Dana
He closed the door behind us. We were entirely alone, isolated, elevated. I was with him at last, protected by his power but in the heart of my own world, our two universes about to collide.
Hutch kissed me, strong and passionate without being overbearing, his tongue bold and inquisitive. My own reached out to meet his, the two intermingling, winding around each other in a delicious greeting that was at once brand new and yet somehow familiar, as if I’d dreamed of that singular moment in spectacular detail, just as it was happening.
I let my dress fall to the floor and stepped out of it, my panties quick to follow as Hutch peeled off his own shirt, barely interrupting our kiss the whole time. I heard his belt buckle open and I shuddered with anticipation.
His hands investigated the curves of my body, following my slender hips to my breasts, revealed and naked, my nipples hard and eager. His fingers found them, twirling and lightly flicking them, goosebumps rising up around them as our faces pressed together, chins and cheeks glancing, foreheads rolling gently against one another with the rising tide of our lust.
Hutch squeezed me, my breasts fitting perfectly in his large, commanding hands, and his touch shot through my chest straight to my heart, skipping a beat.
He lowered his head to mine, pressing against my ear. “You’re so sexy, so beautiful.” His voice rumbled low in the back of my brain, vibrations streaming downward. “I knew as soon as I saw you, the very instant I laid eyes on you, that you were special, different from the others, different from anybody else.”
A lump rose in my throat, any answer I’d hoped to give smothered newborn. His hand slid down to my crotch, already hot and dewy, his fingers gently tracing the curves of my pussy, my pink flower already in bloom, reaching out to meet his nimble fingers. He teased me out further, nerves beginning to jangle, legs almost buckling beneath me.
“And you knew it too, Dana. You knew I was the one you were saving yourself for. I was the one you knew would come along. And you haven’t been able to stop thinking about it either, about what it was going to be like. Now you’re going to find out, my luscious little lovely. Now you’ll know what you’ve been waiting for, longing for, dreaming about.”
“Yes,” I croaked out, “please, yes.”
His voice returned, rumbling and sexy and low. “I’m so glad you waited, Dana, and so are you, so glad ... ”
“Yes ...”
“So beautiful ... ” Two of his fingers slipped in, testing my tightness, a grinning little groan leaking into my ear to underscore my own breathy sighs and little whining croaks. “Such a sweet little treasure, and it’s all for me, just for me!”
“Yes.”
“You can’t wait to have me inside you.”
“Yes.”
“Say it.” It was hard enough to speak at all, my attention fixed on those fingers as they rubbed my tissues into a hot tingle, knees ready to collapse, eyes dipping shut. With more force but no anger, he commanded me, “Open your eyes and say it, Dana!”
I did as I was told, instinctively, willfully, even readily despite how much effort it took. “I can’t wait,” I heard myself say, the power of those words tumbling out of my mouth having their own amazing effect. “I can’t wait to have you inside me.”
“My cock inside your pussy.”
I nodded, his eyes locked on mine. I was unable to turn away, as if he had some mental hold on me; one I didn’t want to escape. “Your cock inside my pussy,” I said, feeling as if I was somebody else; because I was. In his arms, under his touch, I felt like another person living a different life. And I loved it.
And he knew it. His hand left my pussy and before I knew it he was slipping those fingers into my mouth, my own juices familiar to my tongue. It was a secret I’d never shared, but he’d seen right through my disguises to my very soul. He knew things about me nobody could know. Whether it was a hint of his vast experience, his amazing insight, or some combination, I couldn’t reason out at the time. I could hardly breathe, much less think! Then he kissed me, his saliva mixing with my own and the taste of my pussy swirled on my tongue, a flavor which had never existed in the history of time. It was a first, and not the only one of the day.
His kisses descended, slowly moving down the nape of my neck, a hungry growl rolling in my ear and under my skin as he kissed my naked shoulder, his black hair blinding me. I tilted my head forward, taking in a deep whiff of his masculine scent and warmth, and I knew there’d be much more of that to come.
Hutch moved further down, cupping one of my breasts as he kissed the other; first the side and then the undercarriage and then up to the nipple, hard and ready. My whole body twitched at the slightest touch, his lips against me, my back arching, shoulders pushing back into the mattress. My other breast got the attention the first one got, a nice firm squeeze sending waves of delight through my upper body and then downward to the rest of me. It wouldn’t be alone very long.
Hutch laid me back on the bed, I pulled the cover away to reveal the cool, soft sheets beneath. My back was already becoming damp with sweat and the sheet clung to me as I writhed. Hutch kissed his way down my flat belly, rising and falling with my quickening breath, his own squeezing out of his nostrils as he kissed lower and then lower still. I parted my legs, knees rising a bit to invite him to where he needed no invitation.
Hutch wrapped his hands around the outsides of my thighs and eased them apart, gently pushing them up to reveal my glistening tight star, hungry for him. But Hutch’s appetite would have to be sated first, and that was just fine with me! His tongue danced along the curves of my labia, hot and tingling and clenching, muscles pulling beneath my bare skin. He went up and down my sizzling slit, my hips lurching, grinding. My hands found the back of his head, stalks of his hair rising up between my clutching fingers.
“Oh yes,” he said very softly, his words vibrating in my groin as he licked and kissed me, as if his words were slithering into me, filling me and feeding me. “So good, so sweet, so beautiful ... ” Then he did something I’d never heard of or even imagined. Pressing his lips against my mound, where my G-spot was waiting to be discovered, Hutch let out a long, low hum. It wasn’t loud, but the effect was amazing, my whole body humming along with him as if he were some human-sized sex toy and I the luckiest girl in the world.
Lick and kiss and hum, his breath and my own dewy scent rose to form an unseen cloud above us, the smell of lust and love, craving and satisfaction. It was a symptom, a signal, the smoke rising from the unseen fire within, burning my flesh, searing my soul.
Hutch rose up from his work on one set of lips to refocus on the other, his face suddenly above me. He kissed me, long and hard and deep, and the taste of my own pussy on his tongue caused a shudder in my loins, the birth of my next orgasm, my best, and our first together. But that unique flavor, part me, part him, part us, reminded me instantly of that same taste from off his finger. But that had been a tease, this was the promise fulfilled, a savory concoction that couldn’t be replicated by anyone but us, anywhere in the world, from the beginning of time to the end. It was the essence of our union, the coupling of our essences. He kissed and licked and I returned his oral aggression, the two of us becoming frantic, more urgent.
We both knew what was coming next, and neither one of us could wait any longer.
“All right, baby.” he rasped, “you’re ready now.”
“Yeah ... yeah ... ”
“Say it, Dana.”
“I’m ready,” I heard myself say, my own words heightening my suspense and increasing my urgency, “so ready for you, baby.”
“Only for me.”
“Only for you, only for you ... ”
He growled a bit, eyes locked on mine. I felt him position his huge head at the entry point of my hot pink, leaving it there for just one more sweet second before a single, slick motion eased it in. It was big and wide, and I knew it was only a taste of what was to come. I braced myself, but Hutch was very slow, almost excruciatingly so. He went in just an inch and then stopped, waiting, hovering inside me, his eyes locked on mind as if he was reading my body, searching my mind.
“There’s no rush, sweetheart,” Hutch whispered, feeling my hips just a bit, “no rush, nice and slow. I want to savor every bit of you, every second that I’m inside of you is paradise, Dana, paradise! And we’re never gonna leave it, baby, never!” I lay back, submitting to his command and mastery. He shifted his hips just a bit, pulling back that first hint of dick. “Yeah, we got all the time in the world baby, all the time there is! Neither one of is going anywhere, angel, not ‘til you explode with cum, over and over again, cumming so hard and so long you’ll think you’re gonna die, you’ll pray for it. You’ll cry like an angel, you sweet thing, but not yet. No no, my pretty girl, not yet. Not yyyyyeeeeeeeeet.”
I was almost ready to cum just hearing Hutch say that, but I wasn’t ready to defy him. I was under his control, and my only hope was that I would be able to hang on for the ride.
He started a slow but steady rhythm, my tender tight gripping his amazing girth. But Hutch could read me, and he knew my history. So his easy grind gave me just enough to work me up, to loosen me for what was to come, stretching me with a nice, in-and-out rotation that was measured and magnificent. A little clockwise swirl sent a corkscrew of pleasure up through me, my orgasm reacting and rebelling, ready to break loose. But I knew it was going to be a special event and I wanted to forestall it, to wait until I couldn’t wait anymore and then even longer than that. I wanted what Hutch promised me, but I knew it would only happen when it was time, and it wasn’t time yet,
Not yyyeeeeeeeeeet.
A shift of Hutch’s hips, to the left and then the right, ignited even more sensation, nerves I hadn’t considered in my own private personal time. My hips rolled to meet his, then instinctively shifted counter to them, maximizing that slow, hard pressure, heaving and heavy.
“You want more?”
“Yes, more ... ”
“You ready for more? You ready?”
“So ready, God I’m so ready!”
“All right, baby, all right ... ” His hips pushed harder, even more of his great length sliding up into me, mashing my pink tissues, filling every crevice I’d ever found on my own. But he still held back, pausing at mid-shaft and leaving that hammer sitting there, filling me, motionless, a few more jiggles sending pulses of pleasure into me before his rotation continued, faster and harder and deeper than before. My eyes clamped shut, instinct pulling me into my inner world, which felt like it was about to tear itself apart. My only hope was to keep it together as long as possible and then somehow survive the eventual explosion. But Hutch said, “No, Dana, no, open your eyes ... open your eyes and look at me!” I did, that hypnotic glare only inches above me, his muscular arms straight at my sides, supporting his chest and shoulders and face. He seemed to be hovering above me even while his incredible cock pushed in deeper, harder, faster.
More!
Hutch eased my left leg up, knee pushed almost to my breast to give him even greater access, and that endless cock just kept on coming, even deeper and harder. The pressure was immense and intense, and every little movement registered right down to the tips of my curling toes, felt rolling on my calves as my muscles clenched and strained. Fast and deep, a regular railing broken up with chaotic blasts of sideways pressure, counterclockwise swirling and a jiggle that nearly stopped my heart; I wasn’t sure I could take anymore, and I knew I couldn’t keep taking it while withholding that mammoth orgasm erupting inside me.
And once again Hutch seemed to be reading my body, knowing what every twitch and every pull meant. He said, “You’re ready to cum, Dana, you’ve been ready. You wanna cum now? You ready to cum for me now?”
“God yes, I’m gonna cum ... so ... hard ... ”
But Hutch froze where he was, cock motionless inside me, the sudden lack of motion creating a wave of energy that nearly threw my body up off the mattress, my head nearly smashing into Hutch’s face above me. “No, Dana, no, don’t you dare! don’t you dare cum yet!”
“Please,” I whimpered, “pleeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzze!”
Hutch chuckled a bit and resumed his powerful pounding, my body mashed and bashed and dashed, a useless pulp of sweat, lust, and delirium. I reached up, fists pounding against his naked, sweaty chest, shoulders hard as steel with those damp thuds. “Pleeeeeeezzzzzzzzzz!”
“Yes, Dana, now! Cum for me now, you beautiful thing, cum like you’ve never cum before!” And I did, eyes rolling back, ears going numb but for Hutch’s forceful demands. “Feel it inside you, so hard, so strong, more and more, baby. The more you cum, the more you wanna cum and the more you will cum! You didn’t know that? You didn’t know you had that inside you? Ahh yes, feel that discovery, feel that power. That’s the woman you are, that’s the woman you were born to be.” And I could feel it, my body more my own that it had ever been even while I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. I could see myself laying on that bed, body quivering, an unending spasm shaking me, electrocuted from within in a merciless current that threatened to cook me alive.
And what a way to go!
“This is only the beginning, Dana,” Hutch rasped, still pounding his hard hammer into me with no end in sight. I knew he meant more than just the marathon session he’d promised and which he’d surely deliver. It was the beginning of even more than that. Louder, in a voice that was as much a warning as it was a proclamation. “You’re free now, Dana ... you’re free!”
Dana
Hutch and I parted after a few hours, difficult as that was for us both to do. We were swimming in the afterglow of our lovemaking, and there was little either of us would have preferred but to just lay there in each other’s arms, languid in our sweet exhaustion. But both Hutch and I agreed it was time for him to spend some time alone with Blu, and I had a few things to take care of myself.
When I walked into Steubing Hall, where the band rehearsed, I heard the piano tinkling out the melody made famous by the renowned beauty pageant: Here she is, Miss A-mer-i-ca ...
I smiled with a knowing little nod, acknowledging their dig without wanting to make too big a deal of it. I knew they were gossiping about me and Hutch, and by that time there was little I could do to deny any of what they might have been thinking.
“Hi guys,” I said simply, hoping that would be the end of it. My hopes were dashed.
“Dana,” Barry said, glancing down at his keyboard and then up at her, eyes rolling at me under his brow. “How’re things?”
“Good, Barry, good.” I tried to ignore the awkwardness in the room, but it wasn’t easy.
Sticks smiled from behind his drum kit. “What it is, D.”
Barry said, “You look good, Dana, you look ... relaxed ... relieved.” Eric was slumped on his stool, bass in his lap as usual. But there was something new in his gaze, something festering, sneering, angry.
“Well, it’s nice to get a little break,” I said, and that was true. “I’ve never taken the cruise as a passenger before.”
“Is that what you are now,” Barry asked, “a passenger?”
I was getting impatient with their insinuations, as much as I was with my father’s demands and Caroline’s scheming. “I’m just taking a little time away from singing to take care of this one passenger.”
Barry and Sticks looked at each other as if they were trying to keep from breaking out in laughter, the other band members staying as far away from the conversation as possible. A few of the horn players glanced at Eric and then at me, shaking their heads and muttering to one another things I couldn’t hear and really didn’t want to.
I knew why Eric was mad, and I knew what the others were snickering at, and I suppose taking care of was a poor choice of words. “Anyway, I thought we might do that song tonight, When You Wish Upon a Star.”
“We?”
“Yes, Barry, we. Look, you guys ... all of you ... this has been a strange couple of days, and we’re not even in Bermuda. So if we’re going to get through it together, we really have to resist the temptation to do a lot of gossiping and snickering.” Silence was their only response, but I could tell I hadn’t quite made my point. Or maybe I was just feeling strong, stronger than I had ever felt before, more an adult, more confident and in control, more experienced, more than just the captain’s daughter. I was a woman, and one they would have to contend with. “I don’t know what’s going to happen over the next week, you guys, none of us do. But for now I think the only thing worth assuming is that they’re going to walk off this ship and leave us all here together, as we were before. I suggest we all think about that before anybody draws any lines.”
I left them with that, their stunned silence was my only echo.
I met Hutch and Blu out by the pool. Blu had become enamored with the water park area, those long and winding tubes sending her rocketing in every direction, over and over again.
I sat with Hutch as he watched her, a lemonade on the little round poolside table. He was wearing a new pair of trunks and nothing else, a towel draped over the chair behind him. His naked torso brought back memories of the night before, the sweet taste of his skin in my mouth, his gentle but certain touch, my quivering curves. My body followed where my mind wandered, juices already stirring inside me, my legs crossing and pressing together with just a little extra pressure.
It was all I could do to keep from throwing myself on him once again, a thought that kept flashing back to me, that I might unleash myself on him the way he did on me. He’d set me free, and now I wanted to rage like an uncaged animal. I’d had a taste of blood, and I wanted more ... a lot more.
And I could tell he felt the same way. He looked at me with a calm quiet, sitting back in his chair, hips sliding forward almost imperceptibly. His eyes locked on mine, but only so I could see them wander hungrily over my breasts, my lean body, my long legs that he adored, nearly worshipped the night before.
But we both knew there was time enough for our mutual satisfaction, and that waiting was an even more delicious sensation. The suspense may have been terrible, and we both wanted to enjoy it.
Blu splashed into the pool from the bottom of the yellow pipe before swimming quickly to the edge, climbing up out of the water, and running to the ladder to make it back to the top as quickly as possible.
“She’s really precious,” I said.
Hutch’s gentle smile was the only answer he needed to give, though to hear him say, “She’s the reason for everything,” made my heart tingle, and not just my heart. I couldn’t help imagining our own kids, another daughter and maybe a son or even more than one. The boys would favor him, with dark hair, but I knew my daughter would look just like me.
I shook it off. Don’t get ahead of yourself, my inner skeptic warned me, what you said to the band was true, you better believe it yourself!
It was easier to think about Blu. “She seems a bit more comfortable,” I said. “I’m sure taking this trip was a good idea, help her come out of her shell.”
“I hope so. She does seem to be making a bit of progress. Tell you the truth, I’m not sure that doesn’t have something to do with you.”
“Me? No, Hutch, I’m just a ... a glorified tour-guide, as far as she’s concerned anyway.”
“No, Dana, no, you’re more than that to both of us. I don’t just sleep with any woman that comes along, you should know that about me. And Blu, she doesn’t take to most people the way she takes to you. And you’ve earned it ... her trust, my affection, everything the world has in store for you , you’ve earned it, Dana. I want you to know that. Nobody’s given you anything, you’ve worked for it all.”
I smiled but had to turn away. “I’m the captain’s daughter, Hutch. You can’t find a position of more privilege, at least not onboard.”
“And that’s a position which would be abused by any lesser woman. But you’ve remained stalwart, towing the line -- ”
“Until last night -- ”
“No. Last night was different, last night was special. You upheld your responsibility to your father, and I know how seriously you took that, how seriously you both took it. You’re good people, a good family. I can only hope that, when Blu’s grown up, that we’ll have as good a relationship as you two.” I was flattered, my blood running warm and smooth in my veins. But I couldn’t just confirm that it was all that easy or that simple. And he seemed to know that, adding, “And I would hope we’d be strong enough to let each other go when the time was right.”
Hutch nailed it, as always, but I just didn’t know how to answer him. I did want to be with him, even though it had only been a few days. I was in love with him and wanted to be his wife. I wanted to give Blu back everything she’d lost, everything that had been so cruelly taken away from her. And I knew I was looking for something I’d lost too, several things, probably, even if I still wasn’t sure what those things were.
I looked back up at Blu, a little girl so like myself in so many ways; sheltered, isolated, struggling just for some sense of normalcy, some way to heal the pain, not just cover it up. I thought about my singing career, how happy and fulfilled I generally was on stage, and I looked forward to singing for Hutch later, perhaps many times over the years. But I also knew then that my time on stage was quite a bit like Blu’s time in the water tubes. It was fun, a rush and a thrill, but it wasn’t real life, it was only a respite, a place to hide. It helped, but there were more important things in life, things without which none of us would ever be happy, or perhaps even survive.
I noticed my friend, bartender Hector Gonzales, standing on the other side of the deck, directly behind Hutch where he couldn’t be seen. He jutted his head to the side, like he was ushering me into the hall. Once he caught my eye, he did it again and turned to step into the hall himself. I said to Hutch, “I think I’ve got some shipboard business, Hutch. Excuse me?”
“Of course. Afterward, if time allows, put on a suit and join us.”
I looked up. “I thought we might take the SkyRide together.”
Hutch looked up, squinting in the sunlight, then back at me with a smile. “I’d love another ride.” We shared a smile and I crossed the deck to join Hector.
Once in the relative dark of the hall, I walked a few yards, glancing around. “Hector? Hector?”
“Dana,” he whispered, waving me further down the hall. We walked down another perpendicular hall and walked while we talked, one of several ship’s bars not far from the end of the hall. “I took a little break, wanted to talk.”
“Okay.”
“I shouldn’t even have left my post, Caroline’ll have me fired if she sees. But I couldn’t just wait to see if you’d stop by, I didn’t mean to intrude.”
The more he ramped up to it, the more nervous I got. I knew it could be any number of things and, judging by Hector’s air and tone, I didn’t think it was going to be good news. But I pressed a cheerful tone when I said, “It’s fine, Hector. What’s up?”
“I had a dream, Dana, a terrible dream -- ”
“Oh Hector -- ”
“I know, I know you don’t believe in them, but this one is real!”
“Hector, you’ve dreamt we were going to sink twice ... on the same trip!”
“And we almost did,” he said, his accent becoming more pronounced as he talked. “My grandmother used to get them and they always came true. I am just trying to warn you.”
“About what, Hector, what’s going to happen? What did you dream?”
“I dreamed that you got killed, Dana.”
“What? Killed? How? By whom?”
“I couldn’t see exactly, but there was a man there, the man who came aboard our ship.”
“Hutch, you’re talking about Hutch?”
“Yes, he was there.”
“He was there where, Hector? What did you see exactly in this dream?”
He looked around, holding his hands out to calm me as we approached the end of the hall. “I can’t say for sure, but I remember seeing you lying down, on the deck or on the ground, and that man was standing over you, and everyone was gathered around, looking really sad. They all knew you were dead, Dana.”
My blood ran cold. But I didn’t give much credence to Hector’s dream-whispering before, so the news didn’t exactly rock me to my core. “Was my father there?”
“I don’t think so,” Hector said. “I don’t know where it was, just that there were other people -- ”
“Crew members, passengers, locals?”
“I can’t say, like it was a combination of all three.” I sighed as we opened the hallway door and stepped into one area of the mall where Hector’s post awaited him. “So you have to be really careful, Dana, okay?”
I couldn’t resist asking, “Are these dreams like ... warnings? Or are they more like premonitions? Because if there’s nothing I can do about it -- ”
“I don’t know, Dana. All I know is that my grandmother’s dreams came true. Maybe if you’re careful, my dreams won’t, that’s all.”
“What am I supposed to do, Hector, lock myself in my cabin until we get back to Miami? I’ve got ... other things going on.”
He looked at me with a sad, frank expression as we reached the bar and he stepped around back. “I know, Dana ... I know.”