Note: This story was dynamically reformatted for online reading convenience. CLICK by Margery Pinchwife mpinchwife@yahoo.com (c) Margery Pinchwife, 2002 This is a story about an innocent and faithful wife of 25 years who succumbs. I play the part of the wife. It begins, of course, with the description of the wife, her looks (average, like me), her innocence, her faithfulness through the years. I'm sure that you are familiar with such a wife (perhaps it's your own wife, or perhaps it's you) and can easily fill in the details. Nothing extraordinary, just a good and true wife who has lived happily with her husband for a couple of dozen years or so. Then, the actual story starts at a New Year's eve party we have gone to at the house of a friend of a friend, where we don't know most of the people. We meet a lot of people all at once, so the introductions become a bit of a blur, except for one that stands out. This is to a Greek named Dmitri, who is visiting one of the other people at the party. Dmitri is tall, athletic looking, with wavy brown hair and strong cheekbones, and speaks excellent English with a thoroughly delightful accent, one I hadn't heard for many years, since we had lived in Greece shortly after we were married. There is, of course, a lot of drinking going on. I don't drink much so confine myself to a few glasses of red wine, just enough to make me lightheaded. My husband drinks only fruit juice. At one point, someone comments on his abstemiousness, and he explains that alcohol does bad things to his digestive system. Several people volunteer that it is unlawful to greet the new year sober and they suggest pot instead. However, this is not the 70s anymore and no one has any marijuana. So at midnight, I receive a sober kiss from my husband. Others have not been abstaining, so when the ball at Times Square falls and the fireworks start, everyone is kissing everyone else; a few are going even further, drifting off into the darker corners and greeting the new year with a bang (so to speak). Most of the kisses I receive are pecks on the cheek, except for the Greek's. Dmitri wraps his arms around me, bends me over at the waist, and, with incredibly soft, luxurious lips, kisses me full on the mouth. I'm so taken aback that my mouth opens and his tongue snakes its way in. Whether it's the kiss, or the wine, or Dmitri, I don't know, but I immediately have some evil thoughts that a well-behaved wife shouldn't have. On occasion, over the course of 25 years of marriage, I've had such thoughts before, but I've always managed to suppress them and, as soon as I can get my husband alone, atone for them by acting them out with him, releasing all the passion built up in my system. Unfortunately, later that night when we get home, it will be very late and he will be too tired and will want to go to sleep immediately. So my evil thoughts will be left to fester in the back of my mind. But, in the meantime, back at the party there's still plenty of drinking, talking, and whatever is going on in the dark corners. Eventually, we get to talk a bit with Dmitri and are delighted to learn that he comes from the same city we lived in when my husband worked there. We'd love to talk more with him, but it is now quite late and his host is waiting to drive him home, and, unfortunately, he has to go back to Greece in a couple of days. However, he explains that his last evening here will be free because his host as an unavoidable previous commitment. He offers to be our host at a restaurant where we can continue the discussion that night. We counter by offering to feed him at our home and, after some delicate negotiations, it is agreed that I'll cook a simple dinner and he'll bring dessert. So several nights later, my evil thoughts still lurking in the recesses of my mind, I find myself thinking more of my attire than of the menu. I debate about various possibilities, ranging from very informal (jeans, tee-shirt, bare feet) to rather formal (evening gown, jewelry, high heels) before I finally settle on a compromise - a full-length skirt of soft, brown wool, a man's-style white blouse with the faintest tan pinstripe, with only the collar unbuttoned, a thin gold chain necklace, and flats. When Dmitri arrives and takes his coat off, I'm relieved that he has no jacket or tie - he wears what looks like a business shirt, except for the fact that it is mauve, with the top three buttons unbuttoned. He surprises me by kissing my hand quite formally and presents me with a huge bouquet of flowers and a sinful looking chocolate torte. Normally, he says, he would bring wine "to expand the taste buds for what, I am confident, will be your excellent cooking", but being aware of my husband's problems he brought to us, instead, a small box that turns out to contain two joints - something we hadn't seen in years. One, he suggests, before the main course, and one before dessert. One must, he explains, "expand the taste buds." Between his pot, his excellent conversation, and his sinful dessert, dinner goes wonderfully. We talk about Greece, where we had stayed, the changes since that time, and generally have a delightful time. After dinner we float on a cloud of marijuana into the living room. A short time later, my husband, who has had rather more than his share of the pot, stands up and announces he will look in the cellar for the photographs we took in Greece. As he vanishes down the stairs, Dmitri tells me that he is a professional photographer, that he takes glamour pictures for Playboy. I greet this statement with skepticism and a bit of a giggle, but he protests and offers his business card to me. When this turns out to be entirely in Chinese, my giggle becomes a laugh. His translation, "Dmitri Papadopoulos, Glamour and Nude Photography, Playboy Magazine," produces a marijuana laughing fit in me. "No, no," he protests, "I'll prove it. I'll photograph you." So saying, he picks up an imaginary camera, holds it up to his eye and points it at me. Of course, I assume a "glamour pose" and he presses the button on his "camera," saying "click" at the same time. He takes a few more such "pictures" as I vamp for him, but then he insists that my costume isn't right for glamour pictures. Shoes and socks will have to go, he takes off his own to demonstrate - one must never wear shoes in a glamour picture unless they are high heels. My blouse must not be tucked in, it must hang freely - he pulls out his shirt from his pants - like so. And the buttons, I must open another button. "Click." And another. "Click" A few more such pictures, taken from a variety of angles for a number of poses, and he convinces me to open all but one button on my blouse, showing me which one by unbuttoning his shirt. But then we can't have my white cotton bra showing, I must take it off. This doesn't seem right to me, but while I ponder the idea he slides his hand up my back, under my blouse, and deftly unsnaps the bra. Whether it is the pot or the confident smoothness of his action, I acquiesce by slipping one arm through its strap and pulling the bra off through my other sleeve, leaving my breasts scarcely concealed under my almost unbuttoned blouse. As he clicks away on his imaginary camera, I begin to feel really glamorous and sexy, something I haven't really felt in years. The last button, of course, has to go, so we are standing there with both our shirts untucked and fully unbuttoned when my husband comes back saying "I can't find those pictures in the cellar." He looks at us. "What's up?" "Ah, you are here, wonderful," Dmitri responds without missing a beat, "I am taking glamour pictures of your wife, but you must take a picture of the two of us together. Here," handing him the imaginary camera, "you look through here and press this button." Having instructed my husband, he comes over and puts his arm around me, in the process opening our shirts so that one of my breasts presses against his naked chest and the other looks boldly out towards my husband. My husband says "smile" and presses his finger down and Dmitri says "click." Then, carefully putting the camera down, my husband says "I think I'll look in the cellar for those Greek pictures" and heads down the stairs again. Dmitri continues his photographing. Now he wants me to pull up my skirt to show some legs, to bundle it between my legs, to pull it off to one side, and, eventually, to unbutton and lower it to reveal my hip, "like so" he says, lowering his pants. "Click" and another pose, "Click." A few poses later and my skirt and his pants are lying on the floor in heaps. The next poses, he insists, need a different background. The living room isn't right. We need a bed. So, wearing nothing but an unbuttoned blouse, white cotton panties, a thin gold necklace, and a marijuana haze, I lead him to our bedroom. When I turn to look at him, I can't help commenting on the bulge in his red jockey shorts. That is my beauty meter, he responds, it always sticks out like this in the presence of such beauty. And so I stretch out on the bed and pose. "Click." I am a glamour queen. "Click." A Playboy centerfold. "Click." The obsession of men. "Click." The envy of women. "Click." I am feeling glorious. "Click." And it is all so safe, because there is no film in the camera. "Click." In fact, there is no camera. "Click." All sorts of exotic, erotic poses. "Click." It is wonderful. "Click." By this time my blouse (and his shirt) are long gone, "Click," and we have each just removed our underpants, when my husband reappears. "I can't find those pictures in the cellar." I am completely naked except for the thin gold chain around my neck. Dmitri's "beauty meter" is impressively sticking up. "Ah, just in time," Dmitri hands him the invisible camera, "you must take a picture of us in the pose of Rodin's famous statue, 'The Kiss.'" And he sits down next to me, embracing me and kissing me, as in the statue. I wait to hear what my husband says. He says, "Click." He says, "Maybe our Greek pictures are in the cellar." He puts the "camera" down and leaves. Dmitri continues the kiss. His hands stroke my arms, my back, my breasts. His mouth finds a nipple, which he takes between his soft lips. My hands respond, roaming over his muscular body, grasping his "beauty meter," which now seems to be registering off the scale. Now I am on my back, his head is between my legs, the room is rocking from side to side, or is it me, as his tongue enters me. From the tip of his tongue, little pulses of electricity burst outward through my entire body. I can feel the pressure building up within me. And then it stops. He repositions himself between my legs. I feel the tip of his "beauty meter" begin to slide into me when I see my husband standing in the doorway. He stares for a moment, then raises the imaginary camera to his eyes, presses his finger down, and says "Click." Dmitri has now entered me an is sliding in and out, plunging down and then rearing up, his chest pressing against my breasts. I am losing contact, my head sways from side to side. My hands grab at his back, trying to pull him further into me. The room seems to be pulsing in and out. I am breathing heavily. And then I hear it. "Click." I look toward the door and my husband is standing there, naked, one hand holding the "camera" up to his eye and the other stroking his erect penis. "Click." I loose sight of everything. I no longer see the room. "Click." I see fireworks and pulsing bursts of light. "Click." I am gasping for breath. "Click" My body begins to spasm. "Click." Volcanos begin to erupt. "Click." I feel them within me and see the bursts of molten lava. "Click." Now I am shaken by an earthquake. "Click." I can't breath. "Click." I scream at the top of my voice. "Click. Click. Oh, God, Click!"