And so it was settled. Despite Jenny's misgivings, she and Sarah were going to remain lovers. Sarah was delighted that her pretty next-door neighbour was going to be what is crudely described as her fuck-buddy. She had no desire to leave her marriage, and she loved her husband as much as the day they got married, but she knew herself very well and had discovered years ago that she needed her fill of pussy from time to time. She loved the female body, with all its softness and roundness and its wonderful smells and tastes, and to be quite honest, the female body was quite simply sexy in a way the male body was not.
She loved the male body, but in a different way. She loved the hardness of the male, the strength in the muscles, the raw and simply overwhelming power of a strong male body. Her femininity responded in an animalistic way. She wasn't a timid or shy retiring female by character, but when it came to sex with her man she loved to feel dominated and taken by him.
It was different with Jenny, the sex was different, it was more sharing and intimate and giving. Maybe that was just because they were both the same gender and therefore had the same things to bring to the relationship, rather than entirely different things as was the case in a male-female coupling, but whatever it was she realised she needed both. She needed her man and his hard cock and his forcefulness, and she needed Jenny and her soft wet pussy and her sensitivity.
She did wonder though where their relationship might go as it developed and grew, these things had a tendency to wander into territory not imagined at the beginning. Jenny seemed to be a very innocent woman in many ways, but most people had their dark sides which only became apparent once they were exposed to new situations. The thought of Jenny having a dark side quite excited Sarah.
Jenny found herself in a happy place. Her liaisons with Sarah seemed to have taken the edge off her troubles with Tom. She knew things hadn't been right for some time, but they had got on with life and produced two more children and were muddling through. Tom seemed happy enough, he didn't ask much of Jenny as along as she keep the home ticking along. He knew that in some ways Jenny was too good for him, 'a cut above' his mother had said, but she chose him so what had he to complain about?
Jenny for her part had found Tom's honest, almost childlike, approach to life quite appealing after the complex and competitive legal family she had been bought up in, and she had settled for a life which involved children, sporty weekends, fishing and barbeques. That was until Sarah came along.
Sarah... She loved saying her name. Sarah was more the sort of person Jenny should have married - bright, sassy, uninhibited, willing to try new things, aware, sensitive, alive... all the things that Tom was not, and she, Jenny, found appealing. Having sex with another woman had never been on Jenny's agenda, but somehow it all seemed natural now, and, well, right. Did that make her a lesbian? She still had sex with Tom, and she knew Sarah still had sex with her husband, a lot by the sounds of it. 'He's always fucking me," she had said. So were they lesbians or not?
They obviously had lesbian sex, but did that mean they were lesbians? Did it really matter? Not to Jenny. She was so happy to have this little secret in her life, and such a powerful, astonishing secret at that, that she couldn't care less what labels belonged to what. She loved having sex with this woman and it made her happy, so what did anything else matter?
One afternoon Tom came home with some news.
"We've been asked out to dinner," he said.
"Have we? Who by?" said Jenny, a little surprised. They didn't have a lot of friends and dinner parties were not something they had much experience of.
"Sarah next door," said Tom.
Jenny thrilled at the sound of her lover's name. "Sarah? Well that's a surprise. Does she say why?"
Tom pulled an envelope out of his jacket pocket and handed it to Jenny.
"It's Dave's 50th birthday on Saturday. She's having a shindig."
"A shindig?" said Jenny. "What's that?"
"A party, a do, you know, a shindig." Tom was smiling.
Jenny opened the envelope and took out a card. On the front was a photograph of a woman wearing a short black skirt, a white blouse and black black stockings, looking directly at the viewer with a caption "I'll take no excuses - come or there'll be trouble."
"Racy card!" said Tom.
"Hmm," mumbled Jenny. Her heart was beating fast as she opened the card.
Inside in elegant handwriting was a message.
"Please please come to dinner to celebrate Dave's big milestone - 50!
We'd love you to join us - it would be so nice to catch up."
Then there was the date and time and address, and at the bottom it said "Dress - appropriately."
"Well?" said Tom.
Jenny closed the card. "Well what?" she said.