Nothing happens... yet.

SHANE

Playful as we’d been while preparing the food, everyone got oddly quiet when we actually sat down to eat it. An anxious silence hung over the table, none of us quite knowing what to say about what was obviously happening between the four of us.

Finally, I broke the ice by turning to Connor and Tracy and saying, “So, tell us what the hell happened after Ria and I left you two alone in the cabin yesterday. I mean, we wanted to get you guys back together and all, but we never figured we’d be successful after just one day!”

“We talked,” Tracy said quietly.

Ria grinned. “Did this ‘talk’ involve sentences more complicated than the ones we heard last night? ‘Oh Connor! Oh yes! Fuck me so hard!'”

Connor and Tracy just looked at one another and smiled.

“If you must know,” Connor answered, “then yes, there were substantially more complicated sentences. We had a lot to talk about.”

“So where do things stand?” I asked. “Are you guys officially back on?”

Connor took Tracy’s hand in his and answered, “No.”

Ria practically spat out her orange juice. “No?!” she shouted. “What the hell are you talking about? What about all that sex and passion—”

Tracy raised her hand to calm my wife down. “We aren’t ‘back on’ because we were never really ever ‘off.’ No matter how hard we tried, we never stopped loving each other. Not even after a year. All that’s changed is we finally made peace with the way things are. And we have you two to thank for it.”

Tracy and Connor looked into each other’s eyes and kissed, right there in front of us.

Then Connor turned to us and asked, “Any other questions?”

“Just one,” Ria said. “When Shane and I got home last night, and you two perverts were all naked and going at it on the pool table—was that really an accident, or did you guys secretly want us to walk in on you having sex?”

“Totally accidental,” Connor said. “We just got caught up in the moment and—”

Tracy cut him off: “Don’t listen to this guy, he’s full of it. As soon as my top came off, I specifically said, ‘What if Shane and Ria walk in on us?’ And Connor here was all, ‘Fuck it, I hope they do. It’ll be so hot!'”

“Hey, you weren’t exactly arguing with me!” Connor shot back.

“Because by that point you’d already put my tits in your mouth! How was I supposed to think straight with THAT going on?”

The mental image caused my erection to twitch impatiently.

“I knew it!” Ria laughed. “You two planned the whole thing!”

“Hey, not the whole thing!” Tracy blushed. “We’re not the ones who ran upstairs and started screaming out the other couples’ names!”

“Can you blame us?” I laughed, “You two were putting on quite the show.”

“And if I remember correctly,” Ria added, “you guys waited all of fifteen seconds before you both started doing exactly the same thing!”

“Yeah, good times,” Connor smiled.

“What a night,” Tracy agreed. “Every muscle in my body is sore.”

“Mine too,” Ria laughed.

I looked conspiringly across the table at my wife. “Well,” I said, “Since we’ve all got such sore mucles, what do you guys say we heat up that cedar sauna?”