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Joy's Friend
"Uh...Vicki, this is Melanie Craig. I'm a friend of Joy's."
There was a pause and then a groggy "hmmmm" on the other end of the line.
"I'm sorry...I'm a morning person."
The voice was husky with sleep. "No. Ummmm, no, that's ok. I was just going to get up in an uh...an hour. What...?"
"Oh! Uh, I know this is really brazen of me but Joy told me about your encounter the other night at the bar and uh..."
Melanie expected Vicki to say something, acknowledge that someone else knew of Vicki and Joy's sexual encounter in an alley but there was no response.
"...well, my kids are off to school and I have a late appointment this morning. I was, uh, wondering if you...you know...would want to...uh, you know, get...together. Uh, sexually...uh, like you and Joy."
Melanie's voice trailed off waiting for a response, hoping for a response. Praying for a response. She was feeling very awkward and with each moment of silence from Vicki she felt more awkward.
She didn't think herself a prude but aside from her friend- ship with Joy, whom she thought of as a "wild child soccer mom," her social-sexual life was rather ordinary.
Melanie had never just called a total stranger out of the blue and invited them to have sex. Lesbian sex at that.
"...Uh, now?"
Melanie laughed nervously, "Well, god...I'm going to sound like such a slut...you know, but the thing is, Roger, my husband - he's off to work too - he, uh, we...we made love this morning and he left me...I'm kinda unfulfilled...you know, men. Wham-bam-thank-you-maam."
Another nervous laugh.
This was beginning to sound ludicrous in Melanie's ears.
"Uh, you see, Roger had an early appointment so I just let him have his, you know, way - he's got a very nice way too, he's a nice man, you'd like him. Big cock. Oh, sweet Jesus! I...I can't believe I just said that. I'm sorry!"
There was a sleepy giggle on the other end of the line. "It's ok."
"Well...I'm, like, uh laying here in my bed...naked...and I want a warm body and an orgasm before I get up and have to go to the office."
There. She'd said it. Boldly. Assertively. Now...
"So where do you live?"
Melanie was a little disoriented; her invitation had been - accepted! It was Melanie's time to be silent on the phone.
"Melanie?"
"Uh...yeah...live...yeah...4 Georgetown Court in the George- town townhouses."
"Ok. I'll be over in about 30 minutes. Is that quick enough?"
"...Hmmmm? Quick enough? Oh, oh, yeah. Super."
"Georgetown's gated, why don't you leave the door unlocked and that way you won't have to get out of bed to let me in. Just let the guard know."
"Uh..." Melanie felt giddy, her nipples stiffened almost painfully, "sure."
* * * * *
The guard at Georgetown's gate leaned toward the open window of the car. He saw a woman without makeup, her hair red and sleep toussled, a sweat jacket and what appeared to be a cotton nightgown buttoned to the throat.
"Vicki McCloud to see Melanie Craig. She's expecting me."
"Sure. Do you know where to go?"
Vicki shook her head.
"Go up to the stop sign and turn left. Follow the road past the clubhouse. Number 4 is just past there."
"Thanks."
* * * * *
It took a little less than a minute after Melanie heard Vicki hang up for a panic attack to set in.
Joy's narrative of seducing and having sex with Vicki was tremendously arousing "at the time." The time, however, was in the quiet of a piano bar, after a full day of showings - she was a real estate agent - after 3 martinis and a week without sex because Roger was out of town.
Melanie did not, would not masturbate; a fact that amused Joy and prompted no small amount of chiding every time Melanie called Joy and complained about being irritable because she needed to come.
"Well, Jesus girl, if you won't do yourself, get a dog."
"You're sick, you know?"
Joy smiled a wicked smile just for the reaction, "Hey, babe, don't knock it until you've tried it."
Melanie just stared. She didn't know whether to be shocked, indignant or ask how it was.
"Oh, Mel, I'm just yankin' your chain, bitch. Another martini and I'm so buzzed I might tell you I've done horses."
"And another martini and I'd believe you. Could you really get a horse cock inside you?"
"Shit girlfriend, I have no idea but Mike says the Ob did a good job of tightening me up after Melissa was born so I doubt it," and Joy threw a wadded up cocktail napkin at her friend. "Well, look, if not a dog - or a horse - I know some one you could call."
Melanie assumed, given her friend, Joy was referring to a man. "I'd never fuck someone else unless Roger wanted me to. And he's a very jealous guy, as you know. He would never want me to."
"To a lot of guy's that's their number one fantasy; seeing their wife fucked by another man of their choosing. Don't you read the porn on the Internet?
"No, I don't read the porn on the Internet. And I asked Roger about him picking another man for me; an article in one of those supermarket women's magazines suggested it. The answer was a no and hell no."
Joy took this in, smiling.
"You know what is tied at number one on the men's sex fantasy hit parade with seeing their wives fucked? Their wives doing it with another woman. Another woman isn't cheating...in my book, unless, of course, you like went dyke - you do have that cute dyke-ish haircut..."
"Hey, at least I'm not BLOND," Melanie shot back.
"As I was saying...BITCH...unless you went dyke and fell in love, it's not cheating - at least in my book. Shit girlfriend, if you did that I might be persuaded to leave Mike. You're just so cute. We could shack up."
It was Melanie's turn to throw the wadded napkin back and then Joy told her tale of the sweaty, half drunken sex with Vicki against the wall in an alley and then in her van and then in her bedroom. Melanie found herself wet, her nipples aching in her bra. She'd never thought about another woman.
But now.