[ This story contains betrayal, cheating, lies and illegal activities. It includes oral sex, coitus, and orgasms (real and faked). It is not a polyamory story. The story is fiction. The characters do not exist although I've known a few people who have some attributes shared by characters in the story. Your feedback is encouraged.]
Mike had been married for eleven years, this time. The first time had been three years of what Mike thought of as bliss. When Sara suddenly announced they were getting a divorce it shook him hard. His head kept telling him, 'It shouldn't be this way.'
It could have been worse, he told himself, she wasn't leaving him for another man or even for a woman. It was all about money. He didn't have or make enough. She was kind enough to say she loved him, but couldn't/wouldn't live her life poor.
Their sex life had been wild and frequent. From the day they moved in together until the afternoon she moved out they had sex at least once a day. After she moved out she still came by about once a week and screwed his brains out. In between her visits he prayed she would decide she could live with a school teacher. That lasted eight months, then she found a banker and she started banging him and stopped visiting Mike's bedroom. She told him that John wanted an exclusive relationship. Six more months and Sara and John flew to Vegas and got married. Three years after Sara quit visiting his bed or any part of his life, Mike met a woman at church, Bonnie. Almost a year after that, they got married.
They spent many evenings before and after they married discussing and planning their financial future. She worked. He worked. They closed their individual accounts and pooled their resources into joint accounts.
At the end of his first marriage Mike had less than a thousand dollars in savings and nothing in a 401K, 403B or any other retirement account. Eleven years after he married Bonnie they had almost a quarter million stashed away. Bonnie was a smart woman and she managed their money. Not a dime of it was in the bank that Sara's new husband worked for. The only thing Mike continued to miss about Sara, when he bothered to think of her at all, was their sex lives. They didn't see each other, didn't email and didn't bump into each other, ever. As far as Mike was concerned Sara might as well have fallen off the planet. Except for the occasions when he was in bed with Bonnie and wanted something more that mild vanilla sex. Those occasions were frequent.
Bonnie was a good looking woman, even fully dressed. She wore nice clothes. They were a bit conservative, not flashy and not daring. Her taste in underclothes was much the same, good quality, but not aimed at sexy. Mike doubted she had ever been inside a Victoria's Secret store. Sara had loved lacy, racy things that peeked from her clothes and while Mike thought of Bonnie as "good looking" he had always thought of Sara as "Hot!"
Mike and Sara had married on the ninth of September. He married Bonnie on the tenth. The years were different, but having the dates being close together made it easy for Mike to remember.
Mike taught at the local high school. He taught math to mostly ninth graders. Basic math and Algebra 1. Bonnie worked for the city council, solving problems. If you had a pothole on your street you called Bonnie and she got someone out there and the pothole got fixed. If you wanted to speak at a City Council Meeting, you called Bonnie to get on the speaker's list. She said her job was as a troubleshooter.
Mike taught five periods of math a day. His free period linked with his lunch so he had extra time all at once. He spent it on the laptop he carried everywhere. He spent it reading and studying all the things that interested him. In the evenings he and Bonnie watched Jeopardy on television and Bonnie often said she felt pride that Mike, her husband, knew so many of the questions.
He always began his computer time by checking his emails. This story actually begins with him checking his email on the ninth of October, one month to the day from his anniversary with Sara.
The line on his Outlook page read: "05:55 09/09/XX Lacy@earthlink.org "You're Invited"
"Invited to what?" Mike said out loud. He thought, 'Who's Lacy?'
(click) The email opened. "Mike, It's been too long. I believe you have a pupil-free day next Friday. If you arrange it, you can be off campus all day. You are invited to a surprise party for you. A very private party filled with surprises. Drive to Lakeside, to 1144 Shoreline Drive. Park in the garage and close the garage door. There is an old paint can on the workbench. The key under the paint can unlocks the door between the garage and the lodge. You don't need to bring anything but your body. Everything else will be available inside the lodge. I'll be waiting. Please let me know you're coming. Lacy" The email gave a link and when Mike clicked on it the screen showed him a picture of a woman wearing a very sexy lace teddie. He smiled and wondered if Bonnie had sent him the email. It was out of character for her, but if not her, who?
A student knocked on the door to his classroom at that moment. He clicked the mouse and the screen switched to an algebra problem and the six steps to a solution. He motioned to the student and he entered. Twenty minutes of help later, the student left and Mike clicked back into his email program.
He read the eighteen emails that had come in from students and answered the six that needed answers. He read and responded to the six emails from other math teachers all over the state and the three from members of the church he and Bonnie attended. When he was done he had time left to eat his lunch and read one chapter in a James Patterson book he checked out of the school library.
The email from Lacy was left in his mailbox, unanswered.
That evening Bonnie told him over dinner that she and three others from work were driving to Riverdale for a two-day conference. She showed him the one-page flier about the conference on Thursday and Friday. The mayor named her and three others to attend. She was all excited to be going, to be selected to go and excited that the city was paying for their room and food for the three days.
"Three days? The flier says Thursday and Friday." Mike was puzzled.
"They are allowing us to stay Friday night so we don't have to drive home tired. We have to leave on Wednesday to drive there. We get hotel rooms for Wednesday night, Thursday night and Friday night!"
"I'm impressed."