I'm having a very sad day.
Billy told me I was fat and that's why he's not that into me anymore.
He didn't actually say anything, or use words, but I just knew what he was thinking. He wasn't the verbal kind - instead guess he just worked long hours and paid the bills while I ran the household single-handedly.
For years I've been horribly depressed over my appearances. I knew he thought I was ugly because he neglected me so badly. I mean, yes, he touched me and told me all the right things and was always there for me but I knew he was lying and I couldn't stand that dishonesty so I gave him the space he needed. Because I was fat and ugly.
My new cell phone buzzed and it was Billy texting, asking what I wanted for dinner. I replied that I was too depressed to think about it so I'd go shopping for some clothes. He replied "OK, I'll pick up some groceries. Love you," but I knew he lied.
That made me feel more sad so I went and put on a garter belt with tan Cuban lace thigh highs to make me feel prettier. Ugly girls needed all the help they could get, and it felt good to have guys stare. It took attention away from my face. Took me awhile to pick out the right Anne Taylor skirt I bought last week, but I finished getting dressed and then put on makeup. My face was too bony and had sharp lines everywhere so I needed lots of makeup.
Picking up my quilted Vera Bradley bag, I sighed because Billy didn't think I deserved a better one this week and headed to the garage. I sat in the used Range Rover he bought me and turned on the seat warmers. Billy bought me the 2016 Evoque with 2,000 miles on it already and that made me feel like a worthless whore. Guess he didn't think a fat ugly wife deserved a new one. Sometimes I scratched it carelessly, to show him how I felt about it.
Anyhow, I pulled in the Saks parking lot and adjusted myself in the mirror. A very different face than I knew stared back: this one with beautiful opaline eyes, naturally pouting lips, a dainty nose and velvety eyelashes.
The mirror always lied. It showed me in all the false colors, with fair glossy skin and wrong geometry. The bathroom mirror lied even more, making it seem like I had firm abs and huge tits, but it was just the optical distortion because I was fat and ugly and flat-chested.
The store didn't really have anything I was interested in so I just grabbed a few random items I was never gonna wear and paid for them with Billy's MasterCard, then went to a lingerie store to get a new bra. There's nothing more tragic than a fat girl with small tits, so I felt really self-conscious browsing through B cups.
Some annoying clerk or whatever came by to suggest I needed at least a D cup an isle away, but I waved her away and kept dry fitting the bras through my top. I definitely knew I was a B cup.
Though, for some reason, I wasn't the exact B size the industry manufactured, so only the really stretchy B cups fit me. Even so, they always felt tight and made my breasts spill out somehow and I never understood why. I grabbed a few bras and matching panties.
The cashier asked me if I was buying these for my daughter, and I flushed red with embarrassment. I put up with a lot of shit over my appearances, and I wasn't going to let this woman walk all over me and put me in the spotlight so I exploded at her.
"I didn't come here for your judgemental preaching", I screamed. Thankfully, that got her to shut up and just do her job. How could she say something that hurtful, to a customer, humiliating me in front of everyone?
Some of the other clerks stared but said nothing, and I had too much pride to show them how much they hurt me so I just glared until they were done and then walked to my Range Rover. Inwardly, I was beside myself.
As soon as I shut the door, I hit the starter button, turned off the stupid eco-friendly engine feature and put on the new bra and panties while struggling to manoeuvre in the seat. My nipples kept slipping out to the side of the new bra, but I guess that's how they fit sometimes. Then, I peeled out of the parking lot.
What I needed was some affirmation that despite being fat and ugly, I was beautiful on the inside, so I texted Mike to see what he was doing. Mike was just a friend and he could be honest with me since he had nothing to gain from it. At the red light I asked him.
"what r u doin8g?"
He replied within a minute, "working from home today, all alone."
"bought new panties n bra"
Alright, so sometimes I flashed him my bra or panties to ask for his opinion but there was nothing funny about that. I just needed to know if it looked good on me.
He replied in minutes, "cant wait to feel them."
Well, ok so sometimes I needed to know if they were soft enough or if they were form-fitting enough or if they let my fat spill out so I let him touch me through my panties and bra. There was still nothing bad about that, since this was almost a clinical level of support.
I really just needed him to tell me that I wasn't ugly. He really understood me. He wasn't a selfish brute like Billy was. The phone buzzed again.
"need a bj bad"
Well Mike had an unimaginative wife and sometimes, just as a friend, I would give him head. That's just what friends do for each other when they've been beaten up emotionally by their neglectful husbands and Mike really understood me. He could be honest with me when everyone else lied to my face.
Within minutes I pulled up in his driveway and strutted toward his front door in my last week's high heels. He opened the door wearing a bath robe, and whistled.
"Damn April, you look stunning."
Even though he was honest with me, he lied about little things like that. It's okay because I trusted him enough so I could appreciate his false flattering.
I smiled and walked past him, kissing his cheek. Hope he could smell my new perfume because it was really expensive. I didn't wear it at home because I knew Billy wouldn't appreciate little things like that. As I brushed past him, he put his hands around my waist and kissed my neck. I could never understand how he could get his hands around my big waist. I was a big girl, a fat girl, like some kind of a whale, and he was a 5'8" skinny build.