Another Time, Another Place

Nancy pushed her breasts out at Mike. He seemed disinterested in them and pointed at Calibri and me. “Are these your friends?”

After sighing and making a show of it by putting her hands on her hips, Nancy said, “Yes, we’re from Los Angeles. And you?”

“We’re from the D.C. area,” Mike said.

It did not escape any of us that she did not bother giving our names so Calibri chimed in. “I’m Calibri and that’s Kiss.”

“Kiss?!” the one named Aleck exclaimed, still staring at me. “As in K-I-S-S?”

“Yes,” I replied, getting up off my lounger and brushing the sand off me. “My daddy said he fell in love with my mother during their first kiss, so it’s kind of an inside joke.”

Aleck looked my body up and down. I was doing the same damn thing to his. “Well, it’s a nice joke. I’ve never met someone named Kiss before. It’s definitely unique.”

Calibri had stood up, without me even noticing it, until she rested her arm on my shoulder. “Kiss is a unique woman all around. Tell him what you do for a living,” she urged.

Mike looked at me with interest then. “What do you do, Kiss?”

I knocked Calibri’s arm off my shoulder. “I hate you.” We both laughed. “I’m a clown and I’m proud of it.”

“A clown?!” the two men exclaimed in unison.

“Yes, as in a circus clown,” I stated, used to that reaction from people. “It’s a family tradition.”

“Both of her parents are with the circus,” Nancy said, like it was a crime. “Her dad is the ringmaster and her mother is a trapeze artist.”

“Wow, I didn’t know that there were many black people in…” Mike started to say.

I interrupted him. “There are not that many, but it’s what I do. Got a problem with it?”

Aleck crossed his arms and smiled. He was too fine. “I think it’s cool.”

“Baby, if you like it, I love it!” Mike yelled out. “As fine as you are, I bet you look sexy as all get out in a clown suit. I’ve never gotten it on with a clown before.”

“No, you just act like one every time you open your mouth,” Aleck remarked.

“Whatever, Man.” Mike shot him a wicked look. “So, are you ladies busy this evening?”

“I’m available.” Nancy moved closer to him to make sure he understood the ramifications of her statement.

He seemed turned off. “What about you, Calibri and Kiss?”

Calibri responded, “We don’t have any major plans. We were going to dine by the water back at our hotel.”

“Where you staying?” Aleck asked. “We’re at the Ritz-Carlton.”

“So are we,” I said. “Great place.”

“It’s off the chain,” Aleck added.

There was definitely chemistry between us. Little did he know that I had already fucked him in my imagination hundreds of times. My eyes dropped to his swim trunks, trying to figure out if his dick was curved.

ALECK

A clown named Kiss, I thought as I showered and prepared for an evening of promise. The only down side was that she was from Los Angeles and I resided in Washington, D.C.—a recent implant from Atlanta. Since she’s with a circus, that has to mean she travels constantly, which could be an up side or a down side depending on how I look at it. Hopefully the circus heads East and I can see her often. On the flip side, she might be so tied up with work that she’ll have no time for me. Then again, she is in Jamaica on vacation.

“Stop it!” I warned myself out loud. “You just met the woman!”

I finished rinsing the lather off me, got out the shower and began to get dressed. I chose a white linen casual suit, no shirt, to show off my pectoral muscles, and a pair of black sandals. Mike had recently convinced me to start getting pedicures. He said that men with smooth feet and shiny, clipped nails turned women on. Since my feet had seen better days, I decided to get one biweekly a couple of months before we headed to Jamaica.