Five days later a ship landed. The Port Master warned me to stay clear because it had a bad reputation. I was desperate but when I saw the crew I knew...the warning was real. They were unkempt and dirty. They swaggered around trying to look tough. The fact that there was twice as many as a ship that size would require was a sign of a pirate or at least someone up to no good. The only woman of the crew was clean if not neat and she wasn’t drinking. Maybe she was the one to watch out for.Looking. We just chilled like best friends. When she was done, I gathered everything together to bring back to the kitchen. Before I left her room, Melissa did something really unexpected. She stood up out of bed -- dressed only in a t-shirt and her panties -- gave me a hug and kissed me on the cheek to thank me. It was the first kind of affection of that nature that she'd ever shown me."Clean up, and I'm going to take Victoria's advice and call Diane. We'll talk afterwards."There was that name again,. " Did she know your friends were going to hire a stripper?" Ceras teased."I think she suspected it, most bachelor parties are like that." Have you been to many bachelor parties, Andy?" A few." Did they have strippers?" Yeah." Were they as good as me?" Ceras said coyly."Oh, hell no!" exclaimed Andy."What did I do better?" Ceras continued to draw him out."You let me see your... uh, you let me touch your... uh..." Andy stammered staring at Ceras's hairy vagina where her fingers were busy."Pussy?". ‘I’ve seen her, alright.’ He said it with such barely disguised lust that my female ego felt bruised. I chose not to say anything, but then I couldn’t think of anything to say after that. I made some small talk instead, asking him how he got started in the business, but then I felt I was becoming a bore. I looked at my watch. ‘So … we’re getting together tonight after the con. Just a few of us artists. Nothing special. Interested in coming along?’ I thought about it, then thought of my mom..