I’m sitting in my recruiter’s beige coupé, driving to the place where I will sign my life away. I bite hard on my lower lip as I realize what a massive decision I’m about to make with my life. Enlisting in the Navy was not something I had really contemplated before this year, and everything since then has happened so suddenly. All at once I have a job, a plan. Then again, that’s just the way my life has always happened- suddenly.
“There’ll be lots of nice looking men for you to choose from, Jamie,” my friend Audrey said yesterday, but I don’t care about that. I’ve always been an independent type of girl, I never need a man, but boy do I like to fantasize about being with one. I find it so enthralling- every time I as much as catch a handsome fellow eyeing me, I delve into a faux sexual encounter in my mind- and catch myself on the verge of an orgasm in public. I’m so, so sexually deprived, and I want to be given everything he has, even if he only exists in my mind.
6:02 PM
Here I am, waiting to check in at the LAX Radisson, surrounded by these muscular, gorgeous creatures, and not just one of them eyeing me, but ALL of them. Everyone staying in this hotel is US military- all different branches, yet all here either for their physical, or to be shipped off tomorrow.
I have never felt so lucky or so horny and excited in my entire life. I can literally feel my pussy starting to drip, and I know that I am going to find the nerve to talk to one of these guys. Tonight. My fellow female roommate, Devon, and I get to our room and see a view of planes flying over head, the skyline of the beautiful city of Los Angeles, spectacular lights everywhere. The most beautiful thing- 200 light towers, all changing colors simultaneously, right outside my window. Red, to orange, to pink, yellow, green, so on. Gorgeous.
We head down the glass elevator and spiral main staircase to have dinner at the hotel restaurant. It’s a sushi bar, and very upscale. Dark cherry wood floors, ceiling and tables, with dim lighted paper lanterns and dark red drapes hung all around- it’s a very romantic atmosphere, and I only wish I had someone to share it with.
You know that feeling you get when somebody is looking at you, and you can feel their eyes gracing your body? I felt him from across the room. Dark brown eyes with thick sexy eyebrows, Army short dark brown hair with side-burns-staring at me, and I don’t mind one bit, because all I can do is stare back in awe.
I fantasize a lot, but I’ve never seen anything like him in my mind before- he’s too ideal. His physique is perfection- not too muscular- yet strong and thick. He’s not trying to look tough- and isn’t afraid to smile. He smiles at me as if he knows something that I don’t, and as if he wants me to come find out. And god- am I dying to know. I get in line for the sushi bar and head back over to the tables- his table is full.
I sit with Devon and she says, “That guy over there- he won’t stop looking over here. Did you talk to him or something?”
“No.” I say. “But I will.”
6:45 PM
By the time we finish eating dinner, mystery man and his friends are nowhere to be found, so we head back up to the room to change into bathing suits, and then back down the elevator to the outdoor pool, which now has a green luminescent light coming from it.
Tiki Torches are lit all around, and several black, unrecognizable figures are swimming in the pool, and some sitting around it, smoking and laughing. Devon and I are the only females in sight. As we get closer, we take off what is covering our young, curvy, athletic figures, to expose a couple of bikinis. The air becomes silent, and jaws drop. Devon and I jump in the pool, and splash around a little, before a group of men swim over to us and start up a conversation.
I notice that one of the men is the man from the restaurant, and even in the dark, my green eyes light up so very bright. Mystery man smiles again, and pulls me out of the crowd, and to the other side of the pool.
He stares into my eyes and says in a goofy voice, “Are you real?”
I giggle, and politely answer, “Yes.”
“And you’re here for what tomorrow? What branch are you going into?”
“Navy. I’m swearing in tomorrow. Taking the oath. I’m really excited. What about yourself, what branch, and why are you here?”
“I’m in the Army. I’m leaving for Basic Training tomorrow morning. I’m a bit frightened.”
He looks a bit frightened. “Don’t be afraid, I know you’ll do great, plus you probably have everyone routing for you at home right? Mom, Dad, Girlfriend-“ I say, knowing he’ll answer with a yes or a no.
“No, no, no, no girlfriend. I’ve been single for quite a while,” he says sadly.
“Me too,” I say. “But sometimes I like it that way. I’m only 18. No strings attached. I do get lonely though.”
“A girl as beautiful as you shouldn’t have any problems finding someone to love. But I know what you mean about being lonely-like you wish you had someone to hold at night? Me too. I’m 24. Sometimes I think It’s time to find the right girl.” He takes my hand in the water, and then realizes that he doesn’t even know my name. “I’m sorry; I completely forgot your name. What is it again?”
“You never asked. It’s Jamie. And you are?”
“I’m Alex,” he says in a way that I will never forget. “It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
“Do you smoke?” I say, expecting one of those, revolted looks and a straight up “no.” Instead, he takes my hand again and we get out of the pool. I start to shiver, but he wraps his towel around me and lights me up a cigarette. We walk over to his friends who are sitting at a table by the tiki torches, and they introduce themselves.
They announce that they are having a “Going Away Party” and that Devon and I are most definitely invited. Alex encourages me to come, and says that as long as I’m with him, I’ll be fine, and have a good time, so I agree. I can’t help it- I want to be with him for as long as possible tonight.
8:30 PM
Devon and I clean up and go back up to our room. She tells me that there’s “a few cute Marines” she wants to see at the same party I said I’d go to, and I’m relieved that she wants to come with me.