Sandy and I arrived back at the apartment long before dawn. The festivities at Eros had turned out to be somewhat of a disappointment.
We all had a tour and an orientation but it turned out that the guests couldnât really participate until a background check and blood tests had been done. As the girl giving the tour had explained somewhat apologetically, "âWhen an organization is involved in providing services like ours liability is a major concern, we have to insist anyone coming to the gatherings isnât positive for STDs or wanted by the police.â
We nodded our understanding but our disappointment was obvious.
Susan and Amy had way too much to drink so we had returned them home along with Rick who promised to put them to bed. After dismissing the limousine and driver, Sandy and I returned to the apartment for a nightcap. I guess morning cap would have a more accurate term because it was long past midnight when we got there. We had decided to do a sauna and a soak in the hot tub before retiring for the night.
Inside the apartment it was dark and quiet. Grettaâs door was closed and I went into the kitchen to put a snack tray and drinks together.
When I returned to the living room, Sandy was sitting on the couch looking very fetching indeed.
âWhy did Gretta leave so suddenlyâ I wondered out loud.
âNo mystery there, she had a hot date.â
Gretta?â
âYeah, with some guy she works withâŠTommy or Billy or something. I doubt sheâs even hereâŠif it worked out.â
We both heard Grettaâs door open and then the bathroom door shut.
Sandy shot me a wry glance, âWell I guess it didnât work out all that great.â
Sandy stood up. I looked up at her. âWhatâs up?â
âShhhh, Gretta just went to the bathroomâŠâ
âSo what?â
âLetâs see what sheâs been doing all night.â
âSandyâ I began.
âCome onâŠdonât be a homo!â
I let myself be dragged down the hall and into the open door of Grettaâs room.
Sandy stopped grabbed my hand and pulled me inside. âI just want to see something.â Grettaâs bed was unmade but the blanket had been pulled up. Sandy quickly walked to her bed and pulled the blanket down. âJust as I thoughtâ she murmured.
Spread across the sheet were several of our stroke magazines and a small vibrator. As quickly as she had pulled the blanket down, she replaced it and ran back to the door. âCome on!â she hissed, letâs not wait for GrettaâŠâ
There was no sign of Gretta in the hall and we returned to the living room. Looking at Sandy I whispered, âWhat the hell was all that about?â
The door to the bathroom opened and we heard Gretta returning to her room.
âSandyâŠ?â
âDid you see the titles of all those magazines?â Sandy whispered.
âNo, you only had the blanked pulled down for a second.â
âLetâs seeâ Sandy said, ticking the titles off on the fingers of her hand, âFamily Love, Taboo Stories, Brotherâs and SisterâsâŠare you seeing a pattern here?â
A slow flush colored my face as I muttered, âGrettaâs beenâŠâ
Sandy completed my sentence for me, âImagining what we were doing at the clubâŠand imagining what she wishes she had the courage toâŠdo with us.â
âYou think?â I said rather doubtfully.
âDoes the Pope wear a pointed hat?â
âI donât knowâŠfantasy and real life are sometimes pretty far apart.â
Sandy snickered, âBoy are you an easy mark, not only has she spent the night imagining this stuff, but sheâs obviously put some pretty serious mileage on that little vibrator of hers.â
âAnd how would you know that?â
âI guess you didnât see the old batteries in her trash can along with the plastic wrappers for a new set?â
âI must confess youâre to quick for most normal people, I didnât see any of that.â
âItâs a good thing youâre a writer, Youâll never make it as a detective.â
âSo whatâs the point?â
âNothing except, Iâm not buying off on that little miss modesty act of hers, sheâsâŠready for a new experience.â
âAnd you propose we give it to her?â
âWell, I wanted it to be a surprise, but do you remember last week when you were out of town and I slept over here for a couple of nights?â
âYeah?â
âWellâŠI did a little home improvement I think youâll appreciate.â
âHome improvement?â
âNever mind, itâs technicalâŠand youâll see what Iâm talking about later.â
âSandyâ I said, mustering my most piercing glower, âWhat are you up to?â
She looked at me, the very picture of innocence and replied, âYou could screw up a wet dream.â
âI just want to know what kind of sick perverted scheme youâve been working on.â
âDo you trust me?â
âOf course.â
Then wait and see.â
I kissed Sandy on the cheek saying, âYou, my dear, are a serious pervert.â
âYou still have no idea.â
âI donât?â
âNope, but youâre about to find out. Say, where do you keep the really big towels?â
I grabbed a couple from the closet and we both stripped off our evening clothes and wrapped up in enormous terrycloth towels.
âLetâs sauna!â Sandy said and walked out the door.
Five minutes later we were wrapped in towels sitting in stifling heat on the wooden benches of the sauna.
The intense heat made conversation difficult. We mostly sat in silence as sweat streamed down our respective faces until Sandy, obviously having had enough of the stifling heat got up off her bench. Looking over her shoulder, she asked, âYou coming?â
In the case of our hot tub, lukewarm tub might be a more accurate description. While it may be relaxing to soak in a tub of nearly boiling water, I liked long soaks.
We soaked for a few minutes and then I asked Sandy, âWhat was that little box that Amy gave you just before we left?â
âAh, that.â Sandy murmured.
âYeah that, what was it?â
âIt was an audio tape Amy wanted us to listen toâŠdo you want to hear it?â
âI donât know, whatâs it about?â
âIâm not positive, but Amy said we should listen to it naked in bed.â
I got out of the water and reached for a towel, âWhatâre we waiting for?â
Sandy followed suit saying, âI think weâll both enjoy this, just a couple of thingsâŠâ
âAnd those are?â I said drying myself vigorously. âI want you to take those sexually enhancing pills before we go in to listenâŠâ
âAndâŠ?â
âNo jacking off or cumming while weâre listeningâŠIâd like to try for a worlds record when you finallyâŠget relief.â
âFair enoughâŠbut what are you really up to?â
âI guess youâll find out soon enough.â
Five minutes later we were both under the covers naked listening to the hiss of audio tape playing quietly from the speakers of the stereo in my room. Amyâs voice began speaking as we listened in the semi-darkened room.
âI was raised in a really conservative family. No one ever talked about sex and by the time we all were in high school, I think we were really all in crisis mode.â
âWe all lived out of town on a farm, so in addition to being jammed in with my sisters and brothers we were all fairly isolated.â
âI slept in a bunk bed. My younger sister slept on top and my older sister Lisa slept on a couch bed across the room. Our two brothers slept across the hall.
âEven living in that close a quarters we were extremely modest. We dressed and undressed in the bathroom down the hall and we girls always wore pajamas to bed. The boys were the same way.â
âWhen we got into high school, it got pretty uncomfortable around there. I mean what do you do when youâre horny about twenty four hours a day and you donât know what to do about itâŠor have anyone you can talk to about it?â
âAnywayâŠour parents decided to take a cruise for their twentieth wedding anniversary. They didnât want to leave us aloneâŠso they called up my aunt and uncle and had our cousins Rebecca and Stewart watch us for the two weeks they were planning on being gone.â
âI remember being really pissed because Rebecca was only a year older than I was, but because sheâd graduated a year early she was going to start college in the fall. Her brother Stewart was a couple of years older than that, about Lisaâs age. If Lisa hadnât been off working at a summer camp Iâm sure our parents would have had her watch us and none of this might have happenedâ
âAnywayâŠRebecca and Stewart came to stay for a couple of weeks and mom and dad went off on their cruise. It was the middle of summer so we were all bored to death. One hot afternoon my twin brother and I decided to go down to the pond for a swim. My sister saw us getting ready and asked to come along. I said, âsureâ and we got into our swimming suits and off we went.â
âWe had just come up over the rise where the pond was when we heard low voices from the woods ringing the pond. Wondering if the boys had decided to take a swim also, Heather and I stopped and listened. I could hear Rebecca and Stewart talking.â