Bedtime stories number 5
My village pub hosts a quiz every Wednesday evening. In the winter only a dozen locals turn out, but summer numbers are swollen by campers from the nearby country park and other tourists. We'd moved to the village from London a few years ago. Most locals welcomed us, being incomers themselves. The exceptions were a few die hards who resented change. Their ringleader Brynn, my pub quiz nemesis, was perched on his usual seat at the bar when I walked in with my wife Valerie a few weeks ago.
"It's heaving in here tonight," I said to the landlord Gary, another outsider, but tolerated because he'd reopened the pub.
"You're just in time for the quiz, Vic. Sixty people have signed up. Teams of four, ten rounds of ten questions each, totting up after every round so we can have a league table. Plus, a couple of nice drink breaks," Gary winked. He worked hard and nights like these made his business viable. He pointed to a whiteboard with team names on it. All very official. "I guess you'll want to play. Brynn's got his usual cronies." Gary knew how to push my buttons. "Most people are teamed up. That couple over there are staying with us, I don't think they've got partners yet." I followed his gaze. Gary had half a dozen bed-and-breakfast rooms.
My wife already bagged the spare seats opposite the couple Gary pointed out. I took our drinks over and Val did the introductions. "This is my husband, Vic. Vic, this is Bob and Angela from Shropshire, they're touring the coast." They were the same age as us, somewhere in their early fifties. Bob an electrician and Angela a primary school teacher. Bob had salt and pepper hair and a stocky build. I guess you'd call him handsome in a lived in way. His smiling eyes appealed to women, at least they did to Val, although she was trying not to show it. He was trying not to stare at her large boobs, but doing a poor job. Angela was petite with fine features. As we chatted, she clipped up her long black hair to cope with the heat. A careless gesture that allowed me to admire her slender neck and arms. Her blouse pulled tight across her chest, nipples prominent. She caught me looking and blushed. We automatically turned to look at our partners, but they were talking twenty to the dozen and hadn't noticed.
Gary shouted last call for teams and I entered us as 'The Fantastic Foursome.' We all had a little smirk at the connotations.
Val rubbed her temples. She'd been having cluster migraines for days. She smiled and said she was okay. It was nice for us to get out for a change. A couple of drinks and another bloke chatting her up were helping to distract her from the pain.
Gary announced round one was geography. "No handicap questions about places in Wales nobody else has ever heard of," I said. There was general laughter, but a mutter from Brynn at the bar.
Bob picked up on it. "What's his problem, Vic?"
"Brynn doesn't like incomers. Wishes, it was still the 1960s. We had a stand up row in here a few months ago. I asked him who paid the wages of all the tradespeople doing up houses that had stood empty for years? There's no work for young people around here. If it were not for incomers retiring, the village would be on its arse."
"It's the same where we live," said Bob.
"Plus, he's a know all, but I've beaten him in every quiz where there's not questions about Lloyd George's grandmother, or Welsh scrum half's from the 1950s. Gary throws them in to keep his regulars happy, but it bugs me." I scowled in Brynn's direction.
"Looks like we've got a grudge match," said Angela.
"Oh, don't get him started," Val cautioned.
The quiz started. We huddled over the table to discuss our answers. A lot of eye contact going on. I felt excited with anticipation. I don't know of what. By halftime we were in third place, just two points off the lead. Unfortunately, the heat and the noise had got to Val and she winced, rubbing her aching head. I recognised the look.
She made her apologies. "I'm sorry, everyone. I thought they'd gone, but if I don't lie down in a dark, quiet place soon, I'll throw up. I don't want to spoil the fun. You stay, Vic."
It was a disappointment. I know Bob was especially sad to see Val get up to leave. We only lived around the corner, so I promised to come back after I'd escorted my wife home. I asked Gary to give me ten minutes before he started again. The bar was so busy he wasn't in a hurry to resume.
Back home I settled Valerie in bed with a glass of water and a cold face flannel. She said she'd caught it in time and would be ok. She insisted I go back to the pub and for the umpteenth time told me to give her apologies to Bob and Angela.
***
They asked after Val's condition when I returned. I reassured them sleep was the best cure. The next quiz round was pictures. Now we were three, I sat next to Angela so we could all look at the single sheet of images together. The warmth of her slender body between me and her husband was stirring my cock. It had been me and Angela who answered most of the questions before the break, and so it continued. She whispered into my ear before we scribbled our answers. Craftily, her tongue licked my earlobe, sending an electric shock through me. Bob didn't see it. He just smiled and topped up her drink from his. When we won that round it put us in the lead, Angela kissed me on the cheek and then as an afterthought kissed her husband.
"You must excuse Ange, she gets a bit handy when she's excited." Angela slapped her husband's arm in embarrassment and sent him to get more drinks.
"I think your flirting is getting your husband going," I said. "You're in for a busy night, Ange." She looked me straight in the eye. Her blue eyes were very sexy.
"Well, it is our anniversary today so I've come prepared for action." I followed her gaze. Her nipples were as hard as rocks. "Have a proper look before he comes back. Bob could not get enough of Val's tits earlier. I guess we all want something different from the usual occasionally." Angela's hand slid along my thigh and squeezed my hard cock.