Every Halloween night, kids of all ages go out and dress up to get candy. But, not me. My name is Lila Rogers, and I was raped and nearly killed on Halloween night three years ago on a street close to a creek. Ever since then, I never go out on Halloween night whether I'm with someone or not.

October 31, 2005 8:10 PM

"Let me go! Who are you, and what do you want?!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.

"Shut up girly. Everyone is inside now, you got to be quiet."

I was being held hostage by a teenage looking man who had semi-long black hair with white bangs and I his eyes that were bright teal color; they glowed in the darkness like cat eyes. He wore a leather jacket and black skinny jeans.

He pinned me to the ground and he held my arms to my sides and sat on my stomach. He eventually rolled me on to my stomach snd tied my hands together with a shredded part of my shirt of my costume. Something wasn't right though, my friend, Miranda Richardson was gone. I knew something scared her so I thought she went to go get help.

Next thing I knew it, I felt y pants being pulled down. I began thrashing around to get free of man's grip, but it was useless.

An hour or so later, I was exhausted from struggling to get free but soon enoguh the man untied me, but he held me down still.

"You know what, I'm just gonna kill you, so you don't tell your parents I just raped you to death. We wouldn't want the cops to catch me, now would we?"

My eyes widened in fear and I saw an evil grin appear upon his face when I knew he meant every word of it. I thrashed around again and soon got free. I began to run away from the man, but when I turned my head around to see him, he was beginning to run away too, but the opposite direction. I didn't care; I was free from the grasp of the strange man.

Once I got home, my mom hugged me to death and Miranda was at my house too, but she was sitting down at a chair by the front door, crying. In my mom's arms, I cried on her shoulder and Miranda came up to both me and my and hugged us both.

"Lila, where were you? What happened to you?" Lila's mother asked with tears in her eyes.

"I-I was raped, mom." I told her as I hugged her again and shoved my head in her shoulder.