Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey

by Oliver Markus

  Anyway, I wanted them to know that they did the right thing, because telling a guy his girl is cheating on him and that she's only pretending to be pregnant is not snitching, but looking out for someone. It's a good thing. It's an act of kindness. It should be rewarded. So I felt the least I could do is write them a thank you note. I had also written Haley, and given her my new number.

  Now I had Haley, Veronica, and Lucy call me from jail every day. This was getting crazy. And all these Global Tel collect calls were getting expensive.

  Veronica really didn't like that I talked to Haley occasionally. But she hated that I was talking to Lucy now, too. She said it made her look bad in jail, that her man was talking to other girls in there.

  Yupp... I was dating a crackwhore who never passed up a chance to cheat on me, and then she told me I was making HER look bad. Alrighty then. Suffer from cognitive dissonance much?

  I told her that she shouldn't worry about their opinions. Who cares what the other inmates think? Their opinion was of no consequence. She was never going to see any of them again, once she got out and lived a sober life with me in Bonita Springs, far away from the cheap motels on 41 and Palm Beach.

  Veronica and Lucy ended up going to court on the same day, so they sat in the holding cell together for a few hours. They talked and got along. Afterwards Veronica told me she would like to be in a threeway relationship with me and Lucy. She said she'd still like to fuck her, and that way I could fuck both of them. I didn't like that idea at all at this point, because they were both in jail, and I was out here. So this would end up being Veronica and Lucy dating each other in jail, and having sex together, while I sat out here with my thumb up my ass. No thank you.

  When Lucy called me, I asked her about that whole threeway relationship business. She laughed and said: "Veronica is crazy. I don't want to date her. And I don't want to share you with her or anyone else. I love you and I want you all to myself."

  Inmates in Lee County Jail have to make a visitor list. They can put up to five people on their list, and then only these five people can visit them. But during their first week in jail, they are allowed to see visitors without making a list, because it takes the jail a while to process the paperwork. Lucy asked me to come see her for her first visit, and to set up the second visit for her aunt Nicole. She told me to put my own name down for the second visit as well, just in case Nicole didn't show up. She never did in the past, so Lucy figured she wouldn't show up this time either. She was right.

  When I told Veronica that Lucy wanted me to come see her, I figured she'd be ok with it, since she wanted all three of us to be in a relationship together anyway. But Veronica flipped out. She was very jealous and said it would really hurt her feelings, if I went to visit Lucy. Veronica said I was the only person who came to visit her, and I was not allowed to visit anyone else.

  So I didn't go to my viso with Lucy. She called me up afterwards and she was crying: "Why didn't you come see me? I thought you love me. I have nobody else."

  I felt terribly guilty. I didn't realize it would hurt her this much if I didn't show up. I told her I was sorry, and that I didn't expect Veronica to get so upset about me visiting Lucy. I told her I would come see her the next day, with her aunt Nicole.

  Later that night some latin lady called me from jail. She told me Lucy had asked her to call me, to convince me to come see her. The lady said Lucy was crying because I didn't come to the viso, and I was all she talked about. I promised the lady that I wouldn't let Lucy down again.

  Then Haley called me and asked me what all the fuss was about, and why Lucy was crying all the time. Haley and Lucy used to be friends when they had met each other in jail a year or two earlier. But now they didn't talk to each other anymore, because neither one of them wanted the other to call me. Haley and her friends hated Lucy, because they felt she was making a move on Haley's man: me.

  This was all getting way too complicated.

  Gossip travels fast in jail. Everyone knows everyone else's business. So it didn't take long until everyone in dorm 1 and dorm 4 knew that Haley, Lucy and Veronica were all calling me every day. Apparently the other inmates started to think I was the most eligible bachelor in LCJ or something. And more and more female inmates tried to contact me or pretended to know me, to make themselves sound important. Girls I had never even met, never even knew they existed, claimed to know me. They were telling elaborate stories about having sex with me, or getting arrested at my house, or whatever. It was bizarre. Suddenly I was a jailhouse celebrity. Everyone knew the name Oliver.

  Nicole and I made plans for me to pick her up the next day, but then she blew me off, just like Lucy had anticipated. Nicole said she might stop by at some point during the viso and say hello. She didn't. The only people I know, who are this unreliable, are addicts. So I had a feeling that Nicole had relapsed.

  Lucy was so happy to see me, she cried again. She was just the sweetest little thing. I loved her so much. She cried and smiled, cried and smiled, because I came to see her. It almost made me cry. I wanted to give her a hug so badly. I wanted her to know how much I cared about her. She told me she didn't want me to talk to Haley or Veronica anymore. She wanted me to be all hers.

  When I talked to Veronica later, I was honest and told her that I had visited Lucy, because she was so upset. Veronica got really angry and told me she wanted me to change my number again and not talk to Lucy, Haley or any other girl anymore.

  Then Lucy told me that everyone in jail knew that Veronica was cheating on me the whole time again. As soon as Veronica got back to jail, she started writing letters to Jasmine in dorm 3 and told her she loved her and wanted to have a future with her. And she was also writing love letters to Kathleen, her pregnant roommate, who had been arrested by the U.S. Marshals.

  I couldn't believe it. Not after Veronica had told me all that stuff about how upset she was over being ripped out of our life together, and that she had fallen in love with me all over again, that she had learned her lesson, and she would never write love letters to someone else or cheat on me again.

  And Lucy told me there were rumors that Veronica was dating her bunkie Wendy. She used to be friends with Jasmine in dorm 3, but then she was moved to dorm 4 and was now sleeping in the bunk next to Veronica's. Wendy was an ugly, freckle-faced, red-haired little troll. Veronica had mentioned her to me on the phone a few times in the past few days, and asked me to make calls for Wendy, because she couldn't get in touch with her father, and her boyfriend wouldn't answer the phone or come to viso.

  In the past, when I was in New York, and Veronica was supposedly dating Jasmine while living on Brantley Road, but she had sex with a bunch of other people, I had written 2 or 3 postcards to Jasmine, to warn her about Veronica.

  I told Jasmine that 14 people had warned me about what a lying lowlife Veronica was, and that I was glad they did. And I figured Jasmine had the right to know that Veronica had not only been cheating on me and her jail girlfriend Kim with Jasmine, but she was now cheating on Jasime with a bunch of other people, including Kim, Kathleen, Anita, Nina, Shelly, Miriam, Urban, and a few others. Veronica was still writing Kim love letters in prison, to try to get her hands on her baby.

  Veronica had called Crimestoppers on Nina to collect the money, and Nina ended up in dorm 3 with Jasmine, and told her that she had sex with Veronica. That's how Jasmine found out that everything I had been telling her about Veronica was really true. Jasmine wrote me back and told me that she was done with her, and that she and I both deserved someone better than Veronica. Jasmine said she was getting out of jail soon, and that she was going to move to Key West with her mother 3 days later. She said we should hook up during those 3 days, while she's still in Fort Myers.

  When Lucy told me that Veronica had been writing love letters to Jasmine and Kathleen again ever since she got arrested at my house, I just didn't want to believe it. I decided to find out the truth for myself. I sent Jasmine a letter and asked her if Veronica was writing her a
gain. I figured she owed me a favor, and she would tell me the truth. But Jasmine never wrote me back.

  Lucy asked: "If I can prove to you that Veronica is really cheating on you again, and she's really writing love letters to Jasmine and Kathleen, will you stop talking to her? Will you break up with her for good this time and will you be my boyfriend?"

  I told her: "Yeah, if you can prove that, then I want nothing to do with her anymore, and then I would love to be your boyfriend."

  The next day I was having lunch with George at Cici's Pizza, when Lucy called and put some girl named Shondra on the phone. She said she was a trustee who moves from dorm to dorm, and she had passed a love letter from Veronica to Jasmine. I told Lucy that I hoped she didn't make Shondra lie for her, because that's the kind of grimey lowlife shit Veronica had done to me several times in the past. Lucy swore that she didn't put Shondra up to it, and that it was the truth.

  The next morning I got a call from Jasmine. She had been released from jail a few hours earlier. She said she wanted to meet up with me, and she had something for me: a bunch of love letters from Veronica.

  A bunch? What the FUCK?!?

  I met Jasmine at the Days Inn on 41, where she was staying with her mother. We sat in the car and talked for a while. She handed me Veronica's letters. I gave her the letters Veronica had written me recently. We compared notes. Veronica was telling each of us the same thing: I love you so much, I want to have a future with you, you're all I think about, I've never felt about anyone the way I feel about you, bla bla bla. Same old, same old.

  I told Jasmine I had to leave, because I was about to have a viso with Veronica. Jasmine and I made plans to spend the next day together.

  When I went to see Veronica, the video screens were broken. We couldn't see each other, but we could hear each other. I held her love letters to Jasmine in my hands when I asked her: "So have you written any letters to Jasmine or Kathleen since you were arrested at my house?"

  "No, absolutely not," she replied. "And if anyone says that I did, they are lying!"

  "You dumb cunt! I have your fucking letters in my hand right now!! FUCK YOUUU! I'm so done with this shit," I yelled and left.

  Veronica called me later that night and acted indignant: "At least you could have finished the viso with me and let me explain. Ok, fine, yeah I wrote some letters to Jasmine. But it's not like they were love letters. I was just talking to her about some stuff, but I never wrote I love her or I still want to be with her."

  "Are you fucking RETARDED?" I screamed. "That's EXACTLY what you wrote. You fucking wrote that you love her and you still want to be with her!!! Seriously, what the fuck is WRONG with you, you PSYCHO?"

  Then I hung up the phone. She tried to call back, but I didn't answer.

  The next morning, when Lucy called, I told her I had officially broken up with Veronica, and I was now all hers. She was really happy and said: "I love you, I love you, I love you sooo much!" That made me feel really good. I had the biggest smile on my face. Finally this crazy love triangle nonsense was done and over with, and I could just concentrate on one girl. I was glad it was Lucy.

  She told me that I was going to be the only person on her visitation list. She didn't want anyone else to come visit her. Only me. And she said that she wasn't going to talk to any other guys anymore. She promised she would be nothing like Veronica. She would show me that she's a much better girlfriend. She would be 100% faithful to me.

  And I promised that I would not talk to any other girls anymore either, and I wouldn't have sex with anyone but her from now on. And I meant it. I was going to wait for her to get out of jail. I really didn't want to be with anyone else. I was really happy whenever I was around Lucy. She was my little ray of sunshine.

  When Lucy called me back a little while later, she sounded depressed.

  "What's wrong?" I asked.

  She said: "I told some people in dorm 1 that you are my boyfriend now, and they just laughed at me. They said you don't really care about me. Everyone in jail knows you, because you talk to a whole bunch of girls in jail. And everyone knows that you're Veronica's man."

  "What? No, I don't talk to a bunch of girls. I don't know why all these girls pretend to know me. I talk to Haley, because I have known her for 4 years now. We are really good friends. And I talked to Veronica, because she was my girlfriend. And I talk to you, because I love you, and you're my new girlfriend. That's it. I don't talk to anyone else. I wrote a few people some thank you notes a while ago, because they warned me about Veronica. I really appreciated that they told me she was cheating on me with Kim, and that she wasn't really pregnant. But I don't talk to a bunch of girls in jail. And you know that I don't like to have sex with girls I don't know, and I don't call girls on Backpage. I really do love you," I replied.

  I asked her when our next viso was, so we could talk about this in person. She said her list hadn't been processed yet.

  The next day, I suddenly got a call from Wigger: "Yo, don't fall for Lucy's games. Don't be a duck!"

  I had talked to him a few times since Lucy got arrested, because a bunch of her new clothes were in the hotel room they shared, and she wanted me to get all her things from Wigger and keep them at my house, until she'd come home to me. I could barely understand a damn thing he said, because he slurred his words so badly.

  But from what I understood, he was telling me that Lucy didn't really care about me, and she was just using me, just like she had used him and a bunch of other guys. I had the feeling he was mad, because she wanted me to get her things from him, but he had thought they were going to be together, although he had a girlfriend, Abby, who was also in jail right now. In dorm 1 with Lucy and Haley. He had been cheating on Abby with Lucy and a bunch of other girls.

  When Lucy called me back, I told her about Wigger's strange call. I asked her what he meant by that. She said she didn't know. But something about the tone of her voice made me suspicious. I did a little research, and found out that her visitation list had been approved, and I was not the only person on her list. There were 4 other guys besides me, and she had scheduled her two visits for next week with two other guys: her old pimp G-Force, and her sugar daddy Cho. She was playing the same sick games as Veronica.

  I was really hurt and disappointed. I felt so betrayed. I really thought she was different.

  Once again I sent her a nasty postcard and told her not to call me again.

  Veronica kept calling me, so I finally answered the phone, and we started talking again. She told me she didn't know why she wrote those letters to Jasmine and Kathleen. She said she really didn't want to be with any of them, that she loved me, and that she wanted to come home to me. She asked me to come see her so we could talk.

  I went to viso the next day, and she told me that she knew she had some sort of mental problem that compelled her to keep telling all these people that she supposedly loves them. She said: "I keep selling them dreams, and then I treat them like shit. I don't know why I do it. I'm not even interested in them, but it's like a sick game or something. I guess I just wanna see if I can get them. I feel bad sometimes, because I really shit all over Snickers and Shelly, Kathleen, and Jasmine."

  "And what about me?" I asked. "Do you feel bad that you keep hurting me with your behavior?"

  "Of course," she said. "I really do love you."

  To me it seemed like Veronica had some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder that made her act this way. I knew she really did have OCD. When I stayed with her at her apartment, I had seen her comb her hair for over an hour.

  I love when a girl has long, flowing hair. It's so feminine. But Veronica always tied her hair back into a really tight ponytail. It was a shame, because she had beautiful hair.

  I had seen her stand in front of the mirror and just get lost in a trance-like state, while she combed the tightly pulled back hair on her head over and over and over with a toothbrush. Each individual hair had to be exactly where she wanted it to be. Later some of the other inmate
s told me that she did the same thing in jail.

  While she told me during that viso that she supposedly felt bad for selling dreams to all these different people and for hurting me, I noticed that she had a hard time hiding a smirk. She really didn't feel any remorse. She was actually proud of herself. She wasn't really apologizing for cheating on me, she was bragging to me about her conquests.