Chapter One: Intro and Set Up
[This is a set up for the story, not much going on just yet. Finding my "voice" with the intro right now]
It was already a long day before I arrived at the restaurant. Typical chain location with burgers and steak. I ordered a tall beer, a boring domestic, and told the waitress to please wait as I was waiting for the other party. My anxiety was off the charts, hoping the beer would calm some nerves. I wasn't sure what to really make of this entire ordeal.
I took a long sip of my drink. As I placed it down on the coaster, I caught the waitress approaching the table. "Here's your table. Can I get you something to drink?" She was addressing my ex-wife, Caitlyn, and handing her a menu as she took off her coat and sat down across from me. The table was for two, in the middle of the room. When I got a call from her earlier in the day while at work, I agreed to meet with her only if it was in public. She wasn't exactly what I would call a problem or someone to draw attention to us, but as far as exes go, I always like to play it safe. We are not exactly friends anymore, nothing horrible happened to cause it, we just drifted and went our separate ways about 3 years ago. The call came out of the blue when she asked if she could talk to me about something. She was very adamant that it was important, so I hesitantly agreed to a chat over drinks or dinner. She chose the place, I got there early and texted her that I got us a table.
She ordered a whiskey on ice and me another beer, how nice of her I thought sarcastically. I then rethought about the beer instead of shots.
"Alright, so what's the big issue going on that needs us meeting up like this?" I looked at her in her eyes, dead on, knowing she was probably in need of money or something. During our time together she was a train wreck most of the time. Hoping job to job, or without one at all for months at a time. She was usually calm and nice but always in need of me pulling more than my own weight around in the relationship. We moved in together after the first year mostly because we both wanted to split rent, but that ended up not happening and we grew apart quickly with her freeloading for the place to stay, food, general everything.
"Well, as you may have seen on social media, I'm single again." She had a fake sad face while sipping her drink. I don't follow her online, and she knows that. She continued. "So, I am now broke again and in a jam."
I took an extra long sip this time before speaking. "Listen Caitlyn, I'm not with you anymore, I'm not helping you out, forget it."
Her face turned from a fake sadness to a smirk. She swished the ice around in her drink and looked straight at me. "Well Mark, that is why you are going to have no choice in this matter. Well, you DO have a choice I guess, but I'm sure I know which one you'll pick. Why else would I bother asking you?" She smiled some more and signaled to the waitress for another round.
I sat upright at attention. "Go on..." I was curious to say the least. This will be a waste of time I said to myself."
She took her phone out and placed it on the table. "Mark, when we were together, you remember all the sexual fun we had. All the things I let you do in return for you going along with some of my fun ideas?"
I looked at her for a bit, kind of realizing she was getting at blackmail of some sort. "Yeah, we had fun, we BOTH did, what's your point?"
"Marc... maybe I'm not being direct enough." She turned the cell to face me. "Most of the time I had others take the pictures, sometimes my camera was hidden though. It didn't take much effort to sort through what I needed. Well... maybe some time, but well worth it. Do you think your friends and family would like to see these?"
I moved the phone closer to me as she remarked. "Don't worry hun, I have plenty of copies. Go on, scroll through." She sat back and laughed a bit while drinking.
I went through the photos and videos. I expected some nudes, maybe fucking, even when she took a strap on to me, but she had more than I thought. The times we had threesomes and although I didn't do much with the other men, the photos told a different story. My mind raced ahead of all the different things I had done with her and her 3rd party she would bring from time to time. The guys I was naked with, me allowing her girlfriends to sometimes piss on me, peg me, call me names. My entire body was out there for all to see.
I'm a VERY quiet, shy, personal person. I don't enjoy others seeing me even in my underwear, let alone fully naked, and certainly not with others.
"What do you WANT exactly Caitlyn?" I asked her with a tone I use for my dog when I'm upset and firm about my voice.
"You hun, just you. All to me, for whatever I want. You move in, and do as request, when requested. I need my bills paid somehow and I think you'll do JUST fine." She was talking to me as if she had this planned out. Of course she did. She must have spent time on this instead of just finding a job.
"Caityln, you can't just think I'll move in with you and do what you want. I have a job, a life, a girlfriend..." She cut me off quick.
"Had Marc, you HAD a girlfriend." She took her phone back. "You see, I already took the pictures I had of you dressed up that night Jen came over. You remember, don't you? She said you could fuck her if you dressed up in her clothing for a bit. She didn't even fuck you after that, but oh boy did she take a lot of pictures." She was referring to one of her coworkers and friends she invited over for drinks one night. Things got out of hand and before I knew it, I was fully dressed in her clothing, even had makeup applied. She didn't fullfill her end of the agreement, which was bad enough, but she still had the photos? Caityln continued. "You see Marc, your girlfriend used to work with Jen at the coffee shop a few years back, she still keeps in touch. When Jen told her about the time you dressed up for her, she decided to embellish a bit. Your now ex-girlfriend thinks you do this all the time and is NOT at all into what she thinks is your lifestyle."
I could bore you with the details, but the next 45 minutes or so were a back and forth of cat and mouse. Some talk got a bit loud, but with the public around us, we kept reminding ourselves to keep it down as best we could. We had more drinks and just kept at it. I kept up with saying how it won't work and I'm not falling for this bullshit, and she kept coming back with more and more ways that her and her friend created an entire world of lies so deep with pictures and videos to kind of backup just enough of the bullshit that others would believe most if not all of it. She put a lot of thought into her plan. After a while of this, I gave up. She had me.
"Alright, fuck it Caitlyn, obviously this is going to stick enough to fuck me over. I get it, alright, enough. What the fuck is your plan here?" I was pissed but defeated. She pictures, my girlfriend clearly wanted nothing to do with me as she even texted me with a long rant about me lying and cheating on her, and other bullshit that wasn't true. It wasn't worth fighting over anymore.
Caitlyn flagged the waitress down. "Thank you, but we're ready to head out." She put a $100 bill on the table. "This will cover it, thank you again." She stood up and looked at me. "Let's go hun. We have a lot to do tonight."
I stood up, confused as to how I even allowed myself to have those pictures taken over the past few years. We walked side by side towards the exit. She stood at the doorway for a second and looked at me. Obviously she wanted me to get the door. "After you." I said as I held it for her. We walked outside, it was freezing outside, a cool air with some flurries that began to fall. Typical winter time in New England I thought.
Caityln looked at me and grabbed my hand. "Come with me, we'll take my car. Yours can get towed, you won't need it."
"Towed? What? I can just drive it to the house or something."