LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN
PART TWO of TWO
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A SLIPPERY SLOPE
VII. A SLIPPERY SLOPE
We had agreed to meet in the lobby for breakfast at nine a.m.
At ten a.m. our phone rang.
"Hi sir, I hope I'm not disturbing you."
"Hi Mali, no. What's up?"
"Sir, Eric and Emily are here in the lobby. They said they arrived late and thought they missed you, but I said I hadn't seen you, so..."
"Oh, shit! Oops, sorry, Mali. Please tell them to give us thirty minutes. We overslept...No, wait. Could you please put Eric on the phone? Thanks."
"Hey, Eric, sorry. We overslept."
"Yeah, we did, too. Thought we missed you."
I offered, "How about a 'plan B'? Why don't you ask Mali to bring us up a pot of coffee, some juice and some breakfast rolls, or whatever you like. You can join us here for breakfast and we'll go from there."
"Sounds great. And, hey, no sweat, this is vacation, right?"
"Right. Come on up when you're ready. We're going to shower and get dressed."
"See you soon," Eric said and hung up.
Next to me, Myra stretched and yawned, "We overslept, didn't we?" she grinned.
"Wipe that grin off your face. It's all your fault. Jump in the shower; I'll be right behind you."
"No, you stay out from behind me. None of that!" she joked as she jumped out of bed and headed for the shower. After our showers, we quickly went to dress. I walked out of the bathroom first, briskly toweling off as I went. Mali was setting us up at the dining table; Eric and Emily were sitting on the sofa.
I stopped in my tracks and immediately brought the towel down to cover myself and warned Myra, "We have company."
She came out of the bathroom, vigorously toweling her hair, "What, honey...Oh shit! Oops," she giggled, spun around and padded back into the bathroom.
In the interim, she had given our guests, and Mali, a full-frontal view of her nude body...as had I.
Mali continued setting up, a small smile turning up the corners of her mouth. Emily covered her mouth in surprise and laughed. Eric was dead silent, and still staring at the spot where Myra had been.
"My bad. I forgot I told you to come on up," I apologized as I wrapped the towel around my waist. "Excuse me while I grab some clothes for us."
From the bathroom, "Thanks, for the warning, hon."
"I tried to warn you," I offered.
"Not in time!" Myra feigned anger, then laughed, "Sorry folks, hope that didn't put you off breakfast."
As I took our clothes to the bathroom, I heard Eric, in a hushed tone, say to Emily, "Wow...you were right, babe."
I smiled to myself. Obviously, Emily had shared with Eric her impromptu viewing of us nude that first night, apparently relating Myra's attributes.
I set Myra's clothes on the vanity and kissed her on the neck as she finished her hair, "You have a fan," I grinned.
"I'll bet!" she replied, with feigned chagrin, then flashed a sly smile, "Did you do that on purpose?"
"Good grief, no. It was an honest brain fart. I had told Mali we would be down in a half hour, then thought better than to have Eric and Emily cooling their heels in the lobby, so invited them here. In my mind we had a half hour to get ready."
"Well, all our secrets are out, now...We just haven't seen all their 'goods', yet," Myra joked.
"I'm sure they'd have no problem with rectifying that," I returned.
We got ready quickly and joined our guests. As we enjoyed our light breakfast, we discussed our revised plan for the day. I had a trail map and we picked our routes, starting with the waterfall, which Eric and Emily hadn't seen yet.
As we stood from the table, Emily stretched and yawned. She was wearing a thin, pale-blue, halter top, again with no bra. Myra saw me staring.
Myra pointedly asked, "Em, do you usually go braless?"
"What? Oh, yeah. Well, I usually wear camisoles, unless a bra is needed, like for my job, depending on the top. But here, with the heat, I haven't bothered with the camisoles. Is that not okay?"
"It's fine, silly. Well, no problem for me, but your giving Sean a case of blue-balls from watching those perky girls jiggling around in those flimsy tops."
"Myra, good grief!" I protested.
"I, I'm sorry..." Emily started.
"Oh, don't be sorry, silly. He loves it, and if my breasts were that perky, I'd show them off, too."
"Your breasts are beautiful!" Eric blurted out, not able to get a shoe stuffed in his mouth quickly enough.
Emily laughed, "You want to talk about a case of blue-balls, I think you've given Eric a permanent erection."
"Geez, Em!" he groused.
I spoke up, "Okay, it's no secret how we feel about each other, so we don't need to pretend we're not affected. But, if we're going to make anything of the day, we need to change directions."
Everyone agreed, at least in word, but I was pretty sure, if Myra or I, either one, had said, "Hell, let's just stay in and fuck," we would have never made it out the door. But we did -- make it out the door. We started by hiking up to the waterfall near the resort. When we arrived, another couple was just leaving, so we had it to ourselves. It was not a strenuous hike, but it was very warm and humid and we were all sweating.
"This is gorgeous," Emily remarked, "just like you described." She knelt down and dangled a hand in the water, "Oooh, nice and cool. You think it would be okay if we waded in, just to cool down a little?"
"I don't see why not," Myra said, and started unlacing her hiking boots. Emily quickly followed suit, and both of them waded in.
I took off my backpack and fished out a couple bottles of water, passing one to Eric."
"Thanks."
"Aghhh!"
We heard Emily yelp, and turned to see a splash and her disappear under the water. After a second of panic and concern on our part, she broke the surface, spitting water, choking and laughing.
"Bottom's slippery, and it gets deep, quickly" she explained.
Myra, who had lurched forward to where Emily had gone under, ostensibly to grab her, straightened up and laughed.
Then, "Oh, shit!" she exclaimed, as her feet went out from under her and she flopped backwards into the water. She came up laughing and sputtering.
Both women carefully worked their way back toward the water's edge, now dripping wet and clothes soaked. Once their upper bodies cleared the water line, four things were obvious -- Myra's peasant blouse, which she had been wearing off-shoulder, had slipped down, exposing her breasts. I know, that's only two things -- I can count. Also, Emily's filmy halter top became plastered to her and turned all but transparent, thus exposing her breasts almost as much as if she had nothing on. See -- four things! But worse, both women's hair-do's were a stringy mess, and Myra's shorts were smeared with mud.
Myra was laughing, tugging her blouse back up with one hand, and helping Emily toward the edge of the pool with the other.
She looked up, and barked, "Stop ogling and help us out of here!"
Once on dry land, Myra began wringing her hair out and assessing the damage, "We can't continue like this. We have to go back, shower this muck off and change. I think we need a 'plan C'!"
"How about we get back, clean up, have a relaxing lunch at one of the restaurants, and go from there?" I suggested.
"Lead on, Bwana," Myra joked, motioning back down the trail.
We caused quite a stir walking through the lobby. Panya, one of the day managers, seeing the state the women were in, expressed concern and asked if everything was okay.
As we walked by, Myra, coolly replied, "We're fine, just went for a dip in the pool; the bottom was muddy; we slipped."
Panya looked like he was going to have a stroke.
"Not 'that' pool," I quickly explained and pointed over my shoulder, "waterfall."
VIII. ANOTHER SLIPPERY SLOPE
We went to our villa since it was closest and had two showers.
(Many of the villas only have a bathtub in the room, and then there's a shower outside in an enclosed 'jungle room' that is open to the sky and outfitted with live plants, giving it a 'jungle' feel. The villa suites like ours, have both an indoor and an outdoor shower.)
Emily sent Eric to their villa for clothes, and the girls disappeared into the bathroom. I went to the bar to make ice waters and mix us each a drink.
After a moment, I heard feet padding across the room, behind me, "I got the jungle shower," Emily said as I turned to see who it was. I froze.
She stopped walking toward the outdoor shower, turned to face me and struck a pose, hand on hip, one leg slightly out at an angle, foot pointed like a ballet dancer.
"You like?" she grinned, "Myra's idea. She said 'Fair's fair'; Eric got to see her nude, so you should get the same."