Maybe it’s just going to take me a little more time or something. It’s only the first night, after all.”
“Have you met anybody yet?” asked Liz.
Clarice shrugged. “One guy, I guess. His name is Kyle. We actually kissed a bit…”
The girls ooh ed in silly delight and Liz took Clarice by the shoulders and gave her a hug.
“Just a bit, huh?” said Trudy as she teased Clarice’s calf with her sandaled foot. “Are you sure you didn’t get a little strange already, miss Clarice?”
Clarice blushed and laughed, pushing her hair back from her ears. “I’m pretty sure I would remember touching a new dick, Trude.”
“It’s just a matter of time!”
“You’re probably just tired from all the travel,” said Sophie. “It really does a number on you if you’re not used to it. After dinner and some drinks, plus a good night’s rest in your suite, you’re going to feel so much better! I’m sure of it.”
“This place is gorgeous,” Clarice agreed. “Even if I don’t touch a new dick, I’m sure I’ll find something to do to make this trip worthwhile.”
“I swear to Christ, I’m not letting you get back on that return plane home until you’ve had someone inside you,” said Trudy with a straight face. The other girls burst out laughing so hard that Liz almost spilled her drink across the beautiful white tablecloth.
“Okay, okay, God!” laughed Clarice, shaking her head. “I can see that all of your pervert powers have been greatly enhanced by this place.”
“You have no idea,” said Liz with eyebrows raised.
“You slut ,” said Sophie to Liz with a wicked smile. “Spill it, what did you do already?”
“I met a guy who invited me to an orgy,” shrugged Liz nonchalantly. “So I joined in.”
Mid-drink, Trudy nearly choked on the plushy alcoholic ice in her throat. Sophie squealed with high-pitched laughter she only got when she was good and drunk.
“You did not, ” said Clarice in a challenging voice.
“I sure as hell did!” replied Liz. “You ladies forget that you’re the ones in the fancy, fast-paced jobs where you meet sexy swinging dick all the time. I’m surrounded by kids, their idiot married parents, and the functioning alcoholic substitute teachers. I’m dying of thirst here!”
Sophie leaned across the table like they were sharing a conspiracy, her smile wide and her eyes glowing. “How many people were there? Men and women?”
“Yes, of course men and women, it’s an orgy. Everyone can come. And most did, if you catch my drift.”
“I totally don’t believe you,” said Clarice.
Liz started glancing around the patio, craning her neck, trying to see past all the masses of bodies. Then she began to point, one by one, to random people across the deck. “You can ask him. And him. And him. And her. And them…”
“Goddamn, here I am reeling from what was barely a high-school make out under the bleachers, and you’re over here acting like Hugh Hefner set loose on the bunny ranch.” Clarice was shaking her head.
Liz was still counting. “They were there. Oh, and him , his dick was like a bratwurst … ”
“Don’t sweat it, Clarice, I haven’t talked to anybody yet either,” said Sophie. “It’s just our first day. We can’t all be the orgy magnet that Liz apparently is.”
“All this time, I had no idea,” laughed Trudy.
“Hey Clarice… does that guy know you?” said Liz, leaning close to her ear and pointing across the patio.
Clarice looked to follow her direction and immediately she spotted Harrison. Despite the crowd, and all the lights and noise and activity, he still stood out like an Adonis. He had done some serious cleaning up since she saw him this afternoon, and didn’t look as tired or stressed as he had before. His dark black mane looked as though it had been professionally coifed, and his gorgeous body was decked in a tailored matte black suit that made him look like he had just stepped out of a men’s
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