Cruise Control

It was a bit of a rough passage that night and therefore were one hour late docking at Civitavecchia. The Lido buffet was full of passengers getting their breakfast for it had been seen that coaches were lined up on the quay for the tours. As soon as the gangway had been set up, people began to leave the ship. To do this, everybody had to give over their plastic card which was scanned through a small computer at the entry port so that it was logged who had left the ship. This would have to be presented to get back on board which would tell them who was missing and that they didn’t take on any stowaways.

A small table had been set up on the quay where they had to queue up again to be given a small stick on badge denoting which coach they would be travelling on and it also helped the guide to keep his group together.

This party of six were designated to travel in coach number seven and then found that they would have the eighteen Dutch passengers who were on the cruise, with them. It wasn’t long before the coach set off and the girl who checked them onto the coach, she was English, used a hand held speaker and told them that the journey into the city would take approximately three quarters of an hour and would pick up their proper guide there. She issued all those on the coach with a small hand receiver and ear piece that was tuned to the one the guide would have for them all to hear his spiel as they moved along.

They duly picked him up and he introduced himself to them and showed them a small flag that he would be carrying for them to see exactly where he was in the crowds that he assured them that there would be.

The first place of note was the façade of a building that had a small balcony from where Mussolini gave his speeches before and during the war. That was in Venice Square where there was also a statue to Vittorio Emmanuelle. The next was along a wide avenue that led to the Coliseum that even though half ruined was quite impressive. It had some modern bricks in parts of the structure to keep it up from really falling down.

They passed a large sunken area of grassland that had been the site of the chariot racing such as seen in the film Ben Hur known as the Maximus Circus. After passing both places on two sides so that the coach passengers on both sides could take pictures with their cameras before moving through the city, the guide pointing out the seven hills of Rome that was really disappointing as they could hardly be discerned for they were not that high and many had official buildings erected on them, one being the Palatino. Many of the walls were still the originals built back at the time of the Caesars, showing battle scars and the years of degradation.

The coach had to park quite a way from the famous Trevi fountain, which as the guide predicted, the whole area was packed with other tourists. Here, they were given a hour to wander round the small tight streets to visit shops that sold touristy junk and also take photos of the fountain which was quite impressive, being fed from an artesian well.

With the hour up, they were collected together to go back to the coach for the next stop, that being the Vatican. It was explained that it was a city in its own right and in fact, the smallest city in the world. They were led through the museum before going on to the Sistine Chapel, but at too fast a pace to take in all the treasures that the museum held. But the chapel itself, small but quite high inside and the painted ceiling and walls were very impressive. The only problem was that though you could see the paintings quite clearly, you couldn’t really make out the tiny details.

They lost one member of their tour here but found him later as the progressed on to the interior of Saint Peter’s Basilica which alone was well worth the trip. A vast cathedral with many sculptures, far too many as with the museum, to list. Again, the moving of the guide was too fast for them to browse and really see and appreciate all the treasures to be seen.

Soon they were out into the famous colonnaded square with the huge obelisk in the middle and the famous balcony from where the Pope gives his benediction to the people who often throng to and fill this square. It was here that the three smokers lit up for smoking was not allowed inside the museum, Chapel or Basilica. Nor was it on the coach so they virtually chain smoked until they boarded the coach for the return to the ship. It was surprising at how the time had flown and all agreed that they would really have needed a couple of days to see it all properly and then even that wouldn’t be enough for all the city had to offer.

Overall, it was a good tour and they were foot weary and gasping for a drink which was the first thing they went for when re-embarking aboard the ship. The showers could wait as they eased their shoes off and had their cold drinks. They didn’t have time for more than two drinks, the first going down very fast, before it was time to go for a shower and get changed for dinner.

The conversation at the table was naturally all about that day’s tour and of the wonders and treasures they had seen. This carried on up in the lounge with their coffee and drinks where the two girls announced that they were going on the next day’s tour to Florence and Pisa, the men declining, but agreed to take the free bus to just have a look round Livorno.

*

They all had breakfast at the Lido buffet, much to Carol’s annoyance, but with their coach leaving at eight thirty, had no choice. Her and Fiona disappeared for their trip and the others slowly trooped down for the short bus ride into the city of which there wasn’t much to see and after only stopping for a coffee, got the bus back to the ship. Adam went and sat next to Gary for the short trip.

‘Er, Gary. Do you think…er, could we…well, you know what I’m talking about,’ he stuttered.

‘Thanks for the offer Adam,’ he replied, putting his hand down onto Adam’s thigh which Adam covered with his own, ‘but I’m thinking of how my Frank will feel, being left out as it were. As much as I like you, why not give Frank a try, variety is the spice of life.’

‘Do you think he would?’ Adam asked hopefully, his thoughts racing at the thought of doing it for the second time, and with someone different.

‘I’m sure he would be honoured. Wait, I’ll see,’ he said and leaned over the aisle to whisper into Frank’s ear who was sitting opposite with Paul on his far side. Frank listened and his face lit up and he smiled as he gave a nod. ‘He says yes,’ and Adam beamed and couldn’t wait for the bus to get to the ship.

After passing through the card business to get aboard, Frank whispered to Gary that they would use their cabin and he could see if Paul would like a fling. So Frank guided Adam up along to his cabin and Adam had the butterflies in his stomach again as the door was closed.

‘I…er, thanks Frank,’ and he gave a small laugh. ‘I don’t know really how to begin.’

‘Don’t worry Adam,’ he said, holding his biceps. ‘Look, I can feel that you’re too tense. Loosen up,’ and pulled him forward and kissed him. ‘There, that’s broken the ice,’ and began to undress him and when the trousers were dropped to reveal his erection, Frank went down and gave him a quick suck. That was enough to galvanise Adam into quickly getting Frank’s clothes off and going down and taking his erection into his mouth. His first time of feeling his tongue move in and under a foreskin, loving the taste and excitement it generated within him.

He didn’t suck long for he had a burning deep inside of him that he knew could only be salved by having this cock pushed up inside him. He got onto the bed, his erection lying up hard against his stomach as he watched Frank’s cock sway about as he got out two condoms. One he tore out of the wrapper as he got onto the bed and expertly rolled it down over Adam’s pulsating prick and released him to get up onto his knees.

Adam quickly moved to get between Frank’s legs and looked at the arse he was about to fuck and didn’t play about but moved in and had the pleasure of pushing and feeling the sphincter muscle give way and let the head and his cock slide up into the tight backside of Frank.

‘Wow!’ exclaimed Frank as Adam nestled his thighs up tight to the cheeks of the bum below him. Feeling himself being squeezed down below as he held the hips firm and began to move himself in and out as he fucked Frank.

As with Gary, he came too soon and still panting, pulled himself out, and Frank quickly turned round with some tissues in his hand to strip off the used condom. Then he bent down and took the still hard cock into his mouth and sucked out any residue of sperm that was inside as well as what was coated over the red hot head.

‘That was great Adam,’ he said kneeling up so that their cocks clashed as he kissed him before getting the other condom and rolling it down onto his own cock. Adam smiled and assumed the same position that Frank had and trembled again as he felt the cold cream being applied to him as Frank moved behind and in between his open legs.

He flinched again as he felt the head of the cock touch his ring piece and tried to relax properly and gave out a small cry as he felt it enlarge his arsehole as the cock was forced into him and then to feel the whole length suddenly slide in until their bodies met properly. Adam gave out a sigh, loving to feel that cock pulsate inside his back passage.

As Frank moved backwards and forwards in his fucking, Adam could feel his own balls swinging back and forth as Frank moved. Even feeling Frank’s balls slap up against the lower cheeks of his bum as he was being fucked. This is what I’ve been missing all my life Adam thought as he revelled in all the pleasant sensations that were being transmitted throughout his body as Frank kept moving and reaming that soft lined passage. He also liked the forceful pulling back of his hips as Frank began to come, ramming himself tight up into Adam as he sent out his semen into the condom.

He too was panting heavily when he’d finished coming, half laying across Adam’s broad back. Adam gave out a cry at the withdrawal and loss of that thick organ and did as Frank had done. Quickly turning round and with tissues, pulled off the rubber and took the glistening exposed red head of the cock that had pleasured him into his mouth. Tasting the sperm and squeezing the shaft to bring up the last drops to swallow as he licked round and under the tight foreskin.

‘For a beginner, that was bloody good,’ said Frank after he had flopped down onto his back next to Adam.

‘Thank you Frank, that was just great,’ he said as he stroked the hand resting on his thigh.

‘I wonder how Gary’s getting on with Paul,’ Frank mused.

‘Probably talking each other to death in the bar,’ Adam said.

‘Like hell! They’re probably doing what we’ve just done along in Paul’s cabin,’ Frank replied.

‘Are you sure?’ Adam asked, sitting up and looking wistfully down at the now deflated penis of Frank.

‘Is the Pope catholic?’ was the reply.

‘Well it’ll be some time before this rises again,’ said Adam, stroking Frank’s limp penis. ‘Let’s go up to the bar and see if they are there.’

‘Might as well as I’m feeling in the need for a drink and some food.’ So they both got up, self consciousness now missing in Adam at being naked with Frank, or Gary was the thought as he went and had a shower. He dried and dressed himself while Frank showered and did the same before they were ready and Frank took Adam into his arms and gave him a kiss as he mouthed a thank you. They went up to the Pacific bar, and sure enough, their lack of presence led Adam to believe that Frank had been right as to where the other two men were.

*

With the leaving of Frank and Adam, the other two looked at each other, the question in both their eyes.

‘Well we know what they are going to do,’ said Gary. ‘How about us two doing the same, though it would have to be your cabin?’

‘I’m all for a gay time anytime or anywhere,’ Paul replied with a laugh, and so they slowly moved to let the others disappear first before entering the same passageway to go to Paul’s cabin.

There were no inhibitions with these two as they went into a clinch as soon as the door was shut. Kissing and stroking each other at the crotch beneath their trousers.

‘It’s been several weeks since I’ve had a man’s cock in either place,’ Paul breathed as he began to strip the clothes off Gary as he was taking those of Paul off. Their erections clashed as they kissed again and breaking off, held each other’s erection as they walked the three steps to the bed.

‘We haven’t the time for both ways,’ Paul said as he turned round on the bed, ‘so it’s just a hello to this big fella down here before we fuck, okay?’ Gary had already taken Paul’s cock head into his mouth and only mumbled his assent as his tongue worked its way under the foreskin of the cock he was sucking. Paul began chewing at Gary’s circumcised cock having no foreskin to lick round. They sucked and chewed each other for several minutes before Paul cried wolf and let the cock he was sucking slip from his mouth, pulling his free from Gary’s and turning round on the bed.

‘Fuck me first,’ Gary said huskily as Paul got two condoms out of the bedside drawer. Paul grinned at him as he was up on his knees, his erection sticking out in front of him. He tore open a wrapper and rolled it down over his shaft. Gary smiled up at him and rolled over onto his stomach and lifted himself up onto his knees as Paul shuffled round and got between the opened legs.

‘For what you are about to receive, I’m grateful,’ Paul said as he parted the white cheeks of Gary’s backside and put the head of his covered cock to the brown circle of puckered flesh and pushed forward, moving slightly on his knees until he was fully embedded into the man’s arse beneath him.

‘Lovely,’ said Gary as he flexed that internal muscle of his, squeezing the shaft that was up inside his arse. Both were practiced in the art of anal sex and so had a lovely time in the giving and receiving of the organ being used in Gary’s backside. The coming of Paul was accompanied by grunts and groans from both of them with the usual shuddering of bodies as Paul came in several short jerking stabs into Gary’s arse.

Like Frank, Gary was quick to pull off the used condom and suck and lick the still hard cock of Paul’s until he was clean and Paul then waited for his turn to have the pleasure of being reamed after several weeks of not having a hard piece of flesh pushed up inside him.

‘This…is…just…great,’ Paul panted between the thrusting of Gary, whose prick was bringing the sweat to both foreheads as he held the hips tight beneath his hands as he fucked the backside of Paul. ‘Fuck…me… as…hard…as…you…like,’ Paul managed to say as he felt Gary’s balls slapping the cheeks of his bum.

‘How about…you and Adam…getting…it together,’ Gary got out as he kept up the rhythm of moving in and out of Paul. ‘I can’t…manage him …and Frank…for the …rest of…the cruise.’

‘He likes it then?’

‘Bet your sweet arse he does,’ Gary said, giving Paul’s bum a slap. ‘As much as I think we do.’

‘I’ll have him for dessert, then…after lunch,’ Paul grunted and cried out as the grip of Gary tightened on his hips as he began to slam his body up hard and firm to Paul’s bum as he jerked out his coming inside the condom stuck up inside Paul.

After the withdrawal, they lay together, telling each other tales about other men they had been with, though in Gary’s case, it wasn’t that many for he and Frank had been lovers for years now. Paul’s had mostly been one night stands as it were and with their lying there talking, didn’t realise the passing of time and when they did, it was up and a quick shower before dressing and going up to the lounge bar. Frank and Adam were already seated and drinking, Adam smoking a cigarette.

*

Paul and Gary didn’t stop for a drink as they could get one up at the Lido buffet’s bar where they all went for a light lunch.

Eating just enough to last them till dinner as they all agreed that the dinner’s served up were of excellent quality and choice. That sat there drinking and smoking and could only look at the harbour and Gary was the first to say that he was going down to his cabin for an afternoon nap and would Frank be joining him?

Frank agreed and got up and said that they would meet them up at the bar for a couple of drinks before dinner and they left, leaving Adam and Paul sitting there, looking at each other.

‘You’re miles away,’ Paul said, breaking into Adam’s dreamy look. ‘Thinking of having a nap yourself?’

‘No,’ he said with a grin. ‘Something other than a nap.’

‘Would that be us two on a bed and not having a nap?’ he asked with a returning smile.

‘You read my thoughts,’ Adam said with another smile, wider this time.

‘Shall we go to my cabin then and you can show me what you’ve learned from the other two?’ Paul asked.

‘I’m ready to learn more,’ Adam replied, returning the smile and stubbed out his cigarette and got up from his chair. They went back inside the ship for the Lido bar was half out in the open, and down to Paul’s cabin, the one he shared with Fiona.

Adam wasn’t so shy now in accepting a kiss as soon as they were inside the cabin. Nor in the taking off of his clothes, liking the size of Paul’s erection and also admiring the strong lithe body.

‘You look a lot fitter that I am,’ Adam said.

‘But you’ve got a bigger cock than I have. In fact it looks bigger than those other two I’ve seen lately,’ he said with a grin, moving into Adam’s arms for a kiss. ‘And broader shoulders. I’m going to like having you make love to me,’ and he wiggled his body so that their cocks were slightly mashed together as he moved. Paul took Adam’s hand and led him to the bed where they got on. Paul turned round and looked at the big fleshy cock in front of him. ‘It looks even bigger this close up,’ he said as he opened his mouth and took in the head. Adam followed suit, liking the look of Paul’s erection, straight and solid to feel under the soft silky skin that covered the muscle beneath.

‘This is great,’ Paul mumbled round a mouthful of cock. ‘Tastes nice too.’

‘The same goes here,’ Adam managed to get out as he tried to suck and chew at the same time. They were like two little boys in a sweet shop, sucking on their lollipops for all they were worth.

At only his second session of completing oral sex, Adam found that he could tell when Paul was about to come in his mouth and this triggered him off as to sending out his load first in short sharp spurts. As his was coming out down that end, Paul started to come, the first coming of his seed that fast that it shot straight to the back of Adam’s throat, almost making him cough which he managed to stifle as his mouth filled with semen from the cock in his mouth.

He held it in his mouth as he felt Paul doing the same and when he felt that extra bit of suction, he knew that Paul had just swallowed and so he too then swallowed the mouthful of Paul’s emission.

‘Lovely taste,’ said Paul, releasing the steaming cock head to the air. ‘Better than oysters,’ and carried on licking the exposed head.

‘This muscle is better than the other mussel,’ Adam quipped after releasing Paul’s prick. ‘The taste is better too!’ Paul nearly choked on the joke and released Adam’s cock again to chew down the underside and take the balls into his mouth to roll around. Adam flinched at having the sac taken in but did the same to Paul. He could feel the slightly oval soft pieces of flesh slide about easily inside their pouch and marvel at how wonderful the human body was and the pleasure one could get from it.

They came up for air and Paul turned round so that they could lie side by side.

‘That’s the best bit of cock I’ve tasted for a long time and you are bigger than the others,’ giving the limp cock of Adam’s a stroke.

‘Well, in my explorations into this field, I can’t say that I’m an expert, but I liked yours very much. It’s got a foreskin like mine, unlike Gary’s lack of one and it’s straighter than Frank’s which is slightly, er, angled,’ and he gave out a very unman like titter. ‘I nearly said bent, but that’s his whole body,’ and this set Paul off into a laughing fit and had to sit up for Adam to bang him on the back.

‘Oh,’ he gasped when he’d caught his breath. ‘That was a wonderful way of putting it. I can hardly draw a breath. Draw! I knew there was something I wanted to show you,’ Paul said as he scrambled off the bed and went to the dressing table and brought a large drawing pad and a handful of crayons. ‘Look. I bought these when we stopped round by the Trevi fountain. Now stay just as you are,’ he said as he put some crayons down, keeping one in his right hand as he held and adjusted the pad in the crook of his left arm.

He moved off to one side and then began moving the crayon over the pad as he began to sketch Adam lying there on the bed. Adam was conscious that his limp prick was lying half across his leg but didn’t move and thought, what the hell, the picture he’s drawing is for me anyway.

For fifteen minutes, Adam lay there relaxed in the perfect pose as far as Paul was concerned. He held up the pad and looked hard at Adam and made a few more marks on the paper, which looked more as if he was shading part of it.

‘There,’ he said with a triumphant smile on his face as he came to the bed and knelt down and showed Adam his drawing. It made Adam sit upright and took the drawing and looked at it properly.

‘That…this is wonderful Paul. I didn’t know you could draw as well as this. It’s magnificent.’ It took a moment for it to be fully comprehended that it was a drawing of himself in repose. It could have been any male looking so relaxed on a bed. Even though it was a nude drawing and you could quite clearly see the limp penis there, it wasn’t a focal point of the picture as it was just a part of the whole. ‘I’m lost for words. If all your drawings can be as good as this one, you’re hired to illustrate all my books henceforth. Come here,’ he asked as he laid the drawing aside and pulled Paul down into his arms and gave him a kiss.

It wasn’t just a kiss in the sense of the word but more of an expression of his feelings and put rather a lot into that pressing of lips together. It was an intense one that they both felt and responded to by a stirring in their loins and both felt their cocks start to rise as Paul’s body lay half across that of Adam’s.

‘By God, I’d never would have thought that I’d ever say to another man, please fuck me with what I’m feeling grow between us. I want your cock up inside me to quell the burning fire that I can feel that’s eating my insides up.’

‘Let me go and get a condom then,’ Paul said, letting go of Adam, but was pulled back.

‘No,’ said Adam hoarsely. ‘Will you do it without a rubber? I want to really feel you inside me and feel it when you come inside me. Please Paul,’ he begged.

‘Roll over then,’ Paul said, his voice thick, never having been asked to fuck somebody else without using a rubber condom. He’d always wanted to have the experience himself of riding up an arsehole bare backed. Adam was up onto his knees in a flash and quivered at the touch of Paul’s hand on his hips and felt the head of that other throbbing prick probe the entrance to his rear end.

‘Push and make love to me. Fuck me so that I know I’ve been fucked,’ Adam said in a strangled voice that he didn’t recognise as his own. He gave out a cry as his backside was enlarged without the use of a lubricant and suffered that brief moment of pain as it was widened enough for the head of Paul’s cock to enter him. Not just the head, but to feel the whole shaft being moved into his body and he quaked and felt his own cock start to dribble as his mouth did as he was filled and felt the heat and throb of the heart beat being transmitted to his internal passage.

‘God, I love this Paul,’ he cried out as his arsehole was being steadily reamed by the unmasked throbbing piece of hard flesh. He felt the increase of pressure inside as Paul gripped his hips tightly as he began to come, ramming his cock hard into Adam’s arse and held and jerked him backwards as he shot his load directly into Adam’s rectum.

‘I can feel it,’ Adam cried out. ‘Every spurt and every solid fucking inch of you.’ Tears were literally coming from his eyes at the joy and pleasure and groaned as he felt Paul pulling himself out of Adam’s rear end and have the cool air waft round the puckering flesh that sealed itself into its watertight orifice.

Paul staggered off to the bathroom, shaking his head in wonder at the pleasure he’d received in fucking another man without the use of a condom. He washed his still rigid prick in cold water, using a finger to make sure that he was clean beneath the foreskin before drying himself and returning to the bedroom where Adam was waiting with his arms open for Paul to fall into. There were many kisses and a constant movement of hands across his back as he was alternately hugged and squeezed.

Paul had enjoyed it so much that he asked Adam to fuck him the same way, without a condom. Adam was soon up behind Paul and with some traces of semen already seeping out of Adam’s prick was enough to take the place of a lubricant and he easily slipped inside and gave Paul one of the best rides he’d ever had. Him too feeling the semen being shot out to coat his insides as Adam humped his way through his orgasm.

Paul cried out too at the losing of that hard cock that had just pleasured him as it was slowly pulled out of his rear end.

‘Make sure you wash yourself properly,’ said Paul as he subsided down onto the bed as Adam waddled to the bathroom, amazed at himself from fucking a man like that without the rubber protection. Washed, clean and dried, he went back and got onto the bed and into the arms of Paul for his share of kisses and thanks for a wonderful ride.

They had been lying there in a sort of daze at the pleasure they’d both received when Adam after rolling over onto his back.

‘I think I’d better tell you Paul that I know that Fiona is not your wife but your sister,’ Adam said flatly.

‘What!’ he cried out, leaning up on an elbow to look at Adam.

‘She let it slip when talking to Carol the other day.’

‘Oh shit! That must have been when they were making love.’

‘What!’ Adam now cried out, raising himself up onto his elbow and facing Paul the same way.

‘Didn’t you know that Carol is a lesbian?’

‘Oh Christ, no. I didn’t know,’ he said, slowly easing himself back down onto the bed. Then a few moments later began to chuckle to himself. ‘Do you know that I find out that I’m turning into a homosexual and all the time my wife has been a practicing lesbian. Oh that’s rich,’ and started to laugh out loud. ‘Now that has taken a lot of self guilt off my shoulders I can tell you. I know we haven’t acted as a married couple for nearly a year now. I’ve been celibate while she’s probably been getting her end away in London the whole time. How long has Fiona been a lesbian?’

‘Ever since she went to High School. I think it started there for it was an all girls school,’ Paul replied.

‘I assume you been fucking your sister for nearly as long then?’ Adam asked.

‘Yes,’ Paul replied, red in the face, ‘but for Christ’s sake, don’t let the others know.’

‘I wouldn’t dream of it Paul,’ he said, patting his arm, then stopped in case Paul thought that it might be a bit patronising. ‘Oh this is rich,’ he said and laughed again but cut it off short as the door to the cabin opened and in walked Fiona.

‘Oh this is great!’ she said as she closed the door on seeing the two men naked on the cabin’s bed. ‘I’m fucking the wife and you’re fucking the husband,’ she cried out, flinging her hat onto the chair and faced the men by standing at the foot of the bed, her eyes roving over Adam’s naked body.

‘Yes darling,’ said Paul, ‘and vice versa. What’s good for the goose…..’

‘How could you when my back’s turned?’ she cried.

‘Your back? When I turn my back I get what I want,’ he retorted, putting his hand to Adam’s cock and lifting it up for her to see and get the point. ‘This is the one thing you’ve not been able to give me.’ She gave a snort at that.

‘I’m ashamed of you Adam, fucking about with…with….’

‘Your brother?’ Adam said quietly, which could be seen as quite deflating for Fiona.

‘Oh,’ she said quietly, then rallied herself. ‘Well you two seem quite suited to each other.’

‘Like the two Scotsmen? Adam FitzPaul and Paul FitzAdam?’ Paul asked. ‘Or the two women? Carol FitzFiona and Fiona FitzCarol?’

‘You’re disgusting,’ she said.

‘No more disgusting than you and Carol,’ he retorted.

‘As for you Adam. Lying here on the bed, you might as well move in,’ she said.

‘Now that’s not a bad idea,’ he drawled, running his hand down the naked thigh of Paul.

‘That’s a good idea!’ Paul cried out. ‘You can then move in with Carol.’

‘We’ll see what she has to say about this,’ she said picking her hat up.

‘I think that she’ll agree to it,’ Adam said with a smile on his face and they watched her storm out of the cabin.

‘Well that’s put the cat among the pigeons,’ Paul said.

‘I wonder which is the cat and which is the pigeon between them,’ Adam said, and Paul laughed and leaned over Adam and gave him a kiss which was returned with vigour.

*

Carol and Fiona had left that morning on their tour of Florence and Pisa and the only thing that really caught their attention was the famous leaning tower of Pisa. Having taken a picture of each other standing upright with the tower behind them to emphasis the lean of the building. Other than that, they were quickly bored with the museums and didn’t really take in the architectural side of things at all and were glad when the tour bus returned to the ship, a bit earlier than expected.

‘Thank Christ that’s over,’ said Fiona as they walked to the ship’s gangway. ‘My feet are killing me and I need a shower.’

‘Same here,’ replied Carol and they showed their cards to get aboard and made their way to the passageway where their cabins were. ‘See you in a little while,’ Carol had said at her cabin door and going in for Fiona to go to hers.

Carol too was glad to be back aboard and quickly undressed and went into the bathroom for her shower. She was still in there when there came a hammering at her door.

‘Carol! It’s Fiona. Let me in.’

‘Hold on a mo,’ Carol called out as she got out of the bath-cum-shower and wrapped a towel round herself and went and opened the door to Fiona who stormed in and flung herself down on the bed.

‘Do you like what we do together. Make love and enjoy the sex?’ asked Fiona without any preamble.

‘Yes, I do,’ answered Carol, looking a bit perplexed at this question and the agitated state Fiona appeared to be in.

‘Then come and make love to me now,’ she cried as she got up and virtually tore her clothes off and roughly pulled the towel from Carol’s body and began to kiss the still damp breasts, sucking with some urgency as she pulled her down onto the bed.

Carol soon got caught up in the passion and they went to it with a will, kissing, sucking, stroking and almost scratching each other to bring about an orgasm each as they tackled the sex parts of the other. Partially sated, they lay back and Fiona raised herself up.

‘Can I use your shower please?’ she asked.

‘Certainly,’ was the reply, still somewhat perplexed at this sudden sexual urge that Fiona had and decided to wait till she finished her shower before asking what brought this attack on.

Fiona came back out, naked, drying herself and then stretched out on the bed alongside Carol.

‘Now tell me what’s upset you.’ Carol said.

‘Your bloody husband, that’s what,’ was the angry reply.

‘Adam?’

‘Yes, Adam. He’s only been having it off with my brother.’

‘What?’ cried Carol sitting up quite sharply, making her breasts shake.

‘I walked into my cabin and there the two of them were, lying on the bed, bollock naked with silly grins on their faces.’

‘You caught them…doing it…together?’

‘Not exactly, mores the pity, but you could see that they’d just been fucking each other.’

‘Adam?’

‘Yes, bloody Adam. What’s more, Paul has told him that we…we’ve been doing it together too,’ she cried, her face flushed with indignation.

‘I just can’t believe it, Adam! What did you do?’

‘I shouted at them saying that as they were there fucking on the bed, they might as well stay there.’

‘What did they say to that?’ Carol asked, her eyes wide at this astounding revelation about her husband.

‘Fine. Then I could move in with you.’

‘Which one of them said that?’ Carol asked.

‘That darling brother of mine,’ she hissed.

‘What did Adam say?’

‘Nothing. He just lay there with this silly grin on his face with his prick being held by Paul.’

‘Then what did you say?’

‘That I’d come and talk to you.’

‘Oh great! The ball’s now in my court?’

‘Well what did you expect me to say? That I’d sleep in between the two of them. A right bloody ménage et trois that would be with your husband and my brother.’

‘Yes, it would be.’

‘Help me Carol please,’ Fiona cried with tears in her eyes.

‘Well we seem to be landed with a fait au accompli. Of course you can move in with me and you’re most welcome,’ Carol said, putting her arm round Fiona’s shoulder and hugging her. ‘It solves one problem for me. Instead of throwing him out, he’s already walked out on his own. I could even use it for grounds for a divorce. Him having illicit male sex.’

‘With my brother? That would be hell for me having him stand up in court saying that we are having a lesbian affair and I wouldn’t put it past him to say that we, him and me have been having an incestuous affair for years. No Carol, it wouldn’t work and it would also be a slur against you too.’

‘I see what you mean, well you’re quite welcome to move in with me if you want to. I’ve got a nice flat in Knightsbridge and he can stay in the villa in Spain. What do you say? We’ve both got connections in the fashion world, and I think it would work if you said yes.’

‘Do you really think so,’ she sniffed, wiping the tears from her eyes with the back of her hand before using the towel. ‘I don’t know how long I can go on working as a model.’

‘Well I could always find you a place at our magazine,’ Carol said, giving Fiona a hug.

‘Oh you darling, Carol. Yes, yes.’

‘Well let’s start the ball rolling by getting Adam’s things together and you can throw them into their cabin and bring back your things.’

‘Right,’ said Fiona, getting off the bed with Carol and took Adams clothes as they were passed to her and rammed them into a suitcase. ‘I’ll take these round and bring back my stuff.’

‘Okay, but I think you’d better get dressed first,’ Carol said dryly.

‘Oh, of course,’ Fiona stuttered as she looked down at her naked body. It didn’t take long to put her clothes on and went out with Adam’s case and went along to what had been her cabin that she shared with her brother.

Both men were up and dressed when she went in.

‘There,’ she said as she dropped Adam’s suitcase on the floor. ‘Here’s your clothes. Carol’s agreed to me moving in with her.’

She didn’t bother to listen to any remarks as she got a suitcase out from under the bed and began putting her clothes in from the wardrobe and things from the bathroom and dressing table.

‘I hope that the two of you will be happy together,’ she said as she went out and slammed the door. Both men looked at each and began to laugh and went into an embrace and hugged each other.

Fiona dropped her suitcase on the floor of Carol’s cabin and with tears in her eyes, went into Carol’s arms for an embrace and cuddle.

*

Gary and Frank had also just had another successful coupling and were now in an embrace for a kiss and a cuddle.

*

Adam and Paul, already dressed, went up to the lounge bar and got their drinks and sat down as Gary and Frank appeared and joined them at the table while a female stewardess took their drink order. The two women didn’t show up.

‘So how did you two get on?’ Gary asked when he’d been served his drink.

‘Marvellously,’ said Paul.

‘Wonderful,’ replied Adam. ‘I can now write my stories with a bit more insight though it’s still going to be difficult to put into words at exactly how it feels. Not the physical side, but the mental aspect of it.’

‘I’m sure you’ll find the right words Adam,’ Paul said, his hand touching that of Adam’s. This was noticed by both Frank and Gary who smiled at each other.

‘No girls tonight?’ Frank said.

‘Must be pooped out from today’s excursion ashore,’ Gary remarked.

‘I don’t think it was that,’ Paul said. ‘Fiona and I have had a bit of a tiff.’ Adam managed not to choke on his drink.

‘It was more than a bit of a tiff,’ Adam said, swallowing his mouthful of drink. ‘We might as well tell them Paul,’ he said looking at him and after a pause, nodded his head.

‘Fiona found us both in bed together and threw a wobbly,’ Adam said with a smirk on his face.

‘Wow,’ said Frank.

‘Coitus interruptus?’ asked Gary with a smile on his face, imagining the scene.

‘No, fortunately. We’d finished and were just lying there naked on the bed talking,’ said Paul.

‘But it was enough,’ Adam put in.

‘So she went back and told Carol and then came storming back, packed her things and has gone and moved in with Carol.’

‘She came back a bit later and threw my suitcase into the cabin,’ Adam added, slightly wrong in his telling of it.

‘So you’ve both been put together to do what you were not caught doing then,’ Gary said with a laugh and then gave a cough. ‘Sorry. It isn’t really very funny, is it?’ he finished lamely.

‘Well I can’t say for Paul, but it is for me, for Carol and I have virtually been separated for nearly a year now and this now makes it final,’ Adam said.

‘It makes no difference to me either,’ Paul said. ‘Me and my….er, Fiona, haven’t quite seen eye to eye with my bi-sexuality lately and so I’m glad that it’s come down to this.’

‘What’s going to happen when the cruise ends and you have to go home?’ Frank asked.

‘Well I’m presently living in our house in Spain, Carol’s living in London. I can’t speak for Paul, but, well I was going to ask you later Paul. You can come and live at my place. That is if you would like to?’ Adam asked with a small embarrassed smile on his face as he touched Paul’s hand. ‘You can do your illustrations there as well as anywhere else.’

‘I’d like that Adam,’ he said in a low shy voice. ‘Thank you,’ his hand turning round to hold Adam’s.

‘You should see the drawing that Paul did of me. It’s terrific. I’ll show you tomorrow and see what you think of it,’ Adam gushed, eyes alight at the agreement of Paul to move in and live with him.

‘It’s not one of my best,’ Paul said modestly.

‘Well if it isn’t, I can’t wait to see one of your good ones then,’ Adam retorted.

‘I think it’s time for dinner,’ Frank said, finishing his drink, and the others agreed and emptied their glasses and they went down to the dining saloon. They saw, as they walked in that the two girls were already at the table, sitting next to each other. Paul deliberately went and sat down in the chair opposite Carol indicating that Adam sat next to him and be opposite Fiona. He did and this left Frank to sit down between Paul and Carol and Gary between Fiona and Adam.

‘So how was the tour today?’ asked Gary, the question being directed at both the women as he shook out his napkin.

‘Very boring and tiring,’ Fiona replied. ‘That’s why we didn’t come for a drink. We both had a rest.’ She was not going to bring up the subject of her confrontation with Paul and Adam and hoped that they wouldn‘t either. They all ordered their dinner and the conversations, stilted during the meal, were conducted by Gary and Frank and the two women, Adam and Paul being silent throughout.

They were all glad when the meal was over and left the dining saloon and began to walk up the stairs.

‘Coming to the lounge for coffee and a drink?’ Gary asked Carol who were side by side as the moved up the decks.

‘No, not tonight. I’m quite tired and I’m going to turn in early,’ she replied.

‘So am I,’ piped up Fiona who was just behind them and heard the question. ‘Ooops,’ she said as she staggered slightly. ‘We must have sailed already.’ Which they had done, the next stop being Villefranche in the morning. No mention was made if they were going on any excursions and the two said their goodnights to Gary and Frank, the omission to the other two was noted.

*