"I'm not gay," were the first words I heard over breakfast the next morning, "I don't know what happened."
I smiled and assured them that I never thought he was gay. I thought he was sexy, and what happened the previous night was huge turn on.
"I'm not sure I can see you with another man again," he continued, "I couldn't just watch. I couldn't watch you with him, you know, that's why I joined you. So I didn't have to watch."
I felt terrible guilt again. Even though it was his idea, I could stop it. I could say no, but I didn't say no. I went along with it.
The thought of Gabe's cock, how big it was, how different. His thick pubic hair and that long, incredibly wide shaft filling me, pulling me wider apart than I ever imagined possible was lingering in my head.
I looked back at my husband as he continued on and on, trying to reassure himself that he wasn't gay. It was cute. I knew he wasn't gay, but I could tell he was feeling guilty about enjoying himself.
"I mean when he kissed me I thought I was going to throw up," John stood up and cleared the morning dishes, "and his thing, that was so different feeling, not smooth and sexy like your strap-on, and it had a taste."
I looked at his butt, smiling, thinking of that huge cock stuffed inside of it. I wanted to touch myself, but I knew that would hurt him. I resisted.
"I think I'm going to walk to the coffee shop," I stood up, "want to join me?"
"I can't walk that far, honey," John scrubbed the dishes, not even turning his head, "I'm really sore."
I rubbed his bottom and gave him a hug then bundled up.
The walk to the coffee shop had taken me perilously close to Sandy's house, and the return of unbearable guilt. How could we continue like this?
I thought about the irony in all of it. My husband at home, doing dishes, convincing himself that while he had sex with a man, he wasn't at all gay. Me standing in front of my gay lovers apartment wondering how things got this complicated. How I ended up, for all practical purposes, a lesbian.
I lingered there for a while, not sure about the coffee anymore. Not really sure about anything anymore. My life had spiraled from normal to this. This was as far from normal as I could have imagined. If I had a time machine and went back and told myself what happened, I'd probably thought I should be committed, or at least bold face lying.
"Are you going to come in?" I snapped out of my daydream and saw Sandy standing at her building door. "You've been standing there for fifteen minutes, it's cold out here."
I smiled. As much as everything was in shambles, a part of me still need to be with her. To talk to her, feel her warm breath, her soft skin.
"What were you doing out there?" Sandy poured a mug full of coffee and handed it to me.
"Thinking," I smiled, taking a sip of the coffee. "About you, about things."
We had to talk. I couldn't go on like this. It was killing me. I was cheating on my husband, a husband who just let me cheat on him. I shouldn't be hiding everything. I started talking about me, about my life up until this craziness happened.
"Then," I looked away embarrassed, "he got laid off and I started, you know, treating my husband more like my wife."
"What do you mean?" Sandy looked confused. "Like having him do the laundry and stuff? I mean this isn't your mom and dad, things have changed."
Of course she was confused, I was confused and I was living it.
"More than that," I touched Sandy's leg, "I make him wear panties."
Sandy giggled, and I started too. We didn't stop. We giggled for twenty minutes, like little schoolgirls with a secret.
"There's more," I caught my breath, "a lot more."
"No there isn't," Sandy spit her coffee into her lap and tried to mop it up, "What more can there be?"
"I fuck him," I looked at her. "I mean, I, fuck, him. I stick it in his ass and he comes all over the sheets like a teenager, two seconds and he's done."
"No way?" Sandy moved closer to me and started massaging my thighs, "you fuck him in the ass?"
Sandy started working her hands under my shirt to find my breasts. Her hands sending shivers to me. Telling her the story was bringing me to the brink of explosion, each word, sending electricity through my spine, my hair on end.
"Has he really been fucked yet?" Sandy lifted my shirt and gently started kissing my breasts.
Here I thought this story, this openness would turn her off, give me an exit out, but it was pulling her in deeper, me in deeper. I felt my nipple against her tongue, her mouth warmly exploring it.
"No," I reached to find some part of her soft skin to touch, "I think that would be too much, even for him."
I lied. I didn't know why, it was a lie that I would have to explain later, but I didn't know that at the time. Part of me feels like I lied because I worked with Sandy and by this time I thought I had already done too much, said too much. Most of me lied for him, because the thought of him already tormented by his actions, and now, a stranger knowing about them filled me with guilt.
We laid in each others kissing embrace for a long time. Both of us inching closer and closer to the inevitable release we always enjoyed together. Her hands and lips were so good at finding the right places to touch. My ears, my nipples, the small of my back and beyond.
Finally her fingers found their way between my legs and shudders of ecstasy raced through my veins. I shook at her touch, trembling beneath her lips, her hands exploring me, turning me over the edge until at last my body went rigid in excitement and my juices burst into her waiting hands.
Her body too was shaking, her thighs straddling one of mine, pressed tight against me. Our bodies shaking together, each of us embracing the other tighter and tighter until our bodies felt like one.
We laid in each other arms on the sofa.
"How come you've never fucked me?" Sandy looked into my eyes.
"I never thought of it," I really hadn't. The thought had never even crossed my mind. I don't know why.
"I'd like to one day," Sandy smiled, "and I want to see your husband in panties."
I felt my stomach quiver as she finished that sentence. The thought of my lover seeing my husband like that was sending question after question through my head. Why does she want to see him like that? How would he react? What will he say if he finds out about Sandy? When he finds out about Sandy.
"One day," I smiled nervously, "maybe I'll take a picture for you."
"I want more than a picture," I felt Sandy squeeze my leg, "I want you."
Sandy was insatiable after I told her about my husband. She wanted gory details and every little story seemed to turn her mad with desire. Our lovemaking sessions growing longer and longer. As much as I hated living this lie, I couldn't find the willpower to leave. I felt helpless against my raw desire for her love.
I kept living the lie. I took so many walks to the coffee shop, sometimes twice a day, that my husband thought I had a new found love for bitter water.
We never tried finding another man, even though I hinted it would be okay. I didn't want to press things. I was afraid if I did things would change. I couldn't take change right then, everything in my life so precariously balanced, I was afraid if something changed it'd all fall apart.
Our loving making was improving. I found that he almost always had to be stimulated from behind to get hard, but after that, could manage to fuck me, at least once in a while. It wasn't a marathon, but under the right circumstance it was nice.
It was spring. Everything felt good. Sandy was amazing at work. I knew I was going to have to promote her, but how? Everyone thought she was my pet, my favorite. She was, but she was working so hard, she would have been my best employee regardless. I kept making excuses for keeping her with me, but I knew I had to lose her.
Then my entire life came crashing down.
It was a Friday near the end of the day when it happened. I was called into my bosses office. I was never called into my bosses office, he always had made a meeting with me before.
"We're closing this office," the words echoed in my head over and over again, "we're shutting it all down. Today."
I was shocked. One minute I was commanding the respect of fifty people, earning a six figure salary, and the next I was being told we were all being let go. I thought of all the lives it would affect, the families, it was devastating.
"Today? All of it?" I stammered.
It was the saddest day to this point of my life. Telling people they had no more job, one by one they came to my office. I saw grown men weeping like little babies. Women and men embracing, each of them looking like they were at a funeral. Their funeral.
"How are you doing?" my boss came into my office and closed the door. "I know this is hard. It's hard for me too."
I swore at him. He told me, I told everyone else. I glared at him.