"Hi, hello, g'day, I'm Nick," I said to the two young men looking at the photograph. "I see you're admiring the portrait that won the competition."
"Not so much admiring the photograph, more admiring the three young ladies in it!" one of the guys chortled.
"Well, that's Tegan on the left, Kirsty on the right, and their Mum Claire is in the middle."
"They all love the photograph."
"Tegan and Kirsty, like all young girls, love looking at themselves and checking that all their bits (well, all the bits they can see!) are still there, still in place. Claire likes it because she can see how beautiful (and how incredibly well developed!) her little girls have become. And all three of them like it because it reminds them they are a family group that has been through a lot together -- the good times, the bad times, and even posing together as a family in nothing but their birthday suits!"
"If you have a minute or two, I can tell you the interesting background story to this photograph."
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It was a quiet night at the bar...very quiet. In fact, I was the only one there apart from Claire, the barmaid.
She was in her late 30s, I guessed. Well stacked, quite pretty. A couple of decades earlier she would have been a real stunner.
Earlier I had collected a couple of cruise brochures from a travel agent and was flicking through them while seated at a table.
"Do you mind if I join you?" Claire asked. I had no objection, so she fetched her glass of mineral water.
"Planning a holiday?" she enquired. I told her I was.
Claire proceeded to tell me that she had never been able to take a holiday away. She had two daughters -- an 18 year old about to finish high school this year, the other completing her first year at college -- and life had been very tough for them ever since her husband was killed 10 years ago. In all that time, they had simply not been able to afford a holiday. Just living and educating the kids used up all of the little that Claire had been able to earn.
"I'd give anything to be able to go on a cruise or spend time at a holiday resort," she confided.
I am, thankfully, reasonably well-off. And, I guess, I'm a bit of a softy...as well as being an opportunist.
And an opportunity had presented itself.
"Claire, I was going to buy a package-deal cruise. If you and the girls were interested, I'd be prepared to buy a package-deal cruise for the four of us...provided that package included unlimited access for me to the three of you ladies while we were on the cruise," I suggested.
"You mean unlimited sex from the three of us?" she asked somewhat incredulously.
"Well, many cruise ships are little better than floating brothels, because most people who go on these cruises are just looking to have a good time," I replied.
"So if three young ladies decided to go on one of those cruises, I'd certainly be expecting them all to be spending time in bed -- in bed with a man or with a number of men during the cruise. And if three of them were on that cruise because I was paying, I would certainly expect that I'd be given my fair share of whatever each of them might have on offer."
"Would you like to see how the girls react to the idea?" I enquired.
Claire indicated she would. I left the glossy cruise brochures with her, knowing they might just sway the three girls if they had any doubts at all about my offer.
And the answer she gave me a few days later was "yes, all three of us might be interested."
So we agreed to meet over a pizza lunch the next Sunday, so I could meet the girls and the four of us could discuss the possible holiday together.
The girls, Kirsty and her younger sister Tegan, had obviously made an effort to create a favourable first impression -- even with the limited resources that it was clearly evident were currently available to them.
Their clothes may not have been all that flash, but both girls had inherited their mother's beauty genes. Tegan, perhaps, was slightly prettier than Kirsty.
I immediately assessed both girls, along with their Mum, to be 'desirably fuckable.'
So I decided I would offer to make this a holiday one that the three girls would long remember...even if it was to cost me more money that I had originally envisaged.
The return on my investment would, I was sure, be amply repaid.
Each of the girls would need contraceptive protection, so I volunteered to pay for three contraceptive implants.
And for nightclubbing or discoing, they would each need a stylish new dress and new shoes -- which, of course, would also mean a new bra and new panties would be required.
And, for daytime, they would each require an eye-catching sun-dress...
And new bikinis.
And be treated to a good haircut and manicure, so they would look at their glamorous best...making me the envy of many fellow-voyagers, some of whom, I was secretly hoping, would notice that I was spending each night of the cruise 'entertaining' a different one of these beautiful ladies.
The arrangement was that I was to pay for a double cabin and a twin cabin on a 7-night cruise to nearby islands during the long summer vacation. I was also to pick-up the bar tabs for the three girls, and would to pay for any shore excursions.
The girls, in turn, would be 'mine' for 24-hours starting at dinner, would definitely be spending from 10.30pm to breakfast in bed with me, and would then be 'on call' should I (or they) feel frisky at any time before dinner the next day.
So, at minimum, each of the three girls agreed to spend two nights in bed with me. To me, that seemed to be a fair deal.
Then there was one night left, the last night, which we agreed might be a special 'thankyou' night from the girls to me. They were to decide which of them would 'thank me'...and, if they couldn't agree on this among themselves, then the arrangement was all four of us would spend the night in bed together!
Tegan drew the short straw to become my first-nighter, Claire was to be next, and Kirsty was last to be 'mine' for the day.
The girls clearly understood the non-monetary 'cost' of the vacation -- except I was subsequently to discover that Tegan would be paying a significantly higher 'cost.'
She would also be surrendering her virginity.
But more about that later.
It was obvious the three girls felt they had negotiated a 'bargain.,' All left that day very excited about the prospect of their first holiday and having to prepare for that holiday.