Marnie does it her way
For those who haven't read the earlier chapters this story can stand alone. You can skip this synopsis and go straight to the story.
For those who have been following the saga of Marnie et al, here is a reminder of what has gone before. We started with 'Vanessa and Marnie In Conversation', in which Vanessa suggested that Marnie should have sex with Will, Vanessa's husband.
It was followed by Chapter 1 of 'Will and Marnie Explore', in which Vanessa explained the idea to Marnie's husband Barry. In Chapter 2, Marnie and Will decided on a three-session plan. They have their first session, where Marnie lies passively while Will works to pleasure her. While this is happening, Barry and Vanessa watch the proceedings from behind a one-way screen. In Chapter 3, for the second session the roles are reversed. But before Marnie pleasures Will, she spends the week practising on Barry. At the end of the week, Vanessa and Barry again observe the session when Marnie pleasures Will.
The plan for the third and final session is for Will and Marnie to have sex together with the other two again to observe from behind the one-way screen.
The three chapters so far of the 'Will and Marnie Explore' story have been told by Barry. In this chapter, Marnie tells her side of the story, going all the way back to the start with the initial 'Conversation', and taking the story through to the third session. This chapter completes the story.
You may find the early part of Marnie's story a bit repetitive, because it necessarily covers the same events already told by Barry. I hope that seeing those events through Marnie's eyes will be sufficiently different to hold the reader's interest.
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How it all started:
Just chatting about things in general
"So, Marnie, now that Ellie has left home, you and Barry are empty nesters?" My neighbour Vanessa and I were out on the back verandah enjoying the afternoon sun. We were just chatting about things in general, when Vanessa changed the subject of our conversation.
Both my daughters, Lynn and Ellie, had moved into a shared house close to the university, leaving Barry and me with our large home all to ourselves - 'empty nesters' as Vanessa said.
It was obviously going to be a new phase in our lives, but maybe not that much. Barry had his business that kept him very involved, and I did volunteer work with the elderlies down at the home, so it wasn't as though we would be hanging about with nothing to do.
Vanessa steered our conversation onto the girls' quite sexually active lifestyle and their relationships with various boys. The girls had always found it easy to talk with her, as she was a bit of a free spirit with no kids of her own. I suppose it's not unusual for teenage girls to think their mother is a bit stodgy and won't understand them, and they felt they could discuss with Vanessa the various personal things that were happening in their lives. Then she would tell me the things she thought I needed to know about. It worked quite well, actually.
I said I thought things had changed so much since I was their age. Vanessa disagreed. "Hmmm. Is it really all that different?"
She went on to discuss her own sexual exploits during her teenage years and then said, "I know you have said before that you came from a fairly strict household, but surely someone as attractive as you would have had lots of boyfriends?"
"I had friends that were boys, but I didn't have a real boyfriend as such until I started going out with Barry. My parents thought he was particularly nice and they encouraged him. We got engaged fairly quickly and we were married only a bit over a year later."
"If I'm getting too personal, stop me, but are you saying you didn't have sex before you got married?"
Barry and I had plenty of sex before we married, but he was my first and only. I wasn't his. He had several girlfriends before he met me and settled down. Vanessa drew those rather intimate pieces of information from me, and I surprised myself that I remained comfortable with the conversation as it became quite personal.
She did shock me a little, however, when after I told her that Barry had been my first and only before we married, she said, "And nobody since?"
"Of course not! I'm married. Surely you haven't done it with anybody else either since you married Will, have you?"
"No, I haven't," she said. "But Will has a few times."
Now I was really stunned. Vanessa seemed unperturbed and went on to explain that she had "done all her playing around" before she married Will, but that she had been his first and only just as Barry had been mine. Then, after Vanessa discovered he'd had an adulterous one-night stand with a lady he had worked with, she thought he should have more experience and so she arranged for him to have a couple more evenings with a recently divorced friend who "felt deprived" since her husband left her.
Vanessa laughed at the term her friend had used. "I said to her, 'how about you try my husband, he's good in bed'.
"My divorced friend took a bit of convincing that I actually meant it, but she eventually did it. Twice. And she enjoyed it a lot more with my husband than she had with her own one. Will really is very good at it." It almost sounded as though Vanessa was boasting about her husband's sexual prowess.
"He's good at it even though he didn't play around before he met you?"
"He learnt very quickly, and he's very experimental. I got him started on our second date, and after that he took to it like the proverbial. He still keeps experimenting. He knows the things I like and he knows the things I don't like, but there's often just some little twist that he adds every now and again to our lovemaking."
I was starting to feel uncomfortable with the way this conversation was going. "Don't you think maybe we're getting into the area of too much information?"
"Oh, I don't know," she replied. "I think this is interesting. I think there is so much more a man can do to turn a woman on than the other way round. Women are a lot more complicated than men when it comes to sex, and it takes a really good man in bed to find all the different things a woman finds enjoyable. And it's so easy for a woman to lose the mood, or at least it is for me. Some men are just dull and boring in bed. I know before I met Will there were times I faked an orgasm just to get it over and done with."
"Every woman does that sometimes."
"I don't any more. Sometimes I don't need to go all the way there and I just enjoy the sexy play. Will understands that and he goes along with it."
"Barry would think that he wasn't doing his job properly if he didn't give me an orgasm. It doesn't happen very often from just having ordinary sex with him, so he uses his fingers or sometimes his tongue afterwards."
Looking back on that conversation after Vanessa had gone home, I was quite concerned by what I had revealed to her about my private life. But then, what I had said was mild compared with what Vanessa had quite openly revealed to me about her sex life and her marriage relationship with Will.
What was most concerning of all was that at the end of our conversation, Vanessa actually suggested that I might like to have sex with Will! "I'm not pushing you. But have a think about it. Like I said to the other lady, 'how about you borrow my husband?' I know that given half a chance, Will would be delighted to help you discover all sorts of things there's a good chance you haven't even thought of."
Crazy. I not only hadn't thought about it, I didn't want to think about it. I certainly wasn't going to tell Barry about that part of our conversation.
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'If I did, what might it be like?'
