Karla and I had been married three years. She was picking me up from work so we could go out for my birthday. We live in a not-too-small college town. The downtown area has a lot of nice local shops and restaurants, and that's where we appeared to be heading.
We parked in the community lot and started walking. It was a nice day for it. Karla had her shoulder-length brown hair down and was dressed casually in a pink v-neck crop sleeve shirt and jeans. I had my blue dress shirt and black work slacks. We were both pretty skinny, late 20's, so we fit in fairly well with the college age shoppers.
"What shall we have?" I asked.
"It's YOUR birthday," she reminded me. "But I have a surprise first."
Surprise indeed. We took a detour off the trendy strip back a block and into an alley. There was a solid steel door on the back of an old windowless building. Stenciled on the door was simply "ADULT XXX". I had no idea this place was here. It was if it was inconspicuous by design.
Karla isn't exactly a prude and we've had many conversations about our sexual likes, dislikes, and fantasies, especially in our early days of dating. But we'd never gone to a sex shop.
What did she have planned? I, the guy in this scenario, actually hesitated. "What are you up to?"
"Come on," she simply said, and opened the door.
Inside was an adult book store. Magazines, toys, videos. I'm sure I looked as nervous as I felt. She paraded around like she owned the place. Had she been here before?
She walked up to the cashier and handed him money. He handed her coins. She grabbed my hand and led me to a doorway that seemed to lead into darkness. I'd read about arcades, but never actually seen one. She led me down to a booth with a wider space than most of the others. "It's a couples booth," she explained. We entered the booth. She locked the door.
There wasn't much to it. Two chairs...guessing the smaller booths had one...a monitor, channel buttons, and a coin feeder. Karla fed her entire plunder of coins...tokens, I guess...into the machine. A video came on and the display showed a countdown of 60:00. I guess we were going to watch porn for an hour? Maybe do more things? We could've stayed home or gotten a nice hotel room for that.
Then I remembered stories of gloryholes. And sure enough, there were two of them in here, one accessing each neighboring booth. And when Karla saw that I'd seen them, she got a sly grin on her face.
"For your birthday, I'm going to help you fulfill a fantasy of yours, she whispered. "You're going to suck your first cock tonight."
I said nothing, but the look on my face clearly said "WHAT???"