It started as just another cool damp night. It was many years ago, and we were in a sleepy bedroom community located on the (very quiet--shhh!) Monterey Peninsula. We could hear the waves, those regular, gentle waves, just outside our window, as only a curvy, narrow asphalt road separated us from the beach. There wasn't much traffic. Most of the traffic on the road was tourists driving very slowly as they worked for a good glimpse of the sand, water, and rocks.
I was living with my girlfriend, and we were at home alone. On this particular occasion we were in a dark bedroom, the lights having been turned out, but the blinds still open so that some light from the road in front came in.
I was only 22. I was a young 22 in some ways as I had spent almost all of my adult life in the military--I had been stationed in the area (there were many people stationed in this area) and I was still naΓ―ve about women, somehow. To be sure, I had spent a lot of lonely nights alone in the military. On the other hand, she was much older, at least in some ways. We met on Sept. 3rd of the previous year, and soon after we met, she told me she was 40 (She was over 40, but she looked a lot younger than 40). I almost didn't believe she was 40. But the plentiful fog and easy sun of the Monterey Bay helps people age slowly and gracefully (and swimming every day in a pool doesn't hurt, either).
Besides the age gap, there were other differences. She had a bachelor's degree; I had just started college. She liked to take in a play in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Monterey and she liked to go to SF for the opera. I, however, had no interest in any such things. I didn't play golf or anything like that.
But that's where the differences stopped. We lived together and we were in love. Our sex lives, we had in common, and were very good. We were in the same place now. We were both the same age mentally in that we were both able to be happy. We talked about everything. I could be honest with her and she could be with me.
Now, on this one particular night, I don't remember what exactly she said, but she must have been a little too honest with me. I don't really remember what we were discussing, but some popular topics for discussion back then were her x-husband, a very masculine x-boyfriend of hers, some imagined x-gf of mine, an actual x-gf of mine who lived nearby, and so on. Get the idea? I was the jealous type and she was the jealous type (I told you we had a lot in common).
Anyway, I blew my top. I had had it. She was cheeky sometimes, and she was almost as tall as I was (I was average height). I think a woman's height determines how we think of her. Well, we were on the bed and fully dressed, and I got up and pulled her pants down, against her will. She really fought me on this and cussed and everything. And she was genuinely scared, terrified in fact. I too was a little afraid myself because I was so angry. In any event, her bare bottom was exposed and I spanked her with my hand--hard. In fact, after a few good swats of my hand, my hand was really stinging. Let me be perfectly clear: I struck her ass as well as the back of her leg several times. It was rough and I overdid it. I could see my hand prints on her bottom even though it was pretty dark in the room (her skin was pretty pale). Our eyes had grown accustomed to the darkness as we had been sitting in the dark room for some time before I spanked her, so I think we both could see fairly well. Immediately afterward, I ran the back of my hand across her bottom, and I could feel the marked areas, I could feel the heat of my hand prints, because the blood had risen in those spots and it was hot.