This tale is considered a second part to "No Longer Shy". Thanks!
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It had happened!!! My sister had finally loosened up a bit... and all it took was her getting freaked on by another chick. I'm Jasmine and in case you don't know, I am Jessie's twin sister. We had exchanged places for one day and it turned out for the better for her, but now I have a story to tell... no this really doesn't have a whole lot to do with Jessie...well, I guess it does since she was there. Anyway...Shall we begin????...
About two months after we had pulled our little switcheroo, I convinced Jessie to take a small vacation with me. We had been saving up for a while to take a trip, but she always found a reason for us not to go...ya know...who would run the store?...who would take care of the house?... Things like that. Well now, she had no excuse. We had hired two new employees, and our cousin would be handling the money and doing the managerial stuff for the few days that we would be gone. Grudgingly, she finally gave in. I think the reason that she didn't really want to go now was because she had been spending more time with Stacy (even though she swore that they were not a couple...yeah right).
Finally the Thursday had arrived for the two of us to take the cruise that we both deserved. We actually had to take a flight to Florida early in the morning to board on the Paradise Cruise lines for the seven-day Eastern Caribbean Cruise. We left from Miami at about four o'clock in the evening. On our first day, we basically got settled in and walked the liner for a while, had dinner and went dancing. It was in the casino where I saw her...
Oh my God...She was gorgeous! She was about two inches shorter than me (about 5'5"), her tanned skin was the shade of a fresh apricot. Her hair was so black that it almost looked blue when the light hit it. She had it pinned up in a beautiful bun with two black chopsticks Chris-crossing in it. Her eyes were a deep brown that reminded me of hot cocoa, slightly almond shaped... Full lips that looked ready to be kissed at any time...Her full breasts begged to be set free from the V shaped neckline of the black thigh length cocktail dress that she wore. With a tiny waist and legs that made even a Rockette jealous, she was a stunner. I could feel my mouth begin to water.
Though I am admittedly bi, very few women have ever caught my eye that way. Unable to stop myself, I gathered my winnings from the Black Jack table to make my way over to her where she leaned up against a bar alone. But before I could get to her, a man approached her. She greeted him with a long kiss that made me jealous of the guy. I could only shake my head to myself as the couple strolled away..."Oh well," I thought to myself. I quickly got over it and made my way over to the slot machines where I had left Jessie. Though she was nowhere to be found, I didn't worry too much...we were on a boat after all.
I dropped a few quarters into the slot machine a few times before walking away from the slot machine. I just walked around for a little while. Before I knew it, over an hour had passed by and was hungry for a little snack. I found my way to a little shoppe that was on the main floor of the massive ship. I ordered a chicken club sandwich and a Dr. Pepper at the counter and sat and waited for my grub. As I ate my food, a deep voice came from the side of me.
"I love chicken sandwiches."
I looked into the face of the man who had escorted the beauty away before I could get to her. He wasn't bad looking himself. Rather sexy if the truth be told. His head was clean shaven and he bore a great resemblance to Vin Diesel. I looked at him. "So do I," I said like a nincompoop.
"What are you doing in here all by your lonesome?" he asked me.
"Just grabbing a snack before I turn in," I informed him. I continued to eat my food as he told the server that he was there to pick up an order.
"The order was under Lilah's name," I heard him say. "Chicken club sandwich and a chef salad with lite Ranch."
He then turned his attention back to me. "I'm Lex and you are...?"
"Jasmine," I told him after taking a swallow of my Dr. Pepper.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Jasmine," he said offering me his hand. I placed mine in his and instead of shaking it, he kissed it. I was floored! The men at home were not this suave. I loved it! But wait...wasn't he with the model chick just a little over an hour ago?
"I think I saw you earlier," I told him, even thought I KNEW that I had seen him. "You were with a very pretty lady, weren't you?"
"I sure was," he said with a smile. I waited for him to tell me who she was. He didn't.
Oooooo...kay... I was guessing by now that he was a player and I really didn't need any unnecessary drama while I was on vacation, so I quickly tried to dismiss any attraction to him at all. Damn, why did all of the sexy ones have to be players?!
"Sooooo...where are you from?" he asked me.
"Arkansas," I told him before taking another bite of my sandwich.
"Ahhhhh, home of Slick Willie Clinton."
"The one and only," I said between chews. I swallowed my food and took another sip of soda. "The Natural State."
"Is that a fact?" he asked as if thinking about something. "I'm from Texas myself," he informed me. The server brought his to-go food to him and told him to enjoy it. He looked at me and said, "Well, you have a nice night, Jasmine." Then he walked away.
I was finishing up my sandwich, when I felt lips lightly brush my ear as he returned and whispered, "She's my wife." He then slid a piece of paper to me with his room number on it. "Maybe you'd like to join us for dinner one night."
Then he was gone again.
I glanced at the paper before balling it up into a teeny ball. "Yeah right" I thought to myself, tossing the paper into the trash can on my way out of the little diner. However, when I made it back to the suite that my sister and I were sharing, I couldn't get Lex out of my head. Maybe it was the head (I'm am a sucker for bald guys)...or maybe the muscles that seemed to beg for freedom under his T-shirt. He was sexy as hell, but I come across sexy men all of the time. Yet with this one, there was something different. In the back of my mind, I already knew that something was going to happen...
"Where have you been?"
I looked at Jessie who was already half asleep on the sofa. "Out an' about," I told her.