it!" Tim said. "We
practically admitted it in the club, so we thought she was cool
with the whole idea. I think she just thought we were both going
to, you know, do things to her."
"Haven't you done this sort of
threesome thing before?" she said.
"No!" Tim shook his head vigorously.
"We've been talking about it. This was the first try."
"So you started..." she
said.
"Doing things. Yeah. She didn't like
it."
"Apparently."
"So." Tim said, "I dunno. I guess we
just go to bed now."
"Actually I wouldn't have minded that
at all," she said. Or at least she heard those words come out of
her mouth. She wasn't sure how they had managed to do
that.
"You wouldn't..." Tim said and
stopped, looking at her blankly for a moment.
She had instantly regretted saying it,
but it was way too late to undo it now. She was acutely aware of
the t-shirt defining the ample bulge of her hips, and of her
too-large breasts hanging down in front of her. Suddenly she was
back in high school and a bunch of popular kids were going to start
laughing at any moment.
"Actually I'm sorry," she
said, "I know I'm not like the girls you usually go for." She felt
her face getting hot with a blush. Damn
it , damn
it . "I shouldn't have said
anything!"
Tim was giving her a little smile when
she glanced up at him though.
"John thinks you're hot. He said so
himself," he said.
"Really?" she said and tried to sound
casual.
"Yeah no seriously," Tim said, "He
said you have sexy lips."
"Well shucks," she said, and smiled
back at Tim, "That's nice."
Tim put his glass down into the sink
and rinsed it out. Looking down he said. "What would you say if I
said I thought you were really pretty?"
"I dunno Tim, I might think you were
still horny." She laughed but wrapped her arms around herself. He
was in such amazing shape - she traced the chain around his neck
with her eyes, to where it bumped over his collarbone and then down
over the bulge of his pectoral muscles. His skin was looked as
smooth as silk. She couldn't help noticing the waist of his shorts
rode low on his hips, showing just a hint of the curve of his ass.
She felt ridiculous lusting after a man like this. He wasn't in her
league.
"Well maybe," he said and moved to
walk past her towards the bedroom again. He stopped right beside
her and turned to look into her eyes. "But we're going to take care
of that in a little bit. The only question is whether you want to
be in the room with us when we do."
His eyes were blue, frank, and
intense. She was aware of his body heat for some reason, which
almost felt like it was emanating from him in waves, and actually
warming up her own skin.
Sometimes you just have to dive in and
hope for the best. "Yeah," she heard herself saying, "I think I'd
like that."
Tim never said a word, he just reached
out and took her hand, then led her towards the bedroom without
once looking back, simply assuming that she would follow him. She
did.
He opened the door, and they went in
together.
John lay in the bed, naked but covered
by just a thin sheet. The light of one little orange lamp in the
corner let her see him lying back, looking at her in a very
appraising way. His curly black hair was still messed up from
whatever he'd been doing with that other girl not so long ago, and
Amanda could see the bulge of his cock outlined pretty distinctly
through the sheet. He was in spectacular shape, just like Tim, and
his chest had a fair bit of dark hair on it, in contrast to Tim's
smooth skin.
She felt very insecure all of a
sudden, like she was intruding on something that she had no
business seeing.
"I heard you two talking," he said,
looking at their clasped hands. "What's up?"
Tim led her over to the bed with him.
"Amanda might like to play with us."
John smiled up at her. It was a
genuinely warm, welcoming smile that made her feel much
better.
"I'm glad, Amanda! " he said. "I've
thought you were really pretty since the first time we
met."
She sat down on the edge of the
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