How does a man act when he has more than one lover? What's the proper etiquette? Here in Chapter Six, David lets both his girlfriends know he's in open relationships, but he can't decide if he should keep the details private, or be open about what's happening. As you read this chapter, ask what you would do.
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I felt pretty good the next day at work. I decided I was going to try using the sonic stimulator when I called Krista. I decided that when I met her in person, I'd use the stimulator to make sure we went to bed that night. I'd never had sex with a woman on a first date, and I thought it would be nice to experience that. It seemed like something that would be happening a lot in the near future.
I took care of the dogs when I got to the lab, then went back to work seeing if the sonic stimulator would help me learn more Spanish. By this time I knew I was learning quickly, but I couldn't tell precisely how well it was working. It was too early to see if I would ever become truly fluent. That needed to happen for this experiment to be a success.
I went home to make love to Mary, have a quick dinner, then kiss her goodbye when she left for work at the dancer club. "I liked seeing you naked and in bed when I got home last night," she said. "Do you think you could do that again tonight?"
"Consider it done," I said.
"It really saved a lot of time," she said.
"It really did," I said.
When she left, I decided to try something pretty bold. I was not sure if it would work, but I hoped so. I rigged up some equipment that allowed me to make a telephone call that featured the tones from the sonic stimulator playing in the background. I figured it would work unless I called someone who had a really crappy phone that didn't reproduce frequencies high enough. And I was unsure how it would work if I wasn't in the room, looking into the eyes of the subject as I made my suggestions. I wanted to call Krista, and that made me nervous. She was very bright, and I'd already seen that the stimulator doesn't work as well on very intelligent people.
It was worth a try.
"Krista! It's David, from the gym! How are you?" I said.
"I'm fine. How are you?"
"Great. Just great. I just got home from work, and I thought it would be nice to do something tonight. Are you busy?"
Under ordinary circumstances, it would be considered pretty rude to call a woman for a first date and suggest she drop what she's doing so we could go out.
"I'm just hanging around my apartment," she said.
"You'd like to do something, wouldn't you?"
"I'd like to do something," she said.
"You'd like to have dinner with me, wouldn't you?"
"I'd like to have dinner with you."
"How quickly can you be ready?"
"I'm ready now. I just got home from work."
"That's terrific. You'd like for me to come and pick you up, wouldn't you?"
"I'd like for you to come and pick me up."
"Give me your address and I'll be right over."
It worked perfectly. It didn't matter that I was using the sonic stimulator over the telephone, and it didn't matter that Krista was so smart. Realistically, part of the reason it worked is that Krista had already decided she'd say yes when I asked for a date. It wasn't a big leap for her to say the date could happen immediately.
I took her to the very same restaurant where I first used the sonic stimulator. We arrived early enough that I was able to persuade the hostess to seat us in the same secluded booth I'd shared with Mary. No one would be close enough to be affected. I ordered cocktails, then reached for my phone.
"Excuse me, I need to make sure this isn't important," I said. I unlocked the phone and began playing the sound file I'd labeled "Mary's Song," then I put the phone on the table with the little speakers aimed directly at Krista.
"Isn't this a pleasant evening?" I asked.
"It's a pleasant evening."
"You feel nice, don't you?"
"I feel nice."
This went on for a few minutes as I talked Krista into believing she was having the nicest first date ever. Maybe I'd gotten better with practice, but training Krista was easier than training one of my poodles to fetch. She seemed just as eager to please as one of my puppies, and I began to feel certain that the evening was going to go exactly how I planned.