6. The Honeymoon
Tascha punched Don in the shoulder. "Ha! I knew it!" she laughed. "I knew you two were into each other!"
"First, ow! Second, yeah, yeah, I thought so too... Well, I hoped, and I'm glad you were right."
She leaned in and kissed his cheek, "I'm glad, too. I can't be the only love of your life."
"That escalated quickly!" Don laughed. "And why not?"
"Well, I've got Sarah, and a girl's only got so much time and energy," she grinned.
Don smiled at her and said, "That's fair, I suppose."
"But, so what happened? Did she go with you to get her own ring?"
"Yes, she did," Don nodded. "She left Megan in command of the Maidenhead, and we took the Riverboat upriver, set off cross country, got to the valley and then climbed up to the Crimson Mountain."
"You are leaving so much out!" Tascha laughed.
"Well, I've got to finish the story, right?"
"Yeah, but give me the highlights at least. Did Sage go back to her celibacy?"
"Oh no, that was over," Don smiled.
"Excellent! This must have been like your honeymoon. How did she like the Riverboat and the Resort? Is she as much fun in an orgy as I am?"
"Well, first, nobody's as much fun at an orgy as you are!"
"Suck up!"
Don laughed, "And, 'honeymoon'? I don't know if I'd go that far, but I see your point. Well, we cut through Rendezvous pretty quickly, and we managed to catch the Riverboat just before it started upriver."
"That was lucky."
"Oh, we would have found some way to pass the time..."
"I'm sure!" Tascha grinned. "So, how was the river trip? At least tell me about that."
"Well, we talked about it and decided to try to stick together as much as possible until we got to the pleasure dome. So, if they played the same game the first night, we'd sit it out, but they had another mixer scheduled."
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After the flurry of activity involved in leaving the Maidenhead and getting to the Riverboat (and Sage wanted to know why it didn't have a name), they enjoyed the opportunity to enjoy a spirited session of fucking on the nearest lounger. Then they commandeered an empty cabin for a nice shower, which, naturally enough, led to more sex, first in the shower, and then on the cabin's bed, which eventually led them back into the shower. As they were drying off and Sage was gathering up the clothes she had brought along, a pretty, blonde woman in a white uniform with a rather short skirt appeared in the cabin doorway and said, "Welcome aboard!"
"Hi, Sally," Don waved.
"Oh, hi, Don! Welcome back! We're going to have a fun mixer game in a little bit! It's couples night, so partner up and meet us all up in the ballroom!" Then she had hurried on.
"I'm standing right here," Sage grumbled with mock irritation.
Don shrugged, "I suppose she didn't want to presume anything."
"Was it 'couples night,' when you were here before?"
"No, the first time was kind of a random mixer, 'Cabin Fever,' I think, and the second time Shelonda and I skipped the activity."
As they made their way up to the ballroom, Sage asked about the random mixer and Don explained how the women went to claim cabins for themselves while he and the other men waited in the ballroom until Sally let them draw numbers from a black bag she had.
"We then went to the cabin that matched up with the number and 'got to know' whichever woman was there. When a chime sounded, we hurried back to the ballroom to draw another number."
"Wow, that must have been ... interesting. You just stopped in the middle of whatever you were doing and went back to the ballroom?"
"Pretty much, yeah," Don nodded.
"Even if you were in the middle of sex?"
"Well, yeah, that was sort of the point, I think. On the one hand, that encouraged you not to waste time, and, on the other, it built up a kind of crazed intensity. After the first round, I can say that the women I met were very much 'come here right now!' if you know what I mean."
Sage laughed, "Ay, I know what ye mean. How many rounds were there?"
"I think there were six."
"Hmm, how did Tascha take all of this?"
"Enthusiastically," Don smiled. "When the game was over and I caught up with her, and Shelonda, she was ... well, rather extremely well-fucked. I think she said she'd been able to count eight guys."
"Eight for six rounds?"