I wanted to play with a different idea in this series. The theme is this... Your life isn't scripted. It changes based on the actors you encounter in each scene. In that respect, you control your destiny by understanding the situation and acting no matter the odds. Getting a handle on the things that make you happy can require genuine out-of-the-box thinking. And going after them might take a tolerance for pain. How much of that is what I am working out here.
A word to those of you who like their stories accompanied by women buried in the back yard, neither of our heroes is perfect. But they are both decent and well meaning, just like most of us. So, although I haven't worked it out yet, I am guessing that the final outcome will not involve any intricate acts of revenge. There are plenty of stories on this site that DO provide that. So please read them with my best wishes.
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I heard Mattie before I actually met her. I was at one of those interminable parties. The hour was late. People were getting drunker. And strange and disturbing things were taking place in dark corners. As usual, none of that involved me.
I was hanging around the fringes because I hadn't chosen to take up Holy Orders, YET. Nonetheless, the chances of my solving my chastity problem weren't looking good.
My abstinence was a matter of other people's choices. It wasn't that I was Quasimodo. I just didn't have that light flirty touch. In fact I don't have a subtle bone in my body.
Women have told me that I am way too honest. I kind-of get that. Everybody expects some beating around the bush, at least in the feeling-out stages.
To me, life is short. Or perhaps I am THAT insecure. Anyhow, I am not subtle.
Apparently, nobody wants that; nobody female that is. What they want are lengthy bouts of flattery and sophisticated innuendo, suggestion, not bald statement.
I had worked on my game throughout my twenties. And I had gotten enough pussy to dispel MOST of the rumors that I was gay. But it wasn't until my twenty-ninth year that I actually bagged a woman.
I always get the needy ones. Linda was attractive, beautiful actually. But she was almost as socially retarded as I was.
She was one of those girls who liked to pick out the wedding china on the third date. I thought she was "the one". That was mainly because she didn't run screaming into the street when I told her that I had absolutely no problem with doing that.
It was obvious from the beginning that she was the best I could do. Our personal deficiencies just played into each other. We meshed very well. In fact, we meshed so frequently that she was knocked up two months after we met.
It seems she didn't believe in birth control. And I was simple-minded enough not to ask.
Her view was that if she was spreading her legs it was for a meal ticket.
Frankly that was fine with me. Marriage at that stage was something you just did. Sort of like joining the boy-scouts when you were eleven.
I already had a very successful career. I am in the pen testing business. I break into other people's computers and tell them how I did it.
Companies pay a lot of money for that knowledge. It is probably the only job that a socially dysfunctional nerd like me can excel at.
So Linda and I set up housekeeping in a condo in Germantown, Maryland and pretty soon baby made three.
That's when I discovered to my absolute astonishment and delight that I really loved the little guy.
I admit that, up to that point I was a real nowhere man. I drifted along, grabbing targets of opportunity wherever and whenever I found them.
Nothing interested me, at least not enough to care very much. And there was no actual emotional investment in relationships; EVER. That included my marriage.
Bill junior changed that. I knew that I was hooked the instant that I laid eyes on him. I spent a lot of his early months just playing with him. I would do anything to see Billy smile.
Most of what I did was in the virtual world. So I was around the condo more than Linda was. She had a big-person job at NIST, which was right down the road in Gaithersburg. And she was gone from morning to early evening.
I didn't care because I had my little guy and my very well paid, zero knowledge, cybernetic universe.
In fact Linda was always more of a roommate with benefits than she was a wife. I don't know what I expected from that arrangement. But, what I GOT was divorce papers.
It seems that Linda had received a better offer from a guy she had met at a party down in DC. All the time I was watching the kid they had been fucking.
Honestly, I was relieved to get her out of my life. Fact is that, once she birthed Billy, she went back to being a spectacularly self-centered bitch.
Neither Billy, nor I, needed her. So we split up the DVD collection, which was pretty-much all that we jointly owned. She took her clothes and disappeared into the wilds of Reston.
I wished her the best.
That returned me to my horniness problem, which I had been trying to solve for months.
Billy was at my parents that night. In the time since his mother went MIA my parents had been his only family. Like me, they loved the little guy.
They both wanted me to couple up. They said that Billy needed a woman in his life. So they were more than happy to take care of him any time I went looking for a replacement.
We would do the IHOP shuffle the morning after. But tonight was my night to prowl.
The hunting was sparse. So before heading back to my place I went upstairs to take a last piss.
That's when I heard loud sexual noises coming from across the hall. My ears pricked up, along with something else. Voyeur that I am I had to see this.
I slowly eased the door open. I didn't really need to be delicate. There were four guys in various stages of arousal and undress wandering around the room.
None were wearing pants. Most were still wearing shirts. Except the fifth guy who was between the legs of the woman on the bed.
The soles of her feet were pointed at the ceiling fan, which was slowly turning over their head. She was emitting the loud moans that had brought me there in the first place. Occasionally she came up with an even louder, "Oh Yesss!"
There was a running play-by-play going on among the two guys who were actually watching the action.
The one said, "Look at that bitch fuck."
The other told the person fucking her that he should hurry up because it was his turn. To which she added, "That's it! Fuck me harder baby!"
I sat down in a handy chair to watch. At that point it was self-education as much as it was prurient interest.
Of course I knew about gang-bangs. I had just never witnessed one. I was truly interested in the motivations of the participants.
It was obvious that the guys wanted to get their rocks off in a real pussy. Most guys my age would fuck a hole in the wall. So the enthusiastic involvement of those five wasn't a mystery.