Author's notes. There is no 'cheating' per se found here, but the temptation for Liz is palpable. Most decidedly, few will like this story. The plot is far from the 'strange car in the driveway' genre and will piss off some folk. Sorry. Thanks for reading my submissions - I enjoy the hell out writing them biased with my POV. All errors are mine. Thanks to Literotica for this platform. All private comments welcomed, and I answer cogent ones.
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Liz's Temptation
Allen Baker walked up to his wife's apartment's bedroom door where his pregnant spouse, Liz, was in the heat of sexual passion with his high school chum, Charlie Dawson. Allen did not disturb them because his wife had taped a 'busy' sign to the bedroom door. Allen wondered where Fran, Charlie's wife, was at the moment, but said to himself, "Gridlocked in traffic Probably."
Their foursome friendship dated back to junior high school in a small East Texas city. Everything the four knew about love and sex happened in the back of an SUV or overhead camper on the back of a pickup truck after the four were well into high school. The couples had parked the vehicles on one of several logging trails in the dense and isolated woods.
Each of the high school senior women privately enjoyed both of the men sexually, and had done so ever since the two best-friend ladies confided in each other that they were also having sex with each other's respective 'steady boyfriend' as well as with each one's own 'boyfriend.' Later that week the four were picnicking on a summer day when Fran, 'the brain of the group,' had said, "Allen and Charles, listen to me carefully. Liz and I are enjoying both of you sexually. For sure we girls have known that is the case and now you both know - rather than just suspect - that is the case. The ground rules are that each one of us is in love with each one of you, but only individually. Relax and get over it and don't breath a word to anyone. Our other friends should think that we are two couples going steady - Fran and Charles as well as Allen and Liz. Let's all try to bring up our grades and class standing up before the four of us graduate. Hard work will enhance our chances of being together and becoming successful in the future.."
Liz said, "Also, it is vitally important that we all remember our Shakespeare, 'When in Rome do as the Romans,' so that all four of us don't forget to masquerade so that 'everybody knows' Allen and Liz are going steady as is Charles and me. O.K., everybody?"
Both the 17-year-old males were stupefied for a moment but finally looked at each other and grinned. Charles said, "I must confess that Fran often calls me 'Allen.' And I just bet Liz often calls Allen, 'Charlie.' So I have already assumed this was the case, but thank you, Fran, for putting it on the table." The four burst out laughing and in time-honored fashion since elementary school they stacked their right hand on each other's 'cementing their eternal relationship.'
After high school graduation, the four physically separated for work, college or enlistment in the Navy. Four years later the quartet had migrated to Dallas in search of career track jobs when the four were then legally old enough to drink as adults.
The story opens when each member of the foursome family unit is 23 years old and waiting in Liz's apartment for word from Fran. Each had hopes that she, who was returning home from the doctor's office, was pregnant as well. While Liz and Charles were copulating, Allen poured his wife a glass of white wine and opened beers for himself and Charlie. He then sat down to read the paper while waiting until the lovers had exited the bedroom.
In a half-hour, the intimate couple in Liz's MBR exited the room naked to make their way to the single bathroom to shower. Liz blew a kiss to her husband as she passed Allen, who was sitting on the couch reading the paper. He looked up and smiled warmly at her. Charles said, "Hope you had a good day, Allen." The two lovers went straight to the shower. Allen then got up off the couch and went to Liz's closet to fetch her housecoat and hung it and Charlie's trousers on the bathroom door hooks while the two were showering. The lovers exited the bathroom and came into the living room. Allen's pregnant wife, wearing her robe, was just barely showing pregnancy. She parted the garment slightly, as she walked up to her husband and kissed him. She said, "Feel our baby, Dear." As Allen smiled and rubbed her tummy, she continued, "Every day I get more excited, don't you?"
Her husband Allen smiled big and said, "Yes. Seven more months, right?" He watched her hold up seven fingers and shake her head.
At that moment the three of them got a ding on their cells. Fran had texted, "YES! Gridlocked on LBJ at Inwood area. See you soon."
In the military following high school, Allen's unit had received a presidential citation while stationed on an aircraft carrier, where the Machinist Mate had learned maintenance and repair of complex electro-mechanical devices. When the Vet returned to Dallas after separation from the Navy after a four-year enlistment, his first job interview had been with the operations manager of several contract car wash installations. It was successful. So young Mister Baker's day was spent fighting the traffic to each of the car wash stations performing repairs or doing preventive maintenance.
He had earlier rented a working class, one bedroom apartment with a daybed in the living room, instead of a couch - though he often slept in Liz's MBR king size with three or four others. This daybed arrangement had been to accommodate his roommate friend, Charlie when he arrived to start his job. The kitchen and dining facilities for both were in Liz's adjoining apartment while the kitchen in Allen's apartment had become storage space.
Allen's wife, Liz, had gotten a degree in accounting in an East Texas college and was now working for a CPA firm as an accounting tech in Dallas. But evenings found her sitting in her apartment studying Kaplan materials to sit for the CPA exams. She had leased the next two-bedroom apartment down the hall from her nominal boyfriend, Allen. She expected her childhood friend, Fran, to join her as a roommate when the 'brains' of the group found a job here. Also, one - and sometimes both lovers in time did sleepovers in her king size bed.
Charlie had enrolled in Texas A&M after high school and graduated as a Mechanical Engineer four years later. He was hired during a campus job fair his senior year and immediately began to work for a large construction firm in the Dallas area. He now shared Allen's one bedroom apartment and slept on the daybed when his wasn't one of the bodies who slept on the king size bed in Liz's adjoining apartment that the two women used.
Soon the front door had swung open, and the much anticipated Fran called out, "Hey guys! I am pregnant and due in 7 months!" She walked over to both men and kissed them sequentially, and then hugged Liz's neck, and looked at the two men. She asked, "I wonder which one of you gentlemen got me pregnant? Well, that matters little, but the truth will surface in time."
Fran was the brain among the four in that the ethical hacker for her employer spent time in the deep web and conversed about security matters with geek peers globally on VPN connections and short-wave radio communication. Her job was to keep hackers out of her multi-national employer's system, and so far she had been successful. Fran's bedroom was her work room as she slept nightly in Liz's king-size bed.
This valedictorian in high school was frighteningly brilliant. Fran had become the defacto mentor of the group in junior high school and remained so to this day when the group was together. Very well read in general matters (For example, she had taught herself to read a page of a thriller novel in a half-minute and almost could recite what she had just read), When discussing many topics she came across as an erudite genius. Her father had encouraged her to go to college, but after Fran had read six or so course descriptions, she smiled and said,"Dad, if I should go to college, I would teach rather than be a student. Academia is not for me. But, your buying me these hardware and software items, will provide me with all the tools I need to educate myself," as she handed him a typed list of computer gear. She continued, "And, Daddy, I will save you lots of money..." So, Fran made a major purchase of equipment and tech materials and quietly began her geek studies and hacking while still in high school. After graduation as valedictorian, she worked part time for four years as a help desk tech in the company where her father was the regional manager as she continued her geek studies. People who knew her often were perplexed that 'someone as smart as Fran only works helpdesk calls.'
In time she relocated to Dallas to move in with her childhood Chum, Liz, after landing a well-paying and highly competitive position with a firm in Dallas. Competition for the job was so keen in that Fran was forced to drive to Dallas twice for two sets of interview rounds. Fran was rightly proud of her first monumental achievement.
Today, the four lovers sat down to relax and chat when Fran said, "The OBG told me, 'Reduce my carb intake and gradually reduce my exercise regiment.' So, you guys, I will be leaving the gym before you do."
Allen said, "No complaints from us three and that just means you have more time to cook dinner! Ha ha."
Liz said, "Speaking of cooking dinner, we all know this apartment complex is children-hostile and let's go out to dinner and discuss how to make a move on buying a duplex so we can get us and our soon-to-be offspring out of here."
Later that day seated at the cafeteria, Allen said, "I left a car wash today up near Beltline at Marsh and drove through some residential neighborhoods trying to beat the traffic on my way home. I passed a 'For Sale By Owner' duplex, and I stopped. One-half appeared occupied, but that occupant was loading furniture into a PODS container for relocation. I called the number on the FSBO sign and took the liberty to make us four an appointment to see the duplex at eight P.M. tomorrow. Will that work for everyone?"
Liz said, "Allen you could have told us that at home, so dinner is on you! But, hey I like that location, what about you two?"
Charlie said, "That will work for me."
Fran said, "And me, providing I can get fiber optic cable service in that location capable of 150MBPS high-speed internet."
The next evening the four had a barbecue beef dinner at a frequented restaurant during the heavy traffic hours and then later meandered to the Duplex. A white-haired gentleman sat in his car awaiting them and then exited and stood when Allen and his three friends pulled up.
