This is chapter 3 in a series of stories about a young couple whose sex life is limited to separately enjoyed porn and masturbation and their struggle to achieve a more balanced sex life. It is recommended that the reader have read the prior chapters to maintain continuity. Material in italics describers a character's fantasy.
Keena took her time getting home from the park after her morning exhibitionism. She walked well down the hill from their home, stopped for a coffee at the local Starbucks, and picked up a few groceries for dinner that night. By the time she walked back to their home it was nearing 11:30. She was surprised to find Gabe puttering about in the kitchen when she arrived home.
"My, what are you doing here?" she asked. It was unheard of for Gabe to come home for lunch.
Gabe looked at her for a long moment of silence, but he just couldn't work up the nerve to launch into the sexual confession he had planned in the park, responding lamely, "Oh, I had to deliver some papers to a major donor to the church that lives out here and I thought I would stop and see if I could buy you lunch?"
"Lunch?" Another first. He never bought her lunch.
"Sure. Nothing fancy. I thought we would try that new pub that's over on 18
th
street."
"Uh, sure." Keena looked at her watch. It said 11:30.
"Can I freshen up?" she asked. She expected she reeked of sex after her masturbation in the park. "I've been walking in the park and I need to grab a quick shower and some clean clothes. These are a bit casual for lunch out. Perhaps you can put these groceries away for me while I shower."
"Oh for sure," Gabe said. Then he asked, "Do you always walk on Thursdays?"
"Uhh. No not really. I don't have a regular schedule, but I do like to walk there this time of year. It's so nice now."
She showered and changed and they had lunch. He was more talkative than usual, but aside from repeating his question about the park, most of his conversation was about his work, a topic of little interest to Keena.
As he drove her home after lunch and she thought, what the heck. Might as well give it a try.
He stopped the car before the house and she looked over at him and said, "My it's 1:30. Have I ruined your afternoon?"
"Of course not."
"Okay, I was just wondering how much work day you would have left by the time you get back to the office."
"Oh."
They were silent for a minute as she screwed up her courage. She hated asking him for sex, but... he never asked, so... she waited through a long silence and then said, "I thought you might just like a little... what do they call it... 'afternoon delight'?"
"Oh." He was silent, looking at his lap as she waited for his response. "Oh," he repeated. "No not today. I still have work to do. I better get back downtown."
"Oh. Yeah. Sure. I understand," she said, once again feeling humiliated by Gabe's rejection. Keena quickly got out of the car and walked up the front walk, without looking back. She heard him drive away before she reached the front door.
"Well that went well," she said to herself, once she was seated in the kitchen. "Not," she responded. Keena was in a sour mood. She hated it when he turned her down. Gabe was a problem for Keena.
As Gabe drove away he was totally dismayed that he had failed to work up his courage to confront Keena about her sexuality and disclose his to her. Later, when Keena had proposed and afternoon romp in the sack, he had rejected her proposal out of fear that she would learn how perverse his real sexual interests were. "This situation has to change," he told himself, "But how? Sure I know now that she is not the pure sweet thing I have imagined her to be, but does that really mean she will accept me as I actually am with all my deviant sex tastes? And if she doesn't? What then? " He got almost nothing done that afternoon at the office. Keena was a problem for Gabe.
Dinner was a replay of lunch, except Keena did the cooking and the clean-up. And she didn't propose sex. She declined to watch TV and went to bed early, reading a lackluster murder mystery until she fell asleep. During the night she had an erotic dream about Beer Cooler Guy.
Her mood was much better in the morning. Gabe went off to work and Keena spent the morning puttering about in the yard and then went to the market (fully clothed this time) to get groceries for dinner. She didn't give much thought to the events of the last couple of days, having apparently satiated herself with her debauchery. She knew her new found sex drive tended to come and go, but she was learning that when it was present, it was hard to ignore.
The weekend was similarly uneventful, except Gabe was around a bit more. On Saturday they slept in and had a leisurely breakfast out before Gabe went off for an afternoon's golf with their retired neighbor, Arnie Roberts. That evening Arnie and his wife Lisa joined them for dinner. They grilled steaks and shared a couple of bottles of wine. Keena hadn't met the Roberts beyond an occasional hello over the fence between the two houses. She was somewhat surprised when Gabe invited them to dinner, but Gabe and Arnie had been playing golf regularly of late, so Keena thought, sure why not.
Arnie was not what anyone would call a handsome man--short (maybe 5-4 with a stretch), more than a little plump, and swarthy. Even if he shaved daily his face was covered with a dark stubble by late in the day. In his mid-forties, his hair line had receded to the point of leaving him with a completely bald top poorly disguised by an anemic comb over. But one thing that was immediately noticeable about him was that he seemed to have an enormous energy level, lots to say about anything and everything. As he talked his blue eyes glittered with excitement as he watched for people's interest in what he had to say. Much of what he had to say had a lewd undertone--nothing express, but often implied in a noticeable way. Throughout the evening his eyes were repeatedly scanning Keena's figure.
Lisa was dramatically different from Arnie. She was tall and leggy, a bit younger than Arnie, but nonetheless carrying just a bit more weight than she had perhaps in her youth. But she carried it well. Her hips were a bit broad, but still round, firm looking, and attractive, and her breasts were large. There was probably a bit more weight at her waist than she would have liked but her dress hid it nicely. She had thick blonde hair that was carefully styled so it hung in graceful curves to her shoulders and her makeup was restrained, but accented her large brown eyes. In short, she was gorgeous, Keena thought. Since Arnie was obviously determined to carry the conversation Lisa sat back and let him do so, watching the reactions of Keena and Gabe to Arnie's exuberance and putting in a word or two here and there to restrain Arnie when she thought he was going too far. Arnie made all the noise in the family, but Keena sensed that Lisa was in control when it mattered to her.
Gabe went to bed shortly after the Roberts left, leaving Keena to do the dishes. As she cleaned up Keena realized that something about dinner had made her horny. "What was it?" she asked herself. "We didn't talk about sex. At least not explicitly, although it is amazing how Arnie can give every conversation a sexual overtone." By the time Keena finished the dishes she realized that Arnie Roberts had been staring at her boobs throughout dinner. Instead of being outraged or at least annoyed by Arnie's conduct, she was horny. Arnie was far from the kind of man Keena ever imagined she would be attracted to, but about half way through dinner she realized that she was enjoying his illicit attention. What Arnie was doing was ill mannered, bordering on rude, but every time she caught him looking she felt a little twinge in her sex, and towards the end of dinner she even stuck her chest out a bit in response. She realized her response to Arnie's behavior was just as bad as Arnie's conduct. But it was fun. Arnie was far from handsome, but his personality exuded a sexual magnetism that was unmistakable.
There was part of a bottle of wine left and Keena took it to the back porch for a nightcap. She knew she was going to masturbate again, but she had not been willing to risk awaking Gabe by sneaking into their bedroom to retrieve her night gown. After a few fumbling attempts to fondle herself through her clothing she said, "Oh fuck this." She stood and stripped of her dress, bra, and panties, tossing them casually to one side. Now she could lie nude on the chez lounge as she had a couple of nights earlier. As before, there was enough light leaking from her kitchen windows to make her readily visible to anyone who was watching. As soon as she was stretched out in the nude on the patio chair she saw the light go off in the Roberts' upstairs bedroom. "He's watching again," she thought as she felt a flash of passion.
When Keena first stepped out onto the back porch with the intention of masturbating she told herself it would just be a quickie--just to relieve the sexual tension built up during dinner. But once she had stripped off all of her clothes and was lying nude on her patio she felt a need for a more extended masturbation session. "After all," she told herself as she took a swig of wine from the bottle she had brought out from the kitchen, "it's been almost two days since I even touched myself. So what if that nasty Arnie Roberts is watching. That will just make it better."