Jeremy and I had been married almost 12 months, 12 glorious fun filled and sex filled months! for us it had been love at first sight and we were married in a little over a month after meeting, and it seemed like we'd been on a permanent honeymoon ever since! everyone said we were perfectly matched, both of medium height, both dark haired, both reasonably good looking - well I certainly thought Jeremy was a spunk and he thought I was the sexiest creature on the planet! and I tried to prove to him I was as often as I could! which was pretty often! as the other thing we had in common was a seemingly insatiable hunger for sex!! in fact, the only cloud on our idyllic life was Jeremy's best friend Jake!
Jeremy and Jake had been almost inseparable all though School and College, they were closer than most brothers! and it was Jake that had stood up for Jeremy as the best man at our wedding. I liked Jake, in fact I liked him a lot! next to Jeremy I couldn't think of another man that I liked more or got on better with, and I'd made it quite plain right at the outset that I had no intention of interfering in their very special relationship! they were free to continue to go to the ball games together and go off camping together, and for a while they did. Occasionally, I'd go along with them, but most times they went off on their own. But I guess no matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, our marriage did make a difference to their relationship, and certainly over the last couple of months we'd started to see less and less of Jake.
Jeremy couldn't understand it, and even though I had an idea what the problem might be, it wasn't something that I could just blurt out! and if I had, I doubt Jeremy would have believed me! So one Friday might Jeremy invited Jake over for dinner and flatly refused to take no for an answer, he was determined to find out what the problem was! as he kept on saying, you can't start to resolve something until you know what it is, and Jake was too important in his life to just let things fade away! The dinner went quite well as the three of us laughed and joked and told stories of happenings at our respective work places, but as soon as the dinner was over it was clear that Jake was becoming uncomfortable and was looking for an excuse to leave!
Finally Jeremy could stand it no longer and jumped to his feet, "Ok, Jake, what's the problem? you're as uncomfortable as a cat on a hot tin roof, and you've been deliberately avoiding us of late, hell I even had to badger you to get you to come tonight! come on, out with it!!" Jake looked even more uncomfortable, then he sighed, "Look Jeremy , things change and people change, and I think maybe it's time I started getting on with my life instead of getting in the way of you and Krissie all the time!" Jeremy looked quite shocked! "but you've never been in the way, has he Krissie? you're my best friend, I thought the three of us were getting on like a house of fire!"
Jake cast a pleading look over in my direction, "I just think it's best if I moved on" he muttered, "Why?" demanded Jeremy in his typical blunt fashion, I tried to calm things down a little, "maybe Jake needs time and space to explore other things in his life" I said, Jeremy snorted, "No! it's not that, it's something deeper, I know Jake too well!, come on Jake I think you owe it to our friendship to be honest with me!", I saw the haunted look come into Jake's eyes and my heart reached out to him, but then his shoulder's squared and he looked directly at Jeremy for the first time, "OK, you're right, I do owe you honesty! do you remember that time in the coffee shop when you first laid eyes on Krissie?" Jeremy grinned widely, "How can I ever forget that!" he said, Jake took a huge breath and almost closed his eyes, "Well, you weren't the only one that fell head over heels in love with Krissie! you just moved a hell of a lot quicker than me!!"
Jeremy stared at me a little wide eyed, "I didn't know" he said, then turned back to Jake and a huge grin came onto his face " but that's even more reason why you should stay, because you know that both of us love you too!", Jake groaned and looked at me, his eyes a total picture of haunted dejection, and I knew that it was time for me to come to his rescue a little, I stood up and walked over to Jeremy and took his face in my hands, forcing him to look directly at me! "You can't be that dumb, Jeremy! can't you see that you love me and you can express it fully! Jake loves me and he can't!!, don't you realise the enormous strain that's putting on him?", total blankness stared back at me for a moment, then I saw a glimmer of understanding start to form, "You mean?" he gasped, I decided to be as direct and honest as he seemed to want right now, "Yes, I mean Jake wants to fuck me! and if the only way to stop you two from throwing away a very special friendship is to let that happen, then I think we should!!"
I heard the strangled gasp from Jake, and Jeremy's jaw dropped so fast and so far that for a moment I thought he'd dislocated it! but I wasn't about to stop now, so moving away from Jeremy I went over to Jake and dropped to my knees in front of him and placed my hands on his knees, feeling the shaking of his body, "Jeremy's right, Jake, if we don't have complete honesty then our friendship isn't worth a damn! I've known from the very first day that you loved me! and I've known from the very first day that you wanted me sexually! but I've never played on that or used that knowledge or abused your feelings in any way, have I?", he groaned, shaking his head, "but that doesn't mean that I don't have feelings for you too! feelings of love, and yes! feelings of sexual desire!", I saw the shocked surprised in Jake's eyes and heard another strangled gasp, this time from Jeremy! " there's no way I'm going to allow you to walk away from your special relationship with Jeremy, it's too important, and since I'm the cause of the problem, then I'm the one that should leave!" The shock became a vehement "No!!" from both of them, but I stood up and moved towards the door, and looked from one to the other, "it's up to you! we can either respect our feelings and all be together, or I can leave!, when you've made your decision , I'll be in my room!" and I walked out on two very stunned and startled men!!