The day had been looming in my mind for months and now it had arrived. The big 5-0, a full half century on the planet. I can't say I felt that old and nor was I fazed to be moving into "middle age" but it was a milestone nonetheless. I had agreed with my wife Nicky, a couple of years younger than me, that we weren't going to have a big party, just a get-together for a few old friends and immediate family at home on a Saturday evening a couple of weeks hence, which was the closest convenient date for everyone. Which left the question of what to do on the day itself.
"Don't make any plans," Nicky had said a few weeks back, "but it would be nice if you could take the afternoon off work, I have something in mind." So I had dutifully arranged to take that afternoon off, explaining to my line manager that my wife had got some plans for my birthday. He was fine about it, and in practice I could more or less set my own hours as my job in investment management meant I could be fiendishly busy when a slew of company results were due out or a big takeover battle was under way, but balanced out by slacker times when, if I felt like going home early, no-one was going to argue.
So I found myself walking through the front door a little before 1.30 that afternoon and calling out to Nicky that I was home. We had married quite young, had two children who were now away at University, and in term time had the house to ourselves. This had the benefit in that we could now make as much noise in the bedroom as we liked without worrying about who might be hearing us, and if we felt like sneaking up to bed in the middle of a Sunday afternoon, we could. We had also developed a naughty little game whereby I would come home from work at lunchtime -- the house was only 20 minutes or so from the office by motorbike -- for an appointment with my "therapist" in the shape of Nicky dressed in her old nurse's uniform (she no longer worked) and with the massage table set up in the middle of the bedroom floor with candles alight and soft music playing. Nicky was still trim enough to fit the uniform -- the gym and tennis saw to that -- and of course wore it with stockings and suspenders and high heels, having judiciously shortened the hem by six inches. The full Carry On Nurse look.
I would strip off and climb on the table while Nicky would pretend I was a client who had not been coming for treatment as often as I should and then give me a firm therapeutic massage, kneading knots and generally loosening me up before gently sliding into a more sensual rhythm, fingertips creeping up the insides of my thighs, gently brushing my perineum and balls. Sometimes I would get a spanking for my laziness. When she judged I had been teased enough she would order me to turn over and pretend to be shocked by the hard-on that confronted her before asserting that "I think we need to deal with some stiffness here." She would then strip off her uniform and in sexy black lingerie proceed to give me a long, slow, sensual hand job, at which she was an undoubted expert. She would inevitably finish off with "Mr Smith, please don't leave it so long before your next appointment." And then we would both have a good giggle before I took a shower and headed back to the office.
So what did she have in store for me this afternoon I wondered? She came downstairs looking wonderful in shapely black trousers and an elegant purple silk blouse that showed off her stylishly cut shoulder length auburn hair to good effect.
"Happy Birthday darling," she said, giving me a warm kiss on the lips.
"So what have you got in store for me, you've been very tight-lipped?" I replied smiling. Clearly not a session on the massage table from the way she was dressed.
"It will be a surprise, we're going in the car, just change into something comfortable."
So I took off the motorbike jacket, went upstairs and changed out of my suit and was back down in five minutes. Meanwhile Nicky had put on a jacket and had her car keys in her hand.
"It's only about 15 minutes away and there's no problem with parking," she announced as we went outside and got into her car.
"I'm intrigued," I ventured.
"Oh I think you will enjoy this," she replied.
Soon we were drawing into the driveway of a largish house in Wimbledon, which on closer inspection looked as though it was divided into a number of separate commercial premises. The building breathed affluence and I guessed the tenants were probably medical practitioners, architects, lawyers and the like. I gave Nicky an interrogative look.
"Just follow me," was all she said.
We approached the front door at raised ground floor level and Nicky selected a buzzer and when a female voice answered she announced "It's Mr and Mrs Smith for our appointment." More and more intriguing, what sort of appointment, I wondered? And why the nom-de-guerre of Smith?
The front door opened and Nicky walked unerringly to another door set into the left-hand wall of the entrance hall, which was opened within a few seconds by a pretty Filipino girl wearing a white jacket and trousers, giving her a medical appearance. We were ushered into a small reception area and I stood behind Nicky who stated:
"We are seeing Kate and her colleague at 2pm for an hour."
"Ah yes, that's right, why don't I take you through and you can get ready," replied the Filipino lady.
She opened another door off the reception area which gave onto a short corridor and opened the first door on the right, standing aside to allow us to enter. We found ourself in what is best described as a studio, with soft lighting and curtains drawn, stylish light grey dΓ©cor, some low cabinets and a desk with a chair along one wall and two massage tables set up about five feet apart at an angle to each other of about 60 degrees. The cut-outs for where one placed one's head were at the closer end of the angle.
Our guide pointed towards another door in the far wall and said, "You will find the showers through there with towels and toiletries, please make yourselves comfortable. There are hangers in there for your clothes too." And with that she left the room.
I looked at Nicky expectantly, who had a slight smile playing on her generous lips.
"This looks like a rather upper-class massage studio," I ventured.
"That's what it is," she replied. "And we are going to have a joint massage session. Now let's go and take a shower and be nice and presentable for our masseuses," she said as she led me to the shower room. This was sounding promising I thought - masseuses, no mention of a masseur. But I had been given no indication that this was anything other than a legitimate (and doubtless expensive) therapeutic massage operation. Having it together with Nicky would be fun.
There were two shower cubicles and two washbasins in the spotlessly clean bathroom with fluffy white towels on a rack and hangers on hooks facing the showers. We both stripped off, hung our clothes on the hangers and stepped into our respective showers, which were equipped with soap, shampoo, conditioner and all the other unguents that women seemed to find necessary. I stepped out first and dried myself off with one of the soft towels which I then wrapped around my waist and waited for Nicky to finish. She came out a couple of minutes later and dried herself off, wrapping the towel around her breasts so that it was enticingly high on her legs, which (together with her curvy bottom) I had always found her most arousing feature. She fiddled with her hair in front of one of the mirrors and then said with a broad smile:
"Ready for your birthday treat darling?"
"I certainly am," I replied.
I opened the door back into the massage studio and was greeted by the sight of two very attractive women, who proceeded to introduce themselves as Kate and Miranda. I must have let my jaw sag slightly because Nicky eyed me archly and addressed Kate, who was obviously the more senior of the two, saying:
"Lovely to see you again Kate, and nice to meet you Miranda."
"Lovely to see you again Nicky and hello, you must be James?" she replied in a soft Irish accent.
I took in in a split second Kate's white medical tunic, the elegant stocking-clad (I did hope!) legs atop modest three inch court shoes giving her a height of not far short of six foot, the blonde wavy hair that sat just on top of her shoulders and the clear blue eyes and full lips set in pale skin. Miranda was, I guessed, Eurasian with almost jet black hair, a coffee coloured complexion and twinkling brown eyes, probably four or five inches shorter than Kate and dressed in a shorter white jacket with the same style of white trousers that the receptionist had been wearing. She was stunning.
"Er, yes," I managed to stammer, "and this is all a bit of a surprise to me, but lovely to meet you both too."
"Well, would you like to lie down on the couches, James on the one to the left and Nicky to the right. And are you both happy to be au naturel, it makes the massage must easier to administer?" asked Kate.
"Oh yes, that's fine," answered Nicky without catching my eye and with that draped her towel over one of the cabinets and proceeded to lay face down on the right-hand couch. Without much choice I divested myself of my own towel and, grateful that the swelling I could feel starting in my groin had not had a chance yet to fully take hold, lay face down on the other couch.