My name is Dave Meadows. Until a few years ago my life was pretty normal. Then the economic crisis hit, and my job was a casualty. I searched for months but the only job I could find was manning a window at a fast food restaurant. It was work, but it hardly helped pay the mortgage, car payments, and other bills the average family has these days. At least I didn't have to work the deep fryer.
Every day I would rush home from work, stinking of meat and grease, to check all the job websites I had submitted my resume to. Every day for over a year I was disappointed. Thank God for my wife, Jill. She was there to cheer me up every time I despaired, and encouraged me to keep trying despite how futile it all seemed. She was amazing, and I don't think I could have gotten through it without her support.
Thankfully she still had a job, but she had originally gotten it to supplement our income, not be our main source of income. I know it was hard on her too, she and the kids had to give up a lot of amenities, but she never complained. It wasn't in her nature.
Her constant cheerfulness was what drew me to her when we first met, but I have no delusions about what other men first notice. No, she isn't a blonde with humungous breasts, but she has a slim figure even after having two kids, and a cute face that never seems to age. Men often hit on her, especially younger ones who think that when we're together she's hanging out with her father. It never bothers me, and we usually get a laugh out of it.
Just over a year ago, I finally got another job. It was unexpected, but couldn't have come at a better time. We were behind on the house, and headed towards foreclosure. About the time we were getting ready to move, I got a response to one of my resumes and landed the perfect job with a great salary. When I told her we cried tears of joy together all night long.
After working, and catching up on the bills, for a year we decided to take a vacation, just the two of us. We thought long and hard about where we wanted to go. There were so many places we wanted to visit, but we had to be realistic. We had caught up on the bills, but we still didn't have a lot of extra money, so it would have to be as inexpensive as we could make it. We wanted to go someplace tropical though. We had been to Hawaii years earlier, and although we enjoyed it, didn't want to repeat. That left Puerto Rico and Jamaica as our two best options and I let her flip a coin.
Jamaica won, and over the next few days Jill scheduled our plane and hotel. It had been so long since we had traveled that neither one of us seemed to mind all the little hassles that go along with it. We both boarded the plane excited and happy to be going away for two weeks.
The hotel was as good as advertised, right on the beach, which was great since we had decided not to rent a car. We had decided that we would spend every moment we could on the beach and eat our meals at the hotel. No thinking, no worrying about trying to see this or that, just relaxing. It had been a long time since either one of us could just do nothing.
We hit the beach immediately after dropping our bags off in the hotel room. Jill surprised me when she took off her sundress. The bikini she had on underneath was barely there. It was certainly more daring than anything she had ever worn before. The top covered little more than her nipples and I'm not sure how the bottom covered anything at all. I didn't see any hairs sticking out down below, so she had obviously shaved before we left, something she only did when she was feeling frisky.
Men of all ages stared openly, and she gave me a seductive grin. "I thought you might like it," she said.
I could only nod and drool like everyone else as I stared at my beautiful wife. By the time we left the beach, and headed back to the hotel for that evening's dinner, I was as hard as a rock thinking about all the things I'd like to do to my wife. As we were eating, Jill got more stares from admirers who must have seen her on display at the beach. I even heard a couple of young guys remark about how hot she was and how they'd like to get their hands on her ass. I found it amusing, but thankfully, Jill didn't appear to hear them.
When we went back to our room Jill took off her sundress again and pranced around the room in her nearly naked state. I quickly caught her and playfully wrestled her to the bed.
"So, how do you like my new bikini?" she asked.
"I like it a lot, so did every other man on the beach," I told her.
"Would you rather I not wear it anymore?"
"Of course not," I told her. "It doesn't bother me if they look. I'm the one that gets to touch."
And touch I did that night, everywhere all over her body. We made passionate love all night long, and one more time in the morning after we awoke in the morning for good measure. I was in a sleepy fog when we headed towards the beach that day, but Jill seemed surprisingly chipper for having spent most of the night awake.
She was wearing a different bikini than the day before, but it wasn't any less revealing. We lay down to get some sun, and I didn't intend to fall asleep, but the next thing I knew I was waking up from a nap. I looked next to me and was surprised to see that Jill was gone. I quickly scanned the beach and saw her knee deep in the water talking to two younger guys.
I could tell the guys were hitting on her, but she didn't look like she was flirting back. She laughed a few times, but every time they tried to get real close to her, she backed away. After a while, she noticed me watching and waved. I waved back, and then she turned to them and said something before exiting the water and walking back towards me.
"What did those guys want?" I asked.
"Besides trying to seduce your wife?" she said with a laugh. "Young guys like them are so transparent. But it was very flattering. They invited me up to their room, and when I declined they invited me to take a drive, and when I turned that down they asked if I wanted to get some weed with them."
I laughed. Neither one of us had smoked any weed since before the kids were born. "What did you tell them?"
"I told them I couldn't go anywhere without my husband, and then I saw you watching so I waved. When they saw you wave back they got really nervous so I said goodbye," she told me. "The truth is, when they mentioned the weed I began thinking I could really go for some right now."
"Really?" I asked.
"Yeah, why not. It's been a long time, and somehow it fits with how lazy we're being."
"You're right, it does. I guess I could go for some too," I told her.
The guys hadn't gone far, but they were walking away and not looking our direction, so we picked up our things and ran to catch them. When we caught up to them I saw that they were early twenties at the oldest.
Jill introduced us. Their names were Bill and John and they said they were there on vacation with their family. They were 18 and 20 and their parents had gotten them their own room in the hotel and pretty much told them to have fun and not get arrested. I asked them about the weed, and they said that one of the hotel staff had given them directions to some guy who sold the best around. They had access to a car but had been a little unsure about going by themselves in an unfamiliar place.
Jill and I said we'd go with them so we could get some of our own. The four of us piled into their rental car and followed the directions they had received. We ended up at some little shack that sold various jerked food on a stick. Bill walked up and asked to see Bastian and gave the name of the guy from the hotel.
The guy at the counter said he was Bastian, and looking all four of us up and down asked what we wanted. There were a couple other native Jamaicans hanging around outside the shack, so John looked around nervously and asked for weed.
Bastian laughed and told us to go to the back of the shack. There was a door in the back and he came out with some bags of weed. I couldn't believe how much he had and what he was selling it for, but he said he couldn't sell any to us unless we all took a hit with him first. When Bill asked why, Bastian just laughed and said it was his one rule with vacationers.
None of us saw any harm, so he lit a joint and passed it to Bill. Bill took a few tokes then passed it to his brother, who passed it to Jill, who passed it to me. It went around between the four of us for a while, until I had to sit down. There was a folding table and some chairs so I sat. I wasn't sure if it was the weed or the lack of sleep the night before, but I was having trouble keeping my eyes open.
I vaguely remember resting my head on the table, but that was all I could recall before waking up some time later. I was still sitting at the table, but Bill and John were passed out on the ground, and there was no sign of Jill.