I was in quite the bad mood lately. A failed marriage, a nasty divorce, and my boyfriend just left me wondering what the hell happened. I'd just gotten out of the Navy a few months ago, attempting to live up the civilian life, but finding it not all I thought it was cracked up to be. I missed the wild and crazy parties, the travel, the guaranteed paycheck, but most of all the sex. I wasn't a "Navy Whore", I usually kept a guy around at least 3-6 months before kicking him (or him leaving me) out of my bed. It was just easy to get sex in the Navy, everyone was always looking, unless you were married. When I was married, I wasn't out prowling, even when my husband was overseas on deployment and I knew he was nailing the whores over in Israel. It wasn't until shortly after my divorce, ( I don't even think it was cold in the ground yet.) I was out at Cheers in Newport News, VA, drinking a beer at the bar and watching the National Finals Rodeo on the big screen when I met Stran.
Stran was my usual type, tall, dark hair, hazel eyes, muscular, farmboy type. His Wrangler's fit just right in all the right places, his smile pretty much killed me right there. He bought me another beer that night, sat and talked to me till the bar closed and offered to follow me home. Something clicked that night, and when he followed me up to my door, I bluntly asked him if he would fuck me. Stran's eyes got huge as he grinned, "Yes ma'am, I will." At that point in time, I was only looking to get fucked, I never thought I would fall in love with him.
He was a Machinist's Mate 1st class on the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-73) stationed out in Norfolk. We dated for 4 weeks after that night, and then he moved in with me. He touched my body, my heart, my soul in ways no one else ever had.
Six months later, I was finishing up my time on the USS Stanley Dace (DDG-606) as a Corpsman, 9-11 happened. I g cal call at work from Stran, calling me from the house saying his ship was deploying for the coast of Afghanistan. He was home packing a sea bag to go, and didn't know when he would be back. He knew I only had three more weeks in Norfolk, and told me to go ahead and put his stuff in storage out there, move back home and he would come get me when he got back. It was a lonely three weeks, no email, no phone calls, no letters, I didn't know anything of where Stran was or what he was doing. But that's the Navy for you, hurry up and wait. I moved home, weeks stretched into months, and no word from Stran.
My Dad was a Senior Chief up at Great Lakes Naval Hospital. We had a really close relationship since Mom died. He'd been over in Japan while I was in Norfolk, so I didn't get to talk to him except through email or chat online. He knew I was in love with Stran, he knew Stran was gone on deployment, but Dad also knew that deployments usually don't last anymore than six months, and it had been nearly nine by the time I got home and things settled down.
Dad called me up one rainy October day and asked me to come up to Great Lakes. I was kind of seeing this SEAL that he had hooked me up with back in May. Mike was a good looking guy ( aren't all SEALs?), he was a thinner, more muscular version of Stran and he ran the drill hall up on Recruit Training Command, so you know he worshipped his body. I figured he wanted to get together with Mike and I, even though Dad saw Mike everyday.
I didn't really have anything better to do, so I hopped in my car and drove the three hours up to Great Lakes. I didn't know what Dad wanted, other than he asked me to come up and bring clothes. I hated it when he did that, it always made me nervous.
It poured the whole way up there, which didn't help my mood any. I started thinking about my marriage to Chris and how it failed, Stran, him leaving with no explanation and Mike only calling when he wasn't busy. Needless to say by the time I came on base and pulled in Dad's drive, I was pretty pissed.
I walked in the door and smelled dinner cooking, so I figured Dad was just bored and wanted me to stay the weekend. "Hi Dad, how's it going?" He looked up from the stove and smiled. "I'm doing alright, you look beat. Was the rain bad coming up?" "It was horrible Dad. I think I'm going to go upstairs, take a sh and and catch a nap if I have time?" Dad nodded, "Yeah I'll come wake you up when it's ready. Be a little while yet." With that I went upstairs with my bag, and headed for the shower.
I toed off my boots on the bathroom floor, unbuttoning my skin tight Wranglers. There was no other way to wear them, even after gaining a good 15 pounds after leaving Norfolk, I still looked good. I never had problems getting a guy to want me, the jeans were just a small part of a bigger package. Green eyes, Dark brown hair,24 years old, 38D's, 5'6", 145-ish, always with a nice dark tan. It had been about a month since I last seen Mike, he was TDY to San Diego, and I was hurting pretty bad for a piece of ass. I figured once I got done eating dinner with Dad, I'd hop over to one of the clubs on base, see what I could get for the weekend. A officer? A Petty Officer? Or even a kid straight out of boot waiting to go to school? Hell, at this point in time it didn't matter. I stripped down, turned the water on in the shower, letting the hot water sting my skin.