NOTE: All Characters are above 18 years of age.
Blackmail CHAPTER ONE
Shocked. Completely shocked.
I couldn't believe what I had just seen. My aunt, the one aunt whom everyone believed was the perfect wife, making out with a random stranger in the parking basement of a mall. The immediate thought that came to my mind was that this can't be real. I must be dreaming. But was I dreaming? My aunt was making out with a complete stranger in a mall's parking basement as if she was some horny teenager.
The second thing I did was snap back to reality and looked more clearly. It WAS her. I took out my phone and clicked pictures of that scene. Her back against the wall, her legs wrapping the stranger she was kissing, with them being between two parked cars. I not only took some pictures but recorded the video as well.
As I did that I got out of there quickly in my car so she wouldn't see me. She didn't see me. In fact, I had seen her!! I had seen what she was doing. I felt bad for my uncle. He was such a good guy. He didn't deserve this. I didn't know what to do.
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A week later there was a family dinner at her place as it was their wedding anniversary. I didn't reveal her secret to anyone yet. I attended the dinner just like everyone else but I couldn't stand seeing her pretend to be the perfect wife. I was with my parents who were seated beside me and I was sitting across the table from her, my Aunt, my Aunt Ashley.
Everyone in our circle had praised how beautiful their marriage seemed. How they love each other so much. But I knew her secret. There were two contradictory thoughts going on in my head right at that moment. My first thought was that I wished to tell everyone the truth to everyone right there. My second one was however, a bit perverted.
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Aunt Ashley was one of the most beautiful women I'd ever seen. When she got married to my uncle, I thought, "wow, how beautiful is she". I wished to kiss her. I was just a young boy going through puberty and all I knew that I got this feeling to kiss a girl whenever I saw a beautiful girl. And then, the beautiful girl was my aunt.
But of course I was a kid. I didn't do anything. I wasn't perverted. I just found her extremely beautiful. So the thought of wanting to kiss her immediately entered my mind seeing her kissing that stranger that day. I wanted to do that. But at the same time I was repulsed at what I was thinking.
I can't do that. Not to my uncle. Not to the little brother of my father who has always loved me and helped me. I can't do this to him. "I couldn't" I said to myself. All of this going on in my head as I was sitting right across her and mu uncle. "Shall I tell him? Shall I tell him that his wife is cheating on him?" I wondered. "No. I can't do that in front of everyone here. I can't break his heart and humiliate him in front of everyone. But wait, it is not me who broke his heart. It his her. And he doesn't even know that she has broken his heart. Why must I be the one who confesses her sins? She should be the one who would confess the sin she committed. But she hasn't done anything till now. I shall talk to her. If she refuses to acknowledge her sin and doesn't confess, then I shall think of some way to get her punished".
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Everyone got up and moved to the living room. Kids playing the piano. The grandparents singing and dancing. My parents and uncle talking and laughing. I saw Aunt Ashley walk up to the kitchen to bring out dessert. I walked up to her. She was facing towards the refrigerator and I was facing her back.
"Aunt Ashley" I said.
"Yes sweetheart", she replied.
"There was something I wanted to ask you"
She turned back. Facing me. Looking into my eyes and I looking into hers. "Yes?" she replied while smiling.
I just had to say it. There was no other way about it. I gathered up the courage as said "I saw you that day".
"Saw me? What do you mean? Where?"
"That day. At the mall."
She got nervous and replied "Oh why didn't you come up and say hello?"
"You were with somebody else". I replied nervously scratching the back of my head.
"Oh I was with my friend. We went shopping that day."
"I didn't seen you when you were shopping. I saw you later. When you were in the basement...with someone...else".
She realised what I'd seen. Now she clearly understood what I meant be "seeing her". There was a long silence. Felt like an eternity.
Later she was about to say something but I interrupted her as said "Please tell your husband about this. Tell my uncle."
She stood still. "No one is going to believe you sweetheart. You don't have any proof".
I didn't expect that reply. I expected her to cry or just pretend that she doesn't know what I'm talking about. But I didn't like her reply. I got angry. I took out my phone and shoes her the pictures and the video. She tried to snatch my phone but she was too slow.
"Go tell him the truth" I ordered.
She begged and cried kneeling on the floor. All her boldness had gone away. She was crying and whispering "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I can't tell him. I can't. Please don't show him the video and the pictures" she sobbed.
"I won't show him. But you'll tell him"
She got up, still crying and said "I'm sorry I can't. It'll break his heart. He'll think too lowly of me. I love him. I really love him. I'm sorry"
I didn't know what to do now. I realised she wasn't going to confess. Soon my brain told me to act on that second thought. I looked into her eyes and she looked into mine and said to her, "Okay. You will tell him someday. Today or tomorrow. But until you can't get the courage to tell him, you'll have to do something for me".
She responded happily, wiping her tears, "Yes...thank you...I'll do anything...just don't tell him anything".
I leaned in and kissed her on the lips. She opened her eyes in utter shock and pulled away. "What are you doing?" She gasped and pulled away and tried to clean her smudged lipstick on her face.