"As you know I can't get it up anymore."
"What?"
Bill was sitting with Paul by the pool. They had all breakfasted together. It had been such a glorious morning that Paul had suggested they take breakfast down by the pool. He had prepared it all and brought it out. What Paul had not expected to find was Bill and Ann had dispensed with clothes, indeed had come out of the house just like that. He had felt rather overdressed - in being dressed at all and had returned with the coffee completely naked.
It had been a very pleasant breakfast and Ann had insisted on taking the things back to the house and washing up. Paul had followed her with his eyes. Rather interesting to imagine Ann washing up in just a pair of rubber gloves - and nothing else. He had never thought of that! Paul had been tempted to go and peek. However Bill seemed keen to talk.
"Didn't you see?"
He was referring to his penis.
"Well, no... you were... well, you were in, you know, Ann's mouth when we were in bed last night."
But, as Paul thought back, he recalled Bill had been soft at the swimming pool. Had he not said something about wishing he could do that still when Paul had walked into the pool all hard? Bill had been soft, too, lying on the bed when he had come into their bedroom and then, later, the dripping, ejaculated penis he had so clearly seen, as he engaged with Ann, had been already soft. Leastways that was what he had thought. Was Bill telling him it had not been 'already' soft, so much as never having been hard?
"But you can still come, still ejaculate. I mean I saw..."
"Oh yes, all the feeling and that. I can come in mouth, her hand, I've even come in - well in and around anyway - the proper place though mostly because of her fingers, I just can't really get an erection with Ann any more, leastways sustain it where it matters. Frustrating to me. Very much for her. I mean she likes to be kissed down there and my tongue can be quite rigid but it's not the same."
It was intimate and private talk. Not at all the sort of thing Paul was used to. "I...I suppose not." What could he say?
"She does like... she does so like intercourse with... I mean she was so pleased you could get it up and was just so happy... we are so happy you agreed to come to bed with us."
"I was just... just so happy too."
"It was lovely, Paul. Honestly. I know it must seem strange but I was so pleased to have you there. Unusual, strange, for a man to want another man there with his wife but it was such a relief. I had such a view. I could see everything and had to do nothing - knew I had to do nothing. You were doing it all for me - and doing it very well, old man, if I may say! It's not that Ann does not let me lie back sometimes and she just does things but I always feel I have to perform in some way. It was just so relaxing watching you fondling her knockers, seeing your fingers at work and then your cock coming into play. I didn't have to try and do that. Your cock, so firm, just nosing into her like that; pushing in; and all the time I could feel Ann's reaction - she was loving it - the way she sucked my cock told me. Relaxing for me and yet exciting. I think I was even getting hard - harder anyway - and I could feel her liking that, could feel by her sucking, I... I'm not embarrassing you am I."
"No, no, Bill, not at all. It's something quite else. Not what I'd have expected with Ann not around."
Paul looked down and Bill looked across. Paul had felt it happening as they had talked. He had erected.
"Really? Oh, yes that's the ticket. To put it bluntly, old man, Ann likes a stiff cock and that's a stiff cock! Impressive really, at your age. If I can put it like that. Yep. that's a stiff one! And I do like the snowy hair - Ann says it must be what Father Christmas' prick looks like, you know!"
"She doesn't!"
"She does!"
"Can't you get it up yourself, by hand I mean."
"Not by looking at you!"
"Can you?"
"Yes, sort of, sometimes."
"So, if, say, a couple of young girls came across from next door in skimpy little bikinis and asked if they could have a swim and then afterwards hung the bikinis up to dray and came and sat on our laps and somewhat wriggled as they did so, would that do the trick?"
"Does that happen a lot?"
"No - there aren't any young girls next door but say there were?"
"You know, I'm not sure it would. I think I'd be too worried about getting it up to get it up if you know what I mean. I think I'd prefer watching you with them whilst I hid in the bushes or watched them in their bikinis next door through a gap in the fence or hedge. Perhaps them playing badminton. No pressure you see!"
Paul nodded. He understood.
"On second thoughts, let's ditch the bikinis and keep the badminton! You sure, Paul, there are no girls playing naked badminton next door?"
"Quite sure!"
"Pity. It would be a sight, wouldn't it? Lots of bouncing flesh and stretching as they raced around. Very athletic! Shall we have one a redhead and the other really dark?"
They laughed but Bill had been wanking and Paul was pleased to see his friend was displaying some firmness. He touched and moved himself not that he needed the stimulation. He was as hard as anything. Talking of Ann and then the imaginary badminton had been quite enough. But it seemed sort of appropriate, given what Bill was doing, to be doing the same.
They sat companionably wanking in silence but then Paul said, "I think I'd better go for a swim. It really would not do for Ann to come back and see..."
"You look fine Paul. Ann likes seeing you like that. I'm sure she'll be happy to... and I'll be happy to watch. Really I will. Nice in the sunshine, when she comes back."
It made Paul feel a little uncomfortable. He stood but that did not really help. Standing so erect in front of the seated and not terribly firm Bill did not feel at all right. It would be so much better if they were both standing proudly erect waiting together for Ann to come back (or the badminton girls to arrive!). That was one reason he felt uncomfortable. He did not like his friend not being up to it. The other reason was the way Bill was so ready, so happy, to let him take his place. Paul was more than happy, deliriously happy, to be having sex with Ann but he would so much prefer it if he was just joining in, following on from Bill, rather than in some way replacing him. That did not feel right.
"No," said Paul, "not now, I think."
"Pity to waste that." Bill pointed with his finger right at Paul's erection. "Quite a sight looming over me. Ann would like to see you looming! But you will join us in bed tonight?"
"Oh, well, yes - yes please, if Ann wants. You know I'd love to!"
The prospect of intercourse with Ann, despite his misgivings about Bill, were such pleasant thoughts. Pleasant enough, indeed, kept him hard as he walked back up alongside his pool before stepping down into the water. Funny to be walking like that. Funny to know Bill was watching him. The cool water, of course, did the trick.
A lovely day was spent again. This time at a local zoo. Paul had planned Bill and Ann's visit and ensured there was plenty to do. He wanted it to be a visit they would remember. There was, of course, no question that he was not going to remember it!
The prospect of joining them in bed was not mentioned. Not an allusion to it all day after Bill's suggestion by the pool. Perhaps it was assumed. Certainly as they went upstairs Ann had simply said, "Join us when you're ready."
It was the most perfect of invitations, so easy, so comfortable, so natural in a way. Paul was very happy to join them - though it was the prospect of 'joining' with Ann that pleased him most. He assumed clothes were not required: and, of course they were not!
He knocked and entered. His friends were already in bed, nicely tucked up but a little over to one side, with the covers pulled back on the other side of the big bed. It was obvious he was meant to get in and join them. Somehow, rather bizarrely, that seemed to him even more an intrusion into marital oneness. To be getting into bed with the couple as such, rather than simply joining them in sexual acts on top of a bed or in a railway compartment, for that matter. He hesitated but Ann patted the bed. It was most certainly an invitation to join them and he was conscious of how Bill had said he wanted him there with Ann to help out. It made it feel better. He got in next to Ann.
"Well," said Ann, "here we are. Turn the lights out would you?"
Paul and Bill reached for the bedside lights and the room was plunged into darkness.
Nice to talk for a bit but even nicer, after a time, to feel fingers moving over his naked skin under the bedclothes. Fingers on his thighs, on his tummy and then encircling and grasping his by now erect penis. The feel of moving fingers touching his skin had been quite enough to send the blood rushing into it. Just so lovely lying there and talking with Bill and Ann as she gently moved his foreskin up and down. No doubt she was doing the same to Bill. An erection in each hand.
Paul could have stayed like that forever - or at least until he came! But he began to wonder if it was expected that he should return the favour and let his fingers wander across Ann's body, very likely to meet with Bill's fingers. Perhaps they might shake hands - possibly even a wet handshake between Ann's legs.