It was a night just like any other. Me and my best friend going out on the town. Painting the town red, living it up, blowing our wages on frivolous things we didn’t really need. Then out for the night in something we’d bought new that very day. We hit the usual hotspot- Legends or what we would term Leg-ends thinking it was really funny and making newbies laugh as we queued up to get in. We checked our coats into the cloakroom, headed for the bar and then chose to sit at a table close to the dance floor in case we wanted to boogie.

Over near the bar stood two extremely good looking chaps who looked about me and my friends ages.

“Can you see those guys over there?”

“I certainly can,” she replied whilst taking a sip of her drink and licking her lips seductively. We both laughed.

“I think they have an eye on us.” I say quite loudly due to the background music.

“Yeah, we’ll go outside before the next drink,see if they follow us.”

“Yeah,good idea!”

They look over towards us and smile. We both burst out laughing. We chat between ourselves for a bit. We don’t want to look too eager, we know full well they’ll follow us outside if they are.

Eventually we down the last of our first drink and head outside for a fag. Right on queue they’re not far behind us. We pass through one sweaty body after another, making our way to the nightclub entry and exit doors. Both alongside each other. The cool night air hit us as our coats were in the cloakroom till the end of the night. I shivered,

“It’s cold out here”

“You come here often!” One of the guys said who’d been eyeing us up. My friend piped up,

“That’s not very original for a chat up line.”

“Nah, guess not,” he replied with both of them laughing. We laughed also in union.

“Got a light?”the other one asked.

“Still not very original!” I exclaim.

I lean over and spark up his fag.

“Polar bear is better,”I say as I step backwards almost tripping as I did so.

“Polar bear,” they both look at me quizzically.

“Yeah - it breaks the ice.” They both laugh.

“Always her favourite too.” My friend Ailsa replies. She rolls her eyes.

“You’ve got to admit it’s good”

“If you say so,anyways I’m cold and going back inside. I’ll go loo first, see you in there.”

“Yep” I say, still smoking my fag.

“And leave her with us two,” one of the guys pipes up.

“I’ll trust ya,” she waves bye and says “see you soon “ towards me.

I talk a little while longer, find out their names, that sort of thing. Then, suddenly don’t remember what happened until I find myself in their back garden and can hear police sirens getting closer.

Meanwhile, my friend had gone to the loo headed to the bar to get us both another drink. She’s expecting me to turn up with both the guys dripping off my arm. She waits and waits, then waits some more. Finally frustrated as hell she heads back outside. No sign of me.

“Did you see where my friend went with those two guys?” She asks the bouncer.

“No, after you came out I was dealing with some underage teenagers trying to get in, sorry!”

“Well, she can’t just disappear!”

“Maybe she’s in the loos or club”

“No,I looked everywhere before coming back outside. Have you got CCTV?”

“Yeah, want us to check.”

“Please, it’s unlike her to just go off without texting me. She didn’t have her coat either.”

“Oy, Chris, check the footage will ya? About 20 minutes back at a guess.”He looks at her to confirm and she nods yes back to him.

When they get to see the footage, after my friend went back in, the bouncer was still having trouble with the teenagers and his back was facing me. It must have happened so quickly. They injected me with something then they both held onto me whilst they shoved me in the boot of their car. No-one was none the wiser until this footage. Thankfully it showed their number plate. They informed police who swiftly rushed to the nightclub and then to me. I don’t know what happened or whether they did anything to me in the interim. I felt groggy and cold. A policewoman found me in their garden panicky and so cold. I started crying when she appeared.

“You’re safe now “ she said as I collapsed into her arms.

“Thanks,”

“They’ve done a runner for now, they can’t hide or run forever though.” She walked me safely towards the police car. I was sobbing by now. I didn’t deserve this, I’d done nothing apart from harmless flirting. What on earth was happening in the world?

All I could exclaim when the police woman told me how they’d found me so quickly was

“Thank God for CCTV else I might never have been found.”

“We’ve been after them for a while, girls turning up at the police station looking disheveled and saying they’ve been raped too. Thank God for your friend acting so quickly else it could have been you also.”She put her arms around me as we sat in the back of the police car. I cried onto her shoulder. The police car dropped me off at my home. The lovely policewoman said that someone will come to me tomorrow to make a statement as they’d found the culprits now. I was one of many apparently but they were onto me very quickly thankfully else rape could have well been my story too.