It was a textbook case defining 'hollow victory', and it started out innocently enough, as one of those innocuous post-coital conversations lovers often have in that time when their bodies still tingle with mutually achieved orgasms and before they either start fucking again or fall asleep. Beth and Charlie lay in her dorm room bed together, breathing heavily after a bit of carnal acrobatics (having fucked in three different positions within the past ten minutes alone, resulting in three orgasms for her and two for him) and Beth asked if they could dim the lights.
"You know I don't like bright lights," she said. "The room was nice and dark when you came in, and you had to turn every fucking light on you could find." She laughed as he reached to turn off the nightstand lamp beside the bed. A token gesture, the loss of that particular lamp wouldn't darken the room but only diminish the glare.
"I wanted to make sure I got the right person," he said. "Think how we'd feel if you walked into a dark room and found me in bed with Cissy by mistake."
Beth laughed again. "Oh," she said, "I think you'd know the difference between me and my roommate, even in the dark."
Charlie made like he wasn't convinced. "You never know," he said. "You two are built almost the same."
"Bullshit," Beth said. "No offense to her, but I'm far prettier."
"And so you are, but in the dark I wouldn't be able to see that, I'd have to go by feel."
"And you don't think you'd be able to 'feel' the difference?"
"Maybe, maybe not," he said
"Well, let's assume for the sake of argument that she and I have the same basic body shape, the same boobs, nipples, ass, everything, and we don't, I've seen her naked, trust me, you'd know. Assuming all that, you don't think you'd know you had the wrong person once you got inside?"
Charlie had too much trouble getting over the fact that Beth had seen Cissy naked to compose a rational answer. It had probably happened while Cissy was getting changed, but he instantly had visions of the two girls frolicking in bed, giggling, licking each other's cunts, fingering assholes... With his brain thus occupied his other head made the decision for him, and he unwisely said, "There least of all."
She punched his arm, hard. "You pig!" she denounced him playfully. "I'd know you in the dark." It was as confident a statement as any she'd ever made.
He was slightly pissed she had ruined his fantasy. "You think so?" he said, challenging.
She detected trouble ahead but pride carried her forward anyway. "Of course," she said assertively.
"If you walked into a room, totally dark, you'd be able to tell me from another guy?"
"In an instant."
"I'm not talking about our whole bodies," he said, getting into the conversation now, and rising up on one elbow. "Just our cocks."
She started to protest and he cut her off. "You said I'd be able to know if it was you or not by the feel of your pussy, so you're saying you'd be able to tell the difference between me and any other guy strictly by the feel of our cocks?"
She thought a brief second, then said, "Of course."
"Now, that's bullshit!"
And that's the way things like this get started.