The mirror still showed the bruise, the reminder. Sam and I didn't need it to remind us what happened was real, we remember.
But that's the end of the story. It started last summer.
We both like doing things around the house, and we love the house we bought. The bad/good news is there are lots to do in a 50 year old house. I bugged my husband yet again. "Sam honey, we have to get the great room painted. I know you want to do it, but painting will take a lot of time, that ceiling is 12 feet high, and you're working such long hours there's no way you could get it done before our Labor Day party."
He agreed. Finally. A phone call or two later set up some appointments, and in two days we had arranged for a college kid to do the painting starting in a couple of weeks. House owners know that magic is really easy if the magic wand you wave has enough money on it.
That took pressure off Sam, he was feeling frisky. He began doing what we all do, sometimes, during the early stages of making love, during the touching teasing parts of foreplay. You know, when we tell ourselves we're making it more exciting for our partner, but what's really happening is we're making it more exciting for ourselves.
My husband of two years was doing that. "Honey, has anyone ever watched you while you were making love?" he asked while his fingers were caressing the inner part of my thigh.
"Of course not, Sam," I told him. "I mean, no one except the guy I was with, and you already know about all four of them, present company included. Besides, that's an odd question. Why, have you been watched?"
Oh, did he ever rise to that one. "A long time ago, yeah. Remember Marsha, that girl I used to date? We were climbing in the White Mountains, it was up the North Twin trail.
We were always horny back then. Our trail crossed a stream, so we walked along the shoreline a hundred yards, went around a bend, found a big rock, and used it as a bed."
"So you had outdoor sex, big deal. What about the watching part?"
"You know how the paths are on those mountains, they go right up ridges. That's what we thought that trail did. When we started hiking again, we found out the trail took a right turn when it crossed the stream. It passed within 10 yards of our, uh, bedrock. We looked down, and knew if anyone was on the trail they'd have seen us. The stream was noisy, we couldn't have possibly heard them. Well, we started back up the mountain, we used to go pretty fast, and it wasn't too long before we passed another couple. As we passed
the guy said something about 'We were watching you two back there.' I said I hoped they liked the show, and we just went up the trail."
He continued: "And know what, honey? I love North Twin!"
"So long as you don't love Marsha, that's OK." I reached between us, touching him the way he liked to be touched, stroking his cock. I know how to tease, too. "So you liked being watched, huh?You're bad. Did you and Marsha talk about it?"
"Oh sure, we talked about that a lot, we got off on knowing we were watched. But pretty soon, we broke up. That was the end of that."
"Hmm. So my man starred in a real life sex show, huh?"
"I didn't know it at the time, but yeah, I did. That couple watched me do this --" he couldn't wait any longer, and moved onto, make that into, me -- "and I'll bet they bumped uglies that night, thinking about what they saw."
"I hate that expression, your cock isn't ugly, I don't think my vagina is, either," I reminded him, as we moved in that comfortable rhythm we knew so well, "but baby, you can 'bump uglies' with me any time, especially when you're gonna start by telling me dirty stories."
I was thinking about what he told me later, after he had fallen asleep. I wanted to know more. The next time we were having pelvic percussion -- we have more ways of describing sex that you can imagine -- and I asked him about it. I wanted to get inside his head, and by proxy, Marsha's.
"About that time on North Twin -- that's not why you broke up with Marsha, is it?"
"No, no, it was other stuff. That being watched stuff, that part was fun, it added spice to life."
"I know you liked it, but did she, knowing someone saw her and you, uh. . "
"The word you're looking for is 'fucking', and yeah, we both got excited about that. Sort of like you are now," he said, accurately reading me. "You know, I think you're a little jealous."
"I am not, you're the man you are because of all you've done before you met me, and I wouldn't want to change you," I told him, and I really believed that, too. "But you sure knew how to have fun back then."
"I can't help that you were a lot more inhibited than me," he said. "Not that you're that up tight anymore."
I closed my eyes, concentrating on the sensations he was causing, feeling Sam move in me, feeling him get a little warmer, a little bigger, a little closer to the cliff's edge, just like I was.
"Would you like to do something like that," he said, pushing hard into me, "arrange it so someone could watch you fuck?"
I couldn't answer right than, my wave was just about to break -- and it did. A second or two later I felt him pushing hard into me, and was able to feel that pumping that meant his orgasm started, too.
It was during the warm and wet cuddling that followed, a time when he was having that slow deep breathing that meant he was asleep, that I muttered an answer to the question he asked, whispering it into his neck: "I think I would, yeah, I think I just might like to be watched."
I awoke the next morning spooned into him, felt his hand on my breast. "You were pretty good last night," he whispered into my throat. "I'd give you a C plus, maybe a B minus."
I reached behind me, felt him hardening. "I could do evenbetter if this thing was just bigger, Sam honey," I told him, while that thing got big enough. "Were you actually in me? I couldn't tell."
Uh, readers, about our banter -- we can get away with saying things like that because we're very secure with each other. Otherwise, it would be the start of a war, wouldn't it?
"Now about last night," he said, "I guess I was dreaming, but if I was, in my dream you were saying you'd like to be watched sometime."
I love the way he makes it easy for me to escape from embarrassing circumstances. How easy it would be to say "You must have been dreaming, honey, I wouldn't want to do anything like that."
I wiggled against him instead, feeling his penis against my buttocks.
"Maybe that would be really something," I said, "to be watched." His cock twitched against me.
"I'd like that, too, 'cause I think we're awfully sexy together," his voice was a little hoarse.
Sam was getting off on that idea, I wanted to bring him back to earth. "But how could we do that, let someone see us, how, and still be safe?"
"I don't know, let's think about that. Uh, let's think about that some other time. Right now why don't we think about what we'd do, you know, if we knew we were being watched?"
"Wellll, If someone was watching," I said, "I'd like them to see how big you are. I'd like to show them how big I can make you, when I do this."
I uncovered his penis, the "Big Horn." "I'd like them to know how well I can play your little Big Horn."
By then I was nibbling on its shaft.
"And how much of it I can take in my mouth."
No, I don't know how to deep throat, don't want to learn (so don't volunteer, guys), but I sure know how to get my husband hot.
It didn't take long before said "honey, if you keep doing that you're going to get a hot protein snack. Or, I could make that deposit in your personal vault, where it belongs. But I'm not going to have much of a choice in another minute or two, it's going to be a demand deposit."
I knew that, I could feel him throbbing.
"Take that to my bank, mister," I said, rolling off him, rolling onto my back, spreading my legs for him.
It didn't take him too long to let go.
"Already making a withdrawal, huh?" I asked, as he pulled away, "You must have used the express lane."
"Couldn't control myself, honey. First of all, you give head as good as a man could want, and on top of that you play with my other head, its insides, I mean. I mean, I was thinking about being watched, knowing someone was watching you do that, and, oh boy, no control at all. It was like I was a teenager, I was that quick. I'm sorry, I hope I didn't leave you hanging somewhere."
"I'm not really hanging," I assured him, "but there is a penalty for an early withdrawal."
"Oh? You're tough. What penalty?"
"You have to make another deposit. I guess I have to help you, uh, 'raise some capital', see if we can get a little 'inflation in the local economy', to get ready to do that," I told him, touch him, finding him still long, but soft.
I usually know how to tease him erect, and now I had another tool. "So you want someone to see Mr. Big Horn, huh? Mr. Big Horn, doing the nasty on me? Do you think some guy would get hard, watching us? Think about that, someone getting an erection, seeing us have sex. Do you like that idea?"
I was nuzzling his belly, stoking him, while I was talking. His penis was filling back out! Oh, men are so easy.
He wasn't at his hardest, not when I went down on him, tasting the flavors of us, smelling our scents.
He did get harder when I told him about the tastes, the scents. Then I said "I think it would be fun, knowing someone was watching me do this to you, knowing he was getting hard, just like you're getting hard. Why, you may actually be hard enough for me to ride Big Horn." He was already on his back, it was easy to move over him, easy to position myself, to hold him erect, and to settle on him, pelvis to pelvis, meshed together. "Just lay there, I'll do the work, you think about someone looking at us, maybe from over there," -- I gestured over his head, where someone would see all of me, and his cock, stationary, as I moved on it --- "maybe you should tell me what he'd be thinking, watching us."
Oh, it was working, he was harder, now. "He'd be thinking how sexy you are, he'd be thinking he wanted to be the man under you, that you'd be riding him, and he'd have to be masturbating," he said, picking up my rhythms, moving with me.
Somehow we moved, somehow I got on the bottom, somehow my husband, spent and soft a half hour ago was hard again, was more than hard, was driving himself toward a second orgasm, oblivious to having already driven me to one, with another beginning to bloom deep in me.
"He'd have come long before we did," he said, beginning to come again.
In the peaceful time that followed, that hugging time, that recovery time, I snuggled close to him. "Want me to do it again, make you hard again? Whattaya say, Slugger? Wanna try for a triple?"
"I'll bet you could do it, too, you vixen, but the people I'd need to be watching would be the paramedics. You'd be killing me."
What a nice way to start a Saturday morning.
Then came Sunday. The everyday chores were done, we didn't have to worry about the biggies like painting, that was going to get paid for, so we were sitting in the den, the TV providing background noise. Sam reopened last night's topic. "OK, how do we get watched?"
Talking about it there, not in the bedroom, made it a serious question. Now that I think about it, it was the second question, the first question,