A Note to the reader:
Double Switch is a full length novel with a Prologue, an Epilogue and 18 chapters. So it will take a commensurate time to read. It is erotic in places but not on every page or even in every chapter. So, a little patience is necessary. It is a love story, actually three love stories. I hope you will be rewarded for your time and trouble.
To understand the story, you need to read the Prologue first. So, look it up under my name in the Author Index before proceeding with this Chapter.
All of the major characters are completely fictional and bear no resemblance to actual people, living or dead.
Incidentally, Literotica calls the Prologue, Chapter 1. So, Chapter 16 you see here will be listed as Chapter 17. etc.
Chapter 16
The two couples arrived within a hour of one another. Drinks and dinner were the first order of the day. Frank went right to work mixing daiquiris. They had agreed, beforehand what each couple would bring for the first night's meal, so they wouldn't have to immediately go to town for groceries. There was little time as it was, and. they wanted to make the most of every moment they had together. Dinner over, they started playing bridge, but soon realized, what they wanted to do most, was talk. Except for that brief time at Christmas, Sally and Sue, had not been together since before their wedding. And, Frank and Ernest had a lot of catching up to do as well.
"If you two guys will excuse us, I think Sue and I will go out on the porch and engage in a little girl talk," Sally said, after only a few hands.
"Go ahead. Ern and I could stand to chew the fat a bit too," Frank responded. "I'll pour you half of what's left of the daiquiris. We'll take care of the rest."
Sally and Sue sat on the swing and swung and sipped daiquiris, as they talked over the events of the past ten months, their first ten months of married life.
"You know," Sue began. "Just twelve months ago, Ernie and I sat on this very swing. It was then he first told me he loved me. Now we're all 'old marrieds.' It's hard to believe."
"It doesn't seem possible, does it?" Sally replied. "Are ya happy, Sue? Do you ever regret it?" It was kinda sudden on your part. Frank and I had planned, for a couple of years, to get married as soon as we finished school. But, you two, that was something else."
"It was pretty whirlwind wasn't it. But, it was actually three months before my mind was really made up. Ernie can be pretty persistent when he wants something. He's certainly pursues his studies that way. In this case, he was pursuing me, though I pursued him first"
"You certainly did."
But, we saw a lot of each other last summer and got well acquainted."
"I'd say, you got pretty well acquainted while you were here last June."
"Yeah, we fucked that Sunday afternoon while you and Frank were in town. And, it was great, probably the greatest lay I'd ever had, except it wasn't. I didn't know how to explain that, even to myself. But I found out. I guess I loved him right from the beginning, and didn't know it. God, when I think how I almost scared him off with my aggressive approach. But, on the other hand, if I hadn't gone after him, he probably would've just slinked back to school and forgot all about ever meeting me."
"Well you sure gave him something he couldn't easily forget. Pour me another daiquiri will ya."
"Here ya are." Sue poured a glassful for Sally and re- filled her own glass. "Yes, as you say, we became 'well acquainted 'in the short time we had. But, that's part of the problem. I wasn't sure he knew his own mind. I sure didn't know mine. He said he loved me. And, I'm sure he thought he meant it. But he had just had fucked for the first time in his life. That's got to be quite an event for a guy, just as it is for a girl or woman. I was afraid he might have confused the thrill of his first time, with love. I knew we both needed to get know each other much better in every other way before we thought about jumping into a life- long commitment. That's why I drove four hundred miles roundtrip every weekend to spend as much time with him as I could. Over the summer, we both came to realize what it was. Sally, I couldn't wait to get up there every weekend. And I know he felt the same."
"You really extended yourself and it paid off for you, and for Ernest. Frank and I began the same way. At first, it was pure sex. But we found, before long, there was much more between us than that, as important as it was - and still is."
"After the first trip up there, I realized I had never felt the way I do about Ernie with any other guy before. Eric Richardson came the closest, but I never felt for him what I do for Ernie."
"I take it you're completely over Eric then?"
"Completely. I was, even before graduation.
"So, he wasn't a factor in your falling in love with Ernest?"
"Absolutely not."
"Did you tell Ernest about Eric?"
"Yes I did, before agreeing to marry him. I told him everything."
"What was his reaction?"
"He was concerned. I told him frankly that Eric had meant more to me than any other man I had ever known before meeting him. I'm sure he was afraid I might have fallen for him on the re-bound, as they say - just as you were. I assured him, that was not the case. And I was honest about that. I made it clear to him I was completely over Eric before the end of my senior year."
"Then you told him there had been others?"
"Yes."
"What was his reaction to that?"
"Well, I didn't enumerate them. I'm not even sure I could. But I informed him from the start, that I had considerable experience. In fact, I told him flatly, on more than one occasion, that I didn't consider myself good enough for him."
"What did he say to that?"
"He just said, he would make that decision, and as long as I didn't plan to continue that kind of life, he accepted the fact that I had been with other men before him."
"Apparently that satisfied him. You two
did
get married. I seem to remember being there myself."
"Yeah, wasn't our double wedding a blast?"
"It sure was. Frank and I had been waiting a long time for that day. And now you two are happily married too, just as Frank and I are. I can't tell ya how happy that makes me. I had some qualms about getting married before you did. That doesn't mean I wasn't going to do it, you understand. But, the idea bothered me just the same."
"If the tables had been reversed, it would have bothered me too, Sis. But, to answer your first question; no, I've never regretted marrying Ernie, and I'm sure I never will. He's a wonderful man. I couldn't ask for a kinder, gentler, more thoughtful husband than Ernie."
"That's great, and its clear he's going to be successful, once he gets his doctorate. In the meantime, you two have three tough years ahead of you."