"This is a cute store, but the prices are outrageous!" said Christina.
"Well, it only sells the really expensive brands; they're expensive everywhere." said Susan.
"It's insane. Look at this! $150, for three little triangles of cloth and a little string. It's about, oh, $30 per square inch of cloth!" Christina's accounting background was showing, as she held up a tiny yellow thong bikini, barely visible thin strings with decorative hoops in the middle, and minuscule tops that probably wouldn't cover everything on women who happened to have larger nipples. "And this one with sequins, $180!"
"No, no, look! It has hoops on the side. And it comes with this see-through cover-up for the bottom. That makes it TOTALLY worth the price!" Susan joked. Both women were belittling the concept of the string bikinis and the prices at the same time. Still, the thought of them holding thongs in their hand and talking about them got my imagination going. And although neither of them seemed like the thong wearing types in their normal home element, perhaps the summer vacation mode we were all in was having an effect? I could only daydream. "The fabric is amazing, though." Susan slid her fingertip across the sequined fabric.
"Better be, for that price!"
Christina is my brother in law's sister, no relation to me, and Susan is her best friend. The three of us had separated from the pack of a large group of people at a weeklong beach house getaway, a trip that I had coordinated. The group was mostly my family, all adult siblings, aunts, uncles, and spouses, plus a few friends of family members, which is how Christina and Susan entered the picture. It was a huge six-bedroom house plus sleeper sofas, sleeping bags, a guesthouse with two more bedrooms, and an over-the-garage pair of rooms, large enough for a very big group of people. The crowd had peaked at 26 people at one point, but was quickly dwindling down as the week approached its end. It was also almost the end of summer, and definitely the end of this small town's tourist season. People were vanishing everywhere, at the beach house, and all over this adorable seaside town too.
For whatever reason, I had formed a tight bond with Christina, and by proxy, Susan also. I got the impression they viewed me as some harmless old man (compared to them, since I was about 8 or 9 years older than they were, but they seemed to find me entertaining, and we ended up inseparable for most of the week, in a harmless sort of way.
"Excuse me, do you have banana hammocks in this fabric?" I pretend shouted to the clerk at the far end of the store, holding up the sequined thong. I knew she couldn't hear, so the joke was safe enough. The girls laughed, and I was thrilled. When you try to be funny (and usually fail), there's nothing quite like eliciting a little laughter. Make that laughter from two beautiful women, it's a spectacular feeling.
"At $30 per square inch, that man bikini should cost you what, $60?" Susan kidded. Christina burst out laughing at the insult, which was also interesting because for all the kidding around we had done all week, this was the most sexually charged comment so far. If you consider a girl making a joke about the prospect of your penis being small, that is. The girls were a blast to be around.
"Ouch!" I joked. They laughed again. "Actually, the bigger concern is how strong the fabric is. I can see where the sequins might just pop off. You know, under extreme pressure?" I was alluding to a bulging erection.
They got the joke, but both rolled their eyes in mock disregard. Then they chuckled, but the thread of joking came to an end as the employee shouted, "Let me know if you need any help! And everything is half off, starting tomorrow!"
The girls looked at one another. I could tell they were doing the math in their head. At least, Susan was, I knew Christina had the math all figured out already. "Naah, STILL too expensive." She said.
We meandered out of the store, and spent about an hour walking down the street, into and out of each of the touristy stores on town's main street. We continued our kidding around, and looked at and mocked every set of thongs we came across in every store we went into. Most were less expensive than the first stores, and to be fair, not one was made of the same unique fabric. A couple stores had man-thongs as well, which the girls delighted in joking about. I was getting a little worked up, imagining the two of them in thongs since they were both so lovely, Christina the voluptuous and busty type, and Susan tall and slender with perky breasts. They would both look amazing in thongs.
Eventually, we reached the end of the main strip, meaning we started meandering back the way we came. As we got within eyeshot of the store we had been in, we saw the employee putting a sign in the window, everything 50 percent off.
"Ok, I'll make a deal with you. I'll buy you the swimsuits, but you have to wear them all day tomorrow." I said, thinking it was a brilliant idea.
"I am NOT wearing these in front of your mother and all your brothers and sisters." Christina snapped, with a twinge of humor in her voice. Susan nodded.
"But that's the thing. Everybody is leaving today. Tomorrow, it's just us stragglers staying until the end."
"Hmm." Christina furled her eyebrow.
"Nuh uhh!" piped up Susan. "Well, not unless we pick something for you to wear too!" she said with a grin.
"That's brilliant, Susan!" exclaimed Christina. "And he has to pay for his, too." she said with an evil grin.
So we went back in the store. "So the half-price sale prices are good now?" I asked the clerk. She shrugged her shoulders, as if to say, 'No, not really but I guess I'll give you the price anyway.' The girls went straight to the rack for men's swimsuits.
"This is PERFECT!" squealed Christina. It was a man's thong, with nothing but a pouch to hold the penis and testicles. Susan was laughing and nodding. Personally, my main concern was not specifically the act of wearing the thong, it was about what to do if, no, when I got excited by something. There would be no pretending or concealing an erection in that thing. But I had gotten myself into this situation, and there was no getting out of it. However, it certainly would come with its rewards tomorrow, assuming I'd be seeing the girls in their thongs.
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The remainder of the day was lots of hustle and bustle. Lots of helping load suitcases into cars, searching for missing items, two separate trips to the airport, long goodbyes, and relatives thanking me for making the vacation possible. It had been a wonderful week, and today was that bittersweet day of realizing the vacation was almost over. At the same time, I couldn't wait to get rid of everybody, because I was hoping that by about 7 p.m., the house would be empty except for the three of us.
One other twist was potentially working out well too. Although I had planned this with no premonition of any possibilities other than some alone time, I had also arranged ahead of time to keep the two room studio over the garage just for myself, for one extra day. At the time, I had no idea that things would have gone so well with two lovely ladies, but now, my imagination was running away with me at the possibilities. What if somehow, things went well tonight, and we got to spend another day and a half, just the three of us, in a long sex romp?
We did have one unplanned interruption. My Aunt and Uncle weren't leaving until the next morning, but I suppose that wasn't the end of the world. I even decided to treat that as a good thing, because normally, Christina slept until noon, but the noise from getting my Aunt and Uncle packed up, hopefully at about nine, would force them to get up. And put on their thongs.
I was doing a good job of being patient. We had also been cleaning up the house in preparation for leaving, so we decided to get take-out sandwiches for everyone and bring them back. Christina and Susan volunteered to come with me, and told me to wait a second. They went upstairs, and a few minutes came down in their beach wraps and flip-flops. They looked amazing, and we proceeded to walk to town.