The light of the full moon shone brightly on the placid water as my pontoon boat bobbed gently in this quiet cove at the northern end of Lake Martin. The lake was over 44,000 acres and had over 750 miles of shoreline with a couple of thousand homes located in various coves, but the cove I was in this evening was peaceful and isolated with only trees lining the shoreline and the blue sky slowly fading as the sun disappeared behind the trees. It was the place where I did some of my best thinking and I had a lot of thinking to do tonight.
My name is Matthew Durham and my family and I have lived on Lake Martin for almost three years now. I am the defensive coordinator at my alma mater after playing linebacker there over twenty years ago. I live here with my wife, Cheryl, and our two daughters, Megan and Emily. Cheryl is a CPA and works for a local accounting firm while Megan is starting her senior year of high school and Emily is a sophomore.
I thought I had the perfect life until reality stepped in at just past 5:00pm this evening and hit me square in the face. I had just returned home from work and went out to our pool house, which we use as a guest room, to make sure everything was prepared for my in-laws who are arriving tomorrow for the long Memorial Day weekend. I had checked the bathroom for fresh towels and was in the process of making sure the bed had been made up when I saw a piece of trash under the edge of the bed. As I reached down to pick it up, I realized that it was a condom wrapper.
I could feel my blood pressure rising almost immediately. I put the wrapper in my pocket for evidence for when I confronted Megan, our seventeen-year-old, when she arrived home from cheerleading practice. I was livid that she had snuck her boyfriend into the guest house. I guess I should be happy that she was at least practicing safe sex, but I was too angry at the fact that my baby was having sex at all to be placated by her "responsible" condom usage.
It was almost 5:30 as I paced around my office in the basement, waiting for her to get home from cheerleading practice. I kept playing the conversation out in my head, preparing for all of the denials and lies that I was sure would be coming when I showed her that wrapper. Then it occurred to me that the security cameras I had installed a few months ago would have the last seven days of video stored on the cloud, so I logged into my account to retrieve the video. If she tried to deny it, I would just show her the video and watch her squirm.
But I guess the joke was on me. The video didn't show Megan and her boyfriend Tyler sneaking into the guest house. It showed Cheryl going in, with my old college roommate and now soon to be ex-friend, Trevor. What the fuck! There in living color was my asshole of a friend stabbing me in the back with my lying, slut of a wife! This was the last thing I would have ever expected. Trevor and I had been friends since we lived together in college. He was a trainer for the football team and his girlfriend was a cheerleader. In fact, Trevor's then girlfriend, and now wife, Andrea had been the one that introduced me to Cheryl, who was her sorority sister at the time.
At that point, I downloaded the video to my phone and then to a memory stick that is now stored in the safe in my office at home. The good news was that Cheryl was out of town visiting a client and wouldn't be back until tomorrow and the girls weren't due home from cheerleading practice for another hour. So, I went down to the dock and took the boat out for a ride. That was about three hours ago and I've been anchored in this cove since then drinking scotch and trying to figure out just what the hell I'm going to do about all of this.
Through the fog of the scotch, the beginning of a plan started to form in my mind. Well, to be honest, I had already devised several plans that if successful would completely destroy both of them and probably result in me spending the rest of my life in prison. But, while I fully planned to rain fire and brimstone down on both of them, I needed to be a bit more careful when it came to Cheryl. I had to come up with something that would let her share in the pain she had caused without harming my girls.
I had just pulled up the anchor and started the boat to head home, noticing on my watch that it was almost 9:30 by now, when I looked at my phone and realized that there were five missed calls from the girls and three from Cheryl. I called the girls first to let them know that I had lost track of time and would be home soon. I then called Cheryl and gave her some lie about going out to fish a bit and losing track of time before telling her goodbye.
When I arrived back home, I stuck my head in the girl's bedrooms to wish them goodnight before they headed to bed, leaving me to think about my predicament with another glass of scotch. Slowly, the plan from earlier started to gel into a detailed roadmap of revenge, but I would need some help from Andrea, Trevor's wife, to make this work. I took a few notes and made plans to talk to her first thing tomorrow morning when I got to the office. Since she was the Associate Athletic Director for Football Operations, it would look perfectly normal for her to be in my office with the door closed.
As soon as the girl's left for school, I headed straight for the office to talk to Andrea and explained my suspicions and what I had found. Apparently, she wasn't as shocked as I was because after I told her everything she said, "My God Matt, I knew he was angry, but I never thought he would do something like this!"
"I'm sorry, but you lost me there. First, why was he angry and second what does that have to do with me and Cheryl?"
"Well, he was angry, because he found out about you and I being together back in college during that time when he and I were having some problems. I'm guessing that he went after Cheryl to get back at you."
"How the hell did he find out about that after all these years? I know I didn't tell him, so that only leaves one other person."
Andrea was quite for a few seconds before she answered "I promise you that I never told him. But He did overhear me talking to Paula Brock, my old roommate, a couple of months ago and we had this big fight afterward. But I had no idea that he would do something like this."
"I know I'm going to regret asking this, but how exactly did you and good ole Paula get on the subject of me and our sex lives way back in college?" I asked.
"Well, she had come to visit for the weekend and we had been drinking quite a bit that evening. Trevor had gone to bed hours earlier and we thought he was asleep. We got to talking about the 'good old days' when she asked if I knew what had happened to that football player with the big cock that spent fall break weekend with us during our junior year up at that cabin in the mountains. So, I told her that you married one of my sorority sisters and that we worked together now and that me and Trevor still hung out with you guys some. We were both drunk and had no idea that Trevor had come down to the kitchen for a drink and heard every word we said."
"Fuck! No wonder he was mad. But you did explain to him that it was a long time ago and that we were just kids, right? My God, I bet he told Cheryl about what he heard and somehow used it to weasel his way into her panties!"
"I tried to explain it to him, but you haven't heard the worst part yet. Before we realized that he was up, we were laughing and joking about how that was the best sex either of us had ever had. Then Paula asked if I had ever snuck over to your house over the years to get a proper fucking. I laughed and told her no, If I let Matt fuck me with that big cock of his again it would ruin me for normal sex with Trevor's average cock. As soon as the words were out of my mouth, I realized that he was standing behind me and that I had fucked up royally."
"Well shit, that's just great. But still, I don't care what he found out, it didn't give him the right to fuck up my marriage. Hell, we were just kids back then and he was cheating on you then too. So, that leaves me with just two more questions. First, does he still think that it was only that one weekend, or does he have any idea that the two of us kept hooking up for close to a year after that weekend? Second, are you going to help me teach them a lesson they will never forget?"
"As far as I know, he only knows about that weekend. Hell, I never told him anything different. Now, why don't you tell me exactly what it is that you have in mind."
Andrea was just pissed off enough to agree to help me, so I laid out the plan for her and told her I would give her the final details when I had everything arranged. I then spent the rest of the morning calling my lawyer and having him draw up divorce papers to be served when the time was right. Then, I went to the electronics store and bought some really small high definition cameras to hide inside the pool house. They were motion activated and when I tested them, they made crystal clear video and audio recordings. Now, all I had to do was be patient and avoid sex with the cheating slut until the trap was sprung.
I didn't have to wait long. The following Wednesday, while I was out of town doing a meet and greet thing with some of our big dollar donors at the offseason booster meetings, they returned to the pool house and fucked like crazy for about an hour before cleaning up and leaving. That evening, I downloaded the videos and printed a number of close ups to be used later. The next day I called Andrea into my office and showed her the videos.