Rebecca and I met after college. I had just secured a good job at an engineering firm. I had my own luxury apartment in a nice part of the city. Rebecca was living with three roommates in a run-down part of the city. I managed to get her number at a bar. She was very drunk. We both were.
The next day she didn't remember me, and it took me a while to get her over to my place. But eventually I succeeded. Once she saw my place, she warmed up to me, and started spending more and more time with me. I bought her fancy things and took her out to expensive restaurants. I wanted to impress her. She stayed over most nights. Eventually I asked her to be my girlfriend and she accepted.
Rebecca was always friendly with other men and had quite a few male friends. This bothered me a bit at the start of our relationship, and it almost made us break up. Eventually I got used to it. After all, she was in a relationship with me, not them. Even if she was friendly with other men, she always came home with me. You can't be insecure if you want to hold onto a girl like Rebecca. We had a lot of talks about this. She said she had no problem with me being friendly with other women either, as long as things never went too far. We weren't puritans living in the 17th century. Women were never particularly interested in me, but it seemed fair.
People were always in disbelief that we were together. They were polite about it... but you could just tell. I am pretty nerdy. 5'8, pasty skin, glasses, not a lot of muscle. Rebecca is the opposite. 5'6, long dirty blonde hair, gorgeous green eyes, medium-large breasts, cute bubble butt, and a very fit body.
I was proud of myself for securing a girl like that, who had always been out of my league. But there are downsides to dating a girl who is significantly more attractive than you. Men see it as an opportunity. And I don't think women can fully control their subconscious desire to be with the most attractive and powerful man possible.
The first time I experienced this was at a bar. We had just gotten dinner and went there for a drink. We managed to get a table to ourselves. We were having a good time. We were both pretty drunk. I had to go to the bathroom. When I returned, two businessmen in suits were standing around our table, towering over Rebecca, very close to her. Their waists were about at her eye level. They seemed to have noticeable bulges, but it could have just been the shape of their suits.
I returned and sat down and Rebecca introduced me to them. I forget their names. For about 10 minutes they flirted with Rebecca, getting more and more aggressive as they noticed my lack of action, even touching her playfully at times. Rebecca was drunk with lower inhibitions. So she was lapping it up. I wasn't involved in the conversation, just sipping on my drink and looking around. I started getting pissed off and stood up abruptly.
"Time to go, I think," I said to Rebecca.
Rebecca looked over at me, coming out of her trance for a moment, but didn't get up immediately.
I walked over and grabbed her arm, basically pulling her out of the chair, away from the men. She looked up at one of them with puppy eyes but allowed herself to be dragged away by me.
On the ride home she noticed something was up. It was like she could read my mind.
"Oh, don't worry about that, honey. You know I'm yours. Thank you for taking me away. You know how I get when I'm drunk," she said, and leaned over to rest her head on my shoulder.
I felt the anger wash away and I was content. Her laying on my shoulder: that's what it's all about. I realized I had just been being insecure and my mood improved right away. I felt manly for taking control of the situation.
We got home and Rebecca went to use the bathroom. I undressed to surprise her. She exited the bathroom. I was standing near the bed naked with a boner.
"Want some of this dick, babe?" I said.
Rebecca looked me up and down and looked a little amused.
"Oh, not tonight, honey. I'm so tired," she said as she yawned. I was a little embarassed.
The next day we woke up and Rebecca was pouty.
"I'm booooooooored," she complained.
"Oh yeah? What do you want to do?" I replied.
"Oh, I don't know. What about a vacation? We need to get away from it all," she said.
A vacation sounded good. I could afford it.
"Let's do it! Where should we go?" I asked.
She thought for a second.
"Why don't we go somewhere random? Let's just pick somewhere random," she said.
It sounded fun. We went to Target and bought one of those globes that spins around.
"Okay... close your eyes! I will too. You spin, I'll pick. We go wherever I land on," she explained.
I closed my eyes and spun the globe. She stopped it with her finger. When we both opened our eyes, I saw she had landed on a small island off the coast of Africa. I had always been interested in Africa. It was supposed to be beautiful.
I went to AirBNB and managed to find a very inexpensive listing for a private beach house on the island. The price was good, so I booked it immediately. There weren't any reviews, but I figured this just wasn't a popular place to visit. Perhaps that's why the price was so good. Regardless, it was too good of a deal to pass up.
We arrived at the AirBnB and everything seemed normal, although the place was a little dingy. We went to sit on the beach. Although the AirBnB had advertised a "private beach", local natives were occassionally strolling up and down the beach. Mostly there were packs of men, sometimes accompanied by a single female. Strangely, it seemed as though the female was the ringleader of the men, when there was a female present.