Annie and I taught at the same high school. She was history and social studies, I was literature and creative writing. We started working there the same year. We met, flirted, had dinner, fucked, fucked several more times, and fell in love. Then we got married.
I could hardly believe how Fortune had smiled on me. How had I ended up with such a smart, quirky, beautiful woman? Her skin was bronzy brown, kinky locks popped from her head. Owing to a mixed heritage, her eyes were a tawny green. She was a creative lover, big into fantasizing. During sex she would enthusiastically tell me what she wanted to do with some of the male students, and she encouraged me to do the same about the girls. I described fantasies that would make Caligula blush. It really worked her up.
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One Friday night on a fine June evening, five years after we met, we were out at our regular neighborhood bar. The windows were open, letting in the mild air. The place had lots of warmly lit nooks, and there were no televisions. The bartenders' playlists tended toward alternative, shoegaze, and jazz at reasonable volumes. You could actually have a conversation with nice background music. And it was only a couple blocks from our apartment building, so it was a lovely setup for us.
That evening Annie came back from a bathroom trip with a younger man in tow. It was Patrick...Patrick
something
. He had graduated three years before, at the end of our second year of teaching. I remembered him being a good student--attentive, interested, and always prepared. I also remember him being a regular subject of Annie's foreplay fantasies, and no wonder: the boy was attractive, well built, and charming. Many times while I was frigging her or going down, she'd pick him out, saying, "Mmmm, have you seen that stud, Patrick Olsen? Those jeans he wears? His junk is always bunched over to one side--his balls and dong must be soooo big! I want you to watch him straddle me, me on my back, him rubbing his fat white cock across my nose and cheeks as I strain to get it in my mouth. And then, after I've sucked him off to a climax, you lick his jizz off my face! Ohhh, fuck! God! Uunhhhh!" And so on and so on.
"Dan, you remember Patrick?"
I was a little dazed, still picturing him slapping his junk on my wife's face. "Of course! It's good to see you, Patrick." I gestured to a chair.
We talked for a while. Patrick told us about college. He was studying law, working a couple of jobs, trying to have a social life when he could. He was full of energy and optimism. Annie was flirtatious with him, which both excited and embarrassed him. This went on for a long while. We talked about movies and books, had a few more rounds of drinks, and Annie kept making suggestive comments. Sometimes he would glance at me when she did that, but I would only smile. Annie liked her games. Who was I to deny her her fun?
While he was talking about how much he enjoyed having us as teachers, Annie asked, "What did you think of us?"
He frowned a moment in confusion then got it. "Oh, you mean as people! Yeah, you both have really good personalities. Pretty much every student loved the 'sexy teacher couple'."
His breath caught as he realized he had air-quoted that last bit. Annie and I looked at each other and grinned. She leaned toward him with feigned innocence. "Are you saying that's what the students called us? Dan and I were the 'sexy teacher couple'?"
"Crap." He took a deep breath and said, "Yeah, that was how a lot of us referred to you."
Annie laughed delightedly. "Are you serious? Why?"
Patrick looked confused again. "Well, look at you two! Mr. Krause--uh, Dan--is a handsome guy and he's in great shape and you...well, you're just gorgeous. I'll bet you were the subject of a lot of jerk-off fantasies." He drew a sharp breath, realizing that may have been too far over the line.
Nuh-uh, not with Annie.
She leaned in again with a sultry smile on her lips. "Did that include you, Patrick?"
He swallowed hard. "Uhh..."
"Because it's a two-way street, you know. Teachers aren't immune to beauty." She feathered her fingers on his. "I noticed you too: smart, good-looking, strong, and sexy as fuck."
"Jesus."
"I used to fold you into fantasizing when Dan and I were having sex."
"S--seriously?"
Annie said nothing. She sat back and picked up her drink. He looked at me, and I nodded. I gave the poor guy a wink to let him know that wasn't a problem for me.
He took a gulp from his beer, then, when he glanced at his watch, Annie suddenly said, "Are you up for a party? The three of us?" I should have seen that coming, but I still gaped at her. She and I had often talked about having a threesome, but never followed through. Here was our opening, I guess.
I think Patrick knew what she meant, but he played it carefully. "Do you mean, like, a nightcap?"
Annie finished her daiquiri and looked up at him from under her long, lovely lashes. "Sure," she said.
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Partly drunk, we arrived at our apartment building and went up to the fourth floor....That was not our floor, so we took the stairs up to the fifth. Patrick and I were escorting Annie toward our apartment, our arms under hers.
"Goddammit!" said Annie, "Why are there two numbers in a row...with, uh, an "F" at the beginning?" She turned to me and said, "Tell Henderson to fix math!" Henderson was one of the math teachers.
Patrick looked at me over Annie's bowed head and said, softly, "I don't think she needs a nightcap." I only smiled in response.
Once we were through the door, Annie suddenly straightened up and walked smoothly into the kitchen. A few seconds later she came back out with two glasses of water. She handed one to each of us and said, "Are we gonna do this?"
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