A Mistake too far.
The weekend away started so nice. We had booked two chalet's in a holiday camp with my brother Steve and his wife Rosie. It was my wife Amber's 50th and our 25th anniversary combined over the same weekend.
It was one of those adult weekenders, no kids on site so everyone was a bit more uninhibited. We were really looking forward to letting our hair down for a few days.
The camp had a massive main bar/club and two or three smaller venues, they were a bit more intimate. We got there and were allocated our chalets. We all unpacked and went for a meal around 6pm intending to hit the bigger club around 9pm hoping to get there early enough to get a table near the dance floor.
"Damn this steak is good, how is yours Steve?"
"I Gotta say it aint too bad mate, not bad at all. I wasn't expecting food this good at one of these places."
"The wine is beautiful." piped up Rosie, she had already had two glasses with her main course and was on her third.
"Careful." Amber said, you know it makes you pissed too quickly!"
"Ah, were on holiday, the more pissed I get, the better!" she replied with a big grin.
Steve nudged my arm saying, "I might even get lucky tonight." Grinning all over his face, "Want another dear?"
After our pudding came (sticky toffee pudding and ice cream) I felt so stuffed the last thing I wanted was to go dancing.
"How about you two girls go dancing and me n Steve will have a few games of pool and meet you in the club when our dinner has gone down, I promise we won't be long, I just can't face the dancefloor yet love."
"Ok. You two settle up here and we will see you a bit later, come on Rosie. We will grab a nice table and go hit the dancefloor!"
My brother looked at me with a big smile saying, "Baz, how on earth do you get her to do just what you want her to do but make it seem like you are doing her a favour?"
"Just a knack mate, just a knack."
The girls disappeared to the club and we went our separate ways for an hour or two. There was a nice pool bar just over the way from the club they were going to, so we grabbed a table and a few beers and challenge on. We were always competitive when we were kids, nothing had changed.
"A fiver a game? Or loser buys the beers and pays the table?"
"Baz, you're on, I am gonna kick your ass £5 a game AND the table!"........Game on.
Well to cut a long story short, I lost £25 and had to pay the poxy table.
We made our way into the club but couldn't see the girls anywhere, Steve rang Rosie's mobile 3-4 times, no reply. I tried Amber the same, no reply.
"It is loud in here It's probably too loud for them to hear!"
"Ok, lets split up, Steve you take the dance floor and the tables over that side, I'll take the bar and the dancefloor in the other room. Meet back here in 5-10 minutes, ok?"
10 minutes later there was still no sign anywhere.
"you sure this is the right bar Baz?"
"I'm bloody certain this was where they said!"
Steve tried the mobile again to no avail. Amber's went straight to voicemail now.
"Amber love, where are you two. We have been all over the club looking. Ring me back."
I shouted to Steve over the thumping music,
"We could always try one of the smaller ones, they may have moved on, you never know?"
He nodded and we made our way to the exit. We tried 2-3 of the smaller clubs but still no sign, I was starting to get a bit concerned now, "Fuck it Steve we should've gone with them mate."
"I know. Where the hell could they be?"
I looked at my phone it was 11pm now, the clubs would be kicking out in an hour, only the big one stayed open till the small hours. Still no reply on either of our phones. We were both getting worried now, this was not like either of them. We made our way back to the main club to see Rosie outside being held up by a stranger, he was holding her hair from her face as she puked up over a hedge.
"Oi, what the fuck's going on!"
Steve rushed ahead of me grabbing the strangers arm and he spun them around, as he did Rosie threw up all over them both Exorcist style it went everywhere.
"Rose, for fuck sake girl you have had us going ape-shit, where have you been?"
The fella got a bit nasty, "Who the fuck are you, get off my bird!"
"What! Who the fuck are you, you cunt. This is my fucking wife! Fuck off now before I smack you one, go on fuck off!"
"Sorry, sorry mate, no offence I thought she was single. I have been with her all night!"
"Last chance mate, FUCK OFF!"
I was looking for left and right Amber in all this, where the fuck is she?
"Rose, Rose, where is Amber? Is she with you?"
She looked up from the floor she was being sick on and spoke some slurred words, I have no idea what she was saying as she was completely noncoherent.
"Steve get some sense out of her, where is Amber?"
"Go look in the club Barry, I'll stay here with this mess till you get back."
I went back into the night club, it was heaving now. All the smaller clubs and bars had kicked out and there were hundreds of drunk bodies swaying inside. Kissing, groping, dancing, singing. How the hell was I going to find her here. I was getting seriously annoyed now. People bumping into me every way I turned, I was very pissed off looking for her now.
In the distance I saw her over the other side of the dancefloor. I made my way through the crowd to see her with her back to me kissing this tall bloke. That was it, I saw red and charged at them, I grabbed her arm and tore her from his grasp.
"Get the fuck off him! I will fucking kill the".......... but it was not her, the next thing I know I am being carried out by bouncers. Someone had laid into me inside.
"Baz, Baz wake up, are you ok?"
Steve told me later he had tried get me to stand up for 10 minutes. I was in a bad way, two or three blokes in there had jumped me and the bouncers had called the local police. Steve was trying to get me away. My nose was broken and my eye was shut, I was covered in blood.
Ring, Ring, my phone was going off, Steve took it and answered it for me, it was Amber. "Amber, where the fuck are you?"
"Is this her husband?"
"No, who is this, where is Amber?"
"She can't come to the phone right now, she is safe don't worry but busy."
"What, what the fuck are you talking about, put her on!"
"Swear at me again and I put down the phone ok!"
"Put her on the fucking phone how asshole!....you hear me......you there?"
"Barry, the lines gone dead."
I was still in a daze,
"Come on let's get you home first, then we'll sort out Amber. For fuck sake look at you both, can you walk Rose? Barry get up!"
Somehow he got us both back to his chalet, I was coming around the nearer we got to it and dialed Ambers phone.
"This is Amber, leave a message after the tone."
"Amber, where the fuck are you?? Ring me now. Fucking now do you hear me!" I was totally losing it now. My anniversary night had turned to complete shit.
Steve sat me on his sofa and put his piss-head wife to bed.
"Bloody hell Baz, what a fuck up this is?"
"Tell me about it!."
I sat there my head in my hands, "Where the fucking hell is she mate, I'll kill her when I see her and it better be soon too!"
Beep, Beep. A text message from her.
I stood and took the phone from the table and opened it to horror, a photo my wife naked on her hands and knees getting fucked from behind. I dropped the phone. My legs went from me and I fell to my knees on the floor. Steve came rushing across the room.
"What's happened mate, is she ok? Barry, what the fuck has happened to her?"
I sat motionless, unable to breathe, to focus, to talk. Steve picked up the phone.
"Oh shit! Oh fucking shit!"
I saw him staring at the picture of my wife getting fucked. His mouth agape. I couldn't move, I was in shock.
Beep, Beep, another came in while he had the phone in his hand, he opened it.
It was a video text, he turned it off immediately and threw me the handset. It hit me in the chest and fell to the floor again.
"Fuck I am sorry mate, I should not have seen that."