Dear Michael,
I am writing you this letter to try and explain to you (and myself), why I have decided to leave you.
When I look back over what has happened since I met you there are so many emotions to describe what I've been through at various stages of the year that I do not know where to start. Happiness, disgust, betrayal and naivety are a few that come to mind. But, to have gone in such a short time from being a mental and physical virgin to a woman who allowed herself to be used for vaginal, anal and oral sex all at the same time speaks for itself.
You did not force me into anything: this road was freely and willingly travelled, I chose it and I travelled it. I could have left at anytime I wanted to, but chose not to, not knowing that sex can be as addictive as any other pleasurable activity, especially when taken to an extreme.
This letter is being written with the help of a detailed diary that I have kept over the last year or so; for there is no way that I could remember the details that you will read here.
As I write this, I realise that I have partaken in some things so depraved that I am ashamed to admit to them, and, one year ago would never of even thought about them, never mind find myself capable of doing them.
Again, I have no intention to try and blame you for what has happened, although a portion of the blame must fall on you, after all, you knew what you were doing whereas I was a virgin in more ways than one. But, to be fair to you, I started this journey, and only I can finish it. Try to read this letter to the end, and then maybe you'll understand why I have to go my own way to try to re-find that quiet corner I was living in before you came into my life, to try to find some peace of mind and break myself of this addiction.
When I met you in that run-down café by the side of the canal that day it must have been fate. Even though I was born and raised here in Birmingham, I had never been along the canal bank until that day. What possessed my to walk along it that day I will never know, or to walk into a café that looked from the outside more like a run-down shack, only the sight of an old Wurlitzer jukebox through the grime encrusted, cracked windows told me any different.
As soon as I walked in the door I saw you, my eyes guided to you as though they had been seeking you all my life. I sat down at the table next to yours and waited to be served, not knowing that in that kind of place there's no such thing as table service.
While I waited to be served I looked you over, even though you were looking through the window and more interested in what was going on outside. Sliding my wristwatch up my arm I lamely asked you for the time, even though there was a huge, neon clock advertising Coca Cola over my head with a tick loud enough to wake the dead.
As soon as you turned to face me I could see from your expression that you had been crying. Nevertheless it was your eyes, those eyes that sunk straight into mine and latched onto my brain, holding it, controlling it, and making it yours. As I sat there with mouth agape staring, you must have thought that I was on something or mentally incompetent, for I have never eyes as powerful as yours, before or since.
Without even being asked, I stood, walked over to you and sat on the opposite side of your table, unable to break my gaze into the most beautiful, powerful and, (as I know now), the most dangerous eyes I had ever seen. It was only when you (or was it I?), I broke eye contact that either of us was able to speak. The first words that you spoke only compounded my feeling of helplessness.
'Where have you been until now? I've been waiting ages for you.'
'I'm...I'm sorry; I think you are mistaking me for somebody else. I didn't arrange to meet you here. This is the first time I've seen you...'
The broad smile that broke over you face took me by surprise and stopped me dead in my tracks.
'In this lifetime, yes. But we have met before, I can feel it and so can you, which is why you sat here in the first place. Now, if you're waiting for someone to bring you something to drink you're wasting your time, it's self-service. What would you like?'
Without even waiting for me to answer, you brought me the only thing I drink when I'm out, diet Coke with plenty of ice. As you placed it on the table I opened my mouth to ask you how you knew, and the realized I'd be wasting my time. Of course you knew...and, in the back of my mind, I knew also.
'By the way, my name is Rebecca, Becky for short.' I said, trying to make some semblance of conversation. 'And you are...?'
'Michael. It's reassuring to know that you didn't change your name, although all my life I've felt that I should have been called something else...'
Taking a sip of the Coke and fighting to keep my eyes off yours, I tried to logically analyse what had happened since I walked in, why I felt in immediate danger yet helpless to get up and walk away.
By now you know where I stand on things mystical, i.e. reincarnation, life after death, life before birth, the spirit world etc. etc. Before I met you I'd never given it much thought, and yet there have been times since I met you that I've thought of nothing else.
Did we have some unfinished business together from a previous life? I don't know. What I do know is that when you invited me back to your place, a well-ingrained self-defence mechanism taught to me by my mother regarding virginal women being alone with men on their initial meeting clicked into place.
I have never told you how hard it was for me to get up and walk away from that hurt, puppy-dog look of yours, but with the sexuality oozing out of your body the way that it was, I now know that my virginity would have been history if I'd gone with you. It was anyway three days later, but I believe that I have brain washed myself into believing that that incident was of my own choosing, not yours.
The second time that we met you were again waiting for me when I walked in, but this time you didn't even let me sit down. Standing, without a word of explanation, you left your unfinished coffee on the table took me by the hand and walked me out the door, and I, like an obedient child, went with you.
'Do you realize what these last three days have been like?'