On Friday morning Jerry awoke fifteen minutes before the alarm went off. He turned his head to see his live-in girlfriend, Peggy, sleeping peacefully next to him.
He lay there and thought about all the changes that had occurred in his life over the last 12 months. For one thing, he had taken the firefighter exam in his town and had finished on the top of the eligibility list. Since two of the career firefighters were retiring, he had been hired on as a full-timer. He was able to leave his dead-end job at the lumber yard and was thrilled to be fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a firefighter.
And then there was Peggy. The two of them had never been closer and, with his newfound job security, he had been able to ask her to marry him and she'd said yes. They were planning a winter wedding on the Saturday between Christmas and New Years Eve.
Their sex life had never been better, either. It was a little over a year before that they had discovered that Peggy really liked being spanked. And this activity excited Jerry quite a bit, too. Now, it wasn't like she spent all of her time naked over his knee. But, there was no denying how intense their lovemaking was on those occasions when he bent her over and administered a thorough but harmless paddling to her round little ass.
As for Peggy, she was at a loss to explain her reaction. They'd talked it over more than once and she couldn't think of a single incident in her life that would explain how she'd come to enjoy being treated like a misbehaving child. But there it was, there was no denying it.
After turning off the alarm so it wouldn't wake her, Jerry got out of bed and padded into the kitchen of their one bedroom apartment and started the coffee. He got a sleeve of biscuits out of the fridge, opened them and popped them into the oven. In seventeen minutes, they'd be ready to eat. He then took a cup of coffee into the bedroom to wake his roomie.
Peggy awoke to find him standing at the bedside holding her favorite Disney mug. "Is that for me," she asked, knowing full well that it was.
"Well, that depends," he joked, "What are you willing to pay for it?"
"Hmm, well how would you feel about a good morning kiss?"
"Deal."
He handed her the mug, got his kiss and said, "Breakfast will be ready in a few minutes. You probably have time to take a quick shower."
Peggy sipped her hot coffee and nodded. "Okay, I won't be long," she said.
Jerry returned to the kitchen and turned on the news. He was hoping to catch the score of last night's Cubs game. He didn't get to watch the end of the game yesterday, as his department had been called to a factory fire in a neighboring town and he'd been called in on overtime to help man Station One. Then, when the incident commander had called for a second alarm, he'd jumped on Truck 42 and gone to the scene. They were out until 2:00 am and he didn't get released to go home until almost 3:00. He'd been able to shower and slip into bed next to his love without waking her and fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.
The timer on the oven beeped just as Peggy emerged from the bathroom, wrapped in a large towel with her hair still wet. He couldn't get over how pretty she was in these moments. She was so tiny compared to him, 5'3" to his 6'2", with a slim, almost boyish, build. But the form of her breasts underneath the towel was certainly all woman. She'd told him once, after he'd asked, that she was a 32B. Most of Jerry's former girlfriends were much bigger up top, but Peggy was the one that he fell for. And he sometimes wondered what he'd ever seen in those other girls.
They sat and had breakfast together and then Peggy went back into the bathroom to dry her hair so she could dress and go to her job as a hygienist at a local dentist's office.
"I won't be home until about 6:30 tonight, okay?" Jerry said.
"Yeah, I remember," Peggy answered.
He kissed her goodbye at the door as she left. As usual, he let his hands move down her back and cup her ass while they kissed. This was the kind of thing that Peggy loved about him. Every time she left him to go to work or anywhere for that matter, he made it clear that he'd miss her. She really liked that.
As Jerry turned away from the door he was torn. Should he relax over a second cup of coffee or get started on his very busy day by getting his run in. Almost every day, he ran anywhere from 3 to 5 miles, and he knew he'd better get to it. He went back into the bedroom, changed into his running clothes and headed out.
Even though this was the first of Jerry's two off days, he had plenty to do. He was going to meet with his buddy Karl at the bank at 11:00. Peggy and Jerry were thinking of starting a house search and he wanted to see what they'd have to do to make sure that they'd be able to get a mortgage when they did find a house.
Then he'd be stopping at Dominick's to shop for groceries for the coming week. Jerry liked shopping for food and Peggy hated it, so that worked out for both of them.
After that he'd spend a couple of hours studying for his paramedic class before heading to the hospital. He was scheduled in the ER from 2:00 to 6:00 for required clinical time.
When he got home from the hospital, Jerry let himself into the apartment he found that Peggy wasn't alone. Her friend Gayle was with her, and both had a glass of wine in their hands.
"Hi, Gayle!" he said. It was important to Jerry that his girlfriend keep contact with the people she spent time with before he came along. And he genuinely liked Gayle.
"Hi, Jer," she answered. "Would you like a glass?"
"I'll have one with dinner, I think," he replied. "Are you eating with us, kiddo?"
Peggy answered for her, "I already invited her, but she says she's on a diet and doesn't want to mess up since she's already lost 10 pounds in only 4 weeks."