STRANGERS ON A BEACH (IN THE RAIN PT2)
BOOOOOOOM!! Tonya jumped as the loud clap of thunder startled her. She stared out the window and watched the skies darken. She knew soon the rain would start. Sure enough, the raindrops began to pelt the outside of the house in Pensacola Florida. The intensity of the rainfall increased and Tonya lay back down in her bed. Her husband Charles was still knocked out; the thunder didn't even stir him. His vodka had him in a deep slumber and wild horses couldn't wake him. It was 3am in the morning. Tonya should've been used to these storms but they always frightened her.
Tonya was born and raised in Florida but further down south near Tampa. She was a fun-loving 24 year old freshman working and going to college down there nearby when she met 35 year old Charles at the Hard Rock Casino there in Tampa. She was with a few of her girlfriends at the craps table when Charles sauntered up and started talking to them. He gave them a couple of tips and the girls began to win. He was a handsome albeit older man and he directed his dazzling smile at Tonya. She was captivated with him and they became an item.
Three tumultuous years later, the couple got married and Tonya moved in with Charles in Pensacola. He was in the Navy, stationed on the base there but he got out and took a contractor job. Tonya's friends would say Charles worked hard to isolate her from them and family. Tonya would soon see Charles's charming personality change to one of a more brooding nature. He was old-fashioned in his views on marriage and wanted Tonya to stay home and be a housewife. Tonya had been going to school to be a nurse but she figured that she could go part-time and be home more to make Charles happy so she went along with his wishes.
That was then and here was now. Here they were three years later. Tonya never went back to school. Charles pretty much kept her locked up like she was his property. Needless to say, she wasn't happy. They didn't have any children and whether or not that was a good or bad thing depended on who you asked. From the limited contact Tonya had with her friends and family, it was good. When Tonya would finally come to her senses, she could leave Charles and start a new life. All Tonya wanted to do was make Charles happy so she thought of her infertility as being her own fault. It didn't help that Charles made her feel this way, too. She was pushing 30 and childless; she didn't think this was normal. She would fall into deep bouts of depression and loneliness over it.
In the morning, Tonya got up and made her husband breakfast. He liked scrambled eggs and grits with bacon. She heard him get up grumpily and start getting dressed for his day. She had his plate ready when he stumbled out of the bedroom and plopped down at the kitchen table.
"Good morning, baby." Tonya said softly, pouring him a cup of coffee.
Charles wasn't in much a conversational mood. His hangover was heavy this morning. He mumbled something unintelligible and sipped his coffee.
Tonya swallowed. "I was watching TV last night and I saw this commercial for this online college. One of the programs it offered was for nursing; I was thinking about signing up. What do you think about it?" she asked.
Charles sat up straight, looked up at the ceiling in exasperation and blew out a sigh. He then looked down and slowly started shaking his head. "No Tonya, I don't think it's a good idea." he said.
"Why not?" Tonya lamented. "I mean, it's completely online. I might have to go to a facility to take a test but that's about it. I'm not doing anything here during the day anyway. I can make good use of my time."
Charles scowled at her angrily. "Don't you have enough? I give you everything. What do you need a degree for? You don't need to work." he said and stabbed at the eggs on his plate. "No you're not doing that."
Tonya sighed sadly and looked down. Charles saw her forlorn look and his features softened. He reached over and took her hand.
"C'mon baby, don't be like that. You have this beautiful house to live in and no worries. And we're trying to have a child, too. That's what you should be concentrating on. You might be pregnant right now." he said smiling.
Tonya just looked at him and rolled her eyes. She got up from the table and went back into the bedroom. Charles shrugged his shoulders and continued to eat his breakfast.
Tonya lay in her bed with tears in her eyes. She might be pregnant, humph!! What a joke, she thought. The man never touched her anymore. The only way she would get pregnant is if she got some sex from another man. She heard keys jingling and finally him leaving out the front door. She turned on her back and closed her eyes. She thought about trying to self-love again but it would only be torture. She could never make herself cum.
Tonya was a beautiful woman. Due to the nature of her marriage, she really wore no makeup but she didn't need any. She had soft, smooth dark chocolate skin, big beautiful, oval-shaped brown eyes with a button nose and soft full lips. She had a nice, curvy body due to her yoga (one thing that Charles didn't mind her doing since he figured she wasn't going anywhere) with 34-C breasts, a small waist and a nice round bubble-butt.
Charles was proud that he could pull a woman like her and in the beginning of their relationship, he told her so. That should've been a clue to what was to come but she didn't pick up on it. Now she looked at her sexless marriage and she longed to be touched. She felt like she was wasting away here but she loved Charles too much to leave.
She got up and put on a robe then went into the living room. The sun was bright outside as she looked out her patio window. She noticed a man moving boxes into the house next door. He seemed to be alone. The house was small, only a one bedroom. It had been on the market only for a couple of weeks. The previous owner mysteriously disappeared a few months back. No one had heard from him.
Tonya studied her new neighbor. He was short, only about 5'7 but he was muscular. He wore some owlish nerdy glasses, giving him a very bookworm type look. He easily handled the boxes he brought from the U-Haul truck. Tonya smiled and decided to say hello. She went back into the bedroom and changed into some shorts and a t-shirt. She slid on some flip-flops and went out on her patio. She waved at him.