FIGHT #4. SEPTEMBER 1990
The last Saturday of 1990 is a sunny but chilly fall day in Rhode Island. It's the one year anniversary of the day in 1989 when Mrs Silva pulled up in her car as I was walking past her house, I collapsed crying in Mrs Silva's arms about my wasted life, and she and I made love and became a couple.
Today is the day she and I will break up. Just not in the way expect.
My plan for today is to move in with Pam, the supermarket cashier. I'll bring my clothes and my food to Pam's place. Once I've safely made the transfer, I'll break the news to Mrs Silva. If that induces a confrontation and then a fight between Pam and Mrs Silva, so much the better. I've built up a fantasy in my mind of Pam being my protector.
By noon, my plan is in shambles. Pam and I have coffee at Starbucks. She breaks the news that she can't see me anymore. She breaks up with me before we've even had our first kiss. She gives my multiple explanations, any one of which would make it impossible for she and I to be together.
The first is that she's not even positive she can be with a woman, any woman. All of her relationships until now have been straight. She's attracted to me, but can't follow thru and actually consummate anything with me. Our coffee dates have been nothing but a dead end flirtation.
But even beyond the whole bi-curious thing, Pam is uncomfortable that I tolerate the verbal abuse I put up with from Mrs Silva. I have flirtatious coffees with Pam, but I don't leave Mrs Silva.
"But I want to leave her. Today, Pam. Our one year anniversary."
"It's too late, Vicky. You've spent too long procrastinating about it. The abuse has been going on too long. You've lost too much self-respect. I can only be with a strong partner."
"But I AM strong, Pam. Mrs Silva and I, before we were lovers, had three toe-to-toe fistfights. The first one when I was just eighteen."
<<<<Pam, exasperated, runs her fingers thru her blonde hair. I've never made love to a blonde woman.>>>>" Vicky, Vicky, you and her are so....so....it's beyond even co-dependent. You need to make a clean break with her. I can't help you do it, beyond verbally imploring you like this. I'm sorry if you've come to lean on me to get away from that horrible woman. But, Vicky, please. You have to let me go. Then you have to let her go, too."
Pam and I hug goodbye without me making too much of a scene in Starbucks. Two women out as a couple is still an unusual enough site in Rhode Island in 1990 that no one suspect's they've just witnessed a heart-wrenching breakup.
I go back to Mrs Silva's place. That's weird--she's not home. I take advantage. I pack my stuff and load my car. I bring it to my mom's.
I think about Pam the entire time. Shit, I think, I was really looking forward to a Pam vs Mrs Silva brawl. Good age and size matchup. MILF vs MILF. Nothing like a good MILF fight. Nothing.
I eat dinner with my mom. She's glad to have me back. "I need to go back to Mrs Silva's and tell her in person, Mom." "I understand, Vicky."
I get back to Mrs Silva's. Still not home. Ok, this is very odd. I turn on ESPN. Florida is getting their asses kicked by Tennessee in college football. By the time It's over, It's 45-3 Tennessee. I think the last Tennessee football game I watched was New Years Night 1986, when they beat Miami 35-7 in the Sugar Bowl. I remember because I was in bed, recovering from the vaginal tears Mrs Silva gave me when we fought in front of Miss Tower. Are Mrs Silva and I are to fight tonight?
We are.
"Where the fuck have you been?," I blurt out more jealously than I expect.
"With your buddy, Laura, cxnt," Mrs Silva replies with complete satisfaction. I sure walked into that one.
"I don't believe it."
I've just stepped into it again. "Well, do you believe me NOW???". Into the room steps Laura, the high school classmate I fought to a draw in 1977, and who disabled me in the hotel suite at the 10th class reunion in 1987. "She's given me some tips on how to throw your sorry ass out of here."
"I already packed and left, bitches," I defiantly tell both my enemies.
"Then just beat her up for fun, Donna," Laura arrogantly instructs Mrs Silva, taking a seat on the couch. "It's easy. I've done it twice."
Mrs Silva removes her rings, jewelry, and coat.
My fight instincts (or hormones) kick in. I tell Mrs Silva, "Let's fight like Mrs Mallory and you did. If you dare bitch." I remove my top. Mrs Silva dares. She removes her top and her bra. We lock hold of each other's breasts, pinching hard.
Besides wanting to fight another woman this way ever since Mrs Silva told me about her 1973 divorce fight, I'm partially motivated by self-preservation. My last 2 fights have been physically devastating defeats, in 1985 to my crotch at the hands of Mrs Silva, and in 1987 to my skull at the hands of Laura. Both women are in the room now, and I need to change tactics If I'm going to avoid a third straight crippling defeat. If they had been smarter and less cocky, they would have beaten me up when they had me 2on1. But now I'm inflicting punishment on Mrs Silva, and Laura is perhaps even more compromised, as her hands are down her pants and she is pleasuring herself to the sight of the all-out titfight occurring before her eyes. She is already cumming.
Mrs Silva and I claw viciously at each others chests, drawing blood from the scratches we carve into each others chests. By wordless mutual agreement, tit mauling is the exclusive tactic in this, our fourth war. Neither of us pull hair. Neither of us punch. Neither of us kick. Just a total and complete breast war. May the better woman win.
Mrs Silva and I tumble, standing, across her living room, sometimes inches apart, sometimes arms length apart, tearing, pulling, and slashing at each others breasts. I want to gouge every freckle off her breasts, and I seem to be succeeding. My pain is unbearable, but I have little choice. Surrender will receive not mercy, but unremitting punishment, from my 2 enemies, who have somehow managed to coordinate tonight to destroy me. Their only mistake was their overconfidence.
Mrs Silva begins to show her age. Her arms weaken and slow. Her pinching strength on my nipples begins to diminish, and her clawing becomes less effective. I smell victory, and maul her mercilessly. She goes down to both knees, and I tighten my grip on her. I dig my nails upward into her underboob. I twist in full rotations. Now I'm cumming too. Mrs Silva falls to the floor in a heap.
I walk past Laura. She and I could have started fighting right then and there, the animosity between us was so intense. And since I was weakened from my just-concluded brawl with Mrs Silva, Laura probably would have won. That fact that she just let me leave I attribute to both the brutality and the eroticism of what she had just witnessed. The brutality, because there are no limits to how violent the fight between Laura and me would have gotten. And the egotism, because I know she wanted to masturbate to what she had just seen. Fighting would have put a damper on that.
Mrs Silva and I never spoke again. In 1994, I noticed she didn't live in that house anymore. I've not heard anything about what happened to her. Like I said at the beginning of this story, if she 's still alive today, she's 83 years old.
Laura and I never spoke again either. For years I assumed I would have one final showdown fight with her. That never happened, and now that I'm 57, I have no desire. I can still fight at this age, but not all out. That was Mrs Silva's mistake in 1990--not recognizing tour limits.
Pam and I never spoke again either.
I've have a series of sporadic, unhealthy relationships since 1990. I never emotionally recovered from having a grown woman knock on my door when I was 18 and take me out to my backyard to fight me. It was just too obtuse of an incident to "get over" or "get past".
There's no broader life lesson I have to offer. It's just something that happened to me, for better or for worse. And that I think about everyday.
THE END