Aussies are not really into Halloween because celebrating a harvest festival in the middle of spring seems sort of silly. The flowers are blooming and trees are budding, so it's difficult for people to feel ghoulish here. I passed a variety store today in Sydney and noticed two Halloween costumes in the window, but the display was nothing substantial like you'd see in the States.
Thinking about Halloween today brought back memories of a couple I knew, who I'll call Tim and Hannah.
I met them one of the times I lived in New York. It was a few days before Halloween, and I was at the laundromat doing a load of wash, which included the cat costume I made and planned to wear on October 31 to a party. You know how it is at those sort of places -- you don't pay much attention to other people because you have your own things to do and it's a good time to catch up on mental wool-gathering.
I was in the middle of folding my clothes when I heard a male voice say "hello" behind me. I turned to see an attractive, well-scrubbed couple standing close behind me with beatific smiles.
I immediately thought they were either some kind of evangelist missionaries or wanted me to come to a free personality test at the local storefront cult.
As I tried to think of what to say for the expected hard-sell pitch, the woman said in a pronounced New York accent, "we couldn't help notice how cute you are."
That was unexpected. I looked more closely at the couple. She was very slim and petite with a dancer's body. He was tall with a sort of a doofus face but had a very nice build and strong shoulders. The bright hard-sell smiles, however, were a bit unnerving.
"Do you like to have fun?" he asked.
Now I thought maybe they were selling some kind of dope. Never having taken drugs, let alone bought them, I sometimes have confused what people mean when they say things like "do you want to party?"
So I responded with something about how I lived a clean lifestyle and didn't drink or smoke yada yada yada.
"Oh, no, he didn't mean that," she said. "Do you ever have fun with a couple?"
Where they asking what I think they were asking? Were they talking about a threeway?
I responded with something stupid like: "You mean bedroom stuff?"
The smiles widened, and they both nodded "yes."
Ah. So they were promoting a whole different religion.
Nobody else was near us, and I thought a moment. At that point, I had never been involved in a ménage à trois, but it had been one of my unfulfilled fantasies.
"How about we go for coffee down the block?" he suggested. After a moment, I agreed and, together, we collected our respective laundry and walked outside.
A few minutes later, we were sitting in a small booth at a little cafe down the street. He introduced himself as Tim, and she said she was his wife Hannah. They didn't crowd me, and I have to admit I was getting turned on by the way both of them were looking at me. Their desire of me was palpable. He had nice muscular arms, and I remember being sort of mesmerized by watching her slowly and gently rubbing her hand up and down his skin. I wanted to touch him, too, but restrained myself.
I told them the truth: I liked the idea of a threeway, but I wasn't really into women.
"Neither am I," Hannah explained. "I just like to watch Tim perform with the girl and maybe share him a little at the end."
"You like this idea," I remember him saying. "I can see it in your face."
I admitted that I did, because from the neck down, he was very easy on the eyes. I remember he was wearing a snug black polo shirt that emphasized his muscular build and Levi's that let you know he was well equipped.
"So like when do you think this might happen?" I asked.
"We're not doing anything all afternoon," she answered. "How about you? You could come over today."
I thought a moment. Well, what if they were some kind of sickos who lured gullible women back to their place and then tortured them for six weeks in their basement? I could end up in a shallow grave out in the Meadowlands.
But, like seriously, how often did that kind of thing happen? I'd more likely be killed negotiating a crosswalk.
"Why don't I come by about two?" I said, and they gave me their address.
I went home, thought about it some more, then left a note on my kitchen table for my roommate, who was out of town for several days. If I didn't show up by the time she got back, she would have their address and could notify the police.
I then walked to Tim and Hannah's, about ten blocks from where I was living. They had a outer-borough sort of loft, with the exposed brick walls, the big window filled with plants, the bookshelves of planks and cinderblocks filled with progressive paperbacks, and a floppy mutt sprawled on the couch.
Tim gave me a hug and a very soulful kiss while she sort of hugged us both. "This will be fun," he promised.
He took me by the hand into their adjacent bedroom, and she shut the door. She flopped down in a large easy chair near the bed and began removing her clothes. He pulled off his polo shirt and started kissing me while running his hands down my back. I liked he feel of him and responded with tactile explorations.
"Turn this way so I can see more," Hannah said from her chair. She had a typical nasally New York accent, and I found her loudness in the intimate bedroom unnerving. I wasn't expecting a running play-by-play from Fran Drescher's kid sister.
I noticed out of the corner of my eye that she was now naked with her legs spread wide and was fingering herself rather boisterously. I tried to ignore that as I focused on Tim. He was pulling off my clothes while kissing me. He was a good kisser and, pressed up against me, I could also feel he was hard. I dropped to my knees, opened his jeans, and took out his cock.
"That's it, honey, suck on him, such him good," the Drescheresque voice commanded in a tone that sounded like she was ordering pizza over the phone.
While normally I get increasingly wet when sex is unfolding like this, I was pretty dry and not really turned on. I wanted this to be fun, so I thought it best to nip Miss Nasal New York in the bud.
So I said something like: "I'm feeling kind of shy and nervous right now, so talking to me is sort of turning me off. Can you maybe not do that?"
"Okay," she responded matter-of-factly and went back to pleasing herself.
I took Tim back in my mouth and soon we were into it. A few minutes later, he eased me onto the bed, spread my legs, and started eating my pussy. He did a good job, got me off, then climbed on top of me and went to work.
They had a waterbed, and as he started building up some momentum, I heard this sort of strange slurping sound. I didn't know if the bed was leaking or if the dog had come into the room and was licking itself. I turned my head slightly and saw Hannah in the chair, fingering herself with a frenzy and making this sort of soft porcine noise.
I looked away and tried to focus on Tim. He apparently really liked missionary and showed no interest in changing to something else. And, he did not alter his pace one iota. I also noticed he barely looked at me and spent most of his time watching Hannah in the chair.
I remember clearly the idea crystalized in my head that, if I was going to have fun in a threeway, Tim and Hannah were not the ideal candidates.
After some minutes, Hannah joined us on the bed and began rubbing one hand on Tim's back and ass while continuing to diddle herself. At this point, I was about as far from orgasm as I was from Saturn, so I just made little noises and let Tim finish his work. After a few more minutes, he shot his load.
And then he kissed her while still sprawled over me like I was some kind of inflatable sex doll.
He rolled off of me and started helping her finger herself. She came to a climax a few minutes later and they started kissing and caressing each other. After a while, they fell back into each other's arms and cuddled up by the headboard. And there I lay, staring into space, like a discarded piece of clothing. I distinctly remember wondering, what the hell am I doing here?
"Hey, want something to eat?" Hannah asked me suddenly from the depths of her adenoids.
"Uh, no, I think I better get going," I responded.
"We'll have to do this again sometime," Tim said cheerily.
"Maybe," I said while getting dressed.
Needless to say, I never saw them again. They didn't call me. I didn't call them.
I never could figure out what the kink was for them in that whole scene. Why didn't he just fuck her? Did she have some sort of physical problem rendering her incapable of intercourse? He obviously cared for her and was into her. Didn't they fuck by themselves?
I did have some other threeway adventures after that with different couples that I'll write about in future entries here. But every Halloween since this happened, I think about Tim and Hannah and wonder what they're doing and whether they're still looking for surrogate love in the laundromat.