Chapter 4 The Swingers Club
Nora was extremely nervous. Her hands were sweating. There were butterflies in her stomach. She was trying to work up the courage to have a frank girl-to-girl talk with Aiko about swinging. Finally, she took a deep breath and dialled Aiko's phone number.
"Can I come over and talk, just you and me?" she asked.
"Of course," Aiko replied. "Gerald just took the car to the garage to get it fixed. He'll be busy for a while. So how about now?"
"Good," she agreed, "I'll be right there."
She walked over to Aiko's house. Aiko was already waiting for her at the door. She let her friend in.
"Would you like something to drink?" she asked.
"Sure."
"Anything in particular?"
"No, whatever is easiest for you."
How about some tea? I've got some steeping already."
"Okay."
Aiko went to the kitchen to fetch the teapot, and then returned.
"Let's sit in the living room," she said as she put the teapot on the coffee table. "Just give me a second."
She pulled out two teacups and saucers from the display case and set them on the table as well. Aiko and Nora sat at the two ends of the sofa. They turned at an angle to face each other.
"Okay, I'm all-ears," Aiko told Nora. "What's up?"
"Ryan and I talked about you and your lifestyle," she began. She blushed. She was obviously very nervous. "We," her mouth went suddenly dry, "think we might want to look into it more, maybe even try it."
"Try what?" Aiko asked. She wanted Nora to be explicit. She saw it as a necessary step to put everything out into the open.
"To try swinging," she stuttered nervously, "maybe with you guys?"
Aiko moved closer to sit beside her. She took her hand. "Don't be so nervous," she urged. "The one thing I can promise you is that nothing will be done against your will. It is an absolute rule to us that no means no. We don't make people do what they don't want to do."
Nora looked relieved and became more relaxed, knowing the road that they were about to take had an exit ramp should they change their minds.
"We've already explained most of the things you need to know when we told you about our lifestyle. We belong to a local group with three other couples. We are also in contact with a swingers' group in Buffalo but distance and our otherwise busy lives mean that we see them very rarely," Aiko summarized. "So, what are your questions?" she asked.
"I'm conflicted," she replied. "On the one hand, it's scary. It goes against the grain of what is supposed to happen in a marriage." She hesitated. "On the other hand, the thought of having sex with some other guy is a turn-on because it's taboo, and different, and exciting."
"What does Ryan think?" probed Aiko.
"I think he has the same feelings."
It seems to me," Aiko suggested, "that you two want to dip your toes in the water before you jump in. Is that a fair way of putting it?"
"Yes, actually, it's a very good way of putting it," she agreed.
"Hmm," Aiko said. She was silent for a few moments thinking about how to overcome Nora's conundrum. Then she lit up. "I have an idea."
"What?" Nora queried.
"When we talked to you and Ryan, we told you that our first real swinging experience was on board a cruise ship. But we forgot to mention that we actually went to a swingers' club first before we went on that cruise. There was so much to tell you about swinging that we forgot to mention that particular episode."
"A swingers' club," Nora said. "That sounds like jumping into the water feet first," cried her friend.
"No, it wasn't like that Nora," Aiko countered. "When we went, we agreed ahead of time to stick together and not commit ourselves to anything."
"What happened? Did you have sex with someone?" Nora asked not giving Aiko a chance to continue.
"No and yes."
"You're not making sense Aiko."
Aiko laughed. "Just let me explain. All will become clear," she assured.
"Sorry," Nora apologized.
"Before we went, we agreed to watch and observe and even allow physical contact but there would be no sex. We decided to wear yellow wristbands, which, according to club rules, was supposed to convey to all those present that groping and touching was allowed, we were in a sex club after all, but we not ready to participate in more intimate sexual activities."
Aiko laughed and then continued. "We were actually relatively bod for first-timers. We could have worn red wristbands, which was a signal to everyone else that we were just looking and nothing more, no groping, no touching. After a while, this guy approached me and asked me to dance with him."
"Oh, wow, Aiko, you really did that? I'd be too nervous to go even that far."
Although the two women were alone in the house, Aiko lowered her voice and whispered to make sure that only Nora could hear what she was about to say.
"I let him take my hand. He led me to the dance floor. The DJ was playing slow, sexy music. Other couples were on the floor, taking liberties with each other's bodies that be frowned upon in most dance venues. Within seconds after we began dancing, his hands were roaming all over me. His prick got really hard. He wasn't shy about pressing it against me. I was okay with all of that. To be honest he made me hot. It was exciting to have a stranger's hands probing parts of my body that only Gerald has touched since our marriage. But he wanted to take me to one of rooms to have sex with him even though I wore a yellow band.