Rayne stood on the patio sipping her morning coffee. It was already sixty-nine degrees and beautiful. She couldn’t sleep with so many items of past and present swirling around. The sun had risen slowly as if born from the water itself. As the first rays hit the shimmering blue, Rayne took several pictures so no matter where her life led, she would remember this moment. Already in her swimsuit with a sheer black cover up that came to her knees on, Rayne was ready for girls day. Billee had brought home a bottle of wine on the way the previous night and they decided it best for the pool day. Packing a bag with several bits of fruits and a bottle of wine, Rayne was only waiting on Billee to get up and be ready to go. The walk would take them a few minutes but it was a fairly flat path with little obstacles.
Out of nowhere Billee walked on the patio singing and shaking her nearly naked body in the skimpy two piece of white. She looked like a f*****g model and Rayne knew that had there been men at this pool, she would not even be noticed. Billee worked out a lot to keep her sanity and frustration at an all time low. She had a taunt well curved model figure but still keeping her firm ass and c-cup boobs. If Rayne liked women, Billee would have definitely won the ‘have to have’ contest. Billee slipped on her white lacey swimsuit cover and clapped her hand together.
“Alright b***h! Let’s do this!”
Rayne shook her head and grabbed the bag with all items needed. They started down the path and the laughing wasn’t far behind. They were singing to one another in fake microphones and skipping down the path like two teenagers headed to a rave. It was only about a five-minute walk, with all the dance break stops they made. The pool had been just as Rayne left it. Serene, beautiful and holding the best view of the island and waters below.
“Wow Rayne this is the best spot in the world, I think. Let’s take selfies with that background!” They both turned putting the valley and ocean behind them. About ten photos later they were laughing happily and ready to play some tunes while sunbathing.
They arrived at the pool around ten that morning and for the next two hours they chatted about the past, the present and what the future held. Stopping at intervals of course to sing along to the songs playing on the small speaker and even standing up to dance a bit. They hadn’t released life into the wild and let the day be what it was without worry or concern for years. This was a remembrance of the power of friends. It was a time they would forever engrain in their minds. Most importantly it was a day they had all to themselves before everything changed.
“Wine! We need Wine!” Billee laughed and hollered loudly to the valley below.
Rayne took time to open the bottle and throw back a hearty swig. She handed it to Billee who took a deep-rooted guzzle before letting out a ‘woohoo’ wail of excitement. The song that played next was pop with a dance groove. Both girls stood singing all the words verbatim and dancing around passing the wine back and forth. It was a good thing the next neighbors were halfway down the mountain as this might have been a bit loud for their tastes. Billee held up the bottle and made her declaration.
“To my bestie and the one person I will never live life without no matter how far away!” She threw back another swig.
Taking the bottle Rayne laughed and tried to compose herself. “To my bestie! I wouldn’t be here without you and I am hoping every fantasy and dream you have comes true here in Greece!”
“Heeellll Yeaaah!” They both hip bumped, nearly fell over and finished off the bottle of wine.
“Whew! It is hot!” Was all Rayne could get out while dancing around with Billee to another dance pop beat.
Billee stopped dead in her tracks. She grinned and walked slowly towards Rayne.
“No ma’am. Don’t you dare.”
Rayne’s short legs were no match for Billee’s long ones and she was caught and thrown in the pool in nearly a spilt second. Rising for air and trying not to laugh she surfaced. “b***h!”
They cackled as Billee started to move in a comical yet seductive way to the diving board. She slowly stripped off her cover up mouthing how she was too sexy for everything in time with the song. Reaching the diving board she tried to have a serious face and get into position for a dive. Throwing her cover up to the side her beautiful tanned skin against the white suit with her luscious tattoo of an orchid down her side was awe inspiring. She tapped the board with one jump, slammed into it with the second jump and proceed to go from feminine and sexy to wild and free with a heavy cannon ball. Rayne was laughing so hard her side hurt.
“You are insane!” Rayne said loudly.
The sound that echoed next across the pool and area surround was intimidating. It sounded like a shot gun or a large hammer hitting something hard. They looked around and saw nothing. No one in sight and no other sound after. It was just random but sounded so close they both had to take pause.
“I am nearly drunk. We shouldn’t be swimming Rayne.”
They nodded and swam to the side and climbed out of the pool. Billee walked to the pool house and came back smiling with two glasses drinks. They were alcoholic and that was about all she knew. Opening them they both made a weird face before taking another sip. Weird but good.
“Let’s sunbathe for a bit to music and dream about massages and cabana boys.” Billee jested.
“Mmmmhmmm, I could use some strong hands on my body right now.” Rayne thought of hands she shouldn’t.
The sun was high in the sky and it was nearly two before the girls stirred from their small naps in the sun. Rayne could feel her ass cheeks were slightly burnt and walking the next day with underwear rubbing it wouldn’t likely be fun. Pulling out the fruit and grabbing water from the pool house fridge, the girls hydrated and ate. They discussed going to jet ski at some point before leaving. Rayne wanted to be with her son but in that moment, she never wanted to leave.
“Let’s go down to the village and hit that restaurant near the market.” Billee suggested.
“That is the one the rental company suggested? We should. Wanna go back and get cleaned up. I could really use some real food.”
“Sounds good! Let’s go!” Billee popped up and dance around hip swinging for a minute before grabbing the bag and heading towards the path.
Rayne straightened the chairs and threw the empty bottles away in the trash of the pool house. Looking back at the pool as she left her attention went to the main house where the veranda doors seemed to be open and she swore someone walked in quickly when she looked up.
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Angelos looked at the clock, ten thirty a.m. He had lay there for nearly three hours unmoved. He didn’t want to go into the office today and didn’t want to lay in bed either. Realizing that he wanted a woman other than the Masquerade Ball Woman was causing him pain in his loins. Rising and heading to the kitchen he passed Dimitri who was standing at the glass doors to the veranda cussing under his breath. Binoculars affixed to his eyes he was unwavering.
“What are you doing Dimitri?”
The words startled Dimitri thoroughly as his own focus on the pool was all consuming. He put the binoculars down and looked at Angelos.
“Did you f*****g know?”
Angelos knew the gig was up and he had to come clean. Already was he keeping so many things from his cousin and best friend, he had to at least give him this.
“Yes. I don’t know what you wanted me to say but yes.”
“Well you could have f*****g told me to find a hotel so I didn’t have to deal with this.”
“A hotel? Really Dimitri? How could you ogle her and play voyeur stalker boy from a f*****g hotel?”
Dimitri’s middle finger shot up in Angelos’ direction quickly but not before returning his gaze to Rayne and Billee. He was angry. She was drinking, showing off everything she owned to the world below and moving it seductively. Was she trying to make him hate her more? Really Rayne? Why are you f*****g here?
“Wait, who is with Rayne? I thought she had someone here with her but assumed it was a man by the name.”
Dimitri’s face contorted in rage and he looked at Angelos who was now standing next to him.
“No you ass, that is Billee, her best friend.” He said handing Angelos the binoculars.
The laughter from Angelos was hearty and loud. He couldn’t stand how Karma was playing with the Drakos family in that moment.
“That is the woman I am interviewing. The one I almost kissed at the end of the interview.”
Dimitri couldn’t withhold the laugher that erupted from his mouth. Angelos had been beside himself upset that this woman was the most qualified and his c**k wanted to pound her all in the same moment.
“Well if you hire her, at least you will regularly get laid. There is that.”
Angelos rolled his eyes, Dimitri and Kris seemed to think he needed s*x to be happy. While he missed it, the thought of another woman, which he tried many times over the years in failure, was sickening to him. But this one, she was different. She stirred him from the inside and made his outside salute in attendance. Dimitri handed the binoculars to Angelos and disappeared into the study. Returning moments later he had two chairs, another pair of binoculars and two beers.
“If they are gonna flaunt it for the world to see, we might as well enjoy.” Dimitri said flatly.
They clinked the beers and proceed to discuss women, s*x and watch the spectacle that was Rayne and Billee. The two men, in such dire need of s*x and to touch the ones they watched, relaxed and enjoyed the show. The women danced around, sang and drank like it was their last time together on the planet. Dimitri stood for a moment and opened one of the glass doors to the veranda so the echo of music and voices would flow into them making the peep show that much more desirable. As the girls raised the wine and made declarations of love and friendship the two men watched on and snickered. Rayne and Billee looked ridiculous and half drunk but it was truly entertaining.
As Rayne stood on the lounge chair and shook her ass back and forth to the music while lip syncing in perfect time, Dimitri had to shift slightly in his chair. After all this time, all the anger and words said, she still stirred something in him. He wanted to march down there, spank her ass and tie her to the lounge chair. The thought of making Rayne the plaything in his fantasies once more was prevalent. Who was he kidding, she had never stopped being his fantasy. All the women he had tried to bed or had offered him oral satiation couldn’t hold a candle to her skills and sound. The sound of her moaning was playing over and over in his mind when a large splash pulled him from his torturous repose. Billee had pushed Rayne in the pool and drunk. His intake of air was not only one of concern but need to go save her.
Angelos was sitting up more and shifting in his chair as Billee did her seductive dance of stripping on the way to the diving board. As she reached the center of the board and threw her bathing suit cover up to the side, Angelos growled and threw his binoculars and his chair was flung backwards and he stood with the look of seeing a ghost. The sound was so loud it echoed down to the pool and instigated both ladies looking up to the main house. Dimitri slid the glass door closed a bit with stealth and looked at Angelos.
“What the f**k man. I mean she is hot but really?”
Angelos was frozen. His words wouldn’t come out, the sound he tried to release from his throat in audible vocabularies was dead. He looked at Dimitri in awe and shook his head no.
“It’s her.” Was about all he got out and it was nearly not audible.
“Who’s her? Yeah, it’s Rayne and Billee. We established that.”
Grabbing Dimitri’s arms he shook him slightly. The look on his face now changing to need, hunger, and disbelief.
“NO! It’s her. The tattoo, that’s my Masquerade Ball Woman. That’s her. Billee is … this explains everything!”
Dimitri looked from Angelos to the pool and couldn’t contain his laughter. It was full and brought his gut into trembles. Angelos punched him in the arm.
“You almost kissed the one you have sought for nearly six years and come to find out she is the one? That’s f*****g hilarious. Well now you HAVE to hire her. Wait. Are you going to tell her?”
Angelos put his hand on the glass door and started to slide it open.
“Wait, wait, wait… Let’s be smart about this one Angelos. You will interview her, tomorrow right? Why not tell her tomorrow. Let her have a day? I mean before you commit yourself into oblivion with only one woman to torture you eternally, think about it.”
Angelos’ face looked back at Dimitri while removing his hand from the door handle. “You may want to deny you can live a happy life with someone but dammit Dimitri, I want that. I want it in my bed, on my c**k and in my arms for eternity. Would it really be so bad?”
Dimitri was annoyed. He wanted happy but it had cost him Darius. And his anger cost him the one woman his f*****g mind couldn’t forget. No matter how he bellowed, how he wished it weren’t so, Rayne had never left him. No matter how hard he pushed her out, she found another door and remained in his soul.
“Sorry man. Seriously though. Find you and her alone time tomorrow and tell her. Not today, not with Rayne there. It’s not right. You two should take this news on together without the interruption of on lookers and other opinions.”
Angelos looked back at the pool and to Dimitri. Dimitri was a hard, cold ass person but when it came to Angelos he did always try to give good advice. He was right. Tomorrow, alone, Angelos would tell Billee who she was to him, what she meant to him and hope she remembered him the same. Tomorrow would either be the start of the rest of his life or the day his insides died. Whichever it was, he was ready, because anything was better than alone and unknowing. More than anything he hoped Dimitri would learn the same someday soon.