Chapter 6 (Fireworks everywhere you look)
"But," I began, "I just saw you leave. Marly? What the..."
Understanding at last, she looked at me in shock. "That's why you've been ignoring me? Because of Bobbi?"
"Because of who?" I asked, still confused.
"Bobbi's my twin sister." Marly said softly, looking at me more closely. "Now it makes sense. You've been thinking that Bobbi was me. No wonder you've been ignoring me. If she wasn't my sister, I might not want anything to do with her either."
Thinking for a moment, she went on. "Oh, jeez! She knew that I wanted to meet up with you, too. She does NOT like men. At all. And she gets very upset that I do. I get it now, you thought she was me, and she did everything she could to make you think that!"
"OK..." I said, beginning to get up from my step. "I'm not sure where this is going, but I think we should maybe just go our separate ways."
"Oh, what am I going to do?" she wailed. "I always stay with Bobbi when I work here, and she told me not to come over tonight. I can't very well walk the ten miles home. What am I going to do?"
She curled up and began crying once again. What could I do? I'm a sucker for a crying woman, and I could not resist trying to comfort her. Sighing to myself, I moved over beside her, touching her lightly on the arm.
"Marly? You are Marly, right?" She nodded. "I can't fix things with your sister, but maybe I can help you out a little here."
"Sure." she said. "All I have to do is sleep with you, and you'll let me stay at your place tonight, right? Oh, and don't mind your girlfriend. She doesn't take up much space, and will only want me to lick her for a little while. Am I right?"
"Well," I replied, "actually, no, you're not right. I wouldn't expect anything from you, and Heather is staying away for the night anyway. Besides, that wasn't quite the help I was going to offer."
Marly looked up at me, her wet brown eyes beginning to show some hope. "What did you have in mind?" she asked.
"We could always go with your way if you want," I began, holding up a hand when she her eyes narrowed, "but I have at least two different places that either you or I could stay tonight. If you want to stay in my room, I can stay on my boat tonight."
"That was your boat I saw this morning? Not a rental?" she asked. "I thought you drove up."
"Well," I said, "we did drive up, but I had my boat brought up too. We went out on it today, and I was going to invite you tomorrow, until your sister made me think that you, or I guess she, wouldn't be interested."
"I like boats." was all she said in reply.
"Well, that's good." I said. "If you want to stay in the room, I could stay on the boat."
"The beds in those rooms are awfully big." she said slowly. "I guess we wouldn't actually need to be like, scrunched up together or anything. I'd hate to make you go out and sleep on a dinky little boat, just because of me."
She had apparently forgotten what size the boat was, and I decided not to correct her, instead following along with her thinking. "Well, that's true. They are really big beds here."
She appeared to think about it for a minute more, and then she nodded her head, saying "OK. But no funny stuff! I'm expecting you to be a gentleman here."
"As always." I replied. She looked at me with suspicion, so I threw in, "Hey, have I ever lied to you since we've known each other?"
With that, she smiled, just a little. As I reached for her hand to help her get up, I felt a drop of rain on my arm.
Rain? Looking up, I saw only stars. Where was the rain coming from? I suddenly heard dozens of little clicks, followed by rushing sounds. I had a few seconds of confusion before every sprinkler on the lawn began spraying us. Marly screamed and jumped up on her feet, one of the sprinkler heads was directly behind her, and had already soaked her to the skin. Looking quickly around, I spotted a side entrance to the house, about 100 yards away. I pulled her along with me, and we ran for the entrance.
Between where we started and the house, there must have been more than twenty high-volume sprinkler heads. By the time we made it safely inside we were both completely soaked. Walking into the building, we were instantly hit with a blast of air-conditioned cold, and within seconds we were both shivering uncontrollably.
Glancing over at Marly, I could see that she had caught the worst of it. Her short white dress had become almost transparent, I could easily see right through the fabric to the frilly tan bra and panty set that she had on underneath. They were somewhat hard to make out though, as her skin color blended with the fabric, and she almost looked completely naked under her dress.
The cold had affected her in more ways than just shivering, as her nipples had contracted to the point where they looked like large marbles pushing out through the fabric. Marly hadn't noticed the condition of her clothing, but could see mine.
"We're soaked, and I'm freezing right now!" she cried, her lips shaking with the cold. "What should we do?"
"Come on up." I replied. "We can get warm upstairs."
Once again, she looked at me warily. Holding up both of my hands, I told her "No, not that way. But I do have an idea on how to get warm quickly, if you're open to it. Right now though, I'm freezing, and I want to get upstairs and get warm. Come on!"
Walking past her, I found the nearest set of stairs to the second floor, heading down to our room as soon as I got to the hall. Marly had no choice but to follow in my wake.
As soon as we got inside the room, which seemed even colder than the hall for some reason, she said "OK. So what's your grand idea, and why would I need to be open to it?"
I pointed out through the glass wall to the hot tub out on the deck.
"Oh, no!" she said. "You are not going to get me to strip down and get into that thing naked with you! I thought that you were going to be a gentleman."
Without a word, I walked over to my suitcase, pulling an extra man's swimming suit and a t-shirt from its depths. I silently handed these to her, then pointed to the bathroom. "These are dry, you can change in there. Whether you come out and soak with me or not is up to you, but I'll be out in the tub getting rid of this chill."
She looked at me open-mouthed, and then turned wordlessly towards the open bathroom door, closing and locking it behind her. I quickly shucked off my own wet clothes, and just as I was putting my almost as wet swim suit on in their place, I heard an "Oh my God!" come from behind the door.
Figuring that if it was important, she would have called for help, I grabbed two bottles of wine and two glasses, then went out into the night air, pouring a glass and settling myself into the hot tub. One of the bottles and one of the glasses I left on the opposite corner of the hot tub from where I had come to rest, the other I kept with me.
A moment later, Marly timidly stuck her head out of the door. She had in fact changed into what I had provided. Seeing the wine, she poured herself a full glass, then climbed into the water, being careful to avoid an accidental display. She settled in under the water, sighing deeply as the heat sunk in.
"You could have told me that my dress was see-through." she said accusingly.
"And spoil the view?" I asked with a smile. On the receiving end of a glare, I went on. "It was a very enjoyable view, I was sorry to lose it." Thinking that perhaps her attitude was a defensive act, I held off any further, instead waiting for her to begin a conversation. After several minutes of silence and star gazing, she did so.
"You had big plans tonight?" she casually asked. "With someone that you just met yesterday?"
"Yep." I replied. "The woman that I met is beautiful, and sexy, and happy, and confident. And she kind of left me thinking she wanted to see me again." I paused, then continued "I sure would like to see her again."
She studied me over her wine glass, thinking about what I had just said. "God!" she finally said, "It's been such a long day, and I'm really tired."
"This is really good wine." she added, pouring herself another glass. Then, "How could you mistake Bobbi for me?"