3. We Plant a Dirty Idea in Allen's Mind
We woke up Saturday morning at about 7:30. Nancy was slightly on edge, knowing that Allen was coming by to take her to breakfast at nine o'clock. He'd promised to bring a condom with him so (he'd been led to expect) she'd allow him have full-on intercourse with him.
For some reason, though, she didn't seem to be looking forward to fucking him today. She said, in the light of day, non-spontaneous sex-by-appointment didn't seem very appealing.
She made a pot of coffee for us while I went down the street and retrieved our car. I pulled it into our driveway so Allen would think what Nancy and I meant for him to think: that the man living with Nancy's imaginary friend Debbie had come home.
[The story we'd invented was that Nancy is a wronged wife from Salt Lake City staying at her friend's house. Her friend "Debbie," supposedly out of town until Sunday, lives with a man named "Bob." Bob was out of town, too, when Nancy arrived Saturday night. But sometime last night he came home.]
Over our coffee we finalized our story. I was, of course,"Bob." I'd be there when Allen came by to take Nancy out to breakfast. I might even be able to wheedle an invitation to join them. The main thing Nancy and I had to do was not reveal that we were a couple.
Allen showed up at about 9:10. He was dressed more or less the same way he'd been dressed last night, though he'd changed his shirt and he wasn't wearing a tie. He was wearing the same sports coat.
Nancy invited him in and introduced me as Bob. I shook hands with him and invited him to sit down for a few minutes in the living room. Nancy, looking delectable in a tight pair of jeans and a sweater, sat down with us.
I explained that I'd just arrived this morning from Napa where I was a minor partner in a business. I figured, rightly, that this account was vague and dull enough for him to accept without asking any questions.
"Bob was surprised to find me here," said Nancy, with a little laugh. "When he got here I was in the downstairs shower. He was rummaging around in the kitchen when I got out. I think he got to see me naked."
"Not for the first time, though" I said. "Have you told him what you and Debbie used to do back in Colorado?"
Nancy did a good imitation of a blush and Allen seemed to blush, too.
"Do you mind if I tell him?" I asked her.
"No. I'm not ashamed of it. It was a good way to make money without working too many hours. It freed us up to study."
I launched into our agreed-upon story: "Nancy and Debbie were at the University of Colorado together. They even roomed together for a while. Anyway, since they were, and still are, total babes, they used to work bachelor parties and other parties that involved them stripping and dancing for a bunch of guys. It was pretty easy money. I was dating Debbie at the time, and I used to go with them as their driver and body guard."
As I said this, in order to seem somewhat credible, I tried to look as physically imposing as I could. I'm a little over six feet tall and weigh maybe 190. But I've gotten a little soft in the past three years.
"I may have to go back to something like that again," said Nancy. "I've decided to divorce my asshole husband and I'm going to need to make some money. It's a good thing, I guess, that he didn't know about my checkered past when we met. But now I don't care what he knows. Maybe I'll become as promiscuous as he is."
Supportive friend that I was, I eagerly agreed to the idea: "You still look great, Nancy. You could easily go back to it."
"We'll see what happens," she said noncommittally. Then, looking at Allen, she asked him, "Should we go now? Bob recommended a restaurant in the neighborhood and I think I can find it." She held a slip of paper in her hand on which I'd written directions to a place we like on Clement Street.
As Nancy and Allen stood up to go, Nancy turned to me and asked me if I'd like to come with them. Allen looked down at the floor. He probably didn't want me trailing along, but I had some privileges as Nancy's old, supposedly non-sexual, friend.
"Sure," I answered. "We can go in my car. Then you won't need driving directions."
As we climbed into our car, Nancy in the front with me and Allen in the back seat, he explained that he had to park his car almost two blocks away. Parking is pretty tight in our neighborhood.
We sat down together at the Clement Street Bar and Grill and were served a very decent breakfast. Nancy sat next to Allen and I sat across from them. As we ate, we chatted a little about Allen's work. As a conversationalist, we discovered, he was pretty boring. So Nancy resumed talking about what a bastard her husband was. She kept repeating how she really wanted to get even with him, even though she knew this was not a psychologically mature thing to do.
I asked Allen if he and his fellow trainers were having a good time at their convention. He said it had been pretty dull, actually. If he hadn't met Nancy, it wouldn't have been any fun at all.
"Aren't there any parties or anything?" I asked him.
"Well, not many. There's a birthday party for a guy I know tonight at the hotel. I'm not sure I'm going, though." He looked at Nancy as he said this. He was obviously thinking that the two of them might get up to something more exciting than a birthday party.
"Is it going to be a raunchy or a well-mannered party?" asked Nancy.
"Well, you know how a bunch of men are. These things can get a little out of hand."
Laughing, she said, "Like the parties Debbie and I used to work. Mostly there wasn't any trouble, but sometimes guys, especially college guys, got pretty physical with us. And then we'd see them on campus and it could be sort of embarrassing."
I spread the bullshit a little deeper. "I actually had to pull a guy off Debbie once. Some guy had her down on the floor and was about to penetrate her."
"And don't forget, once you were way too slow helping me," added Nancy. "I had a rough couple of weeks worrying about being pregnant or catching some disease. It was that damned basketball player, remember?"
I offered a ridiculously lame defense. "But I only let it happen that once, right?"
She laughed quietly and said, "Well, let's not talk about it now."
I could tell we'd really gotten Allen's attention. So, he must have been realizing, the girl he'd picked up last night was not just an angry wife. She had a sexual history, assuming he believed it, that probably made her unlike any other woman he'd been involved with. No wonder she'd been so easy – well, at least, to a point. Was he beginning to see her in a more strictly sexual light? I hoped so.
The fact that Nancy's real sexual history was even wilder than the one we'd invented for her was our little secret.
We finished breakfast and I drove us back to our house. I wasn't sure what Allen had in mind. Most likely he had a pack of condoms on him somewhere – my guess was in a pocket of his sports coat.
When we entered the house at about 10:45, I ran upstairs and said I needed to take care of something. Nancy and Allen went through the dining room and kitchen and back to the guest room. Walking together, they looked very much a couple.
In our bedroom upstairs, I sat down and wondered: What exactly were they going to do? All that sexual talk over breakfast might've somehow inflamed Allen and possibly even Nancy. Had I outfoxed myself by getting out of the way so completely? I didn't mind if she fucked Allen; I'd given her my explicit permission. But didn't I get to watch? I knew there was no way to see into the guest room window from outside without being seen.
After sitting in our room for about twenty minutes, my curiosity got the better of me. I took off my shoes, walked quietly downstairs, and tiptoed into the kitchen. The door to the guest room was closed, but I could hear muted voices in there. Then I heard Nancy laugh and Allen's voice raised a little louder.
Then, for several minutes, I didn't hear anything.
What was going on? I tiptoed over to the door and put my ear next to it. If I were caught doing this, there was an easy explanation. After all, this was my (that is "Bob's") house. I had a right to be in my own kitchen no matter what was happening in an adjoining room. So I really didn't need to offer an explanation.
At first, all I could hear through the door were muted voices. Occasionally Nancy raised her voice so I could make out words. Once, for some reason, she said, "Never mind!" Then there were several minutes when I couldn't hear anything. Were they kissing maybe?
Then, for the first time, I heard the sound of the bed springs. The bed in the guest room is rather old and makes a creaking sound whenever anyone moves on it. The creaks weren't rhythmical, though. At least they weren't fucking.
Moments later I heard a small noise that I recognized. It was a moan that Nancy makes when she experiences sexual pleasure. This was followed a few seconds later by a louder moan. Allen was doing something to my wife. I wondered. Was he eating her cunt?