I tilted my axis toward Brent, pressing my chest against his, my abdomen against his slightly protuberant belly, my left arm over his shoulder and across his back. My right hand was nestled in his left palm as we danced the first of three fast-paced milongas. I not only found comfort in this embrace, but the hint of arousal, his working class frame being substantially larger than my white collar one.
We were both Tango dancers, Tangueros, was the term. Both of us were men, typically leaders, but as there was a shortage of followers that night for our dance, he had invited me to be his partner for the three song trio called a tanda. I felt I was the better dancer, having more experience and more of a sense of musicality than he, but I let him lead. He had a strength and power in his movement, which, in a man, I'd always been attracted to--and felt a certain weakness for.
We ended up trading roles for the second of the three songs, which I led with more grace and variety, but then he led again for the third song. And once more, I had welcomed the physical closeness of this man, and I felt myself give in to that sensual attraction, which was now even more intensified.
Since that time, Brent and I had encountered each other every week for our three hour practice session, but we didn't dance again together because there were always enough followers for each of us. Tonight, though, I would be seeing him for a different reason. And one that I was more than a little anxious about.
The doorbell rang at precisely 8 o'clock, just as my wife Missy had promised me that it would.
I peered through the windows framing our front door. There was no doubt it was Brent. He was a bit taller than I at 6-2, with short dark brown hair, balding in front, and a short beard. His stature was imposing as he stood with a bouquet of peonies in his left hand, right arm at his side.
I opened the door, and was greeted cordially,
"Well, hello Mack."
As dancers, we usually acknowledged each other with hugs, and he did so with me, wrapping his strong arms around my more lithe frame in a genuinely warm hug. But the embrace persisted as his free hand drifted down my back and onto my right butt cheek. It lingered there, then he gave me a little squeeze. As we pulled away, he looked into my eyes with a wry smile and handed me the bouquet to give to "Our Missy."
Coming through the kitchen door, "Our Missy" looked dazzling. Stunning in fact. Complimenting his tan plaid shirt and dark brown pants were her powder blue button-down crop top and pleated navy skirt, with an alluring margin of skin in between.
"Hello Brent. We appreciate you coming tonight."
"Happy to be here, Missy"
I let her take the lead this evening. Missy glanced over at me and smiled, then began a little nervously, before her voice gained strength.
"I told you that Mack and I have been fantasizing about something for a while, which we would love to experience for real. In our brief conversations, I didn't tell you everything, but from your interest and what Mack has told me about you, I thought you might be the one to help make his and my fantasy come to life."
Missy is a Tango dancer too. She is my second wife, and I am her second husband, only recently married. Each of our spouses died a couple years back. Neither of them were dancers, so we hadn't really done any dancing in our first marriages. But we both liked moving to music, so we began tango lessons a couple years ago, not knowing each other, but finding we were totally compatible dancing together. We learned that each of us had wanted a dance partner all our lives, and we had finally found one now in our mid sixties. We discovered other interests which we both shared a love for, and began spending time together outside of dance, by writing, cooking, gardening, and of course, making love.
And in our honesty about all subjects sexual, we shared some of our fantasies, learning what we each secretly desired in a free expression of ourselves--curiosities we had never revealed in our first marriages for fear of rejection, shame, and even threat of divorce.
But in our second marriages, overcoming the embarrassment and talking more openly, we seemed to have found a deeper love.
So tonight Missy would be offering me a chance to live out one, maybe two, of my fantasies and I, one of hers.
I shifted uneasily, not knowing what was going to happen and who was going to be in charge. I had speculated about the kind of synergy required for a successful mΓ©nage-a-trois. Obviously making sure everyone felt they were involved was essential, especially for our present fantasies to become realized.
I didn't have to wait long. Missy suggested that we all share a bottle of wine as we talked about what might unfold this evening.
I had told Missy three of my fantasies, and she had shared a couple of hers. Although not completely interlocking, there was some overlap between them, involving a third person. So we had to decide how we might go about choosing that one individual, which, in both of our cases, was a man.
Missy and I had each had about a dozen partners in our fifty-year sex life, and so far we hadn't contracted any sexually-transmitted diseases. Naturally we wanted things to stay that way. So we had to be able to trust that man, which argued for picking someone we knew. On the other hand, we didn't want this necessarily to go beyond our one-time experience, which made selecting a stranger a safer bet.
Interestingly, individuals who dance seemed to be a likely pool to draw from because they were comfortable with touching and changing partners--at least in dancing. Our only problem was that we usually just danced with each other and didn't really spend a lot of time getting to know them.
But sometimes we did. And sometimes we talked among ourselves about a dancer, especially when the gossip about them intrigued us.
Brent was one of those dancers. I had confessed to Missy my attraction to him from that time we had danced together. She had danced with him a number of times and thought he was a good leader. Not as good as I was, she agreed, but she thought his lead was clear and that she could follow him.
She denied any attraction to him, although when I saw them dancing together, I wasn't so sure. My Missy has this very sexy look when she is first asked by a man to dance and enters into the tango embrace. And on occasion, when I happened to see the two of them begin to dance, their flirty interaction had conjured up a bit of jealousy, I had to admit.