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.
Bob returned with the drinks and sensed something going on. I thought he'd be angry, but he just smiled. As he sat down, I noticed he also had a stiffy. I imagined if Angela had taken ill, and it was Val sandwiched between me and Bob, I'd experience an electrifying jolt of jealousy and arousal.
In the last two rounds, the lead swapped between The Fantastic Foursome and Brynn's Battlers. He beat us by one point. Brynn gloated from the bar, raising his pint in ironic cheers. Gary did the final checking of scores and announced there had been a mistake and it was a draw. I raised my pint back to him and his face looked like a smacked arse.
The tie break question was in five parts. It was about the deepest point in the world, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, Western Pacific ocean. That was the first answer. Bob and Angela looked blank, but I knew this stuff from a documentary I had on DVD, but Brynn probably knew it too. The rest of the questions were typical, when, who, how, stuff. Afterwards Gary checked our scores, got his calculator out and converted miles to metres and checked again. Then he made his announcement. "Vic's beaten you, Brynn. He's even given me the name of the captain of the bloody ship." An enormous cheer went up and Gary called for quiet and read out our answers. I did him five-three. Angela gave a shriek of delight and threw her arms around me and kissed me full on the lips. I wanted to slip her the tongue, but I thought it was a too much in front of the whole pub and her husband.
"Well done, mate. I think you've got a quiz groupie there."
"Oh, don't get jealous, Bob. You'll get your prize later. I've told Vic it's our anniversary," said Angela. She gave him a full-blooded kiss.
Bob winked at me. "It's a tough job mate, but someone has to do it."
Gary waved my prize above the heads of the stampede for last orders. I went up to the bar and thought I'd be the bigger man. I found Brynn, stuck out my hand and said well-played. He didn't want to take it, but he'd look a prick in front of everyone, so he congratulated me. When I returned, Bob and Angela were animated. They looked up and smiled. "With my compliments for your anniversary." I presented them with our champagne prize in an ice bucket. Angela put her arms around my neck and this time she gave me the tongue. She was quick, so only Bob noticed. He smiled and shook my hand.
Gary shouted last orders and Angela offered to get them in before going to the loo. Two large whiskies appeared, but I didn't notice Angela return. The champagne had disappeared as well. I spent the next couple of minutes accepting congratulations from departing punters. One bloke said it was better when it was a grudge match and winked. I think most of the pub had the jist of my relationship with Brynn. I drained the last of my whiskey and said goodnight. "Enjoy your anniversary celebration, you lucky sod, Bob."
His phone beeped, Bob looked at the message and smiled. "Not so fast, mate. Your work isn't over yet." He showed me the screen and laughed at my reaction. It was from Angela. It said, 'I'm ready for you both now.' Underneath was a picture of her from the waist down. She was wearing black stockings and suspenders, and her shaven mound was prominent in tiny red kickers.
I looked at Bob. My heart was pounding. I would love nothing better than to fuck his wife. "Are you sure about this?"
He nodded. "I am. You noticed our little confab while you were at the bar. I suggested it to Angela, and she jumped at it. Like I say, you've got a fan there. Pity you wife had to cry off ill, I'd have loved to see those big tits." I looked hesitant and Bob ploughed on. "Vic, Ange and I have talked about this in the past. We agreed that if we met a couple we liked the look of we would, you know? Well, today we agreed. I've got to tell you Vic, the thought of seeing another man fuck Ange is such a turn on. Besides, don't you want to see her sweet pussy in the flesh?" Bob waved his phone in front of my eyes and it hypnotised me.