Gonzalo Narvreón - Aquiles... a curious straight

“Of course, it's true,” said Marcos.

Marcos was a lawyer and had specialized in the criminal area, beyond the fact that the firm also handled the civil area.

Aquiles had specialized in the tax area, so they had managed to put together a good team of workers, and they had been friends for years.

The electric porter sound interrupted the conversation. The delivery was downstairs.

“I'm coming,” said Aquiles, who grabbed his wallet and put on slippers to go down.

Marcos and Adrián put the snack, glasses and drinks on a tray and went to the living room. It was rare for them to sit at the table to share a meal, unless it was some special one. They usually gathered around the coffee table in the living room and ate there, no matter in whose house they were.

Aquiles opened the door and entered carrying two boxes.

“Here is the food to feed the beasts,” he said.

He placed the boxes on the table, and they began to distribute the empanadas according to the flavors each one had chosen.

“What a pity Félix and Sofi couldn't come,” said Marina.

“They are at a stage where, if they can't manage to leave their children in someone's care, it will be difficult for them to leave, especially with a month-old baby,” said Paula.

“Of course, you don't have a problem anymore because you had your children very young, and now they are teenagers,” said Inés.

“That’s true... anyway, everything has its pros and cons. On the one hand, it was good to have them as young people, but we also had to delegate many things that you could do, especially me, because Marcos continued with his career,” said Paula.

Paula’s comment generated a second of uncomfortable silence because it was not clear if it was with a hint of reproach for Marcos or merely a description of what they experienced.

“Be careful not to misunderstand it; I'm not saying it as a reproach because it was a decision made in accordance,” added Paula, who approached Marcos and kissed him on the lips.

Paula was an architect and worked independently. She did it for pleasure and worked just when she hooks a client through her friend’s circle. She didn't do it out of financial necessity.

“Talking about children... Do you plan to wait much longer? Or did you decide not to procreate?” asked Marcos, addressing the other two couples.

“This morning, the gentleman just raised the subject with me, and we started working straight, attending this issue,” said Marina, referring to Aquiles.

“I understand; that's the reason you were crawling around on the court,” said Adrián, even known after the game, Aquiles had already told them what had happened to Marina.

They all laughed.

“Gee... look at you! Didn't you think to tell us?” said Paula.

“We're telling you now,” answered Marina, “Anyway, I have to go to the gynecologist to get my IUD because otherwise, it's going to be a little difficult for me to get pregnant,” she added.

“Well, my friend, then start eating well, take vitamins... there's a stage of having sex and more sex. I remember that, when we started to look for getting pregnant, we were so lustful about it, and it was a stage in which we did it almost every day,” said Marcos.

“Now I understand; it was the stage where you dropped your papers in the office and found you sleeping with your head on the desk,” said Aquiles, laughing and joking.

Everyone laughed again.

“And what about you?” asked Aquiles, addressing Adrián and Inés.

“We were also talking about it,” said Adrián, who was interrupted by Marcos who, brutishly and unfiltered, as was his custom, said:

“More than talking about it, you must put it on, my friend!”

Everyone laughed aloud.

“Kidding aside, we want to have a baby; Inés finishes her postgraduate studies in a couple of months, so I guess we'll have news any time now,” continued Adrián.

Inés was a systems engineer and was doing a specialization in robotics.

“Well, it looks like a lot of sex and extreme lust phase is coming,” commented Marcos.

“Speaking of sex and lust, tell the girls what happened in the office,” said Aquiles.

Intrigued by what Aquiles said, the three women stared at Marcos, waiting for the story.

“Nothing; it happens that on Friday noon, I left my office and saw Alejandro having a video conference with a guy in his underwear. It was an uncomfortable situation, and without him realizing I was there, I went back into my office, and that’s the story’s end. This afternoon I told Aquiles about it, and now we'll throw the subject out here to see what you think as women,” said Marcos.

“Who is Alejandro?” asked Inés.

“An employee of them, who once came to play football with us,” said Adrián.

“Is he gay?” asked Inés again.

“We don't know, at least it doesn't look like it; maybe it was something that has nothing to do with what we imagined. Maybe Alejandro is just a curious guy,” commented Marcos.

“Whatever, tell him to do it at home, not at the office,” said Paula.

“I agree, and just that's what we thought with Marcos; we don't know whether to face him directly or to wait and see if it happens again,” said Aquiles.

“In fact, besides his sexual election, definitely is not right he does it in the office; he wasn't playing "Candy Crush," he was in a video conference, and on the other side there was a man showing his nuts,” said Inés.

“He wasn't showing his nuts; he was half-naked and wearing his underwear,” said Marcos.

“Anyway, it's not something to do in the office,” Marina said, adding, “Are you guys also video chatting with naked women or guys? I don't know.

“All the time,” replied Marcos, throwing out laughter.

The truth was none of the four, including Félix, had ever had a slip after they were married. They used to talk about women and situations where they had the chance, but all four had remained faithful. Indeed, among other things, their women had known how to keep them satisfied.

Félix and Sofía had a traditional sex life. She would give in to Félix's wishes when he asked her to have anal sex, but not much more than that.

Marcos and Paula were the ones who had been married for the longest time and the only ones who had children in their teens. While they were still alone, Paula had given in to Marcos' desire to have a threesome and incorporate another woman.

Marcos was exultant and happy with the experience; he had told his friends about it in detail and tormented them for a long time with this story.

Sometime after that episode, he called the group to a gathering because he needed to tell his friends something. Marcos felt disturbed and saddened by Paula's proposal to repeat the trio since, this time, she desired to incorporate a man, a proposal that Marcos would never have expected.

That situation had disturbed him enormously, and at that moment, it was the subject of conversation almost daily.

After that experience, Marcos had confessed to his friends that, although he had enjoyed the lustful moment, sharing his wife with another man, fucking her simultaneously, seeing her enjoying like a bitch; his “macho” side had been hurt. It was the first and only time he shared a bed with another man in a sexual context.

Adrián had asked him directly and straightforwardly if he had touched with the other guy if there was anything between them, touching, kissing, anything, and Marcos answered no. Maybe, so far, he had dared to tell, or perhaps it was what had happened.

On both occasions, and by agreement, they choose the man and the woman by catalogs on escort websites. They had talked about it a lot and just wanted to experiment without involving or getting emotionally involved with anyone.