Author's note: I recently found a stash of old stories I had written but never published. There is more to this story... hopefully I will have time to add another couple of chapters...
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I have been sitting on this story for some time now. I have debated long and hard about it, especially with the other people involved, but they agreed that as long as no names or places were revealed they would accept it being published.
The town we lived in, although quite large and bustling, was no starting point for a fast lane in life. And anyway, I was not publishing this in Women's Weekly or on Gardening Tales... this was to go to Literotica, where readers came for this type of story.
Let's say my name is Pauline. I'm 35, divorced for two years now, living with Oz, my black cat and Penny, a budgie I found in my apartment balcony and nursed to health. Penny, unsurprisingly now won't leave.
My father died years ago while on a dig in the Badlands (he was a paleontologist), while my mother remarried (not too long ago), to a man ten years younger, a guy my twin brothers and I hated on sight.
My brothers are Jeff and Tim, let me see... they would be about three years younger than me, so that would make them 32. Four years ago, when this tale I am about to tell started, they lived together just outside the main fringe of town. They had started out in studying architecture before moving on to remodelling and refurbishing houses themselves, and it got a hell of an amount of attention.
Why is that? It all ties down to the main story which I am about to tell. Jeff and Tim were typical American boys, tall, buff, good-natured and well mannered, and lately, just a little too good looking for their own good. Working with lumber and stone had beefed them up in no measure and it wasn't the first time that we would meet at the beach and I would marvel at their physique.
They always attracted a good amount of girls and I had had no doubts whatsoever that they were playing the field. Good on them. None of them was attached, or had a girlfriend, and if that was what they wanted, I had no problem with it. No need to say that with every beach visit, they left with a different girl every time.
Conversely, I had been saddled with a man I thought I loved, but once married, turned off the taps to life and literally padlocked me inside our home. He thought we still lived in the middle ages where women were owned by men and only let outside for the most frivolous of errands. I was just twenty five when I met Jake. I thought the world of him, and after three years of courtship decided to marry.
So, married at twenty eight, I thought it would be the start of a new life, filled with late-night dinners, romance, and of course babies.
The son of a bitch worked me until I dropped, without concern for my well-being, wishes and desires. The marriage turned to a private hell. One in which I was really locked in during the day when he would be out. It was an embarrassment to turn away friends (and family) who would turn up to visit and I could not open up because of the locks.
Romance was nothing else than his walking naked into our bedroom and taking his pleasure in the missionary position.
After two years of enduring this hell, I decided to take matters into my own hands.
During a rare visit with him to a hardware store, I slipped a glass-breaking hammer into my jeans. During the busy checking-out at the counter, I stayed back and dropped a ten dollar note for the hammer without waiting for a receipt or change. I could have walked out with it easily enough, but it wasn't my style.
The very next day, as he left for work, locking me out, I called the local sheriff for help. Two police cars pulled up to the driveway and one of the officers rang on my doorbell. I called out that my husband had locked me inside and there was no way I could get out.
At this point the police asked for my husband's contact numbers and to my satisfaction, he had to be dragged out of a meeting to come and open up the door.
His explanations to the police were that he had forgotten to give me a set of keys after changing the locks on the doors and windows.
"That is absolutely untrue", I said, standing close to the police officers. "You lock all the windows and doors just to make sure that I do not go out while you aren't here. I am a prisoner in my house."
He protested but the officers were having none of it, and bade us to go inside where they would take a recorded statement. After an hour the police left with an admonition that they would look at this again and that they had a dim view of it all.
"Call us again ma'am if your husband does this again or intimidates you in any way. Here's our card. We know about the case now."
With that, they were gone and I was left to his wrath at this accusation. He was black with rage and made as if to strike me. Unafraid of him, I held up my face.
"Go on. Hit me. Let's see you explain my bruises away you motherfucker. I want out. And not just out of the house. It's out of this marriage."
"We'll see, you dirty whore. We'll see." He lowered his hands and went back to work, locking the door behind him once again.
Two could play at that game.
That night I slept in the spare bedroom for the first time, and the next morning I heard him tell me through the door that he would be away to the company's headquarters in the city. That meant they would take the boss's Lear Jet for an hour's flight, and back at sundown.
The plane's usual pattern was to leave at ten in the morning, so at eleven I called the police number on the card again, explaining that I was in the same situation. The same male and female police officers arrived, but I advised them that he would not be coming back before sundown since he was up in the city.
They advised me that unless there was gas escaping or I was injured, they could not break in the door.
"Well, I can do that easily." I replied, taking the tool I had purchased out of the concealed lipstick bag. Lifehammer, it said on the wrapping.
Asking the police to stand back, I tapped the window smartly with it and the reinforced glass shattered like so much Rice Krispies. There was still the outer window to go and it took but a second to reduce it to ashes once again.
The officers helped me out and I asked for their help once again in taking me to my mother's home where at least I would find shelter. The cops obliged and after relaying my story to my mum, declared that she had to take the shotgun to that fucker.
That night the commotion in front of my mum's house was insane as Jake tried to force his way into the sheltered housing's buildings. A couple of guys visiting their parents next door thought it was an intruder and the hiding meted out to him was sweet to see.
The next day I filed papers for divorce, citing kidnapping and abandonment.
Surprisingly, he accepted the divorce meekly, and we settled quickly for 50-50 and I was left with a handsome amount to live on and security for the immediate future. However, I knew that Jake took the divorce hard and left the state a week after the ruling was given. I have not heard of him since.
To cut a very long story short, I joined a firm of solicitors working as a paralegal, rented an apartment, and steadily grew into the community of women at work.
This is the part where the story all starts to get groovy. I know it's been a long introduction, but I wanted to set the story right as I remember it.
During our latest get-together at a fancy restaurant, I was shocked to hear Sandra (who we called Sandy), sighing as she recounted to us the massages she had been getting from two local boys.
"It's a Nuru massage", she offered to me in way of explanation. I had no idea what the hell that was and asked her to explain.
"Really? Wow. You are behind in the times. Nuru massage is a massage where you are bathed, then slathered with warm oil and wax, and it cleans you up so well. In a Nuru massage, there is no pretence where the client wears clothes or towels. Both masseur and client are naked. No need to say that it is a very erotic experience and usually finishes in the most pleasurable sex."
I stared at her, finally daring to ask.
"And Chris is oblivious to this?"