Chapter 1 -- Beginnings
: Their love of Jamaica brought them together.
Introduction
: A naïve, insecure, and inhibited 26-year-old, mulatto, Jamaican woman trying to get over her European boyfriend who cheated on and then dumped her, goes online and meets a mature, sophisticated, and experienced 41-year-old Caucasian American man who recently separated from the woman he believes was his last hope for happiness. They soon bond with one another through their common love for the beauty of Jamaica. As their friendship grows, so do their feelings for each other.
Can he set aside his feelings and help her overcome her loss and become the person she, her parents, and friends have always hoped she would be? Will she finally learn to open up and enjoy life or will she once again give up and return to being an inhibited recluse?
Notice
: The author listed Jamaican Beauties Jaunt under Literotica's umbrella category
Novels and Novellas
: Erotic fiction with a broader scope. However, the events in this chapter cover a variety of Literotica categories including:
Non-Erotic
: this chapter provides background information about the two main characters and explains how they met online and became friends; it has little sexual focus.
Interracial Love
: this chapter introduces a developing relationship between a Mulatto Jamaican woman, and a Caucasian American man.
Mature
: the story's primary characters are a young (26-year-old) woman and her Internet friend, a middle-aged (41-year-old) man.
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Disclaimer
: All characters portrayed in this story are fictional and were, to the author's knowledge, at least 18 years old at the time they engaged in any form of sexual activity mentioned in this story.
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Their Friendship
It was like any other mid-May afternoon in Kingston, sunny, warm, and humid. Those locals who didn't have to work were relaxing at Hope Gardens, Emancipation Park, or National Heroes Park where they enjoyed the many ponds and pools, acres of grassy lawns, and the shade provided by the numerous large trees. Some enjoyed a lunch of beef patties or jerk pork they'd purchased from one of the many local vendors. Others clinched their thirst with an Irish Moss or cooled off with a cold Red Stripe.
Denise was not among those Jamaicans enjoying their free time. Instead of taking pleasure in the fact that it was her day off, Denise remained in her apartment, mindlessly searching for something to help her cope with her sorrow. Just as she had the last ten days, when she wasn't at work Denise sat in her apartment trying to forget, hoping to get past her misery. To that end, she was searching the Internet for interesting chat rooms, especially those about travel, preferably those about travel to exotic locales.
Without any actual thought as to what she was doing, or why, she repeatedly ended up visiting chat rooms about travel, spending hours in the ones where there was an ongoing conversation about Jamaica's many tourist locations or vacation resorts. That afternoon Denise ventured into her favorite chat room, one specifically about Jamaica's tourist locations. Travel to locations around the world, but especially within Jamaica, was one of her great passions, and at that time, her great distraction. Jamaica was the country where she had been born, the country where she had always lived, the country she had always loved. She'd often wished she could somehow show others Jamaica's true beauties. She wanted the visitors and tourists to know that there was more to Jamaica than spectacular beach resorts, easily climbed waterfalls, and bamboo river rafts.
To that end, she was mindlessly chatting in her favorite travel chat room, sharing her knowledge of the many beautiful locations in Jamaica that the average tourist never had an opportunity to see, when someone identifying himself as "Will" contacted her. Although she hadn't acknowledged him, he asked her several questions within the chat room and eventually asked her to join him in a private chat. Wanting everyone, especially men, to leave her alone in her sorrow and not knowing anything about the requestor or his motives, with little consideration and minimal kindness, Denise refused Will's request.
Over several subsequent evenings, whenever they were in the same chat room, which was more frequent than would normally be expected, Will persisted in his attempts to gain her attention. He continually addressed messages to her, asking her opinion of specific Jamaican tourist locations and occasionally about various Jamaican resorts. Denise continued to ignore his requests when she could. When she couldn't ignore him, she provided minimal, curt responses to his inquiries.
Denise soon suspected he might be stalking her. At least that was how it appeared to her, since he seemed to follow her whenever she moved between chat rooms. To her further dismay, he continued to send requests for her to join him in one-on-one chats. Although Denise would occasionally contribute to the group discussions in the various chat rooms, she had no desire to chat directly with anyone. Thus, she ignored his messages to her when they were in the same chat room and denied his requests for private chats.
Although she was normally quite interested in what other people thought about Jamaica, at that time Denise was heartbroken and merely looking for a distraction. She had little desire to chat with anyone, especially one-on-one. She had even less desire to chat with someone she hardly knew and whose motives she questioned. Furthermore, she wasn't sure if Will was someone with whom she would even care to chat, much less get to know.
However, out of curiosity as well as wonderment at his persistence, she eventually began paying attention to Will's discussions with the other chat room participants. His contributions to those discussions piqued her interest in him. She reviewed his profile and discovered he was an American Caucasian, claiming to be well to do, but she knew that was a common profile pretext. She concluded he was probably a sexist, an opinion based on numerous inappropriate, at least in her mind, chat room statements he'd made. She noted that he occasionally expressed an interest in meeting a woman of color and wondered why so many American men were enthralled with dark skinned women. Most intriguing to her, he claimed to have traveled extensively. Denise concluded that if it was true it was his one redeeming quality.
Eventually, Denise concluded that other than giving up visiting her favorite chat rooms or establishing a new online identity, she simply could not avoid Will. With that realization, she gave up trying, began responding to his chat room comments, and even answered questions he directed to her. However, she continued to ignore or dismiss his requests for one-on-one chats.
She was surprised to realize that when he was in the same chat room, she often agreed with his comments and observations about various locations in Jamaica. She frequently found herself caught up in his chat room conversations, constantly attempting to come up with polite and intelligent responses to his interesting questions, or trying to make witty retorts to his intriguing remarks.
When Denise reflected on their conversations, something about his chat room comments came to her attention: he had an obvious interest in, and knowledge of Jamaica. She was surprised one evening when she realized Will was the one person she looked forward to finding logged into the chat room. Based on his replies to several of her intentionally provocative comments, she agreed to Will's subsequent request for a one-on-one chat, although she insisted that chat be within a public chat room. During their chat, she determined that Will was, in fact, a knowledgeable, articulate, and, much to her surprise, considerate gentleman.
Over several public chat room encounters, numerous one-on-one discussions in public chat rooms, and several extensively detailed exchanges in private chats, she came to appreciate Will. She found him to be an intelligent, respectful, although sexually perverted, and outspoken gentleman who was genuinely interested in Jamaica, especially in what she often referred to as "the beauty of the undiscovered locations in Jamaica."
They were soon chatting nightly, at prearranged times, and privately. In those long, somewhat personal, and extremely detailed chats she discovered he frequently vacationed in Jamaica, although he'd spent most of his time at the many all-inclusive beach resorts on the North shore. However, unlike most Jamaican tourists she'd encountered in person and in various Internet chat rooms she frequented, he was familiar with the rest of the country, as well as the lives and attitudes of the Jamaican people.
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