Back home that night, Harry and I hardly exchanged a word. When we got back to our bedroom, we embraced for a long time and whispered sweet words to each other. I felt very tender towards Harry and held him tight for the loving husband he had been. Harry kissed me in the ears and smelled my neck and kept repeating, "I love you so much, my handsome wife."
The morning after, we woke up smiling even more broadly. No feelings of guilt or remorse. On the contrary, we both felt proud and satisfied with what we had done. We were both basking in the warm glow of pure truth and savoring the sweet taste of full freedom. Carol came by around 9:30 in the morning to check on us and brought us a fresh pot of strong coffee and crispy warm croissants (she knew Harry loved croissants). Later in the morning, Paul also came by with pink roses and sat with us for a few minutes to make sure that we were feeling alright.
"You never know how people feel the morning after," he said, holding both of our hands and looking at us square in the face with his intelligent eyes.
In the afternoon, Stephen dropped by to deliver a copy of the DVD he had recorded. We had both forgotten that Stephen had indeed recorded the whole session and so were delighted when he handed the DVD to us, saying, a large grin on his broad face, "enjoy it, it is very revealing."
And indeed it was. Stephen was a masterful videographer and knew how to frame what he was capturing. Instead of showing unimaginative biological close-ups of penises in vaginas and asses, he made sure to keep his shots wide to maintain context and to always keep the faces of the people fully in view. The quality of the sound was also astounding so that we could hear every word that Harry, Paul, or I said during our long session.
That afternoon, Harry spent it masturbating loudly as he watched the three-hour long DVD of Paul mercilessly making love to me, then to him, and then Harry penetrating Paul. He paused the DVD at several points and brought me over to point something particular out to me.
"Look at the expression on your face, Pat, and look at mine," he said at one point, pausing at a scene were Paul and I had locked eyes while Paul slowly and gently lifted my legs over his shoulders, preparing to enter me, and where Harry was looking straight at me, smiling warmly, almost proudly, and holding my hand in his hand.
"Look at the love in my eyes and look at how you and Paul are looking at each other, like animals." At which point, he spit loudly on his hand, closed his eyes, pumped his penis, and said in formal Chinese, "A woman will give all of her attention to the man who is penetrating her, you can rest assured." And then he ejaculated quietly, almost privately, biting his lower lip, his nostrils expanded, while shaking his head, as if saying, "You just can't change the ways of a woman -- it's her nature."
By evening, Harry had ejaculated four times and was exhausted, but kept playing the DVD, as if obsessed. He especially loved the scenes where he was screwing Paul and was astounded by the wild expression on his face and the forcefulness with which he penetrated Paul.
"This is very educational," he said several times while watching himself penetrate Paul. "I am really learning a lot! I don't remember myself throwing my head left and right and squealing like a puppy. And yet, here it is. Amazing...."
That night with Paul marked an important turning point for Harry and me, and that week during which Paul penetrated all of us ladies and some of our husbands marked the end of our "old lives" and the beginning of brand new ones. It was as though our lives before that week had been trains running with wheels off the tracks. And then, out of the blue, some overwhelming force had decided to pick us all up and put our wheels back in place. And so, we have been running smoothly since then. We no longer live in isolation, in fear and confusion. We have formed a beautiful community of husbands and wives who care about one another and so now we never have to worry about the unknown again.
Harry is still my sweet husband, but I no longer expect him to shoulder by himself the responsibility of fulfilling all of my erotic needs. How strange that such a burden would be carelessly laid on the shoulders of one simple human being -- and laid permanently! And he no longer expects me to be his sole provider. Now, we have a full community we can turn to. Harry has eight wives, and I have eight husbands. And we always count Paul and Carol as two of our own. Paul himself insisted on taking a wedding picture with each one of his "Chinese lovelies," in full wedding gown for her and tuxedo for him. He also insisted that Carol take wedding portraits with each of our husbands. "We have to respect tradition," he explained, "and we need to honor the bonds that we are establishing with one another." And so, in his basement, Paul has dedicated a whole wall to the fourteen portraits and often sits down and masturbates while staring at them, finding in them all that he needs to trigger strong ejaculations as he shouts the names of the wives and the husbands. And on our dressers, too, we have all added two portraits to our wedding picture: the portrait with Paul and the one with Carol.
But for Paul, we were far more than mere sexual partners. He took his responsibility of fulfilling our needs very seriously and always made it a point to give us his very best whenever he was called upon to serve. Whenever we visited him in his house, he planted a small Chinese flag by his door, next to an American flag, to express his appreciation and respect for "the Chinese nation and the marvelous, delicious people of China." He also often sent each one of us a hand written card where he generously poured his feelings of affection and desire on us, never once using a dirty word. Often, he wrote no more than two or three sentences, but we could tell they were written with feeling, desire, affection, and, of course, lust. He wrote once to tall Mei, "My Dear Mei: I woke up last night panting with desire for the sound of your voice and the smell of your breath. If someone should ask you, 'who was that sinner I heard last night weeping in his sleep with yearning and desire?' Your answer should be -- Paul Shapin." For me, he wrote once, "My Dear Pat: I was washing myself last night and then thought of your pure heart. Every moment I have spent with you, you cleansed me and purged me from all this evil in me. And if you should wonder who is the most thankful creature on this earth, rest assured that the answer will always be -- Paul Shapin."