Nick looked up as the bedroom door opened, and his wife Hannah came in.
"Oh good," she said. "You're ready."
She came over to him and gave him a hug, then stepped back to look at him. He was dressed in the clothes she'd laid out on the bed: blue jeans and a plain white shirt. Nothing on his feet. She looked thoughtful. "Just a few tweaks..." She unbuttoned the shirt by one more button at the collar, and rolled the sleeves up loosely to just below the elbow. "That's better," she said. "Now, have you been behaving?"
"I have," he said.
She'd left him to get showered and changed about forty minutes ago, leaving him with his laptop and a glass of wine. "Feel free to get yourself in the mood," she'd said, "but no jerking off - I want you fresh!"
"Glad to hear it," she said now. "Come on, then." She took him by the hand and led him through the house towards the living room. The door to the living room was closed, but Nick could hear voices from inside. Hannah stopped at the door.
"One more thing," she said. "I want you to wear this." She held out her hand.
Three Weeks Earlier:
Hannah's Tuesday night session was not going well. The four of them were standing in the bar in a tight circle, their drinks clutched close, as the crowds pressed in on them from all sides. Normally, they'd be sitting in a quiet table at the back, but not tonight.
To look at the four of them, you might assume it was an office outing - why else would you have four women, so obviously different, associating together?
In her early forties, Hannah was the oldest of the group, but she wore it well. Her hair was a light enough blonde that she hadn't yet felt the need to dye it to hide the encroaching grey, and she kept trim through weekly pilates and spin classes. Plus, as her husband Nicky was an architect, he felt claustrophobic after a week of sitting in an office staring at a computer screen, so they both did park runs at the weekend. Hannah also made sure to listen to any advice Adrienne gave her on fashion, and she could tell it worked: Hannah worked in Health and Safety Compliance, which meant site visits for inspections, and she could control the amount of flirtation and lustful glances she got by how much of Adrienne's clothing tips she applied on any given visit.
Adrienne was the next youngest of the group, in her mid-thirties, but that didn't really matter. Adrienne was tall, blessed with a good figure, fantastic bone structure, and a natural grace and elegance that meant she could look stylish and alluring in a bin bag, if she really wanted. Her Italian genes had blessed her with luxurious dark hair, fabulous eyelashes and full lips. A marketing executive, she travelled internationally regularly, and never had a boyfriend for long, often coming back from a trip with outrageous tales of one-night stands.
The group had originally met and bonded at a book group that focused on detective fiction, held in a local bookstore. When the bookstore had closed, they'd met for a short while in Bethany's library, and then for a bit in the coffee shop where Bethany's husband Kieran worked, with each move losing more and more members from the group, until Adrienne had said, "Fuck it. It's you girls I really like hanging out with, anyway. Let's just meet in a bar instead." And Adrienne was good at getting her way. So they'd moved the sessions to a bar that Adrienne knew - Adrienne knew ALL the bars - one with quiet tables at the back where they could chat about the books and other things without getting hit on too much.
Except tonight, apparently. There was a private party that had taken over all the back half of the bar, pushing all the regular clientele into a smaller space, including the book group.
"It's not like they're even using all the space," said Bethany. "They've got a lot of tables with only one or two people sitting at them. Look, that table just there - there's only one guy."
"Which one?" Adrienne stretched up to her full height to see over the crowd; Hannah noticed some of the glances from men nearby that this caused. Adrienne was always getting admiring glances.
"There," said Bethany, pointing. She flexed her fingers around her glass. "There are four of us, one of him. Maybe we should form a raiding party and commandeer it." She gave a grin. Bethany and Kieran were both active people - rock climbing, mountain biking, that sort of thing, so it was no surprise that she'd mention something so dramatic. Bethany liked to think of herself as a free spirit. Although her real job was as a librarian, if you asked her what she did, she'd tell you she was a silversmith. She made jewellery that she sold at craft fairs, although she gave more to friends as gifts and wore it herself rather than actually selling it. Really, it was just a hobby. But Bethany liked the image. It went with her bright scarlet hair and tie-dye dresses and corsets. Kieran was equally cliched - with his goatee, man-bun and piercings, he was the very image of the hipster barista. And they were both young, late twenties, so they could carry it off.
Adrienne was still looking at the table, thoughtfully. "I bet he'd give us the table if I promised to give him a hand-job in the toilets," she said, evilly.
"You wouldn't!" said Hannah, while Dawn's eyes widened in surprise. Bethany almost spat out her drink, and giggled.
Adrienne waggled her head, thoughtfully. "Probably not," she conceded, "though it gets more tempting every time some prick jostles me from behind."
"Would that even work?" asked Dawn.
"Oh, it'd work," said Adrienne, confidently.
"But, maybe he doesn't like hand-jobs...."
"Honey," Bethany said, "No man dislikes hand-jobs from a woman. And no guy is going to turn down a hand shandy from our girl here."
"But..." said Dawn, and then paused, looking down into her drink. At nineteen, Dawn was the baby of the group. She and her boyfriend Pete had been dating since high school. She worked at a supermarket, while he worked with a local decorating company. Dawn had straight black hair and a pretty face with eyes that were frequently wide from surprise - she didn't have a lot of experience at life, yet, and Pete was just as vanilla.
"Look," said Hannah. "There are plenty of other bars. Let's just go somewhere else for tonight."
"Oh, all right. I know one nearby," said Adrienne, surprising no-one. "Follow me."
Fifteen minutes later, they were comfortably seated at a table in a bar that was nearly completely empty; they'd even gotten fresh drinks in record time.
"Isn't this much better?" Hannah said, as they settled in for the evening.
Adrienne leaned back, one arm folded as she sipped from her glass. "I still think I should have just given him a hand-job," she muttered darkly.
Bethany started chattering about something she and Kieran had seen on television last night, but Hannah noticed that Dawn was looking down. "Dawn? Are you okay, honey?"
"'m fine," she mumbled, eyes downcast.
"Hey, come on. What's up?" Hannah had a thought, thinking back to the earlier conversation. "Is it... is it something about Adrienne talking about masturbating?"
"It's nothing."
"Look, it's okay. You can talk to us."
Adrienne noticed that something was up, and waved Bethany into silence.
"It's nothing," Dawn repeated. "It's just..." She looked up. "What does it mean if a guy doesn't like getting a hand-job?"
"He's... dead?" Adrienne said. Hannah bapped her lightly on the shoulder without taking her eyes off Dawn.
"Do you mean Pete?" Hannah asked her.
"Maybe he doesn't like hand-jobs," Dawn said, with a sniffle. "Or maybe he just doesn't like me."
"Oh, hey, come on, honey," Hannah said, pulling Dawn into a hug. "Pete loves you. Who could NOT love you, you adorable twerp."
"What makes you think he doesn't like you jerking him off?" Adrienne asked, curious.
"Well, when I try, he tends to push me away quite quickly."
"Before he's finished?"
"Long before."
"Huh!" Adrienne said; evidently this was a concept outside her experience, and her brain was taking a moment to assimilate the possibility.
"Every guy likes an orgasm," Hannah said in a reasonable tone of voice. "That's just biology. Maybe... you just need practice."
"Or some pointers," Adrienne added.
"Yeah," Bethany agreed, "and if there's anyone who could teach you---" she gestured at Adrienne with both hands in a gameshow here's-what-you-could-win kind of way.
"Right," Hannah agreed. "We could teach you."
Dawn looked hopeful. "You could? How?"
"You mean like with bananas and all that?" Bethany asked Hannah.
"No," Adrienne said, sarcastically. "She's going to explain the finer points of her technique to Dawn while jerking Nicky off."
Hannah blinked. "Er, bananas, yes. Or YouTube."
"More like PornHub," Adrienne snorted.
"Yes," Hannah agreed, quickly. "Whatever."
"Okay," Bethany said, subsiding. She sipped her drink and giggled. "Wouldn't it be funny, though? Actually using our guys as demonstration models?"
"Yeah," said Hannah, who was trying to pretend that wasn't exactly what she'd meant, when she'd spoken without thinking it through. "Funny."
"Yeah..." Adrienne said.
There was a quiet moment, where they all contemplated masturbating their men in front of Dawn.