Things don't always work out like you plan.
I met Jessica through my friend Des. They'd dated for almost a year, but wound up breaking it off. They remained friends, though, and still did a lot of things together. One night he asked if I could pick her up from a concert and give her a lift home as he was going to crash at a friend's house afterwards. I did, and we hit things off, had a great time together, and soon found our way into each other's beds on a regular basis.
I came out to her early on because I was starting to accept my own sexual preferences and I figured she had the right to know since she was obviously part of those preferences. Thing is, you never know how someone is going to react when you tell them you're bi.
She took it very well, as in it made no difference to her. Looking back, it shouldn't have surprised me. Like I said, free spirit. I'd learn more about her own proclivities later, but she was the first girlfriend I ever had where we could both ogle hot guys and I'd feel no sense of shame about it. We both kind of grew into it and soon we found ourselves not only ogling, but talking.
A gorgeous dude would wander by our table at the food court, we'd discuss what we'd do with him. The hows, the whys, and the planning would eventually work their magic and we'd have to find convenient places to relieve our worked up sexual frustrations! It was wonderful, but it couldn't really last for long.
Jessica and I stayed close even after the relationship didn't work out. It was just one of those things where we knew we were going different directions to begin with, so there was no way we're going to end up in the same place. Nevertheless, we maintained a "friends with benefits" relationship because, let's face it, we both enjoyed each other's company both in and out of bed.
I wasn't in a hurry for a new relationship. After all, I had a fantastic woman who called on me regularly for very personal favours. A few months later, I learned about Des's bisexuality. I was shocked! I'd known this guy for years and he never seemed the type. He always had a girlfriend and we'd talk at length about the finer points of pleasing women. One day, while chatting online, he just opens up. He'd been on a short trip to visit a friend in Seattle. I knew that. What I wasn't aware of was that he'd not only visited, but slept with, his friend. It went okay, and they planned to play some more later, but it wasn't a relationship more than a fun time in the bigger city.
Since I had nothing to lose, I came out to him. He wasn't shocked, as I was, but he was surprised. Weirdly, he'd had a sort of, I don't know, "feeling" about me. I confessed another thing to him, something I'd only told Jessica.
Sure, I'm bi, but up to then, I'd not had any experience with a guy. I wanted to, but no takers. There was a pause on the chat for a few minutes and he finally typed out "Well, I think you're kinda cute...." I smiled and invited him over for the afternoon and we wound up in bed together soon after. In some ways, being with Des was much better than my first time with Jessica as I'd learned some control and she'd taught me a few tricks that I could contribute.
Granted, mad, passionate sex with a guy is a hell of a lot different than with a girl, but things managed to work out pretty well. We were both kind of nervous about telling Jessica about our relationship, but figured that we should. Des broke it to her before I did, and she was cool with it, far cooler than we thought she might be. I guess it never occurred to us that some women had certain things in common with guys. In other words, most guys like to watch two ladies get it on, some ladies like to watch two guys go at it. Made sense, if we'd bothered to think about it.
As it happened, we all were hanging out one night in my basement. Des and Jessica were both over that night to watch some movies. I think we were digging on a Monty Python something or other. I'd pirated a massive cache of that stuff from the library since I went there on a pretty regular basis. Dubbing tapes was my second foray into the wonderful world of piracy just after cracking software on the Commodore 64. It always overjoyed me when I figured something out, and it made me just as happy that I could have my own copies of Monty Python's Flying Circus!
In between bouts of laughing our asses off, I noticed Des and Jessica getting kind of friendly. Nothing serious, just her rubbing her hand up and down his thigh and him occasionally running his fingers through her hair. I've never been the jealous type and Des and I were never an official "thing" anyway. I'd watched more than a my fair share of pornography by this point in my life and I knew that I would love to watch two people having sex. After a couple of episodes, she was sitting on his lap and I'd moved from my chair to share the couch with them.
In the middle of a sketch, I glanced over and saw Des's hand under Jessica's t-shirt, lightly rubbing her bare back. As things were building up to the Python's big punchline, I looked them over and said "Look, dude, if you're gonna feel her up on my couch, have the common courtesy to take her shirt off!" I meant it as a joke, but apparently Jessica took it as a challenge. She whisked her shirt off with a small giggle and remained on Des's lap, her top covered only by a simple white and pink bra.
I'm not sure the look I had on my face when she did that. I would like to think it was a mixture of pleasant surprise and utter shock! Not one to pass up an opportunity, Des kept stroking her back and added some light kissing along her ribs and her nearest arm. I eased back against the armrest of the couch and took in the scene. Here were two good friends of mine, who coincidentally shared their bodies with me, and they were getting pretty intimate as I watched. It dawned on me that they had shared themselves with each other too. Each of us knew what the other was like in bed, there were no secrets. As my thoughts passed through my mind, I arose from my seat and joined them; Des sitting down, Jessica on his lap, and me kneeling on the floor in front of them.