Friday might be a sleep-in day, but it's also a busy day. I had three classes, the last a two o'clock, which meant I had four hours in one- and two-hour blocks, to fill. So I was in the student union reading, drinking coffee, studying, and admiring the girls for a couple of hours, and in the library, huddled in my little carrel for a couple of more.
On the way home I stopped at the Kroger's store, as I almost always did, and picked up a couple of cases of beer.
I was home about 3:30 and, being the serious student I was, turned on the desk lamp and spent the final hour and a half of my work week studying the intricacies of calculating price elasticities of demand and trying to think of a way to quantify it and wondering if it might be predictive. Today, it would have been the work of a few seconds to refine Google search terms and see what had been done on the subject already. In 1973, I would need to find hard copies of journals, review whatever data I could find, try to figure out how to set up experimental controls if such was even possible, and, well, that's about as far as I got when there was a knock on the door.
I glanced at the clock and saw it was 4:28.
"What?" I asked as I opened the door and saw Sandy from the trailer down the hill, John's sister.
"We're having a party tonight and, well," and I couldn't help but smile at the way she blushed. Sandy was, as this exchange occurred, 18. She had been married for two years, Tom's child bride of 16 when they said their vows. She was one of those girls who was cute as a button with curly hair, round face, very small breasts, and an oversized ass.
"I talked to Myra and Tom and I thought you and Monica might like to come," she finished.
"Sure," I said, my mind still in school mode, "I'll let Monica know when she gets her and we'll be down. Appreciate the invite. But I'm back to work now," and swung the door shut.
I finished my thinking, jotting down a few notes, thinking I might actually be onto something here, and then the alarm clock I kept on my desk dinged politely, signaling it was 5:01.
I grinned, turned off my desk lamp, stacked my papers and books, and went into the kitchen.
I popped the top off on a beer, loaded up the little pipe I had made from brass plumbing parts, and took a deep hit of the not-very-good pot we had. Five hits, though, and I was pleasantly buzzed.
Monica wasn't home yet, so I turned on the little 19-inch color TV we had purchased when the Holiday Inn upgraded their equipment, and turned on the Atari game console, one of my very few splurges. I sat then, cross-legged on the floor (don't I wish I could still do that), and chased
Asteroids
across the screen in the screen borders mode that I had been the only one of our group to master.
Monica came in, finally, a little after six, looking flushed and smiling.
"That study group just would NOT shut up," she said, holding my eyes a bit too directly. We had been married five years by then, and I knew her tells pretty well.
"Did you get laid?" I asked.
The sudden stillness told me I had struck a nerve. She held my eyes for several seconds before saying, "Yes."
I grinned, held out my arms, and said, "Good. I don't have to feel guilty then."
Her eyes got big at that, but she didn't say anything. Instead, she went into the kitchen, got two beers and the pot pipe, and joined me on the couch. We drank our beers and smoked pot, her playing catchup, for a few minutes in companionable silence before she turned to me, kissed my cheek, and said, "I'll tell you mine if you'll tell me yours."
I laughed, the pot working now, even cheap, not-very-good pot always gives me the giggles, and started telling her of my morning with Darla while she told me of her afternoon with a guy named Roger and his wife, Linda. I had met them at some school thing or other, so I at least knew who she was talking about.
Her story was, if I'm being honest here, much more interesting than mine. After all, mine was pretty straightforward, a man and a woman having sex. Hers was a three-way with other, well, features.
Roger, it turned out, was the first man Monica was ever with who was uncircumcised. Christ, she waxed almost poetic describing his cock, the scent she found when she pulled back his foreskin, the way his glans just peeked out when he was erect.
The most interesting part was the interaction with Linda. Hell, I got hard myself as she described how she and Linda had licked up the shaft of Roger's erection until their tongues met at the tip and it turned into a kiss. I squirmed as she described each woman taking one of his balls into her mouth and sucking gently.
Then she described, in detail, how she had mounted him, cowgirl fashion, as Linda mounted his face and the girls kissed over him while taking their pleasure.
Yeah, I got hard.
"Okay," I said when she was done, and I couldn't help noticing the flush on her face and the scent in the air. The telling was getting to her too.
"The way I see it," I said, kind of proud that my voice was steady, "we have two choices right now. We can retire to the bedroom and fuck like monkeys, or we can show control and delayed gratification, go down to the get-together at Tom and Sandy's, and see what develops."
She smiled. "Well," she said, "I'm pretty well satisfied right now so I vote for the party."
"Typical woman," I said, "always thinking of your own pleasure first." But I was chuckling as I said it.
She grinned. "Men are easy, Honey," she said and started out the door, "Come along now."
So I followed, pretty high and buzzing from the two beers we had drunk quickly.
Down at Tom and Sandy's double-wide, the party was already going on. As we walked in, Randy latched onto Monica, first with a kiss and then with a hand planted possessively on her ass, while Myra kissed me, long and thoroughly, and then took my hand and started leading me around.
It's funny, really, the way my point of view of these people, most of whom I knew at least casually, changed since I had Myra and, since, evidently, the word was out that Monica and I were now part of the swinging lifestyle.
So I looked at Kay's ridiculously big breasts, I would later peek at her bra and find my estimate of 44HH to be close. The bra was actually 42GG. I accepted Brenda's kiss, a serious man-woman kiss, not some
faxu
European peck on the cheek, in good humor and, I like to think, gave as good as I got.
It was a crowd. The double-wide trailer, the only one in that particular park and something still new in the world in those long ago, innocent days, seemed big, especially compared to the 10 X 50 box I called home in those days. Still, with a dozen couples, it was crowded, even when a half dozen of us would be on the deck. Between cigarettes and the pot pipe, when you opened the door it looked the damn house was on fire.
"That wasn't very nice," Sandy said, reaching around me from behind, putting her hands in the pockets of my cut-off jeans, part of that uniform all the wannabe hippies were wearing in those days, and pulling me back as she pressed forward.
"You know my deal," I said, drawing on my cigarette and taking a drink from my beer, "until five o'clock I'm a student."