Karen was startled as the color guard began to fire their rifles for the nine gun salute. She gripped Heidi's hand as they both stood together in the light rain at Arlington Cemetery. In front of them was the coffin of Heidi's late husband, Fred Taylor.
Karen remember vividly that only a month ago that man was vigorously thrusting into her as Heidi was sitting on her face. Who knew that Fred, at the ripe old age of 72, would suddenly have a massive heart attack as he climaxed deeply inside her tight asshole. The two women quickly called 911, but by the time the medics came, it was too late to help out Fred.
(Flash back to fourteen years ago)
For the last five years, Karen and her husband Jon had enjoyed an open marriage, thanks mainly to her really meeting the Taylors, who lived directly across the street (see Retired Life, Chapter 1, 2, or 3).
With Jon's job requiring a lot of travel, the couple had agreed to play with others whenever they were apart. Karen was free to enjoy both Heidi and Fred Taylor individually and together.
Karen also was able to play with Fred's poker buddies from the senior center; who stopped by at least once a week to do chores at Karen's house. After doing the work, they were greeted by a large glass of Karen's alcohol-laced ice tea, and then were able to enjoy Karen's body.
Jon was likewise free to meet women wherever he traveled. Flight attendants found him attractive, so he was a member of the mile high club several dozen times through the years. Like Karen, Jon discovered his bisexual side, first meeting with couples, and then finding he enjoyed man on man action too.
Unfortunately, he did not listen to his wife in her caution to always use condoms, and soon found himself with a STD, that he spread unintentionally to Karen, the Taylors, and the poker buddies. This incident caused a damper in all of their sexual activities for many months.
The STD also ignited a series of disagreements that Jon and Karen began to have. They never got violent, but the couple began to drift apart. A year later, Jon and Karen decided to file for a friendly divorce, and the marriage ended in a calm manner with everything but the house split 50-50.
Karen kept the house and went to work in the nearby city as a customer service representative with a large online retailer. Her leadership and management skills were quickly on display, and she received some rapid promotions and was soon running the overnight shift.
She would drive home around six in the morning, go right to sleep, and wake up around three in the afternoon. She would leave around nine each evening, driving almost an hour to her job.
For the first year, she did not have time for anyone else besides an occasional visit from Heidi. Often, she would use her toys to give herself pleasure prior to falling asleep many mornings.
It took Fred and Heidi about six months to recover from the problems caused by Jon's STD, but they never blamed Karen. This did kill their outside sex life with others for almost a year. They found Karen still friendly as a neighbor, but rarely interested in being together sexually.
When the young couple announced they were getting a divorce, Karen and Heidi did start again to spend time in each other's arms, and between each other's legs and kissing.
Karen was uncomfortable with having sex with a man, so Fred filled a role akin to being her father, offering advice and counsel as Karen went through the process of ending her marriage. Besides, Fred was visiting his old classmates and having fun with them all through the year.
The old poker buddies, especially Ray, Greg, and Lewis, continued to look after their "granddaughter" Karen, doing various chores inside and outside the house. Fred had warned them that Karen definitely was turned off in having intercourse, but the poker buddies did fine that Karen did occasionally go off the wagon and give them a blow job after they had cooled off with her ice tea.
At first Karen would work the day shift, then a month later, move to the second shift, and in another month the overnight shift. When she received the big promotion to managing the overnight shift, Heidi hosted a big party in the neighborhood, and that Saturday night, there was an orgy with about twenty men and women attending, with Karen receiving oral from many attending, and climaxing all night long.
So life fell into a routine for Karen, the Taylors, and the poker buddies. Karen decided that she would not play with any of her friends at work, besides, most of them lived in the city and would not want to come out to her small town an hour away.
Karen did take a vacation each summer and in the winter, and during those holidays spent most of her time on vacation playing with older women, and only a few older men she found attractive.
So the recession hit the country in late 2008, and Karen's online retailer found revenues dropping. Karen survived the first three downsizing actions of her company, but in the fourth one, she was severed. Karen did receive a severance payment equal to two years' salary, because of her work as one of the senior managers.
Fred and Heidi offered their support and many meals, as she began to look for a new job. After a year and a half, with little work to be had except for part-time jobs at fast food restaurants, and Karen struggling to pay the mortgage, the Taylors approached her with an offer for her to move into their house.
Karen thought about it, and put her home on the market, and moved across the street. It took two months for the house to sell, and Karen gave her hosts a small monthly rent payment. The Taylors put the money into an IRA in Karen's name.
Karen had her own bedroom, but often she spent her days and evenings in bed with one or both of the Taylors. Fred put little pressure on her to have intercourse, but his awesome tongue was often between Karen's or Heidi's legs.
Karen still was looking for a full-time job. Karen got lucky, and a friend at her former workplace who was also laid off had started her own online company.
Samantha called one day to ask Karen to work from home managing her call representatives, initially part-time, but it soon grew to a full-time job as Karen now managed almost 300 workers, all working from home.
The job freed Karen from having to commute to the city an hour away for various part-time jobs. This gave her more free time, and she tended to spend it with Heidi and Fred.