Paris Waterman
Part 18
The Hoar's Nook
Once he closed on the houseboat, Mark took a week's vacation and cleaned the boat from stem to stern, enlisting several softball teammates to help him. He discovered that Alexis had a friend (of course she did) who could work with him on decorating his new home as well. At week's end, he was almost completely furnished and accessorized. Almost being the key word, as the ladies from the team came aboard to see and 'tut-tut' about this and that, telling him he had a way to go, but that he should take his time getting there.
But on leaving the houseboat every one of them was quick to announce: "He's got himself a god damn love boat for sure!" or words to that effect.
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Mark parked his Honda Accord in the only vacant space in Katy's Marina and carried his architectural drawings and briefcase to the Hoar's Nook, his recently refurbished houseboat, jogged up the short gangway and paused on the quarterdeck to take a breath of the gentle evening breeze coming in off the bay.
"Hi Neighbor, I was wondering when I'd get a chance to say hello. I'm your neighbor, Jon Huntsman."
"Mark Newlin, Mark said with a smile. "Good to meet you."
"Same here," Huntsman said, and then in a rush he added: "Say I know you just got home but we'd love to get to know you a little better. Oh, my wife's Mary Kaye, she's a pistol. Would you like to come aboard our boat after freshening up, say about an hour or so?"
"Sure," Mark replied, not having met any of his neighbors and knowing it was inevitable and necessary. "Um, which one are you?"
"The Viking Maiden, we're tied up just after the Hawkeye."
Since the Hawkeye was tied up alongside the Hoar's Nook Mark could see Jon's boat just beyond it only it was a boat, not a houseboat which surprised him.
"Great," Jon said and after giving mark a salute, he turned and started back toward his boat, the Viking Maiden.
It was almost two hours later that Mark arrived at the Viking Maiden, a yacht that must have cost close to a million dollars. Jon greeted him with a cold beer, which Mark accepted with thanks. It had reached 97 degrees that afternoon.
"Come aboard! Come aboard Neighbor," Jon said louder than necessary. "So is my view better than yours?" He laughed good-naturedly as they had almost identical views.
Well I can tell you I've definitely got a better view of the Hawkeye than you," Mark said facetiously. A second later both men were laughing merrily.
"Hey--Hey, Mary Kaye c'mon up on deck ... meet our neighbor, Mark Newlin!"
The Huntsman's were in their early forties. Jon was just under six feet and lean and wiry. His wife, Mary Kaye had a magnificent body, as she appeared in a bikini that hid almost nothing. Her face looked familiar and Mark would learn that he'd seen it on Vogue Magazine a year or two earlier in Rana's apartment.
Mary Kaye's breasts were huge, he would find out later that evening that she was a 36-EE from Jon, who kept bringing her body up in the conversation. Mary Kaye for that matter didn't appear to mind in the slightest, their affection showed in the way a casual arm draped around one another or how they leaned into each other when they were seated on the fantail.
Moreover, both husband and wife asked knowledgeable questions about the building Mark told them he'd designed and helped construct in Chastened.
Then Mary Kaye surprised Mark by asking her husband if he'd stopped by the video store earlier to gawk at Randy Kisses, the latest porn queen who was appearing at the local strip club that night as she toured the south promoting her latest porn film.
"As a matter of fact, I did."
"Get to rub up against those triple D's?"
"No. she had me rub against her ass, which was almost as good."
"Should I be hearing this conversation?" Mark asked. "It seems kind of private, you know?"
"Oh, pay us no mind, Mark. We love porn. We watch it most nights to help get our motors revved up, you know?" Mary Kaye laughed and gave his knee a light squeeze.
"Nothing wrong with that," Mark replied. "I've seen one of her pictures."
"And?" Mary Kaye laughed, and verbally pushed him into a corner. He was going to talk about porn whether he wanted to or not.
"I liked it," Mark answered.
But she wasn't letting him off the hook just yet. "Oh, and what did you like about it, specifically?"
From the corner of his eye Mark saw Jon smirking.
"Um, let me put the sexual aspects aside for the moment," he replied. "First off, there was a semblance of a plot. If I recall correctly the first scenes involved her running from someone or something. We learn who she's running from, but not why. It's probably twenty minutes into the film before the first serious sex scene takes place. I recall wondering if I was watching a regular R rated film and then whamo, she's going down on a guy in an alley like nobody's business. Um, I think from that point on it was basically sexβsex and more sex."
"Yes, I remember that one," Mary Kaye said, holding her wine glass out toward Mark. She turned to her husband and said, "He gave a very succinct review of it don't you think, Jon?"
"He did. I'm impressed, Mark."
That conversation broke the ice, and Jon and Mary Kaye opened up about their sex life. Mark learned that they kept a private stash of erotic videos.
"Jon lend him the one we watched last night."
Turning to Mark, Mary Kaye added: "Jon uses these to get me all hot and bothered. He was a very happy man after we watched this particular video.
Mark had them both laughing when he replied: "Mmmm, just what the country needs ... more
hot and bothered women."
"And you're above such coarse temptations?" Jon said with a smile and a wink.
"Well ..." Mark said hesitating before answering.
"Better have a towel handy. I came twice watching it," Mary Kaye said and everything went quiet.
"Yes ... well ..." Mark was at a loss for words.
Jon laughed and threw his arm around Mary Kaye. "She's a keeper," he said, and gave her right breast a gentle squeeze.
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