The girls were in a good mood, both of them. I say girls, they are grown women. My wife is just this year forty; her bff is two years younger. They are for the most part fine upstanding gentile ladies from the suburbs but they can get out of control. It's fun to watch when it happens. They had taken a class together that morning on meditation and were not impressed. From their telling of it the woman teaching the class was an old hippie who took it all far too seriously. They had walked out when the class broke for lunch and found a little cafΓ© across the parking lot where they had settled in with a bottle of wine and had burnt the rest of the day drinking and nibbling at various appetizers. It was after six when Sandra called needing a ride home.
Kevin and I both got there at the same time and being thoroughly amused by our drunken wives proposed dinner. A half hour later chicken was grilling away on our patio, another bottle of wine was half gone and the women, their confidence boosted by a lovely shiraz, laid down a challenge. There was no way, with Evelyn being a teacher of literature and my wife Sandra being a "ball-busting" attorney that the two of us hapless gentlemen could keep up with them at a game of trivia and we were lucky that no-one still played Trivial Pursuit. If it were still 1990 we would have been in trouble.
As Kevin pulled the chicken off the grill and laid it out with an assortment of tortillas, cheese and chopped vegetables I slipped inside to root through my den. It took a while but I found it. The old cardboard box was worn but if you knew what you were looking at the dark blue box with fine gold print was obvious.
"Oh! You are going down!" my wife crowed between bites of her taco. I smiled at her and twisted her taunt into something far dirtier than she intended. She giggled when she figured it out.
"Is that the wager?" I teased.
"Whatever you want." Evie chimed in.
"You were the one that laid down the challenge. I think we will let y'all set the stakes." I told her in total confidence. They had started drinking hours ahead of Kevin and I and although the two women were a formidable pair I did not see us losing to them, not tonight anyway.
"I sort of liked Sandy's idea." Kevin teased. So did I really.
"Whatever you want." Evie said again.
"Sandy?" Kevin asked.
"I do like a good tongue." She said and playfully shivered.
"So is that the wager. I don't know if I care if we win or lose." I leaned in and kissed my wife. Honestly, I think I might actually enjoy going down on her more than having her go down on me.
I was started when suddenly I heard my name from the other side of the table. "Steven." Evie said with a strangely serious tone in her voice. Beneath the table she gripped my leg just above the knee firmly pulling me towards her and away from Sandy. "If you win, I do WHAT - EVER - YOU - WANT."
"Oh my." I stammered.
"Does that properly motivate you, Kev'?" Sandy asked my friend.
"Game on." He grinned. "Shit just got serious up in here," he joked.
Kevin and I went first and with twelve straight correct answers and proper use of the roll again spaces we racked up a quick three wedge to none lead. Sadly that would be our last wedge. Close to two hours later with four empty wine bottles lined up behind us on the deck the women were one question from winning, their token full of six colored pieces of plastic. Kevin and I debated what category to ask them. It was a short discussion as even we had been challenged to recall batting champions and gold medalists from the 1988 Olympics. It would be sports.
The question asked what horse had come only a half a length shy of the triple crown in nineteen-eighty-something and Sandy sighed deeply in resignation.
"I know the answer to this," Evelyn said and we all looked over at her surprised. She grinned at us and then looked me straight in the eye. Her voice was deep for a woman's and when she wanted to she could sound positively sultry.
"What is it?" asked my wife anxiously.
Without breaking the lock she had staring into my eyes she spoke slowly and softly. "I want to suck your cock." For emphasis she took a long slow swallow of the dark red wine and licked her lip.
"What was that?" asked Kevin, somewhat surprised and, it seemed, slightly anxious.
"The answer is... I want to get on my knees right here and slowly suck your cock until you give me a fat wad of come to swallow down."
I liked her answer but I have to admit, all flirting aside this was no small thing she proposed. Sandy and I had never done anything like this before. Sure, I had found her friend attractive and I had enjoyed our routine last summer of Saturday afternoons by the pool with the two women spread out in tiny bikinis soaking up the sun but I never dreamt of doing anything about it. Now, faced with the prospect that it really truly was about to happen I had to force my inebriated brain to seriously consider the consequences. It wasn't a decision to be made as lightly as we all had earlier when the wager had been made.
For support, or maybe permission, I'm not sure, I turned to my wife. "Sandra," I began. I made an effort to sound serious. "Is that your final answer? This is for the win."
She looked at me a moment before answering as if she too was coming to terms with it. She smiled at me and being married fifteen years we knew each other well enough that her look was sufficient. I smiled back at her and only when we had come to that moment of understanding did she finally speak. "Yes. That is our final answer."
I looked over at Kevin. "I thought it was Swale, or something like that but according to the back of the card she is right. Judges?" I asked him. Just to be funny I handed him the card.
He studied the back of the card for a moment and played at scratching his chin. "Did I give the right answer, hon'" Evelyn asked her husband. She had gripped my knee again. Her hand was soft but firm.
"That's what the card says." He smiled. "Stev-o, I think we lost."
"So we won?" asked Sandra. She looked at me. Her dark brown eyes were wide as Bambie's and I saw the mixture of trepidation and excitement.
"You won." I said.