My name is Claude Simmons and this is my story. I've been reviewing my past a lot lately and have come to the realization that I've had some fun times. Now I want to share another one of my priceless memories with you. I will tell the story using the best of my abilities. So without further delay I will begin.
Three days had passed since my eighteenth birthday. My life was once again becoming the mass of darkness it had always been. There had been a brief light though. That happened on my birthday-June 2nd. My father had paid one hundred dollars for the services of a prostitute named Kitty. She was his birthday present to me. I am an embarrassment to my father, that was his reason for doing what he did. I was an eighteen year old virgin and he was ashamed of me. At first I drove Kitty around the city of Chicago. We shared some laughs and some memories. I began to like her. We drove to a giant plaza and I parked in dark, abandoned parking lot. There Kitty and I looked at the stars together. Well one thing led to another and I ended up losing my virginity to Kitty. I guess I was the weirdest customer she ever had. I miss her, prostitute or not. She was forty year old and the only person who ever listened to what I had to say.
The weather outside was hot and cruel. It must've been in the hundreds and it wasn't even summer yet. I was in the house as usual. I didn't have much of a life. I spent much of my day reading and watching ESPN. On that day I was reading a James Patterson novel, "Along Came A Spider." I was in my room sitting on my bed just turning pages and skimming at the words. I never got past page four, my mind was on Kitty and my pathetic life. I constantly had to re-read paragraphs. It took over an hour, but I did finally give up. I put the book on the shelf with the six hundred paperback novels I owned and lied down for a little while. While resting my eyes I dozed off. I woke up an hour later to the demanding sounds of a knock. I wiped the remains of sleep out of my eyes and went to the front door.
I looked through the peephole and saw a woman's face. It took me a long time to figure out who the woman was. I rubbed my eyes and thought real hard. Than the name came to me. Josie Myers. The next-door neighbor. I hadn't seen her in a long time. Her husband is an abusive alcoholic who doesn't ever let her leave the house. Her husband was a lot like my father. I hated both men.
I unlocked the door and opened it up. "How can I help you?" I asked. I offered her a smile.
"I came buy to ask if you had some super glue," she said.
"Super glue?" I asked. I didn't know how to respond to such an odd request.
"I broke a plate while I was doing dishes," Josie said. She sounded frightened. I wondered what the penalty was for a broken plate. "I want to fix it before Marshall gets home." Marshall Myers, I thought to myself. There's the perfect name for a serial killer or mass murderer.
"I think I got some in my room," I lied. I knew had some in my room, I just did not want to get her hopes up. "I'll go check. Take a seat if you like."
"Thanks, sweetheart." Now she was smiling. Her face was quite lovely when she flashed a smile. She was almost model worthy. Her teeth were perfectly white, her cheeks were rosie red, her eyes were green, but sad, she was a gorgeous woman who married the biggest asshole in Chicago. She was wearing a blue blouse and a pair of jogging pants. She wore slippers on her feet. I could see the nice shape of her tits through the blouse. I was lusting over my neighbor, but I couldn't help it. I never had a woman this beautiful standing in my house. Her neck was elegant and lips so ripe. She looked to be about thirty years old. She had no kids, I wasn't even sure she had a sex life anymore.
When I entered my room I sat down on my bed. The super glue was on the shelf on top of some books. I needed to take a seat and rest my heart. It was pounding in my chest and my cock was shooting up like a rocket. I remembered the times when erections came every three or four weeks, but since Kitty they've been coming three or four times an hour. The previous night I had masturbated for the first time in a year. I jerked off to a picture of Madonna. She was the only material I could find at the time and she worked out just fine. I shot a huge load of cum all over the damn picture. I ripped it out of a National Enquirer. I threw it away when I was done with it. But Josie Myers was no page from a trashy newspaper. She was real person and she was in my living room. I wanted her bad. I didn't know what to do though. This was a married woman, not a prostitute. Hell, I had trouble fucking my paid for prostitute.
I grabbed the super glue from the shelf and ventured off into the living room. She was sitting on the couch looking nervous. Her hands and legs were shaking. The broken dish had her terribly worried. I saw the bags under her eyes, the cuts and bruises on her hands and neck. Where ever flesh showed there were bruises. I felt bad for this woman. My mother was married to a drunk, and he was abusive, but he wasn't this bad. My dad had only hit my mom a few times. From the looks of Josie Myers, she was beaten a couple times a day. That broken dish would most likely put her in the hospital.
"I found what you need," I said. I went over to her and handed her the super glue. The super glue was in a pen shaped container. She held the thing in her hand as if it were a magical wand. In many ways it was.
"Thanks," she said relieved. "You don't know how much this means to me."
"It's just a plate."
"Yeah, but you don't know how Marshall is. He don't like things he buys to turn up broken."
She put her head down. She didn't want to talk about her husband any longer and I didn't want to press her. I stood there for a long time, together we shared the silence in the house.
"Where's the family?" she broke the quiet.
"There gone. Mom and dad are working. Sisters are at school. I'd be at school to, but I'm not graduating so I'm not even bothering to go."
"Not graduating," she said. "Why not? You seem like you're a regular smarty pants."
"I just made some mistakes," I said and left it at that.
"Join the club," she said and began to cry.
I was frozen where I stood. I was too afraid to move and support her and afraid that if I did she'd just run away. I found courage at the pit of my stomach and sat down next to her. I stroked her long brown hair with my nervous hands. She must have liked my touch. She buried her face into my chest.
"What's wrong?" I asked her.
"You know what's wrong. Everybody knows what's wrong. I've just been to naive to realize it." Her tears were seeping through my T shirt. "Marshall's such a rotten asshole. He's drunk all the time. He never spends anytime with me, unless he's beating me. I just can't take it anymore." She sobbed louder. "I don't know what I'm going to do. I'll never have freedom with him around. And I'm afraid. I'm afraid that one day he'll hurt me real badly or...kill me."
I was hugging her now, trying my best to support this shattered housewife. I put my hand on her bag and she winced in pain. I had touched one of her many bruises by mistake. "Why don't you leave him?" I asked.
"If it were only that easy. I was seventeen when I met him. We had a lot of good times. And we loved each other. When I was eighteen I got pregnant, but I had to get an abortion. He told me his parents wouldn't approve of him getting a girl he wasn't married to pregnant. I did it because I loved him. We never fought back in those days. We calmly discussed the abortion and I agreed with him. We were married a year later. We tried to make a baby during the honeymoon, but it never happened. For the next two years we tried to have a baby. We tried hard too, but nothing was happening. Finally I went to a doctor to see what was wrong. The doctor told me I wasn't capable of having children." Josie groaned miserable. I listened to her every word. "After I told him the news he was supportive. At first anyway. But he started visiting more bars and coming home drunk. I don't even remember when he start hitting me. All I remember is it happened one night with no warning. He woke me up at three thirty in the morning and start smacking me around and blaming me for him not being a father. Year by year it got worse. He hates me, but he don't believe in divorce. Instead he beats me. He says he does it because I ruined his life. Sometimes I believe him."
She was silent for a long time. She laid perfectly still on my chest and took slow breaths. She looked up at me and wiped the tears out of her eyes. "I wet your shirt. I'm so sorry," she said.
"It's okay," I told her. "The important thing is what you're going to do."
I put my arm around her and held her clothes. I noticed she was still holding the super glue pen in her hand. I noticed how small and delicate her hands were.
"I can never leave him," she said. "He'll kill me for ruining his name. His family don't know he's an abusive, drunken asshole, and if they find out they'll vanish him. They'll never speak to him. He'll blame me and kill me for sure."
"But you can't stay with him," I pressed. "Staying with him will kill you. What happens if he comes home to a broken window or a muddy floor. Is he going to take a knife to your gut?" Or beat you till you can't move? Both ways you're at the losing end."
She wiped at her eyes once again. I looked at her face. She reminded me of Demi Moore. Her face and body structure almost matched Demi's perfectly. I thought Josie was prettier though. Her voice was softer.