"I want to watch you suck another guy's cock," Scott said.
"Um," Melissa said. "What?"
It had been a quiet night at home until then.
She sat there and looked at him and couldn't decide what to think. They were having dinner, so she kept having dinner. She wasn't sure what else you were meant to do when your boyfriend told you something like that.
"Where did that come from?" she said in the end.
"I do have a fantasy. You asked the other day. I said I didn't have any."
She nodded. There had been something in a magazine, and she'd asked, and then forgotten right away.
"That isn't true," he said. "I do. I want to watch you suck another guy's cock."
She thought about that. "That's like, your only fantasy?"
"That's the big one."
"Oh," she said. She wasn't sure how judgmental she should be, whether she should be supportive since he was sharing, or honest about how that made her feel. She sat there for a moment, and realized she couldn't actually decide how it made her feel. It was sort of rude, that he thought about her like that, and rude that he thought she would. It was also kind of dirty, and kind of hot.
"Dude," Melissa said. "That's kind of weird."
Scott looked embarrassed. "You asked, that was all. Never mind."
"I'm not saying no. I'm wondering about your sanity a bit, but I'm not saying no."
"Saying not to what?"
"Ah, to that. To what you just suggested."
He looked up. "I wasn't suggesting."
"Oh," Melissa said, and now she was embarrassed. "Weren't you?"
Scott shrugged.
"You just told me," Melissa said. "So aren't you asking if I will? I mean, why did you tell me if you don't want me to do it?"
"You asked the other day. I felt bad I'd lied."
"Oh." She ate a little more. It was spaghetti, and fiddly, needed swirling and a bit of concentration to catch. He might be telling her something weird, but she loved him for getting so worked up about a tiny lie that didn't matter at all.
"I love you," she said. "Don't worry about this, okay? It's not a problem."
"Thank you."
Melissa chewed, looked at him. "So do you? Want me to?"
No answer.
"Come on," she said. "It's out there now. How serious are you about this?"
"I don't know. I want you to know that's what I think about, that's all."
Melissa nodded. That actually made a bit of sense. She wasn't sure she'd want to actually do all the things she'd ever fantasized about either.
"Yeah," she said. "Yeah, fair enough."
"I don't know if actually wanting you to is better or worse than just imagining it."
"Imagining me...."
He nodded.
"You do that? Imagine me doing that?"
He looked really uncomfortable and didn't answer. Melissa decided not to push too much. "Yeah," she said, after a minute. "I don't know either."
"You think it's weird?"
"I'm not sure. Maybe a bit."
"You're not annoyed?"
"Nah. I mean, I'd rather know."
"Not disgusted?"
"I shouldn't be, should I?" Melissa said. "I mean, it's kind of bad. But then again, I blow you and I like it. I've blown other guys. Obviously. So what's the big deal?"
Scott just at there looking at her, and she knew he was getting hopeful. She knew his worried face and she knew his hopeful face and he was definitely looking at her with the hopeful face. And a bit of a turned on face too.
"Um," she said. "Hold on. I'm not completely sure I mean that how it sounded."
Scott looked disappointed.
Melissa took a little pity on him. "I'm not sure I don't either."
Now he just seemed confused.
"You heard me," she said, and chewed another mouthful of spaghetti.
He ate quietly. After a while he got up, and got a beer from the fridge. He gave her one too.
"Have you before?" Melissa said, still thinking. "Done that with someone? An ex? Like got her to go along with it?"
Scott shook his head.
"Never?"
"No."
"Couldn't talk any of the exes into it?"
"Never trusted anyone enough to tell them."
She looked at him for a moment, feeling all warm and tender, and slightly irritated too. "Prick," she said, and leaned over the table and kissed him.
"What?"
"Saying that. Making it sweet. You're a prick."
"Okay."
"I'm not pissed off, and I'll think about it, okay? Now stop looking at me."
"I'm not asking you to think about it. I'm just telling you."
"I know you're not, but I am. Unless you don't want me to?"
He looked at her for a while.
"Do you want me to?" she said. "Think about it?"
Still no answer.
"Yes?" she said. "No?"
Looking almost ashamed, he said, very quietly, "Yes."
"Well then," she said, and stood up and started clearing the table.
*
They went and sat in the lounge and watched TV, but Melissa couldn't concentrate. She had her feet up on Scott's lap, was watching him as much as the screen. She kept being distracted by what he'd said to her.
"What?" Scott said, when he noticed Melissa staring, and each time she shook her head and didn't answer.
She was horny, but she couldn't quite decide if she was turned on by his idea, or just turned on by the idea of him being turned on by telling her.
He was asking her to have sex with other people, without apparently wanting to himself, and she couldn't decide if that was a good thing for her, or just a completely stupid thing for both of them.
"Want to go to bed?" she said, and he turned off the TV and stood up.
She'd planned to just hop into bed and fuck without talking about it any more, but started thinking again while she was brushing her teeth.
She went into the bedroom, still holding the toothbrush, and said, "Who? Which guy?"
Scott looked surprised. "The thing?
"Of course the thing. Who do you want me to do?"
"Anyone you want."
"I can pick?"
"Of course."
"Huh," she said, and went back into the bathroom to spit. She swallowed water, rinsed her mouth, and went back to the bedroom door holding the towel. "Anyone at all?"
"If you'll do it, then yeah, I suppose."
"Because then I will?"
"Not like that, but..."
"If it makes me more into it, then yes?"
He shrugged, like he didn't know what to say.
"Wouldn't you be jealous? If it's some dude I've had a crush on for years?"
"You have crushes?"
"Maybe," she said. "Who knows. Wouldn't that worry you?"
"I think that's part of it."
She looked at him, puzzled. "How?"
"If you're really into it. Into him."
"I don't get that," she said.
"I don't either, really. It seems to be there, though."
"You want to be jealous?"
"I said I don't get it."
"Okay," Melissa said, now not sure they should even be talking about it, if he hadn't sorted that out himself. She put the towel back, and went into the bedroom. Undressed completely, assuming she was getting some, and then stopped and sat on the edge of the bed.
Scott looked at her.
"I'm thinking," she said.
"About this?"
"Ah, yeah. Of course."
"About me getting jealous?"
She shrugged.
"I'll be okay," Scott said. "I won't get jealous about this."
"You're sure?"