We were pals, best buddies, inseparable friends, and my first date with her was to a basketball game and the three of us went in his car. If you saw two of us there would surely be the third close by. People didn't know at that point, I am sure, who she was with. Was it her and me, with him, or was it the two of them and me in the back seat? I wasn't all that sure myself sometimes, until he joined the navy and Claire and I went on our first date without him to a movie and dinner.
When we had sex for the first time, I half expected her to write to him and confess that she and I had it without him, then catch a flight to San Diego to make it right, to give him his due. The first dance I ever went to, again, we went in his car and we either danced as three or traded off. If I wanted to be with her, I would also, until he shipped out, be with him.  It was just a fact of life.
I knew she wrote him everyday, and she got a letter from San Diego many times a week. I wanted to read them, but I never asked. I suspected they would be hot letters full of sex and promises and intimacies. When she accepted my marriage proposal, I expected a caveat: a "what about Jim?" It also became clear that her fixing up our guest room was for only one person.
When he came home on leave, it was assumed he would stay with us.  It was also assumed that part of the time she would sleep in the guest room. Until a night after a movie, she never did. I expected it, but she managed to restrain herself.
What kind of man would put up with an arrangement like this? One who was truly in love.  Jim and I had known one another since third grade. His baseball mitt was my baseball mitt.  In junior high we played at his house or mine, we shared jackets, favorite shirts, I put up my basketball backboard at his house, and his car in high school was as good as mine. We shared everything. His mom was like my second mother, and she got after me just like she did with him, and mine was the same towards Jim. It was only natural that we shared the same girl.
When we went on our first triple date, I think my mother was happy Jim was there to see that things stayed under control. Â I think both mothers felt it was safer to have three on a date rather than just two uninhibited hormone-driven young people alone with their urges and each other.
Their reasoning was good, albeit naive.  Two testosterone charged males and one curious female is probably not the safest gathering of youthful sexual energy. We did explore our sexuality as a threesome, although timidly, and I understood it could be dangerous, but the risk seemed worth it as the reward was awesome.  We flirted, skinny dipped, even petted a bit.
The first time we had sex as a threesome happened on his leave from the navy and we had gone to a movie together. The film was a sexy one about a woman with two lovers and we talked about it in the car afterwards. I knew things could get sexual as we talked about the story where a woman is shared by two men who love her. It couldn't have been better for us.
"Do you think a woman would do that?" she asked shyly as she sat between us.
"Of course," I said. "You and Jim are about as close as two people can be. I am surprised you haven't had sex before now," I said, being as honest as I could possibly be. She looked at me, surprised by my answer.
"And you wouldn't mind?" she asked, amazed by my candor.
"I know you want to," I said. "Am I right?"
She nodded. "Yes," she whispered.  I then helped her slip out of her panties and she smiled at me then turned to Jim. "Would you like to?" she asked, eagerness in her voice.
"Of course," he said.
I moved to the side so he could scoot to the center of the seat away from the steering wheel. He opened his pants and she straddled him, lifting up her skirt, throwing a leg over his lap, facing him, then easing herself down on his stiffness, slipping his erect cock into her as she lowered herself on the friend I had shared everything with for twenty years and at that moment was sharing the pussy of the woman I loved.
She fucked Jim for twenty minutes, then she asked him not to come in her. It was risky, but she had inserted a Norform contraceptive into her pussy before they started, so it was not as reckless as it seemed. I watched him fuck her on the front seat and knew it would have happened eventually. It was simply a matter of time.
We had become a threesome a long time before, although he didn't have sex with her for years. I knew she wanted it and realized I wanted it for them as well.
When Jim was discharged from the navy, he moved back to town and that weekend moved into our guest room. It was simply expected and no discussion was needed. At the airport we stood near the baggage carrousel waiting for him to clear customs. I told her to go to him and she went right then as he stood in the customs line. He turned to meet her and took her into his arms. Their kiss was long and passionate, making up for years apart. He reached around her and put his hands under her bottom, blatantly, with no hesitation in front of dozens of people. He lifted her up and she pushed her body against his and shared her tongue.
People around them smiled and I thought, "if you only knew." When he had his passport stamped they turned toward me and held hands as they walked toward where I stood waiting, patiently.  At that moment she was as much his girlfriend as she was my wife.
I told Claire I figured she would sleep with Jim at least a couple of times a week and she kissed me without saying a word. I also told her I knew we would probably be polyamorous and be a family of three.  Again without having to answer I could see the excitement in her face.