Jack rubbed his jaw. He needed something to do with his hands while he thought it over.
"You want me to do what, exactly?"
Eve rolled her eyes. "OK, which part is tripping you up here? Jess and I are having a baby."
"Right," he said.
"And we're a lesbian couple."
"Yeah, I noticed."
"So we need a third party."
"That's where you're losing me. Don't they have clinics for that?"
"Of course. And what, we're made of money? We're putting everything aside for hospital bills, childcare, education."
"So you figured you'd save on the..."
"Donation," Eve said, finishing his sentence for him. "Right. And since we obviously only want someone we're comfortable with involved..."
"You thought to come to me," Jack said, finishing hers. "If you're, uh, comfortable, why isn't Jess here?"
"Comfortable might be overstating the situation a little. Don't worry, we've talked it through, we're in agreement - but since I'm the one who's going to be carrying the baby she doesn't exactly want to be involved... mechanically."
"Mechanically."
Eve laughed. "Do I need to get you a little book about the birds and the bees?"
Jack blushed. "I think I know how it works. But I mean... how exactly are you wanting to do this? Is the turkey baster thing real?"
"I am not jamming a turkey baster in me."
"But you're happy jamming... I mean, look, something's gotta go in you. In there. You know what I mean." Jack flushed harder. Eve was an attractive woman, he'd been close with her for years, long before she got together with her fiance. She was petit, only a little over five feet, and slender, yet remarkably endowed in other areas. He tried to be a gentleman about it, but as the conversation turned to practicalities, his eyes couldn't help but drift to her breasts, squeezed into a tight t-shirt for a band he didn't recognise. Eve coughed, and his eyes darted back up to meet her gaze. "Sorry," he said, and after a moment they both laughed.
"It's fine," she said, "I know this is weird. It's a lot to ask. If it's not something you're comfortable with you can back out any time. But Jess and me, we want this, and you'd really be helping us out."
"So how did you want to do this?" he asked.
Eve laughed again. "Well for starters, not here," she said, looking around the cafe. Jack glanced around as if he'd forgotten they were in public entirely. "And not right now. We can deal with some of the specifics later. Take some time, think it over. We have, but I'm springing this on you out of nowhere."
After that, he did take some time to think about it. Having kids wasn't really on his radar - he wasn't even seeing anyone right then, let alone in the kind of serious relationship where it might come up. Eve's request prompted him to think about it, though, and despite all the potential complications, there was a part of him that didn't mind the idea of leaving some kind of legacy. Maybe he'd never be in a position to have children, maybe he'd never really want to raise them, but this was a different kind of option entirely. More than that, though, he had to admit to himself that he wanted the excuse to fuck Eve. They'd been friends for a long time, but she'd never shown any interest in men, and especially not him. As far as he knew, she really was only interested in women. It hadn't stopped the occasional fantasy, or some stolen glances at her cleavage when her outfits allowed it. Or scrolling her holiday selfies on Instagram, where she was threatening to spill out her bikini. Her tits weren't huge - he guessed Ds or DDs maybe - but on her small frame they were eye-catching to say the least.
Decision made, they set the ball rolling. They got the least fun part out of the way first - STD checks, at separate appointments - before planning to meet. Eve explained that Jess was going to go away for the weekend, giving them plenty of space to make it work. Jack was a little disappointed - if there was one thing he fantasised about more than Eve's tits, it was a threesome with her and her athletic girlfriend - but he tried to keep an air of professionalism about the whole thing. He was helping a friend, he reasoned, not getting off on it. It just happened that the two overlapped.
"So how did you want to do this?" Jack asked again, this time in Eve's apartment. He was standing awkwardly near the door, holding his coat, while she stood just as awkwardly by the little kitchen nook.
She ran her fingers through her hair, long and blonde and mostly dyed pink, and tied it back. As she did so, she inevitably arched her back and stuck her chest out, drawing his gaze. She caught it and smiled, still nervously. "You can look," she said. "I'm going to need you at attention."
Even with permission, he found it embarrassing to stare at his friend's tits, and his eyes wandered over the apartment. It had been a while since he'd visited. "Did you want to, like, hang out first or...?"
"Let's get it over with," she said, then stopped herself, covering her mouth. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that. It's just, you know, this isn't exactly a date, is it? I just think we should get right to it. We're obviously both nervous about it and I don't think watching a movie or something is going to fix that, it's just going to drag it out."
"Drinks?" he suggested.
She considered it, but shook her head. "No, better not, I want to make sure we've both got our wits about us."
"Yeah, no, that makes sense."
"So here's what I was thinking. We go into the bedroom, the bathroom is connected. You go in there and get yourself ready, and when you're about to pop, you come join me in the bedroom and..."
"Pop?" he asked, making air quotes.
"What would you prefer I say?" she asked, laughing. "Cum?"
"I think we're a bit past euphemisms," Jack said, adjusting the way he was standing. Hearing Eve say 'cum' in this context had him getting hard, nervous or not.
"Fine," she said. "Then I'll be specific. You go in the bathroom, get yourself ready to cum, and then join me in the bedroom and, well, cum in me."
"Just like that?"
"Hey, I might be gay, but I know how guys work. It's pretty much point and shoot."
"I mean, sure, but what about you? I might be straight but I know women generally like a bit of foreplay before anything gets inside anywhere."
She bit her lip. "Look, I'll worry about me, you just be ready to do your bit. If it's a problem, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. No pun intended," she added, giggling.
It was with that relative lack of ceremony that he was bundled into the bathroom, a small unit just off the bedroom, with not much room for anything other than the shower, sink, and toilet it already contained. Jack wondered what Eve was doing on the other side of the door. Was she getting naked? He hadn't asked enough questions. The plan was for him to be inside her soon and he didn't even know if he should take his clothes off, or just pull his cock out and start jacking off.