It was close to Christmas break of Jennifer's Freshman year at college. Her 18th birthday had been a few months earlier and when her parents, Samantha and Bill, asked what she wanted for her birthday present, she replied, "Having my new friend Cassie stay with us for Christmas break. She's my very best friend, a Junior and is teaching me so much about college, life at college, and life in general. Please can she stay with us? It'll be my birthday and Christmas present. Also, her parents are traveling and she has no other place to go."
Samantha and Bill really wanted Jennifer to come back for the holidays so they readily agreed, and a few days later both girls arrived. Cassie moved her things into the guest room, which was on the first floor next to the living and dining rooms. As they all had dinner together Samantha couldn't help looking at Cassie and thinking who she looked like. A woman she hadn't seen in 25 years. Samantha's college lover.
Cassie was tall, blond, with the friendliest and warmest possible smile, and extraordinarily pretty in an innocent "girl next door" sort of way. As Samantha continued to think about Cassie, trying not to stare, she also observed the body language between the two girls and started to wonder whether her growing suspicions were real, or just projections from her 25 year old memories involving Cassie's (almost) doppelganger.
Jennifer was a nerd and had only dated a little in high school She sometimes went out on dates with boys but, as far as Samantha knew, was never smitten with any of them. Now Samantha was fairly sure why.
That night Samantha and Bill went upstairs to bed, as did Jennifer, and Cassie went to the guest room. But Samantha couldn't sleep. Because having her daughter and Cassie back from college rekindled old college memories. Memories that she mostly suppressed, and thought about only sparingly. Memories about her life at college, before she met Bill. Memories that she had never shared with anyone. Memories that she rationed for when she really needed them.
Samantha got out of bed in her robe and went to the living room. She got onto her phone and, as usual when she couldn't sleep, started to watch lesbian porn. Almost all women married to men did this, she had read, because lesbian porn was gentler, more romantic and intimate, and the women were more likely to seem to be enjoying themselves. So she was just doing what millions of other "straight" women married to men were doing. It didn't mean a thing. So she had read. But Samantha didn't believe the experts. She thought that all women were a least bi, but had been steered into heteronormality by society.
Samantha reflected that Bill also masturbated to lesbian porn. On three occasions he accidentally (?) left his screen on, and she saw he had been watching lesbian porn. Like most men did. He took a blue pill an hour before they had sex and they each privately watched porn to get themselves ready. Lesbian porn.
She wondered whether he had let her see that he liked lesbian porn on purpose. And, if so, why he had done that. Was it as a way of finding out whether she might be interested in having a threesome with another woman? Samantha had thought many times that she should suggest that they watch porn together before they had sex. But she was afraid he might suggest they watch straight porn, which turned her off. Unless she confessed that she only liked lesbian porn. But what if this made him suspect -- or realize - that she was a lesbian and only enjoyed sex with him when she thought about women?
Regardless, this this time lesbian porn didn't interest her. Instead, memories of her college girlfriend, Beth, came flooding back. The vivid memories of her daring, clandestine, forbidden and so delicious first love. Of the woman who took her virginity. The woman she said "I love you" to countless times, and who said it back to her just as intensely. The woman she promised to love forever and ever, and the woman who told her countless times that she wished that two girls could get married.
But Samantha's memories of Beth were bittersweet because the relationship was so taboo back then that they has to keep it hidden. Samantha often wondered how her life would have been different if she'd had the courage to ....
Back then lesbian marriage was illegal, and she was only 20 when Beth graduated and moved to another city. Twenty would have been too young for Samantha to marry anyone.
But if Samantha had more courage they could have openly lived together as lesbians. So usually Samantha only conjured up memories of Beth whenever Bill made love to her and the lesbian porn didn't do it for her. On those occasions the only way she could come with her husband was to memories of Beth.
Samantha pulled her old college yearbook from the den's bookshelf and found Beth's photo. She was right. There was indeed quite a close resemblance between Beth and Cassie. Despite the passage of time, she had of course correctly remembered what Beth looked like. For a second she even wondered whether Cassie could be Beth's daughter. Their last name was different, but that didn't prove anything.
Looking and listening to be sure neither girl was around or awake, Samantha began to picture Beth, starting with a memory of their very first forbidden kiss. Samantha quietly started to masturbate, picturing Beth's face, her beautiful face, her incredible smile, eyes and lips. The memory of their kissing quickly progressed and Samantha began to remembered how her secret, naughty but stupendous, lovemaking with Beth had been by far the best sex of her life! Her experiments with boys were, by comparison, nothing.
Her first orgasm with another person was with Beth. It had been the only time in her life that she had multiple orgasms. Samantha again reflected that she had changed from a girl to a woman because of her love for Beth.
The first time the married-to-Bill Samantha had masturbated to thoughts of Beth has been many years ago. While Bill tried his best when he made love to her, he was of course only a man. And therefore lacking the beauty, gentleness, sensuousness, and intimacy she needed. So Samantha closed her eyes and pretended she was kissing Beth.
The first time Samantha had done this while she was with Bill she felt guilty. But at least she came, picturing Beth's lovely face having an orgasm. Usually Samantha could come to thoughts of lesbian porn when she was with Bill. But thoughts of Beth worked even better.
Samantha came much harder than normal when she thought about Beth, and this made Bill happy. He of course wanted to make Samantha happy, and Samantha wanted to make Bill happy by coming. So from that time on, whenever she had sex with Bill, Samantha would first try excite herself by thinking about lesbian porn. But if this didn't work she would pretend she was making love with Beth, and she usually came.
It wasn't a perfect sex life. But since women watched, according to Pornhub, two - or was it three? - times as much lesbian porn as men, she knew that millions of married women did similar things.