Our 5th Anniversary

Author's Note: I originally posted this story under the name zeke81. Time has passed and I've had several suggestions about improving this story so I am submitting this revised version. Please feel free to read the version posted under zeke81 and let me know which version you think is better.

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It had been a tradition with Kim and her friends since college. Every Thursday night was their girls' night out, with very few exceptions. Obviously if a major holiday like Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Years fell on a Thursday they wouldn't do it that night, they would reschedule for Friday or Saturday night, but they never missed a week.

It was a super secret thing too; none of the girls would talk about it to their husbands or boyfriends. I knew the other husbands all pretty well and most of the long term boyfriends too as we all got together frequently on weekends for parties so I knew that none of them knew what went on when the girls went out.

When I first started dating Kim when we were in college I thought it was great that she went out with her friends once a week. She encouraged me to go out Thursday nights with the guys drink some beers, throw some darts, shoot some pool, watch the game on TV, whatever, and frequently I did just that, then when we would get together later that night or the next day we would always have incredible sex.

I didn't have any idea what they were doing, and thinking about what they might be doing only caused bad thoughts to enter my head. I decided that I loved Kim and that I trusted her enough to be confident that she would not do anything that would jeopardize our relationship.

Kim was very surprised and thrilled when I proposed to her. She said yes and she became the first of any of the girls in their group to get married.

I take my marriage vows very seriously. I assumed that Kim and her friends were going out to clubs, drinking, dancing, and getting hit on and probably pawed on by all sorts of guys. That isn't something that a married woman should be doing without her husband around, so I was expecting Kim to stop her girls' nights out with her friends once we got married.

I voiced my concerns to her a few weeks after we got married, but Kim told me that I didn't have anything to worry about and said that she was going to continue going out with her friends on Thursday nights.

We had some pretty heated arguments about it but after we'd talked about it for several months, and after she'd used her womanly powers of persuasion on me I relented, saying that I trusted her, and Kim kept having her girls' night out every Thursday.

It went that way for five years. I still wasn't happy about Kim's girls' nights out, but I was tired of arguing about it.

As our fifth wedding anniversary approached I couldn't help but notice that it fell on a Thursday. I wanted to do something special for the anniversary, so I talked to Kim about it two weeks beforehand.

"Baby, two weeks from Thursday is our anniversary. Since it's our fifth I was thinking that we should do something special. I was thinking that we could take Thursday and Friday off and take a four day weekend trip down to the beach." I said.

"Oh sweetie, I'm glad you reminded me, I was meaning to talk to you about our anniversary. As you know Thursdays are my girls' night out so I was hoping that we could just celebrate our anniversary on Friday instead or do it over the weekend. Your idea of going to the beach sounds wonderful, but how about we just make it a three day trip?" Kim asked.

I looked at her in disbelief. She wanted to blow off our anniversary to go out with her friends?

"Are you serious?" I asked.

"Yes John I'm serious. Thursday night is when I go out with the girls; you know that." Kim said.

"Honey, I know that your girls' night out is important to you, but we're talking about our anniversary; our 5th anniversary no less. The trip to the beach doesn't mean anything without having it include our anniversary." I said.

"Oh John, what does it matter what day we celebrate our anniversary on?" Kim asked.

"Well I'll throw that question right back at you. Why does it matter that you have your girls' night out on Thursday?" I asked.

"It's tradition." Kim said.

"Tradition? You've got to be kidding me. You change it for holidays, why can't you change it for our anniversary? A couple celebrating the day that they got married is a pretty important tradition too. This is our 5th anniversary Kim, this one should be really special to both of us, but you want to go out with your friends instead of spending it with me?" I asked.

"Why are you being so difficult about this John?" Kim asked.

"Because I want to take off of work and take my wife away for a special trip on our anniversary, and she'd rather stay right here and spend that night with her friends. The question is, why are you being so difficult about this?" I asked.

"I'm not the one that's being difficult." Kim said.

"Oh you aren't? Okay, then give me one good reason why you can't reschedule or even just skip the one week so we can spend our anniversary together." I said.

"Skip a week are you serious? I would never do that John." Kim said.

"Really? Never? That qualifies as being difficult in my book." I said.

"It does not." Kim said.

"Yes it does Kim. I asked you for a reason that you don't want to spend our anniversary with me and you wouldn't give me one. I suggest that you skip just one week of your girls' night out for our anniversary and you snap at me; that's being difficult in anyone's book Kim." I said.

We argued around and around about it for several days. Even with the strong relationship between Kim and her friends she had never put them before me until that point.

She was choosing to spend our anniversary with her friends instead of me.

It got to a point where I had to know why she was choosing to spend our anniversary with them instead of me, but I knew better than to ask her. She wouldn't have told me even if I did ask so it wouldn't have done any good.

On the Monday before our anniversary I talked to her about it one last time.

"Kim, I'm going to ask you this one more time. Can you please either reschedule your girls' night out for another night or just skip it this week so that we can go on the trip that I want to take?" I asked.

"We've been through this time and time again John; you and I can leave Friday morning and go to the beach for a three day weekend, but Thursday night I'm going out with the girls." Kim said.

I hung my head and tears ran from my eyes.

"I see. I guess I finally understand where I rate in your life Kim. If you choose going out with your friends over spending your anniversary with your husband then maybe when you get home Thursday night I won't be here." I said.

There was a tear running down my cheek as I said it. Kim was a little shocked at what I'd said.

"What are you saying John?" Kim asked.

"I'm saying that if you don't think enough of our marriage to spend our anniversary with me then maybe I'll go out looking for my own fun Thursday night and won't just be here waiting for you when you get home." I said.

I could see the uneasiness, sorrow, and even a little fear in Kim's eyes.

"John, are you serious?" Kim asked.

"Yes Kim, I'm deadly serious. I've always known that your girls' night out is important to you and though I objected to it I've accepted it all this time. I believed that as your husband I was first in your life and your girls' night out was secondary. The fact that you insist on going out with your friends Thursday night, on our anniversary, has made it painfully clear to me that I was wrong. It's obvious to me now that your girls' nights out are more important to you than our marriage. With that being the case then maybe I should just go." I said.

I hung my head and wept. Kim came over and hugged me.

"Oh John; don't think for one minute that the girls mean more to me than you do. It's just that the girls and I planned something very special for Thursday night several months ago and a lot of time and planning would be out the window if I don't go Thursday." Kim said.

"Kim, I know how important your girls' night out is to you, but I can't believe that you'd schedule something special for your girls' night out on our anniversary." I said.

"It was the only day that all of the details would work out for everyone John. I'm so sorry." Kim said.

"Maybe if you told me what it was that you've got planned I'd understand why you'd blow off our anniversary for it." I said.

"You know that I can't do that John." Kim said.

"Kim, I'm trying to understand this, but you aren't giving my any explanations. The only reason I can think of is that your friends mean more to you than our marriage does; than I do." I said.

"John, if I had known how seriously you were going to take this anniversary I would have asked the girls to try to schedule it for another night, but it's set for Thursday night and I can't miss it. I promise you that I'll more than make it up to you over the weekend. We'll leave early Friday morning and I'll love you up so good when we're at the beach this weekend that you'll forget all about this, I promise." Kim said.

"Okay Kim, you win. Go ahead and go out with the girls Thursday night; go do whatever special thing you have planned, but don't be too surprised if I'm not here when you get home." I said.

Again Kim looked at me with a look of shock and concern on her face. I don't think she believed that I would leave her over a little spat like that, but I could see that she was genuinely concerned about what I might do.

With my last plea denied I was more determined than ever to find out what was so damn important about the girls' night out that Kim had chosen going out with her friends over spending the day with me.

I decided that Thursday night when she left I'd follow her to see where she went. I had to be able to do it without her noticing me however so I called a friend of mine that works in the surveillance industry.

I told him that I had a need for a tracking device that I could get into Kim's purse or even better onto her body some how and he hooked me up with a very nice looking necklace that had a tracking device concealed inside it. If I could get it around Kim's neck before she went out Thursday night I'd be able to follow her wherever she went.

Thursday night as Kim was getting ready to go out I walked into the bedroom.

"You're not going to talk me out of going tonight John; so don't even try. I don't want to fight over this again." Kim said.

"I don't want us to fight about it anymore either. In fact I've come with a little peace offering. This isn't your anniversary gift, but it is our anniversary so I couldn't let it pass without giving you something." I said.

I put the necklace around her neck.

"It's beautiful John." Kim said.

"You're beautiful. Happy anniversary." I said.

"Happy anniversary. Well, I'd better get going. I'll probably be pretty late tonight so don't bother waiting up." Kim said.

"Don't wait up on our anniversary? So I'm not even going to get to make love to you tonight? That's just great." I said dejectedly.

Kim looked sad for a moment; then she gave me a quick kiss and was down the stairs and out the door.

I heard her car pull away and then I sprang into action. I grabbed the handset for the tracking device, turned it on, and got in my car. I made sure that I followed her from far enough away so that I would not be seen.

The tracking device stopped moving and as I pulled onto the block I saw Kim's car parked in front of her friend Becky's house. Becky was one of the two single girls in their group, the other was Sara. The other women in the group were Jenny and Emily who had boyfriends, and Kim, Julie, Heather, and Amy who were all married.

I had stopped half a block away and when I was sure that Kim was inside the house I got out of my car, walked quickly down towards Becky's house and soon identified the cars belonging to all 8 of the women. They were all inside Becky's house. Either they were meeting there before heading out or their girls' night out was going to be a girls' night in tonight.

I wanted to get closer and either see or hear what was going on inside, luckily it was a cool summer night so the windows were open on Becky's house so I snuck closer to try to see if I could hear what was going on.

I was able to find a place to hide behind a bush below one of the open windows to her living room and though it wasn't like being in the room I could hear most of what was being said.

"Kim, is everything okay? You look a little down." Becky said.

"Oh, I'm alright, I was just thinking about John." Kim said.

"Kim honey, you know the rule, no thinking about husbands or boyfriends on our girls' nights." Heather said.

"I can't help it; I can't get what he said the other day out of my head." Kim said.

"What did he say?" Jenny asked.

"He said that if going out with all of you for our girls' night out was more important to me than our anniversary then maybe he wouldn't be at home when I got back tonight." Kim said.

"Is that all? Kim you know better than that. John absolutely adores you; he'd never run out on you, no matter how hurt he is that you're here. I promise you that John will be there when you get back." Amy said.

"Normally I'd agree with you, but this time I'm not so sure. He seemed really serious; I've never seen him so shaken about anything. I've hardly ever seen him cry, but there were tears in his eyes as he said it. I seriously considered calling you all to cancel our plans for tonight." Kim said.

The girls are all stunned.

"You were thinking about canceling this? This was your idea in the first place." Sara said.

"I know it was my idea, but John looked so sad and confused that I just wanted to wrap him up in my arms and take him away on the beach trip he planned right then and there. Maybe I should have." Kim said.

There was a long period of silence.

"So Kim, how long will it be until it's time for the evening's long awaited main event?" Emily asked.

"What? Oh, let's give him an hour or so." Kim said.

"Well I'm not gonna sit around for an hour, anybody else want a little warm up?" Jenny asked.

All of the girls except Kim said yes.

"What about it Kim? It will get your mind off your troubles." Becky said.

"Well, okay, I guess it wouldn't hurt to be nice and ready for him." Kim said.

I had been in Becky's house and knew how the furniture was arranged so I knew that I would be spotted immediately if I tried to peak inside so I couldn't see what was happening, but I heard the distinct sounds of people moving around and what sounded like clothing being removed. The next sounds I heard were quite shocking. I heard the unmistakable sounds of women experiencing sexual pleasure.

As I sat there crouched behind a bush outside that window listening to what was happening just feet from me I didn't know what to think. My wife and her friends were having a lesbian orgy. They all agreed to it rather quickly so I could only assume that it was not their first time doing it.

I also couldn't help thinking about what else I'd heard. Give him an hour; be warmed up for him, the main event.

I started to cry silently as I realized that my wife had set it up for her and her friends to have sex with some strange man on our anniversary.

I had to get out of there before I started bawling openly so I crawled out from under the window, walked quickly back to my car, and sat and waited. I couldn't have stayed under the window any longer without my now audible crying being detected so as I sat in the car I cried like a baby.

I thought about just driving away, but I realized that I wanted to see what this man looked like. I wanted to see just whom my wife had chosen to have sex with on our anniversary instead of me.

I even had thoughts of waiting for the guy to go inside then barging in on them in the act and beating the shit out of the guy before telling Kim not to come home at all.

Kim had said it would be an hour so I sat there and just over an hour passed, it was the longest hour of my life.

I kept looking for cars coming up the street or even someone walking by on foot, but nobody came. Instead the front door of the house opened and the eight women came out fully clothed. They each got in their cars and they all headed off in the same direction. I again turned on the tracking device and began tailing Kim.

I was quite surprised and confused when I found that they had all gone to my house. Again I stopped down the street and got out of the car and walked quickly towards the house.

When I got to the neighbors' house I heard the unmistakable sound of Kim crying. I crouched down behind the wall that separates my yard from the neighbor's yard and listened.

"I can't believe it, he's gone. He's really gone. I never thought he'd do it, but he's gone." Kim sobbed.

"You didn't have an anniversary dinner; I'm sure he was just hungry and went out to get something to eat." Jenny said.

"Yeah, that has to be it." Sara said.

"No, he's gone. I chose my girls' night out over spending our anniversary with him so John left me. I'm such a fool. I never should have done this. I should have cancelled when I saw how upset he was, but I didn't and now he's left me." Kim sobbed.

"If John left you over something like you choosing to spend your anniversary with us instead of spending it with him then I'm not sure that he deserved a gift like us in the first place." Julie said.

"Don't say that, this is all my fault not his. I should have set this up for Friday or Saturday night instead of tonight. I didn't think for one second when I was planning this that it would be this big of a deal to him, but I was wrong; dead wrong. Now he's gone." Kim sobbed.

"This sucks; after all these months of planning I was really looking forward to finally get to fuck him." Emily said.

"Me too, all I've heard for years is how amazing John is in bed so now when we finally get the chance he runs off. He leaves her over something as trivial as her spending their anniversary with us instead of him." Becky said.

"It's obviously not trivial; not to John at least. John wouldn't leave me over something trivial. This obviously cut him to the core. Oh God, what have I done? He's really gone." Kim sobbed.

What I was hearing was blowing my mind.

The 8 of them had come to my house to have sex with me? Kim had arranged for her 7 friends to be my anniversary present but when they got to the house and I wasn't at home she thought I'd left her and she was crying like mad.

I didn't really know what I'd say or do when I walked up to Kim, but I realized that there was still a chance to save this night, and to show Kim I hadn't left her so she could stop crying.

I hate to see her cry, it's worse than a kick in the balls.

If I was going to get Kim to stop crying and salvage what was left of the evening I would have to work quietly and quickly.

I hurried back to where I had parked my car; took my knife out of my pocket and jabbed one of my tires through the tread to flatten it. Then I started walking down the street towards the house. As I came around the end of the neighbor's fence I put on an annoyed face.

"God damn tire, why the hell couldn't it blow out in the driveway? That fucking car can wait down the block until we get back from the beach for all I care. Oh, hello ladies, what are you all doing here? I thought that you were going out tonight, is everything okay?" I asked.

At hearing my voice all of the girls turned my direction. Kim's red, tear filled eyes lit up when she saw me.