Kidnapped

Author: Tantalize Copyright © 2006
Blog: Tantalize: Truth Embezzler
Location: Kuwait

(Based on a true story)

Every evening when Noura’s mother goes to sleep, Noura waits in anguish, tightly tucked in her bed, and shivering out a confusion she can’t understand. She can’t fall asleep easily although she tries to count and drink warm milk to soothe her nerves. Her best friend, a stuffed bear, wraps her body in struggling comfort. Even when she does fall into sleep, her dreams echo a trauma that bares so clearly in reality.

Every day, Noura is driven to school by her father. He is a proud Kuwaiti man with a strong and traditional Arab disposition. With a perfectly ironed dishdasha, headdress, and ornamented cufflinks, his composition is respectably intimidating. An assertive businessman by profession and from an affluent family, he knows how to lean his might onto opposing or weak prey. The same mannerisms apply at home. He is truly the master of his domain.

At the College of Arts in Keifan of Kuwait University, Noura walks with head bent to her classes. She is not sure why she has become such a recluse. Sociability used to be one of her top strengths. At 17 now, she has metamorphosed into a self-cuddling butterfly. Staying as long as possible at the College, without going home, grants Noura a freedom that is invisible once her father picks her up at the front gates. No one can superficially detect why Noura has altered. No one cares to know.

At home, and in the wee hours of the morning, Noura’s father secretly crumbles with a drunken stupor into her bedroom to read her bedtime stories. Although it is an unusual activity for her age, she finds temporary comfort in it, temporarily and numbingly escaping reality. With half-light and half-shut eyes, Noura relaxes. And in his half-state of consciousness, her father starts to fondle, touch, and glide over her body. He plays with her nipples, dips his fingers into her womanhood, and anally strokes her before vaginally stealing her. On top, he presses his hand against her mouth so that her mother won’t notice. The mother has always known, however. She refuses to directly confront her husband, and blames Noura for arousing her father. He has taken her virginity years back, but Noura doesn’t understand why it has happened. He fatherly caresses her, easing any agitation, talks in an awkward half-fatherly and half-sexual animalism during and after sex, only to penetrate her for the very short minutes of pleasure that Noura rarely ever comprehends.

Years pass and she is now 21 in her last year at university. Her social skills have illuminated, but handicapped in comparison to her peers. A famous older married Kuwaiti singer is one of her boyfriends, and another very wealthy boyfriend from the College who is her age usually picks her up. Immediately in the car, she is asked to perform oral sex. On the other hand, the other boyfriend takes her to his private apartment for sexual gratification. Pleasing the two men, including her father, is all she knows. She has never received any gratification because she has been taken. Incestually. Kidnapped by the very man she hoped to find comfort and security in.