Violet awoke the next morning with David still wrapped around her. She gently moved him off of her so he wouldn't wake up then tip toed into the adjoining bathroom. She hurt between her legs, she was sure from the sex last night, but also hurt in many other places from her fall off of Lightening. She was delighted to see that a bath was drawn and there were warming stones in the fire. She added them to the tub and a few minutes later got in. She once again had to scrub dried blood off - this time from having sex. 'If I keep having to scrub blood off everyday I'm running away and joining the circus' she thought jokingly. Then she remembered David's words the nights before.
He had said he wouldn't hurt her, or make her do anything she didn't want to do, but he also said that they would be having sex again, and often. She shuddered as she remembered hearing her mother beg her father to leave her alone, that she didn't want to have sex with him, that it hurt. A few times as a child and then again as a teenager she had peered through the lock on their bedroom door. Her father always behind her mother, slapping her bottom and pushing against her and away. Well, at least David hadn't spanked her last night, that was some small comfort.
She was still soaking her wounds when she heard the door open.
"Violet, good morning, I see you've stolen my bath. Do you mind if I join you?"
"Your bath?"
"Yes, they always have it ready for me, I find it helps wake me up and I feel better all day when I've had a bath."
"Oh, sorry, I guess I don't mind." She whispered as she drew her legs up to her chest to cover as much of her body as possible. She hoped it looked more like she was trying to give him room.
"No need to be sorry, I'd be more than happy to share." He said as he smiled and started to climb in. She saw him naked, this time, she hadn't seen him completely naked before. He looked weird, all men looked weird though, with their testicles and penis. She did notice it didn't seem hard.
"What?" He asked.
"Hmmmm?"
"You are staring at me, specifically my genitals. I suppose, you've maybe never seen them before though, have you?"
"I've seen them." She blushed as red as a rose, "I mean, I've seen things, people think they are alone, and they aren't always, and I've seen sex before, and I've seen men. Yours looks different though."
"I'm not hard, all the way. When a guy gets excited, sexually, it gets hard, and sticks out. Otherwise it's fairly small, and just, well hangs there." She didn't say anything else, instead she decided she should probably finish washing up and leave. She didn't want him getting excited. He scooted his feet on either side of her butt and sunk his head into the water then came back up. She was mortified that he would get that close to her, although, he had already asked to sit in the tub naked with her. After having gotten his hair wet he proceeded to wash it and then rinsed it in the same fashion he had gotten it wet before.
"You haven't moved since I got here. Do you still need to wash, or am I interrupting a leisurely soak?"
"A bit of both. I need to do my hair, but....."
"You don't really want to be naked in front of me, do you?"
"Not really."
"Spin around, I'll wash it for you, then you can keep covered up some." She didn't say anything just did as he had said. She felt him soaping her hair, and massaging it as it was already quite wet. When he was done he held her head as she lowered it into the water and then he rinsed it thoroughly. After she sat up he rang it out some.
"Will you be staying with me, or going?"
"I think I'll go." She said as she reached for a towel on a stand next to the tub and tried to cover herself with it as much as possible while standing up and not getting it wet. Once she had the towel around her she got out of the tub and returned to the bedroom to dress. She was in the middle of combing her hair when he entered. He had already shaved, done his hair, and dressed.
"Would you like me to wait for you, then we can go down for breakfast. After that I have to get off to work though."
"Only if you aren't in a hurry." She answered as she continued to brush and then pull some back from her face to tie with a ribbon. After that they got up silently, and went down to breakfast. They didn't say much through breakfast either. His parents were there and they chatted on about the latest gossip and occasionally asked Violet a question about how she was getting on.
"Violet, will you walk me out?" David asked her. She got up and left with him. They walked out to the yards by the stable.
"Your cut is healing nicely. Do you plan to ride today?" He asked her.
"Yes, I like the pond you showed me."
"My mother has some social gatherings planned today so you can meet some people in town. You'll need to be here, and please, not smelling like horse, for those. I'll be back for supper." As he finished he bent down to kiss her and she ducked. He grabbed her arms in both his hands so he could bend down and whisper, "Violet, I know you don't like being told what to do, but it is proper to kiss your husband when he leaves for work."
"I think you know as well as anyone that I don't always go along with what is proper. Now, take your hands off of me or I will skip your mother's social gatherings."
He let her go, but with a hurt look in his eyes. She almost felt sorry for hurting him like that, but she surely didn't like that he had grabbed her by her arms. He bent down to kiss the top of her head then turned around and headed down the driveway into town. She was about to enter the stable to see Lightening when her mother-in-law started calling her from the door. "Violet, Violet dear, can you come here?" Her name was Julianna, and for being in her early 40s she was still drop-dead gorgeous. She had a slender body, and large breasts, full pink lips, and emerald green eyes. Violet approached her, still unsure weather she liked her or not.
"I've arranged for a tailor to come today to measure you. I've noticed that a lot of your dresses seem very plain. You need some better every day dresses, and perhaps a gown or two. After that we are to have lunch with some friends of mine so they can meet you. This afternoon I haven't anything planned, so you'll be free to do what you wish, but you'll need to stay indoors. You are so tanned, and there are a number of parties coming up in one to two months. I hope if you stay indoors you will look respectable and not like a field hand by then. Hopefully you won't get too bad of a scar from your fall. And that is another things, you can't go to parties with such a horrid gash on your face, what if you were to fall again. No, riding is out of the question." Violet made up her mind, half way through the day's plans that she didn't like Julianna, but by the end of her lecture, she thought she may even hate her.
She seemed like a tough lady, but that just meant that she wasn't one you fight with, she is one you dodge, thought Violet. She came inside to play puppet for the first part of the day - but she swore that by the afternoon she would be sunning herself on the rock by the pond.
The tailor came and measured and then sat with Violet and Julianna for quite sometime going over patterns of what to make. Violet seemed to have no say-so in anything she would be wearing and eventually quit trying to voice her opinion on anything.
After that, six ladies arrived for lunch, three younger, around her age, and three older. The three older ladies were friends of Julianna's and the younger three were their daughters or daughter-in-laws. At lunch they sat in separate rooms. The younger ladies were all very interested to hear all about Violet, and commented several times how lucky she was to be with such a gorgeous gentleman as David. Violet thought the conversation was dull, and was rather glad her mother had stopped trying to force luncheons on her years ago after she started sitting on the floor in the middle of the room and refusing to sit at the table. She had gotten away with so much with her mother, and with her father. Well, she had been beaten by him, but he still quit trying to force her into society. She just wasn't sure about her new surroundings so she didn't try to push the limits just yet - too much anyways.
