he laid down beside her. Regardless, she was incidentally still not feeling good about what had happened earlier in the evening and said to him as he lay beside her “Daddy, can you hold me?” “Uhhhhhh pardon me dear?” he said.. Some women…,” and I paused, “don’t like being with big men.”I looked down into her round, green eyes as they locked onto mine. She was close enough that I could feel her breathing a little hard. This was ridiculous. She was barely older than my sons. I should be asking her mother out…what the fuck. I threw caution to the wind, telling myself I was just teasing her.“How about you, Kristi? Do you like big men?”She blushed so hard and looked down. “Why don’t we talk about it?” And I put my hand. He looked at her as if he were waiting for something. ‘C’mon babe it’s no big deal. Just a little fun between friends.’ She slipped into her flip-flops and ran as fast as she could away from the apartment. She couldn’t let him see her cry. Flash back to six and a half months ago. She tried to scream, tried to move, but she couldn’t. She was paralyzed as his hands ran over her breasts, his eyes raping her, telling her what he was about to do. She fought it, struggled against the haze that was.