Chapter 2: About an Old Friend
The next few weeks with Maria were more than I could have dreamed, not just sexually, but also as a true friend. We met several times a week either at her condo or at my house. It was so wonderful to have a woman who was so open, trusting, and accepting. She could be sweet, congenial, and ladylike in public, but a total dirty minded slut in private. She and I not only accepted each other's open sexuality, we treasured it. We both realized how important our relationship was in pulling us back into a positive state of mind and body. Our shared sexuality became more and more open and adventurous. We were almost like newlyweds. One day after a particularly hot, sweaty, and animal session at my house, we were lying together enjoying that blissful post coital recovery state when she made a comment that opened a line of discussion that would set the tone for us in weeks and months to come.
Maria was lying next to me with her head nestled next to mine. "Volgio essere la tua puttana, Gino. I want to be your whore. Do whatever you want to me. Use me however you want. There's not much I would deny as long as it's not going to harm me physically or mentally. I'm up for about anything. I don't want to reach the end of my life regretting what I did NOT do."
I rolled my head to look into her eyes and asked, "OK, that's a pretty strange comment coming from out of the blue. What are you really saying about being a whore?"
She slid back to rest on the headboard. "Well, not literally being your whore where you pay me or support me. I think you know what I'm trying to say. I want to make sure that you understand that it isn't necessary to treat me like a delicate china doll, not that anybody now days even knows what a china doll is. It's simply that I'm at a point in my life where I don't want to waste time with a lot of romance games. I just want to let myself be me, be free, and not feel like It's necessary to pretend to be some sort of innocent. I remember telling you when we first talked at the restaurant about this 'cugini con benefici' relationship that I always felt a bit stifled with Jeff. He had a hard time understanding me and accepting some things about me that he felt were contrary to the stereotypical PTA mom. That's part of what pushed me into looking for a secret-someone who would give me what I needed. One of the guys I had a fairly long-term affair with did indeed understand me, and I him. It was a joy to just let ourselves go. Some things about you are a lot like him. You don't seem inhibited or judgmental. I need that. You seem to enjoy the slightly non-standard activity I crave including the filthy talk and frankness. I may indeed be a PTA mom in a lot of ways, but there's also a secret slut inside me that doesn't want to feel like I have to hold back as I did with Jeff."
"Don't worry, mia bella," I said pulling her to me. "I understand more than you may realize. I know exactly what you mean by being totally open without any expectations or judgement. Truth be told, I love the slutty part of you. But I also love the sweet caring mom, devoted daughter, and dear friend parts of you. It makes you a complete woman. I love the fact that we've had a special connection all our lives. Now we've taken this extra step into a special chapter of our connected stories. Just one thing though, as much as you want to feel like my whore, sometimes I may also want to feel like your total boy toy. Don't be shy about using me as your gigalo."
She pulled back looking at me and smiled. "You know, I think you really do understand."
As we learned with time, we truly were one and the same when it came to our sexual preferences and practices. I felt completely open and honest with her and she with me when it came to our fantasies and little fetishes. For lack of a better way of putting it, we both recognized that for us, sex was an activity we enjoyed the filthy dirty energy in our sex and not just as some sort of lovemaking. Maria and I were not in love in the classic sense of the term, but there was a very special feeling shared by us as two people that had a lifelong bond. I guess in a sense it was indeed a type of love. Yet, as much as we cared for and respected each other, we could separate that deeper bond and familial respect to let our erotic behavior get down to the animal core. I learned that sometimes she loved to be spanked and told what a bad little slut she was for needing cock and cum so much. She had this leather flogger that really got her off when I used it on her ass and crotch and tits. It stung just enough to excite her into becoming a wild woman. Sometimes she'd use it on me, adopting a more dominatrix role. I loved how she'd aggressively shove her wet cunt in my face and order me to smell it and taste it. How she'd demand that I lick her till she soaked my face. She came so loudly I was sure the neighbors heard her. We could both switch from aggressive to submissive easily with equal joy of using or being used.
Thinking of adopting various roles, there were several role-play fantasies that she enjoyed as well as I did. One began by binding her hands to the headboard, tying her legs open, and blindfolding her. Then I'd use several different dildos as well as my fingers, tongue, and cock to create a scene in which I brought one or more of my friends, or total strangers, to use her like a total slut while I watched. She said this was something Jeff could never do because the concept of watching her being fucked by another man was so abhorrent to him that he could not accept it even as an erotic game.
Likewise, one of the things I liked was coming to her place where we'd both be wearing ski-type masks that covered our heads and faces leaving openings only for eyes, nose, and mouth. The premise was that we were two frustrated married people away from our spouses that had been matched through a special secret agency according to our sexual preferences. We knew nothing about each other. The agency would have arranged for a hotel room where we could have hours of totally anonymous sex. I had wanted Laura to share this sort of thing with me, but she could never accept the idea because it was totally contrary to all she believed regarding monogamy. I tried to convince her that it was just a game for fun. Still, she said that she could not even fantasize about sex with total strangers or multiple partners. Maria on the other hand, enthusiastically relished all sorts of fantasies that included orgies, gang bangs and bukkake parties. She made no negative judgement of me for enjoying the concept as well.
We enjoyed the mirror in her bathroom so much, we installed several more in her bedroom as well as in my bedroom. We loved the visuals they provided from multiple angles. She could be a bit of an exhibitionist and she even let me photograph and video her masturbating with various toys and selected veggies as long as I didn't show her face.
We used her balcony to have a variety of sex outdoors. Her balcony was situated such that it could not be seen by any adjacent condo. It faced a densely wooded area loaded with brambles and thorn bushes. Anybody dumb enough to be out there peeping with binoculars while being cut up earned the show they got. Sometimes we'd fuck with her bent over the railing the same way she was bent over the sink in her bathroom the first day we were together. Other times, she'd lounge back in a folding chair with her feet on the railing while I knelt between her legs and got her off with my tongue. I loved it, especially when she'd moan out, "Oh God Dino, I'm gonna cum all over your face. Oh God, Dino, taste me while I hump your sexy face." She had discovered how much I responded to her filthy talk and happily took excellent advantage of it.
I even learned that Maria, unlike Laura and many other women, sometimes loved watching porn of the filthiest genre. Laura had occasionally agreed to watch relatively mild vanilla porn with me mostly just to make ME happy. On the other hand, Maria could find great erotic energy in watching gangbang, bukkake, bondage, and group activity. All in all, the open sexuality of our "cugini con benefici" relationship was perfect, and I was happier and more satisfied than I had been for a long time.
What also made our relationship something to cherish was the simple friendship and trust we shared for ordinary activity. We went to dinner and lunch together. We went to the symphony and to the theater. Maria was a true theater buff. As close as she and Jeff were to New York City, they would take the train into Manhattan at least once a month to go to a Broadway show. When she was young, Maria was a true "drama nerd" in school. As a member of the "Performers Club" she had been part of half a dozen school productions. That interest continued into college, and she had even held the fantasy of someday being an actress. Unfortunately, as often happens in life, marriage, kids and a regular job took precedent over the "dream". Nevertheless, Maria had been very active for years in community theater and joined a theater program at a local community college here in town.
The two of us went to regular family gatherings but were careful to drive separately. We'd arrive and leave at staggered times so as to not appear being TOO close. We'd often gravitate to the same table or enjoy some other proximity, but we were careful not to touch inappropriately or spend too much time together. When we went to the wedding of our cousin Mike's daughter, she asked Mike to put us at the same table. He didn't seem to think much of it since we would both be there "stag". We attended the funeral of one of our uncles and sat together at the lunch that followed. We went to a holiday cookout and pool party that our cousin Vince held every year at his house. In the Fall, we even attended the annual spaghetti and ravioli supper held by a church in the Little Italy area of the city. The event had become a regular family event every year. There was enough of us that we had several tables put together to accommodate "tutta la famiglia". Maria brought her mom. My mom and dad drove themselves. We were all at one end of the large table with Maria's brother, wife and kids along with my sister, husband and kids.
When we were all leaving, Maria's mom came to me and said, "I think it's wonderful how you've taken Maria under your wing to help her get accustomed to being back here. It's nice that you're still such good friends like when you were in the old neighborhood."
I hugged her, but all I could think to myself was, "Aunt Connie, if you only knew. If you only knew about our new relationship you might not think it was so wonderful."
As we made our way to the door, Maria whispered to me, "After I take my mom home, I'll call you. Hopefully you can come over to my place."
I simply responded, "Count on it."