You Never Know
Bev was walking around back to come into the kitchen when
she saw something that made her gape.
There was her friend Wendy, bare assed across her husband’s knee and he
was spanking her with a wooden spoon. She wasn’t sure what to do. Do I let them know I'm here, do I call the cops, do I turn tail and run?
That’s what she chose to do. She turned
away and quickly tried to make her way down the walkway when she ran into the
trash cans and overturned them. She was
even more in a quandary now. Did they
hear her, does she stay and pick up the mess or does she just leave it and go
back to bed and pull the covers over her head? She seriously thought about the
latter but found herself picking up the mess quickly and getting herself out of
there.
When she was home in her own kitchen and calmed down with another
cup of tea, she thought maybe she had imagined it - but she knew what she saw. The
Wahl’s (Bev and Jeff) and the Andersons’s
(Wendy and Dean) had been
neighbors for the last twenty-five years.
Their children had been raised here and were now adults with families of
their own. She and Bev had served or
chaired nearly every committee meeting ever held in Cold Springs and she
wouldn’t have believed that they had any secrets between them. But, unless this
morning was a fluke, she wasn’t sure about anything anymore.
Jeff had threatened to spank her over the years but the most
that ever came of it were a couple of swats now and then. It was more slap and tickle than anything
else. He never even raised his hand to
the kids. They were disciplined with
lectures, time-outs, groundings and such but never spankings. As a matter of fact, one of the kids one time
said they wished he would just spank them instead of having to listen to one of
his lectures. We laughed about that for
years.
She wasn’t sure how she was going to deal with this
situation. Seeing your 57-year old friend
bare-assed over her husband’s knee was not something you could just ask anyone
about. And the person she would mostly
likely ask for advice was the “victim”.
She tried to put it out of her mind and started doing her daily
chores. There was a Book Club luncheon
today and she was in charge of the chicken salad. Oh My God she said to herself when she realized
she would have to face Wendy in just a couple of hours. It was then she remembered the meeting was at
Wendy’s house today and that was the reason for her morning visit.
Bev decided she would watch and see when other members began
to arrive before she went over. She thought she might be better able to handle
the situation with others around. She
would try to avoid one on one with Wendy as long as possible. When Carolyn and Merri arrived, she waited a
few moments, got the chicken salad and headed over to Wendy’s. She went to the front door which was unusual
and Wendy questioned why she didn’t just come in the back. Bev stammered out something and that’s when
the light bulb went on in Wendy’s eyes.
“You saw” Wendy said.
Bev wanted to crawl in a hole and die but she couldn’t lie.
“Yes”, she answered quietly.
Wendy was red-faced and Bev reached over and hugged
her.
“I am so sorry. I was
coming over to ask if you wanted any help and, and” she stammered.
“That’s okay. In a
way, I am glad you know. Can we talk about
this at another time though? I don’t
want anyone else to know”.
“We don’t have to talk about it at all, it’s none of my
business” Bev said.
“Oh, now that the cat’s out of the bag it will be much
easier now that you know”
The doorbell rang and Wendy went to answer the door.
The book club met once a month and everyone took a turn in
recommending the next month’s selection.
This past month they had read “Living with Frank” a novel about Frank
Lloyd Wright. When they had finished discussing the book, it was Claire’s turn
to choose next month’s selection and she chose “Fifty Shades of Grey”. She said she knew this was a little
controversial but she wanted to know what all the fuss was about and thought
that a bunch of middle aged women might learn something to spice up their
life. Everyone laughed and agreed it
would be fun to find out what they might have been missing all these years.
Bev stayed behind to help Wendy with the clean-up. Wendy told Bev to leave it she would get it
later. She said she would rather talk
about what Bev had seen this morning.
Wendy explained that she and Dean had been doing this for
about five years. She said it started one night when she had one too many
glasses of wine and they got into an argument about a movie they had been
watching. The movie was McClintock with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara and in
the end John Wayne takes Maureen O’Hara over his knee and spanks her. The
argument was because he said that Maureen (Mrs. McClintock) needed to be
spanked and she didn’t agree. If she
hadn’t been a little tipsy the argument would have never happened, but she was
and he ended up taking her over his knee and told her that she needed that
spanking just like Mrs. McClintock.
She said that was the beginning and ever since then whenever
she got a little too bossy or unruly he would take her over his knee. She also told Bev that it had really spiced
up their lovelife too. After that first
spanking she was so excited that she initiated sex for the first time in years.
For the first couple of months it was like they were on their honeymoon. They both discovered that spanking could also
be lots of fun.
Bev listened without commenting. She couldn’t get her mind wrapped around this
scene and didn’t want to alienate her friend by telling her she thought they
were nuts. After all, they were in their
late fifties and Jeff was spanking Wendy as if she were a naughty child. After a while Wendy stopped talking and asked
Bev what were her thoughts.
“Truthfully, Wendy, I don’t know what to think. I have lots of questions but I don’t want to
hurt you or our relationship by being judgmental. Can you give me a couple of days and we can
talk about this again? Would you mind
terribly?”
Wendy looked hurt but she agreed to give Bev time to digest
all she had learned. Wendy suggested she check out Google and put the word
spank in the search line. When Bev went home taking Wendy’s suggestion, she
immediately walked over to the computer.
Within seconds the screen revealed more sites dealing with spanking than
Bev would have thought possible. She
chose one site which led to another then another and before she knew it Jeff
was walking in the door. He was surprised
to see her on the computer - it was not usually her thing. He asked what she was doing and told him she
was researching something Wendy had told her about. It wasn’t a lie but she was just not ready to
talk to him about this. She closed the
computer and went into the kitchen to start dinner.
“Honey, want a glass of wine before you start dinner?”
“Okay, that might be a good idea”
He poured her a glass of wine and they both went outside to
sit on the deck and enjoy the last of the sunset.
“Something’s bothering you Honey, what is it?” he said as he
clinked her glass.
“I saw Wendy getting spanked today. Dean has been spanking her for the past five
years.”
She went into the events of the day and told him that is
what she was researching on the computer when he walked in.
“I’m having trouble with this. Wendy asked me what I thought and I asked for
time to process this. All I can think of is we were raised in an era where
Women’s Lib was the topic of the day. We
have made such strides toward equality and here Wendy is willingly submitting
to Dean spanking her when he thinks she’s naughty. It just seems so ridiculous
to me”.
“Well, honey, if it’s alright with Wendy why are you so
upset”.
“That’s the thing Jeff, I don’t know. I was just so
surprised. I guess I just thought it may
have been a one-time thing, but then she told me they had been doing this for
five years.”
“Do you think that maybe that’s the problem? The fact that she’s been holding out on you”.
He laughed.
“Don’t laugh, this is serious” she said.
“No Honey, it isn’t.
If that is what they choose to do in their home that is their business.”
“I guess you’re right Sweetie and I owe Wendy an
apology. Thank you for your insight.
Would you mind terribly if I gave her a call right now? I feel like she was hurt by my reaction and I
want her to know I wasn’t thinking”.
“Go ahead, as a matter of fact, why don’t you invite them
over, we can order pizza and just hang out” Jeff suggested.
“That’s a great idea” she said as she was picking up the
phone.
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That night was the beginning of a whole new relationship
between the four of them. Bev told Wendy
how sorry she was for not being supportive right from the beginning. Wendy
told her it was okay but that spanking and the sex afterward was better than
they had ever had. Dean and Jeff came in
the room and heard the last part of the conversation. Dean agreed that it had made a good marriage
better and it was just what they needed.
Jeff joked that maybe they should give it a try. Bev wasn’t sure about that but she was
willing to try.
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The following day Bev and Wendy went book shopping for this
month’s selection. Bev called Wendy the
next day and told her that she had devoured the book last night and that Jeff
couldn’t wait to try some of the things it contained. She also told her she had just bought the two
books that completed the trilogy and she would pass them on as soon as she was
finished. She also told her not to pay
any attention to the notes in the margin or the stains on the pages – it was
the drool.
See you later for more Aimless Ramblings
See you later for more Aimless Ramblings
