This is Jesse's story; these will be her words, her thoughts, her emotions. My sole purpose is to present her story to the reader in a readable manner, in an accurate manner, with no editing by me. She made me promise to do this, as she asked, and I promised. I always keep my promises to Jess.
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Her Story
"Happy Birthday, baby," Ray said, placing a folder on the table, and giving me a kiss.
It was my fortieth, and I felt damn good about it; I was still my same slender self, I certainly had no complaints about my sex life, as it was incredibly delicious, and rather than mourn my fortieth, I would damn well celebrate it, I had vowed.
"Oh, Ray," I cried when I opened the folder; it had two first-class tickets for a week long cruise through the Panama Canal, ending in L.A. but departing from Miami. Included was a top-end suite, complete with large balcony and every convenience that one could want.
"This must be costing a fortune," I said, staring at the tickets and all.
"It wasn't cheap, but then, neither am I when it comes to you, Jess," smiling afterwards.
He wasn't lying, I thought, rising to give him a big old thank-you smooch.
Holding me in his arms, tight to his chest, he said, "Jess, we've talked about cruising for what now? Five years? Well, it's time to stop talking and start doing."
"Aye, aye, captain," I said, my insides excited beyond belief.
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Leaning on the railing of our balcony suite, glasses of champagne in our hands, Ray and I watched as South Miami and the ship channel slipped behind us in the bright, tropical sun, it's warmth a blessed relief from the winter we left behind us at home.
"Hi, guys," we heard from our right, and leaning over their balcony, around the partition, were a couple, a bit older than us, but attractive and friendly.
The partition had decorative slits in it, but we could only see a bit of their bodies through it. We walked towards them, and leaning over the railing a bit, introductions quickly made all around.
Jen was fifty as it turned out, but a damned fine-looking fifty. Red haired, green-eyed, and maybe ten or twelve pounds heavier than my one-twenty, but not so that it was unattractive, more like she worked hard to keep trim.
Bob was sixty, balding, and rail-thin, with a smile born of tough negotiations in board rooms somewhere.
It was a quick winter getaway for them; both had tired of skiing in Aspen, poor dears, so here they were. Finding out the cruise was a present for my fortieth, they made us promise to let them buy us a celebratory drink in the casino later that night. We promised and as the shores of South Florida receded in our wake, we both adjoined to our cabins.
"Seem like nice folks," Ray commented, "and his wife is stunning, for her age."
"Yes, she certainly is," I agreed, also agreeing with him on their friendliness.
"Want to watch a movie before we get ready for dinner," he off-handedly said, surfing through the ship's TV system with the remote.
"You can watch a movie," I said, crawling over him, "I'm going to suck your dick."
I did, and he didn't.
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Our assigned dinner table was located on a high-rise section, and included four other couples, Jen and Bob among them. Surprised at seeing them at our dining table, we reacted with hugs and cheek-kisses and handshakes as if we'd known each other for years. Table-wide intros were made, with the normal glad-to-meet-you stuff flowing.
Talk was plentiful, as the service began, the entrΓ©e choices having been made already when checking in with the steward. The captain sent our table a very nice selection of wines for us to enjoy, reds and whites, and the spirit was one of jubilation and joy at being here, in the now.
Jen and I were next to each other at the table, our guys at our sides and the conversation flowed easily among the table in general, but between us four in particular.
It was nearly ten at night aboard ship but our bodies were still on Mountain Time which made it nearly midnight for us and with the travel and excitement and all, we were beat. We asked for a rain check on the drinks with Jen and Bob, explaining why and, of course, they were in complete understanding, telling us that the 'check' was good, anytime.
Saying goodnight, we took an after-meal walk around the deck, as did many others, the evening warm and the full moon bright. Two turns around and we headed for our cabin.
We took off the dinner garb and slipped into our sleep stuff, shorts for him, briefs and no shirt for me.
The briefs and shorts didn't get put on right away; Ray took me into his arms when I had gotten naked and had his, climb-the-mountain-to-a-climax, way with me, the perfect ending to a perfect beginning of a trip.
I had left the slider to our balcony open for the cool breeze from the ocean and was awakened by what? I didn't know, right away, but I was awake; looking at the clock on the nightstand, I was awake at two o'clock in the morning!
I lay there and listened for a while, and then I heard some sounds from outside. Tip-toeing to my opened door, the sounds were definitely coming from this direction.
Peeking slowly around our door, I looked towards the direction of the noise and could see in the moonlight that there were two people standing on Jen and Bob's balcony. I smiled to myself, why those old dogs, getting it on like that.
As my eyes adjusted to the light, or lack of it, more correctly, I could see that Jen was the body leaning against the railing, so that other body with the long hair and dinner dress must be BOB?
The two bodies were at the farthest part of their balcony from ours. So, sneaking on my tip-toes, not believing that I was doing this, I silently crept to the partition and looked through the slit at the two kissing, fondling bodies, so close that it looked like one person.
Looking towards their suite, Bob was nowhere that I could see, so I returned to my private peep-show. I pulled back into the shadows when the kissing duo broke apart, Jen pulling a chaise lounger over towards them. The other, a woman I confirmed by the shape of her breasts and ass, cooed something to Jen, but I couldn't hear what it was. I stood in the shadows for a while and when the noises indicated to me that they were 'busy' again, I peeked again through the slit.