The Photo shop
by Candyman666©
Chapter 31: Grace and Lew's second cruise week.
The weather during the second week was spectacular. We were treated to wonderful blue skies, sunshine all over, nice warm temperatures: in short ideal sunbathing and swimming weather. Almost everybody was outside next to the pool or on the sundecks. Grace and I were searching for a spot to sun our old bones when all of a sudden I spotted Lori and Mel again. I pointed them out to Grace.
"Why don't you go and say hello, they can't be as bad as you make out," she said.
"They're not bad Grace, but they are very much into BDSM and I'm just not sure if you would appreciate that?"
"We dabbled a little in that world, so I'm OK with it - just go and say hello."
"OK, but don't complain afterwards."
I approached the recliners they were lying on, Lori in a minuscule bikini, the top barely covering her nipples, the bottom, if you want to call it that, must have weighed less than 5 grams (0.2 oz) if you want to be technical. I stood in front of the sunbed, with the sun in my back.
"Madam, I am afraid I'm going to have to ask you to put on some decent clothes!" I said to Lori.
She looked up with the sun in her face, not recognizing me immediately, and began to complain, stating she was wearing a very expensive and legitimate Wicked Weasel bathing suit. Mel was fast asleep and didn't move. As I kept standing there not speaking anymore, she put her hand above her eyes, shielding them from the sun so she could see who was complaining, when all of a sudden she recognized me, her mouth dropping open.
"Are you stalking me, Lori?" I asked.
"Lew, is that you? What are you doing on this ship?"
"The same as you I guess, crossing the Atlantic."
"I can't believe that you're here!" She grabbed Mel's arm and shook him awake. "Mel look who's here."
"What, who..." Mel said clearly waking up from a deep sleep, his eyes blinking against the bright sunlight, just like Lori's had done before. After he'd shielded them with one of his hands he too recognized me.
"Lew, what are you doing on this ship?" Mel said as he sat up straight.
"I just asked him the same question, stupid, he's crossing the Atlantic like we are," Lori said.
"Yeah but why? We're going home but he isn't."
"No that's correct Mel, we do this just for the fun."
"We?"
"Yes, we, my friend Grace and I."
Then all of a sudden it dawned on both of them I was not the only person standing in front of them, but that a gorgeous red-haired woman, clad in a tiny bikini, was standing by my side.
"These folks, Grace, are Lori and Mel, they visited me in the photoshop and we had a very nice time together."
"Hello, Lori and Mel, nice to meet you, I'm Grace."
"The pleasure is all mine Grace," Mel said with a big smile on his face extending his hand as Lori did. "I didn't know you had a lady friend Lew."
"We are just friends who help each other out sometimes, friends with benefits if you wish, nothing more."
"Going on a cruise is a nice way to help each other out," Lori interjected, "please enlighten us, but let's go somewhere we can sit together"
They both got up and we adjourned to the pool bar where we sat down at one of the tables.
"Can I get you a drink Grace, Lew?" Mel asked.
"Yes, thank you, I'll have a beer and Grace, I guess, a white Zinfandel, won't you dear?"
"You know me so well Lew, yes a white Zinfandel would be nice, please."
"You like that too?" Lori asked.
"Yes I do, very much, and they're not easy to get in Belgium, not many supermarkets stock them, so I love to drink it on a cruise."
"Do you cruise a lot?"
"Yes, usually together with my daughter Nancy, but she had a baby six months ago and it was not opportune for her to join me on this one, so I asked Lew and he accepted, for his own reasons."
"You said your daughter's name is Nancy? Lew is that the Nancy that brought us to your shop in the first place?"
"Yes it is. Grace is Nancy's mother."
"I see where Nancy got her beauty from then," Mel interjected.
Grace blushed but accepted the compliment gracefully.
"So Lew tell us your reason for coming on this cruise?"
"That's a bit personal, I'm afraid."
"Don't be shy, not after the fun we had together."
"OK, if you must know, I've got a birthday coming up and I didn't want to be home."