My best friend, Pete, was getting married and asked me to be his best man. I was 25 and he was a year older. We had been friends a long time, so I suppose I was the natural choice for that role, as his family knew me very well. We had known each other since we were knee high and gone through the state school system together.
Unfortunately, I lost touch with him for a few years when he went into the RAF, but when he came out, he came back to live in the north east of England and we saw a lot of each other. We often teamed up to go out on a weekend and went to nightclubs, dances and sports events.
He always did better than me at pulling the birds as he had plenty of confidence and was able to talk to them quite easily.
Sometime later, he met a pretty young girl at the firm where he worked, called Brenda and after courting her for about a year they decided to get married. She was 23 and lived in Sedgefield.
At that time in our lives Pete and I both lived in Darlington.
Anyway the wedding was fixed for a Saturday in September and I arranged a stag night for my friend on the Thursday night before.
I didn't have a girl friend at that time, although I was seriously looking around for one. I just didn't seem to have much luck in finding the right girl.
I was looking forward to the wedding, as I reckoned I might get off with one of the bridesmaids or female guests. I was always optimistic. Well you have to be, don't you?
However, on the night of the stag night, Pete told me that both of Brenda's bridesmaids had steady boyfriends.
Well, there you go.
Anyway, this is my story of what transpired that eventful weekend, from the stag night on the Thursday, until the following Monday. A lot happened during that period of time which I'll try to describe for you.
The stag night was a great success and it was all down to me. First of all, I hired a room in a local pub and got all Pete's friends and relations to come. ( all men of course.) Then I hired a local comedian who had a good reputation in the area and he went down very well. And of course the beer flowed all night.
At the end of it, a few of the guys were much the worse for drink. None more so then Pete's brother in law, Jake, who was completely pissed.
Between us, we managed to get him outside at closing time. We stood in a small group outside the pub to say our farewells and sort out the transport arrangements. Pete lived the opposite way to me and soon departed for the last bus. As I was the only one with a car and had been on soft drinks all night, I was able to give one or two a lift home, including Jake.
At 11.45 p.m. he was my last passenger and I pulled onto his drive. The light was still on in his house and as I struggled to get him out of the car, Pauline, his wife came out to help me.
"God, he's drunk as a skunk," she complained, "that's the second time this month."
We manhandled him into the house and managed to get him up a small flight of stairs to the guest bedroom. "I'm not having him near me," she fumed and in any case it was out of the question to get him up the main stairs.
"Thanks, Alan," she said, shaking her head as we came back into the hall. She was annoyed at her husband I could see that.
"Care for a coffee," she asked.
"Yes," I said, still shaking from the effort of moving her overweight husband.
So we adjourned to her kitchen and sat on stools as she boiled the kettle. She was wearing a nice pin striped business suit and had obviously been out for the evening as well.
"I've been to Brenda's hen night," she told me. "It was a pretty quiet affair with Brenda's mum and her aunts mostly. Anyway, we just sat and talked."
"You look great, Pauline," I said "and I like your smart outfit".
What I liked about it was the shortish skirt which showed off her long lovely legs.
As she moved off the high stool to get the kettle, I heard the swish of nylon brushing against nylon and glimpsed just the hint of bare thigh above her stocking tops. I also got a whiff of expensive perfume and she must have noticed my reaction, because I saw her smirk as she went to make our coffee.
Well we sat and talked for a good half hour as she quizzed me about my non-existent love life.
As she stood up to get in our empty cups, I made the mistake of asking her about her marriage. "Are you happy enough these days, Pauline?"
Well, that awkward question of mine just seemed to open up the flood gates. I got it all. She had obviously been bottling it up all night and she let rip. She had me as her audience.
No, she wasn't happy and told me in great detail just why. Apparently, Jake was just a selfish pig ...etc......etc.....etc.
And then the tears came...oh boy what had I done?
I moved across and put my arm around her and we sat down on a small sofa. The next thing I knew was that she had her head on my shoulder and her lovely black stockinged legs were splayed out in front of me. It was at that point that I got a hard-on. I know it was wrong sitting there, romantically, with another man's wife but, then I had always fancied her, even if she was about five years older than me.
"You're such a good listener and so nice and supportive," she murmured and I wondered then, just how much
she
had drunk that evening.
Her exotic perfume smelled so good, my head was swimming. As I turned my head to say something, she did too. Then we kissed, just like that. Previously, I had thought about making my excuses and leaving, but, I was damned if I was going to do that now. Also, my hand had somehow slithered onto her nylons and it was going to stay there as long as she didn't object.
Well the kissing went on for a while and I am ashamed to say my hand disappeared under her skirt. I wanted to feel the silky smooth skin at the top of her stay-up stockings, so I did. I couldn't believe she'd let me do it. This was Pete's older sister who I had lusted after since I was at school.
Then she stood up and I thought our little romantic session was over. "I'd better check on my drunken slob of a husband," she said and wandered through to her guest room.
Well, I thought that was my cue to leave, so I stood up too. But then, she came back in, and, to my absolute amazement, she was minus her skirt.