First Friday
When David awoke, he was amazed by the realization that he had dozed off. Not for the first time that night, he apprehensively checked the clock on Debbie's nightstand. The time was half past two.
David nervously checked his phone messages again. As a safety precaution he had insisted that if his wife's First Friday went beyond just dinner, she would frequently text him selfies of herself posing with her suitor. His theory had been that if her suitor had turned out to be some psychopath that might murder her, he would be deterred by the knowledge that other people had an image of who she was with. David had asked Debbie to spare his pride by not telling her suitor that she was texting the messages to her husband.
Debbie had honored his conditions by texting him at eight-thirty.
WE'RE LEAVING THE RESTAURANT. HE'S TAKING ME TO A CLUB.
That first text had included an attached image of his wife posing in front of the restaurant with a somewhat younger, tall and obviously muscular black man.
David had been relieved when his wife texted him at eleven-thirty.
WE'RE LEAVING THE CLUB. HE IS TAKING ME BACK TO MY VAN.
This second text had also included an attached image of his wife, this time posing with her suitor outside of a nightclub.
David had become extremely apprehensive when Debbie texted him again at midnight.
WE'RE TALKING FOR A WHILE SO I CAN HAVE TIME TO SOBER UP FOR THE DRIVE HOME.
This third text had also included an attached image of his wife posing with her suitor, this time sitting in her minivan.
David could do the math. Two-and-a-half hours had passed since his wife had last texted him. He nervously checked his cellphone again. There were no new messages. His attention was once again drawn to the images attached to the previous messages that his wife had sent him earlier that evening.
Debbie had been wearing the jacket that matched her skirt when she left for work that morning. She was not wearing that jacket at the restaurant. David had not realized that her blouse was so sheer and that she had not worn a slip under it until she texted him the selfie from the restaurant. Her lacy, white, demi cup bra was very visible through her blouse. She had also unfastened enough buttons to reveal more than just a tasteful hint of her deep cleavage.
The selfie attached to the text that Debbie had sent from the club was even more alarming. That image revealed that her blouse was unbuttoned down to her navel to confirm that she was no longer wearing her bra under it. Of course one of her nipples and large, dark aurolaes were visible through the sheer fabric, so it would have been obvious that she was no longer wearing her bra even if her blouse had been fully buttoned. Her other nipple and aurolae was concealed by the dark hand that was cradling her breast.
The image attached to the text that Debbie had sent from her minivan had provoked panic. Debbie's blouse was unbuttoned down to her waist and pulled open to fully expose one of her breasts. The other breast was concealed only by the dark hand that was squeezing it so roughly. The selfie evoked memories of their courtship. David had first succeeded in seducing Debbie in the front seat of his old, four-by-four pickup when he got conveniently stuck in a mud hole on the night that he proposed to her. Only after a blow job then their first and second mating did he remember that he had a winch on his truck and rigging in his toolbox with which to extricate himself. Debbie had laughed nervously when he joked that a snatch block was not a contraceptive device. He had been to inexperienced and clumsy for them to be relying on the pull and pray method. She had assured him that she wasn't going to panic because he wasn't the first guy who had failed to pull out in time.
David couldn't justify being angry with his wife because she was honoring the terms of his indulgence. However; he felt heartbroken. This was only her First Friday. When he casually questioned his wife as she was getting dressed this morning, she had assured him that her First Friday would probably be just dinner and may be dancing. Obviously; his wife had given into the temptation to go beyond just dinner and dancing on her First Friday. The only question was how far beyond just dinner and may be dancing had she already gone or was going to go?
David rationalized that Debbie's possible transformation from a presumably monogamous wife to an adulteress was not as momentous of a betrayal as it might have been. He had offered her indulgences for Five Fridays as an alternative to her nervous suggestion of a trial separation. More importantly, on that night that they consummated their engagement, it had been conspicuously obvious that Debbie's hymen had not been intact. His fiancΓ© had reluctantly confirmed that he had not been her first. She had assured him that while she hadn't been promiscuous, she hadn't been with only one man either. David struggled to rationalize that since other men had screwed his wife before he started courting her and had sometimes even have ejaculated inside her, what did it matter if she had allowed her black suitor to screw her?
David's eyes once again drifted from the clock to Debbie's CycleBeads. He didn't need to count the beads yet again. The marker ring was on the thirteenth bead on the string. It was the sixth white bead on the string. The implications provoked a painful writhing in David's guts. Even more distressing was the equally painful swelling in his groin. His arousal was confusing and humiliating.
The sight of Debbie's CycleBeads once again provoked David's misgivings about their foray into an unconventional marital arrangement. David had rationalized that granting his wife an indulgence for Five Fridays was a safer alternative to a trial separation. They had friends who had agreed to separate for a limited period of time while they worked things out. Only one of these marriages had survived the trial separation. David had Googled for statistics. While divorce wasn't certain, it was by far the most likely outcome of a trial separation. He had hoped that offering his wife the alternative of continuing to live together while she was allowed limited freedom to explore the alternatives that were tempting her might enable their marriage to survive. The images evoked by David's speculations about what his wife had been doing during these past two-and-a-half hours became all the more distressing whenever he looked at her CycleBeads.
David examined the three selfies again. He grudgingly acknowledged to himself that the most disturbing aspect of those selfies was that Debbie's suitor was black. David preferred to believe that he wasn't a racist. However; the idea of his wife dating and may be having sex with a black man was alarming. The two images of that dark hand caressing her breast provoked a primal phobia.
David tried to console himself with the thought that Debbie might have appeased her suitor's lusts by embracing his penis in her cleavage or even giving him a blow job. She had appeased David's lusts in this manner often enough during their courtship. Reminiscing about their courtship reminded him of the many times that Debbie had pleasured both of them by treating him to a cameltoe slide. Although she had usually kept her panty on to dissuade herself from allowing him to penetrate her, she had often enough allowed him the pleasure of feeling her naked labia embracing his penis. David was compelled to recall Debbie's choice of lingerie for the day.