To be there, and another thing.

"There you go, then," Jim told Gary. "To be honest, the main point of the test drive is to let Pete stuff some butt, since he's way ahead on getting stuffed."

"Yeah. He's, uh, stuffed you and my dad?" Gary asked.

"Yup, just in the past day," Jim said. "He gets better each time. You open to receive today?"

"Dunno yet," Gary said.

Jim nodded. "No worry, no hurry. Get Bernie's okay for what you can and can't do and we'll put it together."

"Okay," Gary said.

"Thanks again for sharing yourself with Pete," Jim said. "You've been a good lover to him, and you've had enough times to get good at it together."

Gary blushed red and swallowed. "Guess so." He'd decided to keep count after their third try, when Peter got off while Gary was in him. It was well up in the double digits by now. And that didn't count times he and Peter were just rubbing cocks, or sucking, or jacking off together.

Gary watched Jim head back into his mom and dad's room. Jim left his bathrobe at the door, stepped inside and closed it.

Despite the absentees and the afternoon heat, the party rolled on lazily in the Menards' living room. Kathryn was slowly, lovingly sucking Bryan's cock as he stroked her hair. Peter lay back on one of the floor mattresses. His girlfriend Sandy straddled his face, her hips rocking as she rode his tongue. Peter's mother Sally knelt beside them, whispering something into Sandy's ear and playing with her breasts.

"Hey Bernie," Gary whispered. His girlfriend's long-lashed eyelids fluttered open.

"Yeah baby?" she said.

Above the general scents of sweat and sex in the living room, Bernie's face had a particular note of girl juice. Probably Lil. Gary felt his cock throb.

"Where's Lil?"

"Back to her room with my mom," Bernie said. "I think Lil had a question about her new vibrator."

"Oh yes I love that!" came from Sandy.

Sally Walker had slid a hand down Sandy's back, down the cleft of her buttocks, and curled a finger into her ass.

Sally laughed. "You picked the right man if you love having your mother-in-law up your ass."

"Oh yes Peter right there, right there," Sandy said. Sandy closed her eyes and tilted her head back. Her face was flushed red, and her forehead shone with moisture.

"I wanna ask you something." Gary told Bernie.

"Uh-huh?"

"About Peter's thing today. C'mon."

Gary helped Bernie rise from the couch.

Gary explained about Peter's test drive. How Peter knew he liked having sex with men as well as women, but (and here Gary hesitated), but hadn't had a chance to be on top with a guy. So Peter and Gary's dads had volunteered to give Peter a "test drive" of the top side for intercourse.

"Yes, I heard the earlier one. Sounded like Peter and your dad were having a good time," Bernie said.

"So I said I wanted to be there when they got together again today," Gary said.

Bernie smiled. Her glasses glinted as she tilted her head. "You gonna be part of Peter's test drive?" she asked.

"Dunno," Gary said.

"I'm glad you told me earlier about you and Peter. But it was pretty hard, you know, that you didn't tell me right away," Bernie said. "You knew I dated girls. Really seriously."

"We never dated or anything," Gary said. "I mean. We were just friends, you know. We'd do different stuff. And sometimes we might fuck. But we hadn't got together for a while. So I never thought about it. Until he called me up and used our codeword for a special get-together before he went off on the cruise."

"Codeword?" Bernie asked.

"Um, yeah. If he talked about, like, playing video games, he meant he wanted to jack off together. And if it was a trip to the moon, he meant, um..." Gary said.

"He wanted you to buttfuck him!" Bernie laughed.

Gary looked a little embarrassed. "Yeah."

"Ever say no when Peter asked?" Bernie asked.

Gary swallowed. "Nope. Stood Sharon up once."

Bernie raised her eyebrows. She nodded. "I want to see you together," she said. "You know, anyone important to you that way, I have to be part of it. And you and Peter have been having sex together for longer than you've been with any of your girlfriends. Longer than I've been with anybody."

"But..." Gary started, wanting to explain it wasn't serious, it was no big thing, it was all Peter's idea. But Gary recalled he kept count of exactly how many times he'd had his cock up Peter's ass. How much he liked being there when Peter came. "Yeah, okay," Gary finished, with no halfway believable excuse coming to mind.

"Okay," Bernie said. "I want to be there today. Or later on if you get together with Peter again."

Gary nodded. "Okay," he said. He looked Bernie in the eyes. She'd asked, he'd said yes. Gary smiled.

Bernie hugged him. "I need that," she said. "I need to be there with you. You can do...whatever, anything. But I need to be there."

Gary hugged her back. "I love you," he said.

"I know," Bernie said.

They stayed like that, holding each other, until Gary's hands started sliding up and down the golden skin of Bernie's back, hips, and buttocks, tentatively sliding fingertips into the top of Bernie's rear cleft..

"Gary?" she said. "There's something else about Peter's test drive I want. I want..."