I smiled and brushed a stray hair away from her forehead and the tear away from her cheek. I wondered if this was the first time she had shared the whole story.
I kissed her, very softly, very gently.
"You are beautiful," I said.
"How did it make you feel?" I asked.
"Feel?" she said, and that thoughtfrown on her face was so damn cute I couldn't resist kissing her forehead.
"No," I said, smoothing the wrinkles that furrowed her forehead as she concentrated so hard, "let me guess."
"You felt feminine," I said. "You felt female as never before, you felt desirable and sexy and natural."
I stopped, kissing softly where her tears streaked her cheek, and whispered, "Most of all, you felt happy even as you screamed and cried."
Her breath caught and she looked at me, her eyes red from her crying but still, that perfect blue I remembered from all of those years ago.
"How did you know?" she asked.
I chuckled and kissed her again.
"I spent my time in The Life too," I said, "and I'm just telling you what my second wife told me. But with her, well, it got out of hand."
At that, she frowned.
"Out of hand?" she asked.
I chuckled and said, "Yes. She was out of control with it."
She didn't say anything, just held my eyes with both eyebrows raised in an obvious question.
I reached around and ran my fingertips lightly down her back. I could feel her tense, but she didn't pull away.
"Your back," I said, "is as smooth as a baby's butt compared to hers."
David's Story
"I met Mary the old-fashioned way, at work. I had finished up a planning project on which I was the lead planner, and the local university had the contract to administer the program. I got to know the staff working on it pretty well. Since it was a government project they needed a fiscal director with some government accounting experience and she got the job.
She was a Kentucky girl and completely different from the, you know, the "type" of woman I always went after. My "type" had always been, well, you," I said, my hand running down her slim ribs and waist and hip.
"But Mary was different. At first glance, the word "peasant" came to mind. I could see her standing in the dooryard of the
Little House on the Prairie
in a long skirt, sleeveless blouse, and sunbonnet with a hoe in her hand, tending to the subsistence garden while her husband was out hunting. She had that look.
She wasn't pretty, but she was, well, attractive is a good word. A round face was framed with a great mane of thick auburn hair. Her eyes were hazel and she wore very minimal makeup. She was dressed in a long-sleeved blouse and when she stood, black slacks showed off rather than hid her oversized hips and ass.
It was her voice, though, that got to me. The Kentucky accent wasn't the deep South, but there were plenty of soft vowels and "y'alls" thrown in."
I chuckled. "She's the one who taught me that 'y'all,' is a singular pronoun. 'All y'all' is the plural form. When delivered with her soft, slightly husky voice, it was captivating.
For the next two weeks, I found reasons to visit the office pretty much every other day, and by the second Friday, she agreed to a date, dinner, and a movie.
Well, let me back up a bit. My first wife had left me, well, I had kicked her out when I came home and found her being spit roasted by a couple of guys I had never laid eyes on."
"Spit-roasted?" Bonnie asked.
I laughed and said, "Yeah. She was on all fours, a cock buried in her ass and one in her mouth, you know, spit roasted like a pig on a spit."
"Oh," she said, and she had a pensive look on her face.
"To continue," I said.
"So I got a beer, they hadn't seen me, and sat on the couch, Fox News on the TV, and waited.
When they came walking out of the bedroom they were still naked and my wife looked like the perfect slut she had turned out to be. She had cum on her face, cum running down her thighs, and she was walking between these two youngsters, it turned out they were college students as she told me while trying to talk me out of kicking her out. Her hands were on their arms, looking like a groupie with a rock band.
She screamed when she saw me and the two guys did the hands-up-we-don't-want-any-trouble thing as they backed out of the room.
She started talking, trying to explain, and I listened, kind of fascinated I suppose, but I knew that it was over.
The two guys snuck out the front door, still pulling T-shirts over their heads while Mary was talking, trying to make sense although she was obviously stoned and drunk and covered in cum.
So I listened to her babble until she wound down and then said, "I'm going out for lunch now, alone since you seemed to be a bit busy. Be gone when I get home after work or I promise I'll shoot you."
She was kind of crying, well, wailing was a good word for it, as I walked out the door but apparently, she believed me because when I got home she was gone. I contacted a lawyer to get the divorce started and figured, "What the hell. If she can dip into the college pool I can too."
We lived in a college town then, had been students for six years, and I had just started work as a professional planner so I still knew my way around the hangouts.
For six months I chased college girls and did pretty well too.
But then I met Mary and she could actually have a conversation that didn't involve the words "like," "totally," or "awesome" as every third word, often combined into "like totally awesome," and it was a treat. We talked of work, of course, but also of the wider world.
And that damn voice captivated me.
I suppose, on some level, it was a matter of being "on the rebound" as they say after waking in on that spit roasting, but I was smitten. I didn't want to hurry, something odd since for the past few months often names had barely been exchanged before I took the night's co-ed home.
After our third date, she made the first move. Well, asked the first question anyway.
"Are you ever going to kiss me?" she asked, as we finished up a darts game at a local bar.
So I kissed her right there.
When I took her to her house and got her inside she turned to face me, her hands between us, palms on my chest.
"David," she said, her eyes doing that little flicking thing as she focused on first one eye and then the other, "before this goes any further there's something you need to know."
"That you're too smart, too bright, too witty, too damn perfect for me?" I asked.
She smiled and the term "smiled wanly" took on new meaning for me.
"No," she said, "far from it."
"Okay," I said, stepping close and laying my palms on her cheeks in that tender way I had seen in the movies, "what?"
She took a deep breath and said, "David, I'm damaged goods,"
which is why it struck me so hard when you said that. It was the same phrase she had used.
"I said something like, "You don't look damaged to me," or something witty like that.
She held my eyes then, as she slowly, deliberately, unbuttoned the buttons at her sleeves and then started at the top button of her blouse, something I couldn't help but notice since she always kept it buttoned. No sneak peeks of cleavage for me.
But the thing is, it was immediately obvious why she dressed as she did.
The first button open revealed the top of a tattoo that stretched across the top of her chest. Even that little bit showed true skin art. Delicate feathers, making me think it might be a peacock or something. I'm no fan of tattoos but that was nice, you know."
"Do you know what a sleeve is?" I asked.
"Tattoos?" she asked back.
"Yeah," I said, "a sleeve is when your whole arm is covered in tattoos."
"As she unbuttoned more buttons, it was apparent that her whole body was a sleeve. Well, in the tattoo world, it's called a body suit.
Some of it was true art. There was an arrow, kind of a stylized and romanticized Indian arrow with a flint arrowhead, that was almost photographic in detail. You could see individual pieces of feathers, the grain in the wood of the shaft, and every little dent from the way the flint had been worked. The feathers started between her breasts, very small breasts with very big nipples, and ended at the top of her clitoral hood. Along the length of it was lettered, in a beautiful Old English script style, "Lick Right HERE! Stupid."
In contrast, the single word "Stinky" was in her armpit, unshaven by the way, in what looked like sloppy prison ink.
But the ink was only the first part of it.
She finished unbuttoning and then dropped the blouse to the floor. She did that double-jointed thing all of you women seem to do naturally, reached around, and took her bra off.
She was small-breasted with absolutely huge nipples. Even her breasts were tattooed, a thick spider web on one with the spider living right at the tip of her nipple, and a target on the other, a classic archery bullseye target with an arrow in the red ring.
One nipple was ringed with a very heavy brass ring pulling it out of shape.
The other was pierced with a big gauge holding the hole open so big I could put my little finger through it."
I stopped talking then and looked at Bonnie. Her eyes were a bit unfocused and I could tell she was picturing what I was telling her.
"This was all new to me. My first wife had been pretty vanilla in bed, you know. Well, with me anyway. As I had discovered, of course, there was a different side of her.
So what I saw with Mary was new.
And I was instantly hooked.
Believe it or not, by the time she dropped her bra on the floor I knew I was going to marry this girl.