He walked into the
roadhouse, his eyes scanning the clientele in the smoke filled room. When he
spotted her she was sitting there smoking a cigarette and talking to the man
next to her. He could feel the hackles
rise on the back of his neck. He walked
over to her, grabbed her off the stool and hauled her out of there.
“I am going to
flame your ass” he said as he was walking out of the door. Katy got that tingly feeling deep in her
tummy at those words. This is exactly
what she had been hoping for and wanting for some time.
Jason was a great
bear of a man but his looks betrayed him. He was a gentle soul. He didn’t even
swat flies, just shooed them out the door.
Katy had never met anyone like him.
Most of the men she knew were rough around the edges. They were lumberjacks as were their father’s
before them. Most of them had never been
more than a hundred miles from Creekside.
Women were loved and respected but expected to take care of house, home
and them. A woman was expected to open
her own door, pull out her own chair and do her own heavy lifting so when Katy
went out with Jason for the first time she was overwhelmed with his gentlemanly
manners.
He had bought the
hardware store in town a couple of years ago.
Creekside was a small sleepy community on the Oregon/Washington
border. Not much exciting happened here
so when an “outsider” bought a local store there was much speculation about the
why’s and wherefore’s. No one came to
Creekside to have a life, they left Creekside to get a life. So Jason was an anomaly. The stories flew fast and furious; He was a
fugitive, or an ex-con, or someone running away from “you name it” and it was
attributed to him. After a few months,
he finally was able to convince the town folk he was just here to get away from
the hustle and bustle of the world in which he had lived. He was retired military and had spent many
tours of duty in places he never thought he would and saw things he never
wanted to see ever again.
Katy had been born
and raised in Creekside. She never knew
her father, he didn’t stick around once he found out her mother was pregnant
with her. Her mother never recovered
from her birth and she had been raised by her grandparents. Her mother passed when she was five and so
her memories were few but she had a good life.
Her grandparents were loving but strict so when the first guy came along
and filled her head with thoughts of
freedom and big city life, she ran off with him.
Unfortunately, she
soon realized that freedom came with a price.
Being too proud to admit her mistake, she stuck it out living from hand
to mouth in a run-down apartment in a city she no longer thought was wonderful,
with a man she didn’t love and who clearly didn’t love her based on the
emotional abuse he dealt out daily. Two
years into this existence, Sully didn’t come home one night. The next day a policeman came to the door and
delivered the news she knew she would one day hear. Sully had been drunk and picked a fight with some
burly guys. During the skirmish he fell
back, hit his head and died on the way to the hospital. She didn’t mourn his passing. When she called her grandparents to tell
them, they urged her to come back to Creekside.
She took their advice, came home and never looked back.
She dated now and
again but until Jason came along no one made much of an impression on her. She had heard it all before and knew that
what she had was better than what she’d had with Sully. Jason was different. She loved how gentle he
was and how well he treated her and others.
Even in lovemaking, he handled her as if she was made of porcelain. She wished he was a little more dominant but
she knew what was important in life and she respected and loved him. So when he
asked her to marry him she said yes.
They settled into the home in which she was raised.
For the most part,
Katy was happy. But sometimes, Jason was
so easygoing that Katy would get frustrated that nothing she did seem to rile
him. She wanted a little excitement, she wanted to spar with him. She remembered her granny could get her
grandpa so fired up and mad as a wet hen, they were always scrapping with each
other. She knew it was never for real
because there were always smiles and laughter.
There were times though when Grandpa would be serious and granny would back
down. He never raised a hand to either one of them but he would threaten to
give her a good hiding if she didn’t behave. She learned early on his word was
law. She spent many an hour standing in
the corner or being grounded because she had disobeyed or sassed him.
One day she sat
down with Jason and told him just how she felt.
He listened closely and told her he had seen so much violence he didn’t
want to experience it ever again. She told
him she was not talking about violence just about some good old arguing or
getting his dander up. He said that was
not his way and why couldn’t she be happy with that. She told him she just wanted to add a little
spice to their life.
After that, she
considered it her mission in life to do whatever she could to get him to
budge. Purposely, she would do things
she hoped would irritate him. Things
like not doing the laundry, or leaving the car with no gas on days she knew he
needed it to get somewhere. He seemed to
take it all in stride. She finally just
gave up. She loved him and she knew what he was like when she married him so
she read more and more exciting romance
novels and fantasized in her head that Jason was the hero and she the damsel in
distress.
Then one day
everything seemed to change. She was no
longer just acting bitchy. She was bitchy.
Nothing he did pleased her; she was sweet as pie one minute and a complete
shrew the next. He tried his best and
would stay at the store for longer and longer periods of time. He was never sure just who he would be coming
home to and even if it was his sweet loving Katy he was never sure just how
long she would be around.
He looked so ragged that his long time
employee, Sadie, asked if anything was wrong and if she could help.
“ I don’t know
what’s wrong but Katy just doesn’t seem to be herself. She is always grouchy and mean”.
Sadie said
giggling “when I get like that Jake just takes me over his knee and after a
good tanning, things just seemed to straighten right out”
Jason was aghast
and said he could never do anything like that.
“Well, I’m just
telling you what works for us. You’ll
figure out what to do”
Jason went home
that night and Katy was as sweet as pie.
She’d made his favorite dinner of meat loaf and mashed potatoes with
gravy, and an apple pie for dessert. He was so happy, until bedtime. When he suggested it was time for bed, Katy
the Terrible emerged.
“Who do you think you are telling me when it’s
time to go to bed? I’ll go to bed when I
damn well please”.
The tirade
continued until he just turned around and left the room. She followed him continuing her
harangue. Suddenly, Sadie’s advice came
to mind and he figured what the hell did he have to lose. He turned back to her and without a word
pulled her over his hip and swatted her backside.
She kicked his
shins, so he gave her a few more. When
he let her up, she was silent.
“I don’t care if
you come to bed or not but I don’t want to hear another word. I have finally had it”
He went to bed and
was astounded when the next thing he knew she was beside him. She cuddled into him and began telling him
how much she loved him and she was so sorry for her bad behavior. He told her all was forgiven and kissed her
good night. Katy wasn’t ready for
sleep. He had awakened her senses and
she wasn’t going to sleep until those desires were sated. It was the best sex they had in months.
Jason swatted her
more often now and each time her hiney got that little tingle. They were having
more sex than they had been and she was enjoying it. What she wasn’t enjoying were her mood
swings. When she finally went to the
doctor he confirmed her suspicions. She
was menopausal. She told him she was much
too young and went on her way. After a
few more weeks she couldn’t stand herself any longer and went on hormone replacement
therapy. It worked beautifully and she
was back to her old self. Unfortunately
as she settled out, the spanks disappeared and so did the great sex.
‘I have to get
that back’, she thought to herself.
‘What can I do that will really get Jason to sit up and take
notice’?
So once again she
began doing things to irritate him. One
of the things he hated when they met was that she smoked. He finally persuaded her to give them up and
she hadn’t smoked in years. She bought a
pack of cigarettes and although she never lit up, she would light one and let
it burn in the ashtray and then leave the evidence. The cigarette pack was left in plain
sight. When Jason saw them he grabbed
them and her and threatened to “spank her bottom until it was smoking hot” if
she started smoking again.
‘What’s a girl to
do?’. She thought.
The next Friday, she left him a note to meet
her at the roadhouse. They needed a
night out. She sat at the bar and
watched the door. When she spotted Jason she immediately grabbed a cigarette
and lit it. She had been chatting to
Jamie Henderson, a friend from high school, but Jason didn’t know that. So she really played it up and by the time
Jason spotted her she could see she had succeeded.
When he got her
home, he pulled off her jeans and her panties and hauled her over his knee. He
“flamed her ass” and other parts that night and many nights thereafter.
