As part of a drive to get out of our usual day to day grind, my husband Mick and I decided on a moments notice to jump on a plane to the USA for a back packing holiday, also our 5th wedding anniversary. Keen to catch some of the famous music festivals while we were there, we rented a car and started our adventure.
About a week after arriving we had scored tickets to a 3-day festival in California and found our selves in a small two man tent surrounded by 50,000 other festival goes in a sea of tents, cars and RV's. The atmosphere was amazing and we soon were surrounded by new friends, keen to party very hard.
Once we entered the festival grounds the normal festival activities began, lining up for drinks, lining up for toilets, lining for food, and it was while Mick was in his first toilet queue and I was doing the same for drinks that I made some new friends. A group of 5 college students was in front of me and I struck up conversation with one of the two girls in the group, a stunning Latina girl who liked my dress. When I thanked her, they heard my Australian accent and soon we were all chatting.
I found out that they were from a University on the other side of the country and had driven across on a massive holiday road trip to the festival. They were supposed to be travelling as a group of six but one of the guys, Jamar, a handsome and very well built black guy, had recently been dumped by his girlfriend so they were a now a five. Nancy, the other girl, suggested I should join them if I was here on my own but the line moved forward and I didn't get a chance to explain my situation to them. I got my drinks and met Mick a few minutes later.
"I see you made some new friends in the line, nice people?" He enquired.
"Yeah, they actually asked me to join their little group as they thought I was on my own."
"That's nice of them, I understand why, that big black guy couldn't stop staring at you while you were walking back here. He looked gutted, must have killed him to hear you were married."
"Stop it." I said as I felt myself blush. "Plus, he has no idea I'm married, the line moved before I could tell them."
"You're blushing!" Mick teased.
"No I'm not." I protested, knowing it was a lie. Mick left it there and we went about catching all the amazing bands we'd travelled so far to see.
We caught a few bands, had quite a few drinks and were thinking about heading back to the tent to change into some warmer clothes before sundown when Mick spotted the crew from the bar line.
"Hey, isn't that your black boyfriend and his mates?" He said mockingly.
"Where?" I said a little too quickly and excitedly, probably due to the alcohol.
Mick turned to me and I felt myself go beet red, I had been thinking about the hot black guy all day, mostly I was just flattered that he might be interested in a woman who was older than him. Though not by much I kept telling myself, 5 years at best by my math.
"You should go talk to him."
"What?" I said incredulously.
"You know" Mick said with a wink. "Go and flirt with him, he's obviously keen on you."
"Then what, just disappear when things get a bit hot?"
"Or not." Mick replied matter of factly.
"Are you telling me I can go flirt with another guy?" I asked, astonished, while I starred at him.
"Yeah, you should, if you want. We are on holidays, why not?"
"Because we're fucking married!" I half yelled at him.
"Calm down, you're the one that was so excited to see him again." Mick said while making soothing gestures with his hands
"That's because I'm flattered a young hunk like that was interested in me, which I'm still not certain about by the way."
"Then go find out." He said glancing at the group
"So you want to sit here and watch while I go flirt, and maybe make out with a young black college kid?"
"Yep." He said flatly.
"Are you fucking kidding me?"
"Nope. We've fantasised about you fucking another guy, I say time to make it happen."
"Seriously, how drunk are you?"