Chapter 5 Taking the Plunge
It was late Sunday morning when the doorbell rang.
"Probably Aiko," Nora guessed.
She opened the door. Sure enough, it was Aiko.
"May I come in?" Aiko asked.
"Of course," Nora replied.
Nora led her friend to the kitchen where she offered her a cup of coffee.
With a coffee in hand they both sat at the kitchen table.
"When we left last night," Aiko said, "we saw you guys had already gone." She was reluctant to mention the club explicitly because she was unsure where things stood with them.
There was a moment of silence as they sipped their coffee.
"Are you upset with me?" Aiko asked.
"No."
"Do you think I'm a slut?"
"I thought you acted like one," Nora replied.
"I make no apologies for that. I love sex and so does Gerald. We allow each other to enjoy ourselves with other people as long as we know and agree to it."
"It wasn't quite what we expected."
"What did you expect?" Aiko enquired.
"Well, I thought we were all just going to look around. I didn't expect to see you and Gerald, you know, actually do it. I guess what we expected to see was some people going off to some room and having sex in private. You guys not only did it, you did it front of everybody. And you didn't seem to care."
"You weren't wrong in your thinking," Aiko agreed. We were just going to take you there, let you look so that you would have an idea of what it was like, and go back home with you guts. Everything changed when Linda and Stan showed up. Then Gerald and I decided to make it real for you."
"You certainly did!" Nora exclaimed. "But in public?"
"We don't care who's watching," Aiko answered. Some people prefer privacy and can use rooms for that purpose. Some people love to have sex in front of other people and there are always people who love to watch. Normally, Gerald and I are neither exhibitionists nor voyeurs although we are often in the same room with our lovers. What we did with Linda and Stan was intended to give you and Ryan a taste of what our lifestyle taste is like."
Aiko paused for a moment to give Nora a chance to say or ask something, but she remained silent.
Aiko continued. "We do care who we're doing it with," Aiko explained. "We are usually quite particular about who we have sex with. They have to be decent human beings who see men and women as partners and genuine equals. It's all about consenting adults sharing and enjoying sexual pleasure. But I have to apologize for not doing a better job explaining what could happen. To be honest, I genuinely thought that the chances were small that we would actually have sex with someone there. After all, our first and only other visit was a disappointment."
"What did you actually see?" Aiko probed.
Nora blushed. "I saw that old guy lick you and then...
"Fuck me?" Aiko finished.
"Yes, and then you let that guy's wife lick you after he had sex with you. Are you bisexual?" Nora asked.
Aiko thought about her question for a moment. She wanted to give an honest answer, not only to Nora but also to herself. "When we first started swinging, I never even thought about touching another woman sexually. Now I see it as a pleasurable supplement."
Nora looked at her questioningly.
"Foreplay followed by having a man cum in me is still my thing," Aiko explained. "Everything else I like is extra."
She saw from the look on Nora's face that she needed further explanation.
"Linda knew that Stan was not done with me yet because he has a fetish for Asian women that he's never had the opportunity to satisfy. So, she licked my pussy to keep me primed and to make her husband hard again while he watched. She also clearly liked to do it. Yes, she turned me on and I liked it. If she had continued, I would not have stopped her until she probably made me cum. Well, you saw what happened. He took me again. It was fun."
"Yeah, I saw," Nora conceded. "But I was really astonished when you told him not to bother with the condom. Aren't you worried about getting a disease?"
One of the rules of our swinging group is that we can go bareback within our group and with the other group whose members we see once in a while. They have a similar rule. If we step outside of these two groups, we either have to wear a condom or we have to get ourselves tested for a sexually transmitted disease."
"How are they going to know you got tested?' she asked.
They don't. We operate on an honour system. Basically, we trust each other to do the right thing and observe the rules. Anyway, because we went bareback at the club, we called our doctor to arrange for a test."
"Doesn't your doctor wonder why?" Nora asked.
"She used to, but not anymore. After a couple of tests, we decided to be straight with her and told her about our lifestyle."
"How did she react?" Nora wanted to know.
"Surprised at first but she said she's seen a lot weirder. She's pretty liberal. She sloughed off our behaviour as consenting adults with an unusual hobby."
Changing the subject, Aiko asked. "Did you watch Gerald do Linda while she was licking me?"
"Yes." She blushed.
"Did it turn you on?"
"Yes."
"Did watching Stan and me turn you on too?" she asked.
"Yes," she answered with elaborating.
"Tell me more," Aiko urged.
Nora hesitated.
"I've been straight with you," Aiko reminded her. "You owe me the same favour."