While Vera was enjoying her "Damsel in Distress" contest, Natasha and Lajos were enjoying each other at the Morton Grove abode. In the one plus year they had known each other; they had morphed into a curiously understanding but unorthodox relationship.
They were committed to each other. They considered themselves a married couple. In their view all they lacked from society was the necessary legal documentation of a marriage license that would make them official. The acquirement of such documents were not worth a bother to either of them considering that neither one of them was keen on the idea of a traditional wedding ceremony. As for getting civilly married, each felt the process was degrading and too bureaucratic.
The undeniable glue of their relationship was sex. It was great sex; fantastic sex; fireworks and shooting stars kind of sex. They each believed and explicitly acknowledged to each other that the other was the greatest lover and sex partner they'd ever had. More importantly, they each believed they could not even imagine a better lover or sex partner than the other.
Mind you, Lajos did have in the back of his mind an unshakeable conviction that Natasha's mother, Vera was also in this category. He suspected he would make love to Vera one of these days, if only to satisfy his curiosity and finally confront his nagging infatuation with her and put it to rest once and for all. Of course he did not dare mention such an idea to Natasha.
What made their relationship unorthodox was the fact that there was no demand nor desire or expectation of exclusivity on the part of either one of them. Paradoxically, they felt that this understanding was what made their love for each other even stronger and unbreakable. They knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that each of them was a sexual animal and that they needed sex almost as much as they needed food and drink. Since they lived apart and would do so for at least three years, while she completed her studies and he fulfilled his concert commitments, it was unthinkable that they would remain chaste during the times they were apart.
From Natasha's point of view, even before she had met Lajos, she had known of his existence. He was a known public figure in addition to his preeminence in the classical music world. So, she was fully aware of the fabulous women he had dated and presumably fucked. Just because they had become a couple at least in their own understanding, did not mean these fabulous women would refrain from seeking Lajos' company.
Considering the times they were unavailable for each other, she felt it would be churlish on her part to forbid him to have sex with another woman.
After all, she reasoned that she certainly couldn't get upset if and when he masturbated to relieve his sexual tensions should she become unavailable to him. Ergo, why should she get upset if he fucked another woman? At least it would be a much more enjoyable activity for him than his hand. She loved him sufficiently enough that she desired he never lacked in anything. Thus, she actually wanted his sexual needs to be taken care of whenever she could not.
There were two factors that reinforced her attitude on this issue. Since that first day of copulation now more than one year previous, and as a result of it, she knew he was HER MAN and she was HIS WOMAN. Thus, she was not in the least bit intimidated by the extremely sexually alluring women he had fucked in the past and would be able to fuck in the future. She knew deep down to her bones no matter how sexually alluring another woman might be, such woman could not steal his regard; she would remain HIS WOMAN.
The other factor of course was that she had no inclination to remain chaste herself while she was apart from him. During that second year at Northwestern, she would occasionally indulge in one night stands. These came about when either frequenting a bar in Evanston or attending a frat party or an off campus party. Her main problem in those situations was to discourage follow-up requests for dates.
She refused to provide personal contact information,but the truly persistent ones who became infatuated with her had the annoying habit of tracking her down and pestering her for further contact. Finally,she resorted to wearing a ring that could pass for an engagement ring. Displaying the ring, she would advise her admirer something such as follows:
"Oh yes, Alan (or whatever the name happened to be), that was a super night we had. I can't deny that I enjoyed it very much; you were terrific and satisfied me completely. I'll never forget that night, but as you can see I'm actually engaged.
My fiancée is a brute of a man and he is very jealous. Once a guy had asked me out for just a coffee and I had foolishly accepted. My fiancée happened to come into the café and threaten to punch the guy out if he did not leave immediately. When he hesitated, my fiancée physically picked him up and threw him out of the cafe; And Alan, that guy was bigger than you.
So, as you see for your own safety, you must forget me.
Yes, I like you but there can be no future for us. If, by any chance I can leave without him going ballistic, I'll certainly get in touch with you."
Usually that did the trick. If the admirer proved not to be initially deterred by this story, then she embellished the bellicosity of her phantom fiancée, such that the admirer soon feared for his life and could not leave Natasha alone fast enough.
However this ploy did not work for those admirers who were African-American. Natasha's black admirers tended to be studs who assumed that Natasha's fiancée would be white, they were not so easily intimidated. For them she had to develop a more visual ploy to discourage future contacts.
What she did in such situations, was to agree to a date for coffee at a suitable time in which she could engineer her planned deterrent. During her freshman year when she had been dallying with Dan Pearson the quarterback of the school's football team, she had become acquainted with Luke Jackson, a 6' 7", 320 lbs., offensive lineman of the team. Luke was happy to agree to portray himself as her fiancée for a price. Luke was an African-American male, and that made it easier for Natasha's purpose to rid herself of the persistent one night stand black admirers.
Thus when the situation arose and the time and place for the date was set, Natasha had summoned Luke by text message to appear. With Luke's appearance the admirer/pest had a sense of déjà -vu as Luke played out the scene just like the story Natasha had recounted. Although Luke was by personality a truly good natured man, he could look and act very menacing. The admirer could not leave fast enough when Natasha gasped and warned that he was the brute fiancée.
Luke's price for his pest removal duties was sex. Luke pointed out that if he was to be thought of as her fiancée then having sex would lend authenticity to his role.
Natasha had no problem with this as Luke certainly was a worthwhile lover. As Luke had a steady girlfriend, Natasha did not have to worry about the possibility he might want to cling to her. With Lajos as her lover, she had no wish for an inconvenient lasting love affair. One night stands were OK, but infatuated lovers were annoying and an irritant to her.
Natasha's other source of non Lajos sex that year were the periodic concerts she appeared at the Chicago Sympathy. Because of the success of those ten performances during the previous winter/spring season under Dieter's behest coupled with the outstanding CD sales success of the recording with Lajos, she was in high popular demand. The Symphony had no choice but to provide her with her own personal dressing room.
After each concert, the room was filled with admirers and an impromptu celebration replete with champagne flutes. As the celebration/party waned invariably one male admire outlasted all other visitors. As a result, there was no help for it. Natasha seemed compelled to have sex with the last man standing. Natasha proved to be a most delightful sexual partner to each male admirer who would be a donor/supporter of the Symphony, who otherwise would not gain entrance to the room in the first place. Each of the admirers were so charmed with Natasha and his time with her, that he immediately increased his normal support for the Orchestra, some substantially.
After Natasha's third concert, it became readily apparent to the Symphony management the hidden benefit to the orchestra of her after concert performances. Thus, they graciously provided more perks for Natasha, including a much larger dressing room complete with a fold-up bed for Natasha to rest on as she might desire.
Lajos was aware of Natasha's sexuality from the get go. Dieter Ebersbacher, in introducing her to him had privately advised Lajos that Natasha had two other lovers besides himself. So Lajos came to the conclusion that Natasha was that rare kind of woman who could deeply, wholeheartedly and passionately love more than one man simultaneously.