Good Deed Gone Sour...........

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When I was 15, I was a bit of a rebel, and I got in with a bunch of boys who were older than me. I felt like the big man in town when I was with these guys, and thought they were great. We just used to hang around, flirt with girls, generally make a nuisance of ourselves - usual teenage nonsense. Every summer, for two weeks, a Travelling Circus came to our local park. Of course it was a big attraction for us local teenagers - somewhere to hang out and waste time.... On this particular night we had got chatting to a couple of girls - there were six of us by the way - and we walked around the fair with them, joking, laughing, and showing off.... Everything was going fine (although I did notice some knowing glances being exchanged by the older boys), until we reached a very dark section outside the perimeter of the fairground. Somehow the mood changed, and the guys grabbed the two girls and hurried them further into the pitch black. At first I thought it was a lighthearted bit of fun -and so did the girls, because they were giggling......but their laughing soon changed to fearful pleading as the boys started groping them, pulling their skirts up, etc. I was horrified when I realised I was witnessing a potential gang rape. I was no angel, and enjoyed a bit of fun, but this? No way! Without really thinking, I went for the nearest guy and started laying into him. The guys were surprised to see "one of their own" turning on them, and all set on me, kicking hell out of me. Luckily, in the chaos the girls managed to disappear into the darkness out of harm's way. I got badly beat up that night, I can tell you. The irony was, a few nights later, the girls' brothers and other family members were out looking for payback, and the girls pointed me out as one of their attackers, and damned if I didn't get beat up again, this time by the family of the girls I'd helped get away! Obviously they just saw me as one of the gang. That was many years ago, of course, but it still upsets me to think that those two girls always considered me as one of the potential rapists, when I would never do anything like that........... Yup, sometimes good intentions go bad - but of course I don't regret it.