I looked up from the contract I was reviewing when she walked into my office. Being a gentleman I of course greeted her warmly.
"What the fuck do you want?"
"I'm pregnant."
"So?"
"So what are we going to do about it?"
"What's with this we shit? You're the one whose pregnant not me."
"You're the father."
"And I'm supposed to take your word for it? Not bloody fucking likely."
"You're the only one who did me without protection so it has to be you."
"Not buying it. Rubbers are not one hundred percent effective. Says so right on the package that they are not completely effective. Besides you were in no condition to even notice if I was the only one who didn't use a condom. I fucked you from behind and there was no way you could have seen if I was wearing a condom or not. And it was obvious from all the soup that was in your cunt that quite a few did you without protection."
"I asked the others who were there and they said that you were the only one who didn't use a condom."
"Right! Like they were going to admit not using so they could be accused of being the daddy? You were so out of it on booze or drugs that you probably didn't even remember your own name."
"I remember a lot more than you think. I remember that you are the only one who did me five times. I remember you were the only one who did me anally. I remember about you bragging about pulling off what you called a hat trick by doing me in all three holes. I remember you saying "Take this you miserable bitch" as you pounded my ass. I also remember that what you did was actually rape when you get right down to it. I remember telling you that you couldn't do me without protection. I remember you saying "Fuck you bitch" and then taking me anyway."
"Get serious here Toni. As much as you dislike me if you really thought it was rape you would have called the cops on me. And I wasn't the only one who did your ass. You were being three-holed when I walked into the room. The fact that you did what you did with me being there shows you were too out of it to be thinking clearly."
"That doesn't change the fact that you are the father of the child I'm carrying."
"We are at what is called an impasse. You say I am and I say I am not. Me being me I will of course go with what I believe. I will give you this much. When you spit out the critter I'll submit to a DNA test. Now will you please leave my office so I can get back to work?"
She stood there staring at me and my mind went back in time.
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My relationship (or lack of one) with Antonia Marie Byrns went back to the seventh grade. In our town there were four elementary schools that took you from kindergarten to the fifth grade, three middle schools that took you from the sixth to the ninth grade and one high school.
Toni and I met on the first day of middle school and the meeting set the tone of our future relationship. I'd just gotten off the school bus and was walking toward the entrance when a limo pulled up to the curb and an extremely good looking girls got out. I'd gotten past the point where I thought girls were 'icky' and I smiled to myself as I thought "I know who I'm going to make my first new friend here."
She must have thought she was going to be late because she was almost running when she got to where I was standing and watching her. In addition to hurrying she wasn't paying any attention to her surroundings and she ran into me. She snarled (yes-snarled):
"Watch were you're going you stupid clod."
I of course acted like a gentleman. "Up yours bitch!" I said and headed on into the building. She hurried after me and when she caught up with me she grabbed my arm and pulled me to a stop.
"What did you call me?"
"You mean you're stupid too? You must be if you didn't understand me" and then I jerked my arm away from her and went into the building. That short episode had long reaching effects where I was concerned.
Toni was the daughter of the wealthiest man in town and she apparently believed that she was better than the rest of us. She appointed herself Queen Bee. Boys were fascinated by her and wanted to be her boyfriend and girls wanted to be like her so they flocked around her probably in the hopes that some of whatever it was that she had would rub off on them.
I most definitely did not feel the way towards her others did. Our short first meeting showed me what kind of person she was and I never forgot it. Of course she never forgot our first meeting either and I was on Toni's permanent shit list and she made sure that her 'circle' (which was nearly two-thirds of our class) knew it and knew she would be displeased if any of them had anything to do with me.
I found that I was excluded from a lot because of the way Toni felt about me. This naturally reinforced my opinion of her; that she was just a spoiled cunt.
By the time the eighth grade rolled around I was old enough to want to date, but all the girls I wanted to date were part of Toni's circle and wouldn't have anything to do with me. And Toni got her jollies out of it. She loved to rub it in.
"Hear Sandy turned you down. Maybe you should do something about your breath. Or maybe it's your body odor; you think?"
Fortunately there was one area where she had zero clout. Sports! I participated in all the ball sports; basket, foot and base and I was pretty good in all of them (even if I do say so myself). Even though I was good I never got to date a cheerleader because - you guessed it - they were all part of Toni's circle.
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Things got better when I moved up to high school. Kids from the other two middle schools were there and they didn't know Toni. She of course tried to appoint herself Queen Bee again, but it didn't work for her because the other two schools had their own cliques and circles and to them Toni was an outsider.
I met new kids, made new friends and was finally able to find girls to date. That didn't mean that my relationship with Toni faded into the background. She still took shots at me whenever she could and I think my totally ignoring her and whatever she did was the best way I had of getting back at her.
It helped that I constantly managed to piss her off without even meaning to. We both ran for class president and I beat her by a two to one margin. Her boyfriend was the teams quarterback and I was a wide receiver. She had him wrapped around her little finger and she managed to talk him into keeping the ball away from me. If I was all alone and didn't have a defender within ten feet of me he still wouldn't throw me the ball.
We lost two games that we should have easily won because of it and a couple of team members who knew what was going on told the coach and he benched Ryan. Coach told Ryan that the only way he would ever get into another game was if something happened to Donny who was backup and Marc who was the third string. This pissed Ryan off enough that he kicked Toni to the curb and she of course blamed me for the breakup. I just ignored her as usual.
When it was junior prom time she lobbied heavily to be prom queen, but she didn't even make it to be part of the court. Yours truly on the other hand, while not being named king, I was a member of the court. Come senior prom it was a repeat. She didn't make queen or court while I was prom king. I heard through the grapevine she was claiming I had sucked a lot of dicks to get the votes. That was an out and out lie although I may have eaten a pussy or three.
I never went out of my way to antagonize Toni, but fate had a way of seeing to it I managed. Like the time after basketball practice when I went out to student parking to get in my car. It was raining and I noticed Toni in her car having troubles. The headlights kept going dim then bright and then dim again. It was obvious to me that her battery just didn't have enough juice to start the car.
I didn't like her, but I'm not a complete asshole so I started up my car, drove over and parked it hood to hood with hers. I got out, walked up to her window and told her to pop the hood and I'd use my jumper cables to get her going.
"Buzz off asswipe; I don't need your help."
I got back in my car and left her there. I heard later it took Triple A three hours to get to her. I also heard how she was telling everyone that she asked me for help and I had just laughed at her and drove off. It didn't help her reputation any when one of my teammates said he saw it all and she was lying through her teeth.
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Graduation came and I figured that Toni would be history. I was staying home and going to State while she was going back east to some prestigious woman's college.
I had a good four years at State. My major was Business Management and I did well carrying a 3.84 GPA. Unlike high school where I lettered in three sports I could only go out for one in college because of my class load. I did well enough on the football field to be a sixth round draft pick, but I had no interest in playing pro ball.
As graduation neared I started sending out resumes and heard back from several. I interviewed with four of them, received offers from three and ended up choosing ZYX because it was local and I wouldn't have to relocate which was a good thing because I was perfectly content with where I was. I had plenty of friends and while there was no lady in my life I dated a lot and got laid enough to keep me happy.
I'd had plenty of girlfriends, but nothing that ever lasted for one reason or other. Actually, to be truthful about it, the girl usually dumped me for someone else. I never figured out why. We would get along great for about four or five months and then one day I would be told I was no longer wanted. Since I was never that upset over any of the breakups it was probably a good sign that they weren't going to end up being long term anyway.
There were two of my high school and college classmates working at ZYX, Audrey and Carol, and I had dated them both while in college, but there had been no spark between us. We had managed to stay friends (and in Aud's case friends with benefits) and I was occasionally asked to be an escort when one of them needed a date for some function or social event.
I'd been with ZYX a little over seven months when it came time for the company Christmas party. I currently wasn't seeing anyone and neither was Audrey so she asked me to be her date. We were sitting at a table with several colleagues when SHE walked in on the arm of an older man. Aud was siting opposite me and when she saw the look of disgust come over my face.
"What's wrong Jake?"
