The knock at the back door could only mean one thing. Mark was here. I've known Mark since grade school. His family moved away during high school, and we pretty much lost contact, but since he moved back into town several years ago, we hang out pretty regularly again. He was the only person that would walk around the deck to the back door and knock.
Sure enough, as I got to the top of the steps from my basement where I had just tossed my clothes into the dryer from the washer, I could see him standing right outside the glass door. He was bouncing from foot to foot, case of beer in one hand, butcher-paper-wrapped package in the other, silly grin across his face. He usually came over to grill and drink. Mark did a lot of drinking, too much really.
He was talking as I opened the door.
"Hey man, got some super thick ribeyes! Debbie home?" he asked stepping into my kitchen and laying the steaks on the table.
"No, tonight is her running club, so she goes straight there from work. Won't be home for a few hours," I replied as I closed the door behind him.
"Bummer. I got a steak for her too," Mark said as he opened the case of beer and handed me a super-cold can.
"Toss some of those beers in the 'fridge. I'm gonna fire up the grill," I said as I headed back out onto the deck toward the grill.
Mark joined me in a few minutes, cigarette in one hand, steaks on a plate in the other. He's been to my house so many times, he knows where everything is, and pretty much has the run of the place.
"I did a 50-50 salt and pepper thing on 'em," he said as he handed me the plate of three steaks. I sat the plate down as I waited for the grill thermometer to peg at its highest setting. We always grilled our steaks on the hottest grill we could get.
We ate the steaks outside since it was a beautiful, warm evening. Having the kind of conversations you can only have with somebody you've known your entire life, and each going through five or so cans of ice-cold brews. We were feeling pretty good, and as usual, the conversation drifted to sexual themes.
Mark was single, had never been married, and had a hard time keeping a girl longer than several months. Maybe that was why he was something of a porn connoisseur. He often brought me a DVD that I "had to watch", or more often lately, showed me something on his laptop. Mark suddenly jumped up from his chair, nearly shouting.
"Dude! You have to see this! Be right back!" And off he ran toward the front of the house where he had parked. I shook my head, laughed a little, and took a long drink of my beer while I wondered what it would be this time.
Soon enough, Mark reappeared with open laptop in hand, squinting at the screen and poking at the keyboard with one finger. He plopped into the chair next to me, watching his screen intently.
"I'm in love with this chick," he said laughing. "She looks exactly like Alyssa Milano."
Music came from his laptop, and I could see a movie begin playing with a white convertible car driving up a winding road, but the glare off the screen made it tough to see very well.
"We should go inside if you want me to actually be able to see anything," I told him.
"Oooh! Can we put it on the big screen?" he asked excitedly.
"Sure, even better," I answered as we headed into the house.
We ran his laptop into my TV, and started watching again, but on the 72" screen inside, things looked much better.
The movie was a newer porn, which was good because Mark often brought older vintage stuff. Sometimes, that stuff was ok, but I had a hard time getting past the bad hair and dated look to them. This one was obviously made within the last five years or so. He was right about the lead girl. She really was a dead-ringer for Alyssa Milano. We've both fantasized about her for years, and frequently talk about it.
The story was about a husband and wife, their boring sex life, and how they spiced it up by bringing each other's wildest fantasies to life. There was an early scene of the couple getting it on in that white convertible I mentioned, then a scene where they picked up a woman at a bar and took her home for a threesome with lots of girl-on-girl action.
Now, the couple was at home having dinner with one of the husband's male co-workers that the wife had confessed to having fantasies about. The conversation at their table was getting more and more openly sexual, and you could see where things were about to go. The Alyssa Milano look-alike was wearing a super tight short dress, and flirting heavily with the husband's co-worker. I had about half a hard-on watching her and anticipating what was coming.
Just then my front door opened, and in walked my wife, Debbie.
"I could smell grilled meat as soon as I got out of the car. Did you save me any?" she asked as she walked in.
Mark was sitting up straighter on the couch and kind of scooting around, probably trying to reposition the half chub that he likely had from the movie just as I was.
"Oh, good lord, what are you two watching?" she asked, as she noticed the movie.
We looked from her back to the screen just in time to see our girl place her bare foot into the crotch of the husband's co-worker and start working the bulge in his pants with her perfectly-painted red toes.