When I first met Kim she was in an abusive relationship with Troy, a punk ass skater dude that thought he was god's gift to women and who only seemed capable of building himself up, by tearing someone else down, usually Kim.
Although I was nineteen at the time and Kim was barely fifteen, we just clicked. She was physically my idea of the perfect girl, short, pale, dark hair, blue eyes, not too thin, not too thick, nice ass. She was kind of a goth kid and I was just a redneck, but it didn't matter because underneath her black goth heart, she was a country girl herself.
We started out as friends and I was the one she came to everytime Troy cut her down or cheated. I was always available to her whenever she needed to vent. Ultimately, I took it upon myself to make Troy disappear. Shortly after I had words with him, he decided he really needed to live with his mom down in Florida, rather than stay with his dad's in Ohio.
Kim and I started dating immediately. And it was good. Damn good. I took her virginity, and became amused at her constantly thinking she'd gotten pregnant after everytime we fucked. We had plans. But her best friend Stephanie seemed pissed off that Kim was finally happy. From day 1, Stephanie was the worm in the apple.
When running me down and making up all kinds of baseless rumors about me failed, Stephanie ran to Kim's parents with the news that I had a daughter (I did, one that I myself was raising). So, Kim's dad, who couldn't be bothered to stop Troy from making his little girl a psychological wreck, suddenly became over-protective and swore he'd call the cops if I saw Kim again. He threw statutory rape around more than a few times in his rant.
Kim and I continued to see one another on the sly, but those meet-ups became more and more infrequent, to the point all we really did was text anymore.
I knew things had changed when she stopped ending our chats with I love you, like I always did. Her reply to my ILY's became, kk goodnight or silly -smiley face- night!
Stephanie had introduced Kim to her cousin, a short, pudgy rich kid named Benny. He tried to dress Goth to impress Kim, and it was quite a sight seeing all that blubber stuffed into a pair of too-tight skinny jeans. But he had money, and apparently for Kim, that was good enough.
Without telling me we were over, and while still telling me we'd go ahead with our plans as soon as she was eighteen (plans to live together, make a family together) and accepting the gifts I'd send on her bday, and holidays like the sweetest day, she had started dating and fucking Benny behind my back.
She finally fessed up and was surprised when I didn't call her names or rant. I just accepted it and walked away. But the more I thought about it, the more it pissed me off. I had been there for her, I helped get her out of a bad relationship. I did my best to buy her the things she wanted, not because I had to but because I loved her and it made me feel just a little more like a man to be able to use the money I'd sweated and worked for to make someone I cared about smile. And just like that, because this kid uses his parents charge card to get her an XBOX, a shit ton of games, expensive goth boots, you name it - she says hey fuck you, and starts screwing him behind my back.
My sister wanted to kick her ass. I said no. Instead I started texting Kim after about a month or so, and I pretended I wasn't mad at all. In fact, I still liked her I said. She started flirting and laughed about how tiny Benny's dick was and how he came after 3 or 4 strokes, just all kinds of shit I didn't care to know. But I typed lol and played along. Eventually I asked for some nudes just for old times sake and she sent me a truckload.
I really enjoyed sharing those with Benny. Especially the one edited by Kim to say, to Jake - the only guy that ever made me orgasm, for real lol.
Kim texted me an hour later OMFG! How could you do that?? He's in tears!!! He wants all his crap back now!!! And Stephanie wont even talk to me anymore....
Petty?? Yeah, it was. But did it make me smile. Oh yeah.