I suddenly reversed the sip of wine I was taking back into the glass. “What?”
“Actually I believe ‘tenacious’ was the word he used,” she said, “Tenacious AND delicious.”
I sat stunned. This women Mary, my neighbor from across the street could not have shocked me more. Mary knocked on my door shortly after I came in from a Saturday morning of yard work. When I opened it she stood holding the fancy salmon salad she had made for the two of us. “I don’t have any white wine”, she said cheerfully, “Do you?”
We had almost finished the bottle of wine from my refrigerator when she hit me with the blowjob remark. A few months earlier my husband and I moved into the neighborhood and the previous Saturday attended a cocktail party at her house. While the party was in progress her husband forced himself on me in their laundry room. I admit it excited me and I gave in with a blowjob he wouldn’t soon forget. I expected our paths to cross again but I never expected this.
She was a very attractive woman with rich mahogany hair, full lips and small breasts on a tall lean body. After her husband accosted me I assumed she must have had her flaws in spite of her beauty, perhaps lacking a sex drive.
My husband, a university professor, taught a Saturday class. Mary said her husband was golfing with some pals so she thought she’d take the opportunity to become better acquainted. I was enjoying her company quite a lot and growing quite comfortable with her when she dropped the bomb on me.
“My husband and I share everything,” she said very matter-of-factly.
“I see,” I said after a short pause.
After a much longer pause she asked, “Ever been with a woman?”
I stood up, almost at a leap, and began pacing. “So that’s what this is about!” Now you want to seduce me too? I guess you and your husband do like to share everything!” I was agitated and angry. I felt betrayed by James, her husband, for his indiscretion about our little secret, or what I thought was our little secret.
“You are an extremely sexy woman,” Mary said, and calmly took another sip of her wine.
“Yeah, yeah, all my life, ever since I was a teenager, ever since my boobs grew, I’ve had boys and…and men after me,” I ranted and paced, “it’s always about sex and it’s tiresome!”
“You would rather be ugly?” Mary said.
“No, no, of course not, but you know, even back then in high school I’d be shopping or something with my mom and when men would look at us they’d always look at me instead of her. She was pretty too! I always felt so vulnerable. I think I fell in love with George partly because he was my refuge and made me feel safe. Being married kind of took me off the market and I didn’t have to deal with men always hitting on me. And now you, I thought you came here to be my friend…instead I feel dirty.”
With a serenity that was almost surreal against my anger Mary said, “I do not mean to upset you, and I am sorry if I did. I experienced the same types of things as you but still I view sex as perhaps the most beautiful thing in life…a pleasure that should be enjoyed. I see no reason why our culture places so many limitations and judgments upon it.”
I stood there, one hand on my hip and the other on the back of my chair as I looked at her trying to read her face, a face so serene that it was disarming my anger.
Finally she continued, “James and I have a very open marriage.”
“So what exactly does that mean?” I asked.
“It means if either of us has sex with someone, anyone, we will remain open and honest about it to each other.”
“You do? Shit. Always?” I said. I picked up my wine glass. Venting had been therapeutic, but I was still shaking. “Doesn’t that cause a lot of pain?”
“It did sometimes in the beginning, and sometimes it still does, I was angry James risked so much to take you like that at the party after he told me about it, not to mention a little jealous. Yet we always manage to talk it out, explore our emotions, and we continue to grow closer. Above all we both like the pleasures our bodies provide.”
“It really was something,” I said.
“What, with Jim…?”
“Yeah, I don’t know if my heart ever raced so much as when he trapped me in your laundry room.”
“He scared you…”
“Hell yes! I was terrified, but yet somehow knew I didn’t need to be, he gave me all the excuses I needed to be naughty…it was thrilling.” I said, returning to my chair.
“Well James is nothing if not thrilling.” She said.
“You were jealous? I couldn’t keep myself from asking.
“Sure I was,” she said, “not only are you beautiful and have those wonderful sexy breasts, but damn girl you are feisty! Did you really spit some of Jim’s own sperm into his mouth?”
“Yes, I sure did, I even surprised myself, but somehow it seemed like the thing to do at the time.” I said. We sat in silence a long while sipping our wine until both glasses were empty.” Finally I said, “No.”
“No what?” Mary said.
“No, I have never been with a woman.”
Lathered in the shower, Mary’s fine smooth skin moved against mine with vaginal slickness. Her delicate hands massaged my neck and shoulders from behind. Pressed against my back she caressed my hips and tummy and weighed my breasts. Being face to face was another uniquely smooth and sensuous experience. Her kisses, so forbidden, so thrilling, made me tremble in anticipation of more. A constant murmuring of compliments about my attributes, limitless in her eyes, made me feel loved.
When I placed my hands over her breasts, I marveled at their efficient perfection, each just filling the cup of my small palms. The raisins of her nipples plumping to life raised my desire.
We shared my moisturizing lotion and applied it liberally to each other with playful slaps and strokes. By the time I stretched out on the bed with Mary on top of me my vagina was so ripe with fluid that it overflowed, spilling secretions along the cleft of my bottom.
“Touch me.” I said, “Please touch me.”
When Mary’s fingers reached my wetness she beamed and said, “Oh my…so sexual.” First she swirled then pushed one of her long thin fingers into me, pulled it out and slowly pushed two of them all the way in, pulled them out and pushed three of them in together. With each withdrawal the sensation was as dramatic as their entry. She pulled them out once again to put them to her mouth where she licked them from base to tip before actually putting them into her mouth. She dipped into me for more and again sucked them with her eyes trained to mine.
When she next returned her fingers to my opening she surprised me with a number of deep rapid twisting strokes that made a pleasing sound of sloppy wetness: schlukka, schlukka, schlukka.
She paused again this time bringing her fingers to my mouth for me to lick and taste.