Friends, What Are They For?
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Also if punctuation and grammar are important to you, maybe you should move along and read something else, I try but get it wrong.
It's Christmas time, my wife Amy and I, I'm Dan by the way, have agreed to do something different this year, we have rented a house in the countryside with some of our best friends, there's seven of us, three couples and Mary, she's on her own after she kicked her husband Ken out, he wasn't a bad friend to me, but he was a bit of a sod to her and their kids, he didn't cheat or anything, but ... oh it's not my story to tell so let's move on.
The other couples are Graham and Louise, Lulu or Lo to her friends, and Rich and Pam, Graham, Rich, Mary and I all went to school together so we had known each other for a long while, it doesn't seem that long until you look at some of the kids now have kids who are well beyond being in nappies, well beyond.
We'd done things like this before, gone on holidays together, France, Greece, Italy and lots of weekends away in this country, they had been fun, do what you wanted during the day, but meeting up for dinner and having a laugh about what we had done, it was always a fun time and this time wasn't going to be any different, was it.
We'd arrived the day before Christmas Eve, just to get settled in and buy the fresh stuff for the Christmas dinner.
We were booked until January the second, a great long break from work for us all.
Christmas Day was a hoot, the girls put a lot of effort into the cooking and after a short walk in the morning, we dined like kings and drank much too much.
This place was in its own grounds and it had a big log fireplace, and a massive log pile that we were free to pick from, we did, well I did, I ended up being the keeper of the fire, I don't understand how people can't keep a fire going as it comes naturally to me.
At night we played silly board games, well the others did, I've never liked playing games, I don't watch sports that have a ball in it, apart from snooker for some reason, motor racing of any kind I'll watch as much as I can without upsetting Amy, but card and board games aren't for me, I'm happy to read or listen to music and hear the cheerful chatter as they make jokes about each other's play.
It was always, without fail, that Pam was the first and Rich would follow, they were the first to say it was getting late and would go up to bed, Mary would go with them, no not like that, it was her excuse to go to bed, she hated to be first but we would see her nodding as she tried to stay awake.
Graham and Lu were like Amy and I, we were more late birds than early birds, and often in the past, it was just Lu and me sitting watching the end of something, or clearing up before going to bed.
It didn't change this holiday either, it was Boxing Day night, we had been for a long walk that Mary had mapped out, I think we deviated from the route and that put a few more miles on the walk.
That night, funny how you look back at things, that night Mary, Rich and Pam had gone up, which left me sitting on the sofa with Lu, Amy was sat next to Graham, we were in two conversations, one on each sofa, after I got up and put another log on the fire Lu tucked her legs up under her and snuggled up to me, I put my arm around her shoulder to make it more comfortable for the pair of us and the talk died down as we watched the fire catch in the log.
Amy and Graham said they were going to bed and Lu and I said we'd be up in a minute, it was all to do with bathrooms, so it was easier for one of each couple to go first, the log was playing that film you can make by looking deeply at the flames and Lu moved a bit sideways, I became aware that my hand, the one over her shoulder was on top of her breast and I was gently squeezing it, I felt her nipple harden and let go like it was red hot.
I moved my hand well away from her breast and couldn't make enough apologies for touching her like that, she smiled at me and said it was fine, no harm done, she kissed my cheek and said as she went out the door.
"I quite enjoyed it." And was gone.
I got up and put the guard on the fire, made sure that everything was locked and climbing the stairs was surprised to realise that I was more than a little excited.
As I was undressing Amy came out of the bathroom, she smiled and looked at me, I looked at her in her little nightgown and stepped into her, the kiss said it all and before I knew it we were on the bed and I was in Amy riding her like I hadn't done in a long while, I had to put a pillow behind the headboard to stop it banging on the wall and waking the others, it wasn't making love it was hard and fast, and we both loved it, so much so that we had a second bout, but this time it lasted a long time and it was with love, Amy came at least three times to my twice.
The next morning everything was ... normal, nobody said or looked like they saw or wanted to say anything Lu showed no signs of anything happening last night and I inwardly breathed a sigh of relief, that day we went to the nearest large town for lunch, we had a walk around looking at the local small stores and brought a few little gifts for later in the year as presents, we came back and got ready to go to the local pub for dinner having book it Christmas Eve.
It was pleasant enough, but we didn't stay that long but booked a table for New Year's Eve, we got the last one we were told.
Again on getting back, I lit the fire and the games came out, I was barman, I kept the glasses topped up and watered down the strength of most of them after a while, didn't want us to be drunk.
The night passed as the others had lots of laughter and mickey taking, it ended like last night with Lu laying on me and Amy close to Graham, I was in a bit of a dream, looking into the fire has that effect sometimes, and the drink didn't hurt either.
"Graham and I are going up to bed," Amy said walking over and kissing me, they went out and up, Lu snuggled into me tighter and with the heat of the fire, the drink and the soft music playing I was quite content to stay as I was.
I was thinking that I might have to do something about the track that was playing, the bass beat wasn't playing right, it had missed up somehow, then we got into the silence between tracks and the beat that was out of sync was Rich giving Pam some loving, it was a headboard and by the sounds of it Rich wasn't that tired out, but he would be in a while I was thinking.
Lu moved my arm that was over her shoulder again, she had a dress on that was stretchy, it nicely hugged her form, I'd noticed earlier that it buttoned up from the top to the bottom, it looked good on her.
Lu put my hand back, but now I felt her breast, her naked breast, she had undone some of the buttons.
"Play with it Dan, you won't hurt it, I'd taken a hold of it in my dream like state before coming to my senses and letting it go.
"Maybe we should go to bed," Lu said getting up and turned to me.
The dress was unbuttoned to her waist, I saw her breasts swaying from her movements.
"I think you're right, I'll just see to the fire. You go ahead."
As I was putting the fire guard in place I was thinking that this had gone too far, we were friends, we shouldn't be doing this type of touching, I'd have to say something to her in the morning.
I went upstairs wondering if Amy was still awake, maybe Rich's headboard drumming had put the idea in her head as well, lucky me, two nights on the trot I was thinking.
Getting to the top of the stairs I turned left to go to my bedroom.
"No, come this way tonight." I turned to face Lu standing in her bedroom doorway, the dress was fully open and I saw her breasts, both had what looked like hard nipples, lower down her legs were parted by the way she was standing, she was clean shaven by the looks of it.
I turned around and took the three steps to my bedroom, opened the door to ... to Amy on her back, Graham was pumping into her.
Like I had last night they had put a pillow so the headboard didn't bang on the wall, they were so engrossed in what they were doing they hadn't noticed me opening the door, Amy's eyes were tightly shut as she made that noise that told me that she was having a climax, I felt lots of things at once, pain, hate, anger, sadness, resentment, but I think that recognising it was what it was, overruled everything else.
I took my coat from the hook by the side of the door and walked out closing it behind me, as I walked downstairs Lu came chasing after me.
"It's just some fun Dan, I thought you liked it, I did, why don't you come back with me and we can play, we can play whatever games you want with me Dan, any games you want."
Lulu had this silly tilt to her head and smile on her face, it was a 'come hither' look like the spider said to the fly.
"You know me Louise, I don't play games." I carried on out to my car, my wallet and phone were in my coat pocket along with my car keys.
As I was getting into the car Louise, she would never be 'Lulu or Lu' to me again, she was there by the door bending to talk to me.
"Where are you going Dan, you can't leave like this, please Dan come back inside and we can talk."
Her dress was still unbuttoned, her breasts were very nice looking up close and I would remember holding one for a long while after tonight.
"Where am I going? I've no idea, but it's away from here and you three, I expect you can give Amy a lift back," I didn't want to call it home, it wasn't from now on.
"If you drive, he could get another fuck into her on the way, unless you fancy a bit of pussy." I drove away into the darkness.
It took 15 minutes until my phone rang, I was away and free, I let it go to leave a message.
Texts started to ping on the phone as I drove through the night, I wasn't in any hurry to get where I was going, I wasn't sure where that was if I was being honest, but it seemed like home, no I must stop thinking of it as that, it wasn't home anymore, it would be somewhere to sleep for a day or so, time to work out what was going to do, now that I'm going to be a single man again.
It was only a three hour drive, I had no sense of time as I was driving, I didn't remember any of it after leaving Louise with her tits out standing in the cold. I'm probably lucky that I didn't have an accident on the way.
I crawled into bed, it's funny how I had never noticed it before, but the bed smelled of her, I slept, it came easy, it was what my body needed, or more likely my brain needed to sort out what it was doing.
I woke with a jolt, something had happened, I lay there listening, could I hear anything? Was it outside? Was it inside? I relaxed and nearly went back to sleep before the bedroom door opened slowly.
"Dan, are you awake?" It was Graham, the very last person I expected or wanted to hear from, let alone see.
