ersatz-christmas
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Ersatz Christmas

Ersatz Christmas

by strappysandals
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Ersatz Christmas by StrappySandals

Author's note: This story has been dangling in my head for a long time and I finally decided to develop it for the

Literotica Winter Holidays Story Contest 2024

. I hope you all Enjoy it!! Any constructive feedback, or other constructive thoughts, would be greatly appreciated. And please, if you like the story,

remember to vote

. I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Blessed Kwanza, Warm Winter Solstice, or otherwise enjoyable holiday season whatever it is you celebrate. Cheers!!

Also, everyone engaging in sexual activity of any sort is over the age of 18, and a willing participant in the activity. Thank you!

KATIE'S BACK STORY

It was a cold, rainy, and lonely night in my home on this Tuesday night before Thanksgiving. I was grieving for a life that seemed to have drifted away. My life! I still had my job, and my home, but most of my friends and family had left me, as my controlling, manipulative, piece of shit, fiancΓ© took over my world.

It's a long story but I'll try to be brief. I was always perceived as a nice girl, from a nice family. I grew up in Philadelphia as a normal girl, on a normal block, with normal friends, problems, and challenges. There were plenty of happy moments, but I was never prom queen, or star of the basketball team, or President of student counsel, or Valedictorian, or other special distinction. The only thing I was ever good at was singing, but the bullies shamed me into quitting choir in middle school, as they tormented the choir dorks.

As I got into my teens, my dark side began to emerge. At that point my psyche transitioned from believing I was average, to thinking I was weird. I couldn't really define it, but odd thoughts began to emerge. Thoughts of being physically punished, degraded, or hurt ran on a continuous loop in my brain. Oddly, these thoughts made my pussy tingle. Looking back, I suspect it all started with my low self-esteem and body dysmorphia issues. Nothing horrible, I just couldn't see anything likeable about myself. I didn't feel pretty. My body was "blah-mediocrity," and I seemingly had no worthwhile skills or talents. I hated my average life, and for some fucked up reason, getting punished for the sin of being average seemed to really turn me on.

As I entered adulthood, I was 5-3" tall, weighed 130 lbs., with straight brown hair to my shoulders. Physically, I was the definition of average-white-girl. Average tits, average ass, average legs, JUST FUCKING AVERAGE! I was also a girl who was frequently introduced as having a great personality. Just once, I wanted to be beautiful, or talented, or in my dream world, HOT. But that never happened. I was not beautiful, or talented, or hot, and I knew it, and the reality of that wore on me. So much so, that my subconscious-self seemed willing to debase itself to become special.

Anyway, after high school I went to college for a while, but that bored me. I didn't know what I wanted from life, or what I wanted to do, but college just seemed lonely and purposeless to me. So, summer after my sophomore year, I decided to focus on me for once in my life. I got an opportunity to tend bar in Wildwood NJ for the entire summer season and took it. I thought, I might find some purpose to my life while slinging beers at night and lying near naked on the beach during the daylight. And quite honestly, that plan mostly worked. I made some friends, lost some weight, my hair lightened, my skin was bronze, and I almost looked good. Maybe more importantly, I learned that alcohol reduced my social anxiety. Ooh-la-la...

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That summer I lived my best life ever. I had made a new group of friends, both male and female. We ran together all summer, and basically spent our time on five things: beach, work, party, sex, and sleep. Suddenly, this average white girl had a little money in her pocketbook, was socially popular, happy with herself, and getting laid regularly. There was nothing great about the sex. I mean, those teenage dicks knew nothing about my hot buttons, or cared about my orgasms, but being desired and used as a sex object was near euphoric to me. Many nights I got fucked, did my walk of shame home, only to finish the night masturbating with my hairbrush. I found many great orgasms while dreaming of things that those sea-shore boys couldn't even imagine.

Anyway, throughout that summer, I had been hanging around with a girl whose father owned an insurance agency in Philly. Her family came to Wildwood every weekend, so over the course of the summer I had met her parents, got to know them, shared my average story, and listened to both mom and dad complain about him being overworked and under-staffed, and his desperate need for help. As July turned to August, it seemed each visit to her house turned into a job interview. Ultimately, her father made me an offer to come work for him as his office manager, starting in September. I thought it over for a week, before coming to the realization that it was a good offer, and likely the best opportunity I would come up with to re-engage with life in the fall, so I accepted it.

Ultimately, it turned out to be an excellent decision. He was great to work for, it seemed my skill set was exactly what he needed, and as a team we watched his business double in two years. Most importantly, he shared the wealth generously. I was able to get a new car, buy a house, add numerous professional certifications to my resume, and I even earned commissions for selling insurance to new customers. I was happy, somewhat confident, and living my best life, albeit mostly alone!

My personal life, however, was shit. My beach crew all disappeared after my summer of fun, and the few Philly friends that I had before going to the shore, evaporated due to my lack of participation. It seemed that between work, and my social anxiety, I had no real time, or interest, in developing a new friend's group. I wanted a social life, but didn't want the stress of developing it, thus leaving me career successful, but socially alone. It was at this point that Billy found me.

It all went to hell with Billy; slowly. Billy was good looking, charming, personable, and caring when he wanted to be. But he was also lazy, a con man, a narcissistic-ego maniac, a drug addict, a compulsive-gambler, and a stealing, cheating, lying, shameless- motherfucker. And I fell madly in love with him.

Billy worked me like a violin virtuoso. At the beginning of our relationship, he made me laugh, then cry, then laugh again. He spent a lot of

my

money on things to make me feel beautiful. He dressed me in poster dresses, Victoria Secret lingerie, exotic jewelry, and always in red-soled heels. I looked, and felt, wonderful and loved showing off my beautiful self. I loved being admired! In return, I did everything, and anything, to please him, which made me feel even better about myself, thus leading him to fuck me in all kinds of perverted ways. We did oral, anal, exhibitionism, sharing, spanking, bondage, toys, girls, and eventually pain. All of which I learned to love, with him.

Slowly, there was a transition, however. Initially, I thought it was about me. Billy dressed me up to make me feel beautiful. Then he'd spend entire nights abusively fucking my ego back down to earth. He'd take me to an emotional high, then tear me down with degrading sex, all the while giving me endless orgasms. The combination of building my self-esteem, then abusing me back to earth was a potent potion for my sex drive. Deep down, I knew I was on a dangerous and very slippery slope, but I was happy to be Billy's love slut, until I wasn't.

One morning, after waking up all covered in cum, it dawned on me that he didn't care about me even a little bit. What I initially thought was about making me feel good about myself, and us, ultimately revealed itself to be all about Billy, and his needs. Eventually, I came to realize that I was only serving Billy, and his character flaws, addictions, and perversions. What I thought was love, and great sex, was now revealing itself to be debt service to his self-loathing, and drinking, gambling, and drug addictions. At the end he was inviting his buddies, his drug pushers, and his bookies to fuck me. Facials, DP's, orgies. I was completely degraded by his scum crew. At the end, Billy couldn't even fuck me. He pathetically watched me being abused while he jerked off. As my world spiraled towards a crash landing, the sexy dresses and shoes started coming from Wal-mart, or worse, from some other girl they had abused somewhere else. I became nothing but a tool in the addict's tool bag, to be used, and abused as he could, to maintain his addictions. A pathetic, slut, enabler. I hated myself and I hated him! But I couldn't stop it.

Sadly, it took me almost a year to fully admit to myself that Billy was a no-good piece of shit. But before I accepted that reality, he emptied my bank account of almost $50,000.00 dollars, destroyed my new car, tore me away from the few friends and family that I had, and once again convinced me that I was worthless. He kept me from exercising, fed me junk food, and brought back the self-loathing habits that I thought were behind me. He targeted and preyed on my insecurities and vulnerabilities. He convinced me that without him I was nothing but a lazy, freckle-faced, "average-at-best chick", who needed him because no one else would ever love me. I hated him for that but was caught so deep in the inescapable trap of needing to please him. Sex and praise became my salvation, and my "Stokholm Syndrome" jail. I needed to serve and satisfy Billy, to find own self-worth. And Billy took full advantage of my dependance. I'm not proud to admit it, but he degraded and humiliated me in some of the worst ways imaginable. I had become his cum-slut, essentially needing his degradation and approval before I could even achieve my own orgasm. I was pathetic!

But "life turns on a dime", as Steven King wrote in his book 11-23-64. Just as my personal situation hit rock- bottom, and I was searching for an exit to my nightmare, I got lucky. One night, Billy was rushing around like a mad man, packing a suitcase hurriedly, telling me he had to go away for a few weeks, as he had a friend with a problem. I screamed and fought over him taking all the cash and credit cards in my wallet, not knowing what-the-fuck was going on, and about leaving me with the dog. But he was adamant that he had to go. Just as he was about to leave, four big dudes broke into my house, and beat the living shit out of Billy right in front of me. After they beat Billy into submission, they took him out of the house, and I never saw him again. The leader of the group apologized for the disturbance, told me he'd send someone around this week to fix my door, and then told me that Billy wasn't coming back. "It'll be best for you, honey," he added, as he walked out the door.

I never saw Billy again after that night. I never asked any questions, and no one ever questioned me, either. I simply told anyone who asked, that he was bad, and we separated. Everyone in my world was extremely happy that I lost Billy. No one missed him. I don't even think the dog missed Billy.

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But I did miss the degrading sex. Until he was gone, I did not realize the extent to which my own orgasms had become dependent upon Billy's degradation and subsequent satisfaction. I suddenly couldn't orgasm without the additional stimulation of being humiliated and/or degraded. My own orgasms were directly connected to Billly's abuse, and I couldn't cum without that stimulus. More than anything, I needed to orgasm to provide temporary relief from the overwhelming guilt I carried from living with Billy. As I masturbated, I was torturing my nipples, clamping my clit, slapping my pussy, and shoving giant vegetables into my cunt. Anything to feel enough pain to help me get off. I was fucking-addicted to Billy and suffering severe withdrawal. I was pathetic!

Shortly after my ordeal with Billy, and his sudden departure, I was at the gynecologist's office. She hadn't seen me since before I met Billy, and she thought I looked like shit. "What the hell happened to you girl?" she asked. After running a few tests, she determined that I was run down, anemic, underweight, bruised and depressed, but otherwise fine. Her parting words to me were, "Girl, you gotta' get your shit together, and get yourself in shape. You're too young to be such a mess." Together, we worked out a plan to get me back into shape. Exercise and good food were a must. I was on a difficult road to improvement. The mental and emotional scars were deep. But I was committed to putting Billy behind me and recovering my lost self.

And that brings me up to date, the Tuesday evening before Thanksgiving. Thankfully, I still had my house, my dented car, my job, and the sad-sack fucking-Beagle. I hated the Beagle! Truthfully, I didn't really hate the Beagle. I'm just not a dog person, and he was a constant reminder of Billy. He was Billy's dog, and I got stuck with him. I was more of a cat lady. Billy named the dog "Lucky". I couldn't call him that. He was anything but lucky to me. I only called him "The Beagle" and wanted desperately to be rid of him.

It was about nine o'clock at night. I was in bed, wearing my PJ's and contemplating my shitty life on this cold, rainy, Tuesday night before Thanksgiving. I also had my hairbrush in my hand, stubbornly trying to tease my clitoris into a soul cleansing orgasm before some peaceful sleep, when I heard the loudest crash, I had ever heard in my life. "What the fuck was that?" I screamed to the Beagle, who had begun to bark and howl, likely asking himself the same question.

I threw on my robe, put untied sneakers on my feet, wrapped a coat over my shoulders and ran out front to see what happened. A drunk driver, in a full speed police chase, had crashed into my dented new car. "FUCK," I screamed to myself. It took about an hour for the police and emergency rescue to disengage the driver and take him away via ambulance. Then the police worked with me to fill out a report and go through the process of making claim on my vehicle damages with my insurance company.

After finally getting back into the house, I was soaked, tired, and just wanted to sleep after changing into dry clothes. As I was climbing back into bed, I realized the beagle was gone. "Where the fuck was the Beagle?" I screamed to no-one. I looked everywhere, inside and out, but the Beagle was gone. I was now having a "Wilson" moment, remembering Tom Hanks in the movie Castaway, losing his volleyball with the painted face. Like Hanks, I was now desperately trying to find the Beagle, calling out, "Beagle, come here Beagle," while running around checking closets, under the bed, and outside. But alas, there was no Beagle to be found. I went to bed alone that night, crying, feeling like a total failure, and contemplating the end of my life.

DREW'S BACK STORY

Tonight was the first night since I had moved to Philly, that I truly felt homesick. I had moved to Philly from Chicago two weeks ago, to manage the new branch of the construction company I worked for. After closing the deal to open our Philly branch, the company now had a presence from Maine to Richmond Virginia, and west to Chicago. Philly had always been a target, but local competition, union strength, and a general respect for some of the existing players in the area had kept the company out of the market for a while. But my boss was now stepping in, and was committed to becoming the biggest player in Philly construction. He chose me to open the branch, hire local talent, and begin wooing the customer base. I moved in with a two-year commitment to grow the business up to the point that it was running efficiently, and fully immersed in the local market. I was fully expecting success, and a return to Chicago with a big, fat bank account, bonus, and a huge jump up the corporate ladder.

I was a thirty-year-old, suddenly making the largest annual salary I'd ever made, but now living in a place where I knew virtually no-one, and nothing about the town I was living. I'm a city kid, and I like city life, so the company rented me a nice row home in Northeast Philly, a short ride to work, and right across the street from a beautiful park. I worked long days, exercised in the park afterwards, then ate dinner in a local tavern most evenings. I didn't have any friends outside of work, but I socialized in the tavern, went to a lot of ballgames alone, or with co-workers. That kept me mostly busy, if not necessarily happy. Outside of the loneliness, I was enjoying my time in Philly. But tonight, Thanksgiving night, I was lonely.

I had always spent Thanksgiving Day with Mom, Dad, and Sis. Always! Rooting passionately for every team playing against the Lions and Cowboys, then sitting down to a feast of excess on the table. Sadly, I couldn't get back to Chicago to do that this year, so I shared a meal with my boss, and his wife and family. It was nice of them to invite me, and the food was wonderful. But they are not my family, and they didn't even watch football. They were maybe a little too religious-Christian for my taste. I'm a live, and let live kind of guy, and prefer my tribute to God to also be a little less "in your face". But to each his own. Tonight, I was appreciative of the home cooked meal, and a little relaxation before going back to the daily grind of work tomorrow.

So, as I was watching the late evening football game before bed, I heard what I thought was something rooting through my trash cans outside. I grabbed a broom, and thought I was going to scare away a cat, or racoon, or something. I opened the door with a slam, hoping to scare the critter, before having to confront it. As I turned the corner of the house to view the cans, I saw a short, stumpy dog thrashing with a plastic pumpkin stuck on his head. "Oh Fuck," I mumbled to myself, realizing I was going to have to get it off. I approached the dog as it violently shook its head trying to dislodge the orange container. Thankfully, its preoccupation with the pumpkin allowed me to grab his collar, swiftly pull the plastic helmet off his head, and simultaneously begin petting it to calm it down. "It's alright, buddy," I softly whispered as I continually scratched behind his ears. "It's all gonna' be alright", I whispered again, and again, while leading him into the house.

Once inside the house, I got a thick towel to dry it off, and warm it up. After that I offered him a bowl of water, which he drank completely, then a bowl of left over rice with tuna fish over top. Again, devouring it completely, and immediately. After giving him a little more to drink and eat, the dog finally seemed to settle down and take stock of his surroundings. After what looked to me like a nod of his head offering appreciation for the meal, he padded on over to the warm radiator, scratched the carpet in front for a moment, then laid itself down and fell immediately to sleep as if he had found a new home. After topping off his water bowl, I went to bed myself, figuring I'd thrash through the dog's issues in the morning.

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall of my bedroom the next morning to watch myself wake up. I awoke with the dog on the pillow next to me, staring into my eyes as they opened, truly scaring the shit out of me. The sad-sack Bassett Hound, with dejected eyes, and long droopy ears, staring me in the face, and me not quite remembering the events of the previous night. I near jumped out of bed screaming "What the Fuck?" until finally remembering the dog that had found me last night.

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