3. Nancy Sets Up an Appointment with Eddie.
We got home at about 3:15. Promptly at 4:00 o'clock, as we sat in the living room splitting a bottle of wine, Nancy's cell phone rang.
I sat next to her on our couch as she talked to Eddie. I heard her explain how the studio she'd rented to use in her practice wouldn't be ready for a few days. Would he like an appointment for a week from tonight? I heard his voice ask how much it would cost.
Nancy answered, "Well, you know, I'm pretty new at this, and I'm not actually a licensed sexual surrogate, so I can't charge you too much. Can you afford fifty dollars for, say, an hour and a half?"
I heard something from the phone that sounded like assent. Then there was maybe a full minute of Eddie talking a lot while Nancy said, "Uh huh" over and over. I confess that it was exciting listening to my wife setting up what amounted to a sexual tryst with a teenager, even a nerdy kid like Eddie. But I needed to piss. So I got up and walked through the kitchen into our downstairs bathroom.
When I returned to the living room about five minutes later, Nancy was obviously trying to end the conversation. "When we talk again on Wednesday at 6:00 o'clock we can discuss this some more, OK?"
Then I heard Eddie's voice a little more and Nancy said, "OK, sweetie. That'll be fine. I'll expect your call on Wednesday."
I sat back down next to her and gave her a big kiss. "You're such a caring person," I whispered.
Knowing that I was being sarcastic, she slapped me on the knee and laughed. "I care for sex a lot, that's for sure. Teenage boys, well, I can take them or leave them. You're still the one I really like to fuck, you know."
We chatted some more about what Eddie's "issues" were. "So far," said Nancy, "his problems don't seem too extreme. I mean he doesn't seem to have an overwhelming desire to have sex with sheep or exhaust pipes. He's just inexperienced, immature, and more than a little hung up. He admitted that he watches porn on the Internet but said that he feels guilty about it afterwards. Intimidated, too. He's not sure he could perform the way guys do with girls on porn sites."
This raised my curiosity. "Since you look like one of those porn girls, do you think he might be afraid of you?"
"That shouldn't be a problem," she said. "We talked awhile about how it felt for him looking at my body earlier today. He said he could hardly believe his good luck. He'd only seen one other girl naked, a high school girl he'd seen changing clothes, but he said she was fat and dumpy compared to me. And he'd only seen her at a distance. He went on about how grateful he was to be able to see 'down between my legs.' He said it was a sight he'd never forget."
I asked her what might take place next Friday evening.
"In our first session, I think I'll let him get familiar with my body and show him that his preconceptions, his internet ideas about what women are like, aren't quite accurate. I'll try to show him that sex can be fun and pleasurable rather than scary."
I kissed her then and she whispered, "You won't mind watching him explore my body, will you?"
If she was trying to arouse me with this line of conversation, it was working. I grabbed her and we fooled around for a while on the couch. Then, after maybe then minutes, Nancy (whom I'd managed to strip down to her g-string panties) broke away from me and announced that she needed to take a shower. She felt gritty from the beach.
While she was upstairs showering, I sat in the living room finishing my wine. Nancy seemed halfway serious about helping a teenager with his sex issues. I wondered if this could actually be erotic for her. Or would it be more like a job?
Mulling this over, I walked out the back door to the studio cabin, which has a main room taking up about seventy-five percent of its space, a small bathroom, and a small kitchen with no running water or appliances. My idea was to seal off the door between the kitchen and the main room with a piece of plywood. I'd then drill a hole in the plywood so I could peer into the main room where Nancy would interact with Eddie and possibly other "clients."
I took a few measurements in the studio then returned to the house. Nancy, who'd finished her shower and was wearing her short terry-cloth bath robe, was in the kitchen putting together a salad for a light dinner.
I asked her to stop cutting vegetables and come out to the studio so I could show her what I wanted to do. The raised platform (where Nancy had recently had sex with several guys in eighteenth-century costumes) still dominated the main room. Despite its large size, she said, she thought she could use the platform for her session(s).
She said she'd need to buy several large mats to completely cover the platform. Then she supposed she needed a few accessories she'd read about when she Googled "sexual surrogates." These included throw pillows, aromatic candles, and some CDs of soft, relaxing music.
"Don't forget a clock," I said teasingly. "As a pseudo-professional, you'll need to time your sessions."
My wife smiled at me wickedly. "Oh, I think I can be pretty flexible about timing the session. If I'm having fun, I might not want to stop exactly on time. But I'm not completely sure about all the stuff that's recommended, like the scented candles and new-age music. They seem pretty corny to me."
We returned to the house and, as Nancy finished making the salad, I sat down at the kitchen table and asked her about how erotic, for her, "helping" a teenager like Eddie could be.
"I'm not sure. I think if I can get him to relax I can relax and it could be very erotic. I don't think I've ever been a guy's first sexual experience. Even Bryce, that teenager I had sex with in the guest room, had had a little experience with girls. It might be more difficult with a guy like Eddie. If he's not fun for me, though, I'll put a stop to it."
We had our dinner and watched TV for a while. At about 8:30 I asked Nancy if she'd like to go to a bar for a drink.
"Sure, I guess so. But I'll need to change. What would you like me to wear? Am I in seduction mode or devoted-wife mode?"
I told her to wear something just barely legal. Maybe, I suggested, she could put on what she planned to wear for her session with Eddie.