"Marry Me!"
Just two little words, but with a power and formidability that their very utterance is sufficient to change lives!
I looked directly at Susan as we sat quietly and alone in the corner booth of the bar. Her face was a picture of expressionless wonderment. A slow heat began to creep over me and the hairs on the back of my neck bristled; the unrestrained, immediate acceptance I had expected was not forthcoming. I needed to speak now. My brain was sending urgent messages to my vocal chords with strong suggestions that I say something - anything - and say it now!
"But I thought that's what you wanted!" I at last managed to blurt out. "I thought you wanted me!"
Susan's expression remained fixed as she stared back at me blankly.
"Well, say something, Sue. Please!"
My fiancée's eyes held me and her lips trembled slightly as she prepared to speak.
"I do want you Marty, honestly I do. And I want to marry you. It's just -"
"What? What is it, baby?"
"It's just that there's some things that I haven't done yet. Things I promised myself that I would do before I settled down and got married."
"Yeah? Like what?" I asked
"Oh, you know, the usual; travel, see some of the world, and, well...oh, nothing."
"Tell me, Sue."
"I can't, Marty, You'll hate me!" she replied
I knew she wanted to tell me. Sue and I had been together for nearly two years and I knew her well. It seemed obvious to me that there was something that she wanted to get off her chest.
I waited silently. The seconds ticked away. I could see that she was on the point of spilling the beans!
"If I tell you, promise not to hate me?" she pleaded.
I nodded, more in control of the conversation now.
"Well, we have a great sex life don't we?"
That much was true. Sue and I had a wonderful love life. We were both very much into each other and had experimented a lot. Oral, anal, sex outdoors, that sort of thing. But what she said next, nothing could have prepared me for.
"I've never been to bed with a black man!" she said quickly.
It took a moment for her words to meander their way through to my brain and then a few more seconds for me to realise what they meant.
"Oh, I knew you'd hate me! Forget I said it, Marty. Of course I'll marry you!"
But the seed had been planted. Sue was the only one for me, I knew that, but how could I live the rest of my life knowing what I now knew? I decided there and then; if that's what she wanted then that's what she must have.
Tears were forming in Sue's eyes as I placed a comforting arm around her shoulder. Images of her with a big black stud filled my mind and were having a strange effect on me.
"I could never hate you, baby." I whispered
"But I'm such a slut, such a tart for wanting to do this. Just try and forget I said it, okay?"
"Sorry, Sue. I can't do that now." I replied. "But I don't hate you - please believe that - in fact, the idea sounds really sexy!" I placed her hand on the bulge in the front of my pants, "See? You can't argue with that, can you?"
Sue looked up at me, startled. Her hand idly squeezed my throbbing crotch. "You mean it's okay?" she said, "you don't mind?"
I nodded my head and smiled down at her.
"But I don't want to take any risks," she continued, "there are too many creeps about. I'd want you there with me!"
This turn of events surprised me a little. Knowing that your future wife has slept with someone else is one thing, but being in the same room with them would be quite another. I thought about the Idea as Sue went to the bar and ordered us another drink. Would it be that bad? I doubted it. After all, it was only the once and, if it satisfied Sue's craving and got it out of her system, then where was the harm? I was an intelligent, confident adult. I could handle it.
"Then lets do it!" I said as Sue returned to the booth. "Here, tonight. It's the perfect situation; we're away from home in a hotel, there's a bar full of men and we have a nice room right upstairs. What could suit us better?"
Sue immediately flushed red with excitement. I watched her chest heave beneath the light blouse she wore as she took a deep breath and stared at me.
"Are you sure? Really?"
"Never been more sure!" I laughed not really believing that we were doing this. "Now, anyone you like the look of?"
It didn't take Sue long. She's an open and flirtatious woman and as she scanned the room slowly, her eyes - and mine - immediately came to rest on a tall good looking black man that was standing at the bar.
It was so easy to get him to agree. After introducing himself as Davis, the man joined us in our booth for a drink. Sue flirted with him mercilessly while we all chatted and when the subject of joining us in our room for a nightcap arose, he conceded without hesitation.
Inexplicably, my own excitement had been building since Davis had joined us and my fingers fumbled with the electronic entry card as we stood outside the door to our room.
"Let me." he said, taking the card from me and inserting it into the lock.