Last December my best friend Eric broke up with his girlfriend of two years and ended up having to move in with my wife and I. Initially I was worried about how she would handle the extra stress of living with two men instead of just one, but as time passed, it turned out that my wife Melissa handled it just fine.
My wife is gorgeous. I've been with her since I was nineteen. Yeah, you could call her my high school sweet heart. She wasn't my sweet heart when we met in 10th grade, but eventually she came around, and we have been happily married for almost six years now.
My buddy took the news of his break up pretty hard. When he moved in with us, it wasn't just for financial reasons, but it was also because he didn't know how to get back on his feet. He had been with his ex for so long, he didn't understand what life would be like without her. So as the time passed, living with us, Mel and I had to reintroduce him into the single life. Being an independent person. I'd say it went rather well at first. We'd go bar hopping, we'd try and set him up with Mel and I's friends. Things slowly developed into me acting as the perfect wingman for my friend.
Unfortunately, Eric had been with his ex for so long that any kind of game he had was about out the window. We started from square one. I'm talking the very basics, like just learning how to approach a woman you don't know. I'd handle the personality stuff, like introducing yourself, making a good first impression and that sort of thing, while Mel handled the physical stuff like modeling appropriate boundaries with a new woman. When to hold her hand, when is it okay to make out with a girl on a dance floor, that kind of stuff. It went all right for awhile. He met a few girls, had one or two random hook ups, but nothing too serious. At the end of the day, Eric kept bringing up the fact that he still felt like he wasn't over his ex. That no matter how hot, or funny the new prospective girls he met were, he couldn't put Alex behind him.
We continued our routine of going out to bars, introducing him to new people, but it seemed like the harder we tried to get him back out there, the more he resisted it. I didn't understand why until I caught him spying on Mel after she had gotten out of the shower one day after work. He was peeking into our bedroom from the top of the stairs as she got dressed. I caught him red handed and he had no choice but to own up to it. At first he insisted that he was just passing by when he happened to stumble upon her naked by chance, but later he confessed and told me that he thought Mel was gorgeous and had been pushing to see her nude for a few weeks.
As he said that, I kind of began to understand why he was struggling so much to move on to someone new. It wasn't that he was still stuck on Alex, he just had the hots for Mel, my Mel. All the time the three of us had been spending together, bars, bowling, movies. We were pretty much a three-some. Throw in all of the time I spend at work when they were just hanging out together and it makes perfect sense that as my wife was showing him how to be flirtatious, he was just trying to flirt with her.
I've known Eric since we were kids. We have been best friends since we were six. I didn't think twice when I saw him spying on Mel. I laughed, called him a pervert and hit him playfully on the arm. I wasn't jealous. Not too much anyway. I don't think Mel sees Eric that way. And even if she did, I don't think she would leave me for him. Seeing him peeping on her like that, I got kind of turned on. I've thought about sharing Mel with another guy, but never a stranger. I wouldn't trust someone we don't know with my wife in bed. As I talked with Eric, I couldn't stop thinking about them getting together. And the thought of it was making me hard as a rock. I didn't know how much of a shot I had a getting Mel to get with another guy, so I jumped at it when Eric showed interest. We went out to a bar for drinks that night, just me and him. I confronted him on the subject and told him I wanted him to do it. I wanted him to seduce her, so I could share my wife with him. He was pleased to say the least, and we had several drinks to celebrate. The way I saw it, we were already pretty much a 3 way couple. Why not get some sexual fun out of it too.
Eric tried flirting with Mel after that, with my blessing. I gave them ample opportunities to be alone together, to drink together, but nothing really came of it for awhile. Mel is definitely not the kind of girl to be shared. She is pretty much straight by the book when it comes to sex and stuff. I don't think she would ever cheat on me, even knowing she wouldn't get caught.
After about a month of him trying to get with her, we had about given up on any shot at him starting something with her without me approaching the subject with Mel first. Which is fair. I just didn't want to risk damaging our relationship, knowing that Mel probably wouldn't be into that kind of thing. Eric told me he was making a fair amount of progress. They were emotionally starting to get fairly close. She was opening up to him in ways that it took me several months to achieve with her. She had even begun to tell him about everything that had happened between her and her mom while she was growing up. All of that seemed important in her taking him as a lover, but it wasn't progressing in the way we wanted it too.
When I talked to Eric about it he was pretty up front about everything. He would spend time talking with her while I was at work, and then try to increase the physicality of it, but she never bought in. We had about given up on anything happening on its own until one evening in October when Eric came home with a bottle of champagne. He said he had gotten a pretty big promotion at work, and that he needed to celebrate. So we did. Eric and I sipped on some beers while Mel downed the whole bottle of champagne. We thought nothing of it. After the champagne Eric suggested some shots for him and I to catch up before heading out to the bars. Mel thought she could handle a few more and joined us. The poor girl didn't last another half our. She passed out asleep on the couch fully clothed.