Holidays in the sun. And all that Ouzo, Bouzouki music and Mediterranean sunshine can do strange things to a girl's libido. Especially when she's competing with the Sabre-Toothed Tart...
I'll tell you exactly how it happened.
There was no warning, believe me. I met him on a Monday, and my heart stood still. I said 'I do Ron, Ron, Ron, I do Ron, Ron', and we move in together. Difficult to reason it all through today. Hormones are blind. They make you do strange things. I look across at him now, the ears big enough to pick up satellite TV, the laugh that crackles like a cold engine failing to start. And I think, surely even the most retarded of slopeheads could have predicted this wouldn't work out.
Soon, even our sex becomes as dull as re-chewing old bubblegum. Well, that's not strictly true. Ron has one redeeming asset. It's big. It's purple. It's a girl's best friend. And I ain't talking about Dino the plastic dinosaur! But you can't build a relationship on JUST that. And now it's ending, as I suppose most affairs do, in a sloppy mindless sort of way. A story with no fixed abode. But before it finally ends, there's the holiday in Greece. And there's Eddie.
We surf the brochures. Choose a Small-But-Friendly package to Triopriapus. Then Ron decides it would be a good idea to go as a foursome. I'd met Eddie once or twice. He seemed nice enough. So I said OK. But I didn't get to see Destiny until we all meet up in the airport lounge. She wears aquamarine lycra that contours her every contour, a Barbie look-alike, only more plastic. The kind of body that people look at, and then look again. I begin to have instant doubts.
How was I to know it would turn out to be so...? well, even as I think about it now the memory is so good it makes my pubic hair stand on end. I'm sitting on the edge of the bed, naked. They stand in front of me, also in the state of nature. And I kiss the Crawling King Snake. Then I kiss Hissing Sid. Double the pleasure. Double the fun. And don't believe what they tell you about knob-gobbling, cocks don't all taste the same. Both are firm and hot at the touch of my lips, moving responsively to the intimate caress of my tongue. But the warm, slightly salt fleshy musk of them is different, distinctive, exciting.
The choice is in my own hands, then in my mouth. Then I have one in each hand as they ease me back down onto the bed, their breath making patterns on my body, on my nipples. My eyes close. One of them is kissing me. As I tongue-kiss Ron, the taste of Eddie's cock is still in my mouth. The other is parting my legs, his weight on me, his cock pressing its way into me. I can no longer tell for sure which is which. And I no longer care. Then they change positions. My toes curling in ecstasy as they probe deep...
Once on the plane, things get worse. Destiny starts on the Duty-Free trolley, and gets into an argument with the Hostess. And Ron can't take his eyes off her. I'm thinking Lust is an anagram of Slut. She has overly-red over-lipsticked lips playing boundary to a set of teeth perfectly white enough to show they're not entirely her own. And she has nipples the size of fifty-pence coins, outlined like Braille through the lycra. But above those huge global endowments she's a serious airhead.
'Sun, sex and Sangria, eh, Drusilla?' she giggles across at me.
'No, Destiny. We're going to Greece. They don't have Sangria there. Ouzo. Metaxa.'
'We'll just have to make do with sun and sex then, won't we?'
Ron looks at Eddie in a way that says 'you lucky sod. You must be getting it twice a day.' While Eddie nonchalantly examines his nails in a way that says 'oh, I don't like to brag, but you know how it is.' She's already unsteady on her ludicrous heels when we deplane in Athens, transferring by coach to Piraeus Harbour, and then onto the ferry for the sea trip to the island. I'll concede it was a little choppy, but did she HAVE to start throwing up quite so loudly over the side, and quite so soon? This, I'm thinking, is a mistake.
The resort curves around a bay, tavernas and bars fringing an 'Old Town' beside a small harbour where light shimmer on the Aegean swell. The Nikos Apartments are set slightly below the tree-line which rises through dazzling white cliffs to the circling hills. We have two bedrooms with shared kitchen, lounge and balcony-space. I'd have thought it delightful were it not for a totally incapacitated Destiny lurching and teetering on absurd stilettos into the reception beside me.
The following morning Eddie looks pale, frail and red-eyed. But his tousled hair says to me that he's had nothing more than a struggle with an overnight pillow. I get the impression last night has been an I.O.U. sex session. Not that Destiny seems bothered. I've got guidebooks and want to visit the ruined temple on the hilltop. But no. She wants the beach. I wear a sensible two-piece costume. But no, Destiny goes topless, bouncing and jiggling her huge glistening sun-oiled orbs in a way that has Ron hypnotised, his eyes yo-yoing to their every quivery movement. I ignore him. And feel ignored. That evening we eat beneath the vines and bougainvillaea where the taverna fronts on the silver-flecked turquoise of the Aegean.
'The sea?' she says, 'it's one-third sunscreen and two-thirds tourist piss.'
I eat moussaka. But no, she wants steak and chips. In the middle of the meal she tells a dirty joke, 'what has a penis and a Rubik Cube got in common? The longer you play with them, the harder they get!' She's shrieking with laughter that has the entire clientele looking at us disapprovingly. 'And I've always loved playing with... a Rubik Cube' she adds. As I hide behind the menu hoping no-one will notice me. Then, after the meal she wants to dance, so we wind up at a tacky Disco. She's really getting into the ouzo now, making 'Zorba's Dance' a XXX-rated bump 'n' grind routine. And I can't wait for it to end.
But for me, it's just about to begin.