Editor's note: this story contains scenes of non-consensual or reluctant sex.
Author's Note: I got my usual edit on this story and then dramatically changed the content. I take responsibility for any and all grammatical mistakes in this one. As usual with my work, this is a weird one that strains the boundaries of believability. Still hope you enjoy. No one under 18 had sex.
THE LETTER FROM MY WIFE
"Foster, I don't know why you chose to do what you did, but I can't let you take me down with you. I have been cursed, spit on, slapped, hit and both my car and our house has been vandalized. On the advice of my family and friends I am filing for divorce and moving away. Please don't try and contact me.
"I know you want me to believe your side of the story about what went on with you and that girl, but there seems to be no evidence to back up your story. I really wanted to believe your story, honestly, I did. You may think I am a coward for deserting you, but I see it as being realistic about protecting my future. It looks like you will be in jail a long, long time. I am happy now that we did not have children who would have to grow up in the shadow of your shame.
"My feelings are too raw right now I can't write anymore. I hope the other prisoners don't treat you too badly. Good-bye.
"Barbara."
MY STORY
'The Bad Samaritan,' that's what they called me in the news media. That was also the nicest thing most people said about me. Most people would rate beating seal pups to death as better than what I was alleged to have done. According to them, I had taken advantage of horrible situation and made it worse. Hell after my death wasn't punishment enough for some. Let me start from the beginning and tell you what really happened.
I am Foster Bachman, your regular guy in most aspects for the first 23 years of my life. The ironic thing was that I had been known for having a giving heart, note the past tense 'had.' I spent a lot of my spare time working with charities and charity fundraising because I liked to. I was a sucker for panhandlers and sob stories. It made me feel good inside and people seemed to appreciate my efforts. I was even given the Good Samaritan Award in my senior year in college for organizing a volunteer tutoring program in a ghetto community center.
At the time of the incident my story is based on, I was twenty-three years old and had been married to Barbara for two years. I tried to fool myself that I wasn't the consolation prize when her fiancΓ© knocked up another girl a month prior to what was to be her wedding day. He married the girl he made pregnant. Barbara came running to me for sympathy and revenge sex. I was the proverbial best friend who secretly lusted for her. Figuring her feelings were a rebound from being dumped, I put off making a commitment to her as long as I could. Eventually, she convinced me that she really loved me and would be my faithful wife and mother of our children forever and ever. She convinced me orally, anally, and most every position I could think of. She had me. I had always loved her from our days in high school on. We got married. I didn't have enough lasting love for both of us as it turned out.
My troubles with Barbara began when she found out her former fiancΓ© had gotten a divorce. Suddenly, I felt like a NASCAR racer who just got passed in the backstretch, almost winning, but no checkered flag. She assured me that I was worried for no reason. Barbara was just consoling an old friend. She swore she was still faithful to our marriage. I guess that all the new 'fault-finding' she was doing with me was just my imagination and her increased visits to her hometown where her ex-fiancΓ© lived was a mere coincidence.
Barbara and I lived together in town, but in stressful times I liked to hang out in an old farmhouse that my grandparents lived in. It was more like a partially-modernized cabin. The farm attached had been sold to someone else years ago. The buyers didn't want the house or the cost of tearing it down and the wetlands made it impossible to use part of the property for commercial use. I was able to keep the acre the house was on. No one else in the family wanted it, so I bought it for close to nothing. He house was in bad shape but had good bones, as they say. With relatively no carpentry skills, I spent about $20,0000 making the repairs myself that should only have cost $10,000 if I had known what I was doing. But I had fun learning as I went despite the grief I caught from my wife as a waste of time and money.
I was proud when I finished, and I looked forward to enjoying the quiet and solitude of my rural castle with a good cigar and vintage brandy while Barbara stayed at home or was visiting her 'family.' That sanctuary was where I was returning to on that fateful night.
The road to my farmhouse was an old county road with potholes so old some have historical markers for them. Part of living where I did made it imperative to remember where each pothole was and how to best avoid it. First time drivers often needed an alignment job after zigging when they should have zagged on the road.
I was a little surprised when I came upon a car I did not recognize. Then I remembered I hadn't reached Passion Ridge where some local kids liked to come and make-out. I could see that a man or boy was driving, and a woman or girl was in the middle. The car had bucket seats, so it was unlikely she had her seatbelt on. I laughed as he hit pothole after pothole along the way, causing his car to shake and rattle and her to bounce and probably hit her head on the car ceiling. My laughter soon stopped.
The driver seemed anxious to get to Passion Ridge which was probably the cause of his hitting Mason's Pothole (the first part of a local legend) at too high a speed. His car's steering got jerked sharply to the right and he wound up slamming into Mason's Tree (the second part of a local legend). Like with Mason many years earlier, the results were tragic. My heart was racing as I stopped and ran over to the car. I looked in the driver's side first. There was blood all over the man's face and the air bag that had deployed. I checked his neck for a pulse. There was none.
As I was checking his pulse, I noticed the girl was not in the car and the passenger door was open. I scampered around the car and scanned the surrounding area until I saw her body where she had been thrown from the car. Her torso was bloody and contorted, but she was breathing. Pieces of glass were stuck several places in her body. She was barely conscious and dark red blood was coming out of one corner of her mouth. Suddenly, I had a weird, totally random thought: Her acne scarred face would now have bigger scars to worry about.