Was I First?
By
LittleOneWon
CH 01
Roland Wilson, who's known as Rollie, and his wife, Ann, have a son named Randy. Charlie and Mandy Nestle have a daughter named Marie. The parents became related by law when Randy and Marie were joined in marriage. As of now, there are no grandchildren.
Both parental couples were in their upper thirties when they were blessed with their child and as of today, both couples are newly retired.
Ann and Rollie had never met Charlie and Mandy before their children started dating. After their kids tied the knot, the parents became good friends. Out of necessity, they attended lots of family functions together; but they also began voluntarily socializing as couples.
They found themselves spending many hours together. They dined together at numerous restaurants. They attended plays and musicals, cheered at sporting events, and watched movies in theaters and on TV.
Everything was going fine until Mandy's behavior began to change. She became forgetful and argumentative, especially with Charlie. As she continued to deteriorate, Charlie finally convinced her to get medical attention. She was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, better known as FTD.
Their time together began to dwindle. Mandy gradually lost her ability to socialize. She became both vocally and physically abusive to Charlie. Needless to say, Ann and Rollie tried to maintain their relationship with Charlie and Mandy, but Mandy continued to go downhill, and eventually, she was confined to a nursing home. She continued to deteriorate there even though she was getting the best medical attention available. Before two years had passed, she didn't recognize Rollie and Ann when they came to visit her. Shortly thereafter, Charlie tearfully admitted that she no longer recognized him.
Charlie was beside himself in agony. He was losing the love of his life to something he couldn't understand. He was reluctant to accept that she didn't know who he was. They were both in hell, but at least she didn't know it. He could feel a destructive fire lapping at his soul. When he thought things couldn't get any worse, they did. His daughter left too.
She left kicking and screaming, but she had to go. She cried uncontrollably when she had to leave her mom and dad sitting together in that depressing room in that dark place.
It was one of those good-but-ill-timed events that often occur in life. Randy had been promoted and transferred by the company he worked for. The couple would be leaving the Midwest and relocating to New York. It was a big promotion that would mean fewer financial concerns for them, but the family separation would be hard to take.
Marie knew that it would be difficult to get back for visits with her folks. She knew it might not happen until her mom died. There were tears in many eyes as the kids left to embrace their relocated life together. Everyone joined Marie in suspecting that when they returned, it would be to attend Mandy's funeral.
It was two weeks before Christmas when Marie and Randy returned. It was, indeed, to say their final goodbyes to Mandy. After the funeral, the kids tried to get Charlie to join them in New York. He insisted that he couldn't take another change in his life just then. He promised to consider it later.
Rollie and Ann had been inviting Charlie over for meals as well as for some limited socializing ever since Mandy entered the nursing home. Now those invitations increased as they began to encourage Charlie to reclaim his interest in life.
Charlie followed their advice and began a reevaluation of his present circumstances. He realized that he needed to move on. He remembered spending quite a bit of time singing before he married Mandy. Back then, he had an exceptional voice. He sang in the church choir and performed solos for weddings and funerals. He even spent some time singing with a local band. He gave that all up after he shouldered the responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood. He still had a good voice. He still loved to sing.
He located a voice coach and began taking lessons. As he progressed, his coach began booking him for parties and various other functions. Charlie's voice was still very melodious and he became somewhat popular locally.
Rollie and Ann attended most of Charlie's performances. He was good but he was upset that he couldn't find a band to sing with. He had to use karaoke background music during his appearances. Sometimes it was hard to find karaoke music for the songs he wanted to sing. Some of the ones that he did find were not to his liking. Most importantly, he considered singing along with recorded background music to be unseemly and unprofessional.
Charlie knew that Ann had played piano when she was younger. She had kept her piano and played for her own amusement throughout her adult life. Charlie had heard her play and knew that she was a better-than-average pianist.
He began bringing sheet music with him when he visited the Wilsons. He and Ann always managed to perform a few songs together. One evening he brought a spanking new Korg keyboard with him. Ann was super impressed with it. He told her it was hers if she would agree to begin appearing with him as his accompanist. She agreed to that on the spot.
After Charlie left, Ann realized that she had made her decision without consulting her husband. Perhaps that's why he went to bed without a word to her right after Charlie left.
At breakfast, she apologized for not including Rollie in her decision. She pointed out that they already attended most of Charlie's appearance, so she didn't see any conflict. The only difference would be her presence on stage instead of in the audience. There was a side benefit too. She would be making some extra money which would come in handy.
Charlie was a different person on stage after Ann joined him. She replaced his stilted karaoke background recordings with piano music designed to complement his voice. No longer did he have to search for songs with a karaoke version. Now Ann designed her accompaniment around his voice. The difference was immense. They began spending many hours together practicing and performing.
Before long, Charlie started taking bookings that took them to other towns and even other states. Rollie enjoyed hearing them and he continued to attend all of their performances. He watched as they steadily improved and became more and more popular. Charlie was finally living again and Ann appeared to be rejuvenated too.
As Charlie and Ann found a new purpose in life, Rollie began to feel left out. After pondering his feelings, he decided to revive an interest that had served him well back in the day. He would renew his passion for magic. He would, once again, become an amateur magician.
He was thinking that perhaps he could become part of the show. Maybe he could do his magic when Charlie and Ann took their breaks. He knew, however, that there were lots of new tricks and illusions that he needed to master. Also, better equipment was available along with updated presentation techniques. For those reasons, he found a recently retired magician and signed up for some tutoring.
All three of them were overjoyed on the night that they appeared together for the first time. It was at a party with lots of young kids present. Rollie was a very good magician and he made a big hit. You might even say that he stole the show. He was a natural and he loved doing magic. Very soon he joined his wife and Charlie as he turned the corner from amateur to professional status. He got paid, just like they did! He was so happy and enthused that he failed to see the displeasure that began appearing on Charlie's face.
CH 02
As time passed, appearing together didn't happen very often for the three of them. Rollie was being booked for school events, birthday parties, and other such functions. Rollie's bookings soon exceeded those of Charlie and Ann. Still, Rollie attended as many of Ann's appearances as he could. In turn, she saw most of his magic shows.
As both acts became more popular and their bookings increased, their performances began showing time conflicts. For the first time, performances by Charlie and Ann often didn't find Rollie in the audience. Likewise, his performances were not attended by his wife and Charlie as much either. Before they knew it, they seldom saw each other perform. The main exception was at venues where both acts were featured.
One such venue was a private party. Charlie and Ann went on first. The party host introduced them by saying, "Tonight, we have Ann and Charlie Nestle to bring us some good music, followed by their good friend, Rollie Wilson, who will baffle us with his magic." Upon hearing that introduction, Rollie glanced at Ann. She gave him a halting smile while shrugging her shoulders. She, like Charlie, made no effort to correct the host. It hit Rollie like a ton of bricks.
After that, Rollie began to notice some other things that had escaped his attention previously. Little things, like some unusual touching between his wife and his friend during their practice sessions and some laughing at things that they failed to share with him. Also, at the end of their performances, Charlie would motion for Ann to stand up. After she was standing, she would walk toward him and he would put an arm around her waist and give her a quick kiss. Rollie had always dismissed it as a part of their act, but now he was not so sure. No wonder that party host assumed that Charlie and Ann were husband and wife!
Through all of this, however, the sex life that he shared with Ann didn't suffer in any way. When they were home together, she was as attentive as ever in every way. If anything, she became even more adventurous.
He remembered one night when she was riding him cowgirl. It was something they did often. He liked seeing her tits bounce. Unlike ever before, she suddenly turned around and continued riding him but facing away. When he questioned her about it afterward, she said it was called "reverse cowgirl" and she just wanted to try it.
Another time, she asked him if he had ever thought about anal sex. He told her that he didn't see what she would get out of it. It had to be a painful experience for the woman. That hole was not designed for two-way traffic. She surprised him by revealing that she had bought some lubricant to make it less painful. She told him that the pleasure should outweigh the pain.
Both of those things became a regular part of their sexual activities, but not before he asked her where those ideas came from. She told him that sometimes Charlie reminisced about making love to Mandy. "He mentioned doing those things and how much they enjoyed them. He made them sound so good that I thought we should give them a try."
Rollie said, "I can't believe that you and Charlie spend your time talking about sex! Do you tell him about what we do together?"
She answered, "We've only discussed sex a very few times. He's the one that starts the conversation. I don't object since I think that he needs to embrace those memories of Mandy. He gets into more detail than I like, and I'll admit that some of his stories make me uncomfortable, but I never tell him about us. I think that he would consider what we do to be drab and unimaginative. Anyway, I ignore most of what he says but a few things catch my attention. The anal thing and the reverse cowgirl position are a couple of cases in point."
"Ann, I don't think you should encourage him when he starts talking about sex. It's a step too far for a happily-married woman to allow." She said that she never encouraged him to talk about sex and that she would never let it lead to anything other than talk. She told him to quit worrying about it.
