It was a dull, wet, miserable sort of day and the two thirty-something couples sat in Bryan and Judy's lounge watching the rain trickle down the large picture window. On a good day the view was inspiring, but this was not a good day and boredom was setting in. They had been intending to play a game of mixed doubles on the company tennis court, but the weather had totally put paid to that. Now they just sat around making desultory conversation and feeling bored - until Ellen looked up in sudden remembrance and turned to Judy.
'Did you two get caught at it the other night?'
Judy stared at her fiend in total confusion until the light finally dawned and she laughed.
'You mean at the firm's party?'
The chairman of the company they all worked for had thrown a party for the staff in his own home by way of a thank you for getting a big rush order out on time.
'Yes, of course at the party.' Ellen chided. 'We saw you both slipping away upstairs when you thought no one was looking, and we knew exactly what you were going for, didn't we Lee?' She looked at her husband for corroboration, but he just nodded and grinned salaciously.
'Well, booze and loud music always have that effect on us.' Judy confessed with a self-conscious smile.
'And a little bit later we saw Hannah and Brent creeping off too.' Ellen was smiling at her friend's discomfort. 'So did they catch you at it?'
Judy hesitated and Bryan jumped in to save his wife's apparent discomfiture.
'Not quite.' He told Ellen. 'But very nearly. If they'd come up a couple of minutes earlier they would have, but by the time they got there, all giggles and fumbles, we were just doing up our last buttons.' He chuckled. 'I think they were more embarrassed than we were. We left them to it, but I think we might have put them off, because they were back to the party pretty soon afterwards. But then, that's the risk you take doing it in someone else's spare bedroom.'
'What would you have done if they had caught you?' Lee asked him.
'Not a lot. I mean, what could we have done? If they'd already seen us the damage was done, and we would probably have been too horny to stop anyway. I think we'd have just ignored them and kept going.'
'Really?' Ellen exclaimed, her brown eyes widening in surprise. 'You reckon you could have carried on with them there?'
'Yes, why not? That was what we'd all gone upstairs for, wasn't it? Anyway, having an audience might be a turn on.'
'What about you, Judy,' Ellen turned to her friend. 'Could you have carried on with other people there?'
'I wouldn't have had much say in it, would I?' She replied with a mischievous grin. 'I couldn't have got up until Bryan got off, so if he'd kept going I'd have had to.'
'And you'd have enjoyed it.' Bryan told his wife.
'Maybe.' The reply was noncommittal, but the sparkle in her eyes belied the hesitation.
'Right.' Said Lee, reading Judy's face. 'So if we see you go sliding off to a bedroom at the next party, we'll follow you, all right?'
'Not if you're thinking of just watching.' Bryan told him, wondering even as he spoke if he was serious or not. 'I don't mind others knowing what a gorgeously sexy wife I've got, but we're not going to put a free show on for a pair of voyeurs.'
'But you'd be okay with us being there if we were doing it too?'
It was strange, Bryan thought to himself, how nobody had actually named the subject they were discussing, but everyone knew what they meant. It was time to be a little more explicit.
'Yes. To put it in a nutshell, if you want to see us having sex, then you have to let us watch you.'
'You're on.' Lee responded, turning to his wife. 'We aren't shy, are we?'
There was just a second's hesitation while Ellen looked surprised, and then she smiled and shook her head. 'Not a bit.'
Bryan pictured two couples making love next to each other on a strange bed with party noises coming up the stairs to them, and his body began to respond to the thought, his cock hardening behind his zip. He didn't know why, but the idea of having such risky sex in the company of his friends was giving him quite a buzz, and he knew another party was coming up in a few weeks.
'So just to be clear, if you see us slide off for a quiet shag next time, you want us to let you join us and do the same thing?'
'Yes, we'll keep you company.' Lee told him, a growing bulge in the front of his jeans backing up his words.
'We'll hold you to that?' He had reservations, but he was beginning to like the idea more and more, although he wasn't sure yet if Judy would agree. But then suddenly she made it clear that she had her own, even more adventurous, ideas.
'Why wait?' Judy's voice caught him by surprise. 'The idea is starting to turn me on, and judging by the heavy breathing it's doing the same for everyone else. So why wait for a party? What's wrong with right here and right now?'
Her sudden suggestion was met with stunned silence. Even Bryan hadn't seen that one coming and he and their two friends all stared at Judy with their mouths hanging open.
'You don't mean it!' Ellen exclaimed finally, shock overcome by incredulity.
'Why not?' She challenged. 'If we're prepared to watch each other at a party when there's the risk of others walking in on us all, why not here, where we safe from interruption? Or are we all spouting hot air?'
'I think she means it.' Bryan looked at her in surprised admiration. 'She's got more nerve than you'd think.'
He knew his wife was adventurous in bed, he'd had plenty of evidence of that over the years, but he hadn't expected her to want to be quite so uninhibited. But, he admitted to himself, if he was turned on by the thought, why not Judy? But this was no sly quickie at a party that she was talking about, it was much more deliberate than that and he was far from certain he could go along with it. True, a part of him was hoping that the others might agree, but another part was equally scared that they just might. He wanted to, but could he?
'What about you Bryan?' Ellen's voice called him from his reverie, articulating the very question that he was asking himself.
He could hear an undercurrent of eager arousal in her voice, and a quick glance at Lee revealed that he too was bright eyed with excitement. He was surprised at Ellen, he'd thought that if anyone had qualms it would be her, but it didn't seem she had. Was he the only one with any doubts? He realised that if he agreed they'd all be making love together and that would be a step into the unknown as far as their friendships were concerned. Could they take it? Yes, he thought they could, and a growing erection was telling him that his body was willing. He looked at Judy, seeing her holding her breath as she awaited his answer.
'Yes, I'm up for it.' He announced finally, before adding a get-out clause. 'But only if we agree that if anyone becomes uncomfortable, we can stop anytime with no hard feelings?'
'That sounds fair.' Lee nodded. 'I'm in.'
'Yes, me too.' Ellen agreed. 'But I don't think we'll need to worry.'
'Judy?' He asked, looking for his wife's approval even though she'd been the one to make the suggestion in the first place.
'As far as I'm concerned I can't think of a better way of spending a wet afternoon.' She told him with a nervous smile. 'But how about you Bryan? Are you really okay? I mean really.'
She looked at him with one raised eyebrow, reading him much better than he had realised and checking that there would be no repercussions. He smiled back at her, feeling much happier now that the decision had been made and accepted by all of them. It wasn't like cheating because they would keep to their own partners, but it could still have damage their friendships beyond repair, and maybe their marriages too, if anyone had felt coerced.