At the end of my sophomore year I was 20, and I was still balancing the two loves of my life, Mike and Philip. Mike was 21 and finishing his junior year at the same college, and Philip was 28 and still doing private banking in New York City. Mike and Philip were cousins, and I had met Philip through Mike. They both knew about my love for the other.
Mike seemed not to care; he was a serial philanderer by nature, and he seemed to want me to be promiscuous, too. He was also the one who pushed me, and pushed hard, to be an exhibitionist, something he had great success at doing. Mike had even initially coached his own cousins (the twins, and then Philip) on how to seduce me. His success rate was perfect.
Philip was easier to describe: he was quite simply a banker. But he also seemed to enjoy degrading and humiliating women, especially those he cared for, such as me. As such he thoroughly enjoyed and enabled my exhibitionist tendencies.
Honestly, I do not understand why Mike and Philip were both like that, and it is even more a puzzle to me as to why I was drawn to them and even loved them both. But to be honest, while I appreciated Mike's joyful acceptance of my promiscuity, I did not want to be that way, and I further did not enjoy at all, even the slightest, Mike's own rampant promiscuity. I got jealous.
I also thought it was entirely reasonable to be jealous when he would sleep with other women, sometimes even right under my nose as if to flaunt it, such as his time with Gloria. So when it came time for summer plans once sophomore year ended, and I learned Mike was going to travel around Europe (his family is rich) and explore how girls in different countries of Europe differed in bed, and I was not included in these plans of course, I was angry.
When I say I was angry, it is a bit of an understatement. I was furious. I went home to the small town in the county where I grew up, and joined my parents and my little sister Sarah who had just finished her freshman year at college. Sarah had set new records for being the school slut, as she kept me apprised blow-by-blow as she gave out sexual favors right and left. She was also now an accomplished exhibitionist, at least in part due to me. I had long ago given up being scandalized by her behavior. After all, who was I to talk?
Sarah always wrote sexual details to me in letters, sent via the good old postal service. She had learned from me that digital security was an illusion and anything that she did not potentially want the entire world to know, had no place in the world of digital communication. This was the aspect of her behavior of which I was proud.
Maybe it was some kind of physical law of the conservation of exhibitionist behavior within a family, but as Sarah became more and more active as an exhibitionist, I became less and less so, and had once again given up drinking. Well, mostly. I still drank when Philip would fly me out to NY for weekends of fun with him, which he did with some regularity. There I freely sinned and had a great time with Philip, including great sex, with every single visit.
But now I was trapped at home in a small town at my parents' house, where I felt it was open season on Sarah and me, and all the boys were after us for the obvious reasons. Sarah wallowed in it, but I was not a happy camper.
Two weeks after coming home, after I had landed a summer job updating the computers and servers at the local high school, I got an urgent message from Philip. A special messenger delivered it in person. It said, in toto, "Joanie, do you have a passport? If not get one right away. Pay extra for expedited service. We're going to France and Switzerland. First come to NY to buy a travel wardrobe. Tickets are waiting."
Of course I did not have a passport. The only exotic place I had ever been to was New York, and that was due to Philip himself. So I went on the Internet to see how to get one, jumped through all the hoops, paid extra for expedited service, and two weeks later I was on a plane to New York with my passport in hand.
I had to resign my summer job at the high school; I had done the full summer's work in only two weeks, anyway, since there was nothing to distract me. The school staff was amazed. They had no idea who they were dealing with.
As usual, a limousine driver met me at the airport, and he drove me to the same elegant hotel Philip always used. I was given a room on the 15th floor facing a skyscraper, perfect for exhibitionists. I love New York. I was also given an envelope containing Philip's Saks Fifth Avenue charge card with detailed instructions regarding the clothes I would need.
Inside the envelope I also found a gold American Express card in my own name, and a post-it note said the bills would go to Philip. I was instructed to buy some things that Saks does not sell, apparently. This was going to be fun. Turning a girl loose in New York, telling her to shop for expensive clothes and jewelry, and giving her charge accounts is a very nice benefit of dating a banker, I must say.
I went to Saks and had a nice reunion with Jane, my saleswoman at the Marni counter who had once sold me a totally gorgeous and extremely sexy evening gown. I wore it the time I met Philip's boss, and was forced to fuck him, so that Philip could get a promotion. We had a lot of fun together buying my new wardrobe, to say the least. This time I visited the Cartier boutique and did some serious damage to Philip's bank account, I'm sure. Hey, I'm a girl who follows instructions.
I got this solid gold bracelet that was shaped as if it were a curved nail. It reminded me of the story of the golden spike hammered into the last railroad tie connecting the two coasts, when the trains first became transcontinental. I was wearing a gorgeous and ridiculously expensive spoof of American history on my wrist.
More realistically, though, I guess it was supposed to suggest sadomasochism in some sort of subtle and expensive way for the entertainment of the decadent rich. Perfect.
Jane also told me where to get super fancy luggage for the trip, and where to buy a nice watch. She sent me to Tourneau, and I got a "pre-owned" fancy Swiss watch with not too many (I was supposed to buy things in good taste), but just the right amount of diamonds. Even being pre-owned, it cost a fortune.
I got the watch in white gold instead of yellow gold, so as not to be too, too flashy. I also visited some jewelry stores on Madison Avenue. I discovered I had a weakness for rose gold. Who knew? I bought a new purse in Barney's and while there some new perfume, too.
I of course got more shoes, and more stockings. Don't forget I am a woman.
When Philip came to pick me up to go out to dinner that evening, I was done shopping and eager to wear one of my new outfits for him, which of course I did. I looked great and also (modesty aside) I looked hot.
To my surprise he had his colleague Steve with him, and Steve actually now had a girlfriend; he no longer had to pass off his sister as his girlfriend. His girlfriend is very pretty, but not as pretty as his sister is, but then I am not sure anyone is. Steve's sister is amazingly beautiful, and pretty in a sexy way, too. But the new girlfriend has the huge added advantage of not being his sister! Her name is Odessa.
"I hope you do not mind this is a surprise double date?" Philip said. I smiled. He continued, "Odessa and Steve are coming with us for the business part of our European trip."
I should have known it was for business. With bankers it seems everything, all the time, is business. Even after a year of dating I still sometimes wonder if Philip loves me, or if I am just a needed part of his outfit as a successful banker, like a Hermes tie. It is not a reassuring feeling. I think my lingering insecurities about why Philip likes me explain why I still cling to Mike as a boyfriend, even if I think he is a skunk.
We all four got into a waiting limo and went to an incredibly fancy and wonderful restaurant downtown, I think near Greenwich Village, but I still have trouble knowing just where I am in New York. It was of course wonderful, and yes, I drank the cocktail, had a second one, and had too much wine. I reached or perhaps exceeded my limit and so declined the cognacs the men had after the meal.
I spoke to Odessa and we became fast friends. She was of Russian ancestry (which explained her name), but she was born and raised in Kansas. She had come to NY for work opportunities, and she had met Steve online, and they had been dating for a year. She already knew all about me, apparently Steve thought I walked on water and told her (without any details) that I had once helped his sister Mary Ann tremendously when she was in an awkward situation. I'll say it was awkward: she had been tricked into having to fuck her brother's boss and then to let her own brother fuck her, with his boss watching and drooling.
But I did not tell Odessa any of that, of course, but just nodded and smiled, and changed the subject. She had a much better idea of what the trip was about, and explained some details to me. Now I understood better why I needed the clothes I had just bought.
Odessa was taller than I am; most people are. I guess she was maybe 5'6" or perhaps 5'7". I am 5'4". She had a perfect figure, a round face, and lovely blonde hair, with large brown eyes. Her nose was a bit narrow and thin, but the whole effect was of a very pretty woman.
After dinner we went to go dancing and drinking. I danced with both Steve and Philip since both asked me to dance at different times during the evening, but Odessa danced only with Steve. Philip placed his hands on my ass and caressed my ass as we danced, but I noticed Steve was the proper gentleman dancing with Odessa. Nothing was too risqué and I was happy about that.
In the limo going back to the hotel, Philip began to act like his old self, unbuttoning a few buttons of my blouse, exposing quite a lot of boob. My bra covered minimal amounts of boob, so there was quite a lot of boob now on display, especially whenever I leaned forward. At the same time Steve was similarly exposing Odessa's breasts as much as her bra allowed.
I was a bit surprised when Steve and Odessa joined us at the hotel bar. Odessa lived in NY and could not possibly be staying at the hotel. Odessa and I got a lot of looks from the other men at the bar, since our boobs were on display to a large extent. They were almost drooling over us.
I was sitting between Philip and Steve, all of us on high stools. Steve was fondling my boobs and Philip had his hand up my dress inching its way up my thigh. I thought it was strange that Steve was feeling me up and not his girl friend. I looked over at Odessa and she was watching the action intently and squirming a bit, breathing a bit unevenly. I got up just as Philip's hand reached my panties covered cunt.