Chapter One: Maniacal Manipulation
Friday: Relationship Problems
"I'm sorry baby but I just can't do it."
"Just a little bit. Come on Olivia, just dominate me a little bit." Robert begged as they both laid naked in bed.
Olivia sighed, her heart shaped face looked miserable, "Robbie, I can't. I'm not that kind of girl, sorry." she said and turned her strawberry blonde haired head away from him.
Robert leaned forward, his fit six foot three inch, two hundred pound body dwarfed her five foot four inch, one hundred and ten pound body even when laying down.
"Please baby, you've never even tried to do it how do you know you won't like it if you've never..."
"I know because it doesn't turn me on Robert!" Olivia said impatiently and crossed her arms, "In fact, it turns me off knowing that you would even want me to dominate you." she said and gave him a sad look with her light blue eyes.
"But it's just...games hunny, it's just us playing around a bit, it's nothing serious." Robert insisted.
"Robert, stop asking me to do it because I won't." she said and frowned.
When Olivia frowned she drew her tiny nose upwards and little wrinkles formed around it, Robert had always felt that even when she was upset she looked cute.
"I like when you dominate me Robbie, I like when you hold me down and make me feel small, I can't be the dominant one."
"Can't we just try one time and see how it goes? Just once."
"No. Stop! You're always doing this to me." she said and pouted with her full, naturally red lips.
"Doing what?"
"Making me feel bad about not wanting to dominate you. You keep bothering me about it all the time. When have I ever let on that I'm that kind of girl Robbie? When?" she demanded to know.
"Well, everyone has a dominant side baby." he said encouragingly, "You just need to let that side come out."
"But I don't want to! I don't want to be dominant, why is that so fucking hard for you to understand?" she asked fiercely.
Her normally sweet voice had cracked and become harsh.
It always did when she lost her temper and Robert knew he wasn't going to be able to convince her once she got like that, he sighed and sunk his back into the bed. 'Why did she have to be so damn stubborn?' he wondered.
A couple of seconds went by before he felt her slim fingers around his muscular arm, he turned his head towards her and saw that she wore an apologetic look on her face.
"I'm sorry Robbie, I shouldn't have been so harsh." she said and rubbed his arm soothingly, "I know you're not trying to upset me it's just...when you don't let me say no I just sort of lose it sometimes. Sorry."
Robert sighed and patted her hand with his own, "It's okay, if you really don't want to I can't force you to do it." he said with resignation in his voice.
"I'm really sorry, but we can do something else if you want..." she said with slight playfulness in her voice.
"I don't know, I'm not really feeling it right now." he said and turned away from her in the bed.
She sighed and rolled over to the other side of the bed.
"Why does everything have to be so difficult?" he heard her mutter quietly.
Robert found himself wondering the exact same thing as he pulled his cover up further over his body and prepared himself to go to sleep. He laid there for almost ten minutes before remembering he had forgotten to brush his teeth.
He groaned and swung himself agilely out of bed before heading towards the bathroom. When he got there he lit the lamp and had to squint while searching for his toothbrush and toothpaste in the far too brightly lit bathroom. It took him a while to get used to the light but eventually he did. He gazed into his own tired dark blue eyes in the mirror as he brushed his teeth.
'She's never going to agree to dominate me, no matter how much I beg.' he found himself realizing. His biggest fetish, the fetish he'd had since his late teens, was never going to get fulfilled.
He spit out the toothpaste angrily into the sink, 'Does she really even love me if she's not willing to do anything for me?' he wondered. He felt a pit form in his stomach as he suddenly didn't feel so sure if his girlfriend of four years cared as much for him as he cared for her.
"You stubborn bitch!" he whispered angrily.
Just once. To see if she liked it. That was all he had asked for all this time and she had now made it perfectly clear she wouldn't even do that. He locked eyes with himself in the mirror and stared into the abyss of his own eyes. 'Is it even worth being with her if she isn't prepared to do anything for me?' he wondered. 'Maybe I should break up with her and find someone who wants to dominate me instead?' he pondered as his heart rate increased.
It had gotten that far, he was now considering breaking up with her. The only problem so to speak was that he still loved her. He loved her scent, her smile, her voice; everything about her was intoxicating and addictive. He felt cold and lonely just imagining not having her in his life.
No, he could never do it. He could never break up with her, not when she still made him feel the way that she did. The ridiculous thing was that he knew she had a dominant side to her, she showed it whenever she lost her temper, it was there, hidden underneath her sweeter, friendlier surface. Unknown to most people who ever met her and only surfacing when she was too upset to hold it back. He felt she'd be amazing domina if she just let herself get angry in bed.
Something suddenly dawned on him and he froze. 'What if he were to bring it out of her 'forcefully'?'
'What if he annoyed her to the point where she lost her temper 'on purpose'?
His slack cock twitched as he imagined his girlfriend coming after him angrily.
"That would be hot." he mumbled as he grabbed his cock and began to stroke it.
Maybe he could encourage her to eventually become dominant in bed by frustrating her outside of it? He could do all the things he knew she hated when he did and not stop doing them until she had lost her temper. He would then effectively be encouraging her to lose her temper more often. She'd have to get angry if she wanted him to stop being annoying.
'It could work.' he concluded, 'I'll bring her dominant side out of her whether she wants to or not!' he thought and closed his fists.
It was a risky idea but one that might end up working and give him what he's always wanted. He had never thought of manipulating her like that before and as much as he felt bad for even thinking about it he also felt it was justified.
She had done nothing to help him live out his fantasies so in a way she had it coming. And he wasn't really hurting her by doing it, if anything he was probably hurting himself as he was about to draw her ire repeatedly without fighting back. His cock twitched excitedly as he imagined it in his mind.
One problem he knew he had to overcome would be her guilt. Although he felt sure he would be able to get her to snap if he really tried to he also knew that Olivia was not the kind of girl who ever lost her temper without feeling bad about it.
If he was ever to get her to embrace her latent dominant side he'd definitely have to get her to stop feeling guilty about becoming angry. He knew she'd be trying to apologize to him after losing her cool and it was crucial that he didn't let her do so. Instead he should be apologizing to her and insist that it was all his fault for upsetting her.
If it worked out the way he thought he figured he could not only steer her towards becoming angry more often but also slowly get her to not feel bad about doing so. Which was absolutely necessary if he was ever going to get her to open up and become sexually dominant. She'd have to want to do this, and in order to do that she'd have to first be okay with being dominant outside of the bedroom.
It was quite the task Robert had set for himself but he felt determined to give it a try. Starting tomorrow he would do everything in his power to draw out her fury and then reward her for letting it out. He spit out the remaining toothpaste and went back to bed where he fell asleep, smiling as he thought of ways to trigger his girlfriend.
Saturday: Bathroom Fight
Robert woke up the following morning in a good mood, it was Saturday so he'd have the whole day to get under his girlfriend's skin. He knew she hated it when he ignored her so he decided to treat her like air until she hopefully snapped. He rubbed his hands together and smiled, he felt like he was playing a prank on her.
He rolled out of the bed and went to the bathroom, it was in there that he realized his first chance to frustrate her would be to hog the bathroom. He felt like a kid playing a prank on his parents as he sat down on the toilet and patiently waited for her to arrive outside of it and demand to be let in. He knew she never ate breakfast before going to the bathroom first so he figured she would get quite angry waiting on him, especially if he didn't reply to her when she told him to hurry up.
It took at least thirty minutes before he heard her bare feet walking outside the bathroom. The footsteps stopped and he could hear her sigh slightly before continuing towards the kitchen. He smiled and rubbed his hands, this was what he had been waiting for.
Another five minutes went by before she returned, and this time she knocked lightly on the door.
"I really need to go Robbie, could you hurry up please?" she asked sweetly, though he could hear it was forced sweetness.
He didn't let out as much as a peep in response.
She knocked again a few seconds later, this time more firmly, "Have you fallen asleep in there or something?" she asked, now much less sweetly.
He again said nothing.
"Why are you ignoring me?" she asked without knocking.
He gave her no response.
"Hello?" she said poignantly and knocked hard on the door.
When he again didn't reply she grabbed the door handle and shook it, "Answer me! I know you're awake in there." she said, now using her serious voice.
He instinctively stood up from the toilet and had to force himself to sit down again, he was unsure of how he was going to play this, he had already gotten her a bit angry but how angry was angry enough?
He heard her trample impatiently outside the bathroom door and just as he decided it was time to get out she gave him another salvo, now while hissing.
"If you don't open this door right now Robert I swear to God..."
Robert immediately flushed the toilet and went to wash his hands. When he stepped out of the bathroom Olivia had her hands on her hips and was shooting daggers out of her eyes. Though she looked mad, Robert didn't feel she was angry enough yet so he wasn't going to reward her.
"Why didn't you answer me?" she asked him.
Robert looked down at her condescendingly, "There was no point in answering because I wasn't done." he said nonchalantly.
He could see her grinding her teeth, he knew she hated when he got nonchalant with her.
"Well next time maybe you can make some sort of sound so I don't have to stand outside here wondering if you've fallen asleep?"
He didn't answer her but simply walked straight to the kitchen. Though he couldn't see her he could feel her eyes piercing his back and imagined being ignored like that had just pissed her off a lot more.
When Olivia joined him in the kitchen a few minutes later she was tight lipped, she didn't say anything and gave him the silent treatment he had given her. He could feel Olivia just wishing he'd say something to her so she could show him she was ignoring him but he didn't say anything so she never got the chance. As he left the kitchen he could feel that she was still fuming with anger.
He knew she'd always lose a contest of who could be silent the longest as she was the more talkative of two and he wasn't wrong, as he was browsing the computer a few minutes later she showed up behind him and had something to say.
"What's your problem Robert?" she asked confrontationally.
Robert turned around in his chair, he thought she looked ready for a lengthy fight.
"What do you mean?" he asked, trying his best to look surprised.
"Don't give me that, you know exactly what I mean!"
"If it's about the toilet then I've already explained." he said and returned his eyes to the computer.
"You haven't explained anything!" she said, now raising her voice slightly.
"Yes I have, you just didn't like the answer."
To his surprise he felt her hand slap against the top of his head.
He turned around and saw that Olivia had tears in her eyes, he felt a pit form in his stomach, this game he'd been playing all of a sudden felt very real.
"I'm sorry baby." he said excusingly and grabbed her arms.
She immediately shook his hands off, "What the hell is wrong with you?" she whispered with a broken voice.
Robert felt a deep pain in his abdomen watching his beloved Olivia in so much emotional pain; he hurried to soothe her.
"I'm so sorry! I...woke up on the wrong side of the bed and I...I took it out on you. I'm sorry!" he said and looked lovingly into her eyes.
She calmed down a little and nodded her head while rubbing her eyes. A few seconds later she had recovered enough to speak without her voice breaking.
"I shouldn't have hit you." she said and looked up at him with tortured eyes.
"Oh no no baby, don't blame yourself. This is all my fault, I was being very rude to you." Robert said comfortingly.
Olivia still looked inconsolable, "It doesn't give me the right to hit you, I snapped...I shouldn't have..."
"You did nothing wrong baby." Robert said and wiped a lone teardrop off her cheek, "You didn't hurt me, you just woke me up a little." he said and smiled playfully.
Olivia let out a relieved yet nervous laugh and looked gratefully at him. She kissed him on the cheek and they hugged.
"I was worried I might've hurt you...I hit you in the head of all places." she said and sounded miserable.
"This big ol' head can take a lot of slaps like that." he said playfully and rubbed her back.
"You're too nice I shouldn't have..."
"You did the right thing Olivia, you did what any normal person would if they were being treated like I treated you. In fact I'm the one who should be apologizing!" Robert said emphatically.
Olivia looked at him lovingly and petted his face, "Thank you for...understanding me and not being mad."
Robert patted her slim back supportingly, "I have nothing to be mad about hunny, I started it, I'm just glad you've forgiven me for being such a dick."
Olivia chuckled at his self deprecation, "You're so sweet Robby, nicest guy there is." she said and planted a loving kiss on his forehead.
Olivia then walked out of the living room and returned to the kitchen, leaving Robert alone to process what had just happened.
"Wow!" Robert voiced barely audibly as he sunk down in the computer chair.
He was shocked by how easy it had been to get Olivia to snap to the point where she resorted to violence. That slap had taken him by complete surprise, she had never slapped him in the head like that before. He had thought she would get angry and yell at him a bit but never in a million years thought she would slap his head for what was basically a couple of mean comments.
On one hand it made him feel wary of manipulating her any further but on the other hand it also had an encouraging effect on him as he realized he could influence her quite easily. It also helped fuel his belief that she was deep down a quite dominant little lady.
Though she had never slapped his head or face before she had punched his arms on rare occasions but he honestly thought it would take a lot more effort to get her to be physically violent. He knew she hated to be ignored and treated like air but he must've seriously underestimated just how angry it made her. He never did it on purpose normally, at least not to the extent he had just done it.
He realized he had to be careful going forward though, the tears he had seen in her eyes had not been crocodile tears. For a short moment there she had looked absolutely devastated and had he not hurried to apologize and soothe her he feared she might've resorted to talking about taking a break from each other or something like that.
The rest of the day went by without any further provocations as Robert stuck to his plan of rewarding her for losing her temper by being nice to her. They ended the day with having sex but it was the normal vanilla kind that barely gave him an erection.
She had asked him to be more physical with her as they were having sex but he only slightly obliged her as he didn't want to encourage her submissive side. He still came however but doubted she had, when they shut off the lights and went to sleep he heard her sigh and figured their sex had left her feeling unfulfilled. Something he thought was not all that bad as he desired to move away from their normal, boring sex.
Sunday: Dish Fight
When Robert woke up the following day the thought of hogging the bathroom just like yesterday occurred to him but he chose against doing it as he wanted her to feel like losing her temper yesterday had produced a lasting result. And if he did the exact same thing that had caused her to get mad at him the very next day he figured it wouldn't have much of an encouraging effect on her.
So he just peed really quickly and went into the kitchen to make himself some sandwiches. She soon joined him, she wore her white nightie and looked sleepy eyed. He thought she looked super cute in her little night gown and Robert wanted to tell her so but halted himself just as he was about to give her the compliment.
'It's not the right kind of compliment.' he concluded. He shouldn't be complimenting her for being cute and passive, he should be encouraging her to be either active and confident or angry and violent.
She walked up to his kitchen chair and kissed him on his cheek and he kissed her tamely back. He heard her sigh as she went to make herself breakfast.
They small talked at the table as they ate breakfast and when Robert was done he set off to the gym. Olivia had told him that she was going to visit her best friend Annie after breakfast for a few hours but that she would be back before dinner. She had politely asked him if he wanted to do the dishes before then so that when she got home she could get started with dinner. He had said yes but had no plans on keeping his promise.
He knew she hated if there was a lot of dirty dishes when she was about to start cooking and that she hated it even more when he didn't keep his promises, so naturally he was about to do both.
Robert had a good workout at the gym and when he came home he felt relaxed, he lounged in the living room sofa and watched more than a few episodes of a TV series he'd grown fond of as he waited for his girlfriend to come home and get angry about the dishes not being done.
It was four o'clock when she came home. She greeted him as usual and he replied back, she walked into the kitchen but soon walked out again and re-entered the living room, she stood right next to the TV and he could see out of the corner of his eyes that she was a bit upset.
"I see you haven't done the dishes yet babe, I don't want to hound you or anything but I was thinking about starting with dinner so it would be really nice if you could do that pretty soon." she said politely and tilted her head.
Robert ignored her and kept his eyes fixed on the TV, he knew that would not make her happy.
And right on cue her voice lost its sweetness, "Robert, are you even listening to me?" she asked, now seriously.
"Mhm, yes." he said and kept staring at the TV.
"Are you going to do them then? The dishes. Are you going to do them?" she asked persistently.
"Yes yes, I'm watching this show now, I'll do it when it's done." Robert replied and waved with his hand dismissively.
"Well it better be over soon then." Olivia replied and crossed her arms.
"Yes yes, whatever." he said and bent forward to get a better look at the TV.
He could see out of the corner of his eye that Olivia was fuming with pent up frustration but she didn't say anything, she walked out of the living room with short, angry steps.
In normal circumstances he would never have decided to watch another episode but that was exactly what he did. He needed her to lose her temper completely and lash out against him, then and only then would he get off his ass and reward her behaviour by doing the dishes like he had promised.
Olivia re-appeared in the living room about ten minutes later and he could tell immediately that she was not pleased just by how she sighed when she entered the room.
"Are you still watching that stupid show?" she asked confrontationally.
"Yes, and it's not a stupid show just because you don't like it." he said and leaned forward to focus his eyes on the TV.
"I wouldn't mind if you watched it if you had done the dishes before doing so." she said seethingly and crossed her arms.
He didn't reply, which never seemed to fail in making her mad.
"Why should I have to wait for you to finish watching that stupid crap before I start with our dinner?" she asked poignantly.
He again said nothing.
"DON'T GIVE ME THAT SILENT CRAP AGAIN, ANSWER ME!!"
Finally her anger had boiled over and Robert immediately gave her his attention.
He turned his head her way and put his hands out in front of him diplomatically, "Sorry, sorry...you're right, I can watch it later, my bad hunny." he said and stood up from the sofa as he shut the TV off.
Olivia sighed and looked miserable, "I shouldn't be yelling at you like that, I'm sorry I..."
"No, no, don't worry, I was so into the TV I didn't think about anything else." he said as he walked up to her.
"I shouldn't be holding you up from making dinner like that, I was being rude, and I'm sorry." he said and looked at her apologetically.
"It's okay baby, you don't need to apologize for it, it happens." she said and looked at him understandingly.
"I promise I won't do it again." he said and kissed her on the cheek.
"And I promise I won't yell like that, I shouldn't have lost my temper." she said and looked a bit bummed out.
"Ah, that's no big deal." he said and waved with his hand, "What else were you supposed to do really when I didn't listen?" he asked rhetorically.
Olivia tilted her head and smiled sweetly, "You're too nice, do you know that?" she asked tenderly.
"I try to be." he said and grinned wide as he made his way to the kitchen.
'It had worked again!' he concluded in triumph, no violence this time but she had yelled at him angrily and he had rewarded her for it. Robert felt he was making progress towards his goal and doing the dishes had never been as fun before.
He spent the rest of the day making sure he treated her real nice, they ate dinner and then lounged in front of the TV for the remainder of the day. When it was bed time they had sex, again it was just vanilla sex and Robert tactfully declined her asking him to be rougher with her by instead resorting to kissing her neck a lot, something he knew she enjoyed but wasn't feeding any kind of submissive behaviour.
Monday: Ignored Pregnancy
The following day was a workday so Robert didn't have enough time in the morning to get under his girlfriend's skin, but thoughts on how he would go about doing so marinated in his mind as he worked. When he got home he had a plan firmly in place. He knew Olivia liked to talk about her workday when she arrived home and while she didn't require him to say much back, he was going to make absolute sure that she understood he was completely uninterested in what she had to say. He felt confident that if he was rude enough she would snap at him again.
When he arrived back home she was already there.
"Hi hunny, how was work?" she asked from the kitchen.
"It was okay, I had to make some adjustments on the roof of the guy's house but it worked out fine." he replied as he took off his outdoor clothes.
Olivia appeared in the hallway and looked stunning in a blue dress, "What kind of adjustments?" she asked politely.
Though she had been polite Robert could tell she wasn't particularly interested in hearing what the answer would be and was only waiting to talk herself, he knew that look on her face.
For sure the details of his handiwork wasn't exactly something she was interested in. Likewise he wasn't particularly interested in hearing about the details of what went on at the daycare center where she worked, not that it had ever stopped her from talking about it.
"Nothing too interesting really." Robert replied as he took off his shoes.
"Well something very interesting happened at my work today you know Amanda..."
"Mhm." he muttered quietly and walked past her towards the kitchen.
Robert couldn't see her face and therefore didn't know if she had understood the signal he just sent out but he guessed she hadn't as she kept talking as if he hadn't said anything.
"...she just announced something amazing. Can you guess what it is?" Olivia asked excitedly.
Robert didn't reply and just opened the fridge.
"Can you guess what it is?" Olivia asked again, this time not as excitedly but she still didn't sound mad.
Robert took out butter and cheese from the fridge and began buttering up a sandwich without replying back.
"Hello? Are you listening?" she asked, now clearly sounding frustrated.
"Mhm." Robert replied back as he started buttering up another sandwich.
"You're not listening! You don't even know what I'm asking you about do you?"
"Mhm." he mumbled again as he began slicing the cheese.
"How can you be so uninterested?" she asked irritatedly, "If you come to me and have something important to say I always listen to you but you never do the same!"
Robert knew her well enough to realize that the answer she absolutely didn't want in this situation was no answer, and so naturally that's what he gave her. He looked down at the cheese and just kept slicing it.
"WILL YOU TURN AROUND AND LOOK AT ME AT LEAST YOU PIECE OF SHIT!?" Olivia yelled angrily.
Robert spun around on a dime and gave her his full attention.
She stood with her hands on her hips and wore an angry expression on her face, she looked so cute when she was angry but he knew he couldn't tell her that.
"Sorry, I was in my own head a bit hunny I didn't realize you wanted an answer." he answered soothingly.
"Do I have to yell at you all the fucking time for you to listen?" she asked angrily, not looking ready to let it go.
Robert felt a bit taken aback by her persistent anger but figured it was good news and decided to feed it.
"I'm sorry baby, I was just thinking about something else and I didn't listen. I shouldn't have ignored you like that, I'm sorry hunny, will you forgive me?" he asked lovingly as he tilted his head and rubbed her shoulders soothingly.
It seemed to have a calming effect on Olivia as he saw her anger slowly begin to dissipate.
"Of course." she said and sighed, "I'm...sorry I..." she began but Robert didn't let her finish her sentence.
"No baby, there's absolutely no reason for you to apologize, you did nothing wrong, I shouldn't have been such a dick that's all." he said and kissed her on her smooth, reddened cheek.
This time Olivia didn't argue with him, "Well, can you think about in the future doing a better job at listening to me then?" she asked, still sounding a bit upset.
Robert couldn't help but feel like this was massive progress, one of the biggest hurdles the way he saw it was the guilt she felt for losing her temper and the more he could get her to not feel guilty about lashing out at him the easier he figured it would be to turn her dominant.
"I promise baby." he replied and kissed her other cheek, "So what was it you wanted to talk about?" he asked supportingly and patted her waist.
"It was about Amanda, from work, she's pregnant, that was all I wanted to say." she said and turned around and walked out of the kitchen.
That was not the reply Robert had been hoping for, he wanted to reward her for losing her temper and if they left this moment on bad terms she wouldn't feel good about herself which meant she instinctively wouldn't want to find herself in this situation again. He hurried after her to make up with her.
"Baby wait!" he called and caught up with her in the hallway.
Olivia reluctantly turned around and faced him, but she still looked upset.
"I promise I'll listen to you better in the future baby, okay? I promise! Just don't stay mad at me, please?" Robert said lovingly.
He carefully grabbed her hand and kissed it.
He could see the beginnings of a smile appear on Olivia's face though she fought it first, but it didn't take long before she couldn't anymore.
"Okay...charmer there." she said resignedly and tilted her head.
Robert took a step closer and bent down to kiss her, she responded by kissing him back.
The kiss led to an embrace and they soon walked into the bedroom and had sex. Their makeup sex was actually pretty good though Robert had to make sure he wasn't being too dominant in there. Olivia had asked him repeatedly to pin her down to the bed but every time she did he responded by rubbing her forearms and kissing her somewhere instead. He could tell that it frustrated her but he still felt her cumming on his cock so he figured in the end she was satisfied.
The rest of the day went by quite uneventfully as Robert made sure to not make a fuzz.
Tuesday: Green Clothes
They both went to work the following day and Robert spent the whole working day coming up with his next plan. It had taken him some time but when he arrived home he had a fully fledged plan in his head and was ready to execute it.
He was glad to find that she had not gotten home before he had. The plan he had produced involved discolouring some of her clothes in the washer, he had done so accidentally before and knew it made her very upset, but now he was going to do it on purpose; and not show any remorse for doing so until she snapped at him.
Robert chuckled childishly to himself as he grabbed one of her dirty white blouses, a pair of white socks and two pairs of white panties and threw them in with his coloured clothes. Among them was a green t-shirt that he had never washed before, he thought it was going to discolour her clothes for sure.
Olivia came home shortly after he turned the washing machine on. She started making dinner and Robert, for his part, spent the next hour lounging in front of the TV. When he heard that the washing machine was done he quickly got up on his feet. He went to check on whether or not her clothes had been discoloured and to his joy he saw that they indeed had.
They were now lime green, a colour he knew she hated to wear as well, 'she will not like this one bit.' he thought and chuckled fondly to himself. He threw all the clothes into the dryer and sat down in the kitchen and waited for dinner to be ready.
It didn't take long before it was, they ate together and Robert did his best to act distracted, he didn't think he went as far as to being rude but he made sure he at least wasn't being extra nice to her.
When they had finished eating Robert took the clothes out of the dryer and put them in a mesh basket, he made sure to place her blouse at the top of the basket so when she walked by she would see it. The basket itself he placed in a very visible spot in the hallway so she couldn't avoid seeing it.
The trap had been set in place, now it was just about waiting for her to spring it.
He went to the living room and saw that she sat in the sofa and was flicking channels, he sat down next to her and they watched TV together. She asked him what he wanted to see and when he replied, "Sports." she groaned.
That was not the answer she was looking for, which he very well knew and was why he said it. Since she had the controller however she was in charge of what they were going to watch. She flicked between channels indecisively a bit before settling on what looked like a romantic comedy, she asked him if he was okay with watching that and he muttered uninterested back.
They watched the romantic comedy for a while until it turned to commercials.
"I'm just going to the bathroom a little bit." Olivia said as she got to her feet.
"Alright." Robert mumbled in reply as he grabbed the controller.
This was the moment, when she walked into the hallway she would no doubt see it.
As Olivia walked out he flipped the channel on the TV so that it was now showing football, he furrowed his brow and pretended to be focused on the game but all he could think about was her footsteps.
He heard them stop abruptly and felt his heart skip a beat, it was death quiet for a few seconds.
"Robert!" Olivia called and sounded none too pleased.
He said nothing and stared at the TV.
"Robert, what the hell!" she said and entered the living room with rapid steps.
Robert could see out of the corner of his eye that she was holding up her now green blouse and panties but he stared at the TV screen diligently.
She walked angrily up to him and held the blouse and panties up in front of him, "Why did you wash my clothes Robert? You discoloured them, look!" she said and dangled them in front of his eyes.
Robert moved his head out of the way of her clothes so that he could still watch the TV and muttered like he was annoyed with her.
"Oh am I bothering you now?" she asked hostilely, "You ruined my clothes and you won't even apologize? What's the fuck's wrong with you?"
"It's just clothes, who cares?" he replied dismissively and kept his eyes on the TV.
The next thing he knew he felt a slap on his left cheek followed by the soft feeling of clothes against his face. Olivia had just slapped him and then thrown her discoloured clothes at him. She stormed out of the living room with what he assumed must be tears in her eyes, he hurried after her.
"Baby I'm sorry, that was rude of me, I'm sorry I ruined your clothes." he said apologetically as he followed her towards the bathroom.
To his dismay however she shut the door behind her and locked.
"Baby I'm sorry, please come out so I can apologize."
"Don't even talk to me! Just...fuck off!" she said with desperation in her voice, he could hear she tried to hold back tears.
He pulled on the handle, "Please baby I love you, I made a mistake, please let me apologize."
She said nothing and for once Robert got to feel the uncomfortable feeling of silence. He didn't like it one bit.
"Baby please open up, I want to show you how sorry I am, please..."
He heard the lock on the bathroom door click, he carefully opened the door and was met by Olivia's beautiful but now reddened and tearful blue eyes.
"Hunny I'm sorry." he said and walked towards her with open arms.
She folded her eyes and looked down at the floor, Robert pulled her into his embrace and he could feel her grabbing his back timidly with her hands.
"I'm sorry I ruined your clothes and ignored you like that." he said soothingly as he exited their embrace to have a better look at her.
Olivia did not look comforted but there was no anger in her demeanour.
"Okay." she said sadly and kept her eyes on the floor.
"I'm sorry baby, I shouldn't have been so rude, and I'll get you new clothes, something real nice baby. Will you please forgive me?" he asked beggingly.
Olivia shook her head decisively, "That's...not what I'm sad about."
"What is it then?" Robert asked supportingly.
"It made me angry but...I'm sad because I hit you again." she said solemnly and looked up into his eyes, "Robert, I'm...abusive." she said sadly.
Robert chuckled and shook his head, "No, no, you're not abusive hunny, if anything I am, I was being very mean and hurtful and I'm sor..."
"Don't apologize Robert, you always apologize but this time it's my fault."
"How is it your fault when I discoloured your clothes and then refused to own up to it?"
Olivia looked like she didn't know what to say at first, "Well, I'm sure you didn't do it on purpose and I made it very difficult for you by being so angry..."
"I messed up hunny, not you! If I hadn't been so rude and dismissive of your concerns I'm a hundred percent certain you would you would never have slapped me."
"But baby, I still shouldn't have..."
"There's no need for you to apologize hunny. In fact, I actually respect you more for slapping me after how I treated you."
"What?" Olivia asked and looked nonplussed.
"You won't let anyone walk all over you and treat you poorly, and you know that you deserve to be treated better than how I was treating you, and so you showed me." he said matter-of-factly.
Robert could see something change in Olivia's demeanour, her back straightened and her eyes didn't look as distraught anymore.
"Well, I guess if you look at it that way then maybe..." she began to say.
"That's the way it is hunny, you just stood up for yourself and honestly, you did the right thing! I deserved that slap." he said and smiled confidently.
Olivia began to look at him lovingly but suddenly her face changed to a more concerned one, "I appreciate what you're saying now and all Robert but I don't understand why...how do I say this without being rude..." she said and paused, "Why...have you been so difficult the last few days Robert? I mean you haven't been yourself, what's wrong?"
Robert rubbed his forehead diligently, "It's work, I've been thinking about a lot of stuff from work at home and...it's distracting me. I'm sorry, I'll try to be more 'here and now'." he said apologetically.
Olivia tilted her head sympathetically, "If there's anything you want to talk about you know I'm here for you Robert, you don't have to keep it to yourself if it's bothering you." she said caringly.
"No it's fine, it's more technical stuff than emotional, a lot of details about how to go about solving stuff, nothing I need to bother you with."
"Well, if you need to get something off your chest don't hesitate to talk to me about it." she said and leaned in for a kiss.
Robert bent down and kissed his girlfriend on the lips, "I know that baby, you've always been a good listener." he said after kissing her.
He knew Olivia always liked being complimented on being a good listener, though in truth she wasn't the best most times. She reacted as positively as he had expected.
"Oh, thank you hunny! I think someone might get lucky after all later today..." she said seductively and threw with her hair.
"Mmh, that sounds great babe." he replied.
Olivia exited the bathroom and Robert took her place in it, telling her he needed to take a leak and would soon come and join her in the living room.
He really didn't need to pee but used the bathroom as a place to center himself and think about what had just happened.
He concluded that his plan had been a massive success, she had slapped him again and this time he had managed to justify her slapping him as her merely standing up for herself. He thought he had made a quite hollow argument in that she needed to slap him in order to stand up for herself but an argument that nonetheless he felt had taken root in her head. She hadn't looked as upset with herself as before and he hoped it would lead to her feeling less guilty about losing her temper in the future.
They spent the remainder of the evening watching TV and had sex before going to bed, this time Olivia wasn't as insistent on him dominating her and mostly laid there as he plowed her lovingly.
Wednesday: A Bad Day at Work
The following day was another work day and Robert used the time at work to think about what he might do to annoy his girlfriend yet again. He couldn't come up with a concise plan like he had yesterday and decided he was just going to be generally mean spirited and ignore her whenever she said something. It was still likely to get under her skin as it always seemed to.
When he got back from work Olivia was already home, she didn't seem to be in the best of moods today as she greeted him with a less enthusiastic, "Hi" than usual.
'Even better.' Robert thought, if she already wasn't in a good mood she wasn't going to get in a better one round about soon.
"Hey." Robert replied grumpily as he took off his outdoor clothes.
Olivia showed up in the hallway looking stressed out, "How was your day?" she asked him but looked quite uninterested in what he would answer her question with.
"Alright." Robert said shortly as he kicked off his shoes.
"The kids were being super difficult today at work and we were so understaffed, Jennifer just got the flu and couldn't come to work it was..."
As soon as he had answered Olivia released a flood wave of words but Robert interrupted her.
"Uh-huh, that sounds very interesting!" Robert said loudly and dismissively as he walked past her into the kitchen.
A short silence followed his rude comment and when Olivia took to words again she sounded upset rather than stressed.
"What's your problem now Robert? Don't be so difficult again, we talked about this yesterday and I really can't take your bullshit today. I'm tired and..."
"I'm not being difficult, you are. Stop whining so much!" Robert said emphatically and opened the fridge.
"I'm not fucking whining Robert, I'm just telling you about how difficult my day's been. Why is that upsetting to you?" she asked angrily.
He could tell it didn't take much to send her over the edge today.
He took out some items from the fridge and shut it forcefully, "Work is difficult for me too you know but you don't hear me bothering you about it, why can't you just keep that stuff to yourself for once?" he asked mean spiritedly.
"Oh yes because everything gets so much better when you just bottle shit up Robert! What's your reason to be angry today then huh? Come on, tell me what was so difficult at work today!" she said challengingly.
Robert glanced at her as he prepared his sandwiches and could see she that was really feisty today, he thought she looked like she wanted a fight.
"There's no point in me telling you about it." he said stubbornly as he pushed the butter knife through the bread.
Olivia placed her hands on her hips and took a step closer to him, "It's nothing isn't it? Nothing special happened at work today, you're just trying to excuse your shitty behaviour by pretending like you've had a difficult day!"
Robert looked at her grumpily and shook his head, "Just because I'm not telling you about it doesn't mean..."
"No Robert that's exactly what it means! If you don't tell me right now what you have to be mad about I'm going to assume you don't have anything to be mad about."
"You do that, I don't give a shit." Robert said dismissively and bit down on his sandwich.
To his surprise she punched his arm.
"DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!" she yelled.
Olivia looked absolutely furious, she was shooting fireballs out of her normally pleasant blue eyes.
Robert wanted to reply but his mouth was full of bread so he had to keep chewing.
When he didn't reply she punched him again on the same spot, "DON'T TREAT ME LIKE I'M AIR AND DON'T FUCKING MATTER!"
Robert swallowed the bread and held his hands out in front of him, "Okay, okay, I'm sorry." he said.
"Sorry about what? Sorry about being a rude asshole or that I hit you? You never seem to be sorry until I fucking hit you Robert that's your problem!"
Olivia's chest was still heaving up and down and though she had calmed down a little bit she did not looking the least bit ready to let her anger go.
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize..."
"How mad it makes me when you fucking ignore me?" she asked angrily and punched his arm again on the same spot, this time a bit lighter, "How can you not understand that? How fucking thick are you really Robert?"
"Pretty thick." Robert said self deprecatingly and made an excusing face as he rubbed his arm.
"Apparently!" Olivia stated emphatically and crossed her arms, she looked down on his arm and when she saw he was rubbing it her anger seemed to go away quite a bit.
"Sorry I hit you but...it's like you don't take me seriously if I don't that!" she stated defensively.
"Well I'm taking you seriously now baby." he said and made a nervous face.
"I don't want to have to do that to get you to listen Robert, I want us to get along but you always make it so difficult!"
"I'm sorry hunny, I've just been in a bad mood a lot recently, but I shouldn't have taken it out on you." he said and rubbed her crossed arms.
She uncrossed them and looked at him now with sympathy in her eyes, "I'm sorry too, I hope your arm doesn't hurt too much." she said and looked worried for a moment.
"Only a little bit. As much as it deserves to." he said affectionately and pulled her closer to him.
"Awh but baby...you can be so sweet when you want to." she said and petted his chest, "I just wish you were like this more often."
"I promise I'll be baby, I promise I'll be." he replied and stroked some hair away from her face and grazed her cheek in the process.
He felt Olivia purr and sensed that her anger was gone.
"I'll tell you what Robert, you're a bit of an expert at apologizing." she said and smiled lovingly, "After every fight we have I just realize I love you even more."
"Mmh baby that's such a sweet thing to say." Robert said and leaned down to kiss her.
They kissed passionately for a while before Robert broke up the kiss, "It's the same for me." he said to her, "I love you more and more each and every day."
"Oh baby, we may be a bit messed up but we're perfect for each other aren't we?" Olivia asked leadingly as she looked up admiringly into his eyes.
"I think we are." he said as a playful smile toyed in the corners of his mouth.
Olivia attacked his lips with her own and sucked them into her mouth as she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down towards her.
They kissed passionately for a while before making their way to the bedroom where they had sex.
Robert had begun to really appreciate the makeup sex they were having, it was still vanilla sex but it felt good nonetheless to fuck after a bit of a fight.
He made sure not to piss Olivia off for the rest of the day as a reward for losing her temper, it was not difficult as she seemed to be on an extra good mood after they had sex. She seemed less upset with herself for losing her temper and resorting to violence than she had previous days and Robert viewed that as a good sign.
Something she had said echoed through his mind and gave him comfort, "After every fight we have I just realize I love you even more."
He found her words very comforting as one of his main concerns was that he was risking their relationship with his scheming. But if she loved him even more now maybe it was having the opposite effect? It was a very comforting thought and he chose to believe it.
They fell asleep in each other's arms and Robert hadn't been as happy in many months.
Thursday: Only Slightly Annoying
Robert felt a bit bad about planning to make Olivia angry today after how wonderfully yesterday had ended, but it had worked so well yesterday that he felt like he had to give it a try again.
When he got back home from work he had a plan in mind, he was going to test Olivia's temper a bit differently today. The plan was for him to be a bit less rude and annoying than he had been the previous days and see if she still reacted by getting mad. He had been very overtly rude and annoying to her these last few days to really ensure that she became angry enough to lash out, but he wondered how much he really needed to do in order to set her off.
He felt sure that under regular circumstances him being slightly annoying or rude wouldn't cause her to lose her temper, but he had been causing her to get angry and rewarding her for it several days in a row now and was curious to see how much it took to get her to the tipping point.
On an emotional level it also felt good to try and go easy on her as they had been so happy together yesterday.
Olivia was already home and greeted him as he opened the door.
"Hi hunny, how's your day been?"
"Alright, nothing special really, and yours?"
She entered the hallway and he saw that she looked a bit jaded but not quite like yesterday.
"Well, we're still understaffed and the kids are being extra difficult because of it, it's like they can sense that we really don't want them to rebel."
"Aren't they like five years old at most? What can a five year old really do to rebel except poop themselves?" Robert asked humorously and chuckled.
It was a subtle jab but not one that went unnoticed.
"Oh you have no clue I hear, they don't just poop themselves to piss us off they do a lot of things." Olivia said and crossed her arms.
Robert wore a skeptical look on his face as he walked past her into the kitchen, "Uh-huh." he said disbelievingly.
"You don't believe me?" she said and half-laughed, "For starters they scream Robert, like really loudly, and they break things. They say hurtful stuff too and they can get violent."
"How hurtful things can a five year old really come up with?" Robert asked mockingly, "What are they going to call you, a poop head?" he asked and chuckled.
Olivia shoved his arm in response, "They say a lot worse than that Robert! They call you fat, old and ugly, mean things that they know hurts."
It hadn't been an overly aggressive shove but it wasn't playful either, he felt like she was trying to send a warning message with it.
"Hah, that's kids stuff, it shouldn't be hurtful to an adult." Robert said and waved dismissively with his hand.
Olivia's facial expression soured and she walked out of the kitchen without replying to his comment.
Robert felt it was a good start, he hadn't been a complete asshole like before, just generally difficult and yet it had still elicited a little physical reaction from her.
He spent the next two hours watching his new favourite TV show and when he next interacted with Olivia it was at the kitchen table as they ate dinner together.
"How does it taste?" Olivia asked expectantly.
She had made chicken pasta for them.
"It tastes alright." Robert replied as he chewed the food and looked down at the table disinterestedly.
He felt a light kick to his shin, "Just alright? I put a lot of effort into it!" Olivia said in a hurt tone of voice.
'She kicked me because I said the food was just alright!' Robert realized in a bit of a shock. This was so unlike her but he loved it and was going to reward her for it.
"It actually tastes pretty good baby." he said and looked up at her compromisingly.
He could see on her face that his words calmed her down a bit but that she still felt a bit insulted.
She returned to eating her food with a bit of a frown on her face.
"It tastes really good actually." Robert said and stroked her hand with his own.
"Thank you hunny." she replied and looked a bit happier.
There was a short silence at the table but Olivia soon broke it.
"I talked to Annie earlier today and you wouldn't believe what she told me..."
Olivia went on to tell a story and Robert thought this would be a great opportunity to be a little annoying and look like he was not listening. He stared vacantly in front of him as she talked about her best friend Annie.
"...and anyway, she...Robert, are you listening?" she asked as she looked suspiciously at him.
"Mhm." he muttered absently as he kept staring vacantly in front of him.
He felt another kick to his shin, this one a little harder than the last. He responded by pretending to wake up from his thoughts and looked up at her with a surprised look on his face.
"Oh for fuck sake Robert, I thought you said you were going to become better at listening?" Olivia said and looked annoyed at him.
"I am...I just dozed off a little, what were you saying?"
Olivia sighed audibly and repeated a good part of her story.
"That's...interesting." he said and looked a little unsure of if that was the right word to describe it.
He felt another kick to his shin, this one not as hard.
"Just interesting?" she asked looking sour faced.
Robert felt his cock twitch in his pants, he loved how she was now responding by kicking him as soon as he made her feel even slightly upset, this was progress for sure.
"It was very interesting actually." he reiterated encouragingly and smiled disarmingly at her, "I'm sorry for not being a better listener hunny, I'm trying though."
Olivia sighed again, but this time it was a bit of a relaxing sigh.
"It's okay hunny, it's good that you're trying at least." she said and rubbed her foot soothingly against the shin she had been kicking three times now.
"Maybe you'll become really good at it one day." she said hopefully.
"I'll try baby." he said and looked at her lovingly.
She returned his affectionate look and they spent a few more minutes chatting without Robert trying to annoy her anymore.
He didn't think he'd been too annoying and yet her response had repeatedly been to use force against him whenever he annoyed her. This was so not how she usually functioned and surely a product of his consistent manipulation. He had rewarded her each time she did it as well, and knew it would make her even more likely to continue behaving like that in the future.
Robert decided he had tested her enough for the day and treated her much better for the rest of it.
Friday: Don't Be A Homophobe!
Robert went to work the following day with his mind on his secret project as usual. He had found out yesterday that it didn't take much anymore to get Olivia to lose her temper and noticed she had grown more accustomed to using physical punishment in order to get him to behave.
He wanted to make sure she kept losing her temper over the little things as he figured he couldn't give her valid reason to hate him every single day without negative consequences long term. The less he needed to do to still upset her to the point of her being violent or aggressive towards him the better it was. And the safer it was.
His plan to upset her today was even more subtle than yesterday, he knew she hated when he was being sarcastic and while it previously had never made her lose her temper to the point of getting violent, he felt that he might be able to get her there now.
He waited until after dinner to set his plan in motion, he had been a bit aloof during dinner but not to the point of being rude, it was as they slouched together in front of the TV that he decided to get smart with her. They were watching 'Dancing with the stars', not exactly a program he would've watched on his own but Olivia loved it.
"James is such a good dancer, don't you think?" she asked admiringly.
"Oh yes he's 'excellent'." Robert said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Oh come on, he's pretty good...at dancing I mean."
"Oh yes that's what you meant."
Olivia turned her head around to look at him, "Don't tell me you're jealous now." she said as a smile crept on her face.
"Sure, I'm super jealous of that faggot." Robert said and rolled his eyes.
Olivia slapped his arm, "Don't say that, that's mean!"
"Well he's gay, they said so on the program." Robert said and pointed at the TV.
"I know but you said it so hurtfully, I don't like it when you're being crude." she said and scooped her butt a little bit away from him in the sofa.
"Do you want me to apologize then? Should I call into the program and apologize for calling him a faggot or will you take a message for him?" Robert asked mockingly.
"Shut up." she said and slapped his leg, "You're ruining the show and you're being an asshole right now!"
"Well at least I'm not a faggot." he said shortly.
"You might as well be with the way you're behaving."
"Wait, did you just imply that there's something negative about being gay?"
"I swear to God Robert if you don't stop arguing with me..."
"You're going to report me to ABC for homophobia?"
"No, I'm going to punch a hole through your fucking face!" she seethed and raised her small, closed right fist in the air.
Her face was beat red with anger and she looked really upset. 'This is way too easy.' Robert thought as he saw he had managed to get his girlfriend close to popping an artery just by being sarcastic and making fun of her.
"I'd rather take that than being reported to ABC." he said and chuckled.
She punched his arm this time rather than slapping it, "Stop fucking joking Robert, you're not being funny, you're just annoying!" she said and glared angrily at him.
"Oh so there's something that is objectively funny now? I was under the impression that funny is relative."
"SHUT UP!" Olivia yelled and punched his arm again only harder this time.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry, I'll let you watch the show in peace." Robert said apologetically.
"Thank you!" Olivia said emphatically and stared angrily at the TV.
They sat in complete silence for a while and watched they show. Robert wanted to find a way to make up with her so that they went to bed on good terms, he tried to scoop himself closer to her but as he did she moved away as much as he had moved towards her.
"I don't want to be near you right now Robert." she said and looked bothered still.
"But you always like to cuddle, are you sure you don't want a little bit off..." Robert said and made a playful gesture with his arms.
"Nope, not when you've been so rude and annoying." she said and dug her already crossed arms deeper into her chest.
"What do I have to do to get you to not be mad at me?" he asked wonderingly.
"How about try and not be an asshole for a change?" she suggested mean spiritedly.
"I'm sorry okay, I..."
"Just shut up for a moment will you? I'm trying to watch this."
Robert did as she asked and sat silently next to her. Like he had assumed however it didn't take long before she felt bad about what she had said.
"Look, Robert I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been so short fused I just...I don't know, snapped."
"It was my fault for being so difficult." Robert asserted.
"No...I mean were being very annoying, but I still shouldn't have..."
"Baby, I was the one being annoying, that means it's my fault. Don't blame yourself for things that are not your fault." he said decisively and dared to touch her shoulder.
She didn't shrug it off and he felt her relax a bit.
"I still shouldn't have punched you." she said with a little bit of regret in her voice.
"Well in your defense baby I was teasing you quite badly actually, I think I deserved those two little punches." Robert said jokingly.
Olivia shook her head and smiled a little, "You always come to my defense don't you? Even when I don't deserve it."
"You always deserve it babe." Robert said and rubbed her neck.
Olivia looked at him with nothing but love in her eyes, "Oh baby, I can't be mad at you for more than a few minutes, I love you so much!" she said and embraced him.
"I love you too hunny!" he said and pulled her into his arms.
Robert felt happy that he had managed to make peace with Olivia and made sure not to anger her for what little was left of the day, when they went to sleep they did so on good terms and he felt like he had further encouraged her to be more dominant yet again.
Saturday: Cleaning
Robert already knew earlier in the week how he was going to get under his girlfriend's skin on Saturday. They had decided they would be cleaning the apartment on Saturday and him not helping out with the cleaning had seemed like an obvious and easy way to piss her off.
They ate breakfast and were supposed to start cleaning right afterwards so they got it over with and had the rest of the day free, but Robert slumped down in the living room sofa instead and started watching an episode of his favourite TV series instead. Olivia had complained about it but he had promised he was just going to watch one episode and then he would come help her clean. She had gone along with it and begun cleaning.
Robert, of course, had no plans on keeping his promise and started watching another episode right after the first one was finished. Olivia had started cleaning the kitchen while he was watching TV but eventually got tired of waiting for him to come help her and entered the living room.
"Come on now Robert, you can watch TV after we've cleaned! It's not fair that I do all the work." she said and trampled impatiently with her sock against the floor.
"I'll be there in a minute." he said without taking his eyes off the screen.
"I don't believe you." she said and crossed her arms.
Robert knew just what to do in a situation like this, give her the silent treatment.
He could see in his periphery vision that her eyes smallened.
"If you think I'm going to do all the cleaning myself you're mistaken Robert!" she claimed forcefully.
Again he said nothing.
"Robert, get your lazy ass off the couch and help me with cleaning the kitchen, now!"
Her voice was harsh and serious now, no polite undertones at all.
Robert muttered as if she was bothering him and kept his eyes fixated on the TV.
"That's it! That's fucking it!" she said determinedly and walked up to the TV and pulled the plug out of its socket.
"What the hell!" Robert replied angrily and stood up from the couch.
Looking completely fearless Olivia walked straight right up to him and even though she was almost a foot shorter and half his weight she pushed him back down into the couch.
"I AM NOT GOING TO CLEAN EVERYTHING IN HERE WHILE YOU SIT ON YOUR ASS AND WATCH FUCKING TV!" she shouted red faced, now forcing him to look up at her as she was standing up and he was sitting down.
"I was going to join you any minute before you went fucking crazy and pulled the..."
His sentence was interrupted by a slap, a hard, stinging slap to his left cheek. It never stopped surprising him when she slapped him.
"Don't you dare fucking insult me!" she said and pointed hostilely at him.
'This is so fucking hot!' Robert thought as he looked up at his super angry, petite blonde girlfriend. But he knew he couldn't say that and neither did he want to make a big deal out of that she had slapped him so he decided to play it safe and defend his original statement.
"Hey! I was going to come join you in just a few minutes if you only had waited..."
To his shock she slapped him again, on the same side.
"No you weren't!" she said and looked at him degradingly, "Don't lie!"
Robert felt shocked, she had never been this dominant and aggressive before and he didn't quite know how to react to it. He wanted desperately to encourage this kind of behaviour in her but didn't know quite how. Before he could think of something to say however she took to words again.
"I know what you were planning to do!" she said and looked at him with smallened eyes.
"And what's that?" Robert asked skeptically.
"You were going to let me do almost all of the hard work and then show up at the end and do just a little bit so you could claim that you helped out too." she said and looked at him with eyes of a judge.
Robert scratched his head and did his best to look guilty, "Okay, you got me, I was planning to do a little bit of that." he said and leaned back in the couch wearing an insecure smile.
"You should be ashamed of yourself!" Olivia said angrily and looked at him without pity, "A grown ass man not wanting to take any responsibility and willing to let his girlfriend slave away..."
"Okay, okay, I apologize!" he said and interrupted her, "It was a selfish thing to do and I'm sorry I did it."
Though Olivia's facial features softened a bit he could tell she was still mad.
"I would never have planned to do something like that to you Robert I don't understand how you could even think of it!"
"Well, you're a better person than me Olivia, that's why." Robert replied sadly and folded his eyes a bit.
Olivia sighed and shook her head, it was like all her anger suddenly got zapped out of her body.
"I'm not a better person than you Robert, I have my own problems...I slapped you again, twice." she said and now looked apologetically at him.
"Eh, it was kinda justified to be honest. You never do that kind of thing when you don't have a reason hunny."
"But I do it, all the time, almost every day I hit you in some way. I-I don't know what has happened to me, I feel like I have no patience anymore Robert. It's like I see red and I just kinda lose it." she said and sat down next to him in the sofa looking dejected.
"It's my fault, I've been bugging you too much, it's only natural for you to react to it."
"I don't think it's your fault, I thought at first it might be something hormonal but I'm not on my period so I don't understand what it could be."
"Sometimes the easiest answer is the one that's true. I've been really annoying this last week, I know it, it's not on purpose, I just kinda...been in a bad mood a lot lately."
"Could it really just be that?" she asked and looked like she wanted to believe him but couldn't.
"Yeah, I think it most certainly is. And by the way, I don't think the reason why I'm being this way is hormonal either." he said jokingly and gave Olivia a playful shove with his elbow.
"Oh, but it probably is though! Too little testosterone!" she said teasingly and shoved him back.
"I prefer to think it might be too much testosterone instead." Robert said with mock pride and raised his head high.
Olivia giggled and hugged him.
After they hugged it out and reassured one another they set about cleaning the house. Robert made sure not to upset her any further that day as he felt he had already gotten her to snap real good.
Sunday: Mario Kart
Buoyed by the success of previous days Robert felt confident he would be able to get under his girlfriend's skin quite easily today. As a result he had only vague plans for how he would go about doing so but he figured it was enough given how easy it had been the last few days. It didn't take a lot to make her snap nowadays and he figured a few dismissive comments would be enough to send her over the edge.
He got an opportunity just after breakfast when he and Olivia was playing a video game together in the living room. Whenever they didn't feel like leaving the apartment and go do something on weekends they often spent their time playing video games together. The game they were playing today was 'Mario Kart', a racing game and Robert was beating her quite badly.
Olivia had always been a bit of a sore loser at games and she rarely took losing gracefully, especially if she got mocked for losing. Needless to say that was exactly what Robert planned to do.
"Oh my god, you're really not good at this game." he said mockingly.
"Shut up! If I catch up with you I'm going to tackle you so bad!" she promised, sounding flustered.
"Well you're never going to catch up with me so that's an empty threat." he replied cheekily and chuckled.
"Shut up Robert! Just because you're winning doesn't mean you have to gloat!"
"No, but it means I can." he said matter-of-factly.
She answered by punching his arm, "And I can do that!" she replied venomously.
Robert looked over at her side of the screen and saw that when she had let go of her controller to punch him her character in the game had driven off an edge and as a result she fell even further behind.
"Ha-ha, that's what you get for punching me!" Robert said jubilantly.
Olivia looked to be steaming with anger, she was red faced and flustered.
"ROBERT! I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU MAKE FUN OF ME ONE MORE TIME..."
"HAHA, AND THERE I CROSSED THE FINISH LINE, FIRST PLACE!!" Robert called out victoriously.
Olivia resorted to punching his arm and chest repeatedly with both hands.
"SHUT...THE...FUCK...UP!!" she yelled and punctuated each word with a punch.
"Alright alright, I'm sorry!" Robert said sheepishly as he covered up to deal with her furious fists.
She stopped punching only to further scold him, "FOR FUCK'S SAKE ROBERT, STOP BEING SO ANNOYING!!"
"Sorry, it was a bit mean but I was just trying to be funny, I didn't think you'd get so mad." he said raised his shoulders excusingly.
"OF COURSE I GET MAD WHEN YOU MOCK ME LIKE THAT!" she yelled and punched his arm again, her eyes were still crazed with anger.
He felt shocked by how angry she still was over a few gloating comments that he had apologized twice for already. Rewarding her aggression for so many days in a row had really had a personality changing effect on her. It both aroused him and scared him.
"I'm sorry baby, I shouldn't have gloated like that." he said with regret in his voice and placed a hand carefully on her shoulder.
She shrugged it off immediately and stood up from the couch, "You can play with yourself now, have fun!" she said aggressively and threw her controller into the seat of the couch.
She left the living room with rapid steps and Robert hurried to his feet to console her.
"Baby, wait." he said as he followed her into the kitchen.
She began forcefully doing the dishes and when Robert walked up next to her he could feel the anger emanating from her body still.
"I'm sorry hunny, I went too far, I know you don't like to lose."
She temporarily stopped doing the dishes and stared angrily in front of her into the wall, "Leave me alone Robert, I don't want to talk to you right now." she said harshly.
"But baby I don't want you to be mad at me."
"You should've thought of that before you ridiculed me!" she said and turned her head to look at him.
A few gloating comments and this was how mad she got? He felt like he had created a monster.
"I'm sorry baby, I'll make it up to you, how about I do the dishes and you can do something more fun?" he said in an enabling way.
Olivia sighed but seemed to approve of the idea, "Fine." she said and put the dish brush down and exited the kitchen.
She came back a few minutes later however and when she did she had calmed down significantly, it was fair to say she looked more apologetic than angry now.
"I'm sorry I'm such a sore loser Robert, I shouldn't have punched you." she said with regret in her voice.
"It's okay baby, I was being very mean and frankly had it coming." he said and smiled forgivingly.
"Not so mean that I should've punched you Robert. It's just a stupid game after all isn't it?" she asked depressingly and looked down at her feet.
Robert moved his left hand to her shoulder and rubbed it encouragingly, "Ah, it's no big deal hunny, I went a little too far with the teasing and you let me know that I did. It was nothing more than that, if anything it was my fault for teasing you so much."
Olivia sighed a relieved sigh and leaned her head against his shoulder as he pulled her further towards him.
"Thank you for putting up with me baby, you're such a sweet heart." she said lovingly.
"Thank you yourself, for putting up with my annoying ass." he said playfully.
Olivia smiled and tapped his butt with her hand, "If your ass is so annoying maybe that's why it's so hot?" she seductively and squeezed his buttocks.
Robert completely abandoned the dishes and instead focused on kissing and caressing his girlfriend as they made their way to the bedroom, where they had makeup sex.
Olivia didn't even try to get him to dominate her in bed this time which he saw as even more progress.