The Neighbor [The Complete Collection] (20 page)

Janey felt like getting away. She wanted to be alone, to hide her shame and humiliation. She couldn’t understand why Ben and Luke weren’t interested in her anymore. Why were they both only interested in Suzy. They were still looking at Suzy, lovingly, as she smiled up at them and spread her legs open. Janey looked at Suzy’s cunt, that was what Ben and Luke seemed so interested in, but it didn’t look any different from her own.

The first of the strangers pulled out of the circle and drove off, back onto the highway. He was followed by the other five cars. Janey was left alone with Suzy and the two husbands, and now Ben was stroking Suzy’s hair, looking down at her lovingly as if
she
was his real wife. Luke was standing next to her.

Janey got up off the hood and was going to get back into the car but she realized she was still collared to Suzy.

Ben laughed when he realized Janey’s mistake.

—You’re not going anywhere yet, he said.

He pulled her back forcefully with the leash until she was right in front of him. Janey thought that now he might give her some attention, some love and affection. But all he did was unfasten the leash from her neck and then push her away. She was still in her heels and she stumbled backward and fell. She felt the hard, gravelly surface of the parking lot cut into the sore, tender flesh of her bottom.

Ben laughed. Janey looked up at the hood of the car and saw that Suzy was laughing too. They were looking down at her and laughing at her as if she was some kid in a playground and they were the school bullies.

—Come on, guys, Luke said. Is that really necessary?

He looked sympathetic to Janey, but he still didn’t step away from Suzy. Suzy put one of her ankles up on Luke’s shoulder. She was still on the hood of the car, enjoying both men’s attention. Janey was on the ground, being laughed at.

—Look at her, Suzy said. She looks so utterly pathetic.

—Fucking bitch, Ben said.

There was a harshness in his voice that sounded to Janey as if he was utterly full of hatred for her.

—What a pathetic bitch, Suzy said. And you thought you could rival me?

Janey had had no intention of rivaling Suzy or anyone else. All she’d been doing was obeying Ben. Ben was her husband and the way he’d been disciplining her, acting forcefully and manly, the way her father had, Janey had felt as if she had no option but to obey him. Now she realized that it was all for nought. They’d been using her. Maybe Luke hadn’t, he seemed genuinely sorry for the way the others were treating her, but Ben and Suzy were certainly using her. They must have been planning to end it this way all along. She’d fallen for it and let them get the better of her.

Who could she blame but herself?

Janey watched in utter humiliation as Suzy got up off the hood of the car with the help of both Ben and Luke. Then she walked over to where Janey was lying, still on the painful, gravelly ground. Suzy walked right up to Janey, she came so close that her cunt was just inches from Janey’s face.

—Go on, Suzy said, cruelly. Lick it, bitch.

Janey looked up at Luke and Ben. Luke was shaking his head. He turned away and got back inside the car. He got in and slammed the door shut. Whatever game Suzy was going to play, he wanted no part of it. But Ben just stood there. The way he was smiling down at her, she could tell that he was enjoying her humiliation. He looked utterly evil.

Janey leaned forward, about to lick Suzy’s bare cunt, she didn’t think she had any choice, when Suzy pushed her head back, aggressively.

—Slut. I told you she was a slut. She was going to lick it. Don’t you know I’ve just been gang fucked, slut?

Janey didn’t know what to do anymore. What could she do? She’d gotten herself into this deplorable situation and now she’d have to put up with it. She thought that Suzy would leave her alone now but Suzy had a better idea.

She turned around and faced Ben.

—Come here, honey, Suzy said to Ben.

Janey couldn’t believe it. This woman was calling
her
husband honey, right in front of her. It was too much to bear.

—Give me a kiss, sweetie, Suzy said to Ben.

Janey looked into the car and could see Luke sitting there, doing nothing about any of this. Why didn’t he do something about it? Did he really enjoy this? Why was he letting Suzy and Ben act like this, right in front of him? He was a big guy, a lot stronger than Ben. He should have been the one in control of this situation. He shouldn’t have been allowing Ben and Suzy to be this way.

Ben and Suzy were passionately kissing, right in front of Janey. Janey was still on the cold ground behind Suzy. She was naked and rejected in the cold, dark dirt. It was then that Suzy performed her ultimate humiliation act on Janey. She reached back and spread open her ass cheeks, exposing her tight anus to Janey.

—Now you can lick it, Suzy said.

As Suzy continued to kiss Ben passionately, she kept her hands back, holding her butt cheeks open. Janey looked up at Ben and Suzy, and then she heard Ben’s voice.

—Do it, cunt.

Timidly, dejectedly, Janey leaned forward and touched Suzy’s anus with the tip of her tongue. Still making out with Ben, Suzy grabbed Janey’s head and pulled it deep into her bottom so that Janey’s whole face was forced into Suzy’s ass crack. She licked and licked Suzy’s anus while Suzy kissed and kissed Ben.

And then it was over. They were ready to leave, it seemed.

All Janey could do, as Suzy gathered up her clothes and got back into the backseat of the car, was watch. She watched as Ben turned away from her and got into the driver’s seat, next to Luke. The car ignition turned and the car pulled forward, driving over her black dress and underwear. As she watched the red taillights pull out of the parking lot and drive out onto the highway, she cried out loud. Still in tears, she got up and wiped the bits of stone from her tortured ass. She put on her bra, the g-string had been ripped off her. Then she slid into the thin, skimpy little dress she’d be wearing for the second night in a row, and walked out of the parking lot, back onto the highway in the direction Ben and Luke and Suzy had just driven.

I

J
ANEY FELT WORTHLESS AND ALONE
as she limped along the side of the dark highway back towards town. She’d never felt so horrible in her life. She didn’t know what had happened to her. She usually prided herself in being an upstanding, successful member of the community. Now she’d been fucked in a parking lot by a group of strangers, and the worst part of all, she’d freely allowed it to happen. Was that really who she was? The mixture of guilt and shame was agonizing.

A car roared past and splashed mud up at her. She didn’t even try to flag it down. She had the feeling anyone she stopped would be able to tell what she’d just been through. She thought they’d know she was a slut, a worthless whore who allowed complete strangers to have their way with her in parking lots. She was too ashamed to face anyone now. She felt as if all the things she’d done, and had allowed to be done to her, were written across her face. Walking along the side of a dark, cold highway in nothing but a little black dress was exactly what she felt she deserved.

She was still in her heels and they cut like knives. They hadn’t been made for this kind of hiking. She took them off and flung them into the trees along the side of the road. She couldn’t believe she’d allowed herself to get into this situation. She’d be lucky to make it home in one piece. Anything could happen to a woman who allowed herself to get into a position as vulnerable as this.

An hour passed and the tears that streamed down her cheeks finally began to stop. She’d cried herself dry. She couldn’t even face her own thoughts. She didn’t want to think about her life, about the state of her marriage, about what the future held for her. She couldn’t think about any of it. It was too much to face. She had no idea what sort of a life she had to look forward to, not now that she’d allowed her husband to beat and humiliate and abuse her in so many different ways that she’d started to lose track of them. All she could do was place one bare foot against the other and limp along the painful, gravelly road in the dark.

She walked on for an hour or more. She knew if she stopped she wouldn’t be able to keep going. The gravel cut into the soft soles of her feet and even though she didn’t stop to look at them, she knew they were bleeding.

After two hours of walking, Janey realized she might not make it all the way back to Troy. She still had miles to go and her feet were raw and bleeding. Dawn was hours away and the temperature had dropped painfully close to freezing. She began to regret throwing away her shoes but they were so impractical that it hardly made a difference. What she was really afraid of was the cold. She’d heard of people dying out in the cold. It wasn’t truly winter yet, but by the chill in the air it was coming.

She wondered what Ben had imagined she would do. He’d abandoned her in that cursed parking lot without a second thought to her safety. Did he want her to die out there, exposed to the chill night air with hardly any clothes on? Did he want her to get picked up by a group of strange men who would harm her? She didn’t know anymore. There weren’t even any houses she could turn to for help. She didn’t have any money or cell phone. She had no way of calling the police, or even a cab.

She looked at her watch and was startled to see that it was almost midnight! How long had she been walking? She no longer knew. It had been hours. She was approaching an intersection and with a flash of recognition realized it was the turnoff to Suzy and Luke’s house. She stared at the intersection sign for a good five minutes as she walked toward it and when she finally reached it she knew what she had to do. She’d been left with no choice. She didn’t think she’d make it all the way back to the city if she continued walking. She had no way of contacting anyone for help. A car sped by and she half-heartedly held out her hand for assistance but it didn’t even slow down. No one was going to pick her up along this stretch of road in the middle of the night. She wasn’t even sure she wanted to be picked up.

Her entire body was shivering and her feet couldn’t take much more of this abuse. With a feeling of anguish she turned to the right and began to make her way slowly down the rutted driveway that led to Suzy and Luke’s house. She didn’t even know what she would do when she reached the end. She didn’t know if anyone was at the house. She didn’t know if they would be surprised to see her or not. All she knew was that she couldn’t go on walking along the side of that dark road.

II

W
HEN THE FRONT DOOR OPENED,
Janey didn’t know whose face she was hoping to see. Of the three people she thought might be inside, Luke was the only one who’d ever shown her even the slightest bit of kindness lately. Ben had been getting progressively meaner and nastier toward her and Suzy seemed to hate her with a passion.

She was a little relieved then, when she saw Luke come to the door.

—Janey! he said, obviously surprised to see her.

—Luke. I had no where else to go.

—Jesus Christ, Janey. You’re the last person I expected to see here. Didn’t you learn your lesson back at the parking lot?

—What do you mean? I couldn’t make it all the way back to town on my own.

—You should’t have come her.

—Please, Luke. Just give me a ride to the city. I’ll get help there.

—You have to leave, right now.

Luke began to close the door on her but then they heard Suzy’s voice from somewhere inside the house.

—Honey, who is it?

Janey noticed that there was music playing inside. Suzy’s voice sounded a little slurred, as if she’d been drinking.

—It’s no one, honey, Luke said. Then to Janey, —If they find you, you’re going to regret it.

—But where else can I go?

She showed Luke her bloodied feet. They were filthy. She’d been walking for hours and the highway really had taken a tole.

—Get out of here, for your own good, Luke said.

He shut the door. Janey stood in front of it, stunned. She didn’t know what to do. She heard voices inside the house but knew she was unlikely to get help from whoever else was in the house. Luke had been her only chance. Ben and Suzy weren’t her friends and weren’t going to help her. She’d been half thinking they’d wanted her to show up here, that they’d expected her to. Where else was there for her to go? But now she saw that they wanted nothing to do with her.

She looked around at the driveway. Ben’s car was there! The idea flashed across her mind in a sudden moment of inspiration. All she had to do was check if his keys were in it. They often were. She could take his car and drive herself home. She was about to cross the driveway to the car when the front door opened again. This time it wasn’t Luke. It was Suzy.

Suzy’s voice hit Janey’s already raw nerves like a sledge hammer on brittle ice.

—Well, well. What have we got here?

It was only then, when she heard the cruel taint to Suzy’s voice, that Janey realized her mistake. She should never have come back here. It was the last place on earth she was going to find help. These were the people who’d abused her at the parking lot and then abandoned her. They weren’t going to offer her help.