AUTHOR'S NOTE
I wrote this story to please me. If it should please you also, that's icing on the cake. Since I'm always trying to improve my writing, I welcome all comments regarding the story, good or bad. Don't waste your time on the personal insults. If you are wise enough to actually offer ways I can improve, or point out something I should have done different AND how I should have done it, I'll be eternally grateful. My thanks to those who have made just such suggestions over the years.
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You want to know if something really loves you? Turn it loose. If it returns to you, it really loves you. My words seemed so wise back when my son was agonizing over his pet coyote pup rejoining its wild cousins.
Well, they came back to bite me in the ass the day Susan, my wife of twenty-five-five years, told me she loved another man as much as she loved me.
How do you react to those words? I wanted to hit her, or maybe just kill the other guy, kick her ass to the curb, but we didn't have a curb and I realized I didn't want to face life without her by my side, so I'd better think before I went off halfcocked.
Maybe, before I just drop something like that on you, I should go back to the beginning, or at least to the point when the world was young, we would always love each other, and live happily ever after.
Susan and I went to high school together...maybe I should rephrase that—we attended Jones High School at the same time. Besides sharing a lot of classes, she didn't know I existed.
The same couldn't be said of me. I was the nerdy kid who was a math whiz and a straight A student—you know the kind—the little bastard who always ruined the grading curve. No, I was too chicken to ask her out, but that didn't keep me from jacking off while looking at her picture in the yearbook. Man! Was she something, all dressed up in that cheerleader's outfit.
As you can probably guess Miss Susan Berry was the most popular girl in our class; the sweetheart of the school's star quarterback, Butch Andrews. Every girl in school was green with envy and jockeyed for 'Best Bud status'.
Yes, Susan Berry was completely out of my class. That's why I was dumbstruck the day she approached me after school. "Can I ask you something, Jack?" I'm sure the angels in heaven must have sounded just like that.
"Uh-uh sure...I guess." Was that really me? How could I sound so stupid? I mean, I could barely get those words out. Finally I managed to mutter, without sounding so juvenile, "What can I do for you, Susan?"
Well, it turned out that she needed help with her math class. "You simply must help me, Jack. You're the smartest boy in the class, and the only one I'd trust in a spot like this." She turned on that million dollar smile, fluttered those dark eyelashes and I was hooked. If she'd asked me to fight the entire football team, I'd have gotten my ass kicked, but I'd have torn into them, tooth and nail.
To make a long story short, we spent over an hour each day alone in her room while I drilled the most beautiful girl in the world, to me at least, on the finer points of math. I thought we'd become good friends, especially since Susan agreed to have a soda with me at Maxey's Drugs. This was back in the days small town drug stores still had a fountain and was the teenage hangout. Tame huh?
By then I was losing much of my shyness around girls, thanks to Susan, so one memorable day, when we were having a soda, I finally got up the nerve to go for it. "Susan", I said, trying to portray a confidence I didn't feel, "Would you do me the honor of being my date for the prom?" Yeah, I really got it out without stumbling over the words.
Sweet little Susan smiled and gently took my hand. Holding it in both of hers she answered. "You're sweet Jack, and I'm sure we'd have a good time, but I'm already going with Butch. You do know we're a couple, don't you?"
"Guess I forgot," I muttered, gathering up my books. I just had to get out of there. "Anyway, it's been a pleasure helping you and I'm sure you'll do well on the math exam. See you around." As I pushed out the front door I heard giggles and someone ask Susan why 'the nerd' would dare ask such a thing. I never did hear her reply.
Anyway, we finished the school year, I went on to study engineering at Clemson while Susan got a degree in nursing from Carolina. Butch had spent a lot more time studying football than any required subjects, so when his Dad's job transferred him up north, Butch and the rest of the family followed.
He'd hung around home until his family got settled in from the move and then joined the Army and stayed to make a career of it. Since his parents were no longer there, he never came back to Jones Corner until many years later.
I ran into Susan at a Carolina-Clemson game in our junior year at college. When I asked her to have one of the great milkshakes, Clemson's Ag Section sold, she agreed. From that humble beginning the rest, as they say, is history. Susan actually seemed to like being with me and if she didn't drive up to Clemson on weekends, I went down to Carolina. Weekdays, we burned up the phone lines between Clemson and Columbia.
Finally, after we'd been dating for five months with nothing more sexual than a lot of hot petting, I decided it was time to take the next step; it was time to make sweet little Susan a woman. Yeah, I was just that stupid; having always respected her and putting her on a pedestal, it didn't cross my mind that she'd have more experience than my four times with one girl, the first two of them were the thing TV comedies are made of, while the last two times I managed to hold out long enough to rock her world before filling a Trojan.
I planned it all out. I knew the perfect spot out by Lake Hartwell. We packed a tent and everything we might need for a weekend stay. I even made sure to pack a dozen condoms of different brands; you can't be too careful, you know, and I'd heard some girls preferred one brand over another. The trip was perfect; beautiful weather, beautiful woman in a skimpy bikini and me. What more could a fellow ask?
We spent the first day swimming and sunbathing. I liked the sunbathing best for I got to rub on the suntan lotion; especially the first time. I started with her back, moved down to the place her bottoms covered, then skipped to her feet and started north. I could feel her come unglued as my big hands covered every inch of her bare skin.
Finally I didn't stop at the bikini line; instead my fingers touched her secret place and it was like an electric shock shot through my body. The way she started squirming when my fingers slipped beneath the material, she must have felt the same. Before you could say boo, I had two fingers massaging her slick passage and she was groaning and begging me to stop teasing her. From then until we broke camp late Sunday afternoon we went through all but two of the condoms and I was completely head over heels in love.