Summary:
Couple accidentally visits sex island and lets loose.
Note 1:
This is for a one-day author-themed event called ONE NIGHT IN....
Note 2:
Thanks to Tex Beethoven, Robert & Wayne for editing.
One Night on Hedo Island
Fate is a funny thing.
I mean before fate intervened in my life... I had no idea such places existed, and even if I had I wouldn't have cared.
It was our fifteenth anniversary, and our marriage councillor had suggested a week's retreat without kids (something we hadn't done since we started having kids seven years ago).
So after my parents agreed to watch our brood for nine days, we arranged to go to Jamaica for a week (plus an extra day at each end for travel).
The flight to Jamaica was delayed twice because of stormy weather forecasts, which got me annoyed... I was a stickler for being on time. I was terrified we'd miss the boat the resort had provided to take us to a secluded island for our stay. It was billed as a destination for lovers trying to reconnect, and the photos looked like a tiny island paradise.
Once our plane landed, we hurried to get our luggage and to a taxi... our boat leaving in twenty minutes.
We arrived at the pier twenty-two minutes later.
We rushed along the pier to the dock, quickly waved our tickets at someone and were ushered onto a boat that was just departing.
Thankful we'd made it, we collapsed onto a couple of seats out on the open deck, my always glass-is-half-full husband smiling and trying to be funny, "Woo! That was a real rush."
God, his puns still weren't funny. Everyone I knew kept telling me how lucky I was to have such a good-looking, caring husband with such a wicked sense of humour, and yet all I heard was "Blah, blah, blah, ha-ha, get it?". This trip was supposed to help us reconnect, and I realized I needed to make a better effort. I mean I still loved him, it's just that traits I used to find cute now annoyed me, and no matter how much I tried to convince myself I didn't mind, that I shouldn't mind, the more they got under my skin.
"I need a drink," I said, noticing how hot it was here even out on the ocean, now that I had a moment to breathe and take in my surroundings.
"Probably two," he prescribed helpfully, as he got up and headed to the bar.
I smiled as I let out a sigh of relief and looked around. The boat was bigger than I'd anticipated, and there were more people on it as well. Yet I had no idea how big the resort was we were going to, so it didn't really faze me.
What did though, was when I began noticing the people.
We were going to a couples only resort, and yet there seemed to be a fair number of individuals traveling alone.
For instance, there was a guy sitting by himself in just trunks and massive pecs... he looked like a football lineman or a pro wrestler. He was easily one of the hottest men I'd ever seen in person.
I looked away, not wanting to stare... although I'd be lying if I said I didn't take another glance... but then I looked away quickly when I saw he was looking back at me, and rather too boldly. I felt my cheeks go red... I get embarrassed easily. I was a mother of three, on a cruise to reconnect with my husband, so I shouldn't be checking out guys no matter how hot, or encouraging them to reciprocate.
While I was looking the other way I saw two girls, they couldn't be older than eighteen or nineteen, wearing the tiniest bikinis I'd ever seen, and the highest heels to go with them... each six inches and completely impractical. They made the flip flops I was wearing look pathetic and lazy. Were they lesbians? Young lovers? They didn't appear to be, since they kept pointing out guys to each other.
Near them was a well-built black man in shorts and a white t-shirt, who walked over to a very pretty redhead in a flowery sundress. At first I assumed they were married, but he extended his hand and they shook hands, obviously introducing themselves, and very flirtatiously.
I directed my attention to the bar, where my husband was chatting with a large-breasted black woman in a white bikini that showcased every curve she had, and God, did she have curves. A Beyoncé butt, with breasts that seemed to defy gravity. She was very dark-skinned, almost totally black, and way beyond totally gorgeous. Instant jealousy coursed through me.
I have smallish 34a breasts, which don't look too out of place on my tiny body. I'm just five feet tall. I've been described as the cute girl next door for my entire life. Brunette, brown eyes... skinny but ultra athletic. I was the rover on my college volleyball team, a track star and although not an Olympic gymnast, I'd always placed high in my state competitions. In other words, the polar opposite of the voluptuous African goddess talking to my man.
Like I said, I was jealous so I was about to go over there and intervene, when she walked away, although I couldn't help noticing that in parting she squeezed his ass, or at least it looked like she did.
My husband Steven was a lawyer (although he didn't look like one, with his surfer blond hair and California tan) and he was ridiculously good looking. All my friends were in awe of his looks and body. I was also in awe of those things, but it was his charming personality and compassion that I'd fallen in love with.
Truth was, he was my first and only love.
Yes, he was the only man I'd ever fucked, and I was the only woman he'd ever had.
High school lovers who ended up married.
Cliché... I suppose.
But we were meant to be. I needed to remind myself of that whenever I got annoyed at him so easily.
A good-looking guy in a polo shirt and shorts sat down beside me and asked, "Here alone?"
"No, with my husband," I answered, surprised at the question.
"Interesting," he said, although I couldn't figure how my bland answer qualified as interesting. He asked, "Where is he?"
"At the bar," I pointed. He was now at the front getting drinks.
He looked to the bar and asked, "The one at the front?"
"Yeah," I said, knowing that many men were intimated by his looks and build.
"Straight?" he asked.
"What?" I asked more in a gasp than reply, and then recovered and answered. "Of course."
"Shame," he said. He turned his attention back to me. "So... first time?"
"In Jamaica? Yes."
"Nice."
"And you?" I asked, trying to make fake chit chat out of this weird conversation.
"Fifth."
"Is your wife here?"
"No wife."
"Girlfriend?"
"Nope."
Just then Steven returned. He handed me my drinks, as promised he'd gotten me two, and the other guy stood up and said, "Hi, I'm Mike."
"Steve."
"I hope to see you around," Mike said, before walking away.
"That was so weird," I said.
Steven asked, "How?"
"Well, he isn't here with anyone," I pointed out.
"That
is
weird."
"And what about Beyoncé?"
"Who?"
"The black woman in the micro-bikini I saw squeezing your ass."
"Oh, that was weird too," Steven answered.
"How?"
"She asked if I was here alone."
"Mike asked me that, too."
"Strange."
"Anything else?"
"Well, she said she hoped to see more of me on the island," Steven admitted. "And she said it like a come on even though I'd mentioned I was here with you."
"We may have been misinformed by the advertisements," I said, getting quite annoyed.
"Seems so," Steven shrugged. He then sat down and said, focusing back on me, "But whatever. We're here together, going to a tropical paradise."
"True enough," I smiled, Steven being great at defusing a bomb inside me before the ticking started counting down. He really was a great man, and he understood me in a way no one, not even my mother, who I was a lot like, did.
For forty-five minutes we drank, enjoyed the view and each other. I found myself getting over my earlier bitchiness and kind of falling in love with my husband all over again. Even his jokes were getting funnier. We chatted, talked about things we might do on the island, including our first-ever couple's spa, and just enjoying the lack of chaos that was our life back home with a seven-year-old, a four-year-old and a two-year-old.
Once we docked, we got off and were in awe. This place was even more beautiful than the pictures. Literally a tropic paradise, as advertised.
We strolled hand in hand to the entrance, pulling our suitcases behind us. It was so pretty, the air so pure, that I wasn't even annoyed when we had to wait forty-five minutes to check in.
That said, my sweet tranquility came to a crashing end when the good-looking guy behind the long counter (he looked like Matt Damon and his name tag told me his name was even Matt) said he couldn't find our reservation.
I sighed dramatically, it was a thing I did when it was important to let the other person know I was annoyed, as I yanked the confirmation out of my purse. I handed it to him as Steven gently rubbed my back, trying to keep me calm.
"Oh my," the Matt Damon lookalike said.
"What?" I said, not remotely trying to stifle my annoyed tone.
"Um... you're booked at Tropical Cove."
"I know," I said tersely, "I booked it."
"This is Hedonism Island," he bomb shelled.
"We got on the wrong boat," my husband figured out just before I did.
"I'm really sorry, but it seems so," Matt nodded sheepishly. He was very good at his job, implying it was his fault even when it couldn't possibly be.
"Well, the plane was late, and we were in a rush," Steven explained.
"We need to get back to the boat," I bewailed, frustrated, no longer at the Matt Damon lookalike, but at fate.
"Umm... more don't shoot the messenger news," he semi-cringed, "but the next boat isn't until tomorrow."
"Pardon?"
"Sorry, our cruiser only comes and goes once a day, and it left fifteen minutes ago."
"Seriously?" I asked.
"I'm so sorry," he apologized.
"But it's our fifteenth anniversary," I said exasperated, as if that was somehow going to make this okay.
A dignified older Jamaican man in a suit and tie came over from helping someone else and said, "I know I can't totally remedy this situation for you folks, but I can give you one of our honeymoon suites for the night if you wish."