I've been married to Jack for a couple of years now and it's been great. A few minor tiffs but otherwise we get on well, interested in what each other is doing, share some interests and the sex if pretty good too, although like most things, it could be better.
Anyway, we live quite a comfortable life. Jack works in the city with a pretty decent wage. I work part-time for an up-market estate agent, showing potential buyers properties as and when needed. We live in central London in a two-bedroomed apartment. Not huge but it's a good starting point, and when we have kids we'll probably move to the suburbs. Overall we consider ourselves pretty lucky still being relatively young - I'm twenty six and Jack's a couple of years older.
One day Jack asked if it was OK for an old Uni pal, Simon, to come and stay for a couple of days. He lives in Manchester but was coming down for one of those intensive interviews - a meet the team buffet and a couple of interviews. Of course I said yes, although I'd never heard Jack mention Simon before.
I didn't really know much about Jack's university life. I knew he went to the London School of Economics, which was pretty impressive. With a start like that perhaps it wasn't so surprising that his career had taken off so quickly and successfully. It was, after all, mainly his money that allowed us to live in central London.
Simon was due to arrive a couple of weeks later, on a Wednesday, stay for two nights and then back up north again. I quizzed Jack about him. He said they were on the same course, socialised a bit but didn't go into any detail. I didn't really think anything more about it and Simon duly arrived around lunchtime on the scheduled data. I made sure I was home to let him in. In the evening he would be going out for the informal team buffet, or trial by sherry.
When I opened the door I had a bit of a shock. He was black. Not that that mattered, it was just that Jack hadn't mentioned it, although why should he? He was quite striking in appearance. Probably six two, pretty handsome and judging by the way his jacket fitted it suggested a well-developed body underneath. I quickly recovered, welcoming him in. Showed him his bedroom while I made coffee and a bite to eat.
I had a house viewing later but not for a couple of hours so we sat and chatted. Time flew by and he was easy to talk to and inevitable the conversation turned to Jack and their time at Uni. According to Simon they were the best of mates and 'did everything together'. I said flippantly, 'What, even girl friends?', expecting a quick denial, but he just laughed nervously and tried to change the subject, although my interest was piqued by this time. I tried to provoke him and it worked to a degree. I said, 'Did you have threesomes or something?' laughing nervously myself. He said something like, 'No, not really', but try as I might, he wouldn't elaborate, just deflecting the question and said he shouldn't have said anything.
Time caught up with us and I had to leave for the house viewing so I left him to it. When I got back a few hours later the flat was empty. Jack would be back soon so I prepared something to eat.
When Jack got home he asked if Simon had arrived so I filled him in about him being out. I was tempted to quiz Jack about Simon some more but I could hardly ask, 'Did you and Simon share girlfriends?'. And even if they did, it was none of my business now. Whatever they got up to before we met didn't really concern her, but secretly it did. It seemed there was something about Jack that she didn't fully understand, but it would probably be best to let sleeping dogs lie, so I didn't say anything at all, talking about his day, the viewing, plans for the weekend. Anything except Simon and his time at Uni.
Simon got in around ten and, after asking how his trial by sherry went, I made my excuses to leave them to catch up on old times.
Lying in bed, my mind kept returning to what Jack and Simon could have got up to at Uni. Something to do with girlfriends but not threesomes! Jack is pretty handsome, one of the reasons I was so attracted to him, and I knew he'd had a number of girlfriends before me. Probably more than he's led me to believe and, truth be told, I was a bit jealous of those other women. I'd slept with eight guys, including Jack. Not that many I didn't think. So what did they get up to? My thoughts were soon disrupted by Jack climbing into bed, but after a quick cuddle we drifted off to sleep.
The alarm woke me. Jack was an early riser, wanting to be in the office by eight at the latest. I had a couple of viewing in the afternoon so I snuggled down, trying to work out what Jack and Simon had got up to.
About nine-thirty I got up, showered and put the coffee on. Simon appeared soon after. I'd heard him in the shower too and he look pristine, all ready for his first formal interview later, which, I found out, was early afternoon.
We chatted some more and returned to their Uni days. Bit by bit I broke down the barriers, and what he said took me by surprise as it was a bit kinky to say the least. Apparently it started as a bet. Jack was seeing this girl and in a drunken night out Jack bet Simon that he wouldn't be able to bed Jack's girlfriend. Simon must have seen the shock on my face and said he'd said too much, but I persisted.
'Well, did you?' I asked him.
Reluctantly he said, 'Yes'.
'And then what happened'.
'Not a lot. They split up a few weeks later.'
'And?', I persisted.
'I shouldn't really be telling you this. It was years ago. We were immature students having a laugh.'
'Was that it then? You managed to seduce his girlfriend and won a drunken wager?'
He didn't answer straight away so I knew there was more.
'Well, it happened again, with his next girlfriend. It was just a game. He was, still is, good looking, confident, and managed to get girlfriends quite easily.'
I had a pang of jealously at this point. After prompting, more was revealed.
'It became a thing between us. He'd get a girlfriend and challenge me to sleep with her. Call it a social survey in women's behaviour, you know, do all women cheat, but Jack suspected it was a black thing. I've no idea really.'
'Were you always successful?'
He looked a bit uncomfortable but nodded, adding, 'Except one girl. She was some kind of racist I think. Not a very nice woman and Jack dumped her straight away.'
My mind was racing. Simon was pretty dishy so I could easily see why women would fall for him. If I wasn't married then perhaps I could be tempted too. I quickly put the thought out of my mind. 'So how long did this go one for?'
'About eighteen months, or thereabouts. It started during our second year and continued through to the end, although as time went on, Jack didn't challenge me as such. We both just took it for granted that, you know, I'd try it on with his girlfriends. Occasionally he'd ask whether I had or not but, as I said, he took it for granted that I had.'