Chapter 36
Rather than say anything, Marcia lifted herself from the bed and started wrestling with Jennifer. It was just in play and Jennifer understood this too. Jennifer also knew it was her job to end up on her back on the bed, pinned down by Marcia.
"I concede," Jennifer said, smiling up at her lover.
"You're so beautiful, it's painful," said Marcia, brushing hair out of the blonde's eyes.
"Look where it's got me," she responded, "A husband who fucks anything over 40 in a skirt and a prospective house-group leader's wife who comes to my home on false pretences and seduces me."
Marcia laughed and asked her if her tears about Dean had been genuine. She had been wondering about this for a while after all the twists and turns the day had taken.
"Yes," said Jennifer without emotion. "I've already consulted a lawyer. Just a preliminary measure. It isn't quite over yet, but I can't see things improving."
"I wonder if we could do anything to help," Marcia said.
"Oh, he'd love that. You're one of the three women in the church he's told me he'd like to fuck. I mean, besides those he's already had his way with."
"I'm not sure if I should be flattered or not. So who are the other two?"
"One of them is the pastor's wife, and the other is Alicia Summerbee."
"I don't think I know her."
"She and her husband Daryl actually joined the church because of Dean, after they met at Rotary. He became besotted with Alicia when she came along to one of the fundraising lunches they have. I wasn't at that one. I gave up going, as he only wants to take me along to put me on display. Anyway, I still don't think he realizes that Daryl is gay."
"Gay, as in doesn't sleep with his wife?"
"Gay, as in has
never
slept with his wife. It is a marriage of convenience. No, I don't get it either. Anyway, he's a tax lawyer and does very well, and Alicia likes to spend the money."
"And am I to assume that she's rebuffed Dean's advances?"
"I've no idea. Has he made any advances to you?"
"None that I've noticed."
"And I don't think he's got the balls to try and bang Michelle Donaldson."
"Does he know that she prefers women?"
"It wouldn't make any difference if he did. He thinks of himself as a one-man conversion therapy program. Well, a program for the good looking ones anyway."
"Did you know that the leadership of the church needs to see a change of heart from Dean regarding his attitude towards same-sex love if he wishes his (and your) application for membership to be successful?"
"Leadership as in Pastor Donaldson and the elders, or leadership as in the
real
leadership of the church?"
"The real leadership of the church. Michelle (who would be highly amused to learn that Dean has her so high on his To Do list) is quite insistent about this, and I think Daryl might hold the key to the whole situation."
"You're not - no, you can't be," spluttered Jennifer, breaking out in almost hysterical laughter. "You're not suggesting that Dean gets, um, sorted out by Daryl?!"
"Why not? These types who make the biggest noise about detesting gays are so often the ones who are secretly harboring desires to, well, you know, take it up the bum!"
"Oh my god, that would be so funny! Dean getting 'straightened out' by Daryl!"
"I'll get working on it," said Marcia. "Do you think Alicia's the type of woman who can keep a secret?"
"Look, she will find the idea as hilarious as I do. Well, good luck with your planning. You're very resourceful and very determined. I'm sure you'll come up with something."
"Look at the time!" Marcia said, checking her phone for the first time in hours. "I have unfinished business with you, young lady, but it will have to wait for another day. I've had a fabulous time."
They kissed one last time and then Marcia drove off to pick up her boys from school and ponder the way forward for Dean. First, she tried to put herself into a man's shoes and think about how a man (say Connor, the man she knew best) would feel about kissing another man. She instinctively felt that the intimacy of that action would be too much for a first step. For two women it was the natural way to initiate things, but not for two men, she concluded. So how would she kick things off if she were a predatory man, who had set his eyes on demolishing the defences of his target, his prey?
It had to be touch, she decided, and it had to be by touching the part of the body that all men treasured above every other. First, through the fabric of the pants, then, when the penis had been released, directly with the hands. And then of course the tongue. Yes, Marcia could envisage such a scenario quite easily. Once the dominant partner had brought the submissive one to orgasm, he would have him where he wanted him. In his aroused, not to mention, weakened, state, it would not be such a big deal for the dominant man to get his partner on all fours and ease his penis into the other's asshole - however tight it might be. Anyway, the tighter the better, as Marcia herself had found out!
It was not as if she would be coaching Daryl, of course, but, who knows, she might be the liaison and it would be as well that she was as knowledgeable and prepared as she could be. For this reason, once the boys had settled down to the projects their school had set them, Marcia used the half hour productively by settling down in her locked office to view some gay porn. She deliberately chose a scene with men of similar ages to Daryl and Dean - and similar physiques. She wasn't interested in guys who pumped iron and drank protein shakes. Contrary to expectations, she found the scene engaging and even arousing. The encounter pretty much followed the pattern that Marcia had mapped out in her own mind - the two men kissing only after they had had sex.
Later that evening, when the boys were in bed and Connor was watching sports on the big screen in the den, Michelle called. Naturally, she wanted to know how her meeting had gone with Jennifer. Marcia didn't want to keep Michelle on the line all night, so she gave a potted version of events, mentioning the pool but quickly moving on to the activity upstairs. Michelle wasn't having any of this, making Marcia relate the juicy details of her "seduction" of the blonde beauty in the water. Michelle laughed at Marcia's naivety, but was delighted that she had chosen her for this missionary work, as she liked to call it.
When Marcia shared her plans with Michelle for Dean, her ears really pricked up. She knew that Daryl was gay, but was unaware that he was already buddies with Dean, or for that matter that Dean lusted after Alicia. (Marcia decided not to tell the Pastor's wife at this point that
she