Chapter 02
Lynn accepts Freddie's housing invitation, after breaking up with her boyfriend.
"Is this what you do? You meet men here." He looked at her with a face full of rage and at me with a look of deadly jealousy. "Is this the guy you always talk about?" He said pointing and shooting me a look of distain. "Are you Freddie?"
"Yes, I'm Freddie. How are you?" I put out my hand for him to shake and withdrew it, when he snubbed me with a lift of his chin.
Always talk about? She always talks about me? I've made an impression with her. Suddenly, I felt lighter, younger, and taller. Suddenly, I felt as if I was an important part of her life. Suddenly, I felt like Tomas in Milan Kundera's book, 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being.'
"Come home now! I'm sick of you disappearing for hours with this flea bag of a dog." He looked down at the dog with jealousy and then back up at her. "The dog must go. You decide; it's either me or the dog!"
I knew Lynn well enough by now to know that he was a goner with that stated ultimatum. She'd never part with her dog. She loved Seymour and Seymour loved her.
Her boyfriend wasn't tall. He was shorter than me by a several inches. He wasn't very good looking either, average in appearance, at best, with a potbelly and a receding hairline already forming at his young age. Figuring that he was around her age, he appeared ten years older. Maybe, tops, he was 28-years-old. I figured, surely, he was wealthy and was shocked to learn that he was an unemployed graduate student and an ill-mannered, hot tempered, struggling and aspiring artist, at that.
Stereotypically, he sure had the miserable and self-centered disposition for that role down pat. He sure was an asshole. He was so intense that he had the personality to be a terrorist, should his life suddenly turn as sour as was his disposition. He had that fanatical look of lunacy on his face, and I hoped it would by her choice in choosing the dog over him. Then, he took that choice away from her.
He approached her, as if I wasn't even there, while yanking her, pulling her by the arm, and dragging her forward with him. Her shoe popped off and when she stopped to reclaim it, when she resisted his hold on her by pulling her arm away and breaking free of him, he grabbed her by the front of her dress ripping it and exposing her bra and the top of her breasts.
Again, she pulled away from him. This time, he stepped forward and slapped her hard across her face. The violent force of his slap knocked her head back and immediately created a red welt in the shape of his hand on her cheek. I could see his fingers on her face. She didn't cry or scream or get angry, even. By her reaction to his slap, I figured that this wasn't the first violent attack, upon her person, by this bastard.
With her head down and her shoulders slumped forward, she suddenly became withdrawn, obviously disappearing within herself. That, no doubt, was how she emotionally protected herself from him. I felt her pain, and I'd be God damn, if he was going to hit her again, especially in my presence.
Her puppy, protecting his pack leader, lunged at him, but he kicked the dog hard in the ribs and the dog cowered whimpering away in pain. He was just a puppy after all, the poor thing. Try kicking a full-grown Rhodesian Ridgeback and he'll be missing a foot.
All of this happened within a few seconds and in shock of what transpired so quickly, I had no time to react, until now. He wasn't going to hit her again, ever, that's for sure. So long as I was there to protect her, he wasn't going to touch her, ever again.
"Hey!" I yelled taking an intimidating step towards him. "What's wrong with you?"
"Who are you, her father?" He gave me a look that made me realize that this clown only understands a baseball bat to the back of the head. "Get lost, old man," he said with a wave of his hand that discounted me not only as a human being but also as a man who could punch him silly. "You don't have a chance with her...Freddie. You're too old," he said with a sick laugh that made me want to shove his teeth down his throat and bury my size twelve shoe up his ass.
The way that he spit out my name made me angry. I wanted to bitch slap him into tomorrow. I was jealous that someone like him had someone like her. I felt my rage building.
"Don't," she said looking to me obviously embarrassed, before looking back at him. "He'll hurt you. He's crazy," she said in a whisper.
"You're just like all the rest of those middle aged men, who flock to her, a pathetic, old man hoping to get his cock sucked." He looked at her and pointed, "Look at her. She's a baby boomer magnet. Tell him." He looked at me, "That's how she made it through college, waiting tables, smiling for tips, letting the old men get a feel of her ass and a glimpse of her tits." He looked back at her, "Did you suck their cocks in the back alley, too?" He pointed to me. "Did you suck his cock, yet?"
"Hey, that's enough out of you!" I yelled pointing my finger at him, while dizzy with the imagined image of Lynn sucking my cock.
"Or what, old man?" He smiled a sick smile. "Or you'll bleed all over me, after I beat you senseless. I've had lessons in martial arts."
Old man? That's twice he said that. Beat me senseless? Martial arts my ass. No practitioner of the martial arts would ever hit a woman. He not only slapped the woman that I love but also kicked Seymour, called me old man, and now he's insulting my perceived woman. This clown is going down.
My dog loves Lynn and he wasn't about to allow him to get away with hitting her. The ankle biter that he is, he grabbed hold of his pant leg. In his feeble attempt to shake off the lockjaw grip and steadfast determination of a Rat Terrier, he reached down to grab my dog by the collar and Polo bit his hand three times, before he could even withdraw it.
"Good dog. Good boy. That's a good dog, Polo. I'll give you a cookie, when we get home," I said with a laugh.
My dog is lightning fast. The ass actually tried to kick my dog, too. Now, he had gone too far and it was time for him to learn some manners from this old man.