My name is Katrina Starnes. My husband, Dale, calls me Kat when he is being affectionate. I know it seems boring when I put it like that. I sometimes feel like I am a boring person that few people would want to know. I'm not sure I can explain what came over me several weeks ago. This probably sounds like I'm justifying my actions. Perhaps I am to a degree. I felt bored. I felt restless. I guess I wanted the thrill I felt with sex when I was younger. We had never really been adventurous in our love-making; more predictable than anything else. It was usually one of three positions; missionary, cowgirl and reverse cowgirl once in a while. Once the kids went away to college, I thought the frequency of our love making would increase. The stress of Dale's job killed that notion. Actually, it nearly killed our love life as well.
Forbidden fruit; is that what Icarus was thinking about when he flew toward the sun? I wanted more. I wanted the thrill back, so I searched for it. What I found, I found in spades. All sorts of personal ads wanting to get with somebody like me. I made sure I hid my browser history from Dale. I reveled in this guilty indulgence of mine, reading personal ads seemingly directed at me, or at least somebody like me. It took my breath away; it made me feel desirable again, made my pussy feel damp again. But the thrill I felt dimmed again as I realized I couldn't possibly answer those ads. The risk was too great. I would probably get caught and publicly exposed in my estimation. The thought of that kind of public humiliation among friends and family was too great to bear. No, to my great shame now, I thought it would be better if Dale were caught in some tawdry affair. If that were the case, I could separate from him and possibly divorce him and be free to pursue the thrill of sex I had set up on the pedestal in my mind. Fool that I was being at the time, it seemed so simple, so elegant a solution. I would find somebody to seduce my husband!
In my naked desire to grasp that thrill of sex again, I devised a plan to place my own personal ad. I planned this scheme in my free time and set up my own subscription on the website for personal ads. Deciding I could not risk anybody discovering my identity, I would use just the first initial of my name and the current year for my user id and would just use K as a signature. I hand wrote what that ad would say and in my shame shredded it for fear that Dale would find it and question me. Late one evening after Dale had gone to bed, sitting in front of my computer in my pajamas, I typed in my personal Seductress Wanted ad.
The cursor blinked and blinked while my heart pounded in my chest. I thought I heard Dale on the stairway wandering down, I closed my eyes and clicked on the submit button as my pulse quickened, frantic to navigate away from the website I was on. But now the ad was submitted. I resolved not to look, not to watch or wait for a response, and closed the browser then and there.
I felt guilty the next day and resolved to not look for a response, but was weak and looked anyway. I should have deleted the ad, but I didn't. I'd check whenever I thought there was no danger of Dale seeing me, and quickly close the site down if I heard him moving around. There were quite a few responses from men wanting to know if I was available, wanting to know my height, weight, and age, wanting to know my body measurements. I deleted them all because I didn't want to be the unfaithful one; I wanted Dale to be unfaithful. The irony of that never occurred to me.
Once or twice I received responses from women I presumed that cuckqueans should have their heads shaved and be marched around nude in public. I had to look up that term. I deleted those as well. I didn't want to participate in Dale having sex with somebody else, so it didn't make sense to be called that. There were also a lot of responses asking Dale's height, weight, and age. I didn't reply to any of those, but I didn't delete them yet. I didn't understand why it would matter, but I wondered if I should reply to any of them. Maybe as a last resort, but I was close to giving up on the personal ad. Then one evening, I found a succinct response from J. It wasn't demanding, it didn't deflect, just seemed to be a simple yes. Could this be the answer I was wanting? Was I ready to take the plunge? It wasn't really a plunge though, was it, because to go further, I would have to respond again to at least ask for a meeting?
Once I sort of decided that this response was going to receive a reply, I needed time to assess and reflect on what I was doing. I think in the movies they call that a "gut check." I started a list of pros and cons, but shredded it fearing it would be found. I waffled back and forth, even while at work. I was distracted and my co-workers probably noticed my distraction. My boss told me in so many words to get a grip. I knew just one way to put it out of my mind, so three days later, I replied to J. Since I only work part-time, I spent most of the next couple of days off at the computer waiting for J to tell me where and when we should meet. That evening after Dale had gone to bed, I checked my computer one more time and her instructions were waiting for me. I sent confirmation and quickly scampered up to bed afterward.
"Dale, are you still awake?"
"Yes Kat. Why?"
"You've been working late so much lately. Are you going to be working late Thursday also?"
"Probably will be. What's up?"
"I'll be having dinner and drinks with a co-worker after we finish for the day and I won't have time to prepare dinner for you."
"Okay Kat. Good night love," as he kissed my forehead.
I turned the nightstand lamp off and lay down. A few minutes later I heard his light snoring, but I couldn't sleep and stared at the ceiling until my eyes adjusted to the dark and I could count the whorls in the paint texture, but eventually I slept.
I'm nervous at work and home until Thursday rolls around. I have to concentrate throughout the day on thinking about what I am doing and what I should be thinking about at the time, but I'm distracted wondering what this person I am meeting will be like. Will I like her, will it matter? Will I be able to go through with what I've set in motion? I assure myself that even if I should back out, I've made no promises so far. J has asked for none either, so maybe it will be okay. I try to picture her, and silly me, all I can do is picture another me. What seems like a thousand times; I wonder what I've gotten myself in for. My desires override my feelings of guilt. Is it wrong to desire a better sex life?
Thursday after work, I bought a bunch of white carnations from the grocery store so that I've got one for the meeting. The rest I think I will keep in the kitchen. I think about buying a salad to eat, but I'm scared that I will drip the dressing on my dark green suit. I opt for a simple protein bar instead. The butterflies in my tummy don't want much nourishment anyway.
As I walk in to Barbarossa's, I scan the crowd for somebody else carrying a carnation. But it is crowded, and I get ushered to a booth before I can see one. I order an old fashioned, maybe it will calm my nerves, but I want to be careful not to drink too much since I haven't had much to eat. I'm fairly confident I can nurse the old fashioned through the meeting without finishing it.
While waiting for my drink, an absolutely adorable girl wanders from behind me and displays a carnation. I think, "Oh my God," she's almost young enough to be my daughter! IF I had gotten pregnant in high school, she'd probably be the same age as my oldest! I had expected somebody closer to my own age, so now I'm really nervous. I'm not even 50 yet, but I feel kind of old now. She tells me her name is Jessa, and I tell her mine. I stare at her and wonder if she really would seduce a man almost old enough to be her father. I've heard that some younger women are turned on by older men. She's self-assured, confident and brash. I like to think I am confident, but I believe she is more so than I ever would be.
My drink arrives and I'm still trying to think of what to say to her. What should one say to somebody about seducing their husband? I'm at a loss for words, but I stumble through a couple of niceties. She's getting impatient and about to leave and I blurt out my desire. I'm confessing to this slip of a girl why I want her to sleep with my husband. Yet, she seems to accept it at face value. She tells me she might want to keep sleeping with Dale after I divorce him. It wasn't something I had considered previously. I search my feelings, which I'm beginning to suspect at the moment anyway. I think I can accept what she is suggesting, but I can't say for certain.