*Thanks to Alwaysready64 for editing and contributing some snippets of this story, and to HellCat_Sundry for her two cents.
*All sex described in this story will be between consenting adults, 18 or over.
* This is a long story. It's a story first, that happens to have erotic content in it. There is no sex until half the story is complete, so don't bother reading if you want something to get off on.
*This story has elements of "Romance", "First Time", "Fetish", "Group Sex", "Loving Wives", "Mature" and "Interracial Sex" in it. If any of those categories offend you, you were warned.
*Comments and votes are appreciated. For you grammar police out there, yes I edited this story but it, being a long story, is bound to have some uncaught errors here and there. Feel free to contact me with any errors you find but don't leave them in the comments. I will collect any errors and overwrite the story with the corrections when I have time. Please leave your comments about what you like or dislike about the story only, and please keep it constructive either way you go.
*I am NOT a professional writer, nor am I retired with a lot of free time to write, so don't read this if this free story doesn't fit your standards. Before complaining about how bad my grammar is or how poor my writing style is, etc, try writing a story yourself and see how it goes. That being said, criticize away, I have a pretty thick skin.
*One complaint someone made with "Karma Served Cold" was that my characters were too perfect. I don't agree in this case even though the protagonist does have a lot of superior characteristics (he's smart, good looking, and successful), he also has a lot of baggage to deal with too (raised poor, with an abusive father and a major introverted personality disorder, he may even be on the spectrum). I hope you like it.
Chapter 1 - Childhood.
My name is Mike Thompson. I grew up in the South Bay (Los Angeles County, California), between Torrance and Long Beach. We moved around a lot growing up, mostly living off the charity of others.
We didn't start off that way, my parents owned a house in Gardena until they divorced at age five. I remember we had a huge tree in the backyard that had a treehouse built in it - sort of. It was more a couple of platforms high up in the branches with wood planks nailed into the trunk as an impromptu ladder to the platforms, you had to be able to climb to the first branch just to get to the ladder.
The backyard was unusually long; more than a football field's length. Our backyard was kept clean. Once you have passed the tree behind the house and the Sears shed behind it, there was just a grass lawn, that my father always kept short. There were a couple of trees along the left side wall, some rabbit cages along the right and all the way in the very back of the yard there was a cropping of bamboo that obscured the junkyard behind us. We had no neighbors to our left, just some warehouses.
My neighbors to the right shared the same sized backyard and they filled it with junk. They rarely cut their grass and it grew to be over three feet at times. We only had a dilapidated chain link fence separating us. The only thing I remember about my neighbor was the fact that they owned a bunch of tortoises (one was a snapping tortoise) and we often saw them crawling around their yard. As a child less than three-foot-tall, the neighbor's yard looked like a jungle. We kids used to crawl through a hole in the fence and explore their yard like it was a wild exotic locale. There was so much junk in the backyard that we could hop from one junk pile to the other. The tall grass was like a sea and the junk piles were islands. I remember there was an old boat that we used to sneak into when I was little and pretend it was a secret fort.
My memories of that place were both good and bad. A guy from my church was an inventor for Mattel and he would often let us use some of the prototypes he came up with from time to time. I think me and my sisters were his beta-testers since he didn't have children of his own at the time. So, although we were poor, I was still the first kid to ride a Big Wheel, and we were the first kids to ever try Nerf guns, and my sisters got to test market all of the new Barbie dolls that came out.
Not all my memories were good, I remember there being times when we had no food in the house and my father tried to feed us a can of sauerkraut and I refused to eat it despite there being nothing else to eat. I also remember my mom and dad fighting. One time my father (6'5 and over 220 lbs.) hit my mother (5'2 120 lbs.) knocking her across the room. When he was angry all we kids could do was hide in our rooms.
When I was four, I was given my first skateboard. Of course, the first day I rode it, I was too scared to stand up on it, so I rode it on my knees. I rode down the block and hit a crack in the sidewalk and face-planted into the concrete busting my lips open, chipping my front tooth.
When I was five, I was finally old enough and brave enough to climb up to the top platform of our "treehouse", I remember being in awe of the view. The tree was taller than our house and you could see the whole neighborhood from up there.
Often me and my sisters would sneak behind the bamboo and scale the back fence to clamor over some of the scrap metal in the junkyard. We were never brave enough to go very far in as it was known to have a mean dog guarding it from time to time and we never knew when it was let loose. Looking back, I realize that my older sister used to take me out there to hide from my father, but at the time I always thought it was just another game we'd play.
I loved living in our house, it connected me to my sisters and gave us some wonderful memories but mostly it bonded us together.
When my parents got divorced it devastated me. Before I knew it, the house was sold, we (my mother, sisters and me) moved away and I never saw my father again. For years, I grew up angry at my mother and my sisters. I blamed them for the loss of my father. All of the sudden, my best friend Lorry was now my enemy and I didn't know why. Not only did they take me from my "hero" but there was some sort of secret that they all knew and kept from me. I grew up resentful and explosively violent. I was like a ticking time-bomb. Although it took a lot to get me angry, once I did, I turned into a monster.
My mother was a manic depressive, and the way she handled my anger only exacerbated it. My mother's mental health issues were exponentially worse than my anger in that they came up daily whereas I was more like a volcano that went off every few years. Her state of mind made things so chaotic at times, that I found myself being an arbiter of reason. My mediation of her emotions helped me to bottle up and control my own. I could go for months without an incident but then something would happen that would trigger me, and my violence would rear its ugly head.
I couldn't stand bullies and got in fights constantly. I lost more fights than I won, but when challenged I never backed down. Most bullies got the message and would pick on easier targets but since we seemed to move a lot and I was constantly changing schools, I would keep running into different bullies that didn't know me yet and the fights would start right back up. Being poor, with hand-me-down clothes, haircuts from home, and shoes from Payless Shoesource I was an easy target for mockery - I attracted bullies like flies to shit.
The biggest bully, (to me), was my sister. As latchkey kids, we were often left to fend for ourselves while my mother worked, but sometimes Lorraine was put in charge. We had only one TV in the house, (it was an old color tube tv with four channels), and when Lorraine was in charge she acted like a dictator and would torment us with TV shows that we hated.
When I was nine years old, my sister Lorraine and I had a huge fight. Punches were thrown, hair was pulled, skin was scratched and arms were bitten. Our fights were often nasty and afterwards I would have welts and bruises all over. Honestly, I don't remember what that particular fight was all about, but I'll never forget how it ended.
Just to be clear, I was a nice kid for the most part and I didn't go around beating on my sisters. Lorraine was 13 at the time and she was much bigger and stronger than me. I didn't like fighting with her but I was too stubborn to back down from a fight, even when I knew I would lose. Believe it or not, it was Lorraine that instigated most of our physical conflicts. I wanted to be friends with her, but she had so much anger and resentment toward me that I never understood until that day.