"Rise and shine sleepy-head!" Dawn McIntyre called out as she pulled open the small window drape and flooded the tiny cabin with early morning sunlight. "It's another beautiful day out in the middle of nowhere."
"Screw you!" called out a female voice as an arm emerged from beneath the sheets just long enough to throw a pillow at Dawn.
"Come on, Kari, you can't still be tired." the 22-year-old said as she effortlessly avoided the pillow. "It's too beautiful a day to spend it in bed."
"That's easy for you to say." Kari said as the blonde emerged from under the sheet, her long hair half covering her face. "You weren't kept up half the night by the couple next door. They were still going at it hot and heavy at 3 A.M." she added as she pointed to the wall behind the bed's headboard. "I don't know how you managed to sleep through it all."
"Really? You should've woke me up." Dawn said as she crossed the room. "I'd have loved to listen to that."
"Pervert!" Kari called out before again disappearing under the sheet.
"Look who's talking." Dawn laughed as she again gave the end of the sheet a playful tug.
"Go away!" Kari repeated.
"Are you going to be this grumpy the rest of the week?" Dawn asked.
"Yes, and its all your fault!" said the voice once again under the sheet.
"My fault?"
"Well I'm not the one who booked us on this cruise." Kari said as she again emerged from seclusion. "What was it you said again... How can we loose? Four days on a cruise to nowhere. Fun, sun and all that goes with it. You just happened to leave out one little detail..."
"You know I'm really getting tired of hearing this." Dawn said in mock protest, cutting Kari off, knowing if she didn't she'd be hearing her long litany of complaints one more time.
At first, it'd seemed like such a great deal. Dawn had gone to see David Morgan, her old boyfriend, to collect some money he owed her. As usual, David pleaded poverty. When Dawn began to make a scene in the travel agency where David worked, he quickly offered to pay her in another way. He had a few extra tickets for a 4 day cruise to nowhere that was leaving Saturday morning.
The tickets were part of a charter that had been returned by two girls who now couldn't go. Non-refundable so they couldn't get their money back, the tickets were worth a lot more than what David owed her. So he proposed a deal. He'd sell her the tickets for less than half price and they'd call it even.
Dawn had resisted her first impulse to snatch up the deal. She had learned from hard experience that it was too easy to succumb to David's charms. The slight fluttering in her chest and the tingle between her legs as she looked into the handsome face of the 25-year-old, reminded her that what ever other problems they'd had in their relationship - David Morgan was one first class fuck. It was exactly that memory that caused her to think very carefully about his offer.
"Let me get this straight." she had said. "These tickets are already paid for, and you want me to pay for them a second time."
"Well I am giving you them for half price." David smiled - that damnable killer smile that she remembered so well.
With that, every warning light in Dawn's head went off. David only smiled like that when he thought he was getting over on someone.
"Well I'll tell you what, David dear." Dawn had smiled back. "I'll be more than willing to take those tickets off your hands - only as a fair exchange for what you owe me."
David appeared to be thinking it over for a few moments. From past experience, Dawn knew he was weighing the odds of getting anything more out of the deal.
"All right, you win." David said somewhat unexpectedly as he tossed the folder with the tickets over to her side of the small desk. "I guess you got me over a barrel."
Grabbing the tickets and quickly walking out of the travel agency, Dawn had been pretty pleased with herself. She'd figured she would never see that money again anyway so she might as well get something out of the deal. She and Kari were planning a little vacation anyway, and now they were going on a trip they could never have otherwise afforded.
The one little thing that David had failed to mention, was that the charter was for an all girl cruise. Not just an all girl - a lesbian cruise.
Since Kari had insisted on still going out Friday night, they hadn't gotten to the cruise ship until the last possible moment. They were just starting to pull in the gangway when their cab pulled up on the dock. It took a mad dash to make it just in time. "So I make one little mistake." Dawn grinned as she held her thumb and index finger a few inches apart. "What your problem is that you can't make the best of a situation. Try having a little fun for a change. We're on a cruise ship with discos, great food, almost anything you could ask for. But you'd rather stay in bed and complain about it. You won't find me sulking in my room."
"No kidding," Kari said as she finally sat up in bed. "You must've been out on that dance floor until 2 AM. I was surprised that blonde you were dancing with settled for a kiss on the cheek when she said goodnight."
"So would that have been so horrible." Dawn smiled. "It's not like we've never danced with other girls before or even kissed them."
"That was different!" Kari shot back.
"...and who knows, maybe we're missing out on something." Dawn continued.
"That's gross!" Kari hissed.
Dawn laughed at her friend's expression.
"That's what you said back in high school when I showed you how to blow a guy and let him cum in your mouth without gagging." Dawn retorted. "I seem to recall you've since changed your mind about that."