My name is Elizabeth Martin, but my friends call me Liz. My 6-month-old baby is sleeping peacefully in the nursery room. I've been married to my husband, Darrell, for 14 years, but the baby isn't his.
I should explain, but, oh, where to start? I've known Darrell since high school. We ran in the same circle of friends, and eventually we started going out. We weren't the popular kids or jocks or nerds. I don't think we were invisible, but we were average. Myself, I'm not tall or short, not skinny or fat. I'm about 5'4". Back then I weighed around 125. I've gained a good 15 pounds in the years since. I always kept my light brown hair about shoulder length, and usually tied up in a ponytail. Darrell was about 5'9" and 165 pounds.
I didn't play any sports or do band or anything like that. Neither did Darrell. Both of us came from working class families. Extracurricular activities were a luxury we couldn't afford. By the time we started dating in senior year, both of us were 18 and had jobs to pay for cars and gas. Working retail and fast food provided an early intro to the world of assholes that exist in the world, but it bought us a little bit of freedom on the nights we were lucky to be off.
I remember the first time we made love during senior year. Neither of us really knew what we were doing. We fumbled around in the back of his car in an empty dimly lit empty parking lot. Looking back, we were both young and stupid. I fell in love, even if the first time was more like a misfire and nothing like the passionate lust fueled scenes in books or movies.
Still, practice makes perfect, they say. The next thing you know, we were practicing every chance we got. It's funny when you're still living at home, you end up having to steal moments for making love. It made for much more daring adventures. Any time his parents were out, I'd rush over to his house (or vice versa), although I remember one time they came home MUCH earlier than expected, and we scrambled to get dressed before getting caught. At the time I thought we were lucky to get away with it. Looking back now, our parents knew what we were up to.
We made love in the school once after-hours when no one except the janitor and security guard were in the building. I had my dress hiked up and was laid out on our teacher's desk. I tried to muffle my screams, but the thrill of sex in one of our classrooms turned me on so much, my screams echoed down the corridor. The door was locked, and I remember us scrambling to get dressed as heavy footsteps clambered down the hall. We squeezed out the window to the safety of the dark night as we heard keys fumble in the lock to break up the ruckus.
High school graduation came, and we had to figure out what to do with our lives. Darrell went into trade school to get certified to work on HVAC, while I went to community college to get an associate's degree.
Pretty soon, we were done with our school and cast off into the real world. After Darrell and I both got real jobs, we saved up enough money to move into our own place. It's funny to think back now how exciting it was to have a place of our own. To finally be out from under our parents' rule, to finally have the freedom to live our own lives. I could barely cook, and we were paycheck to paycheck, but we were happy.
Having our own place also solved our biggest issue, which was having someplace to have sex whenever we wanted. We no longer had to sneak around when our parents were out of the house or steal away to remote or abandoned locations.
After high school, we kept up with our close circle of friends, although there was one couple we became closer with, Kelvin and Kendra. Kelvin pursued his HVAC certification like Darrell did, and they were both big Steelers fans, so they always spent Sundays together cheering on the black and gold. Kendra and I grew up on the same street and had been friends since elementary school.
Our circle of friends went through the usual relationship cycles. Some of them took the leap into marriage, while others split apart. Those that split apart, they seemed to drift away. They either constantly felt like a third wheel, or else they fell into relationships outside our circle, and they rarely made their way back in.
Darrell and I got engaged when we were 22 and got married at 23. I don't know that it changed much, although it was strange to change my name to Liz Martin after I had been Liz Rogers my whole life.
It's funny how relationships and friendships evolve over time. Folks just reach different points in their lives at different times, and suddenly, you don't have as much in common with someone else as before. At first, it was either you're in a committed relationship, or you weren't. Then it became either you're married, or you weren't. Then it became either you had kids, or you didn't.
I guess that's where Darrell and I fell out of the circle ourselves. I've wondered if at some point maybe there's no one left in the circle. Anyway, Kelvin and Kendra fell out of the circle at that point, too, so maybe it wasn't us falling out of the circle so much as it was forming our own. Kendra swore to never have kids, while Darrell and I wanted to enjoy a few more years of freedom before taking the plunge into parenthood.
So, we enjoyed those years. We could go out to clubs and bars whenever we wanted to unwind. We bought new cars. We took vacations. And we had lots of sex. One of the things I love most about Darrell is he makes me feel sexy. I know I'm not a supermodel. I get reminded of that every time I go out shopping, and I see all the other women that are everything I'm not. Maybe it's a prettier face, longer legs, slimmer belly, bigger breasts, or more exotic features.
But when Darrell makes love to me, he makes me feel like I'm the sexiest woman. It's like he's always wearing beer goggles when he looks at me. But it's a turn-on to be desired like that, and, in turn, it made me happy to reciprocate. Darrell would go down on me, and I'd go down on him. Or we'd engage in a 69 race to see who could make the other cum first. Sex was a daily activity. I used to joke around that I'd make sure to milk him dry so he wouldn't have anything left and couldn't cheat on me.
But even good sex can become routine, so we learned how to mix it up. There was a secluded spot out near Deep Valley Lake we frequented. Down off the beaten path, we had a spot secluded from the hikers and the fishermen.
Other times, we'd go out, and I'd wear a remote-controlled vibrator. Darrell would activate the vibrator at the most inopportune times. We might be having dinner at a restaurant. I remember looking across the table and sheepishly smiling while the vibrator throbbed inside my pussy. Or we'd be shopping in a store, and the buzzing would audibly emanate from my crotch, as other shoppers would question the strange noise. If the feelings became too intense, I'd stop and kneel down, pretending to get something from a bottom shelf, but, in reality, my legs were like jelly and I needed time to collect myself. Darrell loved to tease me and watch me have orgasms while out in public, unbeknownst to those around.
In those years, while Darrell and Kelvin would watch football games, Kendra and I would go out for shopping and restaurants. Kendra and I became closer, and we shared all the details about our lives. She had an active and healthy sex life, also. In some ways, I think we almost competed to see who could have more wild adventures. At first, it was just how often we had sex the previous week, but then it turned to more exhibitionist and extreme dares.
As a result, both of us frequently went out without bras or panties. If nothing else, it was a good way to get rid of panty lines on tight pants or dresses. At first, I was self-conscious of my nipples protruding through my top, but I guess I got used to it, although, I definitely noticed it garnered attention from a lot of men. Kendra had much larger breasts than I did (D cups vs my B cups), and her breasts swayed a lot under her top when she went braless, which attracted its share of curious onlookers, as well.