"It's fine," Andrea told me. "Raheem never even said anything to you about seeing you at the slut card booth."
I looked around, as if anyone in the airport cared about our conversation. "I know. I still blushed bright red every time after that if I saw him at school. All through the last two weeks of classes, I was a wreck."
"And then we had exams. And then we graduated. We're done, and you don't need to think about him anymore."
"It's not that simple. I heard from someone that he accepted a position at the Court of Appeal. What if I have to appear at the Court of Appeal, and he sees me there. I can just imagine him whispering to a judge
See that junior lawyer with the big tits? Let me tell you what I know about her.
"
"You're in a spiral. You need to calm down."
"What have I done to my reputation? To my potential career?"
"He was in there too, It's not like he can gossip about you without giving himself away. Just forget about it, and think about lying on the beach in Mexico while someone with bad luck eats your pussy." She moved in closer to me, whispering now. "You've got a fruity drink in one hand, and some poor girl on a bachellorette party who tried to pay for her room with a slut card is buried between your legs, doing whatever you tell her to."
Her voice, and that little smile on her face were starting to work on me. I felt a slight tingle in my pussy. I looked in Andrea's eyes. She had such pretty eyes. "I can't believe you're moving away," I said.
Our trip to Mexico was a celebration of completing law school, but it was also a last hurrah for me and Andrea. When we got back from the two week trip, we would both start new jobs. Mine was at a small practice downtown, but hers was all the way across the country.
"You can always come visit. Any time. For ever." She stroked the side of my face possessively. "Even if I get married, I am going to include it in my wedding vows that I will be allowed to fuck you if you come visit."
I smiled. I truly believed that she would say something like that in front of a whole wedding party. "I bet you would look sexy in a tuxedo. Or a wedding dress. Would
She began to answer, painting a picture of a bizarre punk-inspired wedding with a Wiccan priestess presiding. I allowed her to distract me as she described the event at length. We boarded the plane and it took off for Cancun. It was almost two hours of blissful peace of mind before my mind went back to Raheem. "Damn it, the only reason I got caught by Raheem was this vacation! I should just tell him that I'm not going to use the card myself!"
She sighed.
I know how she felt. This trip was my idea after all. I had come up with the perfect compromise; the precise set of factors that convinced her to risk it all by finally swiping that slut card she had been carrying around. My masterpiece of negotiation hinged on these three conditions:
a) She said she didn't want to be seen by anyone she knew. Hence the trip to Mexico.
b) She would only use it on this one trip, because of the fact that we wouldn't be together anymore and the slut card game had been such a part of how we initially met. I had made big round puppy-dog eyes as I pushed this point.
c) Finally, the third condition: to feel safe, Andrea had wanted to add a condition to her card. I didn't know it at the time, but it was the same condition that Raheem had added: Andrea's card would only be active if I was present. Of course, that meant I needed to get a card of my own.
And that's why Raheem saw me, and that's why I was now a nervous wreck.
"Really, I should be treating this as payback for pushing me to use my card," Andrea whispered, even though the guy in the window seat beside me had been asleep for an hour. "You spent a month telling me I should use mine to buy a fucking milkshake or whatever, and now you know how it feels."
"You and I are different people," I whispered back. "I could never
use
it. I am not built like that." I should mention that I had paid for our flight with a normal credit card. Not that there was a choice; back then there were no airlines that accepted slut cards. And, as I said, I wasn't the sort of person who could use a slut card in any case.
"And I am?"
I looked around to make sure no one's eyes were on us. I licked my left index finger and then, in a single swift motion, slid my left hand into the front of her jeans and into her panties, stroking her clit firmly and slowly. She stifled a gasp. I looked into her eyes seriously. "You are shameless and slutty and are born to be used mercilessly by men and women for hours on end, my dear. That's what I love most about you." I withdrew my hand and sat back in my seat innocently. At a normal volume I said "I don't have the same level of confidence that you have."
* * *
We were excited and giddy as we rode the minibus from the airport to the secluded beach resort. It was a brilliant warm spring day on the Caribbean coast and we were free from law school, so we spent most of the ride making out, telling jokes, and trying to forget that these two weeks would be our last together.