Free Counting the Days by Hope Riverbank

comment about your breasts if you hadn’t led him on in some kind of way. Look at you. Can’t you dress a little more decently? I hate it when you wear stuff like that, showing off your tits like a twenty dollar hooker,” he said as he pointed to my chest. “For goodness sake, Marilyn, you can see your nipples right through that blouse. Are you trying to embarrass me on purpose?”
     
    “ No, honey, I’m wearing exactly what you told me to wear,” a white halter, blue jeans and black pumps. “You bought this blouse for me. It’s a halter-top, so I can’t wear a bra with it. Nothing’s exposed or anything.”
     
    “ You should only be wearing outfits like that for me in private. Those,” he said angrily pointing to my breasts, “belong to me and no one else should be able to see what belongs to me. We, you and I, will talk about this further, when we get home tonight.” Danny started back for the table. I followed him like a child. I felt dread within all my soul.
     
    We’ve only been married for a little over two weeks and things have been fine. We haven’t had one fight and life seems great. I’ve been the perfect little housewife. I’ve kept the house clean and I always have dinner ready for Danny when he gets home. Of course, I won’t be going to medical school right away, because now I’m a housewife. For now I have other responsibilities and a new life course. I’ll go to school eventually and I’m okay with that. I am now Mrs. Daniel Monroe.
     
    Last week Danny went out drinking a lot with his friends. It bothered me a little, but I made the most of it. Every night I dolled myself up and put on a sexy little nightgown. I made sure scented candles were lit and exotic foods were waiting for him when he got home. Sometimes he was too drunk to make love, but it was okay, most evenings he was hungry and he made up for the nights he wasn’t.
     
    Tonight, even before we left the house, I had a feeling that it was going to be a long evening and we were going to have our first fight. When we got to the table, Danny turned to Chris and said, “Now back to your question about big brown nipples.” All eyes and ears were on him. Chris began to grin. Jenny and Paul had no idea what was going on and looked totally confused, so Danny turned to them and said, “While you guys were out on the porch, Chris here asked me if I liked girls with big brown nipples.” I could feel my face turning beet red from embarrassment, to avoid looking into the faces of my friends, I stared down into my beer.
     
    “ So, do you?” Chris prompted.
     
    Danny looked at me and said, “Man, let me tell you, I love them.” He pointed to my breast and continued, “Look at my wife’s chest, you can see her nipples right through this blouse…and let me tell you, they are big, round and dark brown ones.” Danny put his arm around me and began caressing my right nipple, right there in front of everybody. I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. I tried to push Danny’s hand away, but he just tightened his grip. He was pinching me so hard that I wanted to cry out. I glanced over at Jenny and Paul and could see they were absolutely mortified.
     
    “ Yeah, she’s got some nice ones,” Chris said and laughed as he glared at my chest. “They’re about the size of silver dollars. And they look nice and dark too. Nice, man.”
     
    “ Danny, please stop,” I begged and once again tried to push his hand away. “You’re embarrassing me.”
     
    “ Come now, honey. Why are you embarrassed? Isn’t that why you wore this blouse? So that you can show off what you’ve got. Now show it off,” Danny said as he pulled the top to the side exposing one of my breasts.
     
    “ Cut the crap, Danny!” Jenny angrily shouted, “For goodness sake, she’s your wife. Give her some dignity.”
     
    Danny shot Jenny and Paul a look of hatred before he covered me back up. “I’m going to the can. I’ll be back,” he said to me. Chris