Mrs & Mrs

by Berri Fox

  Ashley and I find ourselves passing them a lot. Almost always when Ashley is the one leading our walks. I giggle to myself as I wonder if it’s because I always do that to shut them up.

  At the end of the first week, I feel so satisfied. I don’t think I’ve ever felt this content with the world. I can see now why people love cruises.

  Of course, not everyone on a cruise gets to go on it with a beautiful and rich woman.

  I go into the dining room and settle in. Ashley is supposed to meet me. She told me to go ahead. I feel so strange being here by myself. There’s a knot of anticipation in my gut that I can’t seem to shake loose.

  I know what’s coming. It’s the proposal. I have to act surprised. I can’t seem like I know what’s going to happen.

  I try to act as nonchalant as possible.

  Ashley is going to come in looking beautiful. She’ll get down on one knee, and I’ll say yes. Then, we head back to our suite for the night to relax.

  I feel my shoulders tensing up as I wait. I’ll have to get another massage after this is over.

  I feel music start to play. Natalie strolls into the room and winks at me. Not now! I think to myself. I’m filled with nerves and worried we’ll be interrupted.

  The longer this drags on, the longer we’ll have to wait for the proposal. It has to seem natural.

  The music is upbeat. Natalie is dancing far more vigorously than her usual lounge singer sway.

  A door opens and Alex walks out. I almost don’t recognize him at first. He’s dressed in a little captain’s uniform.

  I put my hands over my mouth to stifle a giggle of surprise. He looks so cute!

  He goes over to Natalie and they do a little dance together. His face is screwed up in concentration as he tries to remember the steps. There’s a huge grin across my face as I watch him.

  Natalie picks him up and dances around with him, still singing. She has a truly amazing voice. I jump to my feet and applaud when the song ends.

  Natalie and Alex walk hand in hand over to the piano. Ashley has come out during the performance!

  Alex sits on the bench next to the pianist. He smiles at me. I wave back and laugh.

  Natalie begins to sing the same love song she sang when Ashley and I had our first kiss. My heart skips a beat.

  Ashley slowly makes her way over to me. This wasn’t the plan at all. This is so much more extravagant and yet also so personal.

  Ashley stands in front of me and gives me a kiss. It takes my breath away. Natalie quiets her voice down to a hum.

  Ashley gets down on one knee. She pulls a ring box out of her pocket and presents it to me.

  “Jessica Cox, will you marry me?” She asks.

  I know that this is all part of the plan, but I still feel dizzy from all the emotions I feel. Tears begin to fall down my cheeks.

  “Yes,” I say. “Yes, of course!”

  She gets up and pulls me into an embrace. This time, it’s her turn to dip me. She gives me another kiss.

  If this was a movie, I feel like the credits would roll. This is my happy ending. All of the nerves have faded into euphoria.

  She stands me back up and I stumble a bit. We both giggle at my clumsiness. I notice everyone else in the room is applauding. I’m reminded that we were doing this for the sake the audience.

  I hope they were entertained. I take a breath to steady myself. I have to make an effort to remind myself that this isn’t real.

  None of that was real. It’s hard to believe because I think the tears I’m crying are real.

  Fifteen

  Ashley

  I can’t believe how well this plan worked. It went off without a hitch.

  I thought of giving Jess a little surprise with the proposal, but I didn’t expect it to go so well. This is absolutely amazing.

  I didn’t realize Jess was such a great actress. She looked so shocked. When her eyes started welling up, I nearly began to cry myself.

  She really sold her performance. She almost tricked me into thinking it was real too.

  I hug her tightly.

  “You did great,” I whisper in her ear. She hugs me back.

  “Thank you.”

  I take her hand. I reach up to wipe her tears away.

  “Should we go mingle?” I ask.

  She smiles at me. “Mingle we shall.”

  I laugh and take her over to meet people on the crew and guests who were in the dining room during the proposal. They’re all grinning so much. I’m grinning too.

  We chat with the people around the room. The conversations are mostly the same. They congratulate us and ask to see the ring. We tell them how happy we are.

  Jess really drives it home during these conversations. She even sounds like she’s getting choked up. I hug her tightly as we go from group to group.

  Someone hands us champagne and we do a toast.

  “To the love of my life,” I say before giving her another quick peck. We toast and drink our champagne.

  Maybe it’s the bubbles of champagne going to my head, but I feel incredibly giddy. I want to dance around and giggle even as we talk to everyone.

  The excitement in the air is palpable. I wish I could bottle it up and save it for later. I hope my real engagements ends up being this good. My hypothetical future engagement is still probably a long way away, but this was a hell of a dress rehearsal.

  There’s no one else I would rather do this with. I have so much fun with Jess. She’s good at helping me pull this off, and, honestly, I just like her.

  We’ve become fast friends over the past few days. I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed someone else’s company this much. I’ll be sad when this is over.

  I look around the room. As I suspected, Robin’s friends are out on land tonight. They have no reason to report back to my brother about what happened. I smile to myself.

  This plan really was perfect. I really shouldn’t pat myself on the back so much, but I’m really pleased. I just hope the others take it as happiness with the engagement and not a scheme.

  But, of course, there are always bumps in the road. I see Gail and Sarah in the corner of my eye. They’re sneering at us. Now that I look around the room again, not everyone looks as thrilled with this as I originally noticed.

  Still, I won’t let them rain on my parade. Quite the opposite. Their annoyance only makes me enjoy these compliments from everyone else even more.

  I hang onto Jess’s arm and smile as guests line up to tell us how cute we are. Alex walks over to us from the piano. In the hustle and bustle, I had nearly forgotten about him.

  He tugs lightly at Jess’s clothes. Poor kid. He’s already bored of this.

  Suddenly, Sandy Potts, Chief Purser on the ship, sweeps Alex up in his arms. Alex laughs at the sudden motion.

  “Well, Captain, why don’t I show you around deck to meet your crew?” He asks?

  Alex smiles and kicks his feet. He looks at Jess. “Can I please?” He asks.

  Sandy leans in towards us. “I can watch Captain Alex here. You two should take some time alone together. Trust me, when you look back at this, you’ll be happy you did.”

  A blush creeps over Jess’s cheeks. I smile. “That sounds great, Sandy.”

  The timing couldn’t be more perfect. I was worried that the gold diggers were going to come over and try to cause a scene. Better to avoid conflict while we’re ahead.

  I take Ashley’s hands and drag her away back to the suite. I make sure to throw a wink and a giggle at her while I do. Better to replace those fake engagement rumors with sex rumors.

  We keep up appearances all the way back to the suite. When we get in, our smiles fade a bit, but they don’t disappear completely.

  I suddenly feel very awkward.

  “So,” I say. I have no plan for the rest of the sentence. The word hangs heavy in the air.

  “So,” she says in response. We sit down on the bed but keep a respectful distance from one another.

  I don
’t know about her, but now I’m thinking about what everyone else thinks we’re doing.

  “You know they think we’re…” She begins. I laugh.

  “Yeah. I know.”

  I feel the familiar tingle between my legs. I cross my legs and squeeze my thighs together.

  It feels so hard to look her in the eye. Even though we’ve just started our awkward conversation, I feel the tension between us. I want her so bad.

  I curse her no sex rule. When I first saw her, I should have anticipated how difficult that would be to keep up. Still, I don’t want to betray her trust and make a move.

  I’ll admit that in the beginning, I had half of a plan to try to seduce her anyway, but now that I know her, I just can’t do that. She’s my friend. I have to respect her wishes.

  Jess moves slightly closer to me. It’s a small miracle.

  I look at her and she looks at me. Everything that we need to communicate wordlessly is said through that gaze.

  I want her so bad. And I thinks she wants me too.

  She reaches a hand up and cups my cheek. Her skin feels hot and electric against mine. I lean in to the palm of her hand.

  Jess leans in and gives me a kiss. I kiss her back.

  In the suite, there’s no one to perform for. Our kisses elsewhere on the ship were at least partially for the benefit of others. Though I have to admit that I stole them whenever I could.

  She pulls me closer to her and deepens the kiss. We’ve never kissed like this in front of anyone else.

  I think Jess’s rule about not having sex has gone out of the window. I make a quick mental note to thank Sandy for allowing this to happen. If Alex was still here, we definitely couldn’t be doing this.

  I wrap my arms around her and press her body against mine. The whole world fades away. I forget about the engagement and my brother. I even forget we’re on a ship.

  Right now, my mind is focused only on how much I want her.

  She pulls me back into bed with her so we’re both laying down. I pull away for a moment.

  “Are you sure?” I ask. I pray that the answer is yes.

  She smirks. “I’m sure.”

  My prayers have been answered. I lean in to kiss her again and get ready to do all the things I’ve been yearning to do to her body.

  Sixteen

  Jess

  I can’t help myself. I just can’t.

  I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing. This is all just a show. I’m supposed to be fixing my life, not creating a bunch of new problems for myself.

  But she’s gorgeous.

  All my first impressions of her were correct. She’s bold and overpowering but she’s also sweet and caring. I think she’d care even more about people if they hadn’t let her down in the past. Even though I feel a turbulent, insistent lust, I also feel a deep sense of connection with her.

  As if I’m the one that’s going to help her see what love can do. As if I can bring her out from behind that mask. I know, its ridiculous. Nothing could change her—or me for that matter.

  I’m digging myself into a hole I can’t get out of. I know that. But I can’t stop.

  We roll back and forth on the bed, pulling at each others’ clothes and kissing. I can’t tell where I end, and she begins. There is just shadows in the dim light and sensation. Incredible, deep, carnal throbbing that’s pressing against me and begging for release.

  Ashley sits up above me, looking down on me. Our clothes have been flung away piece by piece and I didn’t feel naked until this moment.

  She looks down on me like a hawk to a dove. Her blue eyes are wide and focused, her breath coming hard as her tongue creeps to the edge of her mouth.

  I can feel her eyes sliding over me and my skin comes alive, goosebumps flaring everywhere her gaze touches. I writhe under her, a mess of lust just from her attention.

  She touches me gently with her fingertips, running them across my collar bones. The sensation is incredible, a combination of the skin stretched thinly over the bones and my own excitement. She draws her hands down my body, letting her fingers learn my shape and taste my skin. I start to writhe under her, feeling the electricity of her hands as she brushed my nipples and belly.

  She strokes the soft spot between my breasts and runs her hand down my belly. She leans forward as her hand moves lower, getting close to my pussy. I’m trembling now, my pussy wet and shuddering as I wait for her caress.

  When her tongue touches my clit, I let out a yell they must have heard back at the last port. I try to squirm, but she quickly wraps her arms around my legs and clamps me to her.

  The firm pressure of her arms combined with the sweet lick of her tongue sends me over the edge immediately. She sucks on my clit, lavishes attention on the inner lips and teases at my cunt. I try and writhe, but she keeps me held by her arms as she pleasures me.

  The orgasm comes rocking through me almost like a reflex. I haven’t been touched like this in a very long time… Maybe not ever. My body responds to the pent-up stress and excitement by exploding at her attention.

  My lust has been building since the first moment I saw her. There was no way my body could wait to be pleasured before coming to climax. She’s just too fucking hot and I feel like I’ve waited too long.

  I keep shaking as heaving breaths get caught in my chest and shudder out of me like cries without sound. Ashley eases her grip on my thighs and looks up at me, smiling.

  “You hot little slut you.” The depth of her voice, the power of her appreciation, it almost makes me come again.

  “You want it. You want more. Come for me, Jess.”

  She puts her mouth back down to my clit and I feel my ass leap up and down on the mattress as my body tries to process the pleasure. She works her tongue up and down my slit, pausing at the top to lick and suck at my clit, swirling it with the tip of her tongue then diving down into the wet hole that just keeps pouring sweet cum for her.

  When her lips move down to work harder at my inner lips and cunt my body goes limp. I can hear myself making little cries now, but I’m far away from them. I feel the orgasm building and my head starts thrashing back and forth. Ashley grips my thighs again and punishes my pussy with her lips and tongue.

  This orgasm is like a firecracker. I feel the promise of it shooting upwards like a tiny spark. There’s that moment of anticipation where you keep looking for the spark, waiting for the boom.

  Then the lights explode in every direction. Its inside me and its exploding through my every limb. Now I am screaming and the only reason I know that is because my throat has been ripped raw by my own voice.

  I feel Ashley let me go as she sits up, but I’m out of body and I can’t look up. All I can do is lay there and shake. To my surprise, I feel her arms going around me, pulling me to her chest.

  She strokes my hair as she holds me. I’ve never felt so safe. I feel more appreciated than I ever have in my life. For a heart breaking second, I think I’m going to cry.

  Then she leans in and kisses me. My musk is all over her face and that just makes me even more eager. As our lips twist together and slide our tongues against each other I find myself groping at her, pulling her tight to me. We writhe against each other, hot breasts rubbing together, her pussy and mine spreading slick juice on our legs and the sheets.

  As we start to roll around, we don’t break our kiss. We roll back and forth quite a bit, almost wrestling as we giggle and struggle. The bed is so big I don’t think we could fall off it if we tried.

  My lust rises in me and I need to taste her. I start to use a bit more force as we roll back and forth and I hear Ashley giggle as I throw her on to her back and slide down. I extend my tongue as I get near her pussy, using just the tip to tease her clit.

  She arches her back, hands clawing at the sheets. I keep her on the edge, gently teasing her clit before I let my tongue slide lower. With long, hard laps I spoil her from cunt to clit and her joyous cries ring through the room just like mine did a few minutes ag
o.

  I push myself up a little to get my lips wrapped around her clit and bring up my hand to tease those muscular lips. Her pussy clenches around my fingers and I moan into her clit, the sensation of her response only turning me on even more.

  She’s just so fucking hot. I don’t understand how the lust can keep levelling up, getting stronger and stronger by the second.

  When I feel her start to tremble, I tease at her cunt with two fingers while I lap at her clit with the flat of my tongue. I keep upping the pressure, feeling her go completely still underneath me. I slow down for a second, wondering if I did something wrong.

  Then she grabs my hair in one strong fist. She rocks her hips towards me, pressing down with her hand.

  I pump my fingers hard into her, licking and sucking her clit, responding to the pressure on the back of my skull. She starts writhing and rocking back and forth, holding my head exactly where she wants it. I obey her every unspoken command, completely in sync with what she needs.

  When she starts to come, I do too. Just pleasuring her, knowing I’ve pleased her, is enough to get my pussy trembling and pumping all over again.

  I eat her pussy greedily as she spasms under me, shrieking her joy into the ceiling. I lap at her clit and drink from her cunt, feeling every intense pulse from her hot, wet lips.

  Seventeen

  Ashley

  It’s not like me to just let someone pleasure me. I like to be in charge and take what I want. When Jess’ mouth touched me though, something woke up deep inside me.

  Not just lust and not just pleasure. Something bone deep, no, deeper. Something of the soul. I barely know myself with thoughts like that floating around in my head.

  But all of me is floating. My body, my mind. I’m just swept on waves of pleasure. No one has ever, ever made me feel like this before.

  She alternates with her tongue and fingers, keeping up her attentions even while I come. The string of orgasms blow all thought from my mind and leave me a shivering mess against the sheets.