Note: This is the 13th installment in a long story about 5 couples that decide to make an adult film together and then have to deal with all of the issues that the project creates. There will be an accompanying story called "The Beach House" that is supposed to be the movie that these 5 couples create.
The different sections of this story won't make much sense on their own. It is recommended that the story be read in its entirety. It was decided to post it in pieces rather than as one massive work to make it easier to read.
The 13th installment sees the 5 couples discuss their issues with the movie, the reaction to the completion of the script, the girls go bikini shopping, and the guys get a little show.
Enjoy.
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Saturday at a little before noon everyone got together in John and Kelly's backyard for a barbecue. It was their monthly get together, they'd decided to spend it just hanging out and having fun rather than going out somewhere and doing something. They made a point of not talking about the movie while they were sitting around enjoying their burgers and cookout fixings while enjoying beer, wine, and other alcohol.
The tension in the air was palpable all afternoon; they all wanted to talk about the movie, but they'd agreed not to so they talked about other things. None of them wanted to be the first one to bring it up. When everyone had finished eating and the wives were at least 2 drinks in and the guys were all 4 or more drinks in John stood up.
"Okay guys, we've all ignored the elephant in the room for a couple hours so it's time to talk about the movie." John said.
"Is the script done yet?" Tom asked immediately.
Everyone looked over at Robert or Susan. John shook his head.
"We'll get to that soon enough, but there are some other things that we need to talk about first." John said.
"Like what?" Amy asked.
"We all know that we jumped into this thing without thinking it through. The night that we all agreed to do this we didn't take the time to consider all of the consequences of making a movie like this with our closest friends. For lack of a better term we were all thinking with our cocks that night. Since that night in February we've all had time to think about it and we've all made sacrifices; some a lot bigger than others. We've all had to deal with our feelings about what's happening. Some of us have had sex with people that we aren't married to. We've had to deal with that, our spouses have had to deal with that, and the spouses of the people that we've been with have had to deal with that. Through all of that we've all stayed pretty much silent. I haven't really heard anything from the husbands of the three women that I've been with about what they think. I haven't heard one thing from Mark since we heard about what Susan and Robert had done. We all have feelings about this; I think we need to vent them here so that we don't let them boil over and do even more damage. Who wants to go first?" John asked.
John looked around at his friends; nobody looked like they wanted to volunteer anything.
"I'll go first." Kelly said.
John looked at his wife; the others all looked at Kelly as well. Kelly stood up and John sat down.
"I agreed to be in the movie and gave John my consent for him to be in the movie. I know that over the past few weeks he's been with Lisa, Amy, and Julie and that both excites me and makes me jealous. Part of me is angry that John has been with them even though I gave him my permission to do it. I'm confused and conflicted; I feel like I should be mad at him, but I'm not. I feel like I shouldn't be turned on by the idea of him being with them, but even now I'm getting excited talking about it. I've also been with a few of the other girls. I've never done anything like that and it was really exciting, but it was also really strange because they're my friends and I'd never really thought of them like that before. I'm not going to try to stop the movie, but I sure wasn't prepared to deal with everything that's happened so far, and we haven't even started shooting yet." Kelly said.
Kelly sat down; Tom stood up.
"Not even Lisa knows about this, but I went to see a therapist about this a little while ago." Tom said.
The others were all surprised.
"You went to a therapist?" Lisa asked.
Tom nodded.
"I couldn't make sense of it. I'm a married man that is encouraging his wife to perform in a porno movie where she'll be having sex with one of my best male friends and 3 of our best female friends. I felt like I should be angry and dead set against you doing that, but instead I'm excited about it. The therapist helped me see that I felt like I should be angry because the society I was raised in said that a married couple should never have sex with someone else. The reality is that if both people consent to it, one or both of them can have sex with other people without hurting the marriage. Society might not agree with that, but it's not for them to tell us what's right for our marriage. That realization brought me a lot of peace; it's okay for me to be okay with this and excited by it. John, I know that you've been worried about how the other guys will react to you being with our wives; I can tell you without question that you've got nothing to worry about from me." Tom said.
Tom sat down.
"Why did you go to a therapist about this? Someone out there knows what we're doing now." Robert said.
"I couldn't exactly talk to you guys about it; you're involved the same way I am. I needed an outside opinion. With the doctor patient privilege she knows what we're doing, but she can't tell anyone." Tom said.
"Anybody else want to vent?" John asked.
Amy stood up.
"I had been feeling really conflicted until recently. I agreed to be in the movie without a second thought and I was really looking forward to it. Robert seemed to be very supportive of me being in the movie even though he chose to help write it instead of appearing in it with me. In the process of working on the script my husband got a little overly excited and found himself in the arms of another woman. I was far angrier about that than I let on. I realized that it was ridiculous for me to be mad at him when I was preparing to have sex with another man and 3 other women in the movie, but I was upset just the same. Recently I took part in a group writing session with Robert, Susan and Mark and I experienced the arousal that working on the script can create. We actually got so worked up that I borrowed Susan's husband while she borrowed mine." Amy said.
Most of the people at the party didn't know about Mark and Susan swapping with Robert and Amy; they were surprised.
"After that night I had a much better understanding of what my husband had done so my anger over it is gone. If we had taken the time to think things through before doing this we would have considered that Robert and Susan might find themselves in that position. I hadn't considered it so I'm as much to blame as anyone." Amy said.
Amy sat down.
"So you guys swapped?" Julie asked.
Susan nodded.
"Yes we did." Susan said.
Mark stood up.
"Following up on what Amy just said, I'm not in the movie...I'm going to be a cameraman when we start filming. I was a little hurt when I heard what Robert and Susan had done, but much like Amy I understand now." Mark said.
Mark sat down.
"Does anybody else want to vent?" John asked.
Nobody said anything.
"Nobody has any more problems with what's going on? Robert, I haven't heard from you. Eric, I haven't heard from you." John said.
Eric shook his head and stood up.
"John...I'm fine with you being with Julie. I'm actually more concerned about her being with the other women. What if she decides she likes women more than men?" Eric asked.
"That's not going to happen baby. It's fun and exciting, but I love you and I'm going to be with you for the rest of our lives." Julie said.
