Chapter One - This is not the romantic part but the intro to the whole story!
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What. The. Hell.
It's the only way for me to think about it. Who would have thought that I would be the one to be dominated in such a manner?
Jeremy started out being a kid that rode the bus with me to school when I was seven. As my father's business grew larger and started to employ a lot of the townsfolk - Jeremy's folks included - Jeremy and I started talking one day about how my father was "a great man." I just rolled my eyes. My father was my father but he wasn't all that great of a man at home. Constantly fighting and hitting my mom all the time, lying about his whereabouts, never making it to my recitals. Great man, alright.
But that started a friendship that would withstand storm strength word insults and volcanoes of angry issues and situations. He would sit next to me on the bus in his jeans and his dirty used jacket and me in my nice white tights and dresses. He would be scruffy from running and fighting other kids in the dirt, and then there was me, scented like lilacs and honey. I was the poster child of rich kid. He was on the other side of the tracks.
I had a kid a couple of grades above me call me a bitch, and then he shoved me into the dirt. Dirtying up my dress, I started to sniffle to hold back tears when I see a dust storm roll up and knock this kid out. Jeremy. "Nobody messes with my friend. Butthead."
It went like that for a good couple of years until high school at least. Jeremy fell behind a grade and had to redo freshman year again, and I was helping him keep his grades up. Not only that, but Jeremy had opened my eyes to sex. My virginity went out the door when I hit sixteen and him seventeen. When my father found out I was going over the railroad tracks to tutor a "No good, waste of human flesh" poor kid out, he blew it through the roof. I was no longer allowed to tutor Jeremy, and if I did, I could pretty much call myself homeless. Unfortunately, my father knew I had had sexual relations when I wasn't supposed to be doing anything. I was supposed to be the trophy daughter. Not fucking around with leeches as he called Jeremy.
When I tried telling Jeremy about this, he wasn't having it.
"Jeremy, my dad is forcing this on me! It isn't me doing this! You know it!"
He smirked, "It's okay Abby, just go back to your comfortable home and tell Daddy you told that poor kid off!"
He turned to stomp away when I yelled "Fine then! Be a fucking douche bag! I told you so we could continue to be together, but you make me the bad person? Good! Asshole! I hope I never see you again!" And with that, I stormed off.
Jeremy never showed up to school again for the rest of the school year, and I found out that he had moved out of his parent's place to live on his own at seventeen. The whole time I was thinking, "Why didn't I go with him?"
Ten years has gone by.
And boy did I get a surprise.
I was leaving the hospital after my shift with the pediatric ward when I turned to find my friend Melissa walking towards me. "Abby! Abby!" She waddled over to me, moving tummy first from her eight month old baby bump.
"Jesus Melissa, stop. Stop! You have more than yourself to worry about now!" I reprimanded her.
"Oh lordy Abby, shut it. I'm fine. Just pregnant. Wanna hear the juicy gossip I got today?" Always gossip with this one. I nod.
"Sure, what's up?"
"So Doctor Fenick is leaving for retirement in the next week, and the new replacement doctor is absolutely HOT! I literally would drop and bed this man if I wouldn't suffocate him!" I roll my eyes. Every man is hot right now to this pregnant woman.
"Who is it?"
"A Doctor Jackman, he is from Phoenix and he is to die for. He's at least six foot five, probably one-eighty, and has the blackest hair I've ever seen, so black it has a bluish hue to it in our lights, and boy! He's tan, trim, and has beautiful hazel eyes!"