"Hey, Snake! What'cha doin'?" boomed a voice behind me.
Without turning around, I knew exactly who was speaking. Only one person in the world called me "snake"; it had to be Jim Acadia. Being a sports fan, he took a cue from the NFL quarterback and converted my real name of Jake to Jake the Snake, shortened to just "Snake."
In spite of the way it sounded, I knew that Jimmy was just being his usual friendly self. He was, after all, my best friend and had been since shortly after I had moved to the city to take this job. Although he worked in the collections department and I was in accounting, he had gone out of his way to make he feel comfortable in my new job. Of course, Jim seemed to be that way with everyone, men and women alike. He was just a big, affable sort of guy.
"Same ol' same ol'" I answered, looking up from my computer screen where I was working on a monthly report. "How 'bout you?"
"Yeah, nuttin' new," he replied in his standard flippant manner. "Hey, I was jes' talkin' to Carrie. She said she had an extra steak she was gonna throw on the grill and asked if you'd come over and eat with us tonight." He put his hands on my shoulders and pressed his thumbs into my neck muscles, something he knew I couldn't stand so he liked to do it just for laughs. "How about it?"
I flinched away from his thumbs but thought about his wife Caroline ... Carrie for short. Oh, my gosh! How an old country boy like Jimbo ever latched onto such a prime piece of pussy as Caroline was beyond me. She had to be the most gorgeous woman I'd ever met and, even though my personal experiences were somewhat limited given my backwoods stomping grounds, she may have been hotter than any woman I'd ever seen on stage or screen, too! She had a face to die for, eyes that were like deep limpid pools, a mouth that looked oh-so-succulent, and a body that just wouldn't quit ... in the vernacular of the backwoods, she was built like a brick shit-house. She had big tits a very modest waist and a bubble-butt, making her look like and exaggerated Coke bottle.
Every time I saw Carrie, I had an immediate reaction to her; my cock grew painfully stiff and I struggled to find ways to hide my embarrassing condition. Neither Jim nor Carrie ever let on that they noticed my problem and they were always more than cordial to me, inviting me over for dinner or just a beer and to shoot the breeze fairly frequently. I even invited them to my place occasionally, although it was very small and I was not much of a cook. Jim was always his down-to-earth self and Carrie never did anything to make me really uncomfortable, although I sometimes wondered if she was doing just a little flirting with me. She was so nice and that just made my condition more difficult to handle. I even got tongue-tied around her, often stumbling over the words I wanted to say.
Oh, my gosh! What a dilemma! How do you handle such a problem when the woman is your best friend's wife? I did the only think I thought was right ... I did my best to suppress my true feelings.
Jim answered the door when I arrived. He led me through the house and out to the deck in back, where I could smell the steaks cooking. Along the way, Valerie met us as we passed through the den with a can of ice cold brew for each. I thanked her and was going to keep following Jim but she stopped me and lightly planted a kiss on my lips. But then she startled me with her tongue darting into my mouth. As quickly as it came, I disappeared and she turned back into the kitchen where she was working on a salad. I watched her but she didn't look at me. I could see a glimmer of a smile on her face as she resumed cutting ingredients.
After he had turned the steaks, Jim and I sat in deck chairs and talked about whatever came to mind as we sipped our drinks. It was a magnificent end of another day in the southwest, with a clear sky except where the setting sun was forming long red streaks on the clouds above the far horizon.
Dinner was excellent and so was the company. We ate on the deck by the faint glow of candlelight and mostly Jim and I just listened as Carrie talked about various things. After we had finished and watched the gloriously clear night sky for a while, I helped Carrie take the dishes back inside while Jim cleaned the grill. Figuring I had outlasted my welcome, I thanked Jim and Carrie and prepared to leave but Carrie begged me to stay a while longer. So I sat in the den with Jim and we watched a little of the local MLB team's game on TV.
I was just realizing that Carrie was missing when I heard her call Jim and he excused himself. He came back in a few minutes and said "Hey, Snake, come see this!" I followed him down the hall where he had turned into their bedroom and flopped into an overstuffed chair. To my surprise, Carrie was stark naked in the middle of their king-sized bed on her hands and knees, looking over her shoulder at me. When I hesitated, she whispered plaintively "Honey, please come do me."
I felt a flush creep up my skin and I got as hot as if I had walked into a sauna. I looked over at Jim only to see him sporting a shit-eating grin. He said "Go ahead, man. She's been wanting to try you since we first met you but you would never take her hints. You do want to fuck her, don't you?"
I groaned. "Oh, man! I have always wanted to but ... well, dammit! You're my friend!"
"Yeah? What does that have to do with it, huh? If you weren't my friend, I wouldn't let her do it. Go ahead. Its okay with me."
I thought he must have been kidding, but as I stared into his face, I knew he was serious, for once in his life. I looked back at Carrie and she said "Please, Jake, don't make me beg. Please come fuck me, honey."