"Have you ever wanted to try a threesome," Matt said.
Naomi was lying on her back, on the bed, in the happy comfortableness after sex, just sprawled where she'd ended up. It was late, but not so late she was ready to go to sleep. She was holding one hand up over her head and trying to decide if she needed to redo her nails tomorrow.
She kept looking at her hand for a while.
She thought about sex. They'd just had perfectly adequate sex, ordinary sex like they had every few days, and that she'd always thought was enough.
But maybe it wasn't, not for Matt.
"That's kind of sudden," she said.
"I was just wondering."
"Yeah right," Naomi said. "Just wondering. Just happened to have that pop into your head, right then."
He grinned. She was fairly sure he grinned, because he always did when she said things like that. She didn't need to look and check.
"None of my friends are interested," she said. "Sorry dude."
"None of them, sure."
"They're not. And I'm really not in them anyway. Especially Lizzy."
"Why Lizzy?"
"Ah, because every guy I ever hooked up with wants threeway with her."
"People have asked before?"
Naomi turned sideways and looked at him for a while, then just said. "Dickhead."
"Yeah," he said. "Okay. That wasn't what I meant, though."
"Course it wasn't."
"I mean, its not one of your friends I'm talking about."
"Or anyone else," she said. "No-one wants to. I asked everyone already and they all said no."
He grinned again, then said, "No other woman, maybe."
She lay there for a moment. That was interesting. "Another guy?"
"Yeah."
"Oh."
Naomi thought about that. Maybe ordinary adequate sex had its place, and maybe dirty sweaty fucking by two men at once had a place too.
"Would you be into that?" Matt said.
"Ah, yeah," she said, still a little surprised. "Kind of."
"You're thinking about it?"
"Not thinking about it, exactly," she said. "Thinking about whether this is a good idea."
"You want to?"
"Well, yeah. I mean, what would you do if I suddenly said me and Lizzy wanted to both do you at the same time?"
He grinned. "True. But you think it might not be a good idea?"
"Yeah," she said. "It might not."
He opened his mouth.
"Shut the fuck up and let me talk myself into it," she said.
He grinned.
She was interested. She was really quite interested, but she wanted to think about what might go wrong. Like people feeling bad, or getting jealous. Like her tidy life being disrupted.
Like finding out Matt was into other men. She thought hard about that one. Because if she'd said she wanted another chick here, with them, it pretty much meant she wanted the other woman at least as much as she wanted Matt, and was using him as an excuse. But maybe it was different for men. Maybe years of porn, and them not wanting to be touch, would make it different. Maybe all he had in mind was the two of them taking turns on her.
Basically.
She thought about that for a while. Two men. Taking turns. She almost got distracted from thinking carefully by the idea of turns being taken.
She made herself stop. She made herself start worrying again.
She was interested in this, she decided, but only if she was the centre of attention. Not if Matt was into the other guy too.
She wasn't sure how to ask, and wasn't even sure she wanted to know.
She just had to ask.
"There's one thing," she said. "About the other guy."
"Yeah?"
"Is that because you want to? Like because you're into the idea of being with another man? Or because you don't think I'll say yes unless it's a guy."
"Would you say yes if it was a woman?"
"Probably not."
"Like definitely not?"
She grinned for a while. "Yeah."
"So there you go."
She hitched up on her elbow and kissed him. Then looked at him, carefully. "You don't want to be with another man? You don't want to try it out?"
"Not really no."
"I like men," she said. "I liked trying them out, and look where I've ended up. Maybe I'm rubbing off on you."
He grinned. "I'm not interested in trying anything out."
"Because I don't want to if you do," Naomi said. "I really don't want to at all. Just so we're clear."
"Okay."
"I don't want to share you with someone you might actually be into."
He nodded. "Yeah, that makes sense."
"But you don't care if you share me?"
He thought about that for a while.
"Thought so," Naomi said, and lay back down.
"No," he said. "It's not that. It's just, maybe I trust you more than you trust me."
"Ah," she said. "Dude. What the fuck?"
"I believe you'll still want me after you sleep with someone else. I don't know you do, from what you just said."
"Yeah," Naomi said, thinking. "All right. Maybe not."
"I don't feel like that. I don't think it's a contest."
"Okay," she said. "Fine, but what's the point of this? If I'm not going to let you try another woman?"
He was quiet.
"Because I'm not going to let you try with another woman," she said. "No matter how much fun it is, or how often we do it again afterwards, you're not fucking another chick. Ever. Not while you're with me."
"Okay," he said.
"So why?"
"I want to see you with another guy. I think. I just don't want to fuck him myself."
Naomi lay there for a while, thinking. "You sure? I might get quite into this if we take it seriously."
"Yeah."
"Very sure?"
"Yes."
"Then shit yes. Of course I want to."
"Really?
She lay here and grinned at the ceiling. "Ah, yeah, dude. You want to let me fuck someone else, then of course I'm into that."
He looked at her for a while, then said, "Really?" again.
"Yep."
"Oh."