As often before, they had spent a relaxed, pleasant evening together. Janine had prepared a deceptively simple but tasty meal, heightened by some choice wines out of Tom's growing collection of Australian Reds.
Inevitably, the men's talk after dinner had shifted to their shared professional interests as civil engineers, while the women had drifted away, first to the kitchen and then into Janine's study. No excuses or explanations were necessary, for they were more than just social acquaintances.
Tom and Eric had been fellow students and close friends at university, while Janine and Lexia had been intimate friends since school, and then as Arts students at university.
Now in their forties, an added factor had strengthened their friendship as couples.
Tom, after graduating as a civil engineer, started work at Melbourne City as a municipal engineer. It became his successful and rewarding career.
Tom met Janine, the daughter of a couple his parents knew from church, when he was twenty-five. She was twenty-three, an attractive, serious young woman, unattached and career-minded; she worked on the editorial staff of a local publisher. Without going through a whirlwind romance, they married, with Lexia, her apparently out-of-character best friend, as bridesmaid.
Eric, in contrast, joined an international construction firm. For the next twenty years, he worked as an on-site engineer on major projects all over the world. His private life was far from celibate, but he never stayed anywhere for long enough to get married.
Throughout the years, he kept up his contact with Tom by e-mail and home visits. Finally, three years ago, Eric was promoted into a key management position in the Australian branch of his firm.
At his welcome-home party at Tom and Janine, he met Lexia and promptly succumbed not only to the allure of her sexy ass and almost tumbling-out boobs but also her easy charm and wits. Within five months they married; with Janine being -- for the second time already -- Lexia's bridesmaid.
Tonight, at the end of a well-spent evening the close friends were nursing their last drinks. Janine, in her elegant, ancle-length caftan, with her legs pulled up, was affectionally leaning on Tom on their sofa. On the settee opposite lounged Eric and Lexia. He, totally at ease, had his hand over one of her bra-free, generously displayed breasts.
But Lexia's attention was not on Eric fondling her boob. Her eyes, with a knowing smile flitted between Tom and Janine. Tom clearly wanted to hide looking longingly at Lexia's glorious tits. They were, resting on the folds of her by Eric's groping crinkled up blouse, almost fully in sight. As she leaned back into Eric's arms, her blouse slipped down over an aroused perky nipple.
Janine, apparently undisturbed, noticed and grinned, which Lexia acknowledged with a wink. Tom, just as on earlier occasions, did not suspect he was toyed with.
Lexia seemed to love tempting him. And Janine, his wife of more than twenty years, never showed any jealousy or concern.
Janine - now some years ago - had confessed to Lexia -- with an embarrassed chuckle - that she was occasionally writing and publishing "naughty, erotic stories"
She explained:
"You know, Lexia, from our uni-days, that I wanted to become a writer.
"Instead, I've become an editor, sitting at home over my computer to proof and knock into shape the drafts of predominantly romance novels my boss assigns me.
"After working one day on an especially cloying, steamy, suggestion-laden script, I angrily sat down in the evening on my laptop.
"I rewrote the shit I had worked on all day. Following its story, setting, and awful characters, I used for the first time in my life every raw, beautiful sex word the authoress had coyly avoided. I described every action, every depraved predilection of her awful characters in enthused, vividly imagined detail. And then... was it in a burst of spite or pride in what I'd done,... I don't know,... I posted it under an invented name to a web porn publisher, to Literotica. "
Lexia burst into delighted laughter, "You nerdy slut! What happened then?"
"They published my story within days!... I was stunned! What I had written as a diatribe, attracted as porn twenty-eight thousand readers in its first week. It was judged as 'Hot', at an average of 4.86 out of 5, on the marks readers had given.
"And a naughty wag commented that 'Sinoptima' - the name I had chosen -- should be crowned Literotica's new Queen of Porn!"
Lexia, after enthusiastically congratulating Janine, wanted to know more:
"Surely, after such success and applause, you couldn't stop writing such stories?... Naughty you!... Did you... Are you enjoying being so bloody good at it, being a Queen of Porn?"
Janine blushed:
"You know me better than I knew myself, Lexia. I was flattered, yes! So, I began to submit more stories... At first, I often based them on the worst of the vanilla Chick-lit stories I was paid to edit.
"But then, to even greater success, I switched to people, stories and settings of my own invention. Therefore, if you read my stories -- you are going to, aren't you - the sexual orgies, the cheating and swapping, the inventive, raw and varied sex Sinoptima is now known for, is all a product of my depraved, filthy mind!"
I'll drink to that!" giggled Lexia.
"Except for you, Lexia," continued Janine with a grin, "I couldn't imagine the people I know best... my extended family or Tom... especially Tom... ever being like the people in my so successful stories."
"But what about yourself?... You, with your dirty imagination?... And yes, me, your slutty friend with her sexy-naughty husband?" Lexia grinned.
Janine refused to answer. But after some giggling and humming and hawing they decided to put Tom to the test. It could be for the realism in Janine's writing, they joked, inspirational to watch if and how Lexia could seduce Janine's decent and -- so the women believed - sexually unadventurous husband.
It started a game were Lexia - always in Janine's presence -- flirted quite openly with Tom. It began with meaningful looks, sly words, and an occasional, accidental touching. But Tom was slow to respond.