Mark and Marcie slept late the following morning and missed breakfast. After coming from the shower and turning the bathroom over to his spouse, he set up the telescope and sat down behind it and scoured the pool for the lovely bikini-clad brunette he and Marcie had admired the previous day masturbating poolside.
He frowned when he didn't see any sign of her or her boyfriend. He tried to find some other delicious female form to ogle, but other than two fiftyish women, who were not that hard on the eye, but failed to measure up to the voluptuous looks the brunette had. Mark got up and paced the living room until his wife emerged fully dressed and ready for lunch.
"I called Vivian," Marcie chirped happily. "She's looking forward to seeing us again."
"That's good," Mark said morosely enough for Marcie to pick up exactly what was wrong. "Oh, your little whore didn't show up at the pool today?"
"She's not a whore," he said defensively.
"We don't know that" Marcie said, and quickly added, "At least not one way or the other."
When they went down to lunch twenty minutes later they noticed the young couple was missing. For the past three days, the couple had taken their lunch at about the same time and had sat two tables removed from them.
Mark said, "Maybe they're off shopping, having lunch in town, or doing the rain forest thing."
Marcie responded with: "I hope they haven't checked out. I'm looking forward to watching how you intend to approach them."
He laughed. "I was going to ask you to do it. A woman's touch is so much better."
"Oh, really?" she said eyebrows arched, but smiling.
"You know you can handle it better than me, Marcie."
"I do know that, but it's you that wants to meet them, or her."
"Yeah, but the guy ..."
"He's a kid, Mark, you can see that, although he is rather handsome and there is that luscious appendage he has between his legs," then she giggled satisfied with rousing his jealous side for once.
It was at that moment they felt the first tremble of the earthquake.
Mark pulled Marcie to her feet and hurried her out of the hotel's interior to the sandy beach some fifty feet away and there they lay down in the sand and waited until the shocks receded some two minutes later.
"Jesus, I—I've never experienced anything like that," Marcie said nervously.
"Me neither," Mark responded, "But we'd better stay here for a while until the aftershocks recede and we know it's safe."
"What about tsunamis?" Marcie wondered aloud.
"Damn, I forgot all about that possibility. And here we are on the friggin' beach!"
They decided to take shelter in the hotel inasmuch as it was still standing, and they saw no readily apparent damage. In fact, he was aware the hotel had been constructed less than five years earlier and had followed the building codes that afforded it reasonably good protection from earthquakes. It was the older buildings that were vulnerable to earthquakes.
They wound up in the hotel's indoor bar, along with many of the guests, watching the latest reports on the television when the station returned to the air some twenty minutes later. But it was two hours later that any significant news was heard from the station.
A massive earthquake of magnitude 7.0 has hit offshore Nicaragua, following which a Tsunami alert was issued. The earthquake centre was 149km southwest off the coast of Costa Rica at a depth of 33km. The quake was said to have occurred at 1:43 p.m. ET at a depth of 33 km.
Officials immediately isolated a massive 300km of the affected Central American coastline for a possible tsunami hit. But after some time, the tsunami issue was lifted.
As per Al Jazeera, U.S. Geological Survey has announced that there were no immediate reports of damage as of now because of the earthquake. However early reports have twenty-two people killed in Managua and twelve along the Costa Rican coastline, with no reports as yet from Costa Rican capital, San Jose, although there is severe damage reported.
The earthquake was felt mainly in the regions of the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, and in the Costa Rican capital San Jose and the resort areas along the Costa Rican coastline. Tremors and some damage were also felt in Panama City, Panama, leaving the people of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama in a state of panic and fear. Both Costa Rica and Nicaragua have called for a state of emergency because of severe damage and possible aftershocks.
This entire area lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire and is thus subject to significant tectonic activity, including frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity.
The hotel guests were advised not to leave the hotel grounds as several nearby buildings had collapsed and the authorities warned that others might follow and so an informal kind of martial law was in effect.
Things regained a semblance of normalcy at and around the hotel later that day, with the hotel having filled every vacant room or suite with influential people from damaged homes and at least one other nearby hotel that had sustained minor damage that included loss of its water system.
The honeymooners were having dinner when Marcie put down her coffee and hit Mark on the arm, saying: "Mark, isn't that the couple from the pool?"
"Don't tell me ... the one with those huge tits?"
"Yes and her boyfriend with the preposterous penis. There, over on the right side of the lobby. They seem to be having a problem with the Front Desk."
"Um, she's turning them away," Mark said.
"Do you think?"
