The story so far:
'Vanessa and Marnie In Conversation' introduced Marnie's dilemma. Should she do as her next-door neighbour Vanessa suggests and have sex with Vanessa's husband Will? And if she does, should she tell her own husband Barry?
Chapter 1 of 'Will and Marnie Explore' had Vanessa telling Barry about her discussion with Marnie and showing him the room with a one-way observation panel where she had watched her husband Will having sex with another lady. The implication was clear: Vanessa is suggesting that Barry should watch his wife Marnie having sex with Will.
"I had a long talk with Vanessa yesterday"
Two bottles of red wine shared between Vanessa and me, consumed during a very heavy three-hour conversation, would be expected to leave both of us drowsy, and so it was with me at least. I went home, went to bed, and dropped off to sleep with many troubling thoughts going around in my mind. I was aware of my wife Marnie coming home and climbing into bed with me but I decided to leave any discussion of what Vanessa had told me until tomorrow when I had a clear head. So I bid Marnie a sleepy 'good night' and dozed back off to sleep again.
On Sunday morning, after the usual "How did everything go down at the home yesterday?" and "What was dinner like last night with the other volunteers?" I broached the subject that had been so unexpectedly dumped upon me yesterday and which must have been troubling Marnie for the past week or two. "I had a long talk with Vanessa yesterday evening," I said.
A look of shock flashed across my wife's usually placid face. "It's OK," I said, trying to sound as gentle and unthreatening as I could. "It was a long talk and she even explained some things to me that she hasn't told you about. I told her that you and I would have a talk about it and decide what we want to do."
"Look, I'm really sorry about all this Barry," she replied. "Vanessa came up with the idea of Will and me having sex together and it sort of got to me and sounded exciting and different. We even talked about doing it and not telling you about it. But I can see now that it's a silly idea that won't work and we really should just forget about the whole thing."
"No, we can't just forget about it. The stable door is open and the horse is half-way down the paddock. We have to talk it through and you and I have to decide what we want to do. Vanessa said that what they did was good for her as well as for Will, and she thinks that if you do it with Will it will be good for both of us too. We need to decide if we think that's right or not."
Marnie was regarding me with what can only be described as the gaze of a stunned mullet. "You're actually considering it? Do you seriously think that if I have sex with another man it won't affect our marriage?"
"I didn't say that. Of course it will affect our marriage. Vanessa said it would be a positive effect, but I don't know. And it's not just 'sex with another man', it's sex with Will, not some random bloke you pick up at the pub. Look, there's so much we have to think about before we make any decision and it's not like we have to make it tomorrow. It's our decision, not Vanessa's or anybody else's, so let's just talk about it, hey?"
*******
Sunday finished with a bang
I had never had a Sunday like that one before, and I don't expect I ever again will experience anything like it. We talked for a while and I told Marnie about the viewing room and what I thought Vanessa intended; that Marnie and Will should have sex on the sofa in one room while Vanessa and I watched them through the one-way glass from the other room.
Marnie was completely taken aback by the idea, saying "That's not how she put it to me. What we talked about was just me finding out what it felt like to have sex with a man who wasn't my one-and-only. And that really got to me. I did start wondering what it would feel like. But she didn't say it was going to be a spectator sport."
We laughed at that and we both wandered off to do a few things around the house. Every now and again we stopped what we were doing and talked again about what it would be like if we followed through on Vanessa's ideas. Each time we did, I could sense that Marnie was warming to the idea, and I have to admit that it was getting to me too. I had flashbacks to how I felt in that dark room wondering what it would be like to watch my wife naked on the other side of the glass, being fucked by another man.
By dinner time we had reached a decision. Marnie would invite Will out to dinner at a quiet little restaurant she liked very much and would find out what he thought of the idea without Vanessa being there to influence things. After that, she and I would make our decision. On that Sunday night, we both went to bed excited by what the future might hold.
There were times in our younger days when Marnie wanted sex more than I did. Not many, but back then when she was hot to trot she was hot. On this Sunday night she was hot-hot-HOT, just like when we were young. It probably was my imagination, but I was sure I could smell the hormones. We undressed ready for bed and as I went to put on my pyjamas she said "You don't need those."
She crawled up onto the bed and knelt there, head down and bum up. "It's all yours," she said. "Go for it."
Marnie hasn't particularly enjoyed doggie-position sex since those early days when she was completely new to sex and we were trying just about every position listed in the Kama Sutra. Nowadays she thinks face down and arse up shows that the woman is subservient, and subservient is one thing my wife definitely is not. So this was a statement on her part. I just wished I knew what the statement was. Was she rewarding me for what I had agreed with her, or couldn't she wait until she got fucked by Will?
At that moment I didn't care. I grabbed Marnie by the hips, shoved it in and satisfied my own needs regardless of hers. But it turned out that she was every bit as satisfied as I was. "That was magic." She said. "You were like an animal. I needed that."
I slept like a log on Sunday night.
*******
Marnie takes Will to dinner
What had I done? This was not the woman I had been married to all these years. The woman I married was a quiet and gentle lady who couldn't wait to settle into the role of homemaker and mother. Over the years, sex had remained a reasonably important part of our relationship, but it had become routine rather than exciting. On Sunday night, Marnie was a tigress and it didn't diminish much during the following week.
I was also receiving daily reports on her discussions with Vanessa: She had told Vanessa about our talks together. She had seen the interview room and was excited by it. Will had accepted her dinner invitation for Friday.
Her state of excitement left me wondering what she would be like if she actually did the deed.
It was becoming quite clear to me that Marnie had made her decision. It was going to happen and, while I wasn't prepared to admit it to Marnie or Vanessa, I was looking forward to it too. It was not yet a week since that Saturday evening with Vanessa and my sex life had already been transformed. Would it get even better after 'the event'?