It was a perfect night to howl at the moon. Kelly and a group of friends were gathering for their annual campout on the night of the brightest moonlight of the year. As always, the camp was full of a few newbies but mostly the core group that always camped together. They called themselves a band of brothers, and they were closer than most friends. Some had wives, some had significant others, some had a rotating flavor of the week. Many of them were in strong open marriages, and most of those who weren't had wives and significant others who were accepting of the laid-back morality of camp life. There was rarely any jealousy, and a woman could dress as provocatively as she liked and know that she would be admired, flirted with, drooled over, complimented, and even propositioned, but never ever pushed past what she wanted. The other guys would jump all over any guy who pushed too far - no brotherhood bond would trump the ironclad rule that "no means no", and a brother who broke that trust would quickly find himself out of the group.
So Kelly had taken advantage of the bright moonlight, the cool night, and the warm fire to hang by the fire with the boys long after the other wives and partners had gone to bed. She was snuggled up on the log that served as a long bench between Bret and Evan, two of her favorite guys, the three of them wrapped in a huge blanket that went around their shoulders like a cloak.
She'd known Evan a long time, ever since their first meeting when the mutual sparks flew and immediately blazed up into a fire that hadn't stopped smoldering since. Evan was in an open marriage with a gorgeous feisty redhead who knew and accepted him for the affection-seeker that he was. She and Kelly were good friends, and Kelly knew that snuggling with him was totally fair game. Their longtime simmer made just sitting next to him electric, and Kelly loved feeling his long legs pressed against hers and his arm around her waist under the blanket.
On her other side was Bret, a newer addition to the brotherhood but one who had quickly become a trusted member of the group. He was larger than Evan, not as muscular but with a big barrel chest and lips that were almost feminine in their fullness. He was all about touching, so he had one of Kelly's hands in his, stroking it lightly and almost without realizing he was doing it.
And then across the fire was Scott, one of the originators of the brotherhood. Scott was telling a story about his latest exploits, punctuating it with his great rolling laugh as he told some story about his renovation business and the challenges of manual labor. His other brothers sat around him, laughing at his story, drinking their beer, and thoroughly enjoying the perfect camping weather.
Kelly relaxed a bit more - only halfway listening to the story, but intensely aware of Evan's thigh pressing against hers, his hand on her waist, and Bret's long fingers tracing patterns on her hand and wrist on the opposite side.
Her mind wandered a bit to earlier that day as her husband had helped her pack up her truck and tent and camping gear. Expressing again his regret that a work commitment this year kept him from joining the group that he had helped found, he reminded Kelly how much she needed this weekend away and to enjoy herself "to the absolute fullest," he told her as he winked. She'd been working incredibly hard for the last few months, and these weekends away from civilization with no schedule recharged her in a way nothing else did. The fact that it was filled with goodlooking guys in faded jeans, t-shirts, and workboots, just made it a weekend full of eye candy in addition to the relaxation. Her husband knew all this and was happy when he could join the group of guys, but even when he couldn't be there he loved knowing Kelly would be surrounded by men who admired her and loved her, almost as much as he did.
Her thoughts came back the present as she felt Evan's left hand start to wander, slipping inside the back of her shirt and touching the skin of her lower back. Under the guise of covering them with the blanket to keep out the cold, he reached over with his other hand, sliding across her favorite faded jeans and between her knees to firmly hold her thigh against his. At almost the same time, she was aware of Bret's gently tracing fingers move up her arm and up to her neck and shoulder under the blanket. The dual sensation, coming from opposite directions simultaneously, gave her chill bumps.
Bret leaned in a little closer to her, and now as his right hand slipped inside her collar to caress her bare neck and shoulder, his left hand moved up to gently touch the curve of her left breast over her flannel shirt.