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150 and put the wheels in motion. After feeling Eddie explode inside her, she had guided Eddie into Kate and tasted their mixed juices on Eddie as Kate continued to push her over hills that seemed to grow instead of getting smaller. Tanya was the one in the middle, not as she had pictured the scene in her mind when they had joked about Eddie’ s special birthday present.“ I’ m sorry. That wasn’ t fair. I just thought we could cheer her up a little. She was so upset about getting dumped.”“ I thought we were great hosts,” Eddie laughed.“ Oh yeah. Let’ s invite some friends over and give them the grand tour. We will become the neighborhood swingers. The children will be so proud.”“ Have you ever wondered what you would regret not having experienced when facing your own morality?”“ Would that have been one of your regrets?”“ It can’ t be now,” he said, without a trace of humor in his voice.“ Will you be okay if we never let that happen again?”“ I can live with that,” he answered. They went upstairs to get dressed. The bed was made and Eddie’ s robe was folded neatly at the foot of the bed. Feeling slightly detached, they carried on. As the day wore so did the distraction. Tanya prepared lunch. They decided movies and popcorn at home would provide the evenings entertainment.
The two chick flicks and a drama that promised to be more erotic than they would normally have rented, looked to make this an interesting evening. Eddie seemed more agreeable than usual and Tanya teased him at the video store.“ Are you the kind of boy who is going to try to cop a feel at the movies?” she asked.“ Not me,” he said. She began to put back the movies.“ What are you doing?”“ You’ re not the boy I’ m taking to the movies.”“ I lied. I am one of those bad boys,” he laughed. At home, Tanya brought a blanket and pillow from upstairs. They fell asleep on the couch during the second movie. The DVD screen saver bounced around the large surface of the fifty-two inch television. Tanya woke because Eddie was running in his sleep and nearly kicked her off the couch.“ Come to bed, where you can run free Wild-man,” she said, taking his hand and pulling, the half asleep, Eddie up the stairs.
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