Don't bother reading unless you're looking for a story about sociopathic wives forcing their unwilling (and unknowing) husbands into an act of same-sex rape. Otherwise, enjoy.
It was a late summer afternoon—warm, humid, a little breezy to take the edge off. Fat bees clambering on the marigolds, monarchs flitting around the Mexican sunflowers. Wind chimes humming. Lily and I on the back porch with Jill and Desmond, sipping our ice teas. Quietly, awkwardly, again. Why did Lily and Jill keep doing this to me and Desmond? He and I had nothing in common.
"A fucking long week," said Jill, stretching arms behind her head. Blonde back-length dreadlocks, tie-die tank top showing off her Pilates-toned shoulders and arms, long black flowing skirt, Birkenstocked toes scuffed from working in her garden. Sunglasses with a heart-shaped right lens and a star-shaped left lens. A hippie in 2015. Bet she smoked pot.
"Really long week," Lily agreed. "Good to unwind. Right, guys?"
"Sure," I said, sipping my tea. "Great."
Desmond nodded once, slowly. Bald, blue-black, ripped Desmond, impassive behind mirrored sunglasses.
Desmond makes me nervous. We don't have anything to talk about. I don't want us to get to know each other well enough to discover that we don't like each other. I think he already doesn't like me. I'm a little scared of him.
Desmond sipped his tea.
The girls talked about work, talked about movies, talked about people they both knew, and they laughed. I watched the insects and listened to the chimes and thought about dinner and wondered how Jill talked Desmond into coming over every single time. There was no way he could enjoy this. Or us. Or me.
"Time for wine," said Lily. She ducked inside and came back hugging an open bottle of white wine between her crossed arms. Four glasses dangled from her fingers. We drank, and the girls talked, and the bottle went down, and Lily got another bottle, and we kept drinking. The girls got louder and happier. Desmond and I loosened up a little. The shadows got longer.
There was an odd pause in the conversation. "So," said Jill. She was on the edge of sloppy-drunk.
"Well," said Lily.
Jill raised her eyebrows. "Yeah? Out here?"
Lily nodded. "Yes." Something was happening.
The girls pulled away from each other and sidled up to their men. Jill ran her pale white fingers atop Desmond's skull. Lily tousled my hair. We looked at our women, and they smiled at us.
Jill cooed to Desmond. "You wanna have some fun, baby?" Desmond raised his eyebrows at her, as if to say,
What the fuck kind of fun could I possibly have here?
Jill brought her lips to Desmond's ear and whispered something. He stiffened, and straightened, and then relaxed and set down his tea and looked at me. Something had changed. Desmond was studying me, sizing me up. What had Jill said to him?
"Hey, what—" I said, but Lily brought her mouth close to my ear and said something I couldn't quite make out and I just sort of melted away and got relaxed and loose and limp.
"Omigod," Jill said. "I've got butterflies. I can't believe we're doing this."
"Still time to back out," said Lily. "We haven't done anything yet. Could just wipe the slate clean."
"Fuck, no," said Jill. "No way am I backing out of this. This took forever to set up. If it works then you're my best friend forever."
"Nothing's forever," said Lily. "But we're good friends. Just one sec, need the final touch." Lily turned my head and stared directly in my eyes. "Your job is to pretend you don't like what's about to happen. Get it?"
I nodded. Pretend I don't like it.
"You actually love it. It gets you so hot, so hot you'll never want it to end. But you'll pretend at first you don't want it. Okay?"
I love it. Only pretend at first that I don't.
Lily kept her hand on my arm as she turned to Jill. "He's ready."
I didn't know what they were talking about. I didn't care. I felt great. Just, you know. I'm going to love it. Whatever it is. I'll love anything at all.
Jill leaned against Desmond, white flesh against obsidian muscle. "Baby," she said to him, pointing a toned and pale arm at me. "Rape."
Desmond grinned, rose from his chair, and stalked over to me. He gripped the front of my shirt and lifted me up and slammed me down on the deck. All my breath exploded out of me. He knelt and pressed his knee into my sternum and clamped a massive hand over my mouth and nose. I couldn't breathe.
He brought his face over mine. He spoke smoothly, softly, and firmly. "You want to live?"
I nodded. I saw my pretend fear in his mirrored sunglasses. I looked very convincing.
He pulled his hand off, calmly slapped my face hard, and then again, and then again. My world exploded in light. I hurt. Then he clamped his hand back down over my nose and mouth. "If you want to live, you do everything I say."
My ears ringing, my eyes watering, I whimpered and nodded. My cock bloomed in my shorts.
"Oh my god," said Jill. "Oh, fuck, yes. I need more wine."