Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 21:39:27 +0200
From: Amy Redek <adultreading@gmail.com>
Subject: Cruise Control. Part Six.

           This story is for persons of eighteen years or over.  All
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       Part Six

       Adam and Paul were the first to get up from their beds and have a
shower and get dressed and go up to the Lido buffet as the cruise liner
dropped anchor and a small boat pulled ropes to a mooring buoy in the bay.

     They got their buffet breakfast and sat down at a table for four,
though they could see that many of the Spanish passengers would drag tables
together for they always seemed to gather in large groups. A couple of
Spaniards tried to stop at their table, laden with a tray each and Adam
understood the question they asked.

     `Non. Por amigos,' he replied and they moved off.

     `You do speak Spanish then,' Paul said, which made Adam laugh.

     `No, but I understood that they wanted to sit down and I dragged up a
few words that I know, saying that those seats were for our friends.'

     `Well I'm impressed,' Paul said as they began to eat, then he paused
with his fork halfway up to his mouth. `There's Fiona and Carol, just
coming away from the buffet.' Adam resisted the urge to turn round and look
and carried on eating. `They've seen us and, no, no, they're moving over to
the other side.'

     `Let them. It's no loss to us, is it?' Adam asked.

     `No. You're right. Let them stick together as we will,' and then
nearly choked on his next mouthful of food as he got a hefty slap on the
back.

     `Save us the seats,' said Gary.

     `Already rebuffed other boarders,' Adam replied, and Gary and Frank
went off to collect their breakfast.

     `I see that we've been given the cold shoulder,' Gary remarked when he
returned to the table with his tray.

     `Yes, just ignore them,' Adam said, finishing his meal and lighting up
a cigarette as a steward asked if he would like some more coffee which he
accepted.

     They noticed that the girls left before the others had finished and
discussed at whether they would be going on a tour or just visiting the
town.

     `Whichever. I'm still going ashore to have a look around. Are you
coming Paul?' Adam asked.

     `Certainly. They are not going to spoil this wonderful holiday for
me,' he replied as he smiled at Adam. Gary and Frank exchanged looks and
smiles, not for the first time at seeing this love starting to blossom
between a pair like them.

     `We're going too,' said Frank, and so after another coffee each, they
made their way down to the deck where they found a queue waiting for the
next boat. On asking one of the officer's standing by, Gary found out that
they run every half hour and was told that the last ferry back was at seven
o'clock that evening.

     `I think we'll be back well before that time,' Adam remarked. So after
a short wait, a tender came alongside to the pontoon and their cards were
swiped through the computer to show that they had left the ship and were
soon being ferried to a landing stage of the port.

     On shore, the two pairs split up to stroll through the town, picking
up a small map to show them the sights or places of interest there. The
pamphlet was small as was the town and the places to visit. Most of the
place being built up and into a hillside, so it was either very steep
winding roads or steps to climb and it soon exhausted all of them on their
various foot journeys.

     Adam and Paul had just passed a steep street called Rue de May when
they spotted Carol and Fiona approaching from the opposite direction and
Adam grabbed Paul's arm and dragged him to some steps that led down and
noticed that it was called Rue Obscure, which was appropriate for it was
more of a poorly lit tunnel that went for several hundred metres beneath
the houses built above, also having several other streets crossing over or
through it.

     Successfully evading the women, they went down to the waterfront and
into a restaurant that had a bar and had a beer each. They looked at the
menu and decided that the place was a rip off with their prices so the
opted to see if they could get something back on the ship even though it
was now just past lunch time.

     They had to wait twenty minutes for the next small boat to ferry them
back out to the ship, though it wasn't that small for it could carry at
least sixty people at a go if not more. Back on board after the computer
saying that they could, they made their way up to the Lido buffet and found
that they indeed could get some snacks to eat. So with drinks from the bar,
were quite happy to sit out there in the sun and talk of their future.

                                                           *

     Gary and Frank also had stopped off for a drink and declined to eat
and made their way eventually down to the cruise terminal as it was called
and saw that they were in the queue a little way behind Carol and
Fiona. They didn't speak for there were quite a few people on the boat and
they were too far away.

     Frank suggested they went up to the lounge but didn't find Adam or
Paul, so they carried on up to the Lido and found them there. So Adam and
Paul had another round of drinks while the other two had a late snack
lunch. None of them had a good word for the town. Quaint, yes, but that was
about all, and the answer to the question if they had seen the girls
ashore, the answer was no but that they were now back aboard having come
back on the same ferry.

     `Paul,' said Adam, going off at a tangent from what they were talking
about. `You haven't shown them your drawing yet.'

     `That's right,' said Frank. `Can we see it please.' Paul was a bit
bashful about letting them see it but agreed.

     `Let's take a drink down with us,' Gary said, which appealed to the
others, so with full glasses, trooped down to Paul and Adam's cabin. Gary
and Frank sat in the chairs and Adam sat on the bed when inside as Paul got
out his sketch pad and opened it to the drawing of Adam reclining on the
bed.

     `This is very, very good,' said Gary. `You've got a good facial
expression as though you're all fucked out,' he said to Adam who blushed
and admitted that he was right, saying that it had been drawn after a good
session with Paul.

     `This is marvellous,' cried Frank when he held it up at arm's
length. `This should be framed and put on display.'

     `No. It's just for us to look at and remember where and when it was
drawn,' said Adam.

     `Paul, could...could you do a drawing for me please,' Frank asked
rather shyly. `One of me and Gary for us to remember too.'

     `Of course I can,' he replied.

     `One of me sucking on Gary?'

     `If you want,' Paul said, taking the pad back and turning to a fresh
page.

     `Are you sure?' Gary asked as Frank got up from the chair and started
to take his clothes off.

     `Yes, you darling you. Now get those things off and we'll have a
picture that we can hang on our bedroom wall and I can drool over it when
you're fucking me.' Gary gave a laugh and got up and took his clothes off
while Paul got a crayon out and sat down in a vacant chair.

     `Stand where you are,' Paul said, `so that I can draw your figure
first. No, not yet Frank,' he said as Frank was already down on his knees
and handling Gary's prick, making it rise up.

     `Let me get the body postures done first because if you start sucking
on him now it'll be all over before I'm anywhere near finished.' Suitable
admonished, Frank sat back on his heels but looking at Gary with adoring
eyes.

     `I want you to keep that expression too,' Paul said seeing Frank out
of the corner of his eye as he did a quick drawing of Gary standing there
by the bed.

     After five minutes he told Frank to kneel in the position he would be
in when doing his oral bit.

     `I want your body posture first.' So Frank knelt there for Paul to get
the body outline done which took another five minutes.

     `Now stay in that position and look at Gary's cock like you did
earlier for I want to capture that rapt expression you had.' This took
another five minute before he said that he was ready for the final
touches. Frank gave a gurgle and took Gary's erection into his mouth and
began to suck him.

     `No, no!' Paul cried. `Don't keep moving your head. Just keep the cock
head in your mouth letting me see some of the shaft. You can finish the job
when I've finished my bit.' So Frank knelt there with Gary's prick in his
mouth but still couldn't resist the odd suck and you could see his tongue
move round the head on the inside of his cheek.

     This took some more time for him to finish that part and said that
Frank could now carry on while he put the finishing touches to the
drawing. Frank then began to suck and chew vigorously on Gary's prick until
Gary moved his hands up to the sides of Frank's head as Frank's hand came
up to hold the base of the shaft he was sucking and Gary began moving his
hips while Frank kept his lips tight round the head of the cock as he was
face fucked.

     It didn't take much thrusting before Gary gave out a groan and his
legs went stiff as he came, his hips being the only body movement as his
sperm was spewed out into the waiting mouth of Frank. His face going a
pinky colour as his mouth filled and it wasn't until Gary stopped moving
did they see Frank's throat move as he swallowed the semen and only then
did he lift his head up off of Gary's cock, glistening and very red and
angry looking. Frank then gave the shaft another squeeze and licked off the
last oozing remnants that came from the eye before sitting back onto his
heels, licking his lips and smiling up at Gary.

     `As delicious as always Gary,' he said, and Gary pulled him up and
gave him a kiss.

     Adam had looked on at this display and had got an erection at watching
Frank suck on Gary and seeing the pleasure that both were getting from it.

     Paul, still in the chair, was moving his hand fast as he filled in the
shadows and a few minutes later declared the drawing finished and passed
the pad over to Gary and Frank who held it together and looked at the
picture of them having oral sex. Adam looking over their naked shoulders.

     `Oh, it's beautiful,' Frank sighed.

     `It's magnificent,' Gary said, `look at the expression on Frank's
face. It's incredible.'

     `It is that,' said Adam. `Paul you must make a copy of this for it's
exactly the kind of drawing that my books need.'

     Paul sat there with a big smile on his face, listening to the cries of
delight from both Frank and Gary, also agreeing to do a copy for Adam.

     `Can you do another one Paul, please,' Frank begged as he went onto
his knees and pushed Paul's legs apart for him to shuffle between them and
began fumbling at Paul's trouser zipper. `One with Adam in it this time,'
he said as he pulled out Paul's penis which was rising up at the handling
he was getting.

     It wasn't even fully erect before Frank took it into his mouth and
gave him a blow job right away. Paul groaned and squirmed in the chair and
was soon bucking his hips as Frank held him firm, sucking as his mouth
began to fill with Paul's seed. Releasing the prick he'd just been sucking
and with an imploring look on his face begged him again.

     `Please Paul?'

     `After that, I can hardly refuse now, can I?' he laughed, trying to
put his still erect cock away.

     `You might as well take your trousers off and then we'll all be naked
when Adam takes his off,' Gary said with a laugh. `It looks as if you'll
break it trying to put it away in that condition.' Paul gave a small laugh
as Frank, still on his knees, began tugging the trousers off Paul and
dropping them on the floor, letting him take his own shirt off.

     `Well Adam?' Gary asked as Paul finished undressing and sat back down
again, naked.

     `It looks as if I'm outvoted,' he laughed, and took all his clothes
off too.

     `How do you want the picture?' Paul asked Frank who looked shyly at
Gary but he then turned to Adam.

     `Would you like to be the meat in the sandwich? Gary fucking you while
you suck on my cock?' Adam blushed and looked over at Paul who after a
pause, seeing the picture in his mind, nodded and so Adam said yes.

     `Hold on a minute,' Gary cried. `It'll take me a little while to fully
rise up again.'

     `Well,' and Frank paused for a moment in thought. `Paul. Can you do
two pictures then? Like Adam fucking me and me sucking on Gary. He doesn't
have to be up and hard then.'

     `Sure,' he replied, turning to a fresh page.

     `How do you want us?' Gary asked.

     `Well it would be best if you stood on one side of the bed. Frank
kneeling in front of you and Adam then kneeling behind Frank. Yes, that
will do perfectly.'

     Adam and Frank got onto the bed, both sporting erections and Paul
could now see clearly that Adam had the larger prick than the other two and
was pleased at that. Gary went and stood on the other side and faced Frank.

     `As before, let me get the body positions first,' and so this took
nearly fifteen minutes of sketching before he was ready and Adam was glad
for his cock was now really throbbing.

     `I haven't got a condom on,' Adam cried, starting to move away.

     `Fuck the condom,' said Frank, gritting his teeth in
anticipation. `Fuck me bare back,' licking his lips, looking at Gary's half
erect cock just in front of his eyes. So Adam held his cock in one hand and
a hip of Frank in the other as he pushed forward to a cry from Frank as his
arsehole was expanded to accommodate Adam's big heavy prick up inside
him. He let out his pent up breath as his rear was filled with that
pulsating cock before he opened his mouth and took Gary's cock in.

     So with both of the cock's half inside him at both ends, Frank gave a
gurgle of delight as they held this position for nearly ten minutes,
driving Adam nearly mad at the waiting.

     `Okay Adam, I've finished your half so you can move,' Paul said.

     `Thank Christ for that,' Adam said with a grunt as he began to really
plough Frank's meadow and soon, with some rather forceful ramming, came
inside Frank. Cries of delight came from both of them as Gary growled.

     `Steady with the teeth Frank,' for he still had his mouth on Gary's
prick.

     `Can I pull out?' Adam asked Paul when he`d finished.

     `Yes. Go and wash while I finish the other half,' he replied. Frank
gave out a groan as he felt Adam pulling out and when he was free, Adam got
off the bed, giving Frank's bum a playful smack as he did so. He went off
to wash himself as Paul kept on with his sketch. This took another ten
minutes or so and he wouldn't let Adam see the drawing yet and so he had to
wait while the other two could relax on the bed where Adam joined them.

     The finished drawing was another minor masterpiece and they all
praised Paul to the skies before they positioned themselves for the drawing
where Adam would be in the middle. Though seeing the agony Adam had gone
through with his cock stuck halfway up Frank's backside and not moving,
suggested that he did the half of Adam and Frank first.

     So he was drawn while on his knees with Frank's cock in his mouth and
went on to suck him off when Paul said he'd finished that part. Now he had
Gary behind him and he gasped at the rough un-lubricated entry of Gary's
cock into his backside then began to dribble at the pleasure of being
fucked with that hard throbbing piece of flesh. Just the entry had caused
Adam's prick to rise up, feeling heavy as it moved beneath him to Gary's
movements.

     Paul had moved his chair before he'd started drawing for he wanted the
position to be right to be able to draw Adam's prick that jutted out and
down at an angle. It looked good from where he was sitting and told Gary to
half pull his cock out and keep still for at least five minutes.

     Sweat began to break out on Gary's forehead as he kept still, feeling
Adam flex his sphincter muscle round his shaft and couldn't help that his
cock kept up a twitching of its own. This made Adam chortle with delight
knowing the discomfort that Gary was suffering while he had the pleasure of
a hard cock up his arse, albeit not moving, but it was there longer than
during the normal course of being fucked.

     Paul eventually said that he'd finished and Gary let out an explosion
of breath and really began to fuck Adam, getting it as rough as he had been
to Frank. But he was delighted too at now having it moving inside of him as
he was being fucked and cried out as he felt the strain being released from
Gary, feeling the sperm splash and coat his rectum. He was sure that he
would have the impression of Gary's fingers on hips he had been held so
tight at the coming of the semen inside him.

     He gave out a cry at the withdrawal of that pleasure machine from his
arse and flopped down onto the bed as Gary staggered off to the bathroom to
wash himself.

     They had to wait as before for Paul to put the finishing touches to
the drawing and it was proclaimed another winner when the participants
viewed the finished product and one that pleased Adam immensely.

     To round off the afternoon, Paul got to fuck Gary though neither of
the other two had the expertise to draw the event so it went unrecorded
except in these pages. They took turns in having a shower before they all
got dressed, Adam and Paul, for dinner, and the other two to go off to
their cabin to change again for drinks before dinner. Paul said that they
would get their copies before the cruise finished as he wanted to do some
copies, which was accepted.

                                                           *

     The girls hadn't gone without over the afternoon, spending all their
time since they'd returned from ashore, in bed. They'd had a light lunch
ashore, Carol paying, for she said that it was about the same price that it
would cost her in London.

     So after the two of them having roused and excited each other to have
three orgasms during their session on the bed were quite happy now and not
missing their male partners at all. Though this was the more traumatic for
Fiona having had her brother for many years now and was now finally losing
him to another man.

     She'd always thought that it would be a younger woman so it wasn't
quite so bad, but bad enough that the man was still a few years older than
he was. She also wondered how he would fare by not having a regular income
as it had been her that had financially supported him over the past couple
of years. But he's now Adam's problem she thought as she went for her
shower.

     Carol at first had been affronted that Adam had chosen another man for
sex and had the sneaking suspicion that Paul would go and live with him in
the house in Spain. But it would be quid pro quo for Fiona would be moving
in with her. That they were now really and finally separated, she was
secretly glad and didn't think there would be any mention of a divorce as
it would hurt both sides and serve no purpose.

     Besides, when they'd bought the house in Spain, they'd both signed a
mirror will that in the event of a death, the other would get the
house. That is if he didn't get legal counsel and change his will, but it
was one of those things that Adam tended to let slide though she would see
to her will in England in respect of her flat. But taking a leaf from
Adam's book, would let it slide for the time being to see if Fiona would
become a more permanent item. Then if that was the case, she might then
change her will. These were her thoughts as she went and had her shower as
Fiona got dressed for dinner.

     They had decided in the talking after their afternoon of sex that it
was churlish not to mix with both Gary and Frank and even laughed at the
possibility of breaking those two apart. Now wouldn't that be the icing on
the cake, they laughed but on reflection decided that they weren't worth
the effort to which they both agreed but would still go and have drinks
with them and sit between them at dinner. The other two could go to hell.

                                                           *

     So it was to some surprise to the men to see the two girls enter the
lounge and came over and sat themselves as they said they would, splitting
Gary and Frank apart and talked to them, ignoring their two late partners.

     `No, we didn't go on a tour but wandered around the town and I'm sure
I saw you two,' Carol said. `We'd just had lunch and were walking along and
saw you disappear down into what looked like a cave or a dungeon. What was
it called Fiona?'

     `The Rue Obscure,' she replied, knowing that she was baiting the other
two.

     `No, I don't think it could have been us,' Gary said. `I don't
recollect the name, do you Frank?'

     `No. It doesn't ring any bells with me, but then, I wasn't taking much
notice of street names. I was more concerned about the quality of the
paving or cobble type stones and being careful where I put my feet,' he
replied.

     `Then it must have been two other people,' Carol said, dismissing the
obvious and was secretly delighted when she saw Adam squirm in his seat.

     `Well we should be leaving quite soon. The time for departure was said
to be eight o'clock and it's nearly that now. Have you ever been to
Corsica?' Carol asked Gary.

     `Only through the medium of film. The Godfather, part two. Or was it
Sardinia, I can't remember,' he replied.

     `I pretty sure it was Sicily,' said Fiona. `What do you think Frank?'

     `No idea, but I think that part of the film you're talking about, was
filmed in Spain, but I'm not sure,' he replied.

     I know, Adam said to himself, but the bitches won't ask me.

     `Ajaccio. Sounds like the French word for ejaculation, don't you think
Paul?' Adam asked of him.

     `I don't really know. I'll have to write a French letter to the Times
to ask,' he replied.

     `I can't stand smutty talk,' said Carol quite haughtily as she stood
up. `Would you escort me down to dinner Gary?'

     `Certainly madam,' he replied, standing up and offering his arm.

     `Would you do me the honour Frank?' Fiona asked, now getting up too.

     `Certainly,' he said, offering his arm which she took and put it
through hers.

     `Bitch!' both Adam and Paul said under their breath but loud enough
for both of them to hear and they laughed.

     `Will you let me escort you down to dinner,' Adam asked Paul, standing
up and offering his arm.

     `We can both go down, after dinner,' he replied with a smile, the
innuendo not lost on Adam, and they linked arms and followed the other two
couples out of the bar.

     They sat down as before and ordered their meal as well as some
wine. The conversations were again being held between the two girls and
Gary and Frank, excluding Adam and Paul though both Gary and Frank tried to
draw them in.

     `Oh, were moving,' Carol said. `Can you feel the vibration?'

     `Vibration?' queried Adam in a loud aside to Paul. `Isn't that caused
by a battery held thing that women use instead of having a man.'

     `Will you shut the fuck up,' Carol hissed across the table at
him. `Leave the smutty talk for the men's locker room!'

     `At last! A direct conversation, albeit a pithy one, but one addressed
to me alone. For Christ's sake woman! Grow up and understand that what has
happened, has happened and we're going to have to live with it. We've been
separated for nearly a year now and I need sex as much as you do. I thought
that by seeing you on this ship that we might get back together again, but
I was wrong. I got the cold shoulder from the word go.

     What was I to do? Paul gave me a shoulder to figuratively cry one and
being bi-sexual which you all know, gave me the relief and solace that my
body cried out for.'

     `But he's a man!' she replied.

     `You don't put your hand between the legs when a shoulder is offered
to cry on. Yes, he's a man. The same as I am and he gave me the solace and
relief that you've been denying me.'

     `But I'm your wife and Fiona is Paul's...'

     `Wife!' Paul butted in so that she couldn't utter the words that he
didn't want Frank and Gary to hear. `That she walked into the cabin where,
yes, Adam and I had had sex together. Giving him the love he's been missing
for so long. And what does my "wife" do? Runs straight to you and there you
had sex together!

     Don't try and deny that, so it's a case of the pot calling the kettle
black. I saw the need in Adam and supplied it. I'm not ashamed of that! You
already know as we do that Gary and Frank are lovers. Do you castigate them
for it? No! So why should you be casting stones when you are doing exactly
the same thing.'

     The confrontation came to a halt as the first course of the meal was
served and there wasn't any more reference made during the rest of the
dinner and to give Carol and Fiona their due, went with them to the lounge
for coffee, as well as to have a drink.

     `Now not really wanting to be, being an outside party as it were, I
can see that I'm being somewhat of an arbiter in this case. So let me lay
my cards on the table to start with, though my credentials as it were, are
for Frank's eyes alone,' and Gary chuckled though the others didn't at his
attempt to lighten the atmosphere.

     `Frank and I have known each other since childhood. That we became
lovers is because of the affinity we felt between us. All men have a
certain amount of female hormones in their body, some more than
others. Like us, Frank and I. He has more than me and regards himself as
being my wife, the female part of our relationship. This hormone
discrepancy also appears in females, them receiving more male than female
hormones and so become lesbians. The difference between them finally
results in one being the male and one being the female in this
relationship.

     That two men become attracted to one another can result from two
things. His rejection by a female,' he held up his hand to stop Carol from
interrupting, `and in his finding of the solace he requires is from that of
another man. Now this also applies to the female of the specie so don't
think it's unique or wrong because it isn't!

     Sodomy has been practiced for far longer than female prostitution and
lesbianism began in the middle east when a man could have an untold number
of wives, some of whom never ever got to have sex as it was ordained, but
turned to each other for the love and affection that all people need at
certain times during their life.

     It has been those people that have had the good fortune to be given a
properly balanced amount of the right hormones that have decreed the laws
that has outlawed the practice of sex among those of the same gender. But
notwithstanding these laws, they are never going to change human nature!

     They might in years to come in the field of medical research which is
going on constantly, but that sort of research is low on their list of
priorities. They're more concerned with finding and getting rid of the
heredity genes that cause cancer in its many forms.  As I said, to try and
alter the hormones so that one doesn't overpower another in respect of the
person's sex, is way down the list.

     So we make do with what we have at present, inside our own bodies. Now
Paul has already found that he is bi-sexual and is happy to have a
relationship with either sex. Adam, I believe has suddenly found that he
too has hormones that are affecting his outlook on a sexual plane. Whether
he has more than one of the other, only time will tell. Will he be the
female partner of Paul or will Paul be the female? Again, only time will
tell.

     Now this applies to you two too. You have both shown that you have
more of the male hormone than normal, so who will become the male in your
relationship? The answer is the same, we don't know until it finally shows
itself.

     Now I've pontificated long enough on the subject and I need a drink
but I will say this. Adam is now having a relationship with Paul that could
be short lived, or it could last for years if not forever, like Frank and
I. Or it could be brief. Only time will tell and this same credo applies to
you Carol and Fiona. But all I can say is accept the way that your past
partner is feeling and respond in the way that you are feeling now.

     Now that little diatribe would have cost you well over a hundred
guineas if I was a practicing therapist. Which talking of pist, I'm in need
of a drink.' There was a long silence after this discourse on human nature
from Gary as they all drank deep and emptied their glasses and got refills
almost instantly such was the service from the attending stewardesses. It
was Frank who broke the silence.

     `Well,' he began with a shaky little laugh. `I can't say that I really
understood all that Gary has said, but I'm just going to say what I feel. I
love that man. There's nothing I wouldn't do for him. In bed or out of
it. We are partners in a bar in Torrevieja and have made our life
together. I think he loves me as much as I love him. I am the female in our
partnership and have never regretted having made that decision,' and he
reached out and took Gary's hand and kissed it.

     `That's lovely,' Fiona breathed out.

     `Well speaking as a bi-sexual, I've found that I could really come to
love Adam,' Paul said and here Fiona snorted to which he looked at her but
ignored it. `Now as to who would become, as you say Gary, the female part
of the relationship, I wouldn't be averse to the role.' Again there was
another snort from his sister but it was counteracted by Adam taking his
hand and squeezing it.

     `You Fiona,' he continued, `have been the most domineering person in
my life and I've always played that role of the one under your thumb, but
now I've come out from under. If I now come under Adam's thumb, it's a
position I'm not going to argue with for he's shown me, in our short
relationship so far, that he thinks more of me than you ever did.'  Boy,
was that laying it down on the line and Frank even clapped his hands at
that statement. `All I can add to that is God help both of you to be as
happy as I feel at this present moment at having cleared the air.'

     The girls looked at each other in silence.

     `I couldn't...'

     `I wouldn't...' they both said in unison and they were not pressed by
the men to voice the thoughts that they both had in regards of their future
relationship, unlike the way Paul had stated his position in respect of
Adam.

     `I think one more round of drinks is called for as I don't think we
should go any further in what has been said here at this table,' Adam
said. This was agreed on and with one more drink each, the talk became more
of the last two days of the cruise and what might they see in Ajaccio and
the final port of Mahon on the island of Menorca.

                                                           *