When almost everyone was having sex in high school, I somehow avoided it. It's not that I didn't want to, it's just that I was kind of worried about catching something or getting some poor girl pregnant. Sure I fooled around some, but never took that crucial step. When I finally did lose my virginity, well, seeing as how we were both inexperienced, it wasn't very enjoyable. I was disappointed, especially after hearing all the hype about it for so many years. Fortunately for me, having broken that crucial barrier of getting laid for the first time, I tried it again a week later, with a different, more experienced girl, and even with the rubber on it was amazing! I guess I was hooked. Over the next few years, I had a lot more sex, somehow not getting any strange diseases or being someone's father. It wasn't until the year after that, when this girl I'd been dating came to me and told me that her period was way late.
"Huh?" I was stunned, needless to say.
"I might be pregnant," the girl, a college girl named Sienna, repeated more bluntly.
"Oh shit!"
She rolled her eyes, irritated, "Yeah, that's about what I expected you to say. You've already made it quite clear how you feel about it."
Feeling like a major jackass, I recanted, "No, I didn't mean it like that. It's a good thing, really!"
Sienna cried out, "No, damn it, it's not! I can't afford to stay in college and raise a kid, and you probably wouldn't want to settle down enough to take care of us."
Knowing that I'd screwed myself into a hole (so to speak) I pleaded, "Come on, if we both try hard enough, we'll be more than able to raise a child together. We can get married before the kid's born, and I'll get a second job to help support us."
She frowned, "I hope that wasn't your idea of a proposal."
I solemnly proposed to her, and after a hesitation (where her common sense was probably attempting to talk her out of it) she agreed.
We had to get married in Las Vegas, since neither of us could afford a nice wedding, and thus began the three years of utter hell! For some reason only God knew, Sienna miscarried, a devastating blow for both of us. She took it especially hard, leaping into a deep depression for almost three months, and even when she came out of it, she was no longer the same dainty, twenty-year old girl I'd married when I was only eighteen. Her long, blonde hair, previously shiny and full, began to seem flat, lifeless. Her blue-green eyes lost that shine that she had before. Her body, totally firm or soft in all the right places, stayed the same, but that made no difference, because she denied me access to it. That's right, no sex whatsoever, not even any heavy petting, was allowed. Still, because I'd made a commitment to her, even if for all the wrong reasons, I remained with her for the next two and a half years. Of course, I began jerking off a lot when I had sexual frustrations, and Sienna didn't really care if I watched porn or not, as long as I didn't try to touch her in that way.
The only reason she would give for this sudden abstinence was, "I had something in my belly, and it's gone now. I don't ever want to have that happen to me again."
I suggested condoms, but she'd made up her mind, "There's still the chance that it'll happen again."
Feeling quite a bit angry, I replied, "How about a fucking blowjob every once in a while then?"
She shook her head, "No more. I'm not going to do any of that. If you need to, you know, get yourself off, then that's fine, but I'll have no part in it."
Getting pissed, I turned and walked out of the apartment before I could blow up and say something I couldn't take back. I was so tempted just to call off the whole marriage and leave her there. I mean, how could she just freeze me out like this? Still, despite my anger, I stuck with her, sometimes jerking off five times a day just to relieve the tension. Any attempts to be romantic failed when I even went as far as trying to stick my tongue in her mouth while kissing her. She about bit my tongue off to halt my efforts.
"Kissing like that will lead to sex, so no tongue."
I even tried just being romantic without doing anything that she might think would lead to sex, in the hopes that sooner or later, she'd open up and come out of this way of thinking. All my efforts seemed to be in vain.
I urged and pleaded for her to seek counseling, and she refused.
"There's nothing wrong with me for not wanting to have sex," she said flatly.
"There is when I'm married to you! Whatever happened to 'Honor and Obey?'"
She replied hotly, "Whatever happened to 'In sickness and health?'"
"See, you're sick, and you need to get help!"
"No, I think you're the one who's sick. Maybe you should be the one to seek counseling."
Then I said one of those things that I could never take back, "Maybe I should find someone who's actually willing to see to my needs instead of their own!"
She jerked back as if she'd been slapped, her eyes wide with hurt. I immediately berated myself for saying something so cruel, but, like I said, it was something I couldn't just take back as if it'd never happened.
Furiously blinking back tears of misery, she abruptly turned and fled into the bedroom, slamming the door behind her.
I tried for days to reconcile for my hurting her like that, and even after she forgave me on the third day, things were tense, like a piano wire stretched too far, needing only the slightest tweak to snap it. For months after that incident, I did whatever I could for her, without complaint, or trying to get her in bed. My little jerk-off sessions increased to seven a day, and my porn collection filled up an entire movie cabinet, one of those ones that can be closed to prevent people from seeing its contents. I bought it for the reason that I didn't want her to have to see the contents, reminding her every time she saw it of what she couldn't provide me. Near the end of the third year of marriage, I finally admitted to myself that jerking off, no matter how often (about nine times a day, just so you know), did nothing to replace what I wasn't getting. Despite all that jerking off, my sexual frustration increased steadily, until one late night, when I came to a conclusion: either Sienna was going to give me what I needed, or I'd leave the same night and find it elsewhere. After an hour-long argument with myself, I made the decision that I was going to get what I needed from my wife, not some stranger. So, I began thinking of a way I could get what I needed, even if by force.
For a week, I planned and schemed, working it out in my head. I started by going to the doctor and lying, telling him that I was suffering from chronic insomnia. I told him that I'd tried all kinds of over the counter sleep aids, even some folk-methods. According to the explanation of the prescription he planned to write for me, this medicine would be quite strong, and would put me out within an hour.
"Now, I want you to call me if you think you're developing a habit for taking them. It's been known to do that to people. And don't just think to yourself that you can deal with it, or stop anytime you want. I want you to call me. This medicine is sure to knock you out, but if you start having problems staying asleep, then call me back, and we'll change the prescription to better suit you."
I promised, and within the hour, I held a bottle of capsules in my hand, the little warnings on the orange bottle warning about taking it while operating heavy machinery, that it may cause drowsiness, along with some others warnings. I laughed at the drowsiness warning. Wasn't that why I got them in the first place? I took the bottle home and hid it in the movie cabinet with my collection, because I was fairly certain she never looked in there. After, why would she want to?
On Friday evening, a night preceding a weekend where she wouldn't have to work the weekend, I went into the bathroom and locked the door. Pulling the bottle from my pocket, I shook two capsules out, recapped the bottle, and returned it two my pocket. I had grabbed a small square of wax paper from the kitchen, and proceeded to empty the contents of the two capsules into the middle. Then I folded the paper into a pocket, causing the fine, white powder to collect at the bottom, and I twisted the makeshift packet closed. Upon returning to the small living room, I suggested to Sienna that we order some pizza.
"Oh?" she smiled slightly, "So, Mr. Vanderbilt, are we suddenly made of money?"
Resisting the urge to snap at her, I instead smiled right back, "Well, honey, I've been keeping a stash of money, a few dollars here or there just in case. I'm sure I can afford to raid it for a pizza."