All stories by the author have a basis in real life experience and/ or those of close couple friends who have relayed their own experiences; and, of course, unrealized fantasies. The story is fictional and the names of people, organizations, businesses, etc. have been disguised and changed. Any resemblance to actual persons is purely coincidental. This story is long and the most explicit actions occur during the last half.
November 19, 2005 – Saturday Night – Jay and Kelli's Home
"You know guys, Ian and I are the couple who should be together. We like to sightsee, shop, hang out at cool clubs, party all night and hit the beach. You two like to do gardening, stay home at home most of the time and go to bed early," said Kelli. The other three looked at each other around the table and smiled at one another knowingly.
It was one of their semi-monthly 'wine and dine' dinners that they had at each other's homes or at a local restaurant. Invariably, after a couple of bottles of wine, this topic always popped up. Kelli was always intimating that both couples were mismatches as far as personalities and interests. As they sat around the small kitchen table after dinner, the 39 year old Kelli went on and on about opposites attracting. She also intertwined her comments about couple mismatches and wanting to take a trip to Paris, just as Ian and his wife Sherri had done two months before.
"Maybe Ian can take me next time and we can stay up all night getting into trouble together," she said leaning into Ian's chest. Ian gave her a slight squeeze around her shoulders. She went through this routine every time, not meaning to be taken seriously at all; but just wanting to tease her quiet and low key husband, especially when their friends sat around the table.
Unfortunately, her 45 year old husband Jay didn't like to travel overseas and really didn't have an interest in nightlife, culture, fine dining or the like. He liked to stay at home and was content to play in his local rock band twice a month in San Diego at local clubs. That was his excitement. Although a rocker at heart, Jay and his band burnt out on the concert circuit as an opening act for the headliners in his twenties and thirties. He worked for a high tech company during the day in their manufacturing and arrived home quite tired most nights.
Now, he just wanted to be at home with his beautiful, high energy and good tempered wife. He said over and over that his party days were long over, although no one really believed him. Jay did not look the part of a typical homebody...everyone felt he 'protest too much'. All four had become friends through the two wives. The two women worked together at a local financial services company in La Jolla, a suburb of San Diego about 15 miles north of downtown. As soon as they met, an immediate friendship was sparked when Sherri arrived at the company four years ago. Over that time the two couples had spent many evenings together out at clubs watching Jay's rock and blues band play or just having dinner at home or in restaurants in the area. It had gotten to the point in their friendship where almost no topic was taboo, nobody's feelings got hurt and nine times out of ten the conversation always veered into the sexual arena by the end of the night. Kelli was usually the one that steered the conversation in this direction.
All four people were aware of an atmosphere of sexual tension that had been growing over time as both couples joked, touched and sometimes made eye contact with one another. One sign of this growing comfort and familiarity was both women dressing sexier over time. When they first started meeting for dinner, the women dressed somewhat conservative given their professional relationship. With familiarity and growing friendship, the nighttime outfits became tighter, shorter and more revealing.
After a silent pause, Kelli worked up enough nerve to tell the other three at the table her secret desire which she had been unable to share up to this point with the other couple.
She looked at them and said, "Have you ever been to a swinger's club? Before you answer, don't take it the wrong way; I am not suggesting anything by asking the question. I would just like to know if you have ever gone to one in the past."
Sherri and Ian looked at each other silently and in an instant decided to play dumb for the time being. Ian, sensing Sherri's discomfort in delicately answering this question to their seemingly 'straight' friends, jumped in and said characteristically, "We have never been to a club here in San Diego, but we have fantasized a lot about going."
This was technically correct but far, far from the real truth. Sherri and Ian had some wild adventures in Europe over a ten year period but decided to keep their sexual past a secret to their 'vanilla' friends when they returned home to San Diego. Discussing group sex and swapping partners was still too taboo in the United States, even in somewhat decadent Southern California. To discuss activities of this lifestyle with relatives, friends and co-workers was to invite scorn and puritanical judgment. Ian and Sherri had discussions about this one special kinky activity in their lives many times. They had decided some time ago that these types of sexual adventures should be enjoyed when they were out of the Southern California on holiday. They agreed that it was more socially acceptable to be gay then to be known as a married swinger in the United States in 2006.
Sensing a little discomfort in the room, Kelli said in a low voice, "Well, Jay and I really have never talked about swapping partners per se...okay... maybe sometimes we do when we are making love...fantasy type of stuff, you know? Lately, we have talked about going to a swinger's club on a weekend night, watching others and maybe even getting naked in front of a bunch of people. Maybe, just maybe, we would have sex together as a couple with other people watching!"
Maybe it was the wine working its magic on everyone's libido and lessening their inhibitions but everyone felt the blood rushing to their faces as they imagined the scene that Kelli had vividly pictured for them. Both Sherri and Ian had many sexual fantasies involving the other couple. However, since the two women worked together in the same office, Sherri and Ian always kept their sexual activities private.
Jay, looking a bit perplexed and upset, said to his wife sitting next to him, "Kelli, you promised me over and over that you wouldn't tell anyone else about our sexual fantasies. Ian and Sherri must be thinking that we are two perverts now."
"Oh, Honey, don't worry. Ian and Sherri are our close friends and please remember that I said we wouldn't swap partners but only watch other couples at a sex club. I know most people think that going to a sex club is kinky but not Ian and Sherri. Come on, you 'old rocker'; you told me that group sex was something that happened all the time when you were on the road with your old band. Just loosen up a little bit, please Baby, we are with our good friends!" said Kelli with her hand on Jay's shoulder.
Jay was obviously feeling very uncomfortable with their intimate sexual fantasies out in the wide open. He didn't know what Kelli would be blurting out next to the couple. He quickly thought through some of their favorite sexual fantasies such as: sex in public places, S&M: swinger resorts and the many other sexual scenarios involving the other couple at the table. He knew the last type of fantasy involving Ian and Sherri was Kelli's favorite one so he was nervous that she would also blurt that one out in front of them.
