Katy and I had only been together just short of a year after having met each other online. Her living in California and my living in Ohio made the 1st few months pretty difficult as it was a long distance relationship.
Katy at the time was an entrepreneur and I was in between jobs after my father had passed away suddenly. So this adventure time out well for both of us.
We began our meetings by flying to each other's homes and staying there a week at a time, and after we determined our chemistry was significant enough, we worked it out that I would give it a try to come out to California for a 3 month dry run living together full time.
Katy was very appealing to me as she was in her mid 30s with an athletic build as she went biking 10-20 miles a day to stay fit and was an avid golfer. Her competitive spirit drove us both to the brink of insanity because it was never my thing to finish 2nd at anything.
Considering that besides her, I had no other personal connections in California, my social life revolved around her and her circle of friends. This was before the social networking sites were mainstream, so I was pretty much on an island in California of all places.
One of her friends was John who was dating Lauren at the time I met him at first, but later on got dumped because of his obsession with porn. He and Katy had been friends for years as John worked in a law office that Katy had had dealings with and she had never had relations with him and for the friendship decided she never would and he obliged that request.
John was not a fan of mine from the very beginning. Both he and Katy were both college graduates whereas I was not and the fact that Katy was racking in 6 figures made him, and others believe I was a leach that had found a windfall in meeting Katy. This was never more apparent a couple months after our 1st meeting when I heard him tell her that she could do better. I kept my cool and addressed it with Katy after our night out with John and his girlfriend and I never saw John again.
When our dry run period had come to its end in August, after a fun summer of adventure and great sex, reality sunk in. With limited social circles and my inability to find adequate work out in Cali along with other mitigating circumstances, we decided it was not meant to be and I came home to Ohio. During her visits to Ohio, Katy could not reconcile the differences of climates and lifestyles between the 2, so she did not follow me.
As we had done previously before our dry run, we would chat on the computer and talk to each other on the phone and enjoyed some erotic conversations so much to the point we both considered maintaining a friends with benefits relationship and my coming back to visit every so often.
Then both the worst and best conversation of my life took place early on a Saturday morning as my phone rang at 6: 36 am as I will never forget waking up so early and seeing my clock and wondering who is calling so early. It was Katy. And here is the conversation to the best of my recollection:
Me: Hello
Katy: (about 5 seconds of silence) Michael, did I wake you?
Me: What's wrong? Why are you calling so early?
Katy: (more silence) I needed to talk to you. Something happened tonight.
Me: (having realized the 3 hour time difference from our previous conversations, I realized it was still her Friday night vs my Saturday morning even with being woken up as I was) What happened honey?
Katy: Do you remember John?
Me: Yea, the guy who told you that you could do better than me.
Katy: (sighs) Yeah. Well he did something tonight. I can't believe he did it and I...
Me: (choked up) Kate, did you sleep with John?
Katy: NO! NO! NO! I told you I would never sleep with him.
Me: (relieved) Ok, ok. Settle down. (As I could hear her sulking a bit at my accusation) What exactly did he do?
Katy: I am so embarrassed. I can't believe I did this. (sulking all the more)
Me: Did he hurt you Kate? I swear I will be out there as soon as I can and I will take care of John.
Katy: No he didn't hurt me.
Me: Then what? What has gotten you so upset?
Katy: You promise you won't be mad.
Me: Mad about what?
Katy: You have to promise.
Me: OK, I promise.
Katy: You have been gone a month now and I know we have our fun together chatting and talking.....I have missed you so much.
Me: I miss you too baby.
Katy: (sulking a little more) John introduced me to 1 of his lawyer friends tonight when I met him for dinner and he let me drive his BMW.
Me: (realizing she went on a date, I sat up on my bed in a cold chill trying to compose myself)
Katy: Michael, are you still there?
Me: Yeah, I am here
Katy: I am so sorry I called you. This is so not right.
Me: It's ok. I ... I am ok. We are friends and you called your friend no matter what (still in a daze from having just woken up, but fully aware that this was a bad start to my Saturday)
Katy: Are you sure? (sulking) I don't know who to talk to about this and I can't even think about John anymore after what he did to me.
Me: What exactly did John do exactly if he did not fuck you?
Katy: (silence for about 10 seconds)
Me: Katy?
Katy: You promise you will not get mad?
Me: I promise
Katy: He set me up with his lawyer friend who let me drive his BMW back to his place.
Me: OK
Katy: Well, when we got back to his apartment, John was there with another of his lawyer friends, and at 1st, I was relieved because I figured we were just gonna hang out, you know.
Me: (trying to picture the scene she is laying out) Ok
Katy: Then John......
Me: Katy? What did John do?
Katy: He said he wanted to see me do better than you and wanted me to fuck his friends.
Me: (stunned) He what!
Katy: You promised you wouldn't be mad.
