On the surface the two couples were more similar than different. They were stereotypical middle class white folks in the suburbs. Yvette and Mark were a few years younger. Colin and Allison were a little taller. Other than that, all four of them were in jeans, all four drank domestic beer in bottles, and none of them smoked openly but now all stunk of tobacco. Both women were blonde and although they were built differently could share a closet. Both men drove trucks and coached youth sports.
They were still individuals though. The little sports bar with live music on weekends brought them together weekly but they were each there for their own reasons.
Collin was there to see people that he didn't have to sell something to. He liked to get a couple of drinks in him and bullshit about sports, cars, or women with the men and flirt with the women, any that would talk to him.
Allison didn't like the drinking but loved the dancing, the music and the attention. Collin didn't dance with her but didn't mind the men who wanted to. That evening one in particular was paying her considerable attention. It was going well. She was just drunk enough to let it happen and Collin was just sober enough to make sure it was all okay.
Mark drank slowly. He didn't like the country/classic rock cover band or the crowded bar inside. He sat on the patio. He chatted with the bartender when she had time and with whoever was sitting next to him when they were willing. Mark was there for Yvette.
Yvette liked happy hours to take the edge off. She liked bars for the people, the music, and how they reminded her of earlier times. She had been a little wild when she was younger and although Mark had tamed her, she still remembered being the party girl in a tiny bikini paid to sell shots. Hanging out late on Saturday nights and waking up with a hangover reminded her that she wasn't old. She couldn't help herself she liked bad behavior. She didn't even need it to be her own bad behavior. She was sitting beside Collin watching the band in general but Allison more specifically.
"You don't mind that?" The groping and rubbing of hips that was taking place in front of them perplexed Yvette - how Allison would do it in front of Collin and how Collin seemed to accept it.
"She's having a good time." Collin said.
"I had good times once," she said sadly.
"Really?" Collin was just shooting shit, talking out his ass. He was busy watching Allison. She was now kissing the man she was dancing with. He was not an active participant in the conversation and didn't feel the direction it was going in.
"Yeah, before Mark. God, before mark I never would have just sat here like this watching. I probably would have taken you to the parking lot already. I doubt she would notice we left."
Collin turned to her. Sometimes she surprised him with how pretty she was. He didn't normally look at her in that way. "Is that an offer?" He wondered if she knew what she was starting.
"I couldn't do that to my friend."
Collin smiled at her. He was tempted to let her in on a secret, a closely guarded secret. He stared at her appraising her with intent most sinister.
She knew the look she was getting. She liked the look. She arched her back a little and used a finger to brush her hair away from her face.
He liked that she teased her hair. He knew what it meant for a woman to touch her hair while he was thinking the things he was thinking. She was thinking similar things.
Bad things.
"Do you want to dance?" he asked her.
"Like that?" She nodded toward Allison and the stranger who swayed lips locked in the far corner of the dance floor.
"Come, let's smoke," he told her. They walked together until they had to either go out front or continue to the patio where her husband sat. Collin took her hand, led them past Ray, the 600 pound black man at the door. Out front he led her around a dark corner. She had been reaching into her purse. She had found a pack of cigarettes but couldn't find a lighter.
In the dark hidden by a shrub he didn't go for the cigarette she offered him but instead went for her. He kissed her taking her breath away. She fell backwards against the building. His lips were firm, his tongue insistent. Her lips were soft and her mouth welcomed him. His hands moved over her. He traced her silhouette running his hands from her hips, over her waist to her ribs until finally held a breast in each. She gasped.
She gripped his ass and felt his cock swollen in his jeans pressed to her belly.
She bit his lower lip.
He moved one hand to her lower back as if covering her tattoo, a finger slipped into her jeans. He stopped at her panties. His other hand moved up her belly. She felt him trace the bottom of her bra. "Yes." She whispered. He forced his hand beneath it. Her hips moved slowly against him.
Fuck she loved kissing. She loved the feel of him against her. She loved the urgency of it all. His hand found her nipple. He teased it. "Harder," she whispered. He pinched and she squeaked. His hands were large and strong.
He wanted her. He had liked her well enough but now, his hands on her, his lips on her, her eyes fixed on his he forced his hand inside tight jeans. A button gave way and he gripped her ass. It was smaller than he expected, her breast larger than he had expected. Her kiss, which he had expected to be tentative, was anything but.
Voices around the corner caused them to stop what they were doing.
Desperately she put herself together as he gathered her purse from the ground. He fumbled with her cigarettes and dropped them twice. She was shaking when she finally took one from the pack. He flicked the lighter. Only after they each had taken a long drag did they step out from around the corner.
"That was so bad," she said, thinking of the punishment she would receive for such unacceptable behavior.
"I was going to say how good it was," he said thinking about Allison's reaction with no clue what she would think.
The man that had been dancing with Allison beamed broadly having fount the two of them. He was younger. Yvette thought he was neither as cute, nor as sexy as Allison's husband but she recognized her objectivity had been compromised.
"Hey, Collin, right?"
"Yup."
"Name's Dean. Allison is looking for you. She is uh... ready to go."
"I bet," Collin said.
"I'll go find her." The man went back inside.
"Do you have a secret you feel like letting me in on?" she asked, suspecting she already knew.
"We all have secrets," he said. "You show me yours, I'll show you mine."
She had known Collin for years, they had been hanging out regularly for six months or so. He was friendly but not inappropriately so, and never like this. This was... dangerous.
"Do you watch?" she asked him point blank.
"No, no. Everyone's involved."