I don't know how it happened, or exactly when - sometime around my 30th birthday I would guess. I developed a gift for...telepathy, for lack of a better word. As near as I can explain, it is something between Professor X and Inception. I have the ability to persuade people to obey my will, and they act as if it is their own idea. Which is something nearly everyone dreams about at one time or another...
I was completely average. In high school, I related more to the nerd clique than the jocks, I graduated college in four years with 3.5 GPA, meaning I didn't have a lot of time for merry-making. I got married a few years later to a gorgeous woman from Argentina. On second thoughts, this was probably my first amazing development. I never had a date in high school, dated on and off in college, and married a drop dead gorgeous Latin woman when I graduated. Crazy. Her name was Maria, she was a few years older than me, 5' tall, 100 pounds, solid C cup and fit. She definitely had a body for a bikini, which she wore as often as possible.
Well, that was 10 years ago, and now we have two kids, aged 5 and 7, girl and boy respectively, I work as a producer for the local news and she works a job in retail. We seemed to be the stereotypical middle class American family in every regard...but not anymore.
I first realized something was different during one of our fights...we don't have them very often, but on occasion we do. Looking back it was my fault for the fight, I didn't sleep well, work was long and I was just generally in a grouchy mood. What set me over the edge was the hope that, since the kids were at a friends house tonight, Maria would have dinner ready for me and I might get lucky for the first time in several weeks. However, Maria had a call from a friend who asked her to come over, so she did, and I ended up cooking dinner for myself and watching TV...alone.
By the time Maria got home, I was pissed and made it very obvious and the fight took off from there. During Round 2, I just shut my eyes, trying to regain control of my anger, and thought to myself, "Good God, woman. Won't you just shut the fuck up!" And instantly, she was silent. It took me a minute to realize she wasn't talking or yelling any more. She was just...standing there. She still looked mad and was breathing heavily, but she was silent. Thank God.
I thought that it was a weird coincidence and, thankful for the reprieve, informed her I was going to bed and did just that.