Date: 8/12/2019
By kikocake
Set in the suburb I spent my teenage years in, so the layout is all familiar. Im standing in a park/oval, about to try and cook something sweet for my nan, I have a cast iron frypan and a small fire going. I start cooking the sweet meal which is just marshmallows melted down, I’m pleased with it and excited to give it to my nan. My nan pulls up in her car and I give the marshmallow stuff and she hates it, she throws it and hurls abuse at me, she then drives off angrily. I walk back to the fire to collect my belongings and the frypan and wooden spatula I had are now burnt and fused but at the same time I perceive that they have become ash. I’m upset that my utensils are now destroyed, then out of nowhere four men approach me, all visibly taller and stronger then I. They all looked different from each other but all had the same height and build. They start to surround me, commenting on the fact that I am alone and that’s an unsafe thing to be. I try to back away saying things along the lines of ‘hey lets not do this’, ‘I just want to go home’, ‘let me be on my way’. They were not having any of it and proceeded to start dragging me into the side streets, the whole time me begging them to let me go. We’re deeper into the mess of streets, the older quieter part of the suburb. Lots of drain ways and ally ways. We’re in what I can only assume is a park or empty plot, the men start trying to pin me down, grabbing at my clothes and hair. I’m trying to fight them, kicking, scratching, biting. Then suddenly I’m running, it appears ive somehow gotten away. I’m going down all the little shortcuts that I know from roaming the streets as a teen. Over a fence, down an ally way, into a storm drain, up a street and just as i’m about to jump down into another storm drain, I’m tackled by a guy (late teens), he is with the four men but they’re nowhere to be seen. He starts taking me back to the men. When we reach the men, the teen has disappeared, the men tie my arms behind my back, I once again beg them not to do anything and let me go but my words are not heard. I’m placed on the nearest surface and the first man is about to take his turn, then a male who I know drives his car full speed towards us and the 4 men run away. He jumps out and grabs me then drops me home. I try telling other people what happened to me but no one would listen or cared. I was shocked that I was being treated like this. I confronted a few people over their dismissal and just got angry at their responses. And that was it, I woke up.