Will rolls out of bed at 5:30 am. He doesn't have to meet Erick at the boat until 6:30 so he takes a quick jog and then back to his apartment for a shower. He and Erick didn't have a wild night of it, it was just two guys drinking and talking about their lives. Will dwelling on his, now, divorce, and Erick about how he can't find the right girl, at which point they both laughed. Will sighting, he, Erick, doesn't have any trouble finding the right now, he just has trouble getting past the initial fuck. "This is true" Erick admits. "But I do try." Erick says as he clinks bottles with Will.

Will and Erick have known each other since freshman year in college. They were roommates the first two years. Not a match made in heaven for either of them. There was something about Erick that irritated Will. He couldn't put his finger on it until he met Erick's father and mother on a parents visit weekend. Will notice immediately that Erick's dad was a womanizer. Even in front of his wife he would flirt with the young female students. Occasionally, again in front of his wife, he would see an attractive girl go by and ask Erick if he had tapped that ass. So Will could see where Erick got his attitude towards woman from.

Erick had even confessed that he once was screwing around with a girl his dad was seeing. He claimed it was just for the sex, but Will could tell that it was a competition, a source of pride for Erick. That he could do as good as his dad in the area of woman. It didn't matter to him that he was using these women, they were just a piece of ass to him. This did cause some tension between Will and Erick because Erick would deny till his dying day that he was anything like his dad. But Will could see it even if Erick couldn't. Will remembers once asking about Erick's mom and how she felt about all this. She clearly knew what was going on but showed no signs of irritations at her husband's flirtatious nature. Erick had told him that she too had a few things going on the side. That both his parents knew about the other's indiscretions, but if you don't talk about it then it isn't happening, was there attitude. Will wanted to tell Erick how fucked up that was but saved it because, one, it would fall on deaf ears, and two, it would only lead to a fight of some sort. So Will chose to let it all go. It wasn't his family.

Will on the other hand was a quiet person with the opposite sex, more laid back. He rarely went after anyone. This caused Erick to think that Will was not capable of working it with the ladies. So whenever he could he would set Will up with some random girl, usually a friend of whomever Erick's was seeing that month or even week. Will use to joke with him and ask what flavor of the month is it this time. Erick like to mix it up. Italian girls, Spanish girls, Oriental girls, African American girls, if there was a type out there Erick would want to try them out. For Erick women were like Whitman Samplers. Will on the other hand would let girls come to him. It wasn't arrogance on his part it was just that for some reason he just didn't have it in him to go after them. He chalked it up to the fact that when he was growing up he was messed up and felt like he wasn't worth anyone's one time. He didn't want to intentionally put himself out there to prove to himself the point he already knew, that he wasn't worth anyone's time. So his feet never made the steps towards the girls, he just sat back and waited. Not meaning that he thought that he was so attractive that they would flock to him, though Erick would tell him about how girls were scared to approach him because he was so good looking. Those comments from Erick, Will just stored in the bullshit center of his brain.

Now while Will wasn't exactly celibate the first few years of college, he didn't' have the revolving door at the foot of his bed that Erick did. There were times at parties where some girl would approach him, they would get to talking and before long they were in a bedroom somewhere going at it.

While he enjoyed it, it was more of a masturbatory aid for him. He could go home and jerk off or he could take whatever the girl was offering. A blowjob, handjob or a full out fuck it was all the same to him. It just meant he didn't have to do it to himself that particular night. He never felt he was using the girls, after all they came to him, he didn't go after them. And there was, on more than a few occasions where he knew that he was being used. He could tell if a girl was using him, he didn't think it was so much to get off, as it was to say that she had bedded him. He had heard girls in passing whispering that they would be the first to get him into bed. Will just let the comments go. But he wasn't going to turn down an offer if it was made.

But he did have his limits. If they were drunk, or high he wanted nothing to do with them. One, because basically he would be taking advantage of them and two, because he didn't drink to access and never did drugs, both attributes he found to be an ugly side of a person. He would, if he knew it was a revenge fuck, some girl wanting to get back at her boyfriend, steered clear of it. If they were crying for whatever reason and wanted a consoling fuck, then he walked the other way. Those would always turn into the girl thinking that Will was a savior of sorts and now she felt she needed him.

The last two years of college Erick had moved off campus. A luxury that Will could not afford since he was basically putting himself through college, since he came from nothing. A cycle that ran in his family and one that he hoped to break, on his own. But while Erick no longer shared the room Will and Erick maintained their friendship. Each was there for the other when needed. They fought almost like brothers do, and there were gaps in their relationship of a month or two but it would always end with one genuinely needing the other's help and they never denied each other that. That is actually what lead them to opening the office together.

Erick's dad had given Erick seed money to start his our company but after the first few months things weren't going too well for Erick, he had the knowledge for the most part but he couldn't focus on the task at hand and that resulted in pissed off clients and then losing them quickly . So Erick turned to Will for help. He knew Will had it all. The know how, even more than Erick, and he had a style and a way about him that made the clients feel good about what Will would tell them or show them. So one day Erick asked Will to be his partner. Will was reluctant to join because he knew Erick's work ethic and he also knew that, that was going to get on his nerves fast.

So one night Erick took Will out to dinner to discuss his proposal. Will gave Erick his full attention, and Erick was saying all the right things. But Will knew that that was just what it was lips service. At the end of Erick's sales pitch Will look at him and laid it out. Will told him about his concerns about Erick and his behavior or lack of, and told him that he would only come aboard if he, Will, has control. This did not sit well with Erick at first. He heard Will out and afterwards they finished their dinner and Erick said he would consider Will's offer. Just on the walk to the car Erick thought about it and knew that everything Will had said was right and that he did need someone to keep him under control. So by the time he had gotten home he and Will had discussed it on their cells and Will's offer was accepted.

During Will's last year in college he met Jennifer. She seem to be everything Will liked in a girl. She was of course attractive, intelligent and fun to be with. They started to see each other on and off for a few months but then it became more exclusive. Will found himself staying at her place more than at his own. He had secured a employment position at the school itself so he was pulling in some bucks finally, and he would take on any and all jobs they offered as long as it didn't interfere with his studies. So with him bringing home some money, he and Jennifer thought they should move in together. With the money he was making and the fact that he didn't have to pay board at school anymore he could go halves on a decent place. So they shopped and found a nice one bedroom place just about a mile off campus. Things were going well, they were enjoying the domesticity of the set up. One night as they were sitting on the floor eating pizza and watching a movie she brought up the prospects of marriage. This was clearly out of the blue for Will. He had never even thought about marriage, ever. He wasn't even sure he ever wanted to marry. But the more they discussed it the more Will became agreeable. He would have something steady in his life, not something he'd ever had before, so he agreed. The following weekend without telling anyone they drove to Las Vegas and did the whole, Elvis themed wedding thing. They got married and turned right around and drove home.

It never even occurred to Will, and he is not sure why, other than he didn't give much thought to his own, that he had never even met Jennifer's parents or anyone from her family for that matter. So during the ride home he started asking questions but was getting very vague answers. Both her parents were alive, she had two brothers and one sister. All older than her. She didn't have much contact with her family, by choice she said, but never explained why. And that her family was very wealthy. The wealthy part caught Will, not because he had a rich wife now, but why she would choose to go to this particular college since she could apparently afford so much better. She was smart, Will knew that for a fact, so her choice was odd. As time went on more and more revealing things came out about her and her family. She never told them she married Will. She never offered to bring him home to meet his in-laws. And on a few occasions she would go to meet them but not bring Will and it was never at their apartment. Will was wondering if she was ashamed of him or she was afraid to tell them she married him.

Then one day completely out of nowhere she told Will that they were having a family reunion of sorts and that they were going. Will actually felt a bit of relief that he was finally going to meet her family and that she wasn't ashamed to be married to him. So the time had come for them to make the hour and half drive to her family home. Will was actually excited, if they were anything like Jennifer he was going to love them.

As they got closer to her actual home Will noticed that the houses they were passing were not conventional home but friggin castles. Guarded gates, private security driving around and there was not a lawn that was not manicured to within an inch of it's life. Now Will was concerned. He even mentioned to Jennifer that he didn't know if he was going to fit in with these people. Jennifer gave him a affirming squeeze on his hand to show he would be fine. They approached what could only be described as a compound that was surrounded by a 10 foot stone wall and a wrought iron gate, with a security code box on the driver's side door. They pulled up and Jennifer punched in the code and the gate slowly opened. Will commented on so much security in the area and were these government people or something? Jennifer ignored the question. She pulled up to the front door and two young men approached the car and opened both their doors. Will heard Jennifer thank her young man by name and Will bumbled with just a thanks. He knew for sure he was out of his element by light years.

As they approached the door it opened before they even had a chance to grab the door knob. "Hello Rosa, are my parents in the yard?" Jennifer asked. Si senorita" the maid said. "Thank you" Jennifer said as she grabbed Will's hand and lead him through the, house, the castle, the museum, he was not sure what to call it. He bowed his head at the maid and said thank you to her as well, and she almost had a God have mercy on you, look upon her face. As he and Jennifer passed her Will took a look back at her and Rosa had a look of pity on her face for Will. Will was beginning to feel sick. He pulled Jennifer's hand to stop her. "What's going on here Jen?" "What are you doing?" Will asked firmly. "I am introducing you to my family William." William, Will thought, she had never in all the time they have know each other ever called him that. Now Will was getting angry. "Then why do I feel like I am being taken out to slaughter?" Will asked. "Oh you're being silly William." she responded. "Really what's with this William shit all of a sudden, you never call me that, EVER." Will said. He looked at her and it was as if he could tell the gig was up. The light came on for him and realized what was going on. He was a pawn in this family game of chess. He was the revenge ticket for her to shove at her family. This brought him to a boiling point.

"I am your little slap in the face to your family aren't I." "This is why I was never introduce to them before now isn't it?" "You were waiting for some grand entrance, to show your family, FUCK YOU ALL." "You have married someone that will embarrassed your family." "That is what this is all about isn't it." Will says. "There you are, we have been waiting for you dear" came a voice from further inside the house, towards the back of the house. Will looked up and saw an elegantly dressed woman approach them on the arm of and equally well dressed man. Will then realised that he was severely underdressed, intentionally, as Jennifer had picked out his wardrobe. Will decided at that point that he was going to go the whole nine yards with this. He whispered to Jennifer, "You are going to regret this so badly, by the time I am done with you and your family." "Will please" Jennifer said. "To late, bitch."Will said under his breath.

Will turns to the refined couple walking toward them. "Well howdy...let me introduce myself...I am the asshole that married your daughter about a month ago" Will said as he extending his hand to them. "My names Willie, it sure is a pleasure to meet you fine folks." Jennifer is standing where Will left her. "Come on up here honey, introduce me to your ma and pa." "She's a shy one, but i guess you know that already...course ya get a few drinks in her and, phew let me tell you, hell she sounds like a truck driver and will mount about anything that's hard." "That's actually how we met." "Come on honey tell your folks about how we met at that bar, and you was grinding against me on that bar stool." "I thought I was going to pop right there, you know what I mean there dad?" "I can call you dad can't I being family now an all." Both parents are speechless. Their eyes going from Will to their daughter and back.

Jennifer now humiliated beyond belief, yells out "WILL, STOP THIS." "Stop what my little honey slut?" "Oops sorry bout that, that is my private little pet name for her." Will turns to her with fake contrition on his face, "I'm real sorry bout that honey, it just slipped out, won't happen again." Jennifer walks up to Will and full hand slaps him across the face. Will's face jerks sideways but he quickly brings it back, though stinging like hell, he recovers quickly. "Come on now honey this ain't the time or place for no foreplay." "But if you find us a empty bedroom I think I could get into it right now if ya like." Jennifer needing to do some sort of damage control interrupts. "Mother, Father, I am sorry about this, I don't know what's comes over him." "What do you mean hun, come over me, are you embarrassed sweetie, was it that honey slut slip...I said I was sorry, if it makes you feel better I will tell them what you like to call me." Will pretending to be shy and embarrassed, says, "She like to call me her "cock-a-do-me, isn't that sweet." Will say looking at the parents who are quite clearly not even slightly amused.

Will switches gears back to real Will as quickly as he jumped into the asshole persona. "Hello my name in Will Horton, and yes your daughter and I did get married about a month ago." "But I discovered here today that it wasn't a marriage of love it was a marriage of revenge again both of you or one of you, I don't know which." "I am sorry for my behavior but your daughter has used me to get back at you, so I wanted to hurt her in some small way and I saw my previous behavior to be my way of doing that." "It was childish I know, but I was angry and humiliated." "So now if you will excuse me I will leave." "Jennifer as for you, don't bother coming back, I will have your things packed up, and when it is done you can come and get them." "It was almost a pleasure meeting you both, I am sorry we didn't get to know each other, but your daughter has made that impossible." "I hope you have an enjoyable family gathering, if that is what this is, since I really have no idea." "Good day." Will says in parting.

He turns and walks towards the door. Both parent yell out wait at the same time. Will stops and turns around. Jennifer's parents look at her, and Will can hear them say softly, "We raised you better than this." They then walk towards Will. "We want to apologize for our daughter, we are sincerely sorry for her behavior." "She has always had this chip on her shoulder, since she was a child." "But that is no excuse for what she has or had plan to do to you." "Please accept our deepest regret for this." the mother says. Jennifer's father looks at Will. "Mr Horton, I understand why you did what you, I don't like it, but I understand it." "So as an apology I offer you this." "If you ever need help in anyway, please contact me and I will do whatever I can to assist you, and as my wife said we are deeply sorry for this." "Well thank you to you both." "I can't hold any ill feeling towards you since I don't really even know either of you but thank you for your words." "And sir I will hold you to that offer" Will says with a smile, that is returned but both parents. "Thank you again." Will says and walks towards the door. As he approaches it Rosa reaches for the doorknob and turned her head towards Will and winks. Will smiles back and leaves.

The next chapter will be Sonny's history. This is how the story is going to go, so continue reading if you like. If you chose to move on, thank you for going this far with me.