i met my wife when I was fourteen, she sat beside me in eight grade English class, so I knew her name was Britney. We didn't talk to each other accept to say 'Hi'.
I turned sixteen just before I started sophomore year of high school and got a job in a local restaurant. The place opened at 5Am and closed at 8PM. Jim the owner hired me because I would work the weekends and any day, I didn't have school and the all three of the week-long vacations. The regular waitresses all had young kids and needed to be home when there wasn't school.
I started as I bus boy, but soon was working the counter. The job was a good fit for me as I liked the interaction with all the customers. Plus, I got to know almost everybody in town.
I didn't play sports and was saving for college. Dating was not my thing at the time, as I wanted to get good grades so, I could get accepted to a good college.
In November Britney came in one day looking for a job. Because she told Jim she would work weekends and when ever she was off school, she got the job. We worked almost the same hours most of the time. So, we got to know each other.
There were two TVs and the mid-afternoon crowd was mostly middle aged to older women. I noticed they seem to all be there to watch a soap opera called General Hospital. During the commercials small groups would gossip about the show. It wasn't long before Britney and I were into the show.
One day Britney said to me: "That new character Brita, they refer to as 'The Britch', she prefers to be called Brit instead of Brita. I hate that my parents named me Britney. I was named after my father's older sister and she is a 'Britch'. She is not a nice person and always calls me 'Little Britney". So, from now on call me Brit and I am going to tell everyone else to call me that also."
Brit was going out with a senior, the guy was a real asshole, but he was a jock and good looking. The fact he had a sports car and came from money added to his appeal.
Brit's family was working class people as was mine. Both our mothers work to help pay the bills. My folks wouldn't let me help, but Brit's parents were not as well off and she pitched in.
Senior year on her eighteenth birth day, it was a Saturday night. Brit had the night of for her birthday. I knew her boyfriend had planned something special. Just before closing she came in crying.
I asked her: "What's wrong?"
She said: "I hate him and never want to see him again."
I asked her: "What did he do that you are so upset?"
She said: "I don't want to talk about it. Just hold me."
I did as she asked and held her while she cried on my shoulder. Jim heard what she said handed me his car key and told me to take her home. Brit sat crying the all the way. When we got to her house she just got out and went in.
When I got back the Jim asked: "What did that asshole boyfriend of hers do to her?"
I told him: "I don't know she didn't tell me. She just sat there crying till we got to her house."
Sunday Brit didn't come to work, her mother called to say she was sick. Monday at school she wasn't her usual self. After school we walked together to the restaurant.
I told her: "Do you want to talk about it?"
She said: "I probably need to, but right now I can't."
I said: "I understand if you are not comfortable talking to me, but I sense you need to talk to someone."
She then started crying again. I stopped and held her till she was able to stop. We then continued to work.
Brit came to me during a lull in business and thanked me for understanding and not pushing her to tell me what happened.
Two days later her ex-boyfriend came in and from ten feet away he called to her saying: "Hey Britch we need to talk now!"
She ran in to the kitchen and when he went to follow her, I stepped in his way. He went to shove me aside, but I was ready and used his momentum to put him on the floor.
As he went to get up I stopped him and I told him: "You don't know me or anything about me. So, I will tell you, I have studied martial arts since I was six. I hold three third degree black bets in Karate, Jujitsu, and Judo. If you put your hands on me again, I will put you back on the floor, if you try a third time you will be carried out of here."
He left saying: "This isn't over."
Jim called the police and they took statements from Brit, Jim, several witnesses, and myself. At closing the officer came back and drove Brit home.
The next couple of days Jim drove her home. Saturday night after closing Jim. Brit, and I were cleaning up. I went out to the dumpster out back with the trash. When I turned to go back in, Brit's ex was there with two other guys.
They each had baseball bats and he said: "All your black belts won't help you now."
He then charged me. that was his mistake. As he swung, I ducked and swept his legs out from under him. He went down hard smashing the back of his head on the black top. The second one charged like a bull. Intending to tackle me. I side stepped and shoved him into the front of the dumpster.
I looked at the third guy and said: "Your turn."
He dropped his bat and took off. It was then I noticed someone getting out of a car. It was the cop from the other day.
I asked him: "How long have you been watching?"
He told me: "I saw them heading this way and followed. I know your dad and know about your skills."
I asked: "Why didn't you stop them?"
He laughed and said: "Them, I knew you could handle them. I was here to stop you from killing them."
I smiled and told him: "I only defended myself and that is what I did. It was not my intention to cause them harm beyond that. But if they try again, I will hurt them severely."
He said: "Lets hope it doesn't come to that. I will have a talk with his father he knows his son is a hot head. Last time he acted this way he sent the kid to one of those boot camps for delinquents."
He then got back in his car and I went back inside. Brit asked me: "What took so long?"
I told her: "I had a chat with your ex."
Jim joined us and said: "You left some of the thrash on the ground."
I asked him: "How do you know."
He said I: "I watch it from the kitchen window."
Brit then said: "One of you tell me what happened."
Jim told her: "Your ex and two of his buddies came after our boy here with baseball bats. He took out your ex and one of them and the other took off."
Jim then asked me: "What did the cop say to you and why didn't he stop it?"
I told them: "He knew I could handle it and he was only there to stop me from doing more harm than necessary to them."
Jim locked up and asked me: "Do you want a ride home?"
I told him no, "I'll walk."
He asked: "What if they try again?"
I told hm: "I am hoping they do."
Brit said: "Please don't get hurt because of me. He is pissed at me; he shouldn't be trying to take it out on you."
I didn't see him again and Brit and I became close friends. Nothing romantic more like brother and sister. We became each other's go to person if something was bothering either of us.
We went to the prom together and enjoyed the after party. I got accepted at UMass Boston and Brit was accepted at UCLA. She got a scholarship that covered her tuition and books. Room and board were on her and her family.
The summer before her junior year her father died. Brit had saved enough to cover the room and board for the fall semester. I offered to loan her money, but she wouldn't take it. Telling me she would get a job out there to get by.
Two weeks after her father was buried, she left for LA saying it would give her more time to get a job and be able to work more hours. We talked on the phone and used emails to stay in touch.
The next summer she stayed in LA to work. I offered to go out there so we could spend some time together. But she told me with her work schedule she wouldn't have time for me. She was trying to put together enough money to not have to work her final semester.
When she came back to town, she looked great. Tanned and her body went from nice to extremely hot. We went out to eat and catch up, followed by going to a movie. We had gone to the movies many times together in the past. Always as friends, but this time I knew it was different.
When the lights dimmed, she took my arm and put it around her shoulder and laid her head against me. I looked at her and she used her hand to pull my face to hers and kissed me. It was the first time we ever kissed.
Her mouth opened so I opened mine and we were French kissing. My mine was flooded with emotions, and I realized I loved her. I always loved her I just didn't realize it till now. When the kiss ended, we both at the same time said 'I love you'.
Neither of us were virgins, before she left for LA her freshman year. She told me what happen that day between her and her ex. It was her eighteenth birthday. He brought her to his parent's house; they were out of the country. He no sooner shut the door wen he started to try and take her clothes off. She got away and told him to stop.
He told her she was now legal for him to fuck and he had waited long enough. He then raped her, not only taking her virginity, but he sodomized her as well. When he was finished with her, he stood over her nude body and pissed on her. He then let her shower and get dressed. Telling her that he would be doing that with her from now on.
He then drove her to the restaurant to drop her off. When she got out she told him she would never go out with him again and if he tries she will go to the police and tell them he raped her.
She had told me about a few guys she went out with that she had sex with, in college, but nothing serious.
I lost mine one night I was drunk after I turned eighteen to a girl that I had gone out with once before. After she took a notebook out of her purse and started to write in it.