"How was your date with that guy from the trail?" Erica asked her best friend Sandi. They had been out walking the previous week and had encountered a man running through the nature preserve. He'd broken a shoelace and it happened that Sandi had a spare in her purse and had given it to him. The man, whose name Erica could not recall, was tall - and 'extremely worthy', as she had whispered to Sandi after he'd continued on his run. Part of it was surely that he was shirtless and sweaty, but his body was toned, he was very handsome, and quite personable. 'I know,' Sandi had said with a grin, 'we're meeting for drinks on Friday.'
Now Sandi shrugged.
"Fine," she said. "He's nice enough. But we really have nothing in common."
"Will there be a second date?"
Sandi shook her head.
"It's a shame, too. Because..."
She leaned toward Erica and looked around conspiratorially, "...I really need sex. It's been like four months."
Now Erica leaned in with a grin and whispered, "Then why don't you fuck him?"
Sandi laughed and shook her head.
"You prude," Erica said with mock disdain.
"I am not a prude! I just... he wasn't pushing my buttons."
"You didn't let him anywhere near your buttons."
Sandi shrugged.
"He was into me, though," she said with grin.
"I'll bet he was," her friend replied.
The conversation wandered for a time. Then Erica steered it back toward Sandi's sexual deprivations.
"Your last was Roger, I take it?"
Sandi nodded.
"And how many is that? How many guys have you fucked so far?"
"Erica!"
But the other woman wasn't going to be brushed off.
"Four," Sandi replied after a time.
"Four," Erica repeated, shaking her head. "And you're twenty-four years old?"
"Not enough?" Sandi asked, rolling her eyes.
Erica looked at her.
"I've had eight. And that's despite the fact that I've been with Jacob since we were sophomores."
Erica and Jacob lived together.
"Damn. You were with seven men before Jacob?"
"Six. Once since."
"Oh my God, Erica!"
Her friend waved her off.
"It wasn't cheating," she replied, "because Jacob knew. And approved."
Sandi was just staring, her mouth open. Erica could see the smile nonetheless.
"Who?"
"Now that I'll never tell."
She took a sip of coffee, then looked seriously at Sandi.
"Let me ask you something."
Sandi gave her that 'go on' look.
"Do you find Jacob to be 'worthy'?"
"Erica, I-"
"I wouldn't ask were I going to be bothered by however you answered."
Sandi was non-committal for a moment.
"Yes," she finally said. "Very."
Erica grinned.
"You know, not long ago I asked Jacob to name my three most fuckable friends. Guess who came in first?"
"Who?" Sandi asked credulously.
"You!" Erica yelled, giving her friend an affectionate rap on the arm.
"Really?"
Sandi was genuinely surprised. Erica was truly a beauty. Tall, blonde, long-legged. And she was always smiling, appearing a pleasant flirt even without trying.
Erica gave her a dismissive you're-being-ridiculous look. Sandi said nothing for a time. Then she looked up at her friend.
"You've got, what, four inches on me. I've got at least ten pounds on you. And you've got that smile."
"Oh, I've got it going on!" Erica exclaimed, but Sandi knew she didn't take herself so seriously.
"But do you know what I don't have? Your boobs."
This was true. Sandi sometimes envied Erica's perky breasts, but she did like her substantially larger tits. And so did men.
"And you know what Jacob likes? Your ass."
Sandi blushed. They'd compared asses before. Erica's was smaller. Compact. Sandi's had curves. Too much, she often thought. Conversely, Erica had told her that it was about perfect.
"Who knows? I owe Jacob one. Maybe I'll let you fuck him sometime."
Sandi laughed nervously. Erica could certainly say outrageous things.
A week later they were out shopping. Sandi was trying on some jeans. She came out of the dressing room so Erica could offer her opinion.
"Not tight enough."
Sandi frowned, but she put the jeans back and got another pair. Eventually she found a pair that satisfied Erica. They looked good, Sandi thought, but they seemed awful snug.
"Trust me," Erica said.
Sandi did.
After, they went to the apartment Erica shared with Jacob. At her friend's urging, Sandi changed into the jeans. They were talking at the kitchen table when Erica suddenly looked into the corner by the sink.
"What on earth is that?"
Sandi looked at her questioningly.
"There, see it?" she said, pointing.
The other girl got up and bent over, peering futilely.
"Now is that an ass or what?" she heard Erica say, and turned to look at her. There was Jacob standing in the doorway. Sandi's eyes locked with his for an embarrassing moment.
He nodded approvingly, then agreed that it certainly was. Sandi flushed. Jacob was just back from work. He excused himself and went to change out of his work clothes. Erica leaned over to Sandi and whispered to her friend.
"I guarantee you his dick is hard now."
Sandi put her hand up to her mouth, her eyes wide with both surprise and mirth. Her face was warm, and she hoped Jacob wouldn't return until she was able to comport herself. Because suddenly, Sandi felt herself becoming slightly wet.
That Saturday they were out for drinks in the afternoon. Jacob was golfing with friends, and the girls were soaking in the beautiful summer day under umbrellas at a downtown establishment.
Erica took a sip of her Mai Tai, then looked at her friend.
"So, do you want to have sex with my boyfriend?"
Taken aback, it took her a moment to begin a reply.
"Erica, I-"
"It's both a question and an offer. Do you?"
Now Sandi was really surprised.
"I don't know what to say."
"How about 'yes'? There's only one condition."
Sandi waited.
"I get to watch."
"My God, Erica!" Sandi said, laughing. "You really want to see me and Jacob together?"
"I don't want to 'see you two together'," Erica said with a roll of her eyes, "I want to see you spread your legs for him and I want to see him slide his dick into your pussy."
Out of the corner of her eyes, Sandi thought she saw another patron at a nearby table glance over. Erica paid no attention, looking intently back at her friend.
"I want to watch the two of you fuck."
It was not that Sandi wouldn't have liked to have sex with Jacob. She liked him, he clearly liked her, and a pleasant vibe existed between the two of them. The mere idea, shared out loud with her best friend and Jacob's girlfriend, was certainly turning her on. Sandi looked at Erica.
"You're actually serious?"
Erica smiled brightly and nodded.
The idea of sex with Jacob was one thing. How it might play out was another.
"You said you were with someone else. I mean, since you and Jacob... and he knows about it?"
"Two someones," Erica corrected.
"You said-"
"I said I've been with another guy. I fucked Stephen, one of Jacob's closest and oldest friends since like childhood. Jacob suggested it. Set it up. And after, I told him all about it."
Sandi looked at her friend, not understanding.
"The other was a girl," Erica said with a smile.
Sandi put her hand to her face. She was incredulous.
Who?"
"There was this girl I met in that seminar in Atlanta last year."