With his wife Becky away visiting her parents for the long weekend, Brad has taken full advantage of his new membership in Pauline's Surrogate Wives Club.
For some of those anons who seem so easily offended, I remind you this is a fictional story and there are no cucks in sight.
Chapter Seven
Brad's wife Becky now takes up the story from here:
Maybe if I had gone to a co-ed school where we would have had some intermingling with the boys, I may not have had such a repressed early sexual life. It does make a difference to be raised in a strict Catholic family with no brothers and then schooled at a private Catholic girls school. Although there are guys around at weekends when you and your girlfriends go out socialising, the co-ed schoolgirls all seem to have a head start because of their regular interplay in the school grounds.
I met Brad when I was only 19 and still a virgin. Incredibly, we dated for a massive 18 months before I was secure enough to think we had a future together and so let him take my virginity. I guess I was fortunate that he at least had known other girls so we weren't a pair of rank novices. After completing college, we embarked on a lot of travelling -- to see the world -- before getting married at 25. It was fun and became the foundation of our love-life.
Even after we married, we decided not to have kids right away, waiting 3 more years and both working hard and diligently to save our money so we could buy a really good home in a nice suburban neighbourhood. That's how we ended up here with all of these wonderful couples that we have become so friendly with ... maybe some are a bit too friendly at times, so I hear.
I feel that I have to admit something to you -- the reader - about the single guy Wally, who died recently, because I did manage to live in this neighbourhood for several years before ever becoming aware of his reputation as the ultimate ladies man. When I discovered that so many of my friends had succumbed to his incredible charms, I still considered that I, and my marriage, could remain above all of that. But it was only after getting to know Wally -- I mean really getting to know him -- that my strong moral upbringing took a hammering.
I am a kindergarten teacher at a nearby school, that's how I met by best friend Lauren. She was one of the young mothers shortly after I started there and we became just the closest of friends. It seemed like every other week, Brad and I would be over at Lauren and Will's or they'd come to us. There really was very little that Lauren and I didn't share with each other ... some of it quite intimate. Brad and Will might have been shocked if they'd known just how much we girls shared.
We teachers get a lot of vacation time. I'm certainly not complaining, I enjoy the lifestyle, particularly during the long summer break. I get to catch up a lot more with Lauren and our mutual friends. Usually it's for morning coffee at someone's house or long lunches.
I need now to take you back two years
to fill you in on a few things about me. It all started with one of those long lunches that I organised and invited three of my girlfriends to. It was a pool party at my house on one of those steamy 90 degree days. Keep in mind the timing because my point is that this didn't just happen yesterday.
Their names may or may not mean anything to you, but as well as my bestie Lauren, Juliette from across the road came, so did the very glamorous Stephanie -- she was a model once and always looks a million bucks, manages to put the rest of us to shame. But she's married to a former sports star and she sometimes infers that she doesn't have the best marriage. Anyway I don't want to gossip about that.
So I had put on a good lunch and served it out by our backyard pool. All of we girls had chosen to wear our favourite skimpy bikinis, although I'm not really sure why since our husbands weren't around to appreciate all of the bare skin. The wine and vodka flowed freely and by 2 in the afternoon, I'd say we were all nicely sloshed and feeling little pain. That's not to say we wouldn't feel the pain much later when the hangovers kicked in.
Lauren and Juliette were in the pool while Steph and I lazed on adjoining sun lounges, soaking up some rays ... safely we hoped, having lathered some 30+ on our already tanned bodies. One of the assortment of cell phones on the table began to ring. It wasn't mine but I picked up the buzzing phone, answering on behalf of Lauren ... it would turn out to be a momentous life-changing decision for me.
I heard a male voice after I said hello, "Lauren, that's not Lauren. Who's this?"
I was feeling very tipsy -- and happy, "No, Lauren's in the pool, I'm Becky, who shall I say is calling?"
"Hi Becky," came the male voice back down the line, "it's Wally here, Wally Brown."
"Oh hello Mr. Brown," I said stupidly, addressing him so formally and giggling girlishly. Then I raised my voice to attract the attention of my good friend over in the pool, "Hey Lauren, Mr. Brown is on the line, do you know a Mr. Brown?"
"Mr Brown, who's that?" Lauren called back in an equally silly booze-affected manner, "Oh Beck, that's not Mr. Brown, that's Wally ... you know Wally."
"Yeah, I think I know the name, would I have met him at one of your parties?" I responded on recognising the name. Pressing the phone back to my ear, I told the caller, "I think I know you Wally, I've met you before."
"Yes, you sure have sweetheart, I recall you well. You're a lovely young woman, and very attractive."
"Well, thank you so much Wally, that's very nice of you to say."
"It sounds like you two are having a good time wherever you are."
"We four Wally, there's four of us here. Yes, we are having a great time, it's been a good lunch."
"So where are you all, Becky?"
"At my house Wally."
"Oh, I haven't been to your house, I must come sometime."
By now, Lauren had hauled herself up out of the pool and with water shining on her sleek and shapely bikini-clad body, she came over to where I sat and put her hand out for her phone. "Here's Lauren," I told the man, giggling some more in my alcoholic haze.
I could only hear Lauren's end of the call from here as she stood beside me to talk to her friend Wally, "Hi Wal ... yes, she is a bit, but she's a fun drunk. Actually we're all a bit sloshed. Isn't that right girls, we're all a bit smashed, aren't we?"
Each of us chorused our agreement and Lauren continued with the call, "Who's here? Oh, just all your friends Wally ... Steph and Jules too. What ... what do you call us, a smorgasbord? Yes, I guess that smorgasbord is appropriate because we all know that you do like to eat a lot more than your share, don't you?" Lauren chuckled. "Oh are you ... no, probably about another hour or so, there's no reason for us to break up the party any earlier ... eh? Oh, nearly a bottle of vodka and a couple of bottles of wine. Yes, we probably could be called lushes. Oh sure, if you want ... it's 420 Avon Crescent, bring your swimmers, you'll need a big pair with all us girls in our skimpiest bikinis, right?" She laughed again, "See you then Wal, bye!"
I looked up at Lauren, surprised to have heard her giving out my address, "What's that all about?"
"Oh, nothing much, Wal was hoping to catch up with me today, something I had to give him. So he asked if he could drop by here."
"And you said yes without asking me?"
"Oh Beck, I didn't think you'd mind, it's no big deal. He's an ok guy."
Stephanie joined in, "Yes he is Becky, Wal's a great guy, lots of fun when you get to know him." She raised her voice to be heard by our other friend in the pool, "Isn't that right Jules, Wally's a good guy, eh?"
"Yeah, top man, we all love him around here, keeps us sane," Juliette called back as she trod water at the deep end.
"Sorry girls, it's just that I was enjoying this as a male-free zone. I always enjoy being with you girls, hearing all the hot stuff that I don't get to hear about in my little world ... just family and kindergarten kids. You know me, I tell you so often that I'm the one with the protected past ... just one guy only."
"Not that there's anything wrong with that," Stephanie reassured me, touching her hand to my arm, "you were lucky to find perfection in one guy. For us, it's taken a little more."
"Thanks Steph! That's nice! So girls, should we cover up a bit if we're going to have a man around, don't want to turn him on with all of this bare flesh on display."
"Oh Beck," admonished Lauren, "you can be such a drag at times. No need to cover up, it's only Wal, he's seen more of some of us, probably most of us if the truth be known. I can tell you he's seen me naked a lot!"
"Yeah, me too," piped up Juliette and I was immediately fascinated how this man would have seen both of my friends completely naked.
I was about to ask them when Stephanie in an alarming voice suddenly diverted our conversation in a totally different direction, "Jules, what are you doing?" and the three of us were drawn to look in the direction of the pool, where Juliette, still treading water, had one hand down to pull the crotch of her bikini bottom aside.
"Oh my God, you've all caught me."
I stood up, my head spinning a little as I sought to balance my legs, "Are you peeing Jules, are you peeing in my pool?"
"Oh Beck, I'm so sorry, but I couldn't wait, I didn't think I'd make it to your bathroom. That wine is just running through me. I was hoping nobody would notice ... thanks heaps Steph!"