Cindy, Lauren, and Hane.

"Hey, Allison!" Cindy, Lauren, and Hane waved as they walked up to the bar.

"Where is everyone?" Lauren wondered.

"Underwater!" Allison shouted back and, as if on cue, Jonathan burst through the water like a dolphin breaching.

"Oh, hey," he greeted the women with a charming smile as Eva emerged next to him, wiping water from her eyes. "Are you going to join us for a swim?"

"Um, we're going to order a drink first while we wait for the others to arrive," Hane replied.

"Okay," he nodded and he pulled himself out of the pool, apparently oblivious to the six pairs of eyes leering at his wet muscular, tone body.

"Thirsty?" Jen asked.

"Yes," Cindy, Lauren, and Hane replied in unison while he strode to the bar to grab his bottle of water. Their eyes lingered on his chiseled chest and abs.

"What would you like, ladies?" Jen smirked at the double entendre.

"Wine," Lauren replied and the other girls nodded, not taking their eyes off of Jonathan.

"Would you like to have pinot noir, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, or rosé," the bartender answered, bringing out the bottles from the wine refrigerator behind the bar.

"All of them!" Allison whooped after she and Eva climbed out of the pool and approached the bar.

"All of them?" Hane gasped.

"Well, it's an open bar on Julie's tab!" Eva exulted.

"It's a good thing my mother isn't here to scold you girls on moderation," Jonathan chuckled.

"But we have you instead!" Allison laughed and took a bottle of wine from the bartender to hand it over to him. "If you could do us the honor of opening this for us?"

Just as Jonathan took the corkscrew and started twisting the worm into the cork the rest of the girls arrived with bathrobes covering their swimsuits, except for the triplets who flaunted their bikinis that barely covered their curvaceous bodies. The girls squealed and cheered at their arrival and the twelve young women all gathered around Jonathan, mostly to get a closer look at his physique, while he uncorked the bottles of wine.

"Shall we raise a toast?" Jonathan suggested after the bartender finished pouring glasses of wine.

"Yes!" the girls cheered.

"First of all, to Julie and her husband for their graciousness of footing the bill for dinner and the bar tab tonight!" thanked Jonathan, lifting his bottle of water in the air.

The girls lifted their glasses and cheered, "To Julie and Les!"

"As the project managers, is there anything you two want to add?" Jonathan asked Lauren and Hane.

Lauren nodded and looked around the group. "I hope everyone enjoyed themselves today..."

The rest of the women cheered.

"...because we have to go back to work tomorrow..."

Allison booed.

"Allie!" Eva chastised her with a playful elbow to the ribs.

"So that said," Lauren continued, ignoring Allison's interruption, "enjoy yourself tonight but don't get hungover because it'll look bad when you show up at JPL shitfaced!"

Everyone cheered.

"If you're going to drink more, please don't swim in the pool," Jonathan added. "I can't rescue everyone!"

That resulted in a collective "Awwww!" and pouts from the girls.

"I'm serious!" he scolded.

"Fine!" Jade huffed.

"How about we all play a game before we drink?" Crystal suggested.

"Marco Polo," Amber added with a sly smile, "but with a twist."

"What twist?" Jonathan asked, wondering what she had in mind.

"Since Jon is Mr. Navy SEAL he'll be 'it' and he has to tag all twelve of us within five minutes," Amber answered.

"Um, okay..." he nodded.

"But," she added, "let's have a little side bet -- if Jon loses he has to drink a glass of wine for every girl that's left in the pool."

Jonathan paused for a moment before asking, "And if I win?"

Amber silently looked at her sisters with a smirk and then gathered the rest of the girls out of earshot from Jonathan for a huddle to discuss something. Jonathan inquisitively watched the girls have an excited conversation among themselves -- Leah, Natalie, Zoe, Lauren, Cindy, and Hane appeared the most apprehensive while the Allison, Eva, Kaylee, and the triplets were giddy -- with some of the girls would occasionally glance at him, either giggle or bite their lower lip.

"Do women always talk like this in a group?" he asked the bartender.

"Yup," Jenn giggled. "Why do you think we go to the washroom as a group?"

Jonathan chuckled and noticed Allison and Hane playing Rock Paper Scissors.