[Two quick notes:
1. While there is a slight mention of the characters in this story back when they were under 18, all of the sex depicted takes place when they are are fully consenting adults in their thirties.
2. This is a companion to my other story called "The Favor." I think you can read this independently, but check out the other if you'd like both points of view.
I hope you enjoy it!]
I'm sorry to say this because he's a great guy, but isn't Tim the worst storyteller? He gave you this really hot account of what was a pretty wild night several years ago, then tells you about how we saw one another again at our class reunion and ends with us going upstairs and that's it? Maybe he thought he was being clever by teasing you a little, but come on.
So I'm going to tell it. The whole thing. And trust me, I'm going to do a much better job.
I need to go all the way back to our beginning, though, because the context is important. Sure, it's kind of fun to start with your friend proposing that the two of you have sex in front of her husband, but there's got to be a serious layer of trust built up between the two of you for that even to be an idea you'd consider, right?
We obviously went to high school together; technically, we met in the third grade but in the same way I met everyone in my third grade class, which was being in the same room with them every day. We were both in a lot of the same honors classes as teenagers, but hung out with different groups of friends. And yes, I knew he and his friends used to make jokes about my breasts. So many of the guys did. It's not like I could help that I developed early; however, when you're a little taller and bustier than all the petite girls, immature boys make gross sexist comments. And, if you're me, you hide behind baggy sweaters and stay quiet until you can finally get out of there.
It didn't work entirely, but it worked well enough for me to not be embarrassed to show up to school every day and to get into a top university. I knew Tim had been accepted there as well, but didn't even think about it until we ran into one another at a party during the fall of our freshman year. By then, I'd come out of my shell a little, hooked up with a couple of guys, and could go out on a weekend not ashamed of my body.
Prior to that night, Tim and I had maybe had three or four conversations ever and those were probably when we wound up in a discussion group or as lab partners, so we really were meeting for the first time. And I'll admit that he was more attractive than I'd remembered. Now, it might have been that he wasn't dressed like and didn't carry himself like the wannabe frat bros who were everywhere at those parties, but as we talked and had a couple of beers (and he didn't offer me a cup of the "jungle juice", which was also a plus for him), I started to flirt. He flirted back. We headed off into the corner of that dorm room, a little bit away from the crowd, and... then my roommate Lisa stumbled over looking like absolute hell. So I had to excuse myself and head down the hall to hold her hair while she puked up some sort of vile magenta-looking concoction. To this day, I'm glad she found me instead of whatever piece of shit guy had obviously roofied her drink.
Anyway, Tim and I never got a second chance. We either missed one another at different parties, had our own moment in the hall bathroom, or found other people, like I did when I met Dave.
I'm not going to relitigate my entire relationship with my ex-husband for you; let's just say that we were a perfect match until we weren't. The two of us were cutting loose as college started and liked to party. It probably wasn't the best thing for me at first because my grades suffered, but I eventually figured out how to balance crazy weekends and serious weeknights. And we were a great match sexually--two people who didn't have a lot of experience and were willing to try anything out.
Of course, something that is that hot has a flip side and the two of us would fight a lot. I felt bad for Tim back then because he was friends with both of us and often got put in the middle of whatever drama was going on. But he and I connected on a weird level. I think it started with one stupid "Never have I ever" game where he seemed to be one of the few people in the room not clutching their pearls about what I confessed to having done. And from there, we got to a place where we could have really bawdy, inappropriate conversations about sex, whether it be about things I tried or liked to do or whatever he was up to with Michelle, Lauren, Kim, Kate, or whomever he was with at the time.
Then we graduated and didn't see one another as much. Dave and I moved in together and things got even more volatile. Yes, thinking back, that should have been a sign, but I was as lost at 22 as I was at 18 and with Dave, I had all the drugs and loud, adventerous sex I wanted, often simultaneously. And one day? Well, I woke up on a Sunday afternoon surrounded by the remains of my night--empty bottles, bits of coke on the bedside table, and clothes all over the floor, like some cliche rock star--and realized I needed to get my act together. Dave did too, although now I know it was only to make me happy; when he proposed, I said yes. Even at the time, I knew that it was out of obligation. After all, I was already a bridesmaid in two weddings and everyone else seemed to be getting engaged. It was just my turn.
So how do you stay together for fifteen years--married for nearly ten--out of obligation when deep down you know you aren't meant for one another? Well, the first few years were good but then Dave's drinking got in the way and our bedroom more or less died. I saw Tim more and more because he was living near us and while I didn't share all the details of our marriage, I still felt comfortable enough around him to be honest and he felt good about having someone to come to when his relationships went to shit.
But mine was on its way out, so I came up with an idea. And I know what you're going to say--trying to save a marriage by spicing up your sex life is probably the worst idea possible--and I completely agree with you. But I had been raised around the idea of commitment no matter what. My parents have been married for 40 years and both my older brothers are in long marriages. The idea of divorce? Please. You take what you have to and try to fix it where you can.
The inspiration to share our fantasies and spice things up came to me after a night out with some college friends who were meeting in the city to go to a club. I hadn't been to a club in years and considered not going because I was probably going to be at least a decade older than most of the women there. But I said yes because I'd be with my friends, I had plenty of money to throw around, and since I'd kept myself in good shape... well, I know it sounds conceited, but my body was worth showing off.