OhPossum's such a great editor.
Here's the next chapter, for those who are looking for it. Sorry I've taken so long, as I do understand how having to wait for story chapters can get very frustrating.
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For all that our honeymoon was spent getting to know each other beyond the basic knowledge we had always had of each other, the real world came knocking all too soon. We were enrolled in the College at the far end of our home town and classes were starting the following Monday. So while we did not wish to leave the little cabin by the lake, we were not left with much of a choice.
Barring the obvious changes caused by marriage, our relationship hadn't really been changed all that much. Pete still treated me like a princess, and I returned the gesture in kind. For the most part his dominant side only showed up in the bedroom, which tended to be quite frequently during our honeymoon. By the time we were headed back to civilization, I was black and blue in all the areas that tend to remain covered by clothing. It was a combined effort; if he were being too gentle with me, I would goad him into being rougher, sometimes resorting to very underhanded tactics to make him lose his temper with me.
One of these times was the day before we were due to leave the cabin to move into our apartment, Pete was being a perfect gentleman and driving me absolutely crazy. I wanted to play, and I didn't want him to be so darned polite about the whole matter. But no matter how I teased him, he seemed oblivious to my desires, and kept his kisses chaste and gentle. Perhaps he was trying to make up for being so rough all week, but I just wasn't getting into the careful, gentle, loving way he was treating me.
Finally I stomped from the cabin in a childish fit of anger, unable to tolerate even one more minute of the gooey crap he was pulling. Little did I know that he was fully aware of what I was trying to do and was simply refusing to fall victim to my needling. The dominant in him wasn't willing to allow his submissive to play him like that; he would take control in whatever manner he desired, whenever he so felt like it.
After a few minutes he followed me outside, wondering what I was doing. At first he couldn't find me, then he saw me at the water's edge, struggling to get the canoe untied from where he had tied it earlier that day. This caused him to raise an eyebrow, as he knew perfectly well that I panic when I am in a canoe by myself. I am not a strong swimmer, and can flip a canoe easily if I get spooked. Being that I have a fear of deep water, it doesn't take much to spook me when I am in a canoe, and he was surprised that I was thinking about taking it out without him.
However, he had knotted the stupid rope so tightly that for the life of me, I could not get it untied. Such was my frustration that I didn't even notice as he approached me, and I continued to fight with the knotted rope, swearing at it as I did. Dirty language irritates Pete, particularly when it is coming from me. For all that I laugh at his insistence, he is quite adamant that I'm much too pretty to use such filthy language.
If I had only been swearing at the canoe, he probably would have ignored my language. But as he got closer, he started to hear more of what I was saying. In fact, I was grumbling to myself about him and his general refusal to rise to my bait. Standing a few feet behind me, he listened with growing incredulity to my ranting. Normally I wouldn't be being so mean about him, even to myself, but I was frustrated with him for not attending to me the way I wanted him to, and I was frustrated with the knot that I simply couldn't untie. The combination of frustrations had pushed me past simple frustration to outright anger.
After a minute, he cleared his throat, causing me to jump, startled. Spinning around, I glared up at him, bristling irritably. "What do YOU want?!" The next words were a plaintive mutter, not fully intended for his hearing. "Stupid inattentive son of a bitch!"
However, Pete's hearing is excellent, and his eyes narrowed as he returned my glare with equal measure. "What did you call me?" Striving to keep his voice even, his hands balled into fists at his side and he stepped forward, using his height to glower down at me.
"A Stupid. Inattentive. Son Of A. BITCH!" Making my first mistake I enunciated each word carefully. My voice rose as I finished, standing my ground against him, though a flutter of fear raced through my stomach to see how he was glaring at me.
Pete drew a deep breath, and keeping his voice steady, he stepped forward so that he was right in my face. "You're really gonna regret it if you don't take that back!"
When my temper flares up, it tends to get away from me. Consequently, this was where I made my second mistake, a really stupid one. "NO!" One of the few rules we had determined for our relationship was that I never tell him no. Being that he treated me like an equal, he would be willing to listen to my opinion and share the decision making process in our marriage with me, but I had to remember that he was in charge, and his say was final. For the most part, I agreed with this, as I had seen that behaviour emulated in my parent's marriage. What my father said was absolute, no matter what and not even Mom could overturn his decisions.
But I was lost in my temper, and I was not thinking clearly anymore. I was on a roll and followed with my third stupid mistake of slapping him hard across the cheek. The look on his face was absolutely priceless, but I knew instantly that I really ought not to have done that. Mistake four: I turned on my heel, dodging as he grabbed for me and took off running, fully aware that I had just made him angrier than I had ever managed to make him before.
The shock that I would dare to run from him was enough to give me just a bit of a head start that I got to the cabin before he did and slammed the door as hard as I could in his face. Hightailing it into the bedroom, I struggled to push the dresser across the door, since we did not have the key for the lock. Hearing the front door bang open, I dove under the bed with the dresser halfway across the door way and scrambled to the back corner, where he wouldn't be able to easily reach me when he got into the room.
I curled into a tight little ball in the back corner as I listened to him fight with the door. But given his general skinniness, he managed to squeeze through the doorway after a minute or two, and he looked around to see where I was. The screen was still on the window, so he knew I hadn't snuck out of the room on him. Stomping across the room flat footed, he opened the closet door with a crash, checking to see if I'd tried to hide in there. That left only the bed, and he lay on the floor to see if I was under it.
"Get out here." His voice was a venomous whisper, and his face bore my handprint plain as day. Shaking my head no frantically, I tried to pull myself in farther, cowering in the corner, having moved from angry to frightened by the sound of his voice.
"Dasani Jayne Daisy Andrea Gregory, if I have to come under that bed after you, you will be more sorry than you ever have been for anything in your life!"
When he pulled out my full name, I knew right well that I was toast. My mother had given me three middle names, after both grandmothers and her best friend from elementary school, so it was insanely long. If he was making the effort to call my by my full name, I really should have listened to him.
But still I clung to my defiance, not wanting to give in. Mistake number five. "Nooo..." I whined this, in precisely the tone of voice that I knew he hated, just digging myself further into the mess I had gotten into. "You can't make me; I won't do it!"
Sliding forward, Pete crawled towards me underneath the bed. "So help me, you will not cum until I let you, and when I finally permit it, you will not stop unless I say so!" There was nowhere left for me to go, though I tried to elude his hands as best I could. But he managed to get hold of my wrist and literally dragged me out from underneath the bed, despite that I fought him tooth and nail.
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!" When he got me out, he jerked me to my feet, grabbing my elbows hard and shaking me. "How DARE you stomp away from me!? How DARE you slap me!?" Leaning down so that he was in my face, he continued shouting at me. "As for the name calling! YOU submitted to ME, not the other way around, you rotten little brat! You PROMISED that you would NEVER say no to me!" With each sentence he shook me hard, causing my teeth to clack together in my head. "I will NOT tolerate such behaviour from my submissive, nor from my wife! It is up to ME when we play, NOT you, or did you forget about the terms that YOU suggested a mere TWO days ago!?"
Whimpering softly, my defiance was starting to fade from my system now, leaving me completely and totally terrified. I had indeed been the one to suggest the terms. We had worked out a few simple rules that covered most of the bases. I was to do what I was told to do, unless there was a genuine reason that I could not. I was to be polite to him, and to treat myself with the same level of honour and respect that I was to treat him, my chosen husband and dominant. That was it, three simple little rules. And I had broken two of the three within two days!
"Pete, I..."