"Let's hit up the nude beach"

"It's our last day. Let's hit up the nude beach."

"Oh yea?" I asked.

"Yea," Mandy answered confidently. "When's the next time we are going to be able to be naked on a beach?"

"I guess that's a fair point."

We walked past the pool where we noticed Dora and Manny sitting and continued down the wooden walkway to the beach.

"Well look who it is!"

Surprisingly, it was not Mia this time. it was Madeline, looking incredibly topless as usual.

"Were's Eric?" Mandy asked.

"He's in the water as usual," Madeline responded. She looked at me. "Hey, ummm, do you mind if I talk to you alone for a minute?"

I looked at Mandy shrugged and who nodded her head.

"Yea, sure," I said. I followed her down toward the waterline.

"Do you know what's up with Mia?" I asked.

"What do you mean?"

"She was acting very strange at breakfast. Like she was hiding something."

"Did she say anything?" Madeline asked, sternly.

What was going on? Was it something with Madeline?

"No," I replied. "But I could tell she was up to something. Or she had something to say. Is everything alright?"

Madeline hesitated then brushed a wasp of auburn hair from her eyes.

"Well, it sort of has something to do with why I wanted to talk to you," she began. She hesitated again, thinking of her words carefully before continuing. "OK, I don't know how else to say it, and I wasn't going to say anything about it yet, but it sort of has something to do with what I wanted to ask you so, fuck it. Here goes nothing."

We stopped walking, turning toward each other so we could listen.

"We were sitting around the table last night. We were drinking a lot and... we got to talking about how you guys swing. At first everyone said they would never do it. But, slowly, people started coming around to the idea. Next thing we knew we were all looking around the table, wondering what it'd be like to sleep with some of the other men and women at the table. We wanted to try it. But we didn't really know how to... I don't know... initiate it, I guess? Like, none of us wanted to really take the reigns and so 'OK, this is what we are doing' or really ask one of the other couples if they would do it. So we wanted you and Mandy to sit down with us so we could get you to, you know, start things up, I guess. But then you sat somewhere else. So we didn't. We just finished our dinner and went back to our own rooms and fucked our own husband's and wives brains out, probably while thinking of one of the other people at the table."

Madeline paused, realizing that my eyes had essentially glazed over at the thought of all the couples wanting to swap all of a sudden and the fact that we may have missed that opportunity. It's tough to say it wasn't worth it though, if we did. Tina was fucking incredible.

"I know," Madeline continued. "This is a lot. And-"

"Were you picturing someone else?" I blurted out.

"What?"

"You said that the other couples went back to their rooms and probably pictured other people while they had sex with their partners. Did you picture someone else? While you were fucking Eric?"

Madeline paused again and looked down at her feet.

"Sorry," I said. "That doesn't matter. I forgot everyone isn't quite as open about it all. Hell, we weren't even that open about it all until, like, yesterday, basically."

"It's OK," Madeline said. "Umm..."

"Anyway, what were you trying to tell me?"

"Well, I'm not sure if everyone still wants to or not, but the option might be there for some of the other couples here."

That might explain why Ariel was so forward about getting handsy with us in the hot tub

"And you and Eric?"

Madeline looked down at the ground again. It was strange seeing her so unsure. She was always so confident and quick.

"Well, that's what I wanted to ask you," she began. "I was wondering if you might want to go on a date with me later. We were wondering if you and Mandy would want to go on a date with me and Eric later. Well, not together like a double a date. Separately. Like, me and you would go on a date and Eric and Mandy would go on a date."

She was talking quickly, trying to get all the words out at once.

"Eric is probably asking Mandy the same thing."

"I would love to just say 'yes', but I should probably talk it over with Mandy. This is our last day here and we were talking about how we probably want to take a break from all this swinging stuff and just spend the day and night together."

"Yea, of course," Madeline said. "That makes sense. No pressure. It's just, umm, something I've been thinking of since last night."

Since last night? Was she picturing me last night? While she was fucking her husband? Prince Charming? No fucking way.