I first met Karen at a swinger's party that my wife and I were hosting. I was tending "bar" in the kitchen, and Karen was sitting alone and sipping a drink, not really engaging with anyone else at the party. It was kind of an odd way to behave at a swinger's party, where everyone is presumably there to hook up, to some extent, so I started up a conversation with her.
"Did you come here with somebody?" I asked.
"Yeah, my boyfriend. He's off getting what he came for, I guess," she said with a sigh. "I'm just here because he wants to fuck other women occasionally but has hang-ups about cheating, and well, people don't come to these things alone, do they."
"Not typically, no. Solo men aren't invited," I agreed. "You didn't want to watch?"
"Watch him fuck someone else? Ha. No thanks, doesn't do much for me, does it. No, I'm just here for emotional support, I guess." She took another sip of her drink. "What about you?"
"My wife Emily and I live here," I explained. She laughed, and we did proper introductions.
"Where's she?" Karen asked.
"Drunkenly...I don't know. Maybe fucking someone, maybe sucking someone off," I said. "Who knows, maybe she and you're boyfriend are together right now."
"She fucks around, but you don't?" Karen asked.
I shrugged. "Someone ought to stay sober enough to make sure no one makes bad decisions. We get one night a month to do whatever we want. The rest of the time it's just a normal marriage."
"So do you ever indulge?" Karen asked.
"On occasion, with the right person. Or I'll fill in, in times of need."
An old friend, half undressed, came into the kitchen to get another drink, and she interjected, "Don't let him sell himself short. He's not my type, but the one time he ate me out, I felt like jelly afterwards."
I laughed and Karen blushed. My friend got her drink and went back to whatever she had been in the middle of.
"If you don't mind my saying so, you don't seem like a typical swinger," Karen said. "I mean you're not middle-aged, you're not a horn ball. How did you end up hosting this type of thing?"
I told her the whole story. "Emily and I got married when we were teenagers. You see, we were taught that you were supposed to wait until marriage, and our bodies were telling us it was time, so it was a simple deduction that we had to get married. Our parents tried to talk us out of it, but we were convinced it was the right thing to do, so we eloped. Then after college, we started realizing that because we had only ever been with each other, maybe we were missing out. So we started coming to parties here, at this very house. Another fellow owned it back then. Once we worked out the jealousy stuff, I was like a kid in a candy shop, I couldn't get enough. Then owner of the house wanted to sell, and we were looking to buy, and buying it from him directly, we got a sweet deal as long as we agreed to keep hosting these parties."
Eventually Karen's boyfriend reemerged, looking exhausted, drained, but vibrant. He was a tall, lanky fellow with a chain around his neck. He kissed Karen on the lips, and then they said goodnight and left.
I wasn't sure if I would see her again. Some people try swinging and find that it isn't for them, or doesn't work for their relationship. But the next month, the two of them showed up again. It didn't take her boyfriend long to pair off with someone, leaving Karen and I to have another long, personal conversation together in the kitchen. I noticed that she rejected guys' advances, so I didn't try to make any moves myself, but I was starting to like her. Karen finally met Emily, before my wife went back to one of the bedrooms to give someone a blowjob, I forget who.
Karen and her boyfriend showed up a third month in a row, practically making them regulars. At one point I took a break from tending bar, and we sat on a couch together. We talked about everything. But when the conversation hit a lull, I leaned over and kissed her.
After the kiss, I tried to gauge whether I had crossed a line. "I'm sorry," I said.
"No it's okay, I wanted that," she said confidently.
"Is there anything else you want to do?" I asked, suddenly hopeful.
"No, that was it. And it was perfect," she said with a reassuring smile. That was her in a nutshell. She knew exactly what she wanted, and she knew how to not get carried away and end up getting more than that.
Two weeks later, my wife Emily got in her car and left for work, and a minute later the doorbell rings. I go to answer it, and Karen is standing on the doorstep.
"Hi Karen, what's up?" I asked, confused but pleased by her presence.
Without warning, she kissed me passionately on the lips.
"I...I can't stop thinking about you, and I didn't want to wait a whole month," she said. We had never exchanged numbers or anything, but she obviously knew where I lived. I guess she had waited for my wife to leave.
I kissed her back, taking her into my arms. Quickly we went inside the house. Just like that, we weren't swinging, we were having an affair. We started getting together every chance we could get.
Karen and her boyfriend kept coming to the parties at my house. Ironically, that one evening a month was the one time where we could kiss and hold hands and be a couple out in the open.
Eventually she dumped her boyfriend. He'd had unprotected sex with someone, which crossed a red line for Karen. Once she was living alone, we had practically all the time together we wanted.
My wife Emily got jealous about the affair, and she threatened to divorce me over it. I was starting to feel like my future was with Karen instead, so I called her bluff. The divorce was messy and expensive, and we all lost friends over it. Emily ended up with the house, and I didn't feel right about going to the parties there anymore. Our small town started to feel entirely too small.
Karen and I moved to another town in another state to start over together. It didn't seem like there was any swingers' scene there yet. As soon as we could, we got a house of our own out in the woods, and we started hosting parties ourselves, as a way to make new friends. We put the word out through the proper channels and people started coming.
She really came into her own, as hostess of these bacchanals. Karen would wear a loose-fitting sundress, with no panties or bra underneath. She'd let our guests go exactly as far with her as she wanted them to, and no further: sometimes that would mean slipping a hand between her thighs or licking her to orgasm. Once in a while we went as far as a full swap, like if there weren't enough to pair everyone off otherwise.
After a year and a half of our domestic life together, Christmas came around. I unwrapped a little present from Karen. I was initially confused, because inside the box I found a blister pack of pills.
"What's this?" I asked. "Karen, I probably shouldn't take your birth control pills."
"It's the first part of a two part gift. I'm giving you those because I've stopped taking them. In about 90 days, it'll be completely out of my system, which will be perfect timing to give you a baby next Christmas." I was stunned, and overjoyed.
Karen was determined to give me a Christmas baby, which meant we weren't going to try until late March, and we weren't going to risk it until then. She made certain of that. We still hosted a party in January, but she and I stayed aloof from our guests, but we kept the reason a secret.
Then we hosted another party in February. By now you should understand why Karen, a beautiful woman ripe for motherhood, was walking around a swingers' party without her underwear. You might already see where this is headed, but I sure didn't. Karen was never the type to get carried away, literally or figuratively.
The night of the February party, there was a snowstorm. Only one couple showed up despite the weather, Bill and Linda. We ended up in the living room just talking for a while. I was in an armchair, with Linda's stocky, voluptuous frame resting on the arm of it, I had one hand around her waist, holding her close, the other rubbing her breast through her shirt. Opposite us, Bill was on the couch, with Karen standing next to it. Bill had a hand on Karen's thigh, inching up under the hem of her dress.
The other couple had two kids already, and confessed that they were trying for a third. They talked frankly about how horny it made them, knowing Linda was fertile again. Karen and I exchanged a knowing glance and smiled at each other. Bill's hand must have reached Karen's slit, because her knees suddenly buckled.
"You're soaking wet!" Bill said.
"Don't start anything you aren't going to finish," Karen said, maintaining her poise despite the obvious pleasure she was experiencing.
"Is that a threat or an offer?" Bill wondered aloud.
Karen took his hand from her vagina and licked her own juices from his fingers. "Let's go to a bedroom." She held onto Bill's hand and practically pulled him out of the living room and down the hall, towards the rooms where we had beds set up.