"Touchdown! Game over!" the screen announced. I sat there stunned, not believing what I had just seen. With eight seconds left the Bengals had just scored a walk off touchdown and the Browns lost. I was also speechless because I had just lost a bet to my friend Dave who was over at our house watching the game with us. "Uhh" I said nervously "shit...". "Shit is right," Dave said laughing. "I win, now pay up." He said that last part while looking at my wife. "I.." she stuttered. "I mean, come on, you weren't serious right?" She pleaded looking at Dave. "Course I was, wasn't your husband serious last year when I lost that bet and had to hand over my signed A. J. Green jersey?" Of course she knew the answer to that, the jersey was in my office. "I...I guess so" she started, Dave interrupted her "Good, then it's a date! I'll swing by around 8 next Saturday. And remember we agreed, it's an anything goes date." With that Dave got up, said goodbye, and headed out.
After he left my wife turned on me, "Why didn't you say anything?" she asked accusingly. "I, um, I mean a bet's a bet right? You heard him, we've both always paid up when we lost." I replied lamely, she didn't seem swayed by my answer. "Yea but the bets have never been anything like this!" She had a point, we mostly only ever bet items, even trading a few things back and forth over the years. I tried again, "Oh come on, you know he's not really gonna try anything, he might flirty a little and ask for a kiss, that's all." This seemed to calm her down, "Yea, I guess you're right." She turned and walked down the hall to our bedroom, "But if it gets out of hand it's not my fault" she said over her shoulder before disappearing into our bedroom.
The week went by in a blur and all I could seem to think about was what she had said, "If things get out of hand it's not my fault." Surely Dave wouldn't try anything more than some friendly touching or a kiss right? I didn't think he would, at least I kept telling myself he wouldn't. Saturday finally came around and as quick as the week had felt the actual day felt like it dragged on forever. I spent most of the day sitting in the living room avoiding talking with my wife as much as I could. For her part she spent most of the afternoon getting ready. At around seven forty five she came out of our bedroom. Now my wife stands at five feet five inches, she's Filipino, with tan islander skin, and long black hair that falls down her back. At one hundred and fifty pounds she has the suggestion of curves due to the weight sitting on her smaller frame but it suits her well and pairs nicely with her C cup breasts.She was in a simple, but sexy, purple dress, and had put on short black heels, and was carrying a small clutch.
I whistled, "looking good honey". She blushed, "Good enough for a first date?" she asked, grinning, a little embarrassment shown on her face. "I don't think Dave will object" I chuckled. Just then we heard a horn outside, "That must be him", she gave me a quick kiss and grabbed her purse and coat. "See you later" she said as she stepped outside and closed the door. As I heard Dave's truck pull off, too nervous to sit still for more than a few seconds at a time I got up and started pacing. It was going to be a long night.
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Dave's truck pulled into our driveway a little after midnight, the truck lights glaring against our bedroom window. He didn't bother turning them off as the truck continued to sit there for several minutes. I couldn't quite tell through the glare but it seemed like the truck started to move after a while. Finally after sitting in the driveway for nearly ten minutes the passenger side door and my wife got out. She straightened herself up a little before waving goodbye and closing the door. Dave didn't seem to be concerned with her making it inside as he pulled away as soon as she was clear of the truck, by the time the front door opened he was already half way down the street.
I stayed in our room as the front door closed. I could hear my wife shuffling around as she took off her coat and hung up her purse. She then moved to the hall, hand running along the wall, hitting the light switch. Finally the bedroom door opened, light from the hall flooding in and illuminating me sitting on the bed in the dark. She stopped, squinted a little, the light clearly affecting her eyes. "Hey honey, You didn't have to wait up, you're so sweet."
I Frowned a little, did she really think I would just send her off and then turn in and not talk until the next morning? She stood in the doorway, expecting a response, the silence started to stretch and began to feel awkward, finally I let out a quiet "how was it?" She raised her eyebrows and tilted her head, "Not too bad, well at first it was awkward, but after a while things loosened up." She moved into the room and fell onto the bed, lazily kicked off her heels, stretched out her arms, closed her eyes and let out a groan.
She stayed like that for over a minute and I started to think that she had fallen asleep. She eventually spoke though, eyes still closed, "How was your night?" "Uh, fine I guess" I was a little surprised by the question, clearly it wasn't my night that was the elephant in the room. Wanting to shift the conversation back to her I asked "Sooo, what did you guys do?" still a little uncomfortable, and not really sure I wanted her to answer. I had had four hours to imagine an awful lot of things.
"Mmm, we went to a restaurant, that fancy Italian one downtown, L something." "Luganios?" I offered. "Yea, that one", she shifted a little. "Anyways, Dave could clearly tell I was nervous so he started off by ordering wine and having the waiter leave the bottle at the table. We chatted a little after ordering, I think I drank half the wine bottle before our food showed up trying to calm my nerves." She laughed remembering that bit. "Once the food showed up things started to go smoother, probably because the wine was already taking effect."
She pulled herself up in the bed, resting against the backboard. "We were at the restaurant for maybe an hour, hour and a half. And by the time we left I had definitely had most of that wine to myself. I wasn't sure where we were going next but we were chatting and laughing as we got back in the truck." She paused for a second. "Can you get me some water and aspirin?" she asked "Sure" I replied, getting up and heading to the kitchen. My mind was racing, I grabbed a glass and filled it in the sink, then moved to the cabinet and grabbed the aspirin, returning to the bedroom I handed her both. She took several pills and swallowed them, giving me a quick thanks.
"So you were in the truck..." I prompted after a few seconds of her not restarting the story. She put the glass of water and pill bottle on her night stand, "Yea, we were back in the truck after dinner and I was feeling way less guarded now full of food and wine. We drove for a few minutes just talking, he told me some funny story and had me laughing for a good minute. When I finally stopped I noticed that he had moved his hand to my knee." She hesitated after saying that, it was the first mention of anything physical during the evening. She glanced at me, I felt awkward holding eye contact for too long and looked away quickly. "And?" I asked, looking at my hands. "And he just left it there for a minute, not moving... probably seeing what I would do." she answered. "What... did you do?" I asked. "Nothing really, just kinda pretended it wasn't there." She shifted, "After a few seconds I guess he took me not brushing it off as a sign. He started to move his fingers on my knee, lightly caressing my skin." A pause, I didn't say anything this time so she kept talking after a moment. "He started talking to me again and after a while I really did almost forget his hand was on me. He kept to small motions, brushing my knee and occasionally moving just to the inside of it. We drove for maybe ten minutes like that before he made another move. On one of his trips to the inside of my leg he moved his hand further up, hitting the hem of my dress and pushing it up slightly, he stopped after a few inches and rested his hand on my inner thigh."