Funny how things work out sometimes, isn't it? If you'd told me six months ago that I'd be sitting here, with everything gone to hell like it has, I would've laughed in your face. But life has a way of setting you up right pretty and then knocking the foundations out from under you, y'know?
Six months ago, life was looking sweet. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't about to take over Microsoft or anything. But I had a job, a good steady job that I even liked going to; I was paying my bills and still had a bit left over for having fun. And I had Julia.
I reckoned I was about the luckiest man alive when she agreed to marry me. She was pretty without being stuck up about it, she was clever without being a smartass, she could cook and, damn, but she was just dynamite in bed.
She wasn't one of those women that just lie back and leave all the work to you, no way. Hell, sometimes I had trouble just keeping up with her.
I remember one time I came home from work, couldn't find her at first. Usually she'd call out from wherever she was when she heard the door.
I went through the whole house looking for her and I was just starting to think she wasn't home and wondering where she would've gone without taking her car when I heard a soft, muffled giggle.
She was in the closet, all hunkered in behind the winter coats, giggling at the sounds of me lumbering around the house trying to find her. And when I grabbed her and dragged her out of her hidey-hole, boy did I get a surprise!
You know why she was hiding? It was just to see the look on my face when I found her. See, she'd dressed up specially for me -- a corset thing that pushed her gorgeous titties up and out, itty bitty skirt that she only had to sway in to show off her bare ass, black lace stockings and spike heels.
Yeah, you get the picture all right!