I stood behind the counter at work, waiting for my cell phone to ring. Naturally, it didn't.
For eighteen years, I'd been the good little girl. No dating, no boyfriends. Forget sweet sixteen and never been kissed; I'd made it to eighteen without having a guy's tongue in my mouth. And the one or two closed-lipped pecks I'd received had been nothing to write home about. All that had changed a few weeks earlier when Jay Christian had walked into the store where I worked.
I looked out the window, half hoping to see Jay walking in now, though of course he wouldn't be. I wasn't sure where he was; all he would tell me was "out of town". Which meant absolutely nothing other than that the man who'd awakened something in me that I hadn't even known existed was nowhere around, and I was horny.
Jay had been my childhood crush. Eight years older than I, he'd been my brother Randy's best friend until they were in high school, when they'd gotten into an argument and ended the friendship. Randy would flip if he knew Jay and I were dating now; he despised Jay, and definitely wouldn't want his sweet, innocent baby sister getting tangled up with a man who had a reputation like Jay's. But I didn't care what Randy thought. I liked Jay a lot, maybe even loved him, and I was going to keep seeing him no matter what. Even if that meant sharing him with other women.
Jay was my boyfriend. He'd said so, and he'd told at least one of the other women he saw. But he'd told me he wasn't looking for monogamy or commitment; he would see me and feel differently about me than he did about the other women, but he wouldn't give them up. It had taken me time to get used to the idea, but I wanted to be with Jay, and if the price of that was dealing with the fact that he saw other women, I could do that. At least I thought I could.
But right now, he was out of town, and I was waiting for a call from him. He'd been gone for just over a week, and I'd only heard from him twice. He wouldn't call me when he knew I was home. My parents wouldn't have been any happier than Randy to know that I was seeing Jay, and they would have been less happy to know that Jay had bought me a cell phone so he could keep in touch with me. They'd refused for years to buy me a cell.
Jay knew my work schedule, though, and he knew he could call me when I was working. So why wasn't my phone ringing? I took it out of my pocket and checked to make sure the ringer was on. Then a group of customers came in, and I had to put the phone back into my pocket until they went away.
Finally, at almost ten o'clock that night, the call came. "Hey, baby." Jay's voice warmed every inch of me when I answered the phone. "How are you tonight?"
"Bored at work," I said.
"Horny?"
"Yes," I admitted in a small voice.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of, Sam. I'm pretty horny too. I don't know anyone around here, and I'm not in the mood for a stranger fuck."
"Would you fuck a stranger if you were in the mood?" I asked.
"I might. It wouldn't be the first time. Does it bother you that I would?"
I knew better than to say it did. I was a little jealous, but Jay didn't respond well to jealousy. "Not really."
He laughed. "You're lying, and we both know it. It's okay, Sam. You can always tell me how you feel, even if you're jealous."
"You got mad at Tillie for being jealous of me."
"That's because first of all, Tillie knows there's nothing between her and me but an occasional fuck, and second of all, you're different. If the other women I see get jealous of each other, that's their problem. But you're my girlfriend. You're more to me than any of them are, and I'm not going to let someone be petty to you."
I loved hearing him call me his girlfriend. "She wasn't bothering me."
"But she was bothering me. Anyway, you're new to all this. I understand if you're jealous. If you start giving me a hard time and telling me I can't see anyone else, we'll have a problem. But I don't think you'd do that."
"No, I wouldn't, unless something really bothered me."
"Look. As long as you talk to me, we're good, okay? So let me ask again. Does it bother you that I might, in the right mood, pick up a strange woman and fuck her?"
"Yes, it does."
"Well, I'll tell you what. I don't have a problem giving that up; it isn't something I do often anyway. If I knew a woman here, I'd probably be with her, but I give you my word, no stranger sex."
"Thank you."
"Of course, you have to give me the same promise."
"As if I'd be with a stranger. I was a virgin till a few weeks ago. Other than when you and I fooled around with Tillie last weekend, I haven't been with anyone else, and I'm not planning to."
"Not even Tillie?"
"I'm not a lesbian."
"But you liked playing with her. Don't deny it, Sam. There's nothing wrong with feeling good. Tillie isn't a lesbian either; she's bi. And she said if you got horny while I was gone, she'd be happy to help you out."
"I don't know if I could. It was different when you were there, but I'm not sure about being with another woman without you there."
"Well, you just told me you're horny. If you're horny, do something about it. You have the toy I gave you, right?"
"Yeah."
"So you could use that, but sometimes it's more fun with another human being. Think about it; I was talking to Tillie a little while ago, and she's horny too. Asked me to ask you to get in touch with her if you want to get together."
"I can't get in touch with her. I don't know her phone number."
"No, but you know where she lives. You could go there. Or I could just give you her number, but somehow I don't think you'd actually call it, would you?"
"I don't know. I might."
"It's up to you. I won't mind either way, and I don't think Tillie will either. But she likes you, you know. She had fun with you last weekend. So did I. It was hot seeing you and her together."
"It was fun, in a weird sort of way."
He laughed. "Weird, huh? I've never heard threesomes described as weird, but okay. Anyway, I told Tillie I'd pass that message along, so now I have. It's up to you what you do."
"When will you be back?"
"It'll be a few more days. Hopefully by Saturday. Do you have next Sunday off?"