[Ichabod]

Hey, all! I’d like to share something with you.

As I’ve mentioned a million times now, I have a mile high stack of story ideas over here that I scribbled down to keep from forgetting them. I’ve recently figured out that I’m never going to get to them all and made the decision to try to fit them into my stories by having my characters try to write them.

What you’ll find below is one of those story ideas, but one way too long and involved for me to really be able to fit it into an actual story.

Let me just say that I was absolutely crazy for this story for a long time and made several attempts to write it, but never actually got too far. Quite frankly, it was just too damn long - the story outline below runs for nine pages! Only God knows how long the finished story would have run. Plus, it’s another one of my soap operas, so most of the tale is filled with depressed people being unhappy and miserable. Finally, the actual sex scenes are few and far between.

Having finally accepted that I was never going to write it, or if I did you all would hate me for making you wade through the thing, I thought I’d share with you here what might have been.

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Ward is an airline pilot, which means that he is often away from home, sometimes for just a day or two and sometimes for much longer. One day he could be on the other side of the country, the next could find him on the other side of the planet. He has seen that a lot of his friends at the airline use this time away from their spouse and home to have a little extramarital fun and he soon succumbs to the temptation to cheat on his wife as well.

How would she ever catch him? It’s not as if she was ever likely to bump into one of his conquests, after all.

As he is still reasonably young and athletic and comes armed with rugged good looks, he soon has the proverbial girl in every port and is always on the lookout for new girls to chase. At first, it’s fun and exciting to play around like this and get away with it, but eventually his conscience starts to bother him.

While he isn’t about to give up his cheating ways, he is starting to feel bad for betraying his adoring wife like this. He spends a little time pondering on how to have both without feeling so guilty and has himself a brainstorm.

Sitting his wife down in the privacy of their own home, he points out that the long periods of time he spends away from home is kind of rough on them both and might one day cause one or the other of them to be lured into an affair. Oh, he is quick to loudly and repeatedly claim that he has been nothing but faithful to her so far, but he insists that they are at risk. To resolve this, he demands that they have an open marriage. They are each free to be with other people whenever they are apart, so long as these are just discrete flings and one-night stands and not relationships, but must give up these outside interests when they are together. He emphatically insists that this will be the perfect antidote to their problem, letting his wife know in no uncertain terms that this is the way it’s going to be.

It really is the perfect solution as far as Ward is concerned. What would he have to feel guilty about if his wife not only knew about what he was doing but also actually approved? What did he have to feel bad about if she was cheating on him, too?

He is delighted and excited, though somewhat surprised, when she simply agrees to everything he has proposed without an argument.

Poor June is stunned senseless when, seemingly out of the blue and without any kind of warning at all, the man she loved more than life itself suddenly told her that he wanted to be able to see other women. This was her childhood sweetheart! What happened to the picture perfect marriage she had always thought she had? Not taken in by her husband’s claims to the contrary, she knows that this almost certainly means he has been sleeping around on her already.

Though utterly devastated, she agrees to her husband’s scheme because she is worried that he might leave her if she doesn’t. Having devoted pretty much her entire life to this man since they were in high school, she cannot bear the thought of losing him even now.

The thought of being with another man, even if were just for the night, makes her nauseous and she just knows that she would never be able to have a fling herself.

She is careful to hide her sadness and anger from her husband, but when he leaves on yet another trip where he will surely be with another woman, she cannot bear it anymore. She needs to do something!

What she finally elects to do is go down to her local wine bar to drown her sorrows.

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Toni is a crusading Assistant District Attorney, very feminine and yet also uncompromising and tough as nails.

Over the years, she’s earned herself a stellar reputation in her chosen line of work and has even garnered some positive attention from the news media thanks to her efforts to put some high profile crooks behind bars. In fact, she’s doing so well now that a big law firm decides that they would like to hire her away from the city. To that end, they send out their very best headhunter to talk her into it.

Diana was a sexy, alluring young woman in a tailored business suit that did nothing to conceal her curves. She takes Toni out to a very nice restaurant to talk over her proposal over lunch and she is more than just friendly. The conversation doesn’t turn into blatant flirting and everything remains professional, but it is soon clear that there is something going on between these two women.

Toni is a lesbian and it just so happens that she is between lovers right now and so this hot little number is most definitely registering with her.

Diana tells her about how big her new office would be at the law firm, how much more money she would be making, how nice the benefits package is, and all the rest of it. Anybody would be tempted by what the woman is offering and Toni is no exception.

The attorney asks for some time to think it over and the headhunter obliges, setting up another lunch date for them.

That evening though, a new job is the last thing on Toni’s mind. Diana has gotten her all hot and bothered and so she heads out, looking for someone to share her bed this night.

By some odd coincidence she ends up at the very same wine bar that June did . . .

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June has brought a book to read while she drinks, hoping it will distract her from her broken heart, but she’s having a hard time focusing on it. She pretends to keep reading nonetheless, hoping to give the impression that she does not want company.

It’s not working though as a seemingly endless parade of guys come trotting over to hit on this woman sitting all alone. Seeing how much she’s had to drink, the men think it should be easy to bag this babe, but each and every one of them is being sent away fast.

All of these horny guys putting the moves on her is doing nothing to improve June’s low opinion of the male of the species.

June has also caught the attention of Toni, who is sitting at the bar nursing a drink. Diana might have gotten her motor running with her slick, perfect looks, but the lawyer is also enjoying this ladies sweet little housewife type looks.

It’s obvious to her that the woman is only pretending to read that book and so she guesses that she’s there for a little action, though it worries her a little to see how steadily she is drinking. Considering that every single man who’s come near her has been chased off with a snarl, Toni dares to hope that this woman might be looking to find herself a woman.

Seeing that a man who’s drunk far too much to know better was pestering the woman and refusing to leave her alone, Toni uses this as an opportunity and swoops in to the rescue, sending this last man on his way at last.

Almost pathetically grateful to have been saved from the drunk, hoping that the other woman’s arrival means that all of these men will leave her alone now, June buys her a drink as a way of saying thank you and invites her to sit down. Toni does so and tries a little flirting, but in her mildly drunk state June mistakes it for friendliness instead. Thinking that her new friend is being kind and commiserating with her, June soon finds herself telling her all about her marital woes.

Toni’s hopes for a roll in the hay this evening fade away quickly as she listens to this story come pouring out of June. Oh, she knows that she could probably get her into her bed, especially considering how much she’s had to drink, but she also realizes that probably the last thing this woman needed was to have someone take advantage of her like that.

Regretfully dismissing her lustful desire for June, Toni instead focuses on being her friend and tries to offer some advice.

The women talk some more and soon sound like old friends getting reacquainted. More overgrown boys come over to hit on them though and Toni is getting increasingly worried about how much June is drinking, so they decide to leave the wine bar for quieter and more comfortable surroundings.

They end up on Toni’s living room couch, talking late into the night.

At some point, as they are sharing relationship horror stories, June finally figures out that her new friend is a lesbian. The housewife is alarmed by this not because she is at all homophobic but because she is afraid that she has given this woman the wrong idea. She went home with this woman, after all! Could Toni think they were on a date? She hurries to apologize and straighten this out, but the amused lawyer reassures her that all is well.

By the time this evening comes to an end, June has drunk far too much to drive home and so Toni puts her into her own bed to spend the night. The attorney then retires to the living room to sleep on the couch.

The next day they share a very pleasant breakfast together and then Toni takes her back home, giving June one of her business cards with her home address and phone number on the back.

Over the coming days, the two women become the very best of friends, seeing each other regularly and spending a lot of time talking on the phone.

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Not content to just sit back and wait for Toni to make her decision, a few days later finds Diana getting back together with her again. This time, the headhunter has brought the attorney to the law firm to show her around and let her see for herself what kind of resources they have. Toni is duly impressed by all of it.

In the privacy of the office that could one day be Toni’s, Diana provides one more enticement to win her over. She throws a major pass at the ADA, suggesting that working there means that they will be able to see a lot more of each other. Toni is a bit surprised by the offer, but very tempted as well.

Things get very steamy, very fast in that office and the two women end up enjoying a wild and exhausting fuck right there in the office.

Diana has done her job very well and Toni is almost sold on going to work with that law firm. She has been talking about this new opportunity with her newest friend and June has been delighted to try to help the person who did so much to comfort her when she was at her lowest ebb.

When Toni mentions the tryst in the office, June feels a sharp pang of something that couldn’t possibly be jealousy.

Suddenly feeling very suspicious of Diana and her law firm, June starts doing some research on the internet. It takes her a couple of days of poking around and she does not actually find much, but she gives her findings to Toni nonetheless.

The law firm apparently doesn’t have a very good reputation. It works for rich people and big business mostly and has been very successful at getting them out of trouble when they screw up, for instance, and if they do not win the case, they file endless appeals to make sure that their clients never have to pay their victims a dime. This is the kind of law firm that gives lawyers a bad name!

Toni doesn’t like what she’s hearing and decides to take a closer look herself rather than just listen to Diana’s sales pitch.

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When Ward finally returns from his latest trip, he is a changed man.

The feeling of guilt that inspired him to demand an open marriage has still not left him - in fact it has only gotten worse. Now, he is making himself miserable by thinking about other men touching his wife while he is away from home and hating the idea. He is so upset that he even ends up sleeping alone the entire time he is gone!

Unable to bear the mess he has gotten himself into, he makes up his mind that he will go to his wife, confess every last misdeed he has committed, explain that he has finally figured out what an ass he was being, and beg for her forgiveness.

When he gets home and finds the business card Toni gave his wife and realizes that she has been spending time with a lawyer, he jumps to the conclusion that she is looking to divorce him and this gives him the final impetus to throw himself on her mercy.

He does exactly this and June is ecstatic, thinking she has gotten back the man she fell in love with. She can see for herself that he really means what he is saying and so she accepts him back without a second thought.

The couple make up, in part by having some of the best sex they have ever had.

As soon as she can, June calls her friend to give her the good news. She is enthusiastic and exuberant and cannot stop gushing about how she and Ward have made a fresh start and how everything will be wonderful from now on. Toni listens and tries to be supportive, but she has her doubts that it will last.

Once a cheater, always a cheater, right? If asked, Toni would have adamantly denied that she was at all jealous.

Everything goes swimmingly for June at home for a while, but all too soon she starts having doubts. She cannot quite make herself forget that her husband betrayed her for so long and with so many women. He may well regret that it happened, but that doesn’t change the fact that it did happen.

It takes her some time to come to grips with it, but she’s starting to face the fact that her feelings for this man have changed and things will never be the same again.

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The more Toni hears about the law firm, the less she wants to have anything to do with it. She’s a crusader and became a lawyer to help people, but the firm seems to be interested only in making money. Speaking to a former employee or two of the firm only supports this notion.

These people tell her that they too were seduced by Diana when they did not leap at the job they were being offered, saying that the headhunter makes a point of learning all she can about a person before approaching them. As Toni has never made a secret of her sexuality, this explains how Diana knew that a sexual come on might work. They also tell Toni that as soon as they were hired, Diana stopped putting out for them.

When Diana next comes to see her, Toni is more than happy to tell her what she can do with her job offer. The headhunter makes one last attempt to change her mind by putting the moves on her, but Toni sends her packing.

On the other hand, when she tells her boss about the job offer - without mentioning that she’s rejected it, of course - she finds herself the recipient if a very nice raise.

Very happy with how things have worked out, she calls June to thank her for cluing her in to what that law firm was really like, inviting her out to lunch to help her celebrate. June agrees to come, determined to put on a happy face for her friend, but Toni can already tell something is wrong.

Lunch at their favorite restaurant is an awkward affair. Toni is happy and upbeat and eager to share her good news. June really is trying her best to share in her friend’s excitement, hoping to hide her own pain and sorrow, but failing miserably. Toni gives her some time, but when the housewife doesn’t volunteer anything, she starts asking questions.

With her defenses crumbling and tears welling up in her eyes, June looked around at all the people dining around them and explained that she didn’t want to talk about it here and now. Toni immediately announces that they are heading back to her place. June refuses, saying that she does not want to spoil her friend’s celebration. Toni insists, saying that helping her best friend is far more important than anything else.

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On the couch in the lawyer’s living room, Toni is finally able to get her friend to talk. June starts crying, telling the other woman that her marriage is crumbling around her and that she just cannot get over her husband’s misdeeds. She can’t bear the thought of leaving her husband, yet can’t see how she can stay with him, either. With the housewife suffering a major breakdown, Toni reaches out for her, taking her into her arms to try to sooth and comfort her.

Holding her best friend tight, Toni had to work to ignore the intimate position they had ended up in. She had never lost her attraction to this woman and, even though she had accepted that they would never be anything but friends, had enjoyed several vivid and steamy fantasies about her since that night they first met. She focused on caring for her friend, determined to not take advantage of her no matter how much she wanted to.

Cuddling the woman who had come to mean so much to her in such a very short time, June needed to cry for a bit before she could pull herself together. When she did, she became very aware of the fact that she was so snugly entwined with Toni. Though she would have been the first to deny it up until now, she’d had a crush on the lawyer for quite some time now. She was so smart, so caring, so accomplished, and so beautiful, after all, so what was there not to like? June is also fascinated by her lesbianism, desperately curious about what it might be like to be with another woman.

Holding onto each other, each woman wanting to be nowhere but with each other, they just remained like that after the tears finally stopped flowing and quiet fell.

Raising her head at last, June is unable to resist kissing Toni. This is not the kind of tender smooch a friend might offer though but a lingering kiss that spoke of love and desire. Toni is astonished and overwhelmed and tries her best to do the right thing here, but June is determined and passionate and eventually gets her way.

June and Toni make love right there on the couch in the living room of the lawyer’s home, then retire to the bedroom to do it again.

Both women are feeling a bit guilty in the aftermath of this. Having committed adultery herself now, June is not sure how she can face her husband. Toni insists that she go, reminding her that she has a long and mostly happy history with Ward and that it would be wrong to throw it all away without fighting to save it. She suggests that forget all about what has just happened , that June tell her husband everything and that they get some counseling.

June does, telling her husband all about how much pain she was feeling but nothing about how she had just cheated on him. Ward is understanding and lives up to his promise to do anything it takes to save his marriage by going to the marriage councilor with her without any arguments or grumbling.

June honestly tries her best, but cannot find away to trust her husband anymore. Instead, she finds herself thinking more and more about Toni.

The two friends meet at their restaurant to catch up a few weeks later and June has to confess that she’s not making any progress. She simply doesn’t love Ward any more and has come to the difficult decision that she must get a divorce. Toni is all for her friend trying some more to save the marriage, but June is adamant that this is the only thing she can do.

Slowly, gradually, and somewhat reluctantly as they were supposed to have forgotten that it ever happened, the two women find their conversation turning to that afternoon they spent having sex with each other. It quickly becomes clear that this is in fact a memory they both treasure.

The conversation becomes a bit steamy as they recall the highlights of their tryst and even find themselves discussing some of the things they didn’t have the chance to try.

June finally asks to leave and Toni takes her back to her place for another lesbian interlude, this one longer, more passionate, and more exhausting than anything the two women have ever experienced before.

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Ward comes home from his next trip to find that his wife is gone, having moved out of their home. She has taken only her clothes and personal effects, leaving the furniture and everything else with him. He finds himself served with divorce papers.

Though she still does not admit that she and Toni are now lovers, June tells him that she is staying with her friend. She wants to make a clean break and so she is letting him have the house and it’s contents while she goes off to make a fresh start. She also tells him that Toni will be taking care of the legal stuff for her. She leaves him then to wallow in the misery he has caused.

More than simply staying with her, June has already practically moved in with Toni and the two women look forward to a happy lifetime of loving each other.

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So there you have it.

Had this monster been even a moderate success, you know I would have done some sequels, too.

Perhaps the girls would eventually start to think that they rushed into this romance a little too quickly and there would be even more pain until they realized just how deep and profound their love for each other really was. Perhaps Ward would have found out that his soon to be ex-wife was sleeping with Toni and been able to make some trouble for them. Perhaps Diana the headhunter would have returned to make yet another try at getting Toni to work for the law firm, her sexually charged tactics causing some friction between our heroines. Perhaps June would start to feel like a kept woman since she’s living in her lover’s home, go out and get a job in the hopes of paying her fair share, and end up making a new friend who would make Toni very jealous.

But alas, it was not to be.

Sigh.

[Lilith]

Um Michael I hate to tell you but this post is a story! I mean since this is an erotica site, the lack of the description of sex wouldn't make it a story for her but on other boards that have other stories with no sex this one would fit right in. But that's my opinion I could be wrong.

[Ichabod]

Well, you might be right, but I would still call this an outline - the bare bones waiting to be fleshed out into a real story.

[Rojodi]

I do outlines like this. It drives my wife and her friends that read them crazy, thinking they're stories. Fleshing them out would make them better for a ladies' story forum, but that could be fun.

[Ichabod]

An outline like this is often a big help, isn't it?

Of course, this particular one is so long and detailed because I've been thinking it over for so long. Remember how I said I was really crazy about this tale for a long time?

Most of the time, I wouldn't put this much effort into a humble outline as I often end up changing things midway through the story as new ideas occur to me.

[Rojodi]

you should see how many outlines I have that are like that, or even more detailed. My wife calls them "Incomplete stories", but she knows that if I take the time to write them out, and take my writing seriously, they would become great tales.