Growing up I wondered why my parents changed not only our location, but my name, two times that I could remember. I found out when I turned eighteen. After heaving a few big sighs, and with one tear glistening in her left eye, my mother said "Brandon," my name at the time, "I need to tell you about why certain things transpired in your life, including your name changes."
I had always been curious about the name changes, one when I was six from Tom Simpson to Kevin Harris, and one when I was eleven from Kevin Harris to Brandon Bolter, but since neither parent ever would discuss it I hadn't brought it up for years. "I'm anxious to find out Mom," was my response.
After another sigh, and a second tear, Mom continued: "When you were six years old I testified in court about what some bad people had done. The Federal Prosecutors were afraid that the lives of our family members were in danger so we were put in Witness Protection, otherwise known as WITSEC. We changed names and locations as soon as the trial was over. When you were eleven the U S Marshall in charge of us was concerned that we may have been exposed, so we had to change our identities and location a second time."
"Is the threat still real?" I inquired.
"Probably not, since the Marshalls believe that the organization I testified against is virtually non-existent, having been relentlessly pursued by Federal and State authorities for the last twelve years. However, your father, sister Melissa, and I, will probably stay in WITSEC until Melissa turns eighteen, just to be sure. Since you're going off to college and starting life as an adult we wanted you to know the situation," she continued.
We talked for another half hour or so, and as we were concluding I surprised myself by asking "Do you have my birth certificate of me as Tom Simpson?"
Mom went to a strongbox in her bedroom and returned with my Tom Simpson birth certificate, an original Social Security card, perfect Social Security cards and fake birth certificates for Kevin Harris and Brandon Bolter, as well as a few other documents. As she handed them to me she chuckled "You already have documentation for two aliases but don't use them unless you're trying to flee from a bad relationship."
I opened up a safe deposit box in a national bank and put all of the documents in there, along with my High School State Championship medal for javelin (only eighteen states have High School javelin, where I went to school was one of them).
Over the next month my conversation with my mother caused me to deal with a number of issues that had bothered me when I grew up, including the fairly cloistered upbringing that Melissa and I had, the angst that my parents felt when I insisted on joining the track and field team in High School, their unwillingness to have photographs taken that could make it outside of our house, and numerous other minor-to-major idiosyncrasies that arose during my childhood.
Although I did get some self-confidence from track and field and from the decent grades that I got (good enough to get into college) probably because of my unsettled childhood I didn't have the self-confidence that a 5 foot 11 Β½ inch (182 m) 175 pound (79 kg) good-looking (at least according to my mother, sister, and my sister's friends) guy should have. This included an aversion to physical confrontation.
Other quirks that I had - I didn't like real team sports like football (for javelin, and the 400 meter, my events in track and field, I did my own thing), hot cars, or other typical macho things; and I liked plays, especially musicals, opera, and art.
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By the time that I graduated college my parents and sister had been out of WITSEC for about a year since the organization that had posed a threat was now non-existent, but of course we all kept our "Bolter" surname and identities. Out of college I started dating a woman that I met at a singles outing by the name of Jill Gerson. We seemed to be quite compatible except for the fact that Jill exuded self-confidence, and I was still lacking in that department.
As I got to know Jill better I found out that she really had a volatile personality. It didn't really turn me off, but made me a little cautious. However, Jill's sex appeal ultimately overcame any hesitancy that I had about a relationship. Jill had a heavy-duty (not in any way fat, just solid) chassis, a high libido, a hypersensitive clitoris, and a snug pussy. Plus my cock fit her vagina perfectly and my tongue seemed to be attracted to her clit like a nail to a magnet.
Jill and I got married by a justice of the peace with only our parents and siblings in attendance; neither of us wanted a big to-do. We went on a quick honeymoon to Niagara Falls, where we essentially didn't leave the room until our mating parts were too raw to continue servicing each other, and started out married life with decent jobs in a nice apartment in a big city.
Married life with Jill was good for two years; we made love regularly, had a good group of friends, went to every art gallery or museum in the area, and spent a good bit of our discretionary income on theater. However, after about twenty six months of marriage Jill started having physical problems. First her menstrual periods started becoming irregular, something that had never happened to her before. Then her breasts sometimes exuded a milky substance. When we were having a normal sexual encounter and she had to stop because her vagina hurt I insisted that she see a doctor.
Fortunately, the first doctor (Jacquelyn Gilbert) that Jill went to knew her stuff, because after two consultations on successive days and a few tests Dr. Gilbert diagnosed the problem as a non-cancerous growth on Jill's pituitary gland called a prolactinoma/ hyperprolactinemia. Since it had been caught early there was no permanent damage (such as infertility) and treatment was also relatively simple. Dr. Gilbert prescribed a dopamine agonist to be taken three times a day, and then after two months tapering off to two times daily, and after another month once daily.
The treatment bordered on miraculous; within six weeks she was back to her old self. Within eight weeks she seemed to be better than ever, at least in the sexual department, since we had sex of one form or another virtually every day, including when she had her now regular period. Already naturally passionate with a high libido Jill's passion and libido seemed to escalate to even higher levels.
I was so pleased with the enhanced sex - and the accompanying passion - that some things I normally would have noticed the significance of apparently slipped by me. These things included Jill sometimes putting a pair of panties in her purse when she left for work, a second cellphone I noticed sometimes in our apartment guest room, and the inability to get her on the phone around lunchtime much more regularly than normal. When one morning, after a normal night of passionate love-making, I was more alert than normal I saw her surreptitiously put a pair of panties and the strange cellphone into her purse and I couldn't get ahold of her at lunchtime I finally became suspicious.
Near the end of the lunch hour I drove the ten minutes from my office to Jill's and waited outside. About 1:30 I saw her dropped off in front of her office by a guy in a BMW. The kiss on the lips that they exchanged before she hopped out of the car disturbed me. When she arrived home that night I made a point - while playfully ginning her up - of looking at her panties - they were the color of the pair I saw her put in her purse that morning.
Despite my suspicions Jill and I had another set of mutual rip-roaring orgasms that night, and she didn't feel or act any differently than normal. That didn't put me off the scent, however.
Now on guard I more carefully watched Jill. When two mornings later I saw her again surreptitiously put a pair of panties and the 2nd cellphone in her purse I was waiting outside her office at 11:30 the next morning. At 11:54 the same BMW I had seen before pulled up, Jill quickly exited her building and entered the vehicle, and they took off. I was easily able to follow them in my non-descript white Toyota that looked like hundreds of other cars on the road at the same time.
I only had to follow the BMW for two or three miles before it turned into the driveway of a detached house, at least fifty feet from neighbors on either side. After Jill and her friend exited the vehicle they kissed and then walked to the front door, him with his hand on her ass, her with a smile on her face. I parked on the street in front of the house, got out, and pounded on the door. The guy who answered was significantly larger than I was and apparently didn't appreciate my pounding. "What do you want?" he snarled.
I saw Jill in the background - she glanced at me and at least had the courtesy to blush.
"I want to talk to your slut girlfriend asswipe," I snarled back, and then tried to enter.
He pushed me to the ground and when I got up punched me. It hurt. "Get off my property or I'll kick your ass," he yelled. Jill was nowhere to be seen.
Still confrontation-averse at that point in my life I slinked back to my car, went home to patch up my nose and gather the things that I'd need for the next few days, and drove back to my office. I had turned off my cellphone but saw that there was a message from Jill's main cellphone. I didn't bother to check it.
At work I asked the HR person in charge if I could use one of the three apartments my firm had for out-of-town clients for the next week or so. She checked the schedule, told me that one was available but that I'd have to get approval from one of the VPs. I got approval by lying that my apartment house had had a bad fumigation experience, and moved in that night.
That night I took stock of myself. I was embarrassed by my physical confrontation with Jill's lover, and wondered why I was confrontation-averse and what the source of my lack of self-confidence was. As I looked in the mirror I didn't like what I saw; a good-looking wimp. That was the end of that persona.