63 comments/ 49982 views/ 15 favorites Payback That Backfired By: SW_MO_Hermit My wife and some of my friends tell me I'm a total asshole. I know I can be a little inflexible at times but an asshole? Never. I was always taught as I grew up to do the right thing, be honest and ethical. Sometimes I think I am maybe a little too inflexible when it comes to ethics and doing the right thing. I suppose, looking back at what I did I wasn't honest and ethical but I plead momentary (well maybe not so momentary) insanity. Hell, that plea gets hardened criminals off or a lesser sentence doesn't it. It should work for me also. Got your attention now? Well, let me tell you a story about how I ruined my asshole ex friend's marriage and almost ruined mine. Eddie Howell and his parents moved near my home just before I went into the Navy. His wife Janice was a year younger than us and my wife, Janice's sister was three years younger. I didn't know Eddie very well until I came home from the Navy. By then he had married Janice and was very happy. I had dated Janice a time or two before going into the Navy but we knew we weren't right for each other. I even took her out a couple of times when I was home on leave before she married Eddie. I guess this is where the problems between me and Eddie began. Several years after they married he found pictures of me and Janice in one of her photo albums. There were some pictures from the time I took her to a square dance at the local spring fling square dance. It was obvious we were having fun. The pictures showed we were laughing and I had my arm around her. Hell, her nipples were obviously tenting out the thin blouse she wore but crap. She had huge highly sensitive nipples and they were almost always tenting out her tops if they were thin enough. I am just glad my wife's nipples are bigger, nicer and more sensitive. Oh, excuse me. That's a different story. LOL. Eddie also found some pictures of me in uniform when I escorted Janice to a dance while I was back on leave. Once again I had my arm around her and she looked very happy. She was in a low cut dress with a very short skirt. I still remember that dress. I loved it. The picture showed her nipples tenting out the dress. I remembered that night very well. She had not worn a bra and every time I danced with her or she bent forward to talk to me I could see her hard little (well like I said before, not so little) nipples. Shit she still made me horny as old as we were. I would still fuck her if I had the chance but I would never put myself in that position because I love my wife and I would never do anything to even chance losing her. Well, back to the story. We had a couple beers that night and I have to admit I fucked her before I took her home. Hell, I was a sailor and I guess she wanted to sample the wares. I know we were both very damn horny and as I remember it she had a great time. I remember that night when I picked her up. Her younger sister Roxie answered the door. Her face was mottled and red, her eyes were red and tears were running from the corners of them. When Roxie opened the door I smiled and said, "Hi Roxie. Is Janice ready?" Roxie glared at me and turned away from the door. She never answered me but yelled up the stairs, "Jan your date's here." She loudly stomped off down the hallway, her little ass swishing from side to side. When Janice came downstairs I was still standing in the open door. I hadn't really been invited in and didn't know what to do so I just stood there at the foot of the stairs and waited. I asked Janice what Roxie's problem was. She smiled at me and said, "Oh, she's angry with me because I'm going out tonight. I didn't get all my work done and she has to feed some of the calves I was supposed to take care of. Mom made me promise to do them all tomorrow to make up for it so I don't know what her problem is." That night I took Janice to a community dance. She had specifically requested I wear my dress whites. I must admit we looked really good in that picture. Hell, I don't know how many ladies I was in a picture with that evening. Many of my parent's friends asked me to pose with them as well as some of the other girls I had known when I was in school. I really had a lot of fun that night. I got propositioned several times too. I was even surprised about that. Three married ladies let me know they would be happy to visit me in their home while their husband was at work. They said they wanted to show me how much they appreciated my service. I understood what service they wanted to appreciate. I never did visit the married women but I did sample a couple of the other ladies that wanted to show their appreciation. After I returned home from the Navy I went to college on the GI Bill. I was farming the old home place while I went to school and lived 45 miles from campus. I drove it daily. My first class was 8 in the morning and I was finished most days before noon. Since most college students hated early classes I didn't meet many eligible women during my college career. Tuesday and Thursday I sometimes had Labs that stretched into the afternoon so I met some there but no one special. Anyway between working on the farm and studying I didn't have much time for a social life because of the distance I lived from the college. I used to go into Wheatland or Wilsons Mill to shoot pool evenings if I didn't have to study or work my farm. Many days in the summer I went in for lunch and played dominoes with some of the old men for an hour or two. Once again this didn't help the social life much. There were very few women who went into the pool hall and those that did were skanks. I was ready for a steady woman, one who would be loyal and faithful. You know, I wanted the marrying kind not the partying kind. The few women I did date from college were just not my type. I was visiting with one of the guys on a Friday night at the pool hall and he mentioned Roxie. I hadn't thought of her in ages. Hell, I hadn't even thought of Janice. This was before cell phones had been invented so I went into the back of the pool hall and used the pay phone to call Roxie. On the spur of the moment I had decided to ask her out. To my surprise she agreed to go out with me. We dated the rest of the summer and became very close. I was falling in love with her. One evening we couldn't decide what to do so she asked if I minded taking her to see her sister Janice and her husband. I hadn't even heard Janice had married until I began dating Roxie. We got to Janice's house and I found out she had married Eddie. He had always been a smart mouth but wasn't totally obnoxious. He was a little sleazy and reminded me of a TV actor called Eddie Haskell on an old show "Leave it to Beaver". Eddie and I got along ok and we all had fun together during that visit. After a couple of drinks he and I got along really well. We bonded. I would say we became friends. Roxie and I became pretty regular visitors at her sister's home after that. The problem I had with Eddie the asshole arose about eight years after Roxie and I got married. My solution to this problem was what moved me into the Asshole category for life. One day Eddie came to our house. I could tell he was angry when he came in. I asked, "What's the matter Eddie?" Eddie got right in my face and started yelling. "You asshole," he said. I found some pictures of you with my wife. I want you to keep your ass away from Janice. You hear me?" "Whoa man. I've never been with your wife unless you or Roxie were there with me. What's this all about anyway Dude?" "Bullshit Asshole. I have the pictures and I'm telling you right now to back off. I've seen how you hug her and flirt with her when we're together and I don't like it. I don't want you trying to move in on her like you did before." Eddie turned and stomped out of our house. He was so angry he peeled rubber when he took off in his car. Roxie came into the living room and stood beside me as I stared out the open door. She said, "What was that all about Honey?" "I have no idea. Eddie came storming in here and said he had pictures of me and Janice and he wanted me to stay away from her." "What do you mean he has pictures of you and Janice? What have you two been up to Jerry?" "Nothing Roxie. Like I said, I have no idea at all what Eddie is upset about." "Bullshit. You told me Eddie claimed to have pictures of you and Janice. That means you and my sister have been doing something that upset him." Roxie began crying and continued, "I can't believe you would do something like that to me. I especially can't believe you would do it with my own sister." Roxie glared at me a moment angrily then she turned, grabbed her purse and stormed out the door. As she was leaving Roxie screamed, "I'm going to get to the bottom of this right now. If you have been fooling around with Janice our marriage is over." She jumped into her car and chirped the tires as she too left our house driving way too fast. Now I didn't know what to do. I was shocked. I had no idea where this had all came from. I was angrier at Roxie than I was with Eddie. He was an asshole and I figured this would either blow over or not. If not it didn't really bother me too much because I would never have been his friend if we weren't related by marriage. I was also very worried but somewhat pissed at Roxie too. What the hell was going on? Nearly three hours later Roxie came home. I was sitting in the living room drinking beer trying to decide how to handle the shit that had hit me this day. Roxie had been crying. She came up and sat beside me then said, "Jerry I'm sorry I took off like I did. I was scared and angry. I thought you had been doing something bad and with my sister. I went over there to see those pictures and kill the bitch if you had been messing with her. "When I got there Janice was sitting in the living room crying. All her old photo albums were scattered over the floor. Eddie was still not home. I didn't even knock on the door. I just stormed into the house and began yelling at her. As I watched Janice she was picking up the pictures and putting them back into her book. I saw the pictures she was gathering up. Honey it was the pictures from when you took her out before and while you were in school and back on leave from the Navy. I can't believe those were the pictures Eddie got so upset over. "After she told me what the uproar was about I helped her pick up her pictures and we talked for a while. Eddie came back home and he was really drunk. He asked me how it felt being married to an asshole like you. He yelled at Janice and accused her of being a disloyal bitch for not telling him she had been your lover. He wanted to know how often you and she had got together after he married her. "We told him never but I don't think he really believed her, us. He walked into their bedroom and said he'd better not ever catch you or it would be all over. He slammed the door. After a few minutes we looked into the room and he was asleep. I tried to get her to come home with me. Jerry I was afraid he would hurt her but she wouldn't come. "Oh, Jerry, I'm so sorry I yelled at you. It's just that I remembered when you took her out before we began dating. I had loved you for years and you were dating my sister. I actually thought I hated her for that. I was so angry with you I could hardly talk to you or be in the same room with you. Eddie brought all those memories back this morning and the hurt and anger came back. I'm so sorry Honey. I can't believe he didn't know you used to date though. I wonder why he got so upset over those old pictures?" Well, now I knew why Roxie had been so nasty to me back then. I guess I could understand her feelings. I wrapped her in my arms and told her it was ok. "Honey, I love you. I am nice to Janice because she is your sister, heck, I suppose I even like her ok but we could never be more than that. We are like oil and water and you know it. We just don't get along that well." Roxie smiled and gave me a gentle kiss. She said, "I know Honey. I love you too. Sometimes I get so scared I'll lose you. I know I'm not real pretty. Janice is beautiful and has always been able to get any man she wants. I used to have dates over to the house and they would spend the entire evening flirting with Janice if she was home. I suppose I just remembered those times and went off half cocked. I'm so sorry." Well from then on almost every time Eddie, Janice, Roxie and I got together Eddie would tease and touch up Roxie. He always made comments to her about how they needed to get together. He would tell her he could really rock her world. If she was a little tipsy I would have to stay almost on top of her to keep him from trying to feel her up or catch a peek of her treasures. At least one or two times a month good old Eddie would tell me either when we talked in person or on the phone that since I wasn't getting the job done he would be glad to come over and take care of Roxie for me. I finally asked Roxie about it. "Roxie," I said, "What's this about me not being good enough in bed any longer? If you have a problem with our love making or you want something I'm not giving you why haven't you talked to me about it?" "What in the world do you mean Jerry? I've never told you I don't like the way you make love to me. Where did this all come from?" "I know you've never told me you don't like the way I make love to you. You've never told me you like the way I make love to you either. Hell, we never talk about sex at all. You never even tell me if I'm doing something you like. How the hell do I know whether you like what I do to you or not? You know damn well where this came from too. I know you've heard Eddie tell me he would be willing to come over and take care of you. You saw us talking today at your parent's." Roxie blanched then she blushed. She put her hands up to her mouth and said, "OH! Crap Honey. I'm sorry. I guess I did cause that but I didn't mean it like that. Remember when that steer kicked you in the nuts and you were laid up for a week? I had just come off the rag and you know how horny I get then and when I'm ovulating. I was talking to Janice telling her how glad I would be when you got better and could really give me a good fucking again. Eddie walked into the kitchen and grinned at me. He walked up to me and put his hand on my shoulder then tried to run it under my blouse and feel my tit. "I told Eddie to stop and get away from me. He just grinned and said if you weren't getting the job done he would take care of me for you. He said it was only fair he do that since you had done Janice." "Roxie I've never..." I started to say I had never fucked her sister then I remembered I had done it once when I was in the Navy. Shit. Did the asshole know that? Did Roxie? I sat there trying to decide what to say when Roxie smiled. She put her hand on my forearm and said, "Relax Honey. I know you fucked Janice once when you were in the Navy. She told me the day I helped her with the pictures. It hurt me I have to admit but it wasn't like you were cheating on me. We weren't even dating then and you and she were. She also told me that was your last date and was when she decided that you could never be more than an acquaintance. She said neither of you were really into each other either. She said the sex was just sex. There were no real fireworks for either of you. She knows you grate on each other and so do I. "I don't know how Eddie knew that. I suppose Janice must have told him or he was just spouting off. I know he and she screwed their asses off while they were dating. Maybe he thinks she did that on all her dates. I don't know. Anyway, Honey that is what he means by his blathering. And you never have to worry about him or any other man as long as you stay the man I fell in love with when I was 13 and you were visiting my older brother. I've loved you all my life and I trust you more than I can say." Well for the next several months I just put up with good old Eddie's crap and tried to be civil to him when fate or family affairs put us together. Eddie just would not leave it alone. He kept on making his comments to me. I suppose he got tired of messing with me verbally. He upped the ante. Good ole Eddie began making more suggestive remarks to Roxie. He started to proposition Roxie from time to time and touch her inappropriately. One day at a family gathering I got fed up. I heard him proposition Roxie three times that day. He wrapped his arm around her waist and tried to feel her tits once that I saw. I saw him pat her ass twice also. He made two comments to me about how he was going to get together with Roxie and take care of her for me. To Roxie's credit she did shut him down each time but I was angry she did it nicely. I was upset she didn't really hammer him for doing that. That night when we got home I exploded. During my rant at Roxie about Eddie I said, "I've had it with that asshole. I'm going to give him some of his own medicine. I'm telling you now Honey that from now on every time he makes a comment about fucking you to me or if I even hear he said that to anyone else and it gets back to me I am going to make the same comment to him. I am going to let him know I am going over to see Janice or at least I am going to tell him I am going over to see her. I'm going to let him know what it feels like to have someone always telling him he can't take care of his own wife and I am going to do it for him. I'm going to touch or try to touch Janice just like he does you. This shit is going to end one way or another." "Honey I don't think that's such a good idea. You know how jealous he gets. We all know he's just playing the Macho Man when he spouts his garbage. Please don't do that." "No. It's a done deal. From now on I give as good as he gives. No. And that's another problem I have with all this. You're too damn easy on him when he comes on to you. I know you and he don't do anything but I'm pretty pissed at you for not stopping some of his crap." For the next five months every time I called Eddie's and Janice's place or I answered the phone and it was one of them I made the same kind of inappropriate comments Eddy made. If I talked to good ole Eddie I offered to take care of Janice. At first he would just ignore me so I ramped up the effort to give as good as I got. I told Eddie how nice Janice's tits were and how tight her pussy was when I fucked her that time. I asked if they were still as nice. I began patting Janice on the ass when Eddie could see me. A couple of times I even 'accidentally' brushed her breasts or crotch. I would touch her, wrap my arm around her and when we talked I tried to make it look like we were flirting. Janice would seem to withdraw from me but Eddie still hated it. A couple of times Roxie asked me to quit touching Janice and propositioning her. Hell, even Janice asked me to quit doing those things to her. I told her the same thing I told Roxie. I would quit as soon as Eddie quit doing those things to Roxia. Hell, Roxie's father even talked to me about the inappropriate things I said to Janice. I lost it on that one. I said, "Listen Ron. I love Roxie to death. I would never cheat on her and you know it if you know me at all. I am also sick of Eddy and his flirting with her. I told Roxie, Janice and Eddie I would stop what I am doing and saying as soon as Eddie stops doing the same thing to Roxie. Why haven't you said or done anything to Eddie about this?" "Well son, you know Eddie. He's just pulling your chain. What you're doing is just like pouring gasoline on a fire. You need to be the bigger man here and stop to show Eddie you really aren't interested in Janice." "Bullshit Dad. He started this. Roxie and I both tried ignoring it and asking him to stop before I began giving it back to him. When he stops I'll stop. That's the bottom line. He keeps his damn hands off my wife and quits putting the make on her and I do the same with his." Payback That Backfired One day we had to go to another family gathering. Eddie brought me a beer and handed it to me. I was surprised because he usually didn't act too friendly any longer. I was hoping maybe he was ready to bury the hatchet. Then he grinned and said, "Here ya go sport. You have enough of these tonight and I'll give Roxie what she's been needing. I know she needs a real man after putting up with you for so long. It's just a matter of time before I breed her old man." I saw red. I was PISSED. I started to smash Eddie's face then thought better of it. All I did was lean toward him and say, "Well, I would worry if I thought you were man enough to get into her pants but you're not. After the last time I was with Janice I found out why you don't satisfy her. I knew your cock was little but I had no idea it was only five inches. Hell if Roxie ever sees it she'll probably die laughing." Before I could twist the knife any more Eddie exploded. He smashed me in the face and stormed off. I was still lying on the ground when he began yelling at Janice. "YOU CHEATING SKANK. I've had it with you and that asshole. You can have him and any other man you can get between your thighs. I'm outta here." Half the family was standing staring and the other half was running toward me to see if I was ok. Of course I was beginning to feel bad about this whole thing about then. I wondered if I had pushed it too far. Needless to say that broke up the party. Roxie was so pissed at me. She did help me up but when she found out what had caused the problem she unloaded on me. She had never yelled at me like that before. It was totally silent on the way home. We were at her parent's and she had insisted we take Janice home to her house. No one spoke during the entire thirty minute drive. Roxie spent the night on the couch and didn't even talk to me when she served me breakfast the next morning. I farm so when I came into the house for lunch I faced the silent treatment once more. The only time she spoke to me first was when she absolutely had to for the next three days. Unless something I said to her required an answer Roxie never replied when I said something to her. On Thursday I came into the house for lunch and Roxie was gone. I made a sandwich and returned to the field to work. I came home to a dark house that evening. Roxie was still gone. I called her parents to see if they knew where she was. Her mother said, "The girls are both here. How could you do this to them Jerry? Roxie doesn't want to talk to you. Please just leave us alone." I began going to the café in the Old Mill at Wilsons Mill for my breakfast and supper. I sure took a lot of ribbing the first few days I went in. Eddie had filed for divorce from Janice for adultery citing me as her lover. She and Roxie were living with their parents once more. Half the guys thought it was a great joke that I was the other man and had never even touched Janice's bare skin after she was married. The other half of the men thought I had dipped my wick in Janice and got caught. Most of the women in the country were disgusted with me for cheating on Roxie with her sister or angry about the 'joke' I played on Eddie. It seems the ones who were on my side were those who had heard what he said to me and Roxie about taking care of her since I couldn't. They thought my actions were justified. Those who were upset with me thought what I had done was horrible. I had broken up a good marriage and deserved to suffer. Some thought Roxie should divorce me for being an asshole. Others thought she should divorce me because they were sure I really did cheat on her with her sister. It took almost a month before Roxie moved back home with me. We had some rough times for the rest of the summer because I was such an asshole to poor old Eddie. Eddie and Janice did divorce and she raped him in the settlement. He could never present proof of any type I had done anything inappropriate with Janice. All he had was a couple of friends who testified I told him repeatedly I was going to go over and take care of her because he wasn't man enough. Of course Janice presented documentation and witnesses showing he had done the same thing to me. Janice also presented evidence of how Eddie acted toward her. She was awarded the divorce from Eddie for his Mental Cruelty to her. The Judge was upset at both of us men. We both got a royal dressing down in court for being so juvenile. Now, a year after the divorce Janice is enjoying her life once more. I am once more at a family gathering and I cannot believe what I am hearing. Janice is talking in the kitchen with Roxie, her mother and other sister. "I never thought I would be happy again when Eddy kicked me out but I have to admit this last year has been almost perfect. I didn't realize how much his damn flirting with other women and complaining about me dating Jerry bothered me. It's been heaven not having to listen to his crap day in and day out. I was so upset when Jerry did what he did I never considered maybe Eddy deserved it. I just laughed off what Eddy said to you Roxie as Eddie being Eddie. Roxie I am so sorry for letting him put you through all that. "I was pissed at Jerry for the way he handled things because he was going out of his way to jerk Eddie's chain but now I really think I'm better off than when I was married to Eddie. Money is a little tighter but I'm happy now. Jerry and I still grate on each other and I'll never be real close to him honey but it's time for you to let this thing go and try to heal your marriage too Roxie. Jerry loves you to death but don't you see Honey? You're doing the same thing to Jerry that Eddie did to me except in a different way. You need to get over what he did and said to Eddie and work on making him happy or you'll end up divorced too. The way you've always loved that man I cannot believe that would be a good thing for you." Roxie was crying and I heard her say through her sobs, "I know but he was such an ASSHOLE about it. I just can't get over how he kept on fucking with Eddie even when I told him he needed to let it go." "Didn't you tell me he said he would stop when Eddie did? Honey he couldn't fight Eddie. We were family. You know how everyone would have felt about him if he started a fight with Eddie. He was trying the best he could to protect you from Eddie's asshole remarks. I know in the end it hurt me and I know I was getting pissed at him for bothering me but he didn't do anything Eddie didn't' do to you. For that matter Roxie why didn't you come down on Eddie for saying and doing those things to you?" "I don't know Janice. I guess because I sort of got a kick out of it. I didn't like it but I felt good knowing Eddie sort of wanted me. I would have never let it go farther but truthfully his words didn't bother me like they did Jerry." So there ya have it friends. That's how I got to be thought of as an ASSHOLE and how I almost lost my marriage because of an ASSHOLE ex friend. Am I sorry I did it? Naw, not really. I was tired of the assholes mouth. I am sorry I upset Roxie and that I damaged my marriage a little. I guess I am even a little sorry for Janice but truthfully I don't care too much for her so what the hell? If she wasn't my wife's sister I wouldn't care at all. I'm still a little pissed at Roxie for her part in all this but Janice is right about what she said. We love each other to death and we need to heal this wound before it becomes so bad we can't. If Roxie doesn't make the right moves soon I suppose I will have to try and find a way back for both of us. I would sure like to get back where we were before Asshole Eddie began stirring the pot.