It all started so innocently. Warren Marksmith was sitting in his home office catching up on some well overdue household bills, when he received an email out of the blue on his personal email account.
It simple read 'Hey Mark, how's it going. Are you still ok for Friday - I'll be flying in to Dallas for 8. See you then, Hank'
Warren clicked reply:
'Think you have the wrong person - name isn't Mark and I'm not from Dallas.
Cheers'
Warren thought no more about it, until about an hour later he got a response.
Thanks for letting me know - just checked and I'd typed an extra W in the address. Appreciate the heads up.
H.
A week later, Warren received another email from the same person. Again, it was addressed to his friend Mark and was making plans for a fishing trip for the following month.
Again Warren felt obliged to respond, pointing out he had the wrong email again.
Hank responded almost immediately, thanking him and telling him that the email auto fill must have picked up the wrong address.
He then asked where Warren was from. His tone was friendly and Warren felt it would be rude not to respond. Even still, Warren was a cautious guy and knew not to give out too much detail to a random stranger on the net. He was comfortable that it wasn't a scam as he restricted this email address to his important professional needs and official documents - banking, utilities, emergency contact for his wife and kids etc. He'd never had spam on this account and didn't give it out - he had a separate email that he used for friends and another for any online registrations.
None the less, Warren responded simply with a friendly UK and left it at that.
It wasn't until a couple of nights later that he got another response. Hank was telling him how much he loved the UK and would love to visit there one day. He asked whether Warren knew his friend Chad Morton who had moved over to Cheshire 18 months ago.
Warren smiled - Cheshire was a few hundred miles away and a place he'd never been.
Hank didn't come across as the smartest of guys. He told Warren about himself, where he was from, what he did for a living.
He was friendly and Warren was interested in what he had to say. Warren had a keen interest in America as a whole and was quite curious to read that Hank was in law enforcement in a small town just south of Lincoln; Nebraska. Hank would tell him stories about some of the things happening in his town, never anything too serious. He told Warren that most of the incidents were the youngsters looking for something to do. Underage drinking, occasional drugs and low key sexual escapades. Hank told him about how earlier in the week, he had been on his nightly patrol when he had interrupted the High School Quarterback getting down to it with 3 of the teams cheerleaders.
Hank had been quite descriptive with the scene he had witnessed. So much so, that Warren found himself unconsciously rubbing his crotch as he read.
Warren knew that he wasn't the most sexually adventurous person in the world. He had met Holly at university. She was the first girl he had slept with and they had married 4 years later. He'd been pretty shy growing up and girls had always been an enigma to him. Therefore, when Hank described the scene he had encountered, with 4 young naked bodies intertwined, two girls simultaneously going down on the guy whilst the third licked out one of her friends, Warren couldn't help but get hard as he imagined the situation and slowly stroked himself through his jeans.
When he heard Holly's key in the door a few seconds later, Warren frantically closed his email and turned back to the spreadsheet he had been working on. His hard on wouldn't go down and he was sure Holly knew something was up when she came in to check on him. She didn't say anything, but left with what he was sure was a slight smile on her face.
A couple of days went by when he got another email from Hank, this time apologising for his indiscreet email. He was sorry to have offended Warren with his frankness and said how he often forgot that people outside of his line of work had different moral boundaries.
Warren read the latest email with surprise. He found it quite funny that he was being apologised to for being offended. Warren replied, telling Hank that he wasn't prudish in the least. That he had enjoyed the story - maybe a little too much and certainly wasn't offended by the adult nature of the content.
Warren tried to think of a good way to show Hank that he wasn't bothered by the language or subject matter. He thought the best way might be to tell Hank a story from when he and Holly were at University together. This was before they were dating and were both at a house party. Holly had got pretty friendly with another girl there, making out on the sofa, in front of everyone. The girl Holly was with was quite free with her hands, and Warren told him that it was the first time he had seen his future wife's tits, as this girl scooped them out of the dress she was wearing and played with them as they kissed. Warren told him that he still thought about that image sometimes when he needed a little help getting over the edge.
Warren sent the email, then sat back, wondering if he had gone too far with the sharing. He had been careful not to include any details about the other girl, or even for that matter, Holly's name. All Hank really knew was that he was Warrren, 34, from the UK.
They continued to talk online via email. Hank sharing more stories, often Blue in nature. A few weeks later, he had been talking about his own wife Lauren, when he asked Warren's wife's name. Warren thought about it for a while, deciding whether there was really any issue with giving Holly's real name, but in the end decided against it and called her Heather. That way, he could refer to her as 'H' in their emails without giving too much away.
Hank continued as normal - it was kind of weird having, what was ultimately a pen friend in his mid 30's, but Warren enjoyed the chats. He enjoyed being able to talk openly in a way he didn't with his friends. And he enjoyed living vicariously through Hank. He heard about the fun he had with his friends at the local strip club, how he sometimes traded the odd picture of Lauren with his best friend (incidentally, the one he had been meaning to email the first time he'd accidentally emailed Warren).
It turned out, Warren was the first person to find out when Hank had got a little drunk at a conference in Dallas and hooked up with a local bartender there. He told Warren all about what they had done and Warren lapped it up.
Warren enthusiastically responded to each of the emails about Hank's night with the bartender and when Hank casually asked whether Warren had ever been with another girl whilst married to H, Warren was honest in his reply. He told him that he had, once early on when H had gone home for the summer from University and once about 3 or 4 months after they had had their son, whilst Holly was too tired for sex. It had been with her best friend Gina and he had regretted it almost immediately.
Although he felt guilty at the time and in fact, still did, he didn't let that show as he described the night in question. Hank seemed to love the story, asking additional details, how they'd hooked up, what the girl's body was like, what she did to him, what he did to her etc.
Warren gave him the details, even explaining that it was H's best friend. Hank seemed impressed. He asked if H knew and Warren laughed and replied no, he was still breathing, so H remained unaware.
This was the first time Warren had told anyone about sleeping with Gina. It felt good to get it off his chest after 5 years and when looking back, Warren was able to appreciate the small points - the shape of Gina's breasts, how she kept her pubic hair, the thing she did with her tongue when she went down on him - all things that at the time, Warren had glossed over.
Hank told him about his own extramarital flings. Nothing ever too serious, but all with cute women around town of different ages and body types and a few further afield when the opportunity arose.
Before long, they were chatting on Skype every few days. It was a great release for Warren. He could be completely open and honest with Hank and discussed things with him that he would never dream of sharing with anyone he knew. He told Hank about the girl at work who's tops were a little too big for her and when she bent over you could always get a glimpse down to her bra; and how he would make sure he was close by whenever she would sort the post. He told him about the girl on the train into work sitting opposite that wasn't careful and kept flashing her panties at him. He told Hank about how he had been to a new massage place that offered extras and he had paid for a blow job from a young Thai girl that was probably the best he had ever had. It was like his own private sex confessional, anonymous but the responses he got were enthusiastic and encouraging, not judgemental.