Chapter 2
Jack
Jack. This is Piper. Please call me so we can talk. I am anguished over what happened to you tonight. I want to find a way to make everything up to you for what has happened with you and Angie over the past year. Please call me…Piper
With the blurriness and addled brain, I had to read the text three times for it to sink that it was Piper who had texted me and asked me to call her.
I know that I am too drunk to call her now.
But I will definitely call her tomorrow morning after I’ve had some sleep and some coffee.
I write her phone number on a post-it note right next to my phone which I leave right in front of the coffee pot.
I have a grin on my face as I climb into bed. For the first time since I got home from work tonight, I feel some happiness inside. As I recall, Piper is a stunning beauty. My Angie is a sexy woman and wears revealing clothes a lot. But she cannot hold a candle to Piper.
Saturday
15 past 1am
Angie
I am taken aback when I get home and find it completely dark like it’s abandoned. We at least leave the porch light on over the front porch usually.
I feel uneasy as I come through the house turning on lights as I proceed. It takes a moment for my eyes to focus when I flip on the kitchen light. My mouth drops wide open when I see Jack’s wedding ring on the kitchen table. “Oh no! No-no-no!” I gasp in a panic.
When I run up to the bedroom, I find that most of Jack’s clothes are gone as well as his toiletry items and laptop. I sit on the foot of the bed and begin to sob. Oh my gawd. What have I done to my marriage. I have absolutely treated Jack miserably over the past year.
Again, I turn on my phone and read the text that Jack sent:
Angie: If this is how little you think of me, then fuck you and fuck our marriage. I’ll get my shit out of the house this coming week and you can shove this house and this marriage up your ass…Jack
I am crying my heart out now. I let myself get so wrapped up in Peter and our sexual fun that I forgot to hold tight to my marriage. Jack is a wonderful man. He did not deserve to be treated the way I have treated him this past year.
I was so freaked out by turning 40 that I reveled in the feelings of being desired and fucked by other men at the swinger’s club. The fact that I did all this swinging with Peter has drawn me very close with him. We have been practically inseparable.
I wondered if Peter had some ulterior motive at first when he invited me to go swinging with him while we danced on my 40th birthday. But the more I hung out with him, the deeper I became connected with him.
Piper didn’t seem to mind when Pete and I took off together every Friday at the swinger club. After all, she was able to avail herself to other men at the club. She was even invited to do threesomes with some of the married couples.
Unfortunately, Jack was never included in the lifestyle with us. I meant to try to talk him into trying the lifestyle. But I was always afraid that he would shoot it down without a thought. And I sure as hell did not want to give up all of the attention and sexual freedom I was experiencing.
I see now that I have made a grave mistake in not including Jack in the lifestyle with me. Jack is completely right, I have treated him as if I think little of him. How can I fix this? Jack is a great husband.
I frantically try to contact Jack but my calls go directly to voice mail which means his phone is off. I will send a text so it will pop up when he turns his phone back on.
Jack: Please call me baby. I have been so wrong about things. I freaked out when I turned 40 and I shut you out of my life. Please let’s talk so I can make things right and include you in where my life has been going…Please! Angie
All I can do now is wait till he turns his phone back on.
Probably sometime tomorrow. When I try to contact Pete to see what’s up with him and Piper, the call again goes directly to voice mail.
I decide I’d better not leave any messages just now until I find out what is happening with him and Piper.
Piper seems quite pissed off tonight. Not only was she pissed off about all the times I hooked up with Pete, she accused us of both being cheaters. Cheating on her and Jack at the same time.