Story Codes: MF, Pregnancy.
Shy wife goes on cruise and learns to be far less shy, with far more confidence in her sexual desirability, and dresses in more fashionable and sexy clothes after meeting two exceptionally attractive men.
Don and Sue have been married almost three years. They got married when Don graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering and after Sue's freshman year in college. Off and on, both Don and Sue jog a mile or two four or five days a week and sometimes enter 5K or 10K fun races.
Don is 25, 5'11", 160 lbs. He is a resident engineer for a large Architectural and Engineering Company. In high school and college, Don was shy and didn't date much due to lack of confidence. His family was low income, but the primary reason was his father's negative comments such as "You are not smart enough." Don's father meant well and intended for the comments to motivate Don to achieve more. Unfortunately that doesn't work with children because children take negative comment as truth and it affects their grades. It wasn't until his sophomore year in high school that Don decided he could compete with the other students and his grades greatly improved so that he graduated in the top 20 percent of his class.
His father's negative comments also affected Don's social skills and confidence. They took longer to develop and are still a little lacking. Don attractiveness was in the top 10 percent of college students, but he didn't believe it. Pretty college girls would say "Hi" but he thought they were just being nice. When Don finally did ask girls for a date, his lack of confidence was so apparent the girls would nicely turn him down. Those failures undermined his confidence even more which in turn would cause more failure. Don was on a downward spiral and started asking less-attractive girls. When Don lowered his standards to homely and big girls, they would accept no matter his social clumsiness and lack of confidence. Don's success with them gave him confidence to start asking more attractive girls and reversed his downward spiral so that, by his senior year, he was able to date pretty girls near his level of attractiveness.
Sue is 22, 5'6", 117 lbs. Sue was the daughter of a Church of Christ minister that prevented her social development with excessive rules and restrictions. Sue's lack of confidence and dumpy clothes did nothing to make her appear sexy or enhance her sex appeal. With sexy clothes and confidence, Sue would be in the top five to ten percent of college girls and, in normal circumstances, would be a little, but not a lot, out of Don's league.
Therefore, it is not that Sue didn't attract guys' attention. Regardless, of her clothes and social awkwardness, she was too pretty not too. It is just that the few guys she dated would come on too strong and too fast. However, in Sue, Don recognized a kindred spirit. Don was able to see basic looks and potential that others overlooked. Don dated Sue for a couple of months before she would allow him to remove any of her clothes, let alone have sex. Sue gave Don her virginity after they were engaged a couple of months before Don graduated.
Don insisted that Sue continue her education and she will graduate in May with a degree in social science. Sue has a big interest in the War Between the States. Also, Sue kept reminding Don how much she would like to go on a cruise. With Sue's graduation assured, Don and Sue decided it was time to start a family so in April Sue stopped taking birth control pills.
Also, in April, as a graduation present, Don told Sue that she was going on a cruise in June, it was a total surprise. Don had made all of the arrangements: A four day Caribbean cruise from Wednesday to Sunday. Also, on the trip back, Don had arranged with the travel agency to stay an extra day in Atlanta, Georgia. They would arrive in Atlanta Sunday evening, and Monday they would take a scheduled tour of a Civil War museum, a battlefield and other sites.
Don wasn't as interested in going on a cruise, but he was planning on going and had booked the cruise at special rates which were not refundable. However, the senior resident engineer retired just before the cruise and Don was the only resident engineer for a major construction project. With just another four months until the project was completed, the company wasn't going to assign another resident engineer. Therefore, Don could not go until after it was completed. However, since the cruise had already been paid for and was not refundable, and knowing how much Sue wanted to go on a cruise and how special it would be to her, Don encouraged Sue to go and told Sue she could take another lady in his place. However, the timing for was not right for the lady she asked, so Sue went alone.
After Don told her about the cruise, Sue was determined to go looking her very best. Sue hadn't run much during the winter so she decided to watch her diet and increase her mileage. After a few weeks she increased her time and distance until she was jogging three miles four or five times a week. By the time Sue left for the cruse she was a trim and firm 115 pounds. Sue agreed when Don told her that she never looked better. Don was so pleased and excited that he rewarded her extra efforts with several expensive and sexy dresses. Before she left, Don helped Sue pick out and buy a couple of bikinis. He insisted that Sue pack a stylish party dress and bikini along with what he considered her nicer dresses. Don was so proud of Sue.
Don had decided that since she was so very good looking, that if she was going on a cruise she could at least wear the clothes that enhanced her very good looks. With her complexion, excellent muscle tone, innocent look, and depending on how she dressed, many people would guess Sue to be seventeen or eighteen, and in high school. However, in other clothes, Sue might look closer to her age. Regardless, normally Sue does appear to be younger than her true age of 22.
At the airport Don watched as Sue checked her luggage. Then he kissed her and said, "Sue, I love you and I'm so proud of you. You're sexy and so very good looking. You have a marvelous body and don't you dare think, dress or act otherwise. It's so much easier to have fun when you are proud and dress to look good. I want you to make this a fun cruise, and to have a wonderful time."
"I'll try, it just takes time," she replied. Growing up with her over protective, religious, and conservative Church of Christ minister father, Sue always thought of herself as dumpy and dressed accordingly. However, over time, Don's compliments had helped her self esteem. Sue wondered if Don realized how much her self-esteem and confidence had already improved.
"Sue, I think you would feel more comfortable and enjoy the cruise more if you have someone to talk to. So try to get-acquainted and make friends with some nice lady so you will have someone to visit with during the cruise. The cruise will have a get-acquainted party and dance. I think you should plan on going. You can visit with the ladies, have a couple of drinks, and try to have fun. Also, you should dance a little."
"Perhaps no one will ask," Sue said, remembering times when she didn't get asked.
"Well, there will probably be more women than men on the cruise, but I don't think you will have much competition. Anyway you can have a good time if you just visit with some of the ladies, listen to the music and have a couple of drinks. However, if you wear your new party dress, I'm sure you will get asked to dance unless you are so reserved that the men are intimidated by your good looks. If you would like to dance and if it seems that no one is going to ask then it might be necessary for you to smile and do a little flirting to give someone the confidence to ask."
"Maybe I will flirt a lot," Sue threatened facetiously. Sue knew she might be nervous and, in that case, flirting would be difficult for her.
Smiling at her response, Don gave Sue a hug and whispered, "Hun Bun, you have my approval to flirt as much as you want to." Don wanted Sue to learn to be more outgoing and perhaps to flirt a little more. Don would feel a certain amount of pride in knowing that other men would also think that Sue was desirable.
"Maybe I should do some serious flirting," Sue said to her herself in exasperation. Given the right situation and with her growing confidence, Sue might flirt a lot. However, Sue believed that she probably wasn't going to do much flirting. Nevertheless, for just a moment, she was irritated that Don could be so certain that he didn't need to take her threat seriously.
"I have to go now," Sue stated.
Don gave Sue one last kiss and said, "I love you and I will miss you." Don watched until Sue passed through the security gate and was out of sight.
Sue's seat was 26A, a window seat just a few rows past first class.
The flight from Dallas was uneventful. To pass the time, Sue read from a romance novel she had purchased for the trip. When she changed planes in Atlanta, the airline had overbooked the seats available in coach so Sue and a couple of other passengers were seated in First Class.
Sue was already thrilled about her trip, but being seated in first class only intensified her excitement. After Sue took her seat and buckled up, the gentleman next to her said, "It's a nice day for traveling." Before nodding her reply, Sue glanced at the handsome gentleman seated next to her. Sue judged him to be in his late twenties and maybe 6' 1" or 6' 2". He appeared to be an athletic and very self-assured individual with brown hair and dark brown eyes. There was a natural undomesticated animal magnetism about him that was intensified by an expression that gave just a hint of his sensuality. He reminded Sue of 007 from the original James Bond movies. Sue wouldn't have been surprised to learn that Greg was the starting QB in high school and graduated from Princeton.
"Would you like anything to drink?" the stewardess said, interrupting her thoughts.