This was a new twist to holiday gift giving -- my wife and I agreed that we were up for a change. Each of us prepared twelve challenges for one another. One for each day of the twelve days of Christmas.
You should know that we weren't your average plain-Dick-and-Jane-couple. For the past five years of our marriage, we had loosened the boundaries of our relationship and our sex lives. I started it, but Claire picked it up and ran with it. It began when she walked in on my home office to find me jerking off to internet porn. At first, she was affronted, but then that rebellious spark that I fell in love with initially reared up.
After I shared my interests, we went exploring together. Turns out her interests were even more varied than mine.
There are many things that had happened in the five years since then -- enough for more than a few more Literotica chapters one of these days -- but, summing it all up, we were having more sex with more people than we had in all the years before we met. We had our groups together and apart. Through it all, we continued to look to have it be more interesting. Then came the Christmas season. I came up with the idea after reading through some blogs on Tumblr where challenges were being enumerated ("Give a stranger a blowjob and film it for your partner" and the like.)
"Okay, Claire, how about this? We each write up twelve challenges for the other, and present them for the twelve days of Christmas."
"I like it. But let's think -- what if we don't complete them? What will be the penalty?"
"Damn. I hadn't thought about that. Do we need a penalty? Can't we just promise to do everything?"
"I have some ideas you might be hesitant to try -- and you might have a few for me -- so what do we do to guarantee that all the challenges are met?"
"Well, we either promise to do them all or let's not even bother. I'm game if you are."
And that's what we did -- we decided to go ahead even though we each had some delightfully wicked thoughts about pushing each other's boundaries. (We did agree that some things were out of bounds -- no scat, no physical harm, and nothing risky.) And then we had about a week to come up with them for each other.
December 14 -- the first day of Christmas
This was our first challenge day. I had spent the past week making list after list of challenges for Claire, and slowly whittled them down to twelve. She -- as it turns out -- had done exactly the same.
We went out for dinner that evening, meeting after work at a favorite restaurant with a romantic setting. Candles, low key jazz and a multi-course dinner with plenty of wine had us both satiated and glowing.
"It's time." I said, pulling out the card I had prepared for her. Claire did the same and we exchanged them. "Tonight, you open yours first so I can see your reaction; we'll change the order tomorrow."
With that, she used a dinner utensil to open her envelope. I watched as she read it. Her expression changed. At first, she was nervous and anxious. As she read the card her eyes grew wide. When she was done, she looked at me. Then she closed her eyes and another change came over her -- she must have imagined the scenario and I saw her face come alive as she opened her eyes."
Her first challenge, for the first day of Christmas, was to find identical twins and get spit-roasted between them. Picture were required for proof.
"How did you ever come up with this?" She asked.
"I just figured a pair was the closest I could get to a pear tree." I grinned awkwardly.
"It's a lousy pun, but a great challenge. Now open yours."
She'd been creative as well, and as it turns out, in a similar vein. I had to find a mother and daughter and satisfy them both. Together.
"And just how did you figure this one?" I asked.
"Pretty much the same line of thinking you used, actually. So, when do we start and when is this due?"
"As soon as the check is paid, and proof due by midnight, since we both have work tomorrow." She nodded and got herself together as I paid the check. Since we'd arrived separately, we left separately.
I didn't think mine would be tough to fulfill. We had a mutual friend (Geri) who was a little older, widowed, and with a single daughter in her late twenties. We'd encountered them both -- but separately -- through the years. I called ahead and determined that Geri was home alone but her daughter was expected in a bit, and I invited myself over.
Geri was in her early 50's, but you wouldn't necessarily notice it about her, other than a certain gravitas that comes with age and experience. She was a bit of a gym rat, since it not only helped her keep her figure, it also provided a ready sample of testosterone and cocks. Her daughter Marci, on the other hand, was less attendant to the hard body look and more the luscious, curvy type. I knew they both favored men and women -- I didn't know if they knew that about each other.