My series of holiday affairs continued, after 'Virgin Whirlwind,' 'Double' and 'Beware of Geeks.' In 1998, I went to the Algarve.
1
The first week I drew a blank, apart from a man who believed he would be bestowing a favour on me. Most of the second week passed, too, with another man, needing some therapy. But I was not there for male ergo-boosting or cunt-based counselling. I relaxed in the pool, the sea or the surrounding terrain.
On the morning of my penultimate day, a couple of women, probably mother and daughter, came to breakfast. The older was white-haired, with a matronly figure, dressed in a dark suit and white blouse. They collected their food and sat down. The younger, about my own age, began scanning the other people as she ate. She was voluptuous -- there's no other word. Hispanic, measuring around 42, 32, 44, swarthy, with a tumble of black hair down her back. Dressed in a mustard-coloured, short-sleeved, blouse, with a matching, mid-calf flounced skirt. She had the impact described by my artist-friend Dulcinda as 'a hurricane-force hard-on.'
That she was profoundly deaf was indicated by her mother's touching her arm to attract her attention and then asking her something in sign-language. I regretted I had not included that in my language-studies, but I would probably not have become fluent in whatever form they were using. The daughter nodded and mother went to fetch coffee.
Meanwhile the daughter's eyes encountered mine. She registered my appreciation with a little drooping of the lids over large, widely-spaced, dark eyes. Then she opened them fully, and shot me a look which gave a new meaning to the term 'penetrating gaze,' because it swooped across the two metres between us, dived up my skirt, thrust up my knicker-leg and embedded itself in my vagina, storm-force ten.
During the ten minutes of the thirty seconds that we were exchanging laser beams of lust it was established that we were harbouring instant erections of nipple and clitoris, and, in my case, anyway, tsunamis of vaginalubricant (it was as well I was wearing knickers). Ergo, we needed to be in close proximity, sooner than immediately.
My swotted-up Portuguese or reasonable Spanish would be useless, and I could hardly say to the mother, 'Excuse me, but would you mind signing to your daughter that I need her for sex in Room 315 right now.'
I need not have worried. The daughter gave me a little nod to show that she had things in hand, shortly, I hoped, to include parts of me, and continued her breakfast. I did the same, though my excitement was not aiding my appetite. Meanwhile I considered the ethics of seducing a deaf woman. Was that taking advantage of a disability? No, she had signalled me, and the fact that she would have to signal directly someone without signing capability did not remove her control of the situation.
2
Both women were awaiting me when I left the dining-room. The mother offered her hand and introduced herself, 'Eduarda.' I gave my name and shook. She introduced her daughter, 'Desidéria.' That lady also shook my hand, firmly, several times up and down. Then Eduarda politely hoped, in Portuguese, that I would have a pleasant day and walked briskly away.
I wondered whether these names were genuine, being suspiciously appropriate, as 'Eduarda' means Guardian, while 'Desidéria' is Longing. Was the Guardian trusting me to assuage the Longing? Maybe this was their regular practice, the frequenting of hotels, in search of persons eager to answer to those powerful desires.
Desidéria gave me a broad grin, still holding my hand and mimed sleeping, by resting her head on the back of the other hand and then pointing to my watch and holding up three fingers three times. I must give my room number and be there in fifteen minutes. I held up three fingers, then one finger, then five. She grinned even more, squeezed my hand, released it and patted my cheek. Then summoned the lift and we rode up, apparently strangers to each other, with three others to the second floor, where she got off. I went on up.
Arrived in my room, I was quite agitated. This was surely the speediest assignation I had made for a good while. Had I interpreted the situation aright? Maybe Eduarda had consigned Desidéria to my company to spend the morning in some innocent pursuit, while I, in my lust, had read the signals as sexual. Well, I had better assume the best, so I took a quick shower and cleaned my teeth, but played safe by dressing again, including clean knickers.
3
When the knock came on my door I was buzzing with anticipation, and the determination to appear non-committal, until Desidéria's intentions were clear. But I had hardly closed the door before she was upon me. She had no doubts, for she threw her arms round me and limpeted her lips to mine, and darted a long, hot tongue into my mouth. She forced herself against me, gripped me as if in a wrestling hold and began to pant and squirm. This was a woman in dire need of assuagement.
Suddenly she stepped back, looked into my eyes and hefted her hefty bosom towards me. Offering me her breasts, and I slipped my hands between them and her hands and took the weight. She nodded and reached for mine, jogging them up and down, nodding again.