Recap
In ACT 1 Sally returned home for Thanksgiving. She and her parents had dinner with Kyle and his family. Then she stayed with Kyle for the night, breaking off their sexual activity the next morning because they had "things to do."
Entr'acte
"Things to do" was lunch with Sally's friend, Sarah, and her parents. Sarah's boyfriend of the moment, Neal, was also present.
"Remind me of why we are doing this." Kyle said in the car.
It wasn't really a reminder since Sally had told him very little about it. "Jerry Malone is the one who's lending us the use of his downtown apartment for the weekend. We are meeting to pick up the keys."
"And you know Jerry because ...?"
"His daughter, Sarah, is my best friend."
"He doesn't need his apartment? He's going away for the weekend?"
"I guess I haven't gone into that. It's not his home. It's ... Well, it's a place he uses to meet with women."
"I see ..." Kyle's tone expressed some displeasure. "And how did you get him to let us use it?" Kyle knew Sally went out with other guys and had a strong suspicion about the answer.
"I asked him," was the less than complete answer.
"How'd you even know about it?"
Sally knew she needed to admit the details. "Kyle. you know I've had sex with other guys." Kyle nodded slightly as she continued, "He took me there and I could only think of you being there with me. It's really a nice place."
"I guess I'd never thought that 'other guys' included your best friend's father."
"Kyle, I don't really think you want a discussion of my sex life. Especially since much of that is over. I really am not attracted to guys other than you. But, if you ask I'll give you as much detail as you want."
Kyle considered, it was enticing but also repelling, "maybe some other time. But I am curious about why you had sex with him?"
Sally gave a slight laugh, "I don't know what might come out at lunch but Sarah's family is far from conventional."
"Oh?"
"Her parents are swingers. They go to parties where everyone has sex with others. Sarah, herself, is very sexually active and manged to get her parents to take her to one of the parties. She invited me to come along."
Kyle worked to overcome the initial shock. "You went to a party where guys had sex with you?"
"Kyle, I've been to several parties like that." She kissed him in reassurance. "Anyway, Sarah's father took a shine to me. And, honestly, he
is
a great fuck."
Kyle wasn't used to that kind of talk from Sally, "A 'great' fuck?"
"Kyle, sweet, if you want me to talk about sex with other guys I'm going to talk about sex with other guys. Don't be shocked. You want to know about how big Jerry Malone's cock is?"
"I don't need that much detail."
"Okay," Sally laughed, "It's a big one, big balls too."
Act 2, Scene 1
When they arrived at the restaurant for lunch Kyle had a strong feeling that he'd met Marlene and Sarah before. He said nothing, nor did they, though Marlene had a similar feeling when she saw him.
The lunch went well. Kyle and Jerry hit it off though the conversation had Kyle constantly thinking that Jerry was feeling him out about "swinging" with him and Sally. Jerry expressed an interest in Kyle's small sporting goods chain saying that his consulting and advertising firm would be glad to help expand. Kyle told him he didn't feel he could keep the quality up unless he could be in the stores once or twice a week, "This is the first black Friday I haven't been in one of the stores. Frankly I'm a bit nervous about it."
"It's good to show you have confidence in your store management," Jerry told him. "You can't be in every store anyway."
Kyle agreed. "When I do go to one on Black Friday, the other two are on their own, but I'm a phone call and a half hour trip across town away. I've left word that I'm not to be disturbed today, even if the place burns down. The fire department will do more than I can." He smiled at Sally and she gave him a loving nudge.
Jerry then made a comment about Sally being "worth it" but nothing was ever explicitly said about Jerry and Sally having sex, though Kyle detected an undercurrent of desire in Jerry's manner toward the younger woman. When Kyle expressed gratitude for allowing them to use the apartment, Jerry had simply said, "Any friend of Sarah's is a friend of ours." and had stated that the apartment was for business associates from out of town and that the apartment was free for the weekend because, "No business partners are interested in traveling over Thanksgiving."
When dinner was over, Jerry offered the key to the apartment to Kyle but Kyle deferred to Sally, "You made the offer to her. She should be in charge of the keys."
Jerry and Marlene left but Sarah stayed behind to talk to Sally, "I've always wanted to see Dad's trysting place."
Kyle was a bit surprised, "You know he uses it to meet with other women?"
"Of course, mom knows too. They are quite open about it. I guess it's a tax dodge to pretend it's for business. Maybe some out of town guys do use it. Mom fucks guys at work, I do too. Mom has this thing with the owner and uses the relationship to help the rest of us girls."
"
AT
work?" Kyle asked with surprise.
Neal had been quiet for most of the dinner but spoke up. "Sure, Sarah's a stripper," Neal said it with pride. "At Pete's up north."
"Neal you're so sweet," Sarah said and explained, "Neal thinks it's a badge of honor to be dating a stripper. even though most of the strippers are dating drug dealers, alcoholics and other, often abusive, low lifes. I'm proud to say I've got a guy with a future."
The mention of "Pete's", brought sudden recognition to Karl. The image of the stage with a voluptuous body and it's movements to the music zipped through his mind. There was no doubt about the face that belonged to the body.
Sarah saw his look of recognition and realized where she'd seen him before. Without missing a beat she said, very sweetly, "Of course you know I'm a stripper, don't you Kyle?"
Sally had a moment of confusion.
Sarah noticed her expression and said, "You want to tell her?" Kyle sat unable to talk, so Sarah told her friend, "Kyle here comes by the club once or twice a week. Sits in a 'cheap seat' for maybe an hour each time."
"Cheap seat?" Kyle asked.
"Yeah away from the stage so you don't feel obliged to tip. But I think once you came up and dropped me a five."
Sally laughed and said simply, "Kyle?" with feigned surprise.
"Yeah," he admitted, "one of the stores is near there and I stop by sometimes after a visit. Are you disappointed?"
"God no, Kyle, you're a guy. Guys like naked women. Don't you think I know that?" She squeezed his thigh, her hand brushing his balls.
Kyle was sure he'd seen another face and equally voluptuous body, "And your mom?"
"Yes, she dances there too. You don't remember?"
"Now I do, I thought there was something familiar about the two of you."
Act 2, Scene 2
Sally unlocked the door and they all entered the apartment. There was the gaming table, small kitchen with a small dinette just as Sally remembered. There was the door to the bedroom but there was a door on the other side that Sally hadn't noticed. As the rest of them looked at the kitchen and furnishings she went through that door, "Hey guys, look at this."
"This" was a fully equipped media room with a huge flat screen on one wall and a half dozen plush swivel chairs, each with a remote. Below the screen was a complete theater system and along the side wall was a library with a variety of media, CD's, DVD's, cassettes.
"Look, VHS, and
eight tracks
," Kyle laughed.
"And vinyl," Neal said pulling open a drawer beneath the shelves.
Sally pointed at two black boxes, "hard drives, digital too."