IN EACH OTHERS ARMS
By Regina Lawson
The seduction had begun. In the subdued lighting of the
Mexican resort bar, cigarette smoke swirled with the currents of the
overhead fans, the interior light itself seemed to bend and become
opaque to those sitting at the bar. Maybe it was because of that, or
because anyone sitting at the bar was already seeing things opaque
after a few drinks, but the three men sitting, nursing their drinks,
had to admire the woman who walked in the door. The lighting, the
smoke, the heat, did little to disguise the beautiful woman's figure
as she paused at the door, briefly eyed the men at the bar, and
strolled away to the corner. The three men, the bartender and even
the waitress, followed her with their eyes noting the easy lithe
stroll, and the long tanned legs. As she passed, a whiff of perfume,
and a glimpse of her breast's profile left a feeling of anticipation
and hope among those men present. After all, this was a singles
resort, and each man and woman knew what the other was there for.
First to emerge off his barstool was a young, slender
collegial type, full of his youth and cocky with his past successes.
His deliberate walk, his sinewy gait, and his gaze intent upon the
woman would remind a casual observer of a jungle cat and its prey.
The remaining two men at the bar already felt they had lost. There
was such an air of confidence to this young man that they felt they
would never get a chance. Much to their surprise though, a minute
later, the young man almost ran out of the bar, muttering under his
breath, "Bitch!"
The two remaining men looked at one another and the bartender
considering their chances. If this woman had shot this man down what
would their chances be? A second after making eye contact with the
other customers, another man slid off his barstool and plodded over
to the corner booth. This man was older in age, a little more
inebriated, and a little unsure of himself, yet he came bearing a
gift in the form of a drink for the 'lady.'
The last man at the bar let out a sigh, and what sounded to
the bartender like a chuckle. He turned away from the scene in the
corner and went back to his beer. This last man seemed little more
than ordinary. A little under six feet, dark brown hair with a dash
of gray and wide shoulders that spoke of a previous athleticism that
had disappeared into the growing flab around his waist. He was not
fat, but the spread on his middle spoke of many hours away from
regular exercise.
The scene in the corner took a strange turn when the drunken
man sat across from the comely woman and began a conversation. Now
the remaining man at the bar shifted uneasily on his barstool,
looking through veiled eyes at the couple in the corner. He sipped
his beer slowly and turned back to the bar to watch the couple
surreptitiously in the bar mirror, his fingers beginning to dance in
nervousness on the bar. Several times he turned and began to
dismount from his stool, but he always held back after gazing very
deliberately at the couple in the corner.
More than twenty minutes had passed when the drunken man
returned to the bar and took his place from before. "Boy!" He said,
"She's a tough one." He turned to the overweight man near him, "I
tried every line, every strategy I ever knew on her, and it was all
for nothing. Either she's a lesbian or she's already taken. If it
wasn't for the lack of a wedding ring on her finger I'd say that she
was married."
The other man stifled a small laugh and said slowly, "Do you
mind if I try my luck?"
"Fat chance you'll have. Go ahead. She's sure worth it."
The overweight man plucked himself off the stool with an
alacrity that belied his size and years. "Thanks, I will."
As he left the bar his gaze focused more deliberately on the
lovely woman, yet he could still not meet her eyes as he approached
her.
"May I join you?"
The lady lifted her eyes from her drink, looking intently
with a touch of disdain at the interruption. When she did not answer
him right away the man almost turned tail back to the bar, but he
knew he had to pursue this to the end.
"I said may I join you?"
The lady continued to stare at him through her long lashes
and just when the man was becoming uneasy under her stare she said,
"If you'll buy me another drink."
The man turned and signaled back to the bartender and
waitress, happy for a moment to be facing away from the woman to hide
his obvious relief. When he was sure the drink was on its way and he
was composed again, he turned back to the woman and sat down across
from her.
"My name's Richard, what's yours?"
"Rosemary."
"Glad to meet you."
"I bet you are."
Momentarily at a loss, Richard coughed then chuckled into his
hand. "Boy, you are sure rough on us men. Is there something wrong?"
The woman laughed softly in response, "Nothing that you can
do anything about."
"Perhaps I can," stated Richard flatly, "We men from
Albuquerque are known for our ways with women in distress."
With those words, Rosemary seemed to brighten up
considerably, sitting up straighter and touching her hair. "How's
the weather there?" She stated the countersign.
"Fine, if you like snow."
Her face broke out in a huge smile that wiped away all
traces of doubt from Richard's mind. "So, you finally found me. How
many women did you hit on this time before you found me?"
Richard's sigh of relief was almost audible to those at the
bar. "I swear I hit on every woman between 18 and forty in this
whole resort. I've been looking for you for three days. I've seen
you around the resort but I've always been with someone else and
couldn't get away easily."
"Well you didn't move very fast in this bar. The college
jerk looked at me like I was fresh meat for the taking, and that
drunk was so caught up in his two bit lines that he failed to notice
that I had absolutely no interest in him. When you came up to me I
thought 'Oh no, another asshole.' Not realizing it was my husband.
Gee, the people at The Shop sure screwed you this time. That body is
so far gone; if you hadn't said the code words I would never have
believed it was you."
"You're right, I was screwed. This body is so ordinary that
it was becoming really hard to put up with all the rejections.
That's why I didn't jump up right away when you came in. God,
there's only so many NO's a man can take."
"Well I'm glad you persevered honey, I was getting tired of
shooting down one persistent asshole after another waiting for you to
show."
Richard reached across the table and took her hand, "No
matter what body you are in you are always worth the effort, but I
have to say that this is one of your best ever. If you look at the
two of us together it's hard to believe that these two bodies are
married to each other."
"I don't care about these bodies; I just know I love you."
"I love you too."
"Next vacation, could we just start it together so we
wouldn't have to go through this whole charade."
"But the charade is half the fun. It's nice to know that I'm
pursuing my 'one true love' and that you are waiting out there for
me."
"Richard, I tell you, I'm tired of this scene. Every
vacation it's the same thing. We go to The Shop and pick out a
couple whose bodies we'll vacation in, but you refuse to let me see
you and you spend half the first week looking for me. I'm done with
this. Next time we'll take an ordinary vacation in our own bodies,
or I'm not going."
"But honey, I thought you loved these games we play?"
"I do, but after ten years and some eighteen vacations I need
a little variety. And different bodies each time doesn't count.
Perhaps we could play a different game?"
"I don't want to fight right now; I'm just too glad that I
found you and I only know that I love you with all my heart. Now we
can spend the next two weeks enjoying each others company." He
leaned over the bar and whispered with a leer. "I really need you."
"I bet you do. But what do I get out of this deal?" She
teased him. "It's going to be really hard to get romantic with that
body you have now."
"When I looked at it when I booked the vacation it seemed a
lot better. I bet the vids they used were five to ten years old.
Next time I won't make that mistake. But we just have to live with
it for the rest of our time here."
"If you say so. C'mon, let's blow this joint and go to the
beach. I've been waiting to break out the bikini until you showed
up."
"There's no stopping you now. Let's go." And the couple
left the bar hand in hand to the consternation of the waitress, the
bartender and the two remaining men at the bar.
Hidden in the shadows and the high backed booth behind
Rosemary, a man sat and thought coolly about all that he had just
heard. He had heard this same scenario played out before.
Rosemary whispered softly to Richard as they exited the bar,
"I swear, for you it's not the chase. When I see that grin of
triumph on your face when we get up to leave and you look over at the
bar I swear you just love having this big joke on those men. After
all, who would ever have thought that a looker like me would leave
with a nebbish like you?"
Unseen to Rosemary, Richard cringed slightly at her insight.
Her statement was far too close to his real needs of The Game. For
him it was like stealing the head cheerleader from the captain of the
football team, and he wanted, no, he needed to do this every time.
Rosemary and Richard's vacation proceeded smoothly and they
both enjoyed it so much that they agreed to try The Shop again on
their next vacation.
Seven months later. Rosemary wandered around her home trying
to figure what she should pack for the vacation. Using The Shop for
their vacations meant that they didn't have to do any real packing
because they really didn't know what the bodies they would be in
would be like. The Shop was a travel and vacation company that
specialized in matching wealthy couples whose bodies were older with
younger couples who lacked resources for a good vacation. Therefore,
the older couple could spend their vacation in a young beautiful body
and the younger couple could take an exotic vacation somewhere at the
older couples expense.
Rosemary loved Richard. He had worked hard in their youth to
build up his commercial real estate business, and even though his
pursuit of money and success had led him often to ignore his wife and
her needs, he had provided her with a good life and two wonderful
kids, (now since grown and moved away). In the last ten years
Richard had developed a wandering eye that was definitely noticed by
Rosemary, and when he had first brought up The Shop and what they
did, she thought it would be an excellent way for him to satisfy the
craving for conquest that he felt while still staying true to their
marriage. After a few years, to make the vacation even more
interesting, Richard had come up with The Game. In The Game, Richard
chose the couple sight unseen so that he could spend time hunting
down his wife among potentially hundreds of beautiful women at any
given resort. Rosemary was tired of The Game. She just wanted to
spend time with her husband. Period. She certainly didn't want to
spend a large proportion of her vacation getting hit on by one dope
after another until her husband showed up. Sometimes she thought
that he intentionally went after the wrong women in order to prolong
The Game and fulfill his desire to flirt with many women.
This time, Rosemary would have none of it. After Richard had
booked the couple for their switch, Rosemary had called The Shop and
had rebooked. Richard was going to wake up to one hell of a surprise.
Richard and Rosemary arrived at The Shop at the agreed time
as did the other couple, though each couple did not see the other.
This was not the usual practice, but Richard had wanted to play The
Game, and wanted to be able to seek out his mate without knowing what
she looked like. They always had the code word Albuquerque to
ascertain the validity of each other.
On this early spring day, they arrived at the resort location
of The Shop and went through all the usual procedures. They had to
sign injury waivers and a contract that stipulated that they would
not be deprived of their original body through any action of the
controlling company, in this case The Shop. The agreements also
limited each couple to where they could take the new host body. In
this case each couple was restricted to a certain resort and each
couple was in a separate resort near one another. In addition they
were restricted from doing any high risk recreation like sky diving
or mountain climbing unless all the proper cautions were taken to
ensure the return of the host body to its proper owner.
As per the agreement, Richard woke up in his room at the
resort rather than the facilities of The Shop. The drugs, and
electronic methods used to induce the brain swap left one feeling
rather lethargic afterward so Richard wasn't particularly alarmed by
his overall feelings, so he took his time and let himself become
accustomed to the new feelings coming from this new host body. Over
a period of an hour Richard felt the increasing awareness of body
parts as the new brain developed a synthesis with the new body.
Richard spent this time usually planning out his campaign for finding
his wife. He liked to start off in the least likely place first
because; frankly he enjoyed the time spent with every woman he met.
What even made it more enjoyable was that the male bodies he had been
in, in the past, were usually of the buffed kind and required little
in the way of encouragement to attract a comely female target. His
wife didn't know that he had slept with many different women before
he ever was able to find her. It's a pity he wasn't better at
locating her among all these beautiful women, but he refused to be
abrupt with the women he approached and just blurt out the code word.
It would be lacking in manners and be inconsiderate.
After about an hour of this daydreaming and planning Richard
finally felt it was time to get dressed and begin his 'search.' As
he pushed himself up to a sitting position he immediately noticed a
'wrongness' in his body; an overall feeling unlike any he had felt
before.
"What the hell is this?" Richard said to himself as he felt
and saw long strands of blonde hair next to his face and down his
neck. "Oh my god, my voice sounds too high!"
Looking down, Richard expected to see the large developed
pectorals of the weight lifter he had chosen, instead he saw ripe
firm breasts pushing out a cherry red cotton top and showing allot of
cleavage to boot.
"No, no, this can't be! This is not what I agreed to."
Richard stood up and immediately felt overwhelmed by the
variety of new signals this body was sending him. He couldn't tell
whether it was the pressure of the cotton top as it brushed against
his bare nipples (must means I'm braless), the taste of lipstick on
his tongue when he licked his lips, the feel of the hair on his neck
and cheeks, or the brush of matching cherry red short shorts against
his new pubic region that sent unrecognizable new signals to his
brain and threatened to overload it with its sensory tonnage.
Whatever it was, it took Richard several minutes to begin walking
without falling over from vertigo.
*I'll call The Shop here at the resort and get this
straightened out,* Richard said to himself as he walked unsteadily to
the phone in the living room area of the suite.
"Hello, yes operator, get me The Shop. No, not the beauty
shop, the shop that handles brain swaps. No, not the bait shop.
Hold on wait a minute." Richard noticed a purse sitting beside the
phone and hurriedly searched the insides for an address book that
might have the number. He found instead a wallet with a number of
business cards that included one for The Shop. "Operator, please
call 919-555-1212. Thank You!"
After two rings a female voice answered. "Hello, May I help you?"
"Yes, you sure as Hell can! This is Richard Carlton and I've
just awakened from my swap in the body of a woman. There has been a
big mistake."
"Oh yes, Mr. Carlton, this is Judith Peters. We met
yesterday. Let me look into this while I put you on hold."
Immediately some bland canned rehash of late 20th century heavy metal
music played by violin and cello was heard in the receiver. After
what seemed like forever, when Richard was beginning to lose what
little patience was left, Judith's voice came back on the phone.
"Are you still there? Yes? Well I looked up your agreement and the
original contract stipulated a male body for you and a female body
for your wife. But a week ago, your wife came into our office and
asked to redraw the contract that gave the female to you and the male
to her. The new agreement was also signed off on by you."
Richard did remember something about signing a contract that
his wife handed him, but he thought it was just an extended warranty
on the hot tub they had just installed in their house. "I never
agreed to any such thing!"
"Mr. Carlton, your signature is right here in black and
white; there is nothing we can do about this. Besides the fact of
your signature, there is a time lapse that must occur before a new
brain swap. I'm afraid that you must remain in that body for at
least two weeks."
"WHAT! ARE YOU INSANE! I'M NOT A WOMAN! I CAN'T LIVE LIKE
THIS FOR TWO WEEKS!" Richard shouted at the phone. "There must be
something you can do. I know, give me the room number of my wife.
At least I'll feel safer if I'm with her."
"Again Mr. Carlton, you have stipulated not to be notified of
your spouse's new body, identity or room number in your contract
unless a physical emergency arises."
"What do you call this?" Richard blurted out beginning to
get exasperated.
"I would consider this a contractual obligation on both our
parts that must be met. If you contact us in two weeks we can do a
new swap when you've located your spouse. At an extra charge of
course. But you will have to return to your original bodies."
"But what if I can't find her?"
"Then you won't be able to change to the male body. All
other contract points must be honored."
"Oh No!"
"Yes, Mr. Carlton. So if there is nothing else to discuss I
suggest that you contact us two weeks from today. Good-bye."
Richard stared at the phone and the dial tone seemed to him
to be the sound of doom as it dangled in his hand. He finally let it
slip from his hand to land softly on the thick plush carpet while his
legs slowly gave way beneath him and he fell, or should I say almost
folded in upon himself, onto the couch, beside the phone. Richard
lost consciousness as he touched the couch.
An indeterminate time later, Richard awoke. This time he
remembered immediately what had transpired and began to black out
again. Fighting back to consciousness, Richard shook his head and
strands of blond hair fell in front of his face and into his mouth.
Blowing and spitting out the errant hairs, Richard sat up and began
to formulate a new plan for finding his wife. At least if he was
with her there would be a semblance of normality for the next two
weeks and he could spend his time here in the privacy of his rooms.
His logical mind began to assess the situation. *Clothes are
appropriate though a little revealing. Certainly within the norm for
a tropical resort. Shoes? He needed shoes* Richard strode
purposefully to the bedroom and searched the closet. *Yes, there are
some sandals that'll go with this ensemble.*
*What next? I know, I need to take a good look at myself and
my purse and find out what I look like and what my name is.* He
strolled more slowly, now that he had the makings of a plan and he
began to put it in motion, totally unaware of the rolling of his hips
and the sway of his buttocks as he walked. He reluctantly entered
the bathroom and faced the full length mirror behind the door. What
he saw momentarily dumbfounded him. He knew he was going to find an
attractive young blond woman, but he was totally unprepared for the
vision of loveliness that he saw before him now. The blond hair fell
in waves down just past his shoulders and its color was the natural
blonde that doesn't come from a bottle but was the product of nature
and loving care. His tresses shone lightly in the morning sun and he
could see how some hair was darker or lighter depending upon its
exposure to the sun. When he pushed back the hair behind his ears he
could see two pearl earrings in each delicate earlobe.
Richard then turned to the image of his face in the mirror.
His eyes, framed by thin brown arches of eyebrows stood out from his
face and served to immediately attract attention. They were blue
gray limpid pools that a man could get lost in. His nose was
straight and pert without an upturn, but fine and dainty
nevertheless. Below, her lips were painted cherry red to match her
ensemble and they were full and luscious. Richard felt a strong
desire to lean forward and kiss those oh so delicate lips.
Richard swallowed loudly as he focused on his chest. As he
pulled the red top over his head he noticed the light pearl like
luminescent color on his longer square tipped fingernails and the
slim, dainty hands they adorned. Revealed to him were two breasts of
unimaginable beauty. These D cup beauties hung high upon his chest,
even without a bra; with inch long pink nipples sticking up and out
from three inch wide aureoles. The fullness of his tits seemed to
echo of the very same fullness he used to feel in his groin when he
looked at such beautiful accouterments.
Unwilling to disrobe further, Richard slipped his right hand
beneath the waist band of the red shorts, past the downy pubic growth
to the soft folds of skin below. A brief shudder passed through his
body as he touched the little knob near the top of the dewy folds and
he wasted little time continuing down to the moist hole that was his
new vagina. His pussy! His cunt! Tracing along the outside of his
pussy lips, Richard felt the growing wetness and the electric like
pulses that emanated from this region traveling through his whole
body. Sticking his index finger in his hole, the wetness increased
and his new vagina began to vibrate and pulse like electric lines
overloaded with energy. Too engrossed now to stop, Richard sped up
his ministrations, feeling the little button that was his clitoris
begin to emerge from its sheath begging for attention, and Richard
provided that attention. Suddenly, with little warning, the pulsing
overwhelmed what little conscious thought was left to Richard as he
began his first orgasm as a woman. Keeping up his work with his left
hand, (as he bucked and sighed and screamed and convulsed), his left
hand found his hardened right nipple, pinching it and prolonging the
orgasm until it briefly subsided to emerge anew into a fresh and more
potent orgasm.
Many minutes later, Richard regained a semblance of normal
thought as he lay breathless on the bathroom floor where he didn't
remember falling. *Wow, I have to stay away from this, I am liking
this way too much.*
Richard cleaned his new pussy with a soft cloth and some mild
soap in the bathroom and decided to take the plunge and go find his
wife. *Maybe I can get someone in the resort to yell 'Albuquerque'
over their P.A.*
---
Five days later and Richard was no closer to finding his wife
unless you can count eliminating fifty men out of more than five
hundred that were here. *I'm certainly attractive enough.* He
thought. *With this body and this face my wife should be attracted
to this body right away; every other man here seems to be.*
He was walking along the boardwalk, enjoying a light breeze
that wafted so gently up his skirt, and enjoying the sudden absence
of men to hit on him. It hadn't been easy trying to attract men but
keep them at a distance to boot. If he was too aggressive with men
he found that they either ran away not too subtly, or they
interpreted his aggression as a sign that he was easy and could be
gotten into the sack for little more than a smile and a drink. As
the fifty men had found out, Richard was not easy. Richard had had
most of these men grope and kiss him so many times he was beginning
to believe there were no gentlemen left in this world. After the
first twenty, Richard was almost getting used to the unwanted
attention, and sometimes was even looking forward to it when he met
some exceptionally handsome hunk. After each such encounter Richard
felt a total disgust for himself and a growing anger with Rosemary
for not finding him. *I thought we were supposed to spend this
vacation together. I thought she loved me. She's probably doing
this on purpose just to get even with me for doing this to her.*
Richard suddenly stopped in his tracks. There before him was
the very bar that he had found Rosemary in on their last vacation.
Throwing back his shoulders and making his new found breasts stick
out all the more, Richard proceeded into the darkened bar, past the
faux Polynesian entranceway to the cool interior within. Inside, he
stopped briefly surveying the five or six men sitting at the bar, the
bartender, the waitress and the scattering of couples at booths and
tables situated in a half circle around the bar. Pausing just long
enough to announce his presence and to scan the inhabitants, Richard
moved smoothly through the room, his backside softly swaying to some
unheard beat, his breasts bobbing ever so slightly as he made his way
to the same booth he found his wife on their last vacation. As he
sat at the table waiting for the waitress he was able to witness out
of the corner of his eye and from a surreptitious glance that he was
being sized up by the contingent at the bar and that some vague
signals were being passed between them as they decided who was going
to have first shot at this goddess in their midst. First up to bat
was a young stud. Hung, dumb and full of cum, this tall, slim,
sinewy piece of man walked purposefully toward Richard's table, as if
he had cornered his prey and was going in for the kill.
"Hi hun, you're just too beautiful for anyone to leave alone.
I hope you don't mind some company? My names Ted, but my friends
call me Frisco."
Richard looked up from his drink and looked deep into the
dark brown eyes of the man who stood before her. He certainly was
direct enough without being crude. *This could at least be a change
from the others.* Richard thought.
"Please sit down. We can talk."
"Talking's fine, but right now I just like to look."
Richard blushed once, then blushed brighter under the
continued stare of this man named Frisco.
Recovering enough, Richard responded, "Is Frisco really your nickname?"
He laughed, "No, but I always wished it was. There's nothing
particularly interesting about Ted."
"Why does there have to be anything interesting about a name?
You're already interesting enough."
Ted replied, "Hey, now you're gonna make me blush."
"Well Ted, my name is Daria; glad to meet you."
"Daria's a pretty name."
"Don't start me blushing again."
"Okay, how about while I look at you, you can tell me about
yourself. Like are you here alone? Do you have a boyfriend? And
what are you doing this evening?
"Yes, no, and depends."
"Depends on what?"
"Depends on where you're from."
"Well I'm from the great state of New Mexico honey, near
Albuquerque..."
Trying to remember his countersign he blurted out, "Um, well,
what's the weather like there?"
"Fine, if you like snow."
Richard's face flushed first with relief, then anger, then
relief again as he stammered out, "Oh God, I'm so glad you're finally
here."
Ted smiled brighter, "Me too."
"I don't know how you ever agreed to do this stupid game more
than once. My nerves have been on edge ever since I got here. Why
did you do this to me?" Richard asked directly, searching Ted's face
and gesturing to the female body that Richard now wore.
Ted seemed at a loss for words at first, but soon recovered,
"You needed to be taught a lesson."
"The lesson has been received. No more games for me. Let's
get out of here and enjoy the rest of our vacation."
"Sure thing honey."
---
After a day of sun and sightseeing and multiple margaritas,
Ted and Daria returned to their separate suites to get dressed for
the evening's festivities. Ted knew what he had planned, but Richard,
(now Daria), was more than a little tipsy and any plans went
unrealized amid confused feelings of relief and anxiety.
"Don't forget to wear something nice." Ted reminded Daria as
they parted. "I want to see my girl looking her best for me."
Daria hid her blush behind her retreating back. *Rosemary
really expects me to carry on with this charade. I guess I had it
coming. I've been doing it for five days already, and I have another
week or so before I can become male again, so I might as well play
along. Maybe she won't make me suffer for this after the vacation is
over.*
Back in her room, Daria surveyed the clothes hanging in her
closet. *I might as well go all the way. I'll wear this flowered
sheath dress that comes down around my knees. It won't be too
revealing yet it will show of the curves of this feminine body.*
Doffing his tight shorts and crop top, Daria wiggled over to the
dresser and perused the lingerie. *A peach colored bra and matching
French cut panties are just the ticket for underneath that dress.
These high heel sandals here will also work. How should I do my
hair? Rosemary always put her hair up when we went out, but I always
preferred to see her with her hair down. This beautiful hair would
be wasted up in a bun; it would look so much better framing this
lovely face.*
Unconsciously, Richard's Daria persona seemed to be directing
him now, making his movements sexier and more feminine by the minute
ever since she had found her spouse.
Daria took a fast bath, making sure she shaved her legs and
underarms; rubbing in moisturizer, then douching her blond haired
pussy so that the days sweat and secretions were washed away and she
was again, 'fresh as a new day.' No pantyhose were needed because
her legs were hairless and long and tanned by the sun of the last
five days. Daria struggled briefly with the cosmetics, and
considered briefly abandoning them altogether, but the new found
pride in this feminine host body and the skills he had learned over
the last few days served him well and within a surprisingly short
time her face was ready and she capped it off with a shimmering, wet
look, peach colored lipstick, that seemed to thoroughly please this
new female mind.
Daria slid the clingy dress on, smoothing it out along her
long slim frame, feeling it settle close against her skin, revealing
more than a little bit of cleavage. She stepped into her sandals,
brushed her hair, placed a gold necklace with an ivory locket around
her neck where it hung down to the tops of her creamy white breasts.
Knowing that Ted would be there soon, Daria hurriedly brushed out her
hair, using a little hair spray to hold it back behind her ears and
display the discreet little diamond earrings as she pushed them on.
Lastly, Daria used an atomizer to spray a bit of perfume on her
breasts before stepping into a mist she briefly produced in front of
her. She was ready, and when she heard the tap, tap at her door, the
inner voice of Richard tried to make itself heard above the inner
chatter of his feminine alter ego. Though it was a losing battle,
Richard's inner voice served to sober the rising female excitement in
Daria, and it was with a less excited wiggle and walk that she opened
the door to her spouse.
Ted stood there in navy blue blazer, tan slacks, and flowered
open collar Hawaiian shirt, displaying a generous amount of chest
hair that immediately caught Daria's attention.
Ted stood there dumbfounded. "I, um, ah ...you're beautiful."
Daria blushed scarlet and inwardly preened. It felt good to
be complimented about her appearance when she went to such lengths to
be lovely for him. "You do to, sir."
Ted held out his arm, "Shall we go."
Ted and Daria both had a great time that night. The dinner
was superb, the company was attractive, the music was soft and
insinuating, the conversation was flirtatious, and the stars
cooperated by burgeoning out in all there glory in the moody indigo
of the night sky. They danced for hours with Daria loving the
feeling of being held close by this strong handsome man, and Ted
trying to keep his mind off of the growing erection in his pants as
it occasionally brushed against Daria's midsection or was trapped
between them when they danced close and intimately.
When the night wound down there was no doubt in either Ted's
or Daria's mind where the evening was headed. The new feelings
brought on by the female hormones raging out of control left Daria
helpless and willing when Ted led her back to her suite. In no time
at all, even before they were in the door, they were excitedly
tearing each others clothes off, while kissing and caressing and
licking and sucking, 'til they were both naked and panting in each
others arms. There was no hesitation on either's part as they jumped
in the bed without once losing contact with each other. For Daria it
was a whole new experience. Never before had she felt such passion
from her partner; never had she felt such an overwhelming need for a
man to do what he was doing to her now.
To Daria, Ted seemed like a whirling Dervish of sexual energy
and passion as he went from one erogenous zone on her body to
another. Inside, Daria and Richard were both buried under the
avalanche of feelings, and when Ted finally pushed his tongue into
her quivering, sopping wet pussy, there was no holding back as a
cascade of pulses, and electric like waves, shot through her like the
hottest, brightest fire, right to her very soul. His mouth sought
hers, his hands fingered her juicy swollen clit, and his stiff member
pushed strongly against her leg, demanding attention and getting it.
With little thought, Daria grabbed the large, warm cock, and felt it
get even harder under her ministrations. When she thought she was
coming down, the probing of Ted's cock at the entrance to her vagina
brought her quickly back to the brink. Rainbows, stars, and velvety
waves of pleasures washed over her 'til she could barely breathe. As
Ted's velvet hammer pounded inside her again and again the pleasure
kept coming and coming and after what seemed an eternity of ecstasy,
Ted's throbbing love missile got even harder within her pussy and
with one final thrust, Ted shot his load of baby makers deep within
the belly of Daria.
Daria could hardly move beneath the heavy weight of Ted, nor
did he want to. The aftermath of that series of orgasm left her with
a series of aftershocks that continued to ravage her and leave her
breathless under the spent and sweating torso of her lover. Never
before had she, or he, felt such pure unadulterated pleasure.
It wasn't long before Ted's cock began to grow again and
Daria couldn't wait as she began to move her pelvis and push her
pussy 'til Ted's cock was back inside her where she knew it belonged.
Thus began a sexual marathon of several hours where both Ted and
Daria tried every position they could think of and some they only
found through zealous experimentation. Daria was even able to quell
the last bit of resistance of Richard's to her giving Ted a long and
lascivious blowjob. She even liked the taste and when the night
ended and both she and Ted lay in her bed spent and totally sated,
Daria could only think about the sexual gymnastics that the two of
them could do for the next two weeks. As they both finally drifted
off to sleep, neither one noticed the first rays of the new morning,
but both knew and felt their own private dawn as their most private
dreams had already been fulfilled and they slept soundly with
satisfied smiles upon their faces.
---
Over the next ten days Ted and Daria were inseparable. When
they weren't sunning on the beach or dancing the night away, they
were doing the horizontal mambo 'til the wee hours of the morning.
Daria had taken very little time to ditch his inner Richard persona
in favor of his present sensual form. How could he not when every
day he woke up and looked in the mirror and saw this beautiful woman?
How could he not when every day Ted reminded him who was the woman
and who was the man?
Still, it bothered Daria somewhat that Ted refused to be
addressed as Rosemary and refused to address her as Richard. He said
it was because they were in bodies now that were in direct
contradiction to those names and that if anyone ever heard them used
that they would be quickly ostracized within the limited area of the
resort. Daria didn't quite get that, but went along anyhow because
she was having such a great time and was only to glad to immerse
herself in this Daria role completely.
It was in their last week, when they only had three days to
go, that they decided to return to that watering hole that they had
met at on two previous occasions. This time Daria dressed to the
nines with a white silk wraparound dress that clung to him like a
second skin. The skirt of the dress hung halfway up her thighs and
the nude silk stockings displayed her long and attractive legs, and
hinted at the garter belt they hung from. On her feet she wore three
inch sling back heels that propped her up higher and further
accentuated the juicy curves of her calves and made her push out her
prominent breasts and kissable ass. She wore her hair upswept this
time, showing off her slim, vulnerable neck and her delicate ears.
Her makeup was impeccable, only serving to highlight her already
radiant and gorgeous face. It was all Ted could do to keep from
grabbing her as they left her suite, and take her there right on the
floor; and it was all Daria could do to not give in to this very same
desire and let him have his way with her.
Instead they made their grand entrance into the fake
Polynesian bar to a much larger crowd than the previous times. Ted
proudly displayed the ravishing beauty on his arm, and Daria basked
in the blatant leers and admiring glances that he was getting.
Managing to corral a table near the bar, they ordered their drinks
and got up to dance. Every male eye in the place seemed to be glued
to the thoroughly enticing backside of Daria as she swayed and
shimmied to the entrancing beat for her man. Many men tried to cut
in, but Daria would have none of that, she would only say quietly and
forcefully, "I am here to be with my man."
The bar became more crowded as the night wore on and the
dance floor began to resemble the floor of a political convention,
with little room to move and couples close all around Ted and Daria.
It was toward midnight that Daria, at peace with her head on Ted's
shoulder and his strong arms around her heard a conversation from a
couple next to her that sobered her instantly.
A rather muscle-bound man with short blond hair and a beard
was dancing closely with a lithe redhead next to Ted and Daria when
Daria heard the man say, "Did you know, I'm from Albuquerque?"
She then heard the lady respond, "That's nice; I'm from Santa Barbara."
"You don't understand; I'm from Albuquerque."
"I heard you the first time."
Ted heard this conversation too, and began maneuvering Daria
away from the talkative couple.
But Daria wouldn't be escorted away. She pushed her way back
through the crowd and walked up to the couple. "What did you say
about Albuquerque?"
The blond Adonis was annoyed, "I said to her that I was from
Albuquerque."
Daria quickly responded with a sinking feeling beginning in
her stomach, "What if I asked you how the weather was there?"
The Adonis stopped dancing suddenly and stared openmouthed at
Daria. "I would say that it's fine if you like snow."
His partner quickly interjected, "That make's no sense,
there's no snow there this time of the year."
But Daria and the Adonis were too busy staring at each other
to notice. Ted was quickly by her side and tried to lead her away
saying, "I hope this man isn't bothering you." But the Adonis
stepped forward quickly and grabbed Daria's arm, "Who are you?"
I'm Richard Carlton, who are you?"
"I'm Rosemary Carlton."
Daria's hand flew up to her mouth and she held back by the
barest of margins a sickening scream. "Rosemary?" Turning to Ted
she demanded, "I thought you were Rosemary?"
"I never said I was. I'm Ted."
Daria couldn't hold back the scream this time, her voice
piercing through the heavy dance music and stopping all the dancers
in their tracks. Daria though had lost her breath with that scream
and slowly crumpled to the floor like a drunken puppet bereft of its
master.
---
Daria awoke sometime later to the feel of light fingertips
and a cool wetness on her brow. Looking up, she expected to see
Rosemary but instead saw a woman. Daria tried to recall if this was
her. Then he remembered that Rosemary was now a man and he, Richard,
was now a woman called Daria. As it all began coming back to her,
Daria could hear loud male voices and the sound of men grunting with
pain and exertion. Raising her head from the lap of the woman, Daria
saw the Adonis being repeatedly punched by Ted and the Adonis coming
to close grips and using his obvious power to wrestle Ted to the
ground and pummel him with a left, right and a left.
"Stop!" She yelled. "No more." At that moment though five
uniformed men grabbed the two on the ground and hauled them away to a
waiting police van.
When they disappeared down the street, one of the policemen
approached the crowd gathered outside the bar behind where Daria and
the other woman stood. (*How did she get outside the bar.*)
"Are any of you a witness to this fight?" The man asked in
heavily Spanish accented English. The rest of the crowd quickly
returned to the bar, unwilling to get involved in the dispute and
ruin their evening sitting in a police station filling out forms.
The only ones left were Daria and the woman who she now recognized as
the dance partner to the Adonis.
"You will come with me." The policeman stated flatly
brooking no argument, and before either woman knew it they were in
the back of a police cruiser and rapidly leaving the fake Polynesian
bar behind.
---
The whole altercation was explained to the police sergeant by
the two women, though the other woman (Carol) had no real explanation
for the fight. Daria though went into detail about The Shop and the
mind swap, (not telling them about the change of genders), and soon
an employee of The Shop was at the station recounting their side of
the story and who their clients were. It was with a sickened stomach
that Daria heard that the man, Ted, who she thought was her wife,
Rosemary, was not; and that the Adonis (called Hal), was really her
wife. This time she could not hold back her nausea and spewed her
evenings meal in desperate heaves into a convenient trash can.
Hours later, Hal and a confused and bedraggled Daria exited
the station to the calls of Ted proclaiming in a loud voice, "Daria,
I love you! I need you! You'll never be happy with him!"
Back at Daria's suite, Hal carried the exhausted Daria from
the squad car and set her down lightly on the sofa. Noticing blood
on her arm, Daria surveyed Hal and saw a bloody gash near his right
hand and a torn fingernail on his left. Doing what she could, she
tore off bits of a petticoat she had retrieved from the bedroom and
doctored the injured parts of her wife's male body. Finally done,
Daria lay back on the sofa and breathed deeply before asking, "What
happened? Are you really Rosemary? If not, how did Ted know the
passwords and the countersigns?"
Hal, looking beaten (no pun intended), softly replied. "I'm
Rosemary. He told the detectives he had heard us give the code words
on two previous occasions and had thought it was some secret
organization for romantic dates. He said it wasn't his intention to
pose as me, but after he knew you for a few days and began to piece
together our situation and our Game, he said he fell in love with you
and couldn't explain his deceit, he thought, without losing you."
Daria blanched, "You mean he deliberately fooled me from the
beginning?"
"How else could he know the code words? He said he had tried
those code words on every woman he met at this resort for the whole
last year, and that's allot of time seeing as he works at the resort."
Daria sat staring at Hal, "Where were you all the time? And
why did you change the contract so I ended up in this body?" Before
she could get an answer, Daria whitened some more and she began to
cry softly. "What have you done to me?"
"What do you mean what have I done to you? I just gave you a
taste of your own medicine. You have to admit you deserved it."
"But you don't understand; you don't know what I did."
Suddenly very still, Hal asked, "What?"
Between deepening sobs Daria told him, "You have to remember,
I thought he was you. I was with him for ten days, ten days! And
that whole time I did what I thought was natural to do with someone I
thought was my wife in a male body."
"You mean you.....?"
"YES, I FUCKED HIM! Again and again and again." She
sputtered and sobbed a little, then she yelled. "I did that for ten
days and now I feel so dirty; so used. AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT."
"My fault; I didn't tell you to fuck him. Wait a minute, you
cheated on me." Hal yelled in his strong baritone voice, momentarily
frightening Daria.
"I thought it was you." Daria reached out to Hal, but Hal
pulled back, curling up his lips and spitting out, "You cheated on
me. I can never trust you again. I thought that you had cheated on
me in the past, but now you admit it. You can't even restrain
yourself when you're a female. What kind of WHORE are you?" Hal got
up and went to the door and exited without further comment.
"But I thought it was you." Daria screamed. Then her voice
trailed off as her crying overcame her voice and all that came out of
her mouth was a continuous repeat of the same words. "I thought he
was you. I thought he was you. I thought he was you. I thought he
was you." And she kept saying it until exhaustion swept over her.
---
Daria spent the few remaining days of her vacation pleading
her case to the closed door of Hal's suite or angrily pacing her
living room cursing her wife for her part in the debacle. There was
no middle ground. Each beautiful sunset over the ocean only left
Daria feeling empty and crying and wondering how everything had gone
so wrong.
When the time came for the return to his own body, Daria was
in The Shop's office in the resort waiting for her wife. A
technician entered the door and approached Daria. "Your wife will
not be joining you. She will switch back separately.
Daria nodded sadly. "When do we start?"
When Richard awakened some time later he was lying on a
narrow bed and the bright overhead florescent lights were oppressive
to his sensitive eyes. Not delaying this time he rose from the bed
with alacrity and smiled a little smile when he felt the familiar
touch of hair against his neck and the sway and wobble of breasts
upon his chest.
"Wait a minute. I don't have breasts!"
He rang the bell next to the door to summon the technician.
When he entered Richard spat out, "Why didn't I change back?"
"What do you mean? You have been returned to your own body
Mrs. Carlton."
"I'm not Mrs. Carlton, I'm Mr. Carlton you idiot."
"I supervised the switch myself. I switched the female body
with the female body and the male body with the male body. It's not
that complicated."
"But I was in the wrong body to begin with. I should have
been returned to my male body."
"Let me check the contract terms." He briefly scanned a
nearby computer screen. "Ah, here's the problem. When the original
terms were amended before your vacation there was no change made to
the return portion of your switch."
"It was just an oversight of my wife's. You must put me in
the right body!"
"We can't Mrs. Carlton. We can only perform two changes
within a six month period. You cannot switch bodies again for about
five months."
"Oh God! Not again!" Richard, now Rosemary Carlton, slumped
down into an overstuffed chair near the door. "Where's my wife....I
mean my husband?"
"Mr. Carlton left a moment ago in a cab."
"Did he say anything?"
"No."
"Is my car still parked outside?"
"Yes Mrs. Carlton. May I assist you with anything else?"
"No thanks, I think you've assisted me enough already."
The new Rosemary Carlton stepped cautiously out the main
entrance to The Shop and searched the nearly empty parking lot for
her car. "It's going to be a long ride home."
---
Days had passed and Rosemary hadn't left her house. And her
husband, who used to be her wife, had neither returned home nor
called but he did have an executive assistant from his office stop by
and retrieve some clothes and accessories. Rosemary had passed a
note to the assistant begging her husband to call but there had been
no response.
A week passed. Then another. The new Rosemary had yet to
emerge from her house. She wandered the house and grounds in a daze,
barely eating, and drinking way too much bourbon until she ran out of
it, and then she turned to vodka and gin. She wasn't particular.
There she sat on a morning three weeks after the return swap, on her
kitchen bench staring out the window to the back yard. She was numb
with the implication of all that had happened. She saw that every
thing she had done for years before this had led inexorably to this
point in time where she was in the wrong body and her spouse hated
her, and she still felt quite a bit of anger toward him too.
Behind her she heard footsteps. Must be her neighbors or her
friend Ginny checking up on her again. Instead she heard a very
familiar baritone voice. "You look like shit Richard."
Rosemary turned to the voice, her eyes reddened from lack of
sleep, her auburn hair tangled, her voice deadened from too much
booze.
"I'm Rosemary now. You're Richard."
"I've done allot of thinking...Rosemary. I want to work this out."
"What's to work out? You punished me at the resort. You
punished me by leaving me to the attentions of every predatory male
in sight and a thoroughly amoral impostor, and then to top it off you
punished me again by stranding me in your body, taking over my job
and disappearing for weeks. What are you going to do next...rape me
and get me pregnant? Send me home to your, no I mean my mother. Or
do you just want to rub it all in and see up close how much I hate
being alive."
The new Richard was shocked by the words of the sloppy vision
before him, but he wasn't going to walk away from this confrontation.
"I didn't mean to leave you in my body. It was an oversight. I
thought they would return us to the right bodies."
"Then why did you disappear right after the switch and
proceed to take over at my job. What do you know about corporate
real estate?"
"I know allot just from living with you for twenty years, and
I found that there was quite allot of information that had been
transferred in the switch. No one at your office suspected a thing.
To them you came back from your vacation and took up just where you
left off. When I awoke, they told me at The Shop that we could not
switch back for five months and I was still mad at you so I knew that
you couldn't do the job, so I just went and did it. I couldn't be
near you for awhile. I had to think."
"So you punished me some more."
"No, it wasn't like that. I just had to be by myself. I
couldn't face you then not only because of the anger I felt over your
cheating, but because I felt responsible for it. I felt I was to
blame for all that happened and especially leaving you, with no
experience of being a woman, subject to manipulation by sneaky,
aggressive men. Can I move back in here and try to make things
right?"
Rosemary looked down at the floor, shaking her head side to
side in negative response, yet when she looked up she said calmly and
with deliberation. "Yes! I need you. But don't expect too much too
soon, I've been sitting on a precipice for so long all I see before
me is a big fall. I've thought time and time again for the last few
days about downing a load of tranquilizers with some booze and ending
it, but every time I went in the bathroom I saw your face in the
mirror and I could never kill you."
Horror, and relief, washed over Richard's face. He rushed
forward and pulled the unresisting body of his wife to him. There
was no response. She just acquiesced to him, standing there silently
in his strong grasp.
---
Weeks and months passed and things slowly improved between
the husband and wife. Rosemary dropped the booze and began to eat
right again. Color returned to her cheeks and she began to stand
more upright with pride and took care in her clothing and appearance.
Neither one had talked about the switch back, but both knew that the
time was fast approaching. Rosemary had entered therapy after they
reunited and had been exploring the feelings he had from the gender
switch and the sexual liaison with the impostor. Rosemary and
Richard, along with the therapist agreed that Rosemary's stint as
Daria and subsequent sex with Ted had been the equivalent to Daria
being raped. The guilt of that affair had coupled with the guilt he
felt for his past indiscretions when he was Richard, combined with
the sense of loss he felt when he found he was in Rosemary's body
instead of his own, caused him to fall into a deep depression.
Rosemary felt that she was both horribly responsible for her
own rape and was also mad at her wife. (Who of course, was also
herself?) The changing of identities only served to focus both the
anger at himself and the anger at his wife, onto who he was in the
present, Rosemary.
With this breakthrough and all the improvement to Rosemary
over the past months, she still seemed somewhat withdrawn to Richard
and they hadn't yet slept in their bedroom together. The therapist
suggested to Richard that she was still traumatized by the rape and
it might take years before she was comfortable again with any
physical closeness. Richard often gazed longingly at his wife,
taking in the curves and the softness of her and felt an almost
overwhelming desire to hold her and to tell her that he loved her.
He was afraid though that any touching by him might traumatize her
further. He tried to stay upbeat and to keep his distance from his
wife but as the months passed and she still avoided him, he too began
to feel the weight of depression and the hopelessness of their
marriage.
With only a week to go, Richard decided that they must begin
to make plans for the switch back. Rosemary must learn about all the
real estate deals he had pending and be brought up to date on present
and future clients. When he mentioned it to Rosemary, she got this
horrified look in her eyes and ran crying from the room. When he
went to check on her, he found the door locked and all his entreaties
were ignored. Richard was becoming desperate. He even thought about
breaking down the door, but such a violent masculine action might
cause his wife to go off the deep end.
The next morning when Richard got up he found Rosemary
sitting quietly at the breakfast nook seemingly waiting for him. He
sat down and waiting quietly not wanting to spook her.
"Richard," Rosemary said, "You know it still seems strange to
call you that. Richard, I have to go away for awhile."
"What do you mean you have to go away?"
"I have to be away, by myself for a week, then I'll be back."
"Where are you going?"
"I can't tell you, but I've given instructions to our lawyer
to inform you if I'm not back in a week."
"But honey, you can't do this. You need to be here where I
can take care of you. Besides, the switch is only a week away. You
need to get up to date on everything."
"I've been this way for six months, another week won't hurt.
When you get home today from work I'll be gone."
"Don't do this," Richard pleaded.
"I must. Don't worry, I'll be all right. I tell you what;
I'll call you every few days to let you know I'm okay." With those
words she picked a suitcase off the floor and stepped to the door.
"I love you!" She said just before she closed the door softly behind
her.
Richard leaned his elbows on the kitchen table and lowered
his face into his hands. "God help us both," he whispered to
himself, and repeated it like a mantra to help him through the bad
time ahead.
---
Rosemary left The Shop in the resort; the very same resort
she had been in only six months earlier and where all her present
problems began. This time she was in the body of a long, lean tanned
brunette, with high uplifted breasts, and disconcerting deep blue
eyes. As she strolled away from The Shop, she was wearing tiny denim
cutoffs that revealed her amazingly long tanned legs, and a bikini
top that barely covered her modest breasts. Her present body's name
was Ellie, and she moved with purpose along the boardwalk toward a
fake Polynesian bar hidden among palm trees near some other faux
cocktail joints. She entered the bar without hesitation, but her
nerves must have got the best of her when she saw the bars interior
and smelled the rich pungent odor of whiskey and heard the sound of
loud conversations and pop music from a juke box. So there she was,
back in the bar that she had three times before visited with mixed
results. This time she was looking for a man, and she needed to find
him if she could ever move on with her life.
Rosemary, now Ellie, planned on finding Ted and exacting some
revenge. She didn't know exactly what she was going to do, but she
knew she had to get some closure with him, and anything she might do
to him he certainly deserved.
She took a seat this time at the bar, to the surprise of the
men sitting there, and sure enough it wasn't long before she was
approached by a young stud, ready for action, gun ready and primed
and her in his sights. Unfortunately, it also wasn't long before he
was returning to his barstool in defeat. Over the next five hours,
even as this beautiful woman sat there with her long lovely legs
swinging so gently in time to the music, looking so exquisite and
ready, one after another of the male patrons were shot down in there
attempts at her.
Finally, reaching some decision, Rosemary checked her watch,
took one more careful look around the bar, and quietly left this
sexual battleground that had only left her disappointed this time.
*There'll be another time,* she thought as she briskly exited the bar
and made her way back to her room.
The next day she got up early and started systematically
searching the resort from one end to the other, and she kept this up
for two more days until she broke down and visited the police
station. She told them she had been a witness to the altercation of
six months before, and she wanted to know the last name of the man
who called himself 'Ted', who had been involved. To her surprise and
delight the woman officer on duty had no problem giving her the
information she needed and before long she had left the station and
was walking with new purpose.
An hour later she saw him as he exited his bungalow and
followed him as he walked casually under the starlit sky. It wasn't
long before he made his way to an upscale bar close to the waters
edge, with paper lanterns dotting the shoreline and the length of a
pier that tailed off behind the bar into the dark of the ocean and
the roar of the surf. Rosemary was not dressed for this kind of
establishment, so she ran quickly back to her room that was
thankfully not too far away, and changed her clothes. When she left
her room she was decked out in a simple black dress with a short
skirt that emphasized her handsome gams. She had fastened her hair
up in a more sophisticated hairstyle that spoke of class and
refinement. She was wearing a tasteful gold watch that encircled her
left wrist, a strand of simple pearls around her lovely throat
directed ones attention to her delicate neck and the bewitching
expanse of her bosom that peeked so discretely out of the top of her
dress. Her makeup matched her outfit and highlighted and distilled
the very essence of femininity within her.
She was hoping that Ted hadn't left the bar, and that she wouldn't
have to repeat the search again the next day. When she entered the
bar she was rewarded almost immediately for her diligence when she
saw him sitting at the bar and looking directly at her as she came in
the door. It was with some surprise and with no little consternation
that she noticed him looking and she wondered if he knew why she was
here. When she looked more closely at his eyes though, she could see
more clearly the signs of lust and excitement that were so evident
and clear there. Though she had briefly held his gaze, she wrenched
it away with effort and took a seat at a table where she could be
seen by him and from which she would not be tempted to peek.
Rosemary knew she had caught his attention, and she knew that her
brief but intense eye contact had fueled his libido and she knew it
would not be long before he was sitting down at this very table.
Though it took longer than she thought, (and she was
beginning to think she should have given him a little more
encouragement), Ted did appear at her side and asked to join her.
She answered with a nod and a smile and after rounds of martinis and
manhattans and a conversation in which they each recounted their
life's story to the other, they got up and joined other couples
swaying gracefully and slowly to a 'live' band's sensuous beat. As
the evening progressed they grew closer and closer until their bodies
were pressed so close together that they seemed just one body,
dancing to some unheard music.
The light was low, the music was soft, and so was the
gorgeous woman that Ted held in his arms, and it was all he could do
to keep his mind on the music and not the throbbing of his erection
as it threatened to push then apart, or expose his desperate
tumescence. "Shall we go back to my place?" Ted whispered in
Ellie's ear as he nibbled on her ivory neck. She backed up a foot
and with silent assent, took his hand in hers and led the way to the
table to fetch her purse and then exit out the door.
Awhile later they were nestled snugly together on his couch,
and their hands were moving over each other and their clothes were
beginning to pile up on the floor next to them in disarray. With a
concerted effort Ellie stopped her roving hands and looked into Ted's
eyes. "Honey, I need to visit the little girl's room first." She
lifted herself from his embrace and slid noiselessly toward the
bathroom. "I'll only be a minute, don't go away," she teased as she
disappeared behind the door.
When she was inside the door, Ellie leaned back against it
and breathed deeply for a minute or two trying with little success to
settle her thoughts and rethink the elements of her plan. When she
had first thought of coming back to this resort, it was with the
express purpose of finding this man and exacting some small measure
of revenge on him. Wasn't it Ted who had ruined both Rosemary's and
Richard's lives; and wasn't it Ted who had deliberately deceived her
into thinking he was someone else? It was only right then that Ted
should receive justice in the form of this lovely woman he now was,
and Ellie's plans had succeeded so far. Ellie splashed some cold
water on her face at the sink and looked herself squarely in the eye.
"He deserves this," she said softly to herself, yet when she heard
his voice pleading for her return from beyond the door, Ellie's
thoughts became clouded with passion and the warring segments of her
minds left her dazed and confused and hopelessly lost as she stood
wordlessly facing the mirror.
Behind her the door opened and Ted peaked in. "Hey
sweetie, you ready for some lovin'?" When she didn't answer he
moved behind her and wrapped hi