This is the final part of a four-part story. It might make a bit more sense to start on the first chapter, but feel free to do whatever you want. We're all adults here.
As are all the characters in this story, of course.
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We had cruised by this so called Bonfire Island on our first day at the lake, but on that day it had been deserted. Now as we approached it for the second time, we could already see people moving about on the island's small beach. Someone had managed to deliver a large pile of branches and shrubs and even an impressive stack of split logs for the fire.
Dusk was still over an hour away, but Jack had informed us that we were helping with the setup, so when Jack killed the engine, I jumped off the bow into the water on the shore and pulled the boat up onto the sand. Eva and Sophie had ridden with us, along with Katie. Becky, Todd, Felicia and Robert had all piled in with Matt and Tina on the same boat they had used to pretend to take us into custody the day before.
Neither Tina nor Matt wore their Marine Patrol "uniforms."
"Jason and Amber have the patrol today," Matt had said back at Jack's cabin.
"Will they be coming to the bonfire?" Sophie had asked, concerned.
"Don't worry," Tina had said. "They wouldn't miss it."
I had assumed that Jason and Amber were just the first of several people I was going to meet tonight, and I was right. Chief Barbara was already here, directing the arrangement of the island's donated picnic tables. Robert and I team-carried the big cooler filled with all the beers and beverages our crew would need for the evening, and Todd helped Jack and another man begin building the bonfire stack in the fire pit itself. Sophie, having said her hellos and given big hugs to the people she knew, had me carry a large plastic tote filled with blankets up onto the beach, and she introduced us to some of the people who had arrived before us.
We met Roger and Jess, a married couple in their late twenties. Hank and Donna were in their early forties. We also met friends of Matt and Tina, who were staying with the couple in their cabin. Melanie was around thirty, and Leanne was closer to our age, maybe twenty-two or three.
When Sophie introduced me to Hank and Donna, it was obvious that Donna was Kaylee's mother. The resemblance was so strong, Eva and I traded wide-eyed glances before we shook hands. I'll admit it was a little unnerving, shaking the hand of a man who's daughter I had just fucked hours earlier.
Other people we met included Barbara's husband David, who was the man managing the building of the bonfire stack, directing Jack and Todd with plenty of jokes and laughs between them. There was also a young couple without wedding bands, who introduced themselves as Katrina and Tyler.
By the time the introductions were finally done and the bonfire set up, dusk was beginning to settle in, so the fire was lit, beers and wine opened, and someone had thought to bring a battery-powered sound system hooked to an iPod.
By the time the sun had truly set, the fire was roaring, and I had already cracked open my second beer. I sat at one of the picnic tables next to Eva, chatting with new acquaintances and getting a look at some of the women I had just met. Single or attached, twenty or forty, they were all beautiful. Maybe it was my strenuous morning activities that helped me to keep my perverted thoughts at bay to begin with, but it was more likely that each and every woman was confident, conversational and funny. I was just having a good time with good people.
It wasn't until Sophie handed me something that I remembered what the real purpose of tonight's gathering was.
"Is this what I think it is?" I asked.
Sophie grinned and nodded.
I tossed it into my mouth and drank it down with a sip of beer. Around me, I observed Robert, Todd, Jack and Matt all do the same. Apparently we were pulling out all the stops tonight.
"This is going to be interesting," Eva said. She leaned in and whispered. "Your cock is going to be hard all night."
Barbara was the one to gather us all around the bonfire. "Are there any single people here with us tonight?"
It was a few seconds before anyone moved or answered. Then Katie raised her hand, followed by Leanne and Melanie. Eva and I looked at each other and smiled, then we both raised our hands as well.
"Okay, guys," Barbara said. "The five of you can go over to one of the tables."
"What the hell?" Melanie protested, but she was smiling. I had learned over the last hour or so, that she had visited the lake many times over the years with Matt and Tina. Whatever was going on was a familiar routine for her.
"Don't sass me, young lady," the Chief joked. She slapped Melanie on the ass for good measure as the thirty-year-old brunette passed.
I followed the four purportedly single ladies to the picnic table closest to the fire and we watched the rest of the group. The couples were all paired off together: Jack and Sophie, Todd and Becky, Felicia and Robert, Matt and Tina, Barbara and David, Hank and Donna, Katrina and Tyler, and finally Roger and Jess.
"Now all the men," Barbara said. "Walk around the fire clockwise until I say 'stop.'"
I saw Jack and Todd both kiss their girlfriends before they started slowly pacing around the fire. Eight men circling eight women with the blaze in the center. The anticipation was starting to have an effect on me. A tent began to rise in my shorts, and Eva was right there to notice, rubbing a hand on the bulge and encouraging its growth.
"And stop," Barbara said. Now Roger was standing behind her and while all the guys were in the same order, they were now five positions removed from where they had started: Roger and Barbara, Jack and Donna, Todd and Katrina, Robert and Jess, Matt and Sophie, David and Becky, Hank and Felicia, and Tyler and Tina.
