It was spring semester of my senior year, and things were pretty much on cruise control. I had been dating my girlfriend Kelly for almost a year now and things were going great for us, although we hadn't settled yet on our plans for after graduation. We were both leaning toward separate grad schools within an hour of each other, though, so that wasn't a stresser on our relationship.
My housemates loved Kelly. Classes were going great (having cleared all the highest hurdles before now). I had even made a new friend, at this late date, in my Tuesday evening night class. Matt was also a senior, who had transferred here last year; in fact, he had a Monday night class with Kelly, so the three of us fell into a habit of going out for beers on Monday or Tuesday evenings.
It was on one such evening in an off-campus pizza parlor that Matt got inside my head. It was after the Tuesday night class that Matt and I shared; but Kelly had joined us. She sat beside me in the booth in the dimly-lit restaurant, eating pizza, sipping beer, laughing as we made jokes about our professors. After a while, though, she excused herself, because she had an early class the following morning.
She kissed me on the cheek, and then left; and we both watched her walk away, her blonde hair gently bobbing, and the hip pockets of her jeans rising and falling oh-so-perfectly with each step. I heard myself sigh.
"Your girlfriend is something else," Matt said. I agreed, enthusiastically.
"No, I mean it," he continued. "She's really probably the prettiest girl on the whole campus."
I felt my heart swell. Yeah, I think so; but it's always rewarding to hear someone else say so.
"So, you know," he said, "I'll bet you can't believe how lucky you are."
That kind of dropped me in my tracks. He picked up his mug and took a long, slow sip, never breaking eye contact with me. Yeah, he was right; but it was kind of weird hearing someone say it out loud.
"You kind of remind me of my friend Nate," he continued.
Huh. I cleared my throat, and asked him to tell me about his friend Nate.
He smiled and settled back in the booth. "Yeah, well, Nate was like you in a lot of ways. Smart as a whip. Good guy. He was dating a gorgeous girl, too. In fact, her name was Kellie, too, but Kellie with an ie."
I sat back on my side of the booth, intrigued but unsettled. I listened as he told me his story. About how Nate was really, really interested in hearing how much Matt appreciated how pretty Kellie was. Weird. How Nate volunteered that he had pictures of Kellie, naked.
This was before the internet, before digital cameras. I was surprised, stunned, inexplicably aroused. Nate must have had a polaroid camera. I didn't have one, and I couldn't imagine my Kelly letting me take pictures of her if I had had one. But I found the story mesmerizing.
He told me how Nate had almost eagerly offered him the chance to look at these pictures. So weird. This wasn't like me at all. Was it? How he had at first declined. But then, a week later, had gone over to Nate's apartment and taken him up on his offer.
I started feeling squeamish. I looked across the table at my friend, seeing him for the first time as a rival for my girlfriend's attention. Damn. He was an attractive enough guy. Bigger than me; not so much taller, but certainly with broader shoulders, a stronger chest. I looked at his hands on the table between us. I suddenly had an image of thumb-wrestling with him. With him quickly, easily pinning my thumb down beneath his, chortling as he did so.
I think we both realized at the same moment that I had been silent for a very long time.
"So, that's how I got started fucking my friends' girlfriends."
I could feel my eyes getting wider. "Started?" I thought. "GirlFRIENDS, plural?"
He grinned at me. "Oh, yeah. It's become something of a hobby. An obsession, really." He paused.
"You want me to fuck Kelly, don't you," he stated. It wasn't a question.
My mouth went dry. But I shook my head. "No."
"No?" he smiled. "I don't believe you."
"I mean, yeah, this whole conversation has been really ... hot," I stammered. "But, seriously, that's just not my thing."
He leaned back in the booth and smiled. "Except it's going to be all you can think about tonight. And tomorrow."
I gulped and realized he was right. I was already picturing my precious girlfriend, on her back, looking up at Matt with her blue eyes wide and her lips parted. Her white peasant blouse and her bra pushed up under her chin, while one of his strong hands cupped one soft, B-cup breast, rolling her pale pink nipple between his fingers. While his other hand reached down and released the button on her faded jeans ...
"Look, if you don't want me to fuck Kelly," he said, never breaking eye contact, "Just tell her that I'm an asshole. Tell her we had this conversation. Look her in the eye and tell her that your friend told you he wants to fuck your girlfriend."
I looked at him and swallowed, hard. I realized that I was not going to be telling Kelly about this conversation. I think he realized it, too.
"I've got class with her on Monday night. I'm going to ask her to go have a beer with me afterwards. If she blows me off, I'll have a pretty good idea why.
"But if she doesn't blow me off ... well, I won't know for sure whether you just never told her, and she just wants my cock ... or whether you did tell her, and that's *why* she wants my cock.
"Either way ... when we get together again next Tuesday, you'll be sitting across the table from the guy who just fucked your girl.
"Or tell me, right now, 'No, Matt, don't. Stop. I don't want you to fuck my pretty blonde girlfriend."