Chapter 4: ANAL
This is the fourth chapter in this series, and although it is a stand-alone story that can be enjoyed on its own, you may want to read Chapters 1 to 3 first, as it gives context to the somewhat peculiar carnal relationship that will continue to unfold.
Given the weekend's very satisfactory (and satisfying) exchange of cunnilingus and fellatio, I decided that I should not let things go cold, and that it was time for the next step. Before our previous liaison ended (see Chapter 2), I would often put a finger up Anita' ass while she was riding me astride. She never complained or resisted this, and in fact seemed to quite enjoy it, but given her resistance to giving or receiving head, I never thought to go all the way to proper anal sex, and from experience with previous girlfriends, I realised that this would be a big hurdle to get over.
Now, with her unconditional "Yes"-promise, I thought that it should be a natural progression of this new phase of our friends with benefits relationship. Even so, I was concerned that it could be too much too soon, and kept putting off the suggestion.
I celebrated my twenty-ninth birthday on the Wednesday after the weekend, but apart from a few drinks after work with colleagues, I did not have anything planned. I did not think that Anita knew when my birthday was, and did not plan to tell her, because I wanted our relationship to be purely platonic, although sexual, and did not want to risk any emotions creeping into this. I'm not anti-birthday as such, but twenty-nine really did not mean much to me, and I was quite happy to let it glide by, at least as far as Anita was concerned.
However, I had forgotten about Anita's friendship with my tattle-tale sister Amy (see Chapter 1). When I came into the office after lunch on Wednesday to find a bunch of assorted flowers on my secretary's desk, I teased Tania by saying "Aah, new boyfriend?" as I walked past, but she surprised me by telling me, "No, these are for you!" There was a little plastic fork in the middle of the flowers with a plain white cardboard that read: "Happy Twenty-ninth, Brian! Can't wait for the next yes. Yours, YFWB". This was Tania's turn to tease and ask who "A" is, and whether "YFWB" meant what she thought it did. I played dumb, as I really did not want this relationship with Anita become public knowledge. Although we live in a big city, the legal fraternity is quite small, and the story of the stunner that I have been seen with has already made its rounds amongst my ever-gossiping colleagues.
I took the flowers into my office, and sat at my desk, in turn looking at the flowers and re-reading the card. I've never received flowers from a girl in my life, and have never heard of any woman giving a man flowers. This girl was clearly cut from a different cloth, but she obviously tried to do something out of the ordinary whilst respecting the borders we had both agreed to. Had she given me a bunch of red roses or carnations, I may have been disturbed because that could have signaled the forbidden L-word, but a bunch of assorted flowers is just a nice (if unusual) gift between two friends with benefits. The card was clear however: she was looking forward to the next yes, and it was up to me to ask.
By Thursday morning, I made up my mind. I decided to go for blow, and sent a text to Anita, this time not as formal and legalistic as my previous note (I thought a personal touch might be more appropriate, given the next level of intimacy I had in mind): "Hi, thanks for the flowers! I look forward to the next yes too. I know you have a free weekend. Friday night is anal night. Be ready. See you at 7; same place, same time. We can order pizza after. YFWB".
I did not receive the same "Yes" text as before, and was a little anxious - had I gone too far now, and has the pony bolted in fright? Even so, I was quietly confident that things may come together. During lunchtime on Friday, I went to a pharmacy, and bought an enema because I knew from my healthy interest in pornography that anal could be messy if the girl was not properly cleaned. Fortunately, the pharmacist is a friend of mine, and when I told him why I needed the syringe, he gave me sound advice - three rinses should be enough, and a teaspoon of unscented coconut oil in the water will help with lubrication as well.
I was a little worried that the rinsing procedure before actual anal sex might put Anita off the whole thing, but with my analytic legal mind, I made a list of pros: 1) she seemed to like a finger in her butt before, 2) she gave me an unconditional promise of "Yes", not only when she wanted to come back to me, but again on my birthday card, and 3) she knew what is coming, and if she's at my apartment, it will be one small step ...
I took a shower and changed my clothes before leaving work, and drove home with a good dose of anticipation, mixed with a little trepidation. I arrived just after seven, only to find my apartment engulfed in darkness. "Shit" I thought, "she's gotten cold feet". I switched on the passage light and put my car keys in the crystal ice bucket on the hallway table. There was a little white card in the bottom of the bucket that simply read "
Bedroom