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.