Jim and Edie Again Ch. 07-08

Jim took Penny and I to the Beach Shack where we could eat outside on their deck over the bay and get a great seafood dinner. The temperature was around eighty. He also requested that we go commando. I knew what he wanted, so I dug up two tennis skirts -- one for me and one for Penny. They barely covered our bareness. Up top, we both wore crop tops. We were pretty normal for Florida unless someone checked under the skirts.

Dan, the owner and usual bartender, came running out to get our bar order. He studied Jim, and then Penny and me. He finally said to Jim, "Yep, you're the luckiest son of bitch in the world. You have the two most beautiful women in the world with you -- sisters, too."

I punched Dan's hip. "You know I look older than that, but thank you. This is my daughter, Penny. Penny this is Dan. Jim has been a regular here over the years, and introduced us."

Penny and Dan shook hands. He held that hand up, stared at it, and said, "I'll never wash this again. It has touched the most beautiful woman in existence."

Penny laughed, "You are so full of bullshit. Here, touch this." She lifted her crop top so that one breast showed. She took his hand and molded it to her gorgeous tit flesh."

Dan's eyes grew tenfold. "Now, I KNOW I'll never wash away this moment." He rolled his eyes, and floated away.

Jim was laughing so hard he had tears in his eyes.

Dan was back in two minutes with our drinks. I grabbed Dan's hand and said, "I insist on equal time." I slid his hand under my crop top before he could blink.

Dan said, "You're ruining me for all my other customers. I'll never leave this table at this rate." He did slowly back away. Almost in synch, Penny and I flashed our tennis skirts up at him revealing all to him since we were commando. I said, "Food please." He shook his head and left for the kitchen.

Jim said, "You'll get preferential treatment here the rest of your life, you realize." Penny and I just laughed.

Penny said, "Jim, I want you to know what we talked about while you were gone to Starbucks or wherever with Bruce."

He nodded and allowed, "I was curious, especially with the kind of welcome home I got. I know when not to question my good luck."

Pen grinned, "I told my mom that I was as much of a nymphomaniac as she is. While I was a pretty good girl, I did secretly and surreptitiously slut my way through high school and college, apparently just as she did. Yes, I know the clinical term is hypersexuality, and after talking to several doctors over the years, they confirm the diagnosis. There's some correlation with being bipolar, but I don't seem to have those symptoms, nor does my mom."

"After thinking about it, I think that the sexcapades you've been having with Bruce, Mindy, Hank, and Rita are pretty cool. I'm thinking I might even like to participate at your next event. Edie said it was your turn to host, so that will make it convenient that I'm around the house. I hope you don't mind. I really liked Bruce and his and your ideas to help me with David and Jean.

"After thinking about my mindset and expectations, everything that you said about the second paradigm appealed to me. I'm going to call David after we get home and talk about our future, our marriage, and our mutual expectations. I'm open for a major renegotiation of our contract. I'm even open to experimenting with Jean being in our relationship. Of course, he's got to be open to having me bring a friend or two home, as well."

I nodded at my lover. "I think she's on the right track. What do you think?"

Jim said, "I guess I need to raise the incest flag about the two of you. You've changed the mother-daughter relationship. I assume that's all right with each of you. No one is being forced to do anything. I'm happy but not everyone that learns of your new relationship may feel that way, for instance, Dave and-or Jean.

"As Edie probably told you, our group of friends are all probably hypersexual. That was why Hank and Bruce came by the house this afternoon -- to make love with Edie and have some sexual fun. I might just as well have stopped over at one of their homes for the same reason. In our parlance, those visits are acceptable. We've just started doing that.

"My last point concerns David. I recommend taking it slow with him rather than laying out a whole polyamorous image for a family. His affair with Jean may have just been for fun, with nothing further implied or even wanted by him. She may also have some other entanglements, like a husband or boyfriend. I got the feeling from what you said earlier that he never got a chance to explain anything deeper about what the coupling meant.

"When you talk to him, you can tell him about your willingness to have an open marriage, but with freedoms come responsibilities. Communication and sharing about emotions, events, and their impacts are at the top of that list. Inclusion of your mate or mates is another. Start including him ... and her. If what happened earlier between all of us was a revenge fuck or something, you might want to be a little veiled in what you tell him until such emotions are deserved."

Penny nodded, "Thank you. Good advice, especially since I am hyped up about the sex. And, you and my change of relationship with mom are not revenge fucks or whatever. Since I arrived here, and in our conversations, my eyes have been opened up about options in life I didn't realize were there. It's like discovering a whole new universe of opportunities. I'm finding it refreshing and ... I hate to say it so pedantically, but educational and instructive. I have new options in life I didn't even know about before I arrived."

Dan brought our dinners out along with our waitress to carry a few items on a tray. After we were served, he sat with us and had a glass of wine while we ate. Later, Jim claimed that he was hoping to see more pussy, but Penny and I disappointed him.

After we got back to my house, Penny went off to telephone David. Jim and I watched some television and waited for Pen to finish. We were curious what she'd have to say. We both got naked, too, and spent the next two hours edging each other with sex play but no orgasms.

Penny finally came inside from the patio where she'd been sitting as she talked to her husband. She looked at the two of us, and then removed the two items of clothing that she'd worn to dinner. She snuggled in on Jim's other wide, and immediately started to play with his hypersensitive cock. He told her we'd been edging and that she'd do well to leave him alone. She did, but only for a short time.

Penny grinned, "Well, I have a very surprised husband. Let's see, during the course of the conversation, I encouraged him to be with Jean again, especially since I wasn't available. I explained about my hypersexuality and that I needed more sex and loving, not only from him but from men that I liked and had affection for.

"I did my best to recite all the points you were making about a second relationship model. I told him I wanted to try it, if he were willing and would participate in that spirit. He will, of course. He chaffed a little about both of us being non-exclusive, but he seemed to like the idea of an open marriage. I had to talk him through the sexual equality issue, but he agreed pending further discussion.

"I finally brought up the idea of Jean being part of our family or something akin to that depending on how much we both like her. I thought he'd faint. He couldn't believe I was suggesting that. He does really like her, and she is single.

"Now, I have a couple of big questions. First, would you two talk to him if I got him down here. You were so articulate about the model. I know it's not just becoming swingers, but it does have that flavor attached to it. Jean might come, too."

I told her, "Yes. A little notice would be appreciated." Jim nodded in agreement. "And next?"

Pen started again, "The weekend after next for notice, and second, can we all make love again ... right now?"

I picked up David and Jean at the airport. They opted for a change of planes in Atlanta so they could arrive at the local airport, rather than make one of us drive over an hour in each direction to go to Tampa International.

David was a nice-looking young man, about thirty, with sandy hair and about six foot tall. He was very formal in meeting me and then introducing Jean. She could best be described by the word 'mousy'. She was small, thin, light brown hair, and was shy and seemed to lack a sense of presence. I wondered whether she'd adopted that posture so she was obviously a 'second' to Penny in the proposed relationship. Their presence after cheating on Penny plus their living together for past two weeks at Pen's suggestion created an awkward climate.

Both David and Jean were as nervous as a long-tailed cat in room full of rocking chairs. David jumped at every question I asked him, mostly about the trip from Chicago and the change of planes. I'd done all too much traveling during my tenure at NASA -- mostly between Houston and Washington, but there were many other flights as well. Jean was as quiet as a church mouse, but did comment that she'd never been to Florida before.

I'd set Edie and Penny up with the app on their iPhones that could track my whereabouts. Consequently, they were waiting in front of the Edie's house when I pulled into the semi-circular driveway. They were dressed in casual clothes. I could feel the tension in the car blast through the roof as soon as they saw the pair. I was afraid David would hyperventilate. Jean looked pale as a ghost.

We all got out. Penny went right to David, and despite him flinching slightly, she gave him a hug and kiss on his lips. She then turned to Jean and held her arms out in welcome. Jean allowed a hug and kiss on the cheek. They then greeted Edie. She hadn't seen David in about two years, and had never met Jean.

David and I brought in their two carry-on bags, and I showed him the guest room. It was the same room that Pen had planned to use, but then she'd been sleeping every night in our bed and we'd been making love with each other. Penny maintained a presence in both rooms, and was uncertain about what sleeping arrangements would be like that night. This was a play-it-by-ear situation.

I served up some soft drinks and we all went and sat on the patio. Edie and Penny were sedately dressed in shorts and a top. It was the most clothes I'd seen on them except when we went out to dinner at other than the Beach Shack.

After about fifteen minutes of small talk about weather, Florida, and traveling from Chicago, Penny took the bull by the horns.

"David and Jean, thank you for coming here. I'd like you to think of my mom's house as neutral territory. This is a safe zone where you can say anything, express any opinion, and we all pledge, with you two I hope, to curtail our judgments but to seek to understand.

"I confess to reacting badly to finding the two of you ... making love. I reacted with jealousy and rage, and that's not the way I want to be. I know why now, and it was because I thought there was only one way for a relationship to be, and you'd broken that model for me. Now I know that there are other models, and I think that I've rather successfully adopted another model. In this new model, there is not jealousy, but compersion; there's no rage, but understanding and tolerance; and there is an expansion of the love I have to share.

"Just to be clear, I do love you David, as much as the day we got engaged and then married months later. I want our love to continue, and as I told you on the phone, I am more than willing to expand that love to include Jean or others either of us might embrace in our lives."

Pen paused and looked eagerly at David and Jean for their responses. He'd been nodding as he followed along and agreed with her. They'd talked through a lot of this on the phone over the past two weeks. Jean had been hanging on every work and looking adoringly at Penny.

After a long silence, David said, "I apologize for breaking our marriage vows and having sex with Jean. When you found us, it wasn't the first time, as I told you on the phone. We'd gotten fond of each other through our working together at McKennitt & Company. As you know, we travelled together, and ... one of those times we got together. I continue to love you and want you in my life as my wife. I also want Jean in my life. We have had long discussions about all the things you've said on our phone calls. As you suggested, I shared them with Jean.

Penny nodded, "That's also why I wanted you to come here. Jim speaks so eloquently about all the aspects of the various paradigms for relationships. I don't feel I can do his thoughts justice, but I have tried on the phone with you."

"Just so there's no confusion here," Pen said, "I am also in love with Jim, just like my mother. We have made love every day since I arrived, and my love for him deepens every day. He is an 'And' and not an 'Or' to our relationship, the same way I hope you'll feel about adding Jean to our relationship."

David had jerked upon Penny's revelation about making love with me. He shot me a glance, but I was maintaining a neutral countenance. I smiled slightly and non-threateningly and nodded at him and Penny.

Penny said, "Jim, please tell them about the other relationship model."

I looked at Jean and David. They were beginning to relax. I started, "I wrote down many of the characteristics of what I call the Two Most Significant Marriage Paradigms. I contrast the two as you'll see on the page that I printed for each of you. Some characteristics are included in one model, but not in the other. In some areas there are many gray zones in between the extremes." I gave each of them a copy of my page as well as copies to Penny and Edie. I started to walk them through what I called the Traditional Paradigm and then the New Paradigm.

Couple to Multiple People

Man-Woman to Any Grouping

Zero-Sum Game to Unlimited Love

Exclusivity -- Yes to No

Possessiveness -- Yes to None

Status -- One Dominant to All Equal

Roles -- Static to Flexible & Changing

Monogamy to Consensual Nonmonogamy

Initiative -- Male to Anyone in Relationship

Communication -- Some to A Lot

Boundaries -- Fixed to Flexible

Terms -- Absolute to Situational

Jealousy to Compersion

Judgmental -- Yes to No

Happiness -- From Spouse to From Within

Vows -- Fixed Forever to Often Renegotiated

Orientation -- Secular to Spiritual

I talked through each of the elements with them. Gradually, they got comfortable enough to start to ask questions. Surprisingly, it was Jean that started to pose questions.

Edie and Penny were mostly present. Occasionally one would leave for a while and silently return. Neither interrupted, but they'd paid rapt attention. This was my philosophy, but I'd never articulated it so clearly or in such detail, and with a graphic aid to support my points.

As I was getting to the bottom of my list, Edie brought a bottle of wine and glasses out. She poured some for each of us. I asked the key question at that point, "So, think about those two models for a marriage or relationship. Which way would you like to live? Which way are you ready to commit to live? Shifting and living in a new framework does take work. I don't expect an answer from either of you today. Please think overnight about what you like and don't. We'll talk tomorrow after breakfast. If you want to discuss or debate with each other or with me, wait until then. Thanks for your time, the honor of your attention, and for taking me seriously."

I toasted everybody and we all sipped. I suggested dinner at the Beach Shack. Edie and Penny laughed and nodded. We hadn't been there in about two weeks.

Penny looked at her mother and said, "Tennis skirts and crops?"

Edie laughed, nodded, and they started to leave, but not before pulling Jean from her seat and into the house. They were all laughing as they told her about their dress code.

I warned David, "They're planning on dressing in a pretty risqué way -- slutty even. I hope you're prepared. The last time we were there they were commando and wearing tennis skirts and crop tops that showed a lot of underboob."

David rolled his eyes, "And we won't get thrown out?"

I shook my head. "I've known the owner for years, since when Diane and I moved to Florida." I explained briefly about my late wife. "Besides the two of them flashed him and made his day. He sat with us over dinner."

David and I enjoyed another glass of wine and I extolled the benefits of living in Florida to him. He asked about what I'd done before retirement, and I told a few 'NASA Stories' while we listened to frequent laughter and giggles from down the hallway in the bedroom wing of Edie's house.

Eventually, the three women returned to the living room. This time, Edie was wearing her Daisy Duke shorts that proved she was bare beneath them and a gossamer top made to be worn over some other kind of opaque top. She wasn't wearing anything under it.

Penny and Jean were wearing the tennis skirts and crop tops. All of them were wearing flip-flops, the standard footwear in Florida. They all looked cute and dripped raw sex appeal. Even small Jean seemed to have perked up. Some makeup had been applied and perhaps the exhibitionist outfit appealed to her.

Jean came and stood in front of me on the patio. She announced, "I'm told that I have to flash you." My head tilted and my eyebrows rose in a kind of, 'Really?' response.

Jean raised her crop top, revealing that she wore no bra and had a genuinely nice pair of breasts with pretty pink nipples atop slightly darker areolas and little perky nipples. As she lifted, she said, "Flash tits!" She dropped the top after about fifteen seconds, and then raised the tennis skirt, and with a coy smile said, "Flash pussy!" She held that pose for maybe twenty seconds, revealing her untrimmed crop of pubic hair and the visible part of her slit.

As she released the tennis skirt so it could fall back in place, I applauded softly. "Jean, you are very appealing. I'm sure we'll get to see more of you when we come back and skinny-dip in the pool." Jean looked worried suddenly and her eyes immediately shifted to the swimming pool. I'd given her something to think about.

David actually chuckled while Jean performed. Since he was beside me, I'm sure part of her display was for his benefit. I did see Edie's hand in what had been done.

The five of us took my SUV to the Beach Shack. There was a lot of laughter throughout dinner. Dan came and sat with us again, glad to meet a new 'flasher' from up north. At Edie's urging, Jean and Penny both flashed Dan their important parts. Edie was already mostly on display.

Back at the house, Edie led everyone out to the pool patio. She announced that both of her neighbors that could potentially see into her backyard were away. Boats did not cruise close to the seawalls after dark along the key she was on; there were too many hazards. She assured the new comers of their privacy.

That said, Edie stood and quickly removed her top and the Daisy Dukes. She gave a big stretch. Penny was right beside her making similar moves. I did my part, quickly eliminating all clothing from my body.

David and Jean were a little slower, but Jean beat him by a few seconds. Edie was pointing out the deep end -- good for those that wanted to dive in, and the steps at the other end for those seeking slow torture as they walked into ever deeper water. The water temperature was actually in the low eighties, so it wasn't all that bad either way.

I swam a few laps as most everyone came down the steps. I stopped near Jean and Edie. Edie was right in my arms and we shared a passionate kiss as Jean watched from close-by. As we parted, I reached out my arm and gently pulled Jean into my body. I leaned down and kissed her on the lips after visibly assuring myself that my advance was acceptable.