Forward
If you have not read my "Harmless Flirting" story already, I strongly recommended that you do so, BEFORE reading any of the three endings. I was very torn over how to end this one so I decided to offer a variety. I will be interested in the acceptance of each ending and am uploading them one at a time to allow the reader to digest an ending before rushing to the next offering.
Note: In each of the 3 endings, Donna's character is tweaked slightly to fit that ending.
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In the same vein as TV shows who include at the beginning: "Last time on..."
When we left Donna and Will she had caught a ride home with Jack. She came in the house while Will was watching video clips of dancing: he and Chrissy, plus Donna and whoever. After some discussion, Will decides to not talk anymore till the next day when they both are sober, he directed Donna to the master bedroom and he elected the spare room.
I'll resume the tale the following morning, with both of them awake, Donna pouring two coffees, while Will boots up his laptop, so that they can view the video clips that were being played the night before.
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Chrissy spoke first, "Will, I don't really need to see these clips again; I get your point. Besides I think that you went further with Chrissy, than I ever did with anyone."
"Actually, I think we both need to look at them at least one more time through stone cold sober eyes," Will asserted and started the clips in a loop, same as the previous night.
As the clips played, Will compared the similarities of his and Chrissy's moves, to what Donna did with her various dance partners. The likeness of one to the other was striking, but not unexpected since Will and Chrissy had patterned their moves by watching videos of Donna.
In truth, Will had gone a little further feeling up Chrissy's tits than any of Donna's recordings had showed her allowing. To be completely fair however, considering most of Donna's dances were not recorded, a high likelihood existed that equally unacceptable touching had taken place during Donna's dancing, but just wasn't recorded. Further, Will would not have done this at all, were it not for his perceived need to try and shock Donna into understanding the hurt and disrespect she had been bestowing on him.
As a clip of Donna grinding on some guy played, she began to sob. She didn't even know this guy's name, yet she was allowing him to hold her hips, while she humped her ass back at him. Watching her own actions through sober eyes, matching Will and Chrissy's nearly identical moves, were forcing her to come to terms with the truth of her own behavior.
Another clip of Will and Chrissy started, even with the knowledge that this had all been staged, Donna still felt the pangs of jealousy and hurt, as her husband seemed to enjoy the intimacy of another woman.
Will noticed her struggling to watch Chrissy and him, then said, "The hurt that you are feeling now is what I've been feeling for a long time, while you insisted that it was only 'harmless flirting,' and that I should be OK with it."
Donna answered, "Last night, after you left, Cindy came up to me and said, 'How does it feel?' I was trying to tell you last night that Cindy had really read me the riot act. She shoved everything up in my face, my flirting, my dancing, my drinking, and how she warned me that my actions would lead to trouble. But most of all, that she was disgusted with me for what I was putting you through."
She then made an attempt at getting an, 'I am so sorry' out, but the words caught in her throat.
Will took the lead, "Donna you have hurt me more than I can adequately describe. Watching you, my wife, my soul mate, the love of my life behaving with other men as if you are disgusted, bored or full of distain and disrespect for me, just because I couldn't dance well enough to suit you has injured me. Injured, perhaps beyond repair the way I feel about you, and about us. Right now, I'm of the belief that no matter how well I danced, you would have still sot out other men to have hot dances with. At least your philandering is contained to dancing, I think, but truthfully, I'm not sure if it is. At this point your lying causes me to doubt all that you say."
Donna tried again, "Oh Will, I love you so much and I am so sorry that I have done this to you, causing you to doubt my love for you, and my faithfulness. I have never, ever, had sex with anyone since the day we met, please believe me. You are my one and only." She wanted to continue but tears and sobbing caused her to pause.
He declared, "There is only one path for me. I cannot condone the disrespect, the lying and the playful interaction with other men that you seem to think is OK, or how you put it: 'Harmless flirting,' and so, considering what I expect of a wife, I think I need to move on, without you."
This brought a shriek from Donna, and nonstop begging for Will to reconsider. She pleaded that the events of the previous night had truly opened her eyes. "Seeing you dance like that with Chrissy, and the unmistakable look in her eyes, that she would give herself to you, had me so jealous and angry I wanted to lash out. But after Cindy reamed me, I had to face some ugly truth about myself. When I came home last night, I admit that I was still trying to defend my actions, but through sober eyes I see that I have no defense. Nor do you have any guilt."
She continued, "I swear, if you'll stay, I'll make you so glad you did. I will never, ever, hurt, lie, or disrespect you again. Please give me the chance, I'll do anything, anything at all."
"Donna, how do I wash my mind of these images? If I reach out to caress your butt, the image of all of those guys feeling up your ass, with your consent springs into my mind, ending whatever love I was feeling. If I move up behind you, scenes of you being held by the hips as some random guy grinds his dick in your ass crack, while you enthusiastically push back, destroys any tender moment. My mind is full of these kinds of conflicts. How can you fix that?"
The mental images that Will was describing to her, reflected his mind's exaggerated interpretation of what had actually taken place. Her actions were not as lewd as what stuck in Will's memory, but what she had actually done, was not defensible. So, Donna was stuck with not being able to counter his claims.
She attempted an explanation, "Until I saw the videos of my dancing, particularly ones taken after I had a few drinks, I would have called anyone a liar that accused me of doing what the video clearly showed me doing. I couldn't see it, before.
Cindy, during her reaming of my butt said it was clear that I needed to quit drinking, that it affected my judgement. She confessed to me that she was a recovering alcoholic and that she was highly familiar with the destructive possibilities of drink. She also said that you knew, about her, in fact it was you that saved her and Dave from ruin. That if you hadn't intervened and got her started at AA they probably would be divorced.
I'll make no attempt to hide my disgusting behavior behind alcohol, I must own up to the truth and take responsibility. But, I will quit all drinking for you."
"I have no comment about Cindy, that was a long time ago, her and Dave are good, Will continued, "But then, there's the lying. You made a deliberate, sober decision to lie to my face. What could possibly convince me that you would never again scheme to deceive me? How could I ever believe you without some doubt?"
"Will, I can't defend the lying. I can only explain why, that I felt you had no right to prevent me from doing something that I wanted to do. I knew in my soul that you would not be ok with me going dancing, so I justified betraying your trust, to get what I thought was my right. Now, I realize how wrong I was. Even if I was right about an issue, lying to you in order to avoid having the confrontation was wrong. I was so wrong, about so many things. Please, I'm begging you, please allow me the chance to prove that I'll never again betray your trust or your love."
Donna makes her final plea, "Will, I swear, I swear to you on my life, I love you and I am willing to do anything to keep us together; I will never, ever, lie to you again; I will quit drinking; quit dancing; anything that you require of me if you'll allow me to remain your wife."
Will realized that he hadn't connected her drinking directly to the dancing. Sure, he, like everyone noticed that as the night wore on, her dancing changed from slightly unacceptable to slutty. Normally, she didn't drink enough to be what would normally considered drunk, so her actions while dancing didn't seem to be a direct result of the booze. Instead, it appeared to many that she just got more wound up as the night went on, like a child does while playing; upping the activity until the parent blows a gasket. Will had to pause and wonder if the alcohol played a bigger part in this that anyone realized, except maybe Cindy.
This new info was giving him pause. In his mind he laid out the facts and options,