This story has very little explicit sex in it. It could have been submitted in several other categories including Reluctance / Non-consent. Enjoy.
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I was dressed for work, sitting at the breakfast table with my cup of coffee and the morning newspaper. Janet was still in the bedroom dressing for work. There was nothing different about this morning to distinguish it from any of the previous work days in the past year.
As my eyes scanned over the front page. There it was in the middle of the page. I knew it would be there. Carmine told me it would happen last night. Carmine never fails to do the things he said he would do.
MAN FOUND MURDERED IN HIS GARAGE
The news article went on to say that a Robert Toldson was found dead in his garage last evening. He had been beaten and then strangled with a garrote. The article said Robert Toldson was an employee of the Calcus Realty Agency. Janet is also employed by the Calcus Realty Agency. The police have no suspects at this time. The investigation was just beginning.
There was no reason to read any more of the newspaper. I folded it and placed it on the table where Janet always sits in the morning. A sweet warm feeling washed over me as my mind sorted through all the factors that lead up to this morning. I was sipping my coffee as Janet came into the breakfast area.
My god, was she beautiful! My wife of five years was more stunning today then she was seven years ago when I first met her. There was no "Good Morning, Dear" from either of us as she pulled out her chair and poured herself a cup of coffee from the carafe. It's hard to believe just how far our marriage had plummeted in the past year.
Our eyes met for a brief second, a slight smile passed my lips as I acknowledged her arrival. She said nothing to me. It had been this way for the past two months. After the major blow-out we had about her increased working hours, she seemed to crawl into her shell and did not wish to come out. I guess her coldness bothered me more than anything else. During our courtship and the early days of our marriage, Janet was such a warm loving companion. I truly missed that closeness. Now all of that was coming to an end.
Janet picked up the paper in one hand, coffee cup in the other hand. Her eyes flashed across the headlines and started down the page as she took a sip of coffee. All of a sudden, she spewed the coffee from her mouth as her eyes seemed to bulge from their sockets. "Oh god, no!!!" she cried out as her eyes were transfixed on the article about Robert Toldson's murder.
I just sat there in silence. There was nothing I needed to say to her about the subject.
Janet looked as if she were about to vomit as she quickly rose from her chair and ran to the bathroom. I took a deep breath, got up from my chair and placed my coffee cup in the dishwasher. With my briefcase in hand, I went out to the garage and got into my car. I didn't care to ask Janet if she were alright, it didn't matter any more to me how she was feeling any more.
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Let me do some introductions at this time. My name is John Cannela, all my friends call me JC. I'm 29 years old and a product of Sicilian ancestry and the Italian section of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. My youth was mostly spent getting in trouble along with a gang of other young Italian boys. We used to think of ourselves as the Junior Mafia. I'll skip over most of the other bad stuff we got ourselves into, and focus on the one event that had a major change in my wayward direction.
Carmine Vitalio and I were closer than two natural brothers. We were the same age and hung out with the same gang of guys. The major difference between Carmine and me was brain-power. I won't say Carmine was dumb or anything like that, it was just the fact he couldn't use his head to keep himself out of trouble with the law. Even though he and I did most of the bad stuff together, he was the one who usually got caught by the police.
One night Carmine and I had broken into a dock-front warehouse. We were looking for some easy items to rip-off and make some cash for ourselves. The security guards must have seen us entering the building through the side window. They were waiting for us as we slipped back out the window with several boxes of MP3 players in our hands. The one guard grabbed Carmine just as I was turning around. The second guard tried to grab me, but I shove the box into his face. I jumped on the other guard's back and punched him on the side of his head with all my might. He let go of Carmine as I pulled him to the ground. I was shouting to Carmine to get his ass out of there as fast as he could. Carmine turned and ran off. The second guard recovered and grabbed me from behind. There wasn't much of a struggle after that.
The guards had a nice time with me till the cops showed up. When they arrived they were laughing with the guards as they surveyed my bruised and bloodied body. I was taken to the police station and put in a holding cell till my parents came down to get me released. To make this long story short, I never gave up the name of the other person who was with me in the warehouse. I was given two weeks in jail and put on probation.
Carmine called me several times to apologize for him skipping out when the guards grabbed me. I told him it was alright because if he had been caught, with his prior arrest record, he would have spent a year or more in jail. He vowed that he would make it up to me if it took him the rest of his life.
My parents were angry and humiliated by my arrest. My dad thrashed my butt with his leather belt till it almost bled. Then I was told they were going to enroll me in St. Peter's Catholic High School because I needed to be straightened out one way or the other. Needless to say the nuns and the priest did a very good job in the discipline department. By my senior year, I had made a change in my lifestyle. One of the priest, who became a mentor for me, encouraged me to take a different path with my life. So it was, I dropped out of the neighborhood gang and finally did well enough that year to get accepted to Penn State.