A week after our wedding, James and I are trekking through the underbrush of the Australian Outback. While Annie and Georgie seem to be having the time of their lives, James and I are sweating to death. “Is it usually this hot?” I ask, gasping for breath in the dry heat. Annie looks back at us, “Ali it’s August. We’re lucky it was a mild winter this year.” She looks to the sky and muses, “it could still snow though.” “Snow?” I deadpan. “You’ve got me out here in shorts and you’re saying that it could snow?” She laughs, “just be glad it’s not spider season.” I stop on the trail, making James bump into me, “spider season? That’s it’s, I’m going home!” Not that I really knew where home was at this point. Sure I could go back to my dad’s house, he’d love to have me home. And while I did miss my childhood house and my dad, the thought of going back to a mundane life made a pit form in my stomach. “You ok?” James asks quietly. “Aside from the snow and spider prospect.”
We finally make it to the waterfall two days into our trip, which is what I almost did right into it. I’d been staring at my feet so long, trying to shield my eyes form the blinding sun as much as possible, that I didn’t notice the others stop and step off of the trial until James grabbed my backpack and pulled me to a stop. “Careful,” he says as I come to a stop. “You almost fell in.” “Fell in what?” I grumble as I look up for the first time in hours. “This!” Annie exclaims as she throws her arms wide. Looking past her, I make out a large open area about twenty feet below us with trees, tall grass and bushes surrounding a rippling lake with a waterfall at one end. “How do we get down there?” I ask her as I take it all in. After the dry dirt of the past few days, the greenery was a nice sight. “There’s some steps carved into the cliff wall over there,” Georgie answers as he points to some steep steps. “There’s also a rope we can climb down or-.”“We jump!” Annie yells as she th
“I- what?” I stutter out in complete shock. While Annie was random at times, I did not see this question ever coming from her. “A relationship,” Annie says again as she sits up and looks at me. “Where all four of us would date each other.” I sit up and look at her in confusion, “but.. why?” She smiles softly, “because you’re beautiful and I enjoy spending time with you. And James is handsome and Georgie has had a crush on him since the second day we’ve known each other. We like being around you two and we’ve been looking for another couple to date and travel with and potentially live with us at the house. It’s too big for just the two of us.” “So,” I ask slowly. “You guys are..?” “Both bisexual,” Annie confirms. “Both into consensual polygamy. Both very keen on the idea of having a relationship with the two of you.” I breathe deeply for a moment, “I’m sorry. I just wasn’t expecting this. Just a second.” “Take your time,” Annie tells me as she lays back down. I watch her
We sit there awkwardly for a long moment before James finally asks, “so what do you think about it?” “I’m not sure,” I admit. “I love you and being with you so the idea of being another person is weird.” “But?” “But,” I say slowly. “I kinda of want to know what it’s like to kiss Annie.” I glance over at him as I wait for his response, hoping he wouldn’t be mad or weirded out by my answer. But as always, James just shrugs and says, “if you want to kiss her then you can.” “What?” I ask in surprise. “You want me to kiss her?” “I love you,” he starts seriously. “And I’ll support whatever it is that you want to do. If that’s traveling the world or making out with girls, I’m happy if you’re happy. But,” he adds. “I don’t like the idea of you kissing Georgie.” “Baby I don’t want to kiss Georgie,” I tell him quickly. “You’re the only man for me and I don’t even know if I really want to kiss Annie or if it was just because she brought it up.” “I kinda feel the same way,” he adm
By the time we made it up to camp, Annie and Georgie had both tents set up, a fire going and dinner cooking. I recognize the smell of Annie’s homemade pasta sauce as we get closer, “I thought you were saving that?” I ask her. She’d only dehydrated one jar for this trip, saying that her sauce was so complicated to make she only did it once a year and this was one of her last jars. She looks up from the pot she’s stirring, “I figured tonight was as good a night as any. Besides,” she grins. “Given how long you two were gone I thought you’d need some refueling.” I match her grin, “like you and Georgie didn’t do the same. Don’t think I don’t see that new hickey on your neck.” Annie’s free hand goes to her neck, “that’s a bug bite.” “Yeah if the bugs name is Georgie,” I snort. “Speaking of, where is he?” Annie rolls her eyes, “playing jungle explorer.” She waves her hand towards a nearly invisible trail, “he disappeared down there a few minutes ago.” “Ooh babe?” James asks
“So how was your jungle trip with Georgie?” I ask James later that night as I lay on his chest in our tent. “You guys were gone for a while.” A while was an understatement. By the time they’d gotten back to camp, the fire had died out, supper was cold and the sun had set. It had gotten so late that Annie and I were about to call in an air rescue. “Sorry,” he says sheepishly. “We found this really cool cave with lots of crystals and it has a little river in it. It’s like a different world in there and we lost track of time.” “Did you guys talk?” I ask as I glance up at him. He nods, “yeah we did. I told him how I’m only interested in him and you’re only interested in Annie and he was cool with that.” James chuckles, “actually I think he was relieved.” “Well,” I say slowly. “He’ll be even more relieved to know that there’s nothing between me and Annie. I kissed her and to use her words, it was the most platonic thing ever.”“So you don’t like her?” He asks curiously.“Not in
Four days later we are back at Annie’s house. The rest of the trip had passed in slight tension between James and I, something that I never thought would happen and wasn’t prepared for. By the time we got back to civilization we’d hardly spoken a word to each other in twelve hours and we hadn’t even used any of the ‘special supplies’ that Annie had stocked up on. Thankfully she didn’t comment on it when I have it all back to her once we got to her house. And while we were all exhausted, the boys immediately left to go to the arcade. Georgie gave Annie a long kiss and I glance hopefully at James but he just grabs the keys and walks out. When the boys are gone, Annie finally asks, “what the hell is going on with you two?” “He wants to tell our parents about us,” I tell her with a sigh as I practically fall onto the couch. “And he’s mad because I don’t want to.” Annie sits next to me, “so the usual?” “Pretty much. He.. asked if I was ashamed of us,” I admit. “Are you?” Annie asks
Four Months Later "This better not rip my nip off," I mutter as I use the double sided tape to stick a gingerbread cookie to each of my tits. "The things I do for this man." I pick up the Santa hat that's on the counter and pull it on. James's voice comes from the other room, "where's my cookies!!?" Opening the bathroom door, I say cheerfully, "here they are Santa!" James stands in the middle of the bedroom wearing red boxers, a long red robe with a Santa hat on with a red sack slung over his shoulder. "Well now Mrs Clause, don't you look just ravishing." I shake my tits at him, "why don't you sit those packages down and come eat your cookies?" He grins and drops the sack, "I've got a very special package for you Mrs Clause." Glancing down, I match his grin, "can I unwrap it early Santa?" "I think for you I can make an exception," he says. Walking slowly towards him, I pray that the cookies don't fall off. Getting to James, I run my hands up his hard stomach m