This a mild, yet pleasant, tale about a time when my cousin Tina and I were able to derive pleasure and reassurance from one another.
All those things which you have read apply here. That would be the messages about not reading this if you are underage, or if you are astounded and feel loathing of tales about sex between relatives. If that's true, don't read Job, and don't read this.
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I was advised by my boss that I would have to fly to Miami on company business on a fall weekend last year. I was not too happy about the notion of canceling a date with Marie, a twenty-four year old teacher I had recently met, but called her to advise her of my predicament. She understood, and said she would take a rain-check for the following Saturday night.
I live in Savannah, and only know one person in Miami, my first cousin Tina who attends college at the University of Miami. I hadn't seen her since she was about sixteen, so before my departure I called my aunt for directions on how to contact her.
I arrived in Miami on Friday morning, and had completed my business at an advertising agency near the airport by mid-afternoon. I started to catch the next plane back, but since a Saturday night stay would make the cost of the ticket cheaper, I called Tina from the office I was visiting.
When she answered the cellular phone, she told me she had heard from her mom and would pick me up as she was in her car and close to the airport. Her roommates were gone and I could stay in one of their rooms and we could catch up on things.
Tina is eight years younger than me, and at twenty-one was already in graduate school in the History department. I remembered her as a studious child in thick glasses, and when her BMW convertible pulled into the parking lot I was surprised to see how much she had changed. The top was down, and her face was tanned and smooth, outlined in a white silk scarf from which her long black hair hung down around her bare shoulders. As I threw my bag in the back seat and got in next to her, she reached over and kissed me on the cheek.
She was dressed in the uniform of modern, youthful, Miami women, tight cut-off jeans and a yellow halter top which revealed her smooth belly below her ample breasts.
She accelerated out of the parking lot, and headed for the expressway to Coconut Grove, where her apartment was located. Her father, my uncle, was a wealthy lawyer in Virginia, and was apparently keeping her up in style.
We talked about family gossip during the ride, and when we neared the place she said she lived, she pulled off into the parking lot of a yacht club on Biscayne Bay. She said she had not eaten all day because she had been studying for mid-terms, and I was hungry, also. Inside, we passed through the restaurant into a dimly lit lounge in the rear. She seemed to know her way around and picked a booth in the rear of the finely appointed establishment near the dance floor where several couples moved in easy rhythm to the soothing music of a Caribbean band. Social activities in Miami are a twenty-four hour a day affair, and the subdued atmosphere of the lounge was that of easy sophistication.
We ordered dinner and wine, and while we ate our salad and enjoyed the Merlot, she told me about her master's thesis she was writing on the history of the sugar trade in the islands. She was more brilliant than I realized, and I secretly wondered how so much beauty could be combined with brains. Only once did the conversation falter, and that was when she mentioned her relationship with her long-time boyfriend who had left her several months ago for another woman. She said she had been involved with only her studies, and "other" things in the past few months, and was glad I had called her as she needed some diversion from school.
Dinner was good, and when we had finished and drank more wine she asked if I wanted to dance. I joked about dancing with my cousin, and she said we were at least kissing-cousins, because we must look good together. She nodded her head toward two older women who were watching us from the bar across the room. She said they were busybodies and regular patrons, and probably wondered who I was. Tina ate in the club often, alone or in the company of her two roommates, and she said the two old crones talked about everyone who came in.
The band was playing soft music of the islands, and I led her to the floor where we fell in among the other couples on the polished hardwood dance surface. The weekend starts about noon on Friday in Miami, and it is easy to fall under the spell of the exotic city on the edge of the Caribbean.
She took my hand and I put my arms around her, feeling the wine slightly as we moved across the floor to the tune of the drums and steel guitars. As she settled into my embrace, I could feel her breasts press against me and her nipples harden against my chest. The smooth skin on her back was warm to the touch, and as we moved I felt her press her hips into me several times. She was a fine dancer, and moved in a sensuous swaying to the sounds of the band.
When we returned to the booth, she tapped me and motioned toward the bar. The two women were talking animatedly and glancing toward us. When they saw us looking, they looked away. It was almost comical. As we drank more wine, Tina whispered to me we ought to really give them something to talk about. With that, she sat closer to me and put her arm around my shoulders. When I turned to look at her, she kissed me on the mouth, moving her hand to the back of my head. I was startled and started to pull away, but she pulled me to her and I felt her tongue exploring my mouth. She pulled away and I heard her sharp intake of breath as her hands lightly moved across my shoulders. Her left hand came to rest on my thigh, and I could feel a tension in my loins as she looked at me with her clear, brown eyes.
"That should keep them busy," she said, looking toward the bar. I could only nod in assent.
She took my hand and led me to the floor where we danced again to a faster beat. As she moved gracefully across the floor I could see her breasts move under the thin halter as her hips swayed to the music. When the music slowed and I took her in my arms again, she pressed her hips into my loins and I could feel my prick stir as she ground against me. Over her back I could see the two women openly staring.
When I paid the bill and we walked out into the warm air, the sun had set and the stars were out in the dark sky. Neon signs twinkled across the bay and the lights of moving boats seemed like red and green fire flies on the dark water as we got into her car and she put up the top for the short drive to her home.
Her condo overlooked the bay, and as we went up in the glass elevator I could see the Miami skyline stretched out to the north. Tina was quiet and held my arm with her hand. The apartment was nice and she pointed out the room where I could put my things. I told her I wanted to take a shower, and she led me to a large master bath with a spa and open shower. As I hung up my clothing bag she sat on the edge of the spa and turned on the water and lights. "Why don't we get some more wine and sit in the spa," she suggested. "It's neat to sit here and watch the lights of the boats in the bay."
"I don't have a swimsuit," I told her, as she moved out to the kitchen. Turning her head, she said "Just take off your clothes and get in the water. I won't look."