This is part 2 of the story.
*
I woke up first and started clearing up from the night before, leave nothing but footprints and all that.
James came out and joined me shortly after.
"Morning mate," he said.
"Morning," I replied, and wondered how long it would be until the girls woke and I could make a coffee.
"You know what Holly said last night about a threesome?" James suddenly blurred out. The sexual chat seemed more jarring in the cold light of day.
"Yeah," I said cautiously.
"We've spoken about it before but after you saw those photo's yesterday it came up again between us," he carried on, "well would you ever be willing to give it a go with us."
I paused. If I'd had that coffee I would have spat it out across the floor. I had to pinch myself mentally that I wasn't dreaming. I looked at his face and he wasn't joking, he looked deadly serious, even slightly vulnerable asking. Had they really thought this through before now? Had they really thought this through at all? Would our friendship group even survive if we did? I kind of felt like James and I would still be mates, but I'm not sure how it would change things with Holly.
"Just as a one time thing," James added, "we want to try it, but we want someone we can trust and if it's not for us we can all stop and call it a day. I feel like if we got some random bloke in and we wanted to stop it might not go so well. Basically you're my best mate and I'd rather it was you than any other guy. Holly has always thought you were hot, we just didn't think you'd be interested as she's not really your type, being a slightly bigger girl. Then yesterday you obviously liked the photos, the way you were staring at the phone..."
He trailed off and we tidied in silence. He was making sense, I guess. They were just looking to try something out and it wasn't something they could do alone so they wanted my help.
"Can I think about it?" I asked. My erection told me I liked the idea but it seemed better to think it through than rush into it.
"Course," said James, and then added about a minute later "you don't think it's gay of me asking do you?"
"Gay?" I laughed, "no mate, I don't think it's gay for two guys to have sex with a woman, even if it is the same one. I don't even think it's that weird. The amount of porn that features it, it must be a pretty common fantasy."
He nodded and we sat in silence until the girls woke up.
*
After breakfast, I was even more sure than ever that I had messed everything up with Rose. Not only had I fingered her and then got ghosted, I'd confessed my long standing crush on her in front of our friends and she'd said virtually nothing. She was definitely ignoring me now.
"I was thinking of maybe going for a hike, round the loch maybe," James suggested.
Rose said she just wanted to read, tan a bit and maybe swim so would stay behind. Which meant to avoid awkwardness I was on the hike, even if it wasn't really my thing.
Holly was in, and Sammy said she'd rather stay and tan too.
The three of us set off round the lake, it was about 7 miles so would take us a few hours as the terrain wasn't that easy. No one had thought to bring a map but as James said, if we kept the loch on our left we would come back to the same spot.
We all trudged in silence for the first part. I wondered if Holly knew James had approached me that morning, but I wasn't about to ask. I did offer at one point to go back so they could have some alone time but they said it was fine.
We stopped for a rest after an hour and we were all very hot. James took his top off and I followed suit. James was a lot less bulky than me, but with a lot more conditioning and muscle tone. He was kind of lean and wiry but struggled to put on any muscle weight.
Holly took hers off too, leaving her in just a sports bra and tight yoga shorts.
"What?" She looked over at me and James who were both watching her, "it's not like he hasn't seen it all before, and a lot more besides."
This broke the atmosphere and we all sniggered.
"Talking of which...." Holly added, "I take it James had a little chat with you this morning?"
James nodded.
"I don't mean to pressure you to give an answer, but..." she hesitated, "is there anything you would like to discuss to help you make up your mind?"
I thought for a moment I had a thousand question but the obvious one was the first out my mouth.
"Why?"
"Hmmm," Holly thought, "good question, I guess why not? I love James, don't get me wrong, and we have a good sex life but I'm 18 and I'm not ready to be put on the shelf as someone's wifey just yet. I've always fanaticised about multiple guys, sometimes multiple multiple guys and if that fantasy is to become a reality we need to take a first step."
It made sense, and I appreciated her being so candid.
"I told you yesterday I like other men admiring her body," James added, "and look, it would just be sex. We're not asking you to join the relationship and it's not going to be an ongoing thing."
"I want someone who I can say stop and I know it won't be too awkward," Holly added, "and I want that for James too. The reality of watching me get fucked by another guy might not be quite the fantasy we have. If James is feeling uncomfortable I trust he would stop you and we could all laugh it off. If it was someone we'd brought in just to have sex with us then we might feel we were letting them down or owed then something."
"How would it even work?" I asked
"Well, that's partly up to you mate," James replied. "we have our own list of things we'd like to get out of it, but it's what you're comfortable with."
"What's on the list?" I asked
"Kissing me," Holly asked, "then if that was fine, giving and receiving oral, and all being well, sex. But no butt stuff. I may have been curious about it with Sammy but I don't want you getting any ideas."
"I don't even have any condoms with me" I asked.
Holly grinned, realising this meant I had thought about it and was thinking of doing it on this trip.
"That wouldn't be a problem," she said, "in fact, would you be okay to cum... inside of me?"
I looked over at James.
"It's a thing for him," Holly explained, "I keep telling him not to be embarrassed. Given the amount of gang bang porn we watch he must know he's not the only guy who likes the idea of seconds. We're all clean, by the way and I've got the implant, so it's a crazy idea but it's a calculated risk."
I knew I was clean too, getting checked after my last break up. My erection was straining to get out by this point. I still wasn't quite ready to say yes.
"Let's walk on a bit further," James suggested and we agreed.
As I walked I couldn't help but think about having sex with Holly. I'd thought about it before, for sure, but never seriously thinking it would actually happen.
What was my big deal? It was just sex. They'd made that clear. I wanted to have sex. They wanted to have sex. It should have been so simple. The more I thought about it, the more I realised the only thing actually holding me back was the fear of Rose judging me for it. I was such a chump, it's not like she cared about me like that anyway.
"I'll do it," I said suddenly, then realised they hadn't been following the same thought process I had, but we all knew what I meant. Holly jumped a little with excitement, "on one condition."
"It's the cum thing isn't it?" James asked.
"No," I replied, as long as I came before him it didn't bother me, "the others never find out. You take this to your graves, even if that means lying to them or cheating on truth and dare."
James and Holly looked at each other.
"Done!" They said in unison.
In this whole process of negotiating a threesome and talking about sex with my best friends, nothing was as awkward as the walk that followed. It was like no one wanted to ask the when or where or how. We all wanted to tear our clothes off (or certainly Holly's clothes off) right there and then, but were we really going to do it right there in the woods?
It turns out we were. Holly stopped and using a pause rather than any words for permission started kissing me. I kissed back and then she stopped.
"How was that for you, James," she asked.
"Yeah, fine," he replied.
Holly went back to kissing me and this time reached behind her back and undid her sports bra. My best friends girlfriend was now kissing me topless while he watched. She stopped again.
"Both fine so far?" She asked. Two nods confirmed she was good to carry on. She ran her hands down my chest and then lifted one of my hands up to her breast.
Her boobs were small but stuck out rather and holding them was somewhere between a cup and a pinch, not that I was complaining.
"That's actually pretty hot," James said, so Holly didn't have to stop this time.
Holly didn't waste anytime and dropped to her knees. She pulled my shorts and pants down in one go and stared greedily at my cock. She started to slide her hand up and down the shaft slowly and I looked over at James. He was staring at Holly and soon dropped his own trousers too.
"Last chance to object before I blow your best friend" Holly said in a matter of fact way. James stroked her face and then turned her head back towards me as means of encouragement.
Holly opened her soft wide lips and put the top three inches of my cock in her mouth. It wasn't exactly passionate, more like a clinical procedure, a carefully thought out step in a plan.