"Hey, Jax!" Emily shouts from the office.
"What
now?!
" Jackson testily responds from the patio. Scrubbing out the hot tub after yet another party is getting to be an annoying chore.
Jackson and Emily Foster have been tearing up the Internet looking for work after Steve and Cyan Albertson generously whisked them away from their desperate straights, standing on the side of a freeway on-ramp in the middle of the Mojave Desert, looking for somebody -- anybody -- to deliver them to Em's parents' place in Albuquerque. Jax and Em had lost their jobs when their previous employer went belly-up, and circumstances left them with few resources to fall back on.
Fate certainly had a hand in bringing the two couples together -- both were experienced swingers with a romantic bent, and it was mere minutes after their introduction that they clung to each other in what would become a joyous union of four, a "fourple". So what if there were fifteen years between them, the magic they had together was irrefutable.
"Seriously! Why the grouchy? Sandy and Miriam were all over your ass Saturday! And there wasn't a room in this house where you weren't fuckin' the crap out of Claire!"
"I guess. Yeah, doin' Claire in the front yard behind the hedge was a shitload of fun. What's up?"
"Check your e-mail! I just got the offer from Amalgamated! Oh. Ho-lee fuck!"
"What?"
"The offer! More than we were doin' in L.A.! Damn!
Get your adorable ass in here
and check your mail!"
"Jackson?" they hear Steve call from the kitchen. "That little stunt with you and Claire..."
"I know, I know. We got carried away.
She
wanted to do it in Davenport's yard."
"No shit?! And get yourselves busted?" Steve laughs and shakes his head. He leans into the office doorway curious about the commotion.
"Not that it's any of my business, Em" he asks, "but just how big is this offer?"
"Six figures, Steven. 130K."
"Nice! I won't be snarky and imply that your time with Tom this weekend has anything to do with it."
"He's a really nice fuck, lover. Love that cock of his. And how he uses it!"
"You've said that."
Jackson has made it into the office, pushing past Steve in the door for his chair and PC to retrieve his own messages.
"Okay! Have one from them too. Opening... opening... 'We are pleased to inform you...', blah blah blah. Okay. One twenty-five. Ohmyfuckin'gawd."
Steve mulls, "Well, I gather that both of you are going to take it. Even considering the other offers."
"No shit
I'm
going to take it, Steve," Emily chuckles. "I mean, we don't have to move or nuthin'."
"Same here," Jackson adds. "The offers I got from San José, Boise, and Denver were certainly tempting, but there's that cost of living thing with those."
"Yep," Steve agrees. "You can build yourselves a pretty nice nest egg if you stay with it. Think it through. With my financial strategy help and even without it, you can be fully retired before you hit 40. Not having to pay for housing is a big, big deal for you guys."
Emily rises from her chair to hug Steve, slipping her hand under his robe to fondle his package.
"But we need to pull our weight, Steven. Now that we can. Ohmygawd do we owe you and Cy."
"The house is paid for, sweetie. You knew that."
"Yeah, but you have other expenses. Taxes, maintenance... improvements like that sound barrier we talked about. It ain't free."
"Besides," Jax adds, "you can't be footing the bill for every party, Steven. You and I go to the grocery store together and I know what it costs. Gawd. That last trip to Friar Tuck was nearly $400.
Just for booze!
"
"Okay, okay. Uncle," Steve relents. "Let me mess with my spreadsheets and we'll figure something out in the way of expense sharing. I don't want to do a rent arrangement or anything like that. Out-of-pocket only. Okay?"
"We can deal with that, can't we, Em?" Jackson offers.
"Sure can. What's Cy doing?"
"Cleaning our bathroom and the guest bathroom," Steve answers.
"And there you go!" Jax grins.
"'There I go
what?
"
"Housecleaning service.
Pay
somebody else to do the scutwork! And have a pool service do the tub."
"Yeah, Steve!" as Emily squeezes Steve's junk. "Save you, Cy and us for the important stuff. Like fucking each other silly!"
"Not a bad idea, guys. But paychecks first before we go hog-wild. When do they want you to start?"
"Mine says October 2nd," Jax answers. "First Monday."
"Hmm," Em responds. "September 25th on mine. A week before."
"Okay. We have two weeks." Steve proposes, "Wanna do anything special 'tween now and then, or just hang here?"
Emily muses, "Uhhhhh... Anna available?"
"Usually. Why?"
"Road trip?"
"You didn't get that out of your system?"
"We had way too much of a good time, Steven."
"Okay. Where to?"
"Florida. They have nude beaches down there, don't they? Someplace where Cy and I can show off our tans."
"A couple. I'm not up to date, though. I heard through the grapevine that one we liked was shut down."
"How about trains? That shit is fun!"
Steve rolls his eyes, "I guess. I know a couple of spots."
"Then it's settled," Em grins real big. "Any downsides you can think of?"
"Yeah. Mississippi. We can't route through Mississippi. They don't take kindly to folks from out of state on their two-lane roads. Get off the Interstate and you'll wind up with a county cop on your ass dogging your every move until the next county line. Happened to us three times!"
"Wow! Okay. Wow. Any places you know of to play en route?"
"Several. Bookstore in Nashville, a nudist resort west of there, there's an old tourist hotel in Chattanooga..."
"Oo. Sounds like Tennessee is fun!"
"Not just there. We've been to a place in the Georgia mountains that was nice, too. Overnighted in a cottage there, had a sweet young thing in the hot tub. Her husband was full cuckold, too. He jumped into the
very cold
swimming pool next to the tub so he could shrink himself up while watching me do his cute wife."
"Now you're bragging." Emily sticks her tongue out at Steve.
"Maybe." He returns the facial expression. "
Cy?!
" he calls into the hallway.
"
Yes?
"
"You might want to join this discussion. Our bed. C'mon, guys," he suggests to Em and Jax.
"We gonna?" Jax grins.
"Certainly hope so," Steve grins back. "Ladies will determine
that
."
"OOOOF!" Steve protests. Emily has just squeezed his balls,
hard!
"Uh, I think you're gonna want those to feel good, sweetie."
"Why do you think I did that? You love it."
"Uh huh. Bedroom."
=====
Anna is standing in the driveway to see everybody off, sharing hugs and squeezes of important bits to remind each other they all share a loving and intimate connection.
"You guys be careful," she cautions while hugging Steve. "Don't bring anything home that'll take more than one doctor's visit to fix."
"You're funny, Anna. Probably the worst we'll do is a sunburn trying to keep up with Cy and Em as they strut around the beaches."
"Yeah. They sure like to show off, don't they? They figurin' on..."
"Fucking strangers in public? Maybe not Cy, but Em's smacking her chops at the thought."
"Insatiable."
"Not really. Just an opportunist. I'll put a leash on 'er."
"That spiked collar? Kinky."
"You know it is. She doesn't have a clue that I packed it."
They laugh, kiss, and break their hug. Steve climbs into the driver's seat.
"We altogether all together?" he asks the crew.
"Think so," Jax answers.
"Everybody got their phones? Keys? Wallets? Anything else you're going to realize you forgot when we're two hours down the road? Like your hooker outfits?"
"We're packed, Steven," Cyan moans. "You
watched
us pack."
"Had to, sweetie. You, especially, had too much warm stuff. We're going to Florida
in September
for crissakes."
"Yeah, but everybody runs their A/C full blast. You know..."
Jackson sighs, "Yeah, we know you don't like to be cold. Or even cool."
"That's alright, guys. We'll manage," Steve reassures. "Seriously. We set?"
After confirmations, Steve backs the car out, waves to Anna, and sets out on their new adventure.
"You said lunch around Marion, right?" Jax asks.
"Yes. At the big interchange with 13. McAlister's unless you had other ideas."
"Sounds good. Nashville is the first stop?"
"Yep! That bookstore I mentioned. We were there once and didn't have a lot of time, but the manager seemed really interested in Cyan and wanted to play on the spot. Worth checking out again."
"And we're spending the night... where?"
Cyan answers, "Pandora's Forest. Adults-only nudist resort."
"Sort of implies swinger resort, Cy," Emily muses.
"You'd think so," Steve inserts. "They thump a 'no sex in public' rule when you check in. However..."
"Yeah. 'However'," Cyan smirks. "It's a weekend night, so there's a DJ and dancing in the clubhouse. Fucking on the dance floor is apparently a given."
Steve adds, "I think the 'no sex' rule is to discourage day visitors from cruising. Nights are a different vibe."
"Whatever," Em frowns. "We'll see, I guess."
Jax changes the subject, "Tomorrow night sounds interesting. Did I hear right? It's special for you guys?"
"Yep!" Cyan enthuses. "It's where Steve and I had our first swinger adventure together, and it's where we had our honeymoon! It's a total pit!" she laughs.
Steve chuckles, "You'll see for yourselves when we get there. Gawdawful. But you just take the raunchy vibe and run with it. We got crazy there!"
Em and Jax just shake their heads.
With most of the drive between home and Nashville on Interstates, our couples are loathe to do much more than tease each other with sexy chat and talk about stuff in general.
After lunch, the conversation turns to Jackson and Emily wanting to hear about the Albertson's wedding and honeymoon.
"The whole story?" Steve asks.
"Yeah. Gawd. Anything you guys do