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•Some partners enjoy swapping in the same room. Others prefer to go solo. Discuss which situation is more of a turn-on for the two of you. (Or try both!)
FICTION: SOFT SWAPPING
SYZYGY
ASHLEY LISTER
Syzygy?” Becky repeated. She pronounced the word as Rob had done: SIZ-uh-jee. Unable to keep the skepticism from her tone she said, “Are you sure that’s the safeword you want us to use tonight?”
He shrugged. “It seems appropriate. Amongst other definitions, it’s a Jungian term meaning a union of two opposites.”
Becky said nothing. She was wondering how she could fit the word syzygy into a casual sentence should she need to call a halt to events later in the evening. She was familiar with using safewords with Rob. When they had been playing S/M games they had employed a variety of safewords such as Shakespeare and carburetor: words that were extremely unlikely to occur by chance during the passion of an erotic encounter.
But this evening promised to be different on so many levels. This evening they were playing with another couple. And, she supposed, that meant the use of a different type of safeword.
Rob pressed the doorbell.
Becky stiffened. Her heartbeat was already racing. The idea of how the evening might develop tightened her stomach into knots of anticipation. She was grateful when Rob reached out and squeezed her hand with a gesture of understanding and reassurance.
She squeezed back and hoped he didn’t notice that her hands were trembling.
“We don’t have to do anything that you don’t want us to do.”
She nodded. He had said the same thing to her many times before. And she had said the same thing to him. It was a credo by which they both lived. And it wasn’t that she didn’t want to do this with him. She was only hesitant because she had no idea what the evening might entail.
The door opened.
Dan and Jan stood before them. They were smiling warm welcomes that looked as exciting as the pictures Becky had seen on the swinging website where they first organized this meet. The four of them shook hands, bussed cheeks with smiles and greeted one another with hurried welcomes that told Becky the couple were as nervous as she and Rob.
The artificiality of being kissed on the cheek by a stranger struck Becky as unpleasant and unwanted and she wondered why she had ever desired something like this evening’s planned encounter. She kept the thought to herself, remembering that there would always be an opportunity to use the safeword if she chose. At the moment she figured it was more likely that nervousness was dictating her likes and dislikes more than any genuine enjoyment.
“Drinks?”
“Yes, please.”
Dan played a generous host, escorting them into a stylish lounge with muted lighting, a single settee and a plasma TV. Jan kept glancing at Becky and Rob, her gaze flashing between one and the other with hungry enthusiasm.
And, while she hadn’t really enjoyed the artificiality of the kiss on the cheek, Becky did like being the object of the woman’s sexual interest.
She took a seat in the center of the single settee and accepted a vodka from Dan.
Jan sat next to Becky and gave her a reassuring smile. “Nervous?”
“A little,” Becky admitted. “This is our first time.”
Jan placed a hand on Becky’s knee.
The sensation of the woman’s warm fingertips touching the bare skin of her flesh made the inner muscles of Becky’s sex clench hungrily. Of all the things that she had expected to happen this evening, the surge of arousal from another woman’s interest and touch was not one of them.
She wasn’t sure if she was comfortable with those responses.
She struggled to try to remember the safeword that Rob had suggested. Her mind was momentarily blank and all she could recollect was that it was some pretentious word that she would never use during the course of normal conversation.
Silently she cursed him for being such a word snob.
“I’m sure we’ll have fun,” Jan insisted. “We won’t do anything you don’t want to do.”
Dan joined his partner on the settee and nodded for Rob to join Becky. The four of them sat in front of the large TV screen, each holding their drinks as they chatted about the journey and then went on to discuss the pros and cons of the various websites they all knew.
