Subject: Xiomena Was My Girlfriend and an Escort (MF)
Written by: Mike <dokk@swbell.net> <dokk_2000@yahoo.com>
            AKA Rob Engineer <robengineer@yahoo.com>
Posted by: Kelly <pghkelly@yahoo.com>
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Kelly,

Here's the rest of my account of my experiences with Xiomara.  I've inserted 
into the original text file that includes my first e-mail to you, but I can't 
get the margins for the new part to line up with what was already there.  I've 
never worked much with TXT.  Please let me know if this works or if you need me 
to send it to you some other format (RTF?) or directly as a (very long) e-mail. 

This is the final complete version and I have double-checked to make sure I 
changed the names of all the people and some of the locations to preserve 
anonymity.  So I think you can now safely post it.

Finding the rest of those old e-mails was a real blessing as otherwise there is 
no way I would have been able to remember so many details on my own.  As a 
result though, it has gotten really long.  I hope that's not a problem.

Please note that these e-mails were mostly written in Spanglish, so I have 
translated quite a bit.  Where I left in words in Spanish, I've added the 
English translation in parenthesis.  I have also inserted a few explanatory 
notes in the middle of some of these old e-mails.  These are clearly marked NOTE 
and were not part of the original e-mail. 

I've clearly taken considerable literary license in recreating the other 
incidents I describe outside of the old e-mails, particularly conversations.  My 
memory isn't that good after more than 8 years.  But for whatever its worth, 
they are all based on real incidents (not that I expect anyone to necessarily 
take my word for it).

I'll probably eventually try to get around to writing you about Liliana if you 
are still interested, but the timing depends on how busy things get at work.  
This week was really light and I got caught up in all my memories from that 
time.

Saludos,
Rob
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Sent:    Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:44:58 PM

Kelly:

Thanks for getting back to me.

I guess I did get kind of carried away yesterday..  What happened was that Lili 
and I had a long talk about her experiences this weekend while at the beach, 
after a few years of not really talking about it.  This was sparked by reading 
your essay on escorting and the fact that she surprised me by actually sounding 
fond about those days, I guess in comparison to her recent more routine life of 
studying at the University and taking care of our small daughter.  She even 
asked what I thought about her dipping her toe in those waters again, 
particularly as she's trying to get together some start-up capital to start a 
business (she finishes a business degree this year).  Needless to say this kind 
of shook me up a bit.

As it was a really slow day at work yesterday, while I was waiting to be sent a 
document from one of our other offices I just started typing out the letter, I 
guess more as a way of organizing my own thoughts (I find writing things out 
helps me do this).  The next thing I knew I had written over 2 pages and I 
started to wonder if you would even be all that interested.  So instead of 
writing more, I just proofread what I had typed and sent you what I had last 
night.

Anyway today I do have a lot more work, so I better get back to it.  I guess if 
you are interested I could write more when I free up some time and if its OK 
with Lili.  Otherwise, please keep up the diary as I do enjoy reading it.  You 
have a great way of writing sex scenes while providing enough context to make it 
real..

Regards,
Rob
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Sent:    Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:26:47 PM

Hi Kelly:

Ever wonder how a successful businessman ends up getting married to a former 
escort and prostitute?  It is a bit hard to explain.  To do this, I think I 
first need to write about the woman I was dating before Liliana.

When Liliana and I first met towards the end of 1999, I had been living here for 
almost two years, having taken an assignment abroad shortly after the definitive 
break-up of my first marriage to my college girlfriend.  During my first year 
here I basically played the field, just getting used to dating; a major 
adjustment after having been with the same woman for most of the time going all 
the way back to my sophomore year in college.

At first, this seemed to be the perfect country for getting into the dating 
scene.  There certainly seemed to plenty of available single professional women 
in their mid to late 20's, who were interested in a 30 year old guy with a good 
job.  It helped that I spoke good Spanish and tended to me more culturally 
sensitive than many Americans men down here.  And I did meet some really nice 
attractive women.  But the timing was all wrong.  Most of these women were 
looking for something long-term and the last thing I wanted coming out of a 
divorce was a serious relationship.  

So during my second year in country, I spent most of the year in and out of a 
relationship with a woman with whom it seemed there would be little danger that 
things would get too serious.  

Xiomara was a 28 year old Nicaraguan graduate student who was financing her 
education by being the mistress of a middle-aged married Italian business-man.  
He had her set up in an apartment, and was paying her tuition and a $2000 a 
month stipend in exchange for her being available to him the one week each month 
that he flew in from Milan to oversee his investments in the country.  This kind 
of arrangement is really not all that unusual in Southern Europe and parts of 
Latin America (though not so much here). 

Xiomara was a pretty fascinating woman.  While not what you would call a 
classical beauty, she radiated a certain elegance, natural intelligence and 
inner strength that most men found very attractive.  She was always perfectly 
groomed and quite stylish, in an artsy European sort of way.  For example, 
Xiomara is the only woman I've ever known who could smoke using a longish 
cigarette holder (which she only did very occasionally at parties), and not look 
utterly ridiculous doing so. It didn't hurt that she was tall for a Nicaraguan 
(about 5'8"), had a fantastic body and was incredibly good in bed.  

I was a bit of a jock in college and am not a bad looking guy, but quite 
honestly, Xiomara would have been way out of my league back in New York (or in 
Milan for that matter).

We originally met in January 1999 at a soccer game of all places, when she and 
the Italian guy ended up sitting next to me and a friend.  I then ran into her 
in a bar one evening and after she blatantly flirted with me for about an hour, 
managed to work the nerve to ask her out.

Instead of writing what happened next from scratch, I'm inserting an extract 
from an e-mail I sent at the time to my best friend from high school.  For years 
he used to write me about all his misadventures with the opposite sex (and if 
there ever was a guy with incredibly bad luck when it came to women, it was 
him), but after my divorce we sort of reversed our roles as he had finally met 
his future wife and I was the one trying to figure things out.
 

From e-mail dated May 13, 1999:

"The other good friend is Xiomara, this spectacularly good looking Nicaraguan 
woman in her late 20's.  When we first met, we actually dated for about a month 
until I broke it off as it started getting too weird for me.  She's the mistress 
of a 40 something Italian businessman ….  She never really opened up to me, was 
completely undependable about showing up for dates, and was always paranoid 
about being seen by some friend of the Italian – a real stereotype "femme 
fatale".

Funny how things turn out though because when I ran into her a couple of months 
later downtown, we went into a soda (like a café) and ended up spending 5 hours 
just talking.  It was like being with a totally different person.  We ended up 
getting together as friends several times a week after work (when the Italian 
was away), sometimes just the two of us to drink beers and talk in "total 
confianza" and other times with her rather wide circle of friends, mostly from 
the local arts scene.  She turned out to be totally different that the image she 
gave when we were sleeping together.  When not, in her words, "jugando el papel 
de la querida" (playing the role of mistress), her real personality comes out.  
She is extremely well read and very perceptive, with a very strong loyalty to 
her friends.

This woman has a really fascinating past, some of which she told me and the rest 
I learned from old friends of hers.  She had been a leading dancer with the 
Nicaraguan National Dance Company as a teen-ager, before blowing out a knee at 
the tender age of 18 just as she was accepted in an advanced dance program in 
Cuba .  She had also undertaken military training while in the dance company - 
they had been incorporated into the Sandinista Militia back in the 80's.  So 
with her dance career over, she was called into active service in an 
administrative position, eventually becoming the mistress of the head of the 
Sandinista Police. 

That lasted until she figured out he was never going to leave his wife for her, 
at which point she used her political contacts to finagle a scholarship to study 
in Italy, where she also taught classes in salsa and merengue for expense money 
and fell in and out of a drug problem while living with a young rich coke-head.  
She returned to Nicaragua after finishing an undergraduate degree to find that 
the only job she could get given the disastrous economic situation in that 
country was as the financial manager of a chain of motels (ie. the fancy by-the-
hour kind that you find on the outskirts of most Latin American cities).  She 
got bored with being broke, did not like the proposal of the now ex-police chief 
to manage a high class whorehouse he was opening up (his solution to the new 
"capitalist" Nicaragua), and was looking into going abroad again to study.  So 
when she ran into the Italian guy (who had actually taught a business course at 
her University in Italy), she agreed to his proposed that she move here where 
he had business interests that would require him to visit regularly and the 
Universities have a decent reputation. 

All the above left her with an abysmal attitude towards men (as well as a rabid 
hatred of drugs), and as I am not a masochist, I've been resisting the 
temptation to resume any kind of romantic relationship with her.  In fact, she 
gotten into a "matchmaking mode" trying to hook me up with some of her friends.  
She has some pretty amazingly attractive friends, but I kind of leery about the 
whole situation."
 

Kelly, I think I'll have to stop here for now as Liliana is finally ready so we 
can go out with some friends.  Will try to continue this account about the days 
before I met my wife in another e-mail; maybe tomorrow if I have time.

Take care,
Rob
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Hi Kelly:

Here's the rest of my account of my experiences with Xiomara and how that seemed 
to set things up so that I was open to beginning a relationship with Liliana.  

This is the final complete version and I have double-checked to make sure I 
changed the names of all the people and some of the locations to preserve 
anonymity.  So I think you can now safely post it. 

Finding the rest of those old e-mails was a real blessing as otherwise there is 
no way I would have been able to remember so many details on my own.  As a 
result though, it has gotten really long.  I hope that's not a problem.

Please note that these e-mails were mostly written in Spanglish, so I have 
translated quite a bit.  Where I left in words in Spanish, I've added the 
English translation in parenthesis.  I have also inserted a few explanatory 
notes in the middle of some of these old e-mails.  These are clearly marked NOTE 
and were not part of the original e-mail.  

I've clearly taken considerable literary license in recreating the other 
incidents I describe outside of the old e-mails, particularly conversations.  My 
memory isn't that good after more than 8 years.  But for whatever its worth, 
they are all based on real incidents (not that I expect anyone to necessarily 
take my word for it).

I'll probably eventually try to get around to writing you about Liliana if you 
are still interested, but the timing depends on how busy things get at work.  
This week was really light and I got caught up in all my memories from that 
time.

Saludos,

Rob


PART 2: XIOMARA AND FRIENDS

Things did get kind of weird, as you can see in this next much longer extract 
from another subsequent e-mail to my old high school friend, "Chicho". (Chicho 
is originally from South America but did high school & college in the US before 
moving to Europe). Reading it again now, it does give a pretty good idea of 
where my head was at during the summer of '99 (not that it was summer down here, 
but anyway…)


Extracted from e-mail sent July 11, 1999:

Oye Chichote:

So you want to know all the juicy details about Xiomara & her friends?  Que 
pasa?  Is your inner voyeur coming out now that you've finally settled down with 
Katia?  Well I guess it's only fair given all the stuff you used to write me 
when I was the "poor married fool" (to use your own words).  So you're in luck 
because it's a lazy Saturday afternoon and for once I have no dates or other 
compromisos.  A certain balding Italian guy is in town and my other main squeeze 
(See, I really can sound like you!) has some activity with her kids.  Oh right, 
I haven't told you about her yet.  Well get comfy because this is going to be a 
long one.

I already wrote you a bit about Xiomara, and its true, her story would make a 
good novel.  The Police Chief I mentioned (or the "Comandante" as she calls him) 
was actually in charge of one of the regions near Managua and not the entire 
country.  He kept that position through the early Chamorro years when the 
Sandinistas still controlled the police and military.  He sounds like a real pig 
as he took advantage of an emotional time for her (her mother had a first minor 
stroke and she had left the National Dance Company) to swoop down and steel her 
away from her long-time high-school novio (boyfriend), who had wanted to marry 
her.  Then being his lover made her "unmarriageable".

According to an old friend of hers, Zayda (whom I'll write more about later), it 
turns out that she actually had quite a high profile in Managua at one time as 
the "amante del comandante" (lover of the commander), even appearing in gossip 
columns. This notoriety came about in part because she already had some public 
recognition after an incident that happened when she was about 17.  Along with 
some of the other dancers, she was doing a USO type tour performing for the 
troops in the northern part of the country when their truck broke down forcing 
them to spend the night in a small encampment instead of one of the larger more 
secure bases.  Their encampment came under fire from a Contra raiding party late 
that night. When the guy who was watching over the dancers got hit, she picked 
up his AK-47 and helped hold that section of the perimeter. While Zayda is prone 
to exaggeration and Xiomara doesn't like talking about the incident, there's 
probably at least some basis for the story.


((NOTE: I found out later that Xiomara's father had been pulled out of his 
office, tortured and killed by Somoza's goons in the early days of the 
revolution, when she was just a kid, for daring to sign a petition that asked 
that the Dictator call for elections as a way of avoiding further insurrection, 
which he saw as bad for business.  He underestimated how desperate Somoza had 
become that he would start killing small businessmen from respectable families.  
This explains her early affinity with the Sandinistas and absolute hatred of the 
Contra.  This is also why she didn't hesitate to volunteer for the tours for the 
troops or to become a reservist as soon as she was old enough)).


Anyway, because of all the gossip, the Comandante had to arrange for a discharge 
for Xiomara, though he did then use his influence to get her a teaching position 
in an elementary school and set her up in an apartment.  He now owns the most 
exclusive escort agency in town (the one he tried to get Xiomara to manage).  
Actually, you can hardly recognize her from her photos from that period because 
the guy was obviously predisposed in that direction and already liked his women 
to dress in slutty outfits, with lots of glossy make-up, hooker heels, the 
works; something that Xiomara now does only on rather rare unpredictable 
occasions that drive me crazy.  I never know how to dress when we're going to 
see each other since she normally wears more comfortable, though stylish, 
outfits, with understated make-up.

Unfortunately, even the teaching job turned out to be only temporary as the 
Comandante wanted her as dependent on him as possible.  She eventually feared 
she was becoming an alcoholic from sitting alone in her apartment or the Italian 
Restaurant downstairs, drinking and waiting for his increasingly infrequent 
visits.  Fortunately she became good friends with the older Italian couple who 
ran the restaurant and they started looking out for her.  They got her 
interested in taking Italian lessons and were the ones who introduced her to the 
right people in the Embassy so that she could arrange for her scholarship.  She 
was quite willing to do her thing for the Revolution, but not on her back, so 
she fled the country.

Her problems came after she had been back in Nicaragua for a couple of years 
when her mother lost what remained of the family business (a couple of 
boutiques) due to the ailing economy and promptly had a second more serious 
stroke.  Her measly salary of less than $150 a month from the motel chain (which 
believe it or not is actually pretty good money in Nicaragua) was not even close 
to being enough to cover the costs of caring for her mother.  Fortunately she 
avoided having to become a Madam by the surprising appearance of one of her 
former professors from Italy in the restaurant below her old apartment; which 
she still frequented even though she was now living with her mother.  The guy 
wined and dined her all week, before finally convincing her to move here.

Personally I think the Italian guy must be really nuts, because he's paying her 
a lot of money just to see her a few times a month when he's in town, despite 
the fact that she accepts no limits on going out with friends whenever she feels 
like it; having leaned from her experience with the Comandante (though she does 
make a point of being very discrete).  

The guy usually doesn't even stay at her place, but rather gets a hotel suite he 
can work out of and then just has her stay over there part of the time.  

For him it must be some kind of macho thing.  Also, while Xiomara is bright and 
attractive, she is much more the artsy intellectual type than the glamorous 
empty-headed model you tend to think of as a mistress.  Actually, the way she 
describes it is kind of funny.  I can just see her lazing about on top of the 
bed dressed in fancy lingerie and full make-up, with her reading glasses on and 
her head buried in a book, while he's off in the other room meeting with all his 
co-investors and other business contacts.

For her, I think it helps that he is relatively young (about 40), and in her 
words, "muy guapo, muy respetuoso y muy elegante" (very handsome, very 
respectful, and very elegant).  He reminds her a bit of the singer Eros 
Ramazotti, and I have to admit there is a resemblance, right down to the shaved 
head to cover up his premature baldness.  But she talks about all this as if it 
were just an added bonus as what's most important is that he gives her the money 
she needs.  She insists that she never talks to him about anything serious and 
she still doesn't understand his motivation since his wife is very nice, quite 
gorgeous and is elegant in that high fashion way that Xiomara will never be (not 
surprising since the wife is a former model who works in the fashion industry in 
Milan).  Her only conclusion after much personal experience is that "los hombres 
italianos son todos unos perros." (All Italian men are dogs)

Xiomara's problem now is that while she genuinely did love the Comandante (at 
least initially), she only "likes" the Italian and being dependent on him is 
eating away at her.  But to go to school and keep supporting her family back 
home, her only alternatives are even worse.  Xiomara is now not only paying for 
full time personal care for her incapacitated mother, but also for her sister to 
go to secretarial school and for her nieces to go to a private bilingual school, 
as she talked her sister into leaving an abusive alcoholic husband.

One disconcerting thing about Xiomara is that she does have a temper.  So far 
she's never gotten angry with me, but the most extreme example is what she did 
to another Nicaraguan woman a few weeks ago.  Of course, she did have a good 
reason for getting very angry.  
 
The entire incident started with Zayda, a 16 year old girl and former student of 
Xiomara's from her teaching days, who Xiomara at various times calls "hijita" or 
"hermanita" (little daughter or little sister).  Xiomara actually took Zayda in 
upon returning from Italy, when the girl was kicked out of her house by her 
well-to-do father, after being caught sneaking a boy into her bedroom.  I 
strongly suspect from some things Zayda and Xiomara have said that her father 
had been molesting her from the time her mother died when she was 12 and that he 
acted more out of jealousy than outrage over his daughter's misbehavior.   

Xiomara had left Zayda with the elderly Italian couple from the restaurant, but 
there was no way in hell they could control the girl.  It seems that as soon as 
Xiomara left to come here last year, the girl went wild – dropping out of school 
and getting herself knocked up.  So Xiomara flew back home earlier this year, 
got Zayda an abortion and brought her back here to finish school in the nocturno 
(night school).   But the silly fool took advantage of the fact that Xiomara was 
busy all the time and the excuse that she was supposed to go to school in the 
evenings to fall into the company of another woman from back home who got her 
into prostitution. 

This other woman is a rather stuck up and pretentious bitch from another well 
off family, who is now working here as a high class prostitute after her 
family's business also tanked along with the rest of the Nicaraguan economy.  
While it was clear to me that Xiomara never really liked her much, she did 
tolerate this other woman under the theory that people from the same place 
should try to stick together when far from home.  But she certainly didn't want 
Zayda hanging around her and told the girl as much.

As I understand it, Zayda had snuck out with the woman to see Titanic for the 
umpteenth time as one of the cinemas here brought it back.  Zayda looks a lot 
like a slightly darker version of Kate Winslet and identified with the actress.  
Coming out of the cinema, they ran into a regular client of the woman's and a 
friend, who took them out to dinner at a fancy restaurant and back to their 
hotel.  The friend gave Zayda a generous $200 and she promptly romanticized the 
whole thing skipped school the entire following week to be with him for the rest 
of his business trip.  After that, I guess she started begging the other woman 
to take her to the Casablanca (a pick-up bar for foreigners) so she could meet 
other similar men.  The other women agreed figuring she could make some money of 
this eager young girl and helped her get a fake ID.
 
I got involved when Xiomara and I met to go to a movie and she promptly told me 
there was a change in plans.  Someone had gotten word to her about what was 
going on and she dragged me along to look for Zayda at the Casablanca.  Sure 
enough, there she was, and to make matters worse, Xiomara caught her in the 
women's room in the act of snorting up a line she had been given by their 
compatriot. We got Zayda out of there fast (to the protests of an angry Texan 
she was in the process of picking up, who quieted up real fast when I told him 
her real age).  Fortunately Zayda had only been at it for a couple of weeks so 
hopefully we got her out in time.  
 
Unfortunately, we ran into the other Nicaraguan woman a few days later as we 
were about to enter a dance club.  Xiomara completely lost it when the stupid 
whore made the mistake of taunting her.  2 or 3 quick moves later and Xiomara 
had the other woman face down on the ground in an arm lock, with her knee 
pressing into her lower back, while telling her in the coldest tone of voice 
I've ever heard, "If I so much as ever see you again, you will not survive."  It 
took Beatriz and I working together to finally pull Xiomara away from the other 
woman, but only after she got in one last lick by stepping on the back of the 
other woman's hand with one of her spike heels.  No real damage was done as 
Xiomara seemed to know exactly how far she wanted to go, but sure scared the 
hell out of the other woman.  After seeing Xiomara fight, I certainly wouldn't 
want to have it out with her and it kind of scared me as well.

What was particularly surprising is that Xiomara normally comes across as quite 
level-headed.  But I do know she feels a particular affinity for Zayda, dislikes 
prostitution, and really hates drugs.  Xiomara ended up flying Zayda back to 
Managua, but not before getting into a huge fight and slapping her when the girl 
admitted that she had not used a condom with her first client because he was so 
"nice".  I guess that was the last straw as safe sex is another one of her pet 
causes ever since she had a real bad scare in Italy and she had certainly 
lectured Zayda often enough about it.

One thing that was strange about the entire incident is that Zayda obviously 
worships Xiomara and it doesn't make sense she would do something so much 
against the older women's wishes.  The girl even keeps as a prize possession an 
old scrapbook with newspaper cutouts from Xiomara's dancing days that she 
rescued when Xiomara was going to throw it out back in Managua.  Maybe Zayda's 
acting up was just a bid for attention after feeling abandoned, first by her 
real mother when she died, and then by her substitute adopted mother/elder 
sister when Xiomara left Nicaragua.  

It's clear that Xiomara feels a lot of guilt about the whole thing, particularly 
as she now realizes that she may have overlooked some hints that there might be 
a problem.  First came an incident that happened right after Zayda got here when 
they had dropped by the Casablanca with the Italian to look for some of his 
friends.  Though Zayda stayed outside because she's underage, she did watch 
through the window and expressed wide-eyed interest in the goings-on, Xiomara 
then sarcastically told her that since in Nicaragua she had started sleeping 
around with everyone for free she might as well try it for money; never 
imagining that the silly girl would take it literally.

The other bit of warning came about because of Xiomara's neighbors; a youngish 
looking Belgian widow in her mid to late 30's and her 15 year old daughter.  I 
was certainly surprised to find out that this pretty but rather conventional 
looking and cultured former upper class housewife was providing escort services 
once or twice a month to older wealthier tourists and a few businessmen.  It's 
all arranged over the internet and she tends to spend anywhere from 2 days to a 
week with each client, serving as combination companion, hostess, tour guide and 
often, bedmate (for an extra fee).  She fell into it almost accidently when her 
husband (a local guy) left her with a bankrupt company and a lot of debt.  

As Xiomara explained it to me, the widow's new career started when a foreign guy 
who had done business with her husband contacted her because he needed to host a 
series of social events here in town and thought she made a great hostess.  She 
ended up falling into bed with the guy on her own accord, but when he went to 
pay her, he added a big tip for the "extra" services.  He then recommended her 
to someone else and suddenly she had found a niche in the market that wasn't 
being filled by the traditional escort agencies with all their young beauties.  

Xiomara says the widow was kind of resigned and down about the whole thing at 
first.  But one time she came over all excited and cheerfully went into great 
detail about her latest client.  The guy had flown her around the country with 
him in a chartered plane to see the sights and had given her a $5000 tip on top 
of her regular fee.  The tip alone was enough to cover her daughter's tuition 
for an entire semester at (an American School) – this from just four days worth 
of work.  I guess Zayda was in the other room and overheard the whole thing 
because Xiomara says that afterwards she was very curious about their neighbor's 
activities.

The Belgian woman had a fit when it turned out that Zayda had been confiding in 
her daughter all along and was now claiming that after she raved about her first 
night at the Casablanca, the other girl had asked Zayda to get her a fake ID so 
that she could see what it was all about.  It didn't help when I reported on 
hearing this, that one time when I stopped by to drop off a book, I found both 
girls wearing what only could be described as outrageous outfits and makeup, 
while Zayda taught her new friend how to walk in very high heels (I actually 
didn't recognize the Belgian girl at fist because she usually looks kind of 
girlish).  As they didn't seem at all nervous about being discovered, I didn't 
think anything of it at the time.  In any case, I didn't have a chance to say 
anything because I was heading off on a business trip and didn't see Xiomara 
again until it was too late.  But you should have seen the look of panic on the 
Belgian woman's face when I brought up the incident the morning after we pulled 
Zayda out of the Casanova.

Fortunately, the Belgian girl, though a year younger than Zayda, seems a lot 
more level headed and mature (pretty amazing considering), as well as a good 
student who is very serious about making it to college.  So I think once people 
calmed down, they tended to believe her when she explained that she actually 
tried to talk Zayda out of it, but didn't tell on her because Zayda threatened 
to reveal that she had been steeling her mother's cigarettes.  Her credibility 
was helped by the fact that she had started dropping hints to her mother that 
something was up with Zayda, but had been ignored.

Needless to say, all this created a great deal of tension between Xiomara and 
her neighbor, only exacerbated by Xiomara's insistence that what she's doing 
with the Italian is totally different than what the other woman is doing.  
Fortunately, the last time I went over there, I found the two talking to each 
other like nothing had happened.

What I've written about Zayda makes her sound like an obnoxious rebellious 
teenager, which is not completely accurate.  In fact, she came across as being 
generally good natured, but rather silly, immature, naïve, and not too smart; 
just basically screwed up and badly in need of counseling.  Unfortunately, that 
kind of counseling is not readily available in Nicaragua as sexual abuse of 
children is only now becoming a recognized issue (what with Ortega's daughter 
accusing him of raping her when she was in her early teens).  I did mention to 
Xiomara that she might consider bringing Zayda back here where she could get the 
kind of counseling she needs, but it sounds like things are still too hot 
between the two of them for that to happen anytime soon.

A few days after the incident in front of the dance club, once things had cooled 
down a bit, I had a long talk with Xiomara about the danger of what she had done 
both because she didn't know what kind of 'friends' the other woman might have; 
as well as the fact that she was in a foreign country and no longer under the 
protection of her former lover, the Comandante.  At Ziomara's initial stubborn 
refusal to accept that she had done anything wrong, I got kind of angry and told 
her, "Don't count on me if you start something like that again because unlike 
you, I neither have militia or martial arts training nor have I learned how to 
handle these situations in the bed of the former Chief of Police of a repressive 
– Sorry, I mean 'revolutionary' - regime."

I think Xiomara regrets losing her temper and attacking the other women, but I 
still see her get very angry sometimes when she feels that her friends or family 
are being put down or betrayed. Don't get me wrong though, unlike my ex, she 
doesn't get angry at little inconveniences, and she just laughs off slights from 
strangers or people she doesn't care about. I think she developed a pretty thick 
skin during those years with the Comandante when it comes to herself.  But 
Xiomara does feel extremely protective about those she considers, "hers".

In fact, one of her problems is that she seems to feel the need sacrifice 
herself for people she considers family.  Given her mother's condition and the 
general lack of economic opportunities back home, she sees herself as inheriting 
the role of matriarchal leader who is responsible for supporting any other women 
in her family (or close friends) who has been done wrong by men (ie. about all 
of them).  I keep telling her that she needs to think about herself and her own 
future at least a little bit, as it sounds like she's supporting half of Managua 
and is at the same time creating a dependency on her that traps her into her own 
current financial dependency on the Italian.

Despite all the problems and crisis I've mentioned, Xiomara tends to be 
surprisingly upbeat most of the time.  She's always looking to me for advice and 
to be honest, I'm often not sure what to say.  Also, I feel guilty because from 
my point of view it's like having a real live telenovela around to keep my mind 
off my own problems.  But it seems like she doesn't want much from me except 
company (and an occasional friendly bout of sex), so I guess I shouldn't worry.  
It helps that she's also a good listener.  Though I admire her, I don't think I 
could ever fall in love with her.  Fortunately, she shows every indication of 
wanting to keep our relationship exactly the way it is.  She says that if she 
let herself fall in love with me, I could no longer be her confident.  This 
concept of hers that sex and friendship can go together but that love and 
friendship cannot seems pretty strange to me, but is rather convenient.

In any case, she's certainly backing up what she's saying with her actions by 
hooking me up with, of all people, her best friend Beatriz.  

Beatriz is divorced from an abusive wealthy Dutch guy who left her behind when 
he fled the country a couple of years ago after a messy land speculation deal. 
It seems he swept her off her feet and took her home to Holland when she was 
only 17 and pregnant by her first boyfriend, who had promptly dumped her. 
Fortunately for her, the Dutch guy left behind several assets including an 
estate in (a wealthy neighborhood) which ended up not getting confiscated in the 
aftermath of the busted land deal. She was able to sell the property and is 
basically living off the interest. She is also running a small art gallery in 
town of which she is part owner, though I doubt she gets much income from that.  
 
Beatriz is absolutely gorgeous at about 5'4 with olive Mediterranean colored 
skin, a round face with big dark eyes, and plush very kissable lips, both of 
which she manages to emphasize quite effectively with make-up.  Yes, I know.  
I've always agreed with you that when in comes to make-up, less is more.  Even 
the impeccably groomed Xiomara tends to live by this rule (though in her case, 
it would be: 'less obvious is more' since she sure takes her time about getting 
ready to go out – even if I can't tell what the hell she's done). But Beatriz is 
a walking advertisement for the wonders of heavy mascara, eye-liner and glossy 
red lipstick. She was clearly genetically blessed as she also has the body of a 
1950's centerfold and you can barely tell that she's had two kids.


((NOTE:  If you want to know what Beatriz looked like, google Cristina Kirchner, 
the current president of Argentina, then take off 25 years and triple the 
sexuality.  But there is remarkable resemblance.))


Besides her great looks, Beatriz is also a very nice person.  Of course she 
isn't perfect.  For one, she is not even close to being as sharp or intellectual 
as Xiomara.  More importantly, she does have her own sordid past because of some 
of the things the Dutch guy got her to do in Amsterdam strictly for his 
amusement (the guy sounds like a total monster).  And then finally, there is the 
fact that will probably make you fall right out of your chair when you read it:  
Beatirz smokes.  Yes, the guy who made your life miserable back in High School 
is now actually dating a smoker.  But I have to admit, it isn't as bad as a I 
thought it would be.  She's not a heavy smoker (never in her house with her 
kids), and somehow it just seems natural with her.  Maybe its also that I've 
gotten used to it a little with Xiomara, who is one of these people who's 
constantly insisting she quit, but ends up bumming cigs off her friends when she 
just can't resist the temptation.
 
Xiomara's smoking does seem a bit more incongruous to me because she's a bit of 
a health nut.  She never misses a day at the gym, unless it's to go to her 
martial arts classes, and is always lecturing the rest of us on the need to have 
a healthy diet.  At first I thought it might be something she picked up when 
young and stupid like most smokers do (sound familiar Chicho?), but she recently 
told me she only smoked her first cigarette last year when the Italian pressured 
her into at least "trying" it after he got fed up with her hassling him over his 
own habit.  It turned out that she actually liked the damn things.

In any case, I've already been on several solo dates with Beatriz beginning in 
early June and she sure surprised me the first time by asking me straight out to 
take her to my place, though she did rush home relatively quickly.  Beatriz is a 
lot of fun and certainly enjoys herself, but her two kids come first at all 
times and she makes a point of always being there when they wake up in the 
morning.  She's definitely scared of commitment and, not surprisingly, seems to 
have a strong desire never to be dependent on a man again, so I don't know if 
much will come out of our dating.

Now you'd think that my dating Beatriz would make it awkward when I'm doing 
things with them both, but it hasn't turned out that way at all.  

In late June I even took a trip to (the beach) with the self-described "Las Tres 
Mosqueteras" (Xiomara, Beatriz and their friend Sandra – and its just so 
typically Xiomara to pick a masculine warrior name instead of something more 
feminine that I had to laugh when I first heard them use it). 

It was certainly an experience being the only guy among a group of really hot 
women.  Now while this may sound like the ultimate male fantasy, the reality was 
a bit different.  All three of them are going through one kind of crisis or 
another so it became rather intense.  Unfortunately it turned out to be a lot 
more like group therapy than group sex, but I can't complain too much as we did 
have at least a little fun, if you know what I mean.  But mostly I gave them 
plenty of time for girl talk and actually finished a really good novel while I 
was down there.  I certainly needed a relaxing break from work, so all in all 
I'm glad I went along.

The beach trip was originally conceived a couple of months ago as a celebration 
of the good results after Xiomara had dragged the other two down to take the HIV 
test (about which both were incredibly nervous).  The trip was then postponed to 
coincide with both Xiomara's and Beatriz's birthdays (29th and 27th 
respectively) which coincidently are only 2 days apart.  

I was actually kind of surprised to be invited along as I had assumed it would 
be an all-girls outing.  The reasons behind my invitation became quickly 
apparent when I realized that Xiomara and Beatriz were basically using me so as 
not to be hit on by every guy in sight.  In fact, one of the fun parts was that 
they both intentionally showed me a lot of affection in public (extremely out of 
character for Xiomara), which drove people crazy trying to figure out which one 
I was with.  It certainly did no harm to my ego.

It was also a chance to get to know Sandra a little bit.  I had met her and 
certainly heard a lot about her from the other two, but had never spent much 
time around her.  It turns out that Sandra had a somewhat successful career as a 
professional dancer and is now in Grad School with Xiomara.  She's a tiny little 
woman with the body of a ballet dancer (which is to say, not many curves), but 
does have this cute pixie thing going for her.  Though she is a little older 
than her two fiends (maybe 31 or 32), she's by far the least experienced having 
been only with her husband since they started dating in High School; up until 
recently anyway.  She is now in the process of getting a divorce because her 
husband turned out to be gay.  She only found this out when Xiomara started 
suspecting something after Sandra admitted that he hadn't really made love to 
her in years.  One evening a few months ago Xiomara used her extensive contacts 
to track the guy down in a gay club, and found him making out with another guy.  
So that was that.
 
Sandra's problem is economic as her husband works as a lowly accountant by day 
and is an actor in one of the local theatres at night; neither of which bring in 
much income. So though Sandra's keeping their small house, she can't expect any 
alimony. 


((NOTE: Sandra's ex actually co-starred with my wife Liliana in a comedy several 
years later and turned out to be a really nice guy.  He just got caught living 
in a society where he couldn't come out of the closet, and Sandra suffered the 
consequences.  But things are changing here and now he's quite open about his 
sexual preferences without really getting hassled about it.)). 


Even then, we were quite stunned at the beach when Sandra announced that she was 
seriously considering picking up guys for money at one of the bars downtown.  
She's become quite the little slut since breaking up with her husband – making 
up for lost time I guess - and started figuring that she might as well charge 
money for it.
 
Sandra was actively discouraged by the rest of us, with Beatriz going into 
gruesome detail on some of her worst experiences in Amsterdam . Hearing 
Beatriz's stories made me want to puke and Xiomara was shocked speechless.  It 
certainly had the right effect on Sandra.  

Actually, a few days ago Beatriz admitted to me that she had greatly exaggerated 
and emphasized the bad things to discourage Sandra, more because she felt that 
her friend would not be able to handle being in that business than because of 
any objections in principal to prostitution.  She pointed out that Sandra is not 
young or physically attractive enough to be very successful at the highest 
levels and has no street smarts or money sense.  She would inevitably get 
herself into trouble.  
 
Beatriz went on to admit that at the beginning she went along willingly with her 
husband as it was not very frequent.  She was so young and had gotten bored and 
frustrated during the pregnancy and later being shut up in a house in a strange 
country taking care of a small baby.  It was a way of doing something exciting 
that made her feel sexy again; as well as to please the guy she was dependent 
on.  Besides, in exchange, he finally agreed to pay for her to go to art school.  
It was only later that he started pushing her more and more until he finally 
actually arranged for her to stay in a bordello for a week while he went on a 
business trip.  
 
That woke her up fast enough and she grabbed her kid and ran home.  He soon 
followed her back here begging for her forgiveness; and in fact he did improve 
quite a bit in his treatment of her at first, particularly when she got pregnant 
with his son.  But he also started getting heavily into drugs as his business 
problems increased and then by the end he had actually started hitting her.  
Finally she fled to her mother's house in (a provincial town) until her husband 
went back to Holland .  Even worse, she confirmed something I thought I had 
overheard in a discussion between Xiomara and her.  She admitted that she had 
worked as a whore for a time after returning to (the capital) once her husband 
had fled.  She explained that she had done it mainly for the money, as it took 
some time to clear up the legal situation with her husband's assets, but also 
just to have sex with guys who she wouldn't have to deal with afterwards.  
 
Beatriz does joke that she made a pretty lousy prostitute as she kept turning 
guys down if she didn't find them attractive.  Otherwise, she found the local 
scene to be pretty tame compared to some of the stuff she had seen in Holland 
and insisted it wasn't all that bad.  

There's an interesting contrast between Xiomara and Beatriz on the subject of 
prostitution, something that came up once again when the three of us met for 
lunch earlier this week.  The former abhors the very concept and 
intellectualizes that it's the ultimate exploitation of women. (for all that 
some of her best friends have been or are prostitutes of one sort or another).  
She sees it as this big trap that once you fall into soils you for life.  
Perhaps this comes from the fact that she's been so close to falling into it 
herself.  Beatriz, for all that she blushes so charmingly when she talks about 
the subject, has a much more practical point of view.  She'd rather not, but if 
she needs the money and cute guys are willing to pay her under her terms, then 
what's the problem?  She's certainly seen and done much worse and clearly can 
take it or leave it as she wishes.  As for Xiomara's intellectual arguments, 
that's just so much BLA-BLA-BLA to her.  As Beatriz argued back, "How can I be 
the one who's being exploited if I'm the one in charge?  The one who decides 
what, when, with whom and for how much?  Exploited is having a husband who 
forces you to fuck strangers in front of a crowd when you don't want to."

This has all been somewhat eye-opening for me as I'd never really thought much 
about the subject before.  If you'd asked, I would have probably given you the 
usual American view of prostitutes as dirty slimy junkie streetwalkers getting 
beat up by their pimps.  Clearly the situation is very different here where it's 
a legal (albeit less than reputable) profession.  Certainly I have trouble 
reconciling Beatriz or the Belgian woman for that matter, with anyone's image of 
the downtrodden prostitute.  Perhaps they've had some bad luck and made a poor 
choice of husbands, but they've both certainly made the best of circumstances 
and on their own terms.  Yeah, I know what Katia would say – that they are all 
victims of a patriarchal society, etc, etc. etc.  But as you well know, there 
are certain realities in this part of the world and people just have to get by 
while trying to hold on to their values the best they can (and BTW, I still 
can't get over the fact that you of all people are engaged to a Green Party 
radical feminist.  (WTF???)  After that lecture she gave us in that beer hall a 
couple of years ago I was surprised enough to hear you were still dating each 
other, let alone living together and getting married.  But don't get me wrong, I 
totally approve – probably exactly what you both needed.)

In any case, its certainly true that despite all of her experiences, Beatriz 
definitely still does very much enjoy sex, as long as she picks the person and 
the time.  But still, it sounds pretty screwed up, right?  The funny thing 
though is that Beatriz now comes across as relatively level-headed and 
emotionally stable.  Maybe it's because she does have a good support structure 
in her friends and her mother, who she finally brought to the city to live with 
her once she settled things.  Though Beatriz comes from a more working class 
background than the rest, her mother sounds like by far the most progressive and 
positively supportive parent of the bunch and Xiomara thinks this is what really 
settled Beatriz down. There's also the fact that she is so dedicated to her 
kids.

I can tell you though, that after talking to these three women, it can sure make 
you pretty disgusted with a lot of men and I start understanding where Katia is 
coming from. I have to admit that some of their stories sounded so incredible 
that I was pretty skeptical at first, but the problem is that I keep getting 
little bits of confirmation when talking to the women separately.  For instance 
almost all the main points in Xiomara's story were repeated to me in 
conversations with Zayda who was in a position to know.

I guess this e-mail has gone on long enough by now and it's already Sunday 
afternoon as I finish this up.  I spent most of the weekend on this damn thing.  
You probably didn't expect to receive this "novel" when you asked for more 
details, did you?  Obviously I find Xiomara and her friends to be quite 
interesting and ended up using this letter as a way of getting down their 
stories and organizing my own impressions.  

(end of extract)


PART 3: SOME FUN AT THE BEACH

Of course some pretty interesting stuff did happen on that beach trip that I 
didn't write Chicho about.

Xiomara had reserved a bungalow with two double-beds in the bedroom, which was 
shared by the women, and a sofa-bed in the living room, which I took.  We also 
shared the cost of the room 3 ways (with me paying what was originally to have 
been Sandra's share since she clearly couldn't afford it).  They took turns 
preparing meals to save money and were surprised when I insisted on being 
included in the rotation.  Not that I actually cooked anything, as instead I 
used my "turns" as an excuse to take them all out to eat.  They certainly didn't 
complain about that.

I was surprised at first about the way Xiomara and Beatriz would make a point of 
each taking one of my arms as I escorted them in and out of restaurants and 
bars, until I figured out why they were doing that.  Then I worried that Sandra 
would start feeling left out, until it became apparent that she very much wanted 
to get hit on (and in fact let herself get picked up a couple of times).

We were at the beach for something like 5 nights, and there really was no sex 
during most of that period.  They teased me often enough and some pretty risqué 
sexual jokes flew back and forth at times, but I knew both Xiomara and Beatriz 
well enough by then to realize that they weren't really serious.  I think that 
at least initially there was an unstated recognition that it would have been too 
awkward had one of them decided to take me off into the bedroom.

The first exception occurred one day when we hiked down the coast and found a 
little cove with no other people around.  The 3 women promptly stripped off 
their bikini tops and made a huge production of applying sun tan lotion to their 
breasts.  I did get some great photos of the three of them playing topless in 
the waves, though unfortunately Liliana later threw them out when she found them 
shortly after moving in with me.

Inevitably I got hard, and they had a wonderful time teasing me about the bulge 
in my swimming suit.  But it did come as a big surprise when I woke up after 
dozing off following our picnic lunch to suddenly find Xiomara and Beatriz 
pressed up against me, one on each side, while they lightly ran their fingers 
through my chest hair.  After laughing at my startled expression, they started 
commenting to each other about how it really wasn't fair the way they had been 
teasing me without giving me any relief.  Of course, feeling their naked breasts 
up against my side and having them touch me was worse than any previous teasing 
they had put me through.

Then to my surprise, Xiomara reached down and handled my cock through my bathing 
suit, while noting, "It really is big and hard now."

Beatriz followed her lead and ran one of her long red fingernails up the other 
side of my cock, while agreeing with her friend.

By this point, I was about to come right there in my trunks, but they seemed to 
realize this and stopped stroking my cock.  As I moaned in protest, Xiomara 
noted, "Bea, I think we've really have been unfair to poor Roberto, don't you 
think?"  When Beatriz simply nodded in agreement, Xiomara continued by asking 
me, "Rob, do you have a coin?"

"What…?"  I couldn't figure out what she wanted a coin for, but I nodded towards 
my backpack.  The two women then proceeded to flip for the right to give me some 
relief.  Beatriz won the coin toss and the next thing I knew, she was leading me 
off behind some bushes.  She promptly got down on her knees, pulled down my 
trunks and gobbled me up.  I have to admit that I didn't last too long, not 
surprising given the state I was in.  But it was great the way she took my first 
spurt in her mouth and then had me cover her tits in my cum.  

When we walked back to join the others, I was kind of worried about Xiomara's 
reaction.  But as we stood above them I could see that she seemed to think the 
whole thing was funny.  This was confirmed when Beatriz then ran a finger up the 
top of one breast gathering up my cum and tasted it, while noting teasingly, 
"Que rico!" (how delicious).  Xiomara promptly jumped up and chased her as they 
both ran laughing into the waves.

The blowjob had been pretty nice, but there was still more to come.  A while 
later, Bea and I started feeling the effects of the sun and moved our towels 
over to sit by Sandra (who always stayed in the shade because her lily white 
skin tended to burn too easily).  Sandra started tentatively asking Beatriz some 
questions about what she had done for me.  It turned out that our smaller friend 
had never really given a blow job, afraid that she would choke if she took a 
cock all the way.  And admittedly her mouth was really small, so I could see 
where she was coming from.

Beatriz thought that was a real pity and tried to describe methods Sandra could 
use to control things.  The next thing I knew, without so much as asking my 
permission, Bea pulled down my trunks and started to give our friend a practical 
demonstration.  Not that I was complaining too much, particularly when Sandra 
moved over and started following her more experienced friends instructions.  Now 
they weren't really trying to make it particularly good for me.  I just had a 
handy instrument that they could practice on, with the advantage according to 
Bea that if Sandra could learn to handle mine, she would have little trouble 
with most others.  Now my cock isn't really much longer than average, but it is 
rather thick, so I guess she had a point.  In any case, I was hardly complaining 
and fortunately Sandra was a quick learner.  

Once she gained confidence that she could control how far I penetrated into her 
mouth by holding my cock with her hand, she decided she wanted to see if she 
could swallow a load of cum.  So it was at that point that she really went to 
work focusing much more on my pleasure.  Well, it certainly worked as I 
eventually ejaculated my second load of cum of the afternoon into the mouth of a 
second Mosquetera.  Sandra wasn't able to take it all on that first try, but she 
did make a valiant effort to take some of it down and was quite proud of 
herself.  For my part, the image of my thick cock next to her cute little pixie 
face became a recurring part of my masturbatory fantasies for awhile.

But that was to be the first and last time I ever had any real sexual contact 
with Sandra, which was probably for the better as I already had by hands full 
with the other two.

After that little day trip, I kind of figured that was about as far as things 
would go sexually, especially since none of the women made a move towards doing 
something with me that night.  Of course, it turned out I was wrong.

The last day of our vacation was quite eventful as the Mosketeras got identical 
smallish tattoos of three crossed swords and a red rose on the outside of their 
upper thighs (in a location where it would not be visible except when wearing 
the shortest of skirts or a bikini).  Beatriz had sketched out the design over 
the previous few days and I was completely ignored when I pointed out that she 
had drawn broadswords, and not the kind used by the three musketeers.  

Only Beatriz had a previous tattoo, a nicely done not too large flowery design 
on her lower back which she got in Holland.  But they were beginning to come 
into fashion over here at the time, along with belly button rings (Beatriz 
already had one of those as well) and the other two allowed themselves to be 
talked into getting this symbol of their friendship.  Where Xiomara and Sandra 
did hold the line was on getting the tattoo on the back of a shoulder where it 
would be more visible.  Now I wasn't so sure the tattoos were such a great idea.  
But no one was asking my opinion.  It was clearly some kind of feminine bonding 
thing and I quickly decided it was better to keep my mouth shut.  At least the 
tattoo artist did a pretty nice job.  Certainly the women were excited enough, 
and properly primed for a fun evening.  

That night we ended up dancing on the beach to a live reggae/socca band that had 
set up in a large thatched hut.  Up until this point on our vacation, the women 
had tended to be rather careful about not drinking too much, but since it was 
the last night, they completely let go.  Sandra even came up with a couple of 
joints that she had procured somewhere, which she proceeded to share with 
Xiomara later on in the evening when we were resting by a bonfire someone had 
lit on the beach.  Xiomara's strong opposition to hard drugs didn't extend to 
very occasionally indulging in pot.  For my part, I had never really liked pot 
much when I tried it in college (more out of a rebellion against my super 
straight strict catholic future wife, then because I had really wanted to).  So 
I was happy to keep Beatriz company in abstaining.  Besides, I was driving and 
had limited myself to alternating beers and cokes all evening.

Things really started getting interesting when Sandra got around to her second 
joint.  After Xiomara waved it off, she immediately crossed over to the other 
side of the bonfire to sit with two young university students she had been 
flirting and dancing with all evening.  Once she had shared it with them, we 
overheard her ask through a sudden break in the music, "Quieren cogerme?" (Do 
you want to fuck me?)

The two boys looked surprised at being asked so directly, but seemed to have no 
problems with the idea, only asking, "Where?"

Sandra motioned into the darkness down the beach and soon the trio was on there 
feet rather unsteadily moving away from us.  They actually looked kind of funny, 
tiny little Sandra sandwiched between two well built young guys, either one of 
whom probably weighed twice as much as she did.

But given how blasted Sandra was, I wondered if Xiomara would interfere and was 
kind of relieved when she called out, "San"  But all she did was toss her one of 
our towels and the beach bag the three women had brought between them to hold 
their cigarettes, make-up and such.  When I gave her a questioning look, she 
explained, "Condoms."

I had to ask, "Are you sure she'll be fine?  She seems pretty drunk".

Xiomara smiled in response before explaining, "You worried that those boys might 
take advantage of her?  I think that's exactly what she wants.  Besides, would 
you stop a friend of yours from helping himself to two sexy willing 20 year old 
girls?"

Well, when she put it that way...  

Xiomara continued, "Sandra is just making up for 10 years of drought."

It was at this point that Beatriz returned from having danced with someone and 
started looking around for her cigs.  When Xiomara explained why Sandra had 
walked off with them, Beatriz looked rather envious.

The three of us ended up lying back and looking up at the stars while we waited 
for our friend to return with her boy toys.  Soon I had both women scrunched up 
against me with their heads on my shoulders.  I was already turned on having 
watched them dance all evening wearing only their bikini tops and short wrap-
around skirts, and I'm afraid my shorts started bulging again.  This didn't go 
unnoticed, but this time when they didn't comment on it directly.

Beatriz finally noted out loud, "Lucky Sandra."

Xiomara sighed and responded, "I know what you mean"

Beatriz continued, "I could really use a man right now."

There was a long pause during which I considered whether I should point out the 
obvious.  Fortunately I didn't have to as Beatriz spoke up rather tentatively, 
"Well we do have a perfectly serviceable man right here…"

Xiomara responded carefully, "It's not like we both haven't been with him 
before.  But there are two of us…"

As they both fell silent, I decided to say nothing.  My best shot was clearly to 
let them talk themselves into something.  But nothing more was said at the time, 
though both women did scrunch up even closer to me.

Soon enough, Sandra came stumbling back propped up between her two boys, looking 
very drunk but also quite satisfied.  They dropped her off and quickly excused 
themselves acting somewhat embarrassed.  Noticing that we were all staring at 
her in curiosity, Sandra simply shrugged and noted, "I really need a cigarette.  
Where are they?"

Beatriz answered sounding a bit peeved, "You walked off with them."

"Oh right."  She then pulled out a cigarette and lit up before tossing the pack 
to Beatriz.  Watching her inhale deeply, it was clear that sex wasn't the only 
thing Sandra had taken to lately.  She had only started smoking occasionally a 
few weeks earlier, but had gone full out during this vacation, preferring to 
ignore Xiomara's repeated warnings about how easy it was to get hooked.  Of 
course our Nicaraguan friend's message was somewhat weakened by the fact that 
she was also constantly bumming cigarettes off of Beatriz (and sure enough, 
after that beach trip Xiomara gave up any pretentions of trying to quit and went 
back to buying her own cigarettes.  Perhaps it was never a realistic goal anyway 
as long as she was with the Italian.  They soon even had me lighting up 
occasionally, though fortunately I never became more than a social smoker).

We left shortly after Sandra's return, and she was soon snoring away during the 
short drive back to our hotel.  We had trouble getting her into the room, where 
she promptly collapsed on my bed by the entrance.  I was standing there trying 
to figure out what to do while the other two women rushed into the bathroom.  
Then Sandra rolled over on to her back and her skirt fell open giving me a 
perfect view of her closely trimmed pussy.  She'd obviously lost her bikini 
bottom or panties somewhere along the way.  It was immediately apparent that 
Sandra hadn't gotten around to using the condoms, as her crotch and upper thighs 
were covered in cum.  I could see some still leaking out of her pussy, and 
immediately started getting hard again, almost despite myself.  It really was 
like something straight out of porno movie.  Sandra might not have had much in 
the way of breasts or hips, but her pussy looked incredibly beautiful and I 
stated musing that if there was such a thing as a pussy model, she could make a 
bundle.

It was at that point that Xiomara came back in the room and caught me staring at 
her friend.  She teased, "pervertido" (pervert).  

I tried to cover for myself by noting, "I don't think she used protection.  
Maybe you should have been more concerned about her."

Xiomara looked closely and after cursing, went on to note quite seriously.  
"I'll definitely need to have a talk with our Sandrita in the morning.  And to 
think how much she agonized over those blood tests.  At least she took my advice 
and went on the pill."

Beatriz came back in and after noticing what we were staring at, quickly moved 
to cover up Sandra with a sheet, blushing charmingly in that way she had in 
these types of situations.  Of course that didn't keep her from teasing, "I 
don't think we will be moving her anytime soon.  Too bad.  I guess Rob will just 
have to share a bed with one of us.  But which one of us?"

I of course was not about to point out that the obvious solution was for the two 
of them to share a bed and instead quipped, "You could always toss a coin 
again."

Xiomara just gave me a knowing look and then pushed me towards the bathroom 
while responding, "We'll figure something out."

When I came out of the bathroom I could hear the two women whispering to each 
other in the living area, so I turned off the overhead light, leaving just the 
bedside lamp on and plopped down on one of the beds.  I had decided to leave on 
my boxers so as not to seem too presumptuous.

I must have dozed off a bit, because the next thing I knew, a naked Beatriz was 
climbing into bed with me.  I started to mumble something about it being her 
lucky week, but was interrupted by a naked Xiomara kneeling on the bed on my 
other side.

When I looked over at her, I saw that she was holding a box of condoms and as I 
reached for her, she waved me away and announced the "rules" for our upcoming 
encounter.  I was way too excited by then at the prospect of fulfilling one of 
my top fantasies to pay much attention, which actually was probably for the 
better since the whole thing started out just as I might have imagined and I 
could let myself go without thinking about some of the limitations Xiomara had 
come up with.

To be honest, I can't remember all the details of everything we did that night, 
but I know that they started by kissing me all over.  Beatriz began with my 
feet, while Xiomara started kissing my face and neck.  They both moved gradually 
towards the middle, leaving a trail of red lipstick marks in their wakes, and by 
the time they got to my cock I was pretty much ready to explode.  Fortunately, 
Xiomara used her trick of squeezing my cock in a certain way to keep me from 
coming too soon.

While they had been working on me, I had been lightly stroking Xiomara, since 
she was the one within reach.  I first concentrated on her breasts, before 
eventually moving down between her legs until she was quite juicy.  But when I 
tried to pull her over so that she could straddle my head, she moved away and 
the women switched places.  Suddenly I had an already aroused Xiomara settling 
on to my cock, while Beatriz's shaved pussy descended towards my hungry mouth.

I remember thinking rather vaguely that I was kind of glad they switched, since 
Xiomara only trimmed her bush enough to fit into her bathing suit.  Her Italian 
actually preferred some hair down there.  Personally, I'd rather not have a 
mouth full of hair.  What is it about these Italian guys anyway?  

Of course, they didn't arrange things this way just to please me.  I had already 
learned that while Beatriz could come rather easily when being eaten out, she 
had a much harder time during regular intercourse.  On the other hand, of all 
the women I've ever been with, no one could match the speed with which Xiomara 
could come from straight out fucking, particularly in the cowgirl or missionary 
positions (she didn't like the doggy position – probably too submissive for her 
tastes).  As a result, the first round was a complete success, with everyone 
getting off rather handedly within seconds of each other (Beatriz, Xiomara and 
me, in that order if I remember properly).

Now if this had been my fantasy threesome, we would have spent the rest of the 
night in various wonderful combinations, including the one that always got me 
off when masturbating (one girl lying atop the other with me thrusting back and 
forth between their pussies).

But of course reality did set in.  For one, I was no longer 18 and could not 
just recover my hard on instantaneously.  Now this would have been OK if the 
women had been willing to entertain each other while I recharged my batteries.  
But neither one was bisexual and they almost went out of their way not to touch 
each other even by accident (which I should have expected since lesbian sex 
seems much more of a taboo in Latin America than in the US).  And finally, there 
were those pesky rules that I had not really paid attention to.  It turned out 
that they were really serious about the fact that I couldn't go from one to the 
other without changing condoms.

At least we did manage a second round in which I first fucked Xiomara in the 
missionary position until she came, and then mounted Beatriz from behind until I 
came.  The encounter finished with me eating out Beatriz until she finally had 
her second orgasm (which turned out to be one of the few times she had ever come 
more than once in a night). 

All in all, it was a pretty great experience even if it didn't go exactly the 
way I had imagined it might.  At least this way, it left part of my fantasy 
alive to be fulfilled in the future.  I remember thinking at the time that maybe 
someday I'd get two women into bed with me who were also into each other and in 
a situation where we didn't have to worry about safe sex.  

It is worth noting that once we were done, Xiomara moved to the other bed, 
leaving Beatriz to spend the night in my arms.  Furthermore, on the drive back 
to the airport the next day, Xiomara made a point of giving Beatriz the copilot 
chair, which had been hers during the entire vacation.  I didn't really make 
much of it at the time, but when it turned out that the threesome was the last 
time I was to have sex with Xiomara that summer, even I realized this 
significance of her actions.  

As for the Poor Sandra, she woke up with the worst hangover of her life and, as 
people will do, promised she'd never drink again.  In her case, she actually did 
really take it easy with booze after that.  At least the car rental guys didn't 
notice the stain on the backseat upholstery where Sandra had been sitting the 
night before.  Those boys sure must have pumped her full of a lot of cum.


PART 4: THE MOSQUETERAS RULE

I think this is about the right place to insert the following extract from my 
next e-mail to Chicho, after he responded to the previous really long one:


Extracted from e-mail dated July 21, 1999:

Personally I'm beginning to feel kind of guilty because I'm having a pretty good 
time going out with these various women while I certainly wouldn't want to get 
seriously romantically involved with any of them.  They simply carry too much 
baggage.  I still think its weird that I'm dating two best friends and they seem 
to have no problem with it at all.  There certainly hasn't been any pressure to 
choose between them, either because they don't see me worth fighting for or 
because they're well aware that the decision is basically theirs and not mine.

It is true I haven't seen much of Xiomara recently, but her Italian was in town 
for longer than usual this time; for what seemed like most of the first half of 
this month.  She did call me this morning and it sounds like she'll be joining 
us at their favorite dance club this Friday night.  This time I might not be the 
only guy in our group (not that they've ever had any trouble finding men to 
dance with once we get there).  It sounds like Sandra has a new guy she's been 
seeing and Xiomara suggested I make one more attempt to get Diego to come along.  
I think I mentioned him before, but he's this Argentine guy out of MIT and the 
only foreigner at the office who's about my age.  The problem is that he's 
really crazy about his girlfriend back in the States, so he's been reluctant to 
do more than go to soccer games with me.  But we'll see.  In any case, it will 
be nice to watch Las Tres Mosqueteras ride again (figuratively anyway).  

To tell you the truth, I don't know why they keep hanging around me (they tend 
to call me more often than not), except that maybe its because I listen with 
genuine interest, am careful not to be judgmental and am not in the least 
possessive or jealous around them.  

Also, its true that I do tend to pick up the check if I'm out with just the 
Mosqueteras (or any combination of the three), though not if we're with a larger 
group.  But we are in Latin America after all and its to be expected.  I also 
think it helps that I don't have the kind of money or personality that makes me 
a potential long-term provider (by their standards), so its all kind of relaxed 
for them as well.  They treat me primarily as a friend, but one who they can 
sleep with if they feel like it, which is fine by me at this point.  One key 
aspect from my point of view is that they all have very strong reasons for 
staying away from drugs (Beatriz once ended up in the hospital from a bad 
reaction to some coke she finally accepted from her husband late in her 
marriage).  

I am beginning to start wondering where I want things to go from here.  My 
original connection was with Ziomara and I still feel the strongest about her.  
But Beatriz is impossible not to like because she's just so damn nice and so 
amazingly unpretentious despite how gorgeous she is.  Its also cute the way she 
still blushes when talking about the wilder things she's done in her past.  But 
she is very definitely not looking for anything serious with any man, period.  
Even though I have been seeing a lot more of her lately, I still don't get the 
impression that she sees me as anything long-term.

Xiomara can be more "chocante" (brusque/harder edged), but she's also more 
interesting and exciting to be around.  We can talk for hours with perfect 
understanding even when we disagree, which to be honest I think scares us both 
so much that one or the other ends up backing off from the relationship every 
once and awhile.  As long as she's dependent on her Italian (and I certainly 
don't have the money or inclination to take his place), I don't think that's 
going anywhere either.  

I guess you can tell from all these long e-mails that it has been kind of 
intense.  Amazing to think I met Xiomara for the first time only 6 months ago.

One thing's for sure though, eventually I'm going to need to move on to other 
types of women.  While I have continued to go out on a few dates over the months 
with more "normal" women, nothing really clicks.  I still don't like all the 
games you have to go through when dating (particularly down here) and in the end 
many of these women seem even more mercenary than Xiomara and her friends.  In 
some cases, like the last one a couple of months ago, you can almost see them 
thinking: "rich professional gringo!"  I guess at some point I'll be ready to 
meet young single professional woman that I might have more in common with.  

In your latest e-mail you ask me what kind of woman I was looking for; "my 
perfect woman".  Well, she doesn't have to be quite as openly sexual as Xiomara 
and Beatriz.  As long she's intelligent enough so that you can carry on a 
reasonable conversation about a variety of things and cute enough so that I find 
her attractive, I would be quite happy.  

It would certainly be an interesting change to be around a woman who hasn't been 
completely screwed in the most sordid ways (both literally and figuratively) by 
the men in her past – that is if such a women exists over the age of 25.

(end of extract)


Well, that's the end of the relevant parts of that particular e-mail to Chicho 
and as you have probably figured out by now, I didn't quite end up with the type 
of woman I thought I was looking for as described at the end there.  I also 
didn't quite manage keeping from getting romantically involved with at least one 
of the Mosqueteras.

What did happen over the next couple of months or so was that Beatriz and I kept 
seeing each other quite frequently, but this didn't mean that we neglected our 
friends.  

The Mosqueteras as a group decided to take on the town.  Pretty much every 
Friday night they would descend on one of their favorite dance clubs.  Things 
got really interesting when they adopted the custom of always dressing in such a 
way as to show off or at least be able to flash their matching tattoos, without 
getting kicked out for indecent exposure.  This usually meant wearing skirts 
with a slit up the one side, though they did get inventive at times, like one 
night where Beatriz wore skin tight jeans torn strategically in just the right 
place.  Given that the fashion at the time seemed to be long black stretch pants 
(at least I think that's what they're called), this made the Mosqueteras stand 
out even more than they normally would have.  They certainly made an impression.

Probably their favorite club was an old disco called Galaxia.  The place had 
been around since the late-70's when it had been the most fashionable disco in 
town, somehow survived the lean years and was reborn in the mid-90's catering to 
a more eclectic crowd looking for a much wider variety of music compared to most 
of the other clubs.  They usually alternated three 20 minute sets:  European 
electronic dance music, Latin music (Merengue, Salsa and Cumbia) and finally an 
assorted set that included Hip Hop, Reggae and Rock in both English and Spanish.  
One of the nice things about the place is that it did not cater specifically ot 
the 18 to 25 crowd the way so many clubs in town did, though of course you would 
get plenty of college kids (both local and foreign).  But you also got the local 
Goths, the marijuanos (hippie throwbacks), married couples of varying ages, 
tourists and pretty much any other group you can imagine.  It was even a 
favorite place for the whores from the upscale pick-up places like the 
Casablanca and the hotel bar Liliana worked out of to take any dates who wanted 
to go dancing.  On any given night, you could find people from almost any 
ethnicity and at least a dozen different nationalities.  A final important 
consideration was that the Italian guy and his friends didn't like the place so 
he never took Xiomara there.  All in all, it was perfect for the Mosqueteras.

The dynamic when I was along with them, which was most of the time, was quite 
interesting.  When Beatriz was alone with me, she would act like the typical 
girlfriend, holding my hand, walking arm in arm, even the odd kiss.  But when we 
were with the others at the club, she would generally keep her distance, though 
at least she always sat by my side.  I would take turns dancing with all three 
women (and any others they had roped in to joining our group for the night), but 
it was clear I was not to play favorites.  Besides, I'm really not the best 
dancer, so they spent most of their time dancing with other guys or even each 
other – spreading the wealth around a bit.  All three were spectacularly good 
dancers, not surprising given their training, and that only added to the impact 
they made on the scene.

This naturally meant that there was a lot of speculation about where I fit in. 
While a lot of guys were quite envious, kidding me about my "harem", I think 
most quickly realized that the girls were the ones in charge and that I was 
along for the ride.  I didn't mind that, but wasn't happy at all when someone 
let me know that people were wondering if I was a gay friend of theirs.  When 
the Mosqueteras caught on, they resolved the situation in typical fashion by 
taking turns giving me the occasional open mouthed passionate kiss out on the 
dance-floor.  Even Sandra got in on the action when not accompanied by date of 
her own (and she was no slouch as a kisser).  This of course amped up the 
speculation by several degrees as no one could figure out how this rather normal 
looking Gringo in his levis and t-shirts, who couldn't even dance all that well, 
could possibly have such an in with the three queens of the club.  The 
Mosqueteras certainly didn't mind adding another layer of mystery to their 
mystique, and I certainly didn't mind all the attention I suddenly started 
getting from other women.

At least at the end of the evening, Beatriz would invariably leave with me.  
Unless accompanied by a date, Sandra would almost always take someone home with 
her, though after one bad experience she learned to first consult with Xiomara & 
Beatriz about her intended target as they had better instincts about such 
things.  The interesting thing about Sandra was that she seemed to have two sets 
of lovers; guys (usually younger) whom she picked up at the club for a one-night 
stand, and a small roster of more serious men in their 30's and 40's (several of 
them married) who she would regularly date for a period of time, without ever 
letting it get exclusive.  It was funny the way she was always surrounded by men 
and not just at the club.  I mean she really did have no tits or ass to speak 
of, something particularly important in a Latin country, and though she was 
acting like a slut, she certainly didn't dress like one, at least not outside of 
the club.  It did probably help a lot when Beatriz took her on as a makeover 
project, finding her a style that maximized her natural delicate elegance and 
cute face.  She got Sandra's long light brown hair bobbed and lightened, taught 
her to use more make-up, something she had really never bothered with before, 
and helped her pick out a few new outfits she could afford.  But more important, 
Sandra absolutely exuded sexuality.  Guys can tell when a woman is interested in 
sex and Sandra clearly was.  I guess a way to sum it up is that she became 
something of an elegant slut.

As for Xiomara, she almost never let herself get picked up, though it hilarious 
the way she weeded through her prospects.  She would treat any guy who hit on 
her with utter contempt and only when one of them proved study enough to 
withstand her most withering best, would she deign to consider letting him 
escort her out of the club.  It did make me realize how out of character it had 
been when she had flirted with me so blatantly at that bar when we met back in 
January.  No wonder Sandra (who had been with her at the time) had looked so 
surprised.  


PART 5: DATING BEATRIZ

As I've mentioned above, beginning at about the time we returned from the beach 
trip, Beatriz and I started dating on a regular basis.  But what did this 
actually mean?

I quickly learned that she had two very different facets to her personality.  
First, there was Beatriz the mom and caring friend, the picture of a responsible 
mature single mother, running her home and her business with remarkable 
efficiency, while always being there for her friends when they needed her.

And then, there was Bea, the playful inventive sex fiend.  Of all the 20 odd 
women I've had sex with in my life; Bea was the one who most closely resembles a 
character in an erotic story.  For one, this girl really loved cum and not just 
deep inside her pussy.  She loved it in her mouth, down her throat, all over her 
face, on her tits, or anywhere else I wanted to shoot it.  I've been with (a 
few) women who didn't mind swallowing or taking it on their tits every once and 
awhile, but Bea would have been perfectly happy to bathe in the stuff.  She 
detested condoms and it's no coincidence that soon after we really started 
dating, she rushed us both down to get tested.  She hadn't had a guy bareback in 
over a year (not coincidently, since becoming friends with Xiomara), and was 
quite desperate.

The other thing that stands out in my memory is that she also really liked anal 
sex, something I hadn't even brought up with a woman since my first wife once 
kicked me out of the bedroom for even suggesting that we might consider trying 
it.  Though it didn't become my favorite thing to do, it was at least something 
new and different.

But our relationship wasn't all day in and day out sex.  Dating a single mom 
always has its complications, even when you have Grandma around to babysit.  
Beatriz always insisted on dedicating most weekends during the day to doing 
things with her kids, though she did start inviting me along on occasion after 
the first few weeks.

Given that Friday nights were invariably dedicated to hitting the clubs with the 
other Mosqueteras, this left Saturday nights as our big date night.  Of course 
we would see each other during the week as well, but again Beatriz strongly 
preferred to be home to give her kids dinner and put them to bed.

As a result, we ended up starting to meet for lunch a couple of times a week, 
when we could both break away from work at about the same time.  It turned out 
that both my office and her gallery were within walking distance of one of the 
main plazas, though in opposite directions, so it quickly became our custom to 
meet under a particular statue and then hit one of the nearby restaurants.  
Occasionally we would be joined by Xiomara, Sandra or my co-worker Diego, but 
usually it was just the two of us and it was when we did most of our talking.  

I did get a kick out of the fact that no one watching us would ever imagine that 
the beautiful classy looking young women in the conservative dress elegantly 
smoking a cigarette over her after-lunch coffee was telling the rather staid 
looking young businessmen next to her about how much fun it had been to dress up 
in black leather and whip some naked slobbering fool in an Amsterdam B&D club; 
or the time at a party where her husband had her lie naked on the dinner table 
covered in food while 9 other people ate right off her body; or the time in a 
swing club where he insisted they get together with a couple composed of a hot 
young blonde and a pudgy middle-aged guy and it turned out that while the blonde 
just lay there like a slab of meat,  the guy had a huge cock and fucked her like 
a pro.  Whether the stories were 100% true or not, who's to say, but they sure 
spiced up a boring workday.

Of course, I wasn't the only one getting worked up over lunch.  One night about 
2 or 3 weeks after we returned from the beach, I was surprised to hear someone 
knocking on my apartment door sometime after 10 pm.  I opened up to find a 
vision standing there leaning against the wall wearing a jet black pageboy 
haircut, heavy glossy make-up, a corset, garter belt, stockings and platform 
fuck-me heels.  As I stood there open-mouthed, the vision took a drag from a 
long white cigarette, exhaled into my face and said in a sultry voice, "I 
understand that someone here needs my help."

"Help?  Uh, with what"

At which point she reached down and gently cupped my cock between her long blood 
red fingernails before replying, "With this"

She proceeded to gently pushed me ahead of her back into the apartment and up 
against a wall, shut the door behind her, threw a purse and what turned out 
later to be a long raincoat on my couch.  She then got down on her knees in 
front of me and pulled down the Dockers shorts I was wearing.  A second later my 
rock hard cock was in her warm mouth.  She proceeded to play my cock as if it 
were an instrument, driving me repeatedly almost to completion, before backing 
off just in time to slowly take another drag from her cigarette while waiting 
for me to calm down a bit and then repeating the process.  This went on until I 
couldn't take it any longer and I finally just grabbed her head and fucked her 
face until I filled her mouth with cum.

As soon as I came down from my high, I saw that she had fallen back on the floor 
and was lying there panting loudly with her eyes closed.  I immediately 
regretted having treated her so roughly.  But as I dropped to my knees to 
apologize, it was her turn to grab my head and thrust it up between her legs on 
to her hot wet cunt.  It seemed like I had barely started lapping away when she 
went into spasms and yelled out her own climax.

Afterwards, we both just collapsed there on my rug breathing heavily.  After a 
few minutes, she finally stirred and picking herself up off the floor, took her 
purse and went into my bathroom without saying a word.

I managed to pull myself up on to the couch, wondering what the hell had just 
happened; to the background noise of Jay Leno beginning his monologue on the TV 
I had been watching in the bedroom.

Several minutes later, Bea came out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel and 
carrying a wet washcloth.  She proceeded to kneel down in front of me and gently 
wash all the red lipstick marks off my cock, while nervously avoiding me eyes.  
She had taken off what must have been a wig and most of her make-up.  In fact 
the only sign that this was the same woman was her blood red fingernails.

I finally lifted up her chin and simply said, "Thank you."

She blushed and asked, "You liked?"

I answered by giving her a long soft kiss and we ended up cuddling and making 
out on the couch.  Being a weeknight, she couldn't stay too long and eventually 
I walked her out to her car, after loaning her a T-shirt and some sweatpants 
that she had to roll up.  It was only after she left that I stumbled across her 
cigarette which had fallen at some point in the proceeding.  Liliana always did 
wonder where that cigarette burn mark on the rug had come from. 


That was certainly not the first time Beatriz surprised me with a late night 
midweek surprise visit, but it was the most memorable.  It was also when I 
discovered just how much Beatriz liked to role-play.

Of course our relationship wasn't always quite that erotic.  Most of our 
Saturday date nights involved simply going out to eat or if we were really 
tired, picking up take-out on the way over to my apartment.  Usually after a 
long Friday night partying at the club, we weren't up to too much excitement the 
next evening anyway.  Besides, what she was clearly much more interested in 
leaving as much time for sex as possible.

Of course there were exceptions when we did take our games elsewhere.  Probably 
the most memorable took place maybe a month after that first late night visit to 
my apartment and it also involved some role-playing and a wig.

Ever since Beatriz had told me about whoring herself out while waiting to get 
her hands on her husband's assets, I had been curious about the subject.  I had 
certainly never considered paying a whore before coming to this country.  And 
though I no longer assumed all prostitutes were beaten down streetwalkers, the 
way Bea made fun of her former clients, calling them "cocks with wallets", made 
paying for sex seem even more unimaginable.  But that didn't keep me from being 
curious, and at various times I asked Beatriz questions about where she had 
picked up guys and how the whole thing worked.

So I probably shouldn't have been surprised when one Saturday afternoon in early 
September, I got a phone call from Beatriz in which she started out by asking, 
"You know the Excelsiior Hotel downtown?"

"Yes of course." It was a nice looking 4-star establishment smack in the middle 
of the hotel district known for having a ground floor bar that was primarily a 
place for men to pick up high class hookers.  It also happened to be the place 
that Beatriz had worked out of when she dabbled in the business (and where my 
future wife Liliana was to whore herself out beginning a month or so later, 
though of course I didn't know that at the time).

"Good.  Be there at the bar tonight at 9:00 pm and the "puta" of your dreams 
will be there for you."

I immediately felt a quiver of excitement.  Beatriz was clearly up to one of her 
role-plays and this one sounded like a doozy.

I heard her ask, ""Esta bien?" and realized I hadn't yet said anything so I 
quickly agreed to be at the designated spot.

I got to the place a little early and after looking around and not seeing 
Beatriz, took a stool at the bar and ordered a beer.  The place was crowded with 
what must have been about 30 to 40 women and at least half that number of men.  
Most of the women were sitting around against the walls chatting with each other 
while looking appraisingly at the men, particularly those who were 
unaccompanied.  The rest were sitting with guys either at the bar or at tables 
off to the side. 

The women came in all ages, shapes and sizes from cute young girls who were 
probably not yet 20 to a few well preserved women who looked like they could 
easily be closer to 40.  There was also a considerable range in attractiveness, 
from the spectacularly good looking to the relatively ordinary, though there 
were none that one would consider outright unattractive.  

I was interested to note that though most of the women were dressed nicely, even 
the most daring were not wearing anything beyond the pale of what you would 
normally see in any bar or club on a Saturday night.  In fact, if I hadn't known 
so ahead of time, it would not have been obvious that they were prostitutes.

As for the men, they were mostly foreigners dressed rather informally; a lot of 
Khaki pants or jeans and polo shirts, which made sense given that it was a 
Saturday.  Perhaps the most surprising thing about them was how many looked to 
be about my age or younger.  Somehow I had expected all the clients to be in 
their 40's and 50's, but this was clearly not the case.

Though several girls tried to catch my eyes, it was at least 10 minutes before a 
dark haired girl came up to me and asked if I wanted some company.  She was 
clearly either drunk or stoned, and I could see several of the other women 
giving her a disapproving look.  Clearly this was not a place where the whores 
were expected to be aggressive.  In any case, as soon as I told her I was 
waiting for someone, she simply backed off with a smile.

After I had been there a full 20 minutes with no sign of Beatriz, I really 
needed to use the restroom, so I asked the guy next to me, who seemed to be 
absorbed in an NBA game on the big screen TV, if he could watch my drink.  As I 
came out of the restroom into the lobby of the hotel I noticed a girl sitting 
over on a couch seemingly underlining something in a book.  Since she had the 
same body type as Beatriz and as I couldn't see her face, I decided to walk over 
and make sure it wasn't my date, though I couldn't imagine why Bea would be 
reading out in the lobby.

She must have sensed me coming, because she looked up at me and after giving me 
an appraising look, burst out with a really beautiful smile.  She was dressed 
quite attractively in a classy short dress and suede pumps, but was clearly 
someone I had never seen before.  

We both started to talk at the same time and then went silent waiting for the 
other one to speak.  I finally managed to explain that I had mistaken her for 
someone else.  She smiled regretfully and noted, "And I'm waiting for someone.  
But maybe another time?" As I turned around to leave, I noticed that it what she 
had been reading was a Psychology textbook.  I could remember people grabbing 
moments to study in some pretty strange places when I was in college, but this 
was a new one. 

I had only been back in the bar for a couple of minutes, when I noticed a 
stirring off to my right.  A spectacularly good looking woman wearing a short 
tight spandex dress had walked in; clearly one of the daring outfits in the 
place, without being beyond the pale.  It was only when she sat at the bar 
across from me that I realized that this time it really was Beatriz.  The reason 
why I hadn't recognized her right off had been that she had almost white hair in 
a cut that reminded me of the pop singer Blondie.  She had obviously paid 
another visit to her friend who ran the wig and costume shop in the building 
across the street from her gallery.

Bea was almost immediately approached by a rather well dressed Latino guy and 
ended up letting him lead her to the bar across from me.  She caught my eye and 
motioned for me to stay put.  He bought her a drink and then I watched as she 
began to flirt quite outrageously with him.  It was clear that she had fully 
reeled him in when he leaned down and whispered something in her ear to which 
she laughed while running a fingernail up his chest.  Just as I started to 
wonder if she was actually going to let herself get picked up, she started 
shaking her head with a regretful smile on her face while motioning towards me.  
The guy gave me an envious glance and then reached into his jacket and gave her 
a business card.  She responded by planting a quick full lipped kiss on his 
cheek, leaving a red lipstick mark that was visible from where I was sitting.  
She stood up and gradually made her away around the bar to my side.  Everyone's 
eyes followed her as she approached me and after giving me a similar kiss on the 
cheek sat down on the stool right next to me.

She then smiled seductively and asked, "Do you want some company?"

I laughed, "Sure, but it looks like that guy over there is not too happy about 
you leaving him."

Breaking out of her role momentarily, she noted, "I got his card and you can bet 
I would have had him later if I had wanted to.  I had forgotten how much fun 
that could be."

I bought her a drink and we continued to flirt for awhile as she demonstrated 
her skills, very effectively I must say.  Beatriz could certainly be the 
seductress when she wanted to.

I think we were both getting turned on and after a while I decided that it was 
my turn to surprise her.  I asked, "Do you think you might want to come to my 
room with me."

Looking confused, she asked, "Your room?"

When I showed her my key card, she smiled in appreciation and answered, "Perhaps 
I could accompany you to your room, if there were a little gift involved."

"How much of a gift?"

"For you, $100 would be sufficient."

I immediately reached for my wallet, but she stopped me, saying "Not here, 
silly."

"I know that, but I do have to pay for our drinks."

After paying my bill at the bar, I moved to escort her towards the elevators, 
but she stopped me once we entered the lobby and let me over to a nearby 
counter.  She then handed over her ID to a hotel guy standing there and he asked 
me for my room number.  It was only as he started writing down her name, that he 
suddenly looked up in surprise, at which Bea burst out into laughter while 
saying, "Manuel, has it been that long that you don't recognize me."

He burst into a big smile while rounding the counter to give her a hug, while 
saying, "Mi Palomita, I never expected to see you here again.  Didn't you come 
into some money from that "hijo de puta" (SOB) husband of yours?"

Bea explained that she was just there for fun, "for old times sake" and they 
went on to ask each other about their respective kids.

I was still pretty aroused and I guess my impatience was noticeable, as Manuel 
finally suggested that Bea go take care of her "client" and drop by later to 
chat some more.

As soon as the elevator door's closed, Bea turned to me and gave me a long 
passionate kiss that practically had me coming in my pants.  I literally dragged 
her behind me in my rush down the hallway to my room.

As soon as the door was closed behind us, I practically threw her on the bed.  
After Bea fell on her back laughing, she pulled up her short dress over her 
hips, and then spread her knees so that I could see her moist shaved cunt though 
her lacey transparent panties.  But as I started to follow her on to the bed, 
she suddenly covered herself with one hand and asked, "Aren't you forgetting 
something?"

When I looked at her in confusion, Bea held out her other hand palm up and I got 
the message.  I fumbled to get my wallet out of my jeans and managed to pull out 
and give her five 20's.  She slipped these in her purse, quickly pulled off her 
dress and then lay back down with her legs spread again, clearly open for 
business.  She had never looked more like a real centerfold than in that moment.

Meanwhile, I had been rapidly taking off my own clothes.  As soon I was naked, I 
crawled up between her legs desperate to start licking that juicy cunt.  But 
once again she stopped me, saying, "Just fuck me; treat me like your puta."  

Well, if that's what she wanted, who was I to refuse?  I climbed up between her 
invitingly open legs and buried myself inside her in one hard thrust.  God was 
she tight and hot.  As she urged me on I started pounding away much harder than 
I ever had before.  This seemed to send her right over the edge, as she started 
shaking her head back and forth while chanting, "cojeme como una puta" (fuck me 
like a whore) and "así, así, así" (like that).  Her hips were moving back and 
forth with incredible speed as she thrust back at me just as hard as I was 
pounding into her, to point where I was actually a bit sore the next day.  But 
at the time, it felt incredible and I literally lost track of everything else 
until I finally exploded into the back of her cunt.  

Afterwards I felt like I had been run over by a freight train as I collapsed on 
the bed beside her.  I finally looked over and noticed she still had her legs 
open with her knees up and was slowly playing with the cum leaking out of her 
pussy.  She had this dreamy look on her face as she explained, "It feels so 
strange to be full of a guy's milk in one of these rooms.  I never dared when I 
was working here."  She then turned over and gave me a big kiss, before 
continuing, "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to experience this."

She had just given me the most mind-blowing orgasm of my life and she was 
thanking me?  

Later, after we showered together and I ordered a snack from room service, I set 
out to show her just how grateful I was by leisurely lapping up my desert from 
between her legs.  I think I practically drove her crazy by keeping her on edge 
for a good 30 to 45 minutes before finally letting her cum.  Going down on a 
girl as visibly responsive as Bea, is always a delight.  Later, when it was 
finally time for me to drive her home before her kids woke up; she spent an 
inordinate amount of time with her make-up in front of the bathroom mirror.  She 
usually tended not to care so much once our fun and games were over, given that 
she would just have to take it all back off as soon as she got home.  When I 
asked her about it, Bea explained that she couldn't very well walk through the 
lobby looking any less spectacular than she had when she arrived.  After all, 
"Paloma" had an image to keep up.  She also never did offer to give me my money 
back, so I guess I had broken my rule of never paying for sex.  But it had been 
more than worth it.


Though I've only described in detail a couple of our encounters, there were 
several others that were equally as hot as Bea led me through a smorgasbord of 
sexual experiences.  This is how I learned, among other things, that while I 
enjoyed taking her up the ass, it wasn't my favorite; that light bondage only 
did something for me when she was the one being tied up; and that spanking her 
until her ass glowed red turned me on more because of her explosive reaction 
than from the actual act itself.  My take is that she got a kick out of guiding 
me, much the way her ex had guided her through opening her sexual horizons; with 
the key difference being that she never pushed me into something I didn't want 
to do. 

Given all this, you'd think that I'd have been incredibly happy with Beatriz.  
But as the weeks went by, I started feeling vaguely dissatisfied.  In 
retrospect, though Beatriz was keeping my cock happier than it had ever been, I 
found that I started getting bored with her when we were not having sex.  
Hearing her go on endlessly about her kids and the art scene started getting 
more than a bit repetitive.  Even incredible sex can get a bit old if it's not 
accompanied by something more.  It might have been different if we had been 
falling in love, but neither of us had any illusions about that.  In many ways, 
1999 for me was all about discovering the limits of fantasy.


PART 6:  THE LAW OF ENTROPY

Despite the fact that I was beginning to have some misgivings, things seemed to 
be moving along smoothly until one Saturday night in what must have been late 
September, when Beatriz switched things up at the club.  We had gone on Saturday 
that weekend because of a Ricardo Arjona concert (at least I think it was 
Arjona) that the women had wanted to go to that Friday.

Bea let herself be monopolized on the dance floor by this muscular black guy 
(who admittedly was also a fantastic dancer).  I don't know if it was an 
unconscious response to this or what, but I in turn started paying particular 
attention to this cute little college aged bottle blonde, whose spectacular 
tight little ass was almost irresistible.  The girl had been around on previous 
nights and had been quite blatant about showing her interest in me.   I had 
danced with her a few times, but had not let it go farther than that.  This 
night was to be different and without really realizing how I got there, I 
suddenly found myself in a corner making out with her.  Having regained my 
sanity, I gently excused myself and returned to our table where Xiomara and 
Sandra gave me amused looks as the former gently wiped some of the blonde's 
lipstick off the corner of my mouth.  Bea on the other hand, looked so wrapped 
up in her dance partner that it gave me hope that she might not have noticed.  

No such luck.  As we were getting ready to leave, Beatriz suddenly walked over 
to the table where the girl was sitting with her friends and talked to her for a 
bit.  The girl had looked real apprehensive at first, but was all smiles by the 
time Bea came back over to join us and I had to ask her what was up.  

Of course I don't remember the exact words we used, but I'll never forget the 
conversation, so the following is a pretty good approximation.

I asked, "What did you tell her?"

Beatriz smiled and answered, "I told her that she could go home with you 
tonight, but it was only for this one time."

When I started to protest, she interrupted, "I know you want to fuck her.  I 
would if I were a guy.  Anyone can see that she's ripe, ready for the taking".

"But what about you?"

She responded as if were the most natural thing in the world, "Don't worry about 
me.  I'm going home with him," as she nodded towards where the black guy was 
waiting discreetly by the entranceway.  

I tried to protest, as for all the games we had played, we had never involved 
others.  But she cut in to say, "It's only for this one night.  I'm not breaking 
up with you."

I'm sure I looked totally shocked as I watcher her walk away.  Then when she 
hesitated and turned back towards me I hoped for a moment that it had all been a 
joke.  But all she asked was, "What time are you picking us up tomorrow?"

I must have looked confused, because she clarified, "You know, to take the kids 
to the amusement park"

I responded rather automatically, "At about noon?"

She nodded in pleasant agreement, gave me a nice longish kiss and headed off to 
get fucked.

I must have stood there looking stunned for some time, until Xiomara nudged me 
and said, "We're leaving now.  Are you coming or are you staying?"

When I looked at her blankly, she nodded towards the bottle blonde who had 
clearly been following the action and had a hopeful look on her face.

Suddenly feeling a bit angry, I decided on the spot, "I think I'll stay."

Clearly approving of my decision, Xiomara simply said, "Mejor así" (better that 
way).  And then of course, being Xiomara, she had to add, "You do still have 
condoms?"

I only nodded in the affirmative.  I knew I still had a box in my bathroom 
cabinet somewhere.

Xiomara then gave me a pretty hot kiss of her own, before whispering, "Don't 
worry about Bea, she's just feeling hemmed in a little, but she'll come around."

And of course, given a little time to take in what was happening, I began to 
understand why Beatriz had pulled her little switch.  I decided to shelve the 
matter for future consideration as I had an eager young blonde to fuck; which is 
exactly what I did that night.  It was pretty good too, except for the part 
where I burst into laughter when I first saw the Tasmanian Devil tattooed on to 
that tight little ass.

By the next day when I picked up Beatriz and her kids, I was feeling a little 
more put out again.  After all, she could have talked it over with me ahead of 
time.  At least she looked a bit apprehensive.

It was a couple of hours before we finally had a chance to talk when her 10 year 
old daughter took her little boy on a ride for smaller kids.  As we sat on a 
bench waiting for them, she asked rather timidly, "Are you really angry with 
me?"

"A little bit.  Though we never said we wouldn't be with others, at least we 
could have talked it over ahead of time."

"I know, I'm really sorry about that.  It was kind of impulsive.  It's just that 
I had to find out if the stereotypes are true."

"Which sterotypes?"

"That black guys have larger cocks and that guys who are good dancers are also 
good at sex."

"So, what did you find out?"

Looking gloomy, she responded, "No and No."

I mused, "It probably wasn't a fair test.  He looked like the type who probably 
takes steroids."

That got an ironic laugh out of her.

Thinking back over her stories about her past experiences, I had to ask, "Didn't 
you fuck black guys in Amesterdam?"

She blushed while replying, "Once, a big African guy.  But that was on a stage.  
Of course he was big."

By this time we were both in much better spirits so when she asked about the 
blonde, I responded truthfully, "A lot of enthusiasm, but no finesse." 

It suddenly felt like we were back to normal.  That impression seemed to be 
confirmed when she actually accepted dropping her kids off with her mother and 
coming back to my apartment (unusual for a Sunday afternoon).  The sex that 
afternoon was really good as I surprised myself by getting off on the idea that 
her pussy had just been fucked by another cock a few hours earlier.  I had 
always been kind of turned on by the fact that Beatriz kept wanting me to fuck 
her even after having been with so many other guys in her past, and I guess it 
carried over to guys in her present as well. 

Over the next few days I gradually realized that things were definitely not back 
to normal.  Sure, the next weekend at the club we returned to our routine, to 
the disappointment of the young blonde.  But clearly I wasn't the only one 
having misgivings as Beatriz was looking increasingly troubled.

I think it was the following weekend that Beatriz and Xiomara seemed to get into 
an intense conversation at the club.  After a while they both excused themselves 
and walked outside, clearly needing to talk without having to shout over the 
music.  When they didn't come back relatively soon, I finally went and peaked 
out the door.  They were both pacing back and forth in front of each other 
smoking with intense nervous motions.  From the body language, Beatriz seemed to 
be insisting on something, while Xiomara was shaking her head in denial, though 
clearly without much conviction.

After awhile they came back in arm in arm and I was glad to see that they seemed 
to have resolved their disagreement.  But neither one was much in the partying 
mood that night.  Beatriz looked kind of sad but determined, while Xiomara kept 
giving me these rather uncertain thoughtful glances.

The mystery was resolved later that night after Beatriz and I had enjoyed a 
relatively low key fuck.  She suddenly sat up cross-legged and announced with 
tearful eyes that this would have to be out last time as she didn't think it was 
right for us to continue sleeping with each other.  Seeing my confusion, she 
explained quite succinctly, "I like you, but Xiomara could really love you."

Naturally I protested that it was Xiomara whom had gotten us together in the 
first place, and in fact she had stopped having sex with me again once it was 
clear that Beatriz and I were trying to make a go of it.  But Beatriz insisted 
that she had finally realized that Xiomara had only done that because she felt 
she wasn't available to give herself completely to me.  In Xiomara's strange 
mind, since she couldn't have me and she thought I deserved a good woman and 
that Beatriz, especially after her experience with her ex, needed a good man, 
the logical thing to do was to hook us up with each other.  Of course the real 
world doesn't work like that as we were all discovering to our regret.  Though I 
might not have noticed anything, Beatriz insisted that seeing us together was 
hurting our friend, which is why she seemed to be avoiding us outside of the 
nights at the club.  "Besides," she concluded, "the two of you are much more 
suited to each other."

I have to admit that I wasn't as surprised as I could have been at Beatriz 
wanting to break things off.  She had never disguised the fact that she was not 
interesting in tying herself to any one man.  But I was stunned to hear that 
Xiomara might feel more for me than just good friendship.


PART 7: XIOMARA

After mulling it over for a few days, I finally tired to pin Xiomara down on the 
subject one evening at my apartment when I invited her to come over to pick up a 
book she had been asking to borrow.  Of course, I didn't come right out and ask 
her if she was falling in love with me.  Instead I started out by just noting 
that I had missed our talks and wondered how she was doing.  

One thing led to another, and a few beers later she broke down and ended up 
sobbing on my shoulder (the only time I ever saw her cry).  I won't try to 
repeat here the details of what we discussed – it was way too personal even 
given the anonymity of the internet – but for the first time she really opened 
up and I realized that perhaps she wasn't so tough after all.  Maybe it was the 
fact that she was approaching 30, but she was clearly depressed to still be 
doing the mistress thing.  It wasn't that she minded the Italian so much, but 
what was getting to her was that it also meant that even when she met a nice guy 
with whom she could see settling down with, she had to let him go.  Though 
Xiomara never tied this directly to me, it was pretty clear that I was one of 
those nice guys she was referring to.  The whole evening was quite a revelation 
– this was not a woman who normally moped around feeling sorry for herself.  

Xiomara ended up on my bed curled into fetal position, clearly completely wrung 
out.  So after pulling off my own clothes except for my underwear, I curled up 
behind her, pulled the bedspread on top of us and held her as she fell asleep.

I woke in the morning to find that I was still spooning her from behind, but 
that she was now stark naked.  Furthermore I had a boner poking between her 
legs.  When I tried to pull away, she immediately turned over and hugged me up 
against her body face to face.  That morning was the first time I actually made 
love to Xiomara.  Sure we had fucked plenty of times, but this was different and 
I think we both knew it.  It was also the first time we didn't use a condom (not 
intentionally on my part – it's just that I had gotten used to not needing one 
with Bea) and the fact that she didn't ask me to get one is quite telling in its 
own way.  Certainly, I felt something special about finally filling her up with 
my cum.

Therefore, I was quite upset when she seemed to go out of her way to avoid me 
over the following week, even to the point where she called off club night.  In 
retrospect it makes complete sense.  She was not a woman used to showing any 
vulnerability and probably didn't know how to handle what had happened.  But at 
the time I was quite upset.  Finally in desperation I called Sandra and gave her 
an abbreviated account.

A couple of days later, Xiomara suddenly called me at the office and after 
asking if I could break away early that afternoon, suggested I go pick her up 
when she got out of her Tae Kwan Do class at 5:00.  I was quite surprised for 
many reasons, but one of them was that she had never wanted me to come by her 
gym or martial arts school because the Italian had signed her up for both and 
they knew him as her boyfriend.  

Because I was curious to see her in class, I made a point of getting there a 
half hour early.  When I walked in, there were about a half dozen women in the 
room wearing white uniforms, chest pads with a large circle on them and green or 
blue belts.  Their Korean instructor was standing off to the side watching.  
Looking around, I spotted Xiomara warming up against a wall at about the same 
time she saw me.  She frowned momentarily, but then gave me a little nod towards 
where another guy was standing near the door watching.  I guess she wasn't too 
upset at the fact that I had arrived early.

The instructed started by pairing off the women and each duo took turns sparing 
with each other.  Xiomara was wearing a blue belt, which I figured was probably 
pretty advanced since she had been studying the discipline off and on for a few 
years going back to Italy.  She was matched up against a slightly shorter, but 
clearly more muscular woman wearing the same color belt.  

I didn't know much about the sport, but it was actually kind of interesting to 
watch, seeming to involve a lot of fast footwork and sudden kicks aimed at the 
opponents chest.  When it was her turn, Xiomara came out extremely aggressive 
seeming to overwhelm her opponent.  The other girl had her hands full just 
trying to block these attacks and never managed to counter during the minute or 
so the fight seemed to last, before another pair rotated in to take their place.  

With her black hair in a pony tail poking out the back of her helmet, and a cool 
determined look in her eyes; Xiomara looked like some kind of Mayan warrior 
princess.  It took me a moment to make the connection and realize that the last 
time I had seen her look like that was in a parking lot in front of Galaxia 
several months earlier.  I somehow doubted that her instructor would have 
approved at that particular use of her training.  Not that she had done much 
kicking that night, what with the 3-inch spike heeled pumps she had been 
wearing.

In Xiomara's next fight, she was up against the same opponent, who this time 
tried to attack from the beginning.  Xiomara easily blocked a flurry of kicks, 
and then with an fast spinning move managed to smack the other woman right in 
this middle of the target on her chest, sending her flying on to her back.  

The instructor took Xiomara aside and gave her a long talk.  I wondered if she 
wasn't supposed to kick the other girl so hard in practice, but she didn't seem 
all that upset.  I also heard a neutral sounding grunt from right next to me and 
turned to see that another young woman had come in, this one wearing a black 
belt.

The instructor seemed to see the woman standing next to me and called her over.  
A little time later, Xiomara was out on the floor again, but this time facing 
the black belt.

The guy who had been standing next to me finally spoke up, "This one should be 
good."  When I asked him why, he explained that the black belt was actually the 
national champion and had competed internationally, while Xiomara was a natural 
who never gave up.

This time they both came out aggressively and it was a wonder to watch.  It was 
obvious where Xiomara's dance training helped with her footwork, but the other 
woman was simply too good and seemed to get a kick through to her chest pad 2 or 
3 times.  This didn't seem to faze Xiomara at all, as she just looked more 
determined and right before the end, she managed to sneak a kick through her 
opponent's defenses and hit her chest pad with a loud smack.

As soon as the instructor stepped in to end the round, Xiomara bowed to her 
opponent and then after ripping off her helmet, walked over towards me with 
satisfied smile on her face.  I suddenly realized that she had never looked 
sexier than she did right then in that bulky uniform with sweat running down her 
face and that glow of triumph in her eyes.  Maybe it was the sharp contrast to 
the last time I had seen her, curled up on my bed in abject misery.  Whatever 
the reason, I hardly resisted when she came up and grabbed me, pulled my head 
down within reach and gave me a long passionate open mouthed kiss to the hoots 
of her classmates.

After that, there wasn't much more to say.  Oh, I did take her over to a café 
once she had showered and dressed.  She came out looking like a million dollars 
in high heeled boots, skin tight jeans, a skimpy army green tank top and more 
make-up than usual for her.  Once we had settled down and got served, she did 
get around to explaining that she was finally tired of holding back and that I'd 
better watch out because now I was hers.  But it really wasn't necessary; the 
kiss had said it all.


So for the first time, Xiomara and I actually started acting like a real couple, 
or at least we did during the three weeks each month the Italian guy wasn't 
around.  It was difficult of course, particularly since Xiomara had no idea how 
to be a girlfriend.  But I kept putting my foot down at the slightest sign that 
she was reverting to her bad habits from the first time we had dated, and she at 
least tried.  For my part, I tried to adjust to the existence of the Italian.  

It helped that she no longer seemed so paranoid about being seen with me.  When 
I asked her about this, she explained that the Italian already knew that I was 
her friend and didn't consider me a threat (Great – just what you want to here 
from your girl!).  She went on to explain that he wouldn't think anything of it 
if word got back to him that she had been seen around town with me.

We began to toss about ideas on how she could break off with him and still meet 
her obligations.  While she had over a year of grad school to go, I figured I 
could afford the relatively inexpensive tuition they charge here, particularly 
if she got a job to cover her expenses.  The real problem was her family back 
home.  Though dollars went a long way in Nicaragua back in those days (when the 
dollar was actually worth something), her mother's care alone was beyond my 
financial capability given the salary I was earning at that relatively early 
point in my career.  So we never did come up with a solution.

Up to this point in our friendship, Xiomara had usually preferred to visit my 
apartment rather than have me hang out at hers.  She certainly avoided having 
other men in the bed "paid for" by the Italian.  Of course, I knew were she 
lived since it was not too far from my own and I had dropped by on occasion, 
usually to pick her up or drop her off, but rarely had been invited in to spend 
any amount of time.  Xiomara was quite rigorous in keeping to her own (rather 
unusual) code of behavior.  She considered that since the Italian was paying for 
her apartment and for her time when he was in town, she would do nothing to 
disrespect him by violating either condition.

As I've also noted, Xiomara had tended to keep her social life separated into 
two.  I was in the part reserved for her true friends, along with the other 
Mosqueteras.  But she also had an entire set of other contacts and friends in 
the local arts, business and expat communities, who knew her as the Italian's 
woman.  

Now that our relationship was out in the open, Xiomara did start relaxing her 
rules by integrating me much more into the rest of her social life.  

As I explained in another e-mail to Chicho:


(Extracted from e-mail dated Nov 19, 1999)

One of the nice things about being back with Xiomara, this time as more than 
just a friend, is that I now get invited to some pretty interesting parties.  
Given that she's only been in (this country) for about a year and a half, she 
knows an amazingly wide variety of people through her involvement in the 
cultural scene, even if she only has a few really close friends (primarily 
Beatriz and Sandra).

Perhaps the most notable was also the smallest.  About a month ago Xiomara 
hosted a dinner party involving a really unusual mix of guests, including a 
visiting older Canadian former missionary couple whom she'd met years ago while 
hitchhiking in Nicaragua; a laid back German guy about my age who runs a car 
rental agency and turned out to be an avowed atheist; the Belgian mother and 
daughter who live next door, whom I wrote you about last summer; and finally 
Sandra and her latest sex partner, a well known former national team soccer 
player who now works as an engineer.

The Canadian missionary guy cracked jokes all evening, getting into a good 
natured needling contest with the German, mostly over religion, before moving on 
to soccer so as to include Sandra's date; who fortunately turned out to also 
have a good sense of humor.  

But the surprise of the evening were the Belgians, as the mother didn't hesitate 
to explain what she was doing for a living despite the fact that her daughter 
was sitting right there.  Initially she brought in up in response to a question 
from the Canadian woman and just tossed it out there almost daring someone to 
criticize her choices, while sending Xiomara a challenging glance. Clearly our 
host had started preaching at her once again about the evils of prostitution.  
The Canadian woman on the other hand sounded surprisingly non-judgmental, and at 
her prompting, the Belgian mother continued in a much friendlier tone to explain 
the in and outs of her business and exactly why she was working as an escort.  I 
guess the Canadians were the right kind of liberal Anglicans.

Though all of this, many of us were glancing in curiosity over at the girl.  But 
she didn't react much at all, beyond stealing a cigarette out of her mother's 
pack and lighting it up while continuing to look rather bored.  Clearly some 
things had changed in that household in the aftermath of Zayda's visit, not the 
least of which was the fact that the girl was practically unrecognizable wearing 
the latest in current skimpy teen fashion and a rather garish belly button ring.  
But interestingly enough, when the soccer player finally expressed some mild 
disapproval, it was the daughter who jumped in to defend her mother.  

Fortunately the conversation moved on to the less sensitive topic of the girl's 
upcoming PSATs and college plans.  It was almost a relief to see that contrary 
to outward appearances, the girl hadn't lost her aspirations for the future.  
Meanwhile, the Canadian woman had taken the mother off to one side they were in 
a deep conversation that had both of them on the verge of tears.

Don't ask me how, but this weird combination of people seemed to work and the 
conversation was pretty fascinating for the rest of the evening.  

One result of that dinner is that I ended up hanging out quite a bit with the 
German guy.  Everyone here calls him Jorge because no one can pronounce his real 
name.  He's a laid back intellectual with a quirky sense of humor and a kind of 
quiet charisma that seems to attract women.  He's quite definitely not your 
stereotypical German, having initially come over to Nicaragua to "help" with the 
recovery effort after the revolution. Becoming disenchanted with the 
Sandinistas, he bummed around Latin America for a couple of years painting 
pictures until he finally ran out of money and settled down here with the car 
rental job.  

Jorge is currently separated from an old friend of Xiomara's going back to when 
they overlapped with the National Dance Company.  The two originally met and 
dated when he was living in Nicaragua and once he nailed down the car rental 
job, he went back to marry her and bring her here.  

The reason for the separation is that he's pissed off because she lied to him 
about having danced in a night club back in Managua during the couple of years 
he was bumming around the hemisphere.  He assumes, probably correctly, that she 
had whored herself out to some of the clients.  


((NOTE:  In parts of Latin America, the term "night-club" refers to anything 
from a strip bar to a cabaret – with the common denominator being that someone 
(whether male or female) is taking off their clothes for the audience.  Most of 
them are basically strip-bars - and whorehouses in some cases - though there are 
a few that actually put on real floor shows)).


To compound the problem, Felicia is currently the headline act at the ritziest 
night club in town.  She went out for the job after the separation when she got 
pissed off about his attitude (a miscalculation of major proportions on her 
part).  

Xiomara insists that Felicia wants him back and had only started dancing again 
after they separated as she stubbornly refused to take any of his money.  In 
fact, the main reason she invited him to that dinner is that she promised 
Felicia to try to bring him around and it was at her suggestion that I called 
him a few days later to see if he wanted to get together to watch a soccer game 
and have a few beers.  My instructions were to convince him to go see his wife 
perform, both so that he could see how good she was, but also that the club was 
not nearly as slimy as he imagined.

The problem for me is that I'm not very sympathetic to Jorge's point of view.  
Whatever Felicia did to survive, I'm not sure where he comes off criticizing 
her.  Was she supposed to get by for two years off the odd postcard from Cuzco 
or the Iguazú Falls?

Despite my encouragement, Jorge kept agonizing over whether to go see Felicia 
perform without really coming to a decision.  Finally, Xiomara got fed up and 
offered to go along with us if he wanted.  This was actually a major concession 
on Xiomara's part because she really loathes night clubs.  She had always 
refused to dance in one even though at times it could have been a solution to 
her economic problems.  It's not that Xiomara is inhibited about showing off her 
body; because that's the one thing she is not.  Rather its that she takes 
dancing very seriously, talking about it almost as if it were something sacred.  
To her, a night club is a perversion of what it means to be a dancer.  This all 
goes back to the Comandante who used to take her along with  him to the various 
night clubs in Managua.  The first time, Xiomara got so upset she ended up 
vomiting in the bathroom.

But of course, Xiomara's loyalty to her friends comes before her personal 
discomfort, so a couple of weeks ago the three of us went to see Felicia 
perform.  Right from the beginning it was clear that her set was actually quite 
good, something of an imitation of the better European cabarets. Felicia clearly 
aimed the show right at her husband, in what was a very effective combination of 
seduction and contrition.  I found the performance to be amazing, all the more 
because it came from genuine emotion.  Though at various times she flashed her 
tits and pussy, this was a long ways from being a simple bump and grind.  Even 
Xiomara had to grudgingly admit that it was kind of beautiful.  It was certainly 
funny to watch Jorge's face get redder and redder as he realized what was going 
on.  I later made a point of pointing out how in this particular high class 
club, the dancers only had to sit and talk to customers between sets, with no 
lap-dances or touching allowed.

The whole plan seemed to be working when Jorge went back to the club twice more 
on his own just to see his wife dance and actually bought her drinks so that she 
could sit with him.  Xiomara was encouraged, noting that if he was willing to 
pay for $20 drinks just to sit with his own wife, he was probably getting close 
to forgiving the fact that she had lied about her past.  But I'm still not so 
sure.  Unfortunately he also saw one of the dancers leave with a client crazy 
enough to pay the exorbitant bar fine and though Felicia was quick to insist 
that she herself, as the headline act, never had to leave with clients, he 
didn't sound so convinced when he told me about it.  He sure can come across as 
the righteous German sometimes.  Well, we can only hope for the best.

(end of extract)


Unfortunately, in the end, the plan to get Jorge and Felicia back together did 
not work.  I think he still loved her in a way, but simply couldn't get the 
image of her fucking a bunch of strangers for money out of his head.  When I 
came back from the end of year holidays, Jorge told me that they were getting a 
divorce.  I don't really know what Felicia did after that, but frankly I felt a 
lot more sympathy for her than for him. For my part, I gladly stopped hanging 
around Jorge.

The whole episode did make me think about the fact that I had never gotten upset 
over the fact that Xiomara and Beatriz not only had rather sordid pasts, but 
were actually fucking others for at least part of the time they were seeing me.  
For instance, what annoyed me about the Italian wasn't that he was having sex 
with my girlfriend, but rather that he seemed to have first dibs.

The Mosqueteras continued to hit the clubs for awhile, but it really wasn't the 
same after after I hooked up with Xiomara.  For one, the two of us made no 
effort to disguise the fact that we were a couple; not that it was all that 
obvious given Xiomara's reluctance to show any affection in public.  But the 
word did get around, which took some of their mystique away.  The fact that 
watching Beatriz flirt and occasionally hook up with other guys didn't bother me 
is pretty telling in itself.  That certainly wasn't the problem.  I think it was 
more that the novelty wore off and our club nights gradually became much less 
frequent as we moved towards the end of the year.  

It didn't help that there was a strain in the relationship between the three 
women, which came about as another consequence of that dinner party.  It turned 
out that one of the Belgian women's clients was planning a return visit to the 
country, this time with his two sons, and had asked her to line up a couple of 
girls for them.  The client was in his 60's and the sons were in their 30's, so 
he specified that he didn't want just some young whores, but rather age 
appropriate women of some class.  Without consulting Xiomara first, the Belgium 
women had taken Sandra aside at the party and broached the subject.

Though Sandra had been successfully discouraged from trying her hand at 
prostitution back at the beach in June, her financial situation remained 
precarious.  She'd had to drop out of school and take a full time job.  As soon 
as she heard that her share would be $1000 a day for four days, more than she 
would make in 6 months at her current job, it was a done deal.

This time the other two Mosqueteras were not able to dissuade her.  I wasn't 
there, but according to Xiomara, Sandra had at one point pulled out her pocket 
agenda where she had made a notation each time she had sex with a guy since 
starting her spree.  She came up with over 30 different guys and asked her 
friends if this really would be so different.  Xiomara sure thought so, but the 
ever practical Bea came up with a solution: she would volunteer to be the second 
girl, so that at least Sandra would not be on her own (as by this point Xiomara 
wasn't even speaking to her neighbor and none of them trusted her too much).  
The Belgian woman wasn't crazy, there was no way she was going to turn down a 
chance to use Bea.

A couple of weeks later, I was lounging in Xiomara's living room while the three 
women were busy getting Sandra and Bea ready to go out to the airport with the 
Belgian woman to meet the clients.  Though Xiomara still openly disapproved of 
the plan, she had let them use her apartment rather than having to get ready 
next door.  I had been a bit worried that they would have a problem in that both 
sons would clearly prefer Bea, at least until they saw Sandra's pussy.  But when 
the Mosqueteras finally came out, I had to whistle.  By whatever magic they had 
used, they had managed to make Sandra look almost as enticingly irresistible as 
her friend.  If gorgeous classy women are what the client wanted, he was getting 
more than his money's worth.  

After her friends left, Xiomara looked really sad.  She honestly felt that 
Sandra had fallen into the trap of prostitution and was really worried about 
her.  At the same time, she was pissed off at her two buddies.  She seemed to be 
in a funk even after we went back to my place and made love.  Nothing I had said 
seemed to work, so as we were lying naked on the bed, I started tracing my 
fingers over her tattoo.  She followed my fingers for a moment and then mumbled, 
"Uno para todos y todos para uno" (One for all and all for one).

I responded, "Damn right.  And by the way, I still insist these are the wrong 
kind of swords."

Xiomara groaned and promptly bopped me over the head with a pillow, to which I 
of course had to respond in kind.  There's little that a good pillow fight won't 
make better.

Of course, when our two friends returned four days later raving about the 
experience, Xiomara didn't know whether to feel happy or sad.  The way Sandra 
kept waving around her wad of fifty 100 dollar bills, taking the nice tip as a 
confirmation of the success of her first foray into the world of sex for pay, 
made it clear that she had caught the bug.  And in fact, she went on to do two 
more such assignments for the Belgian woman well spread out over the next few 
months, sufficient to allow her to quit her job, finish grad school and have a 
nice nest egg with which to start her real career.  But contrary to Xiomara's 
fears, Sandra never engaged in any other kind of prostitution (if she is to be 
believed).

Beatriz's reaction to the experience was much more sanguine.  She liked the 
money and the sex, but had started missing her kids too much and had no interest 
in ever leaving them for that long again.

Xiomara continued to spend time with the other two (both with and without me 
along), but more likely than not it was just to meet at a café or bar and chat, 
or hang around one of their homes.  The days of them strutting into the Galaxia 
on their spike heels, flashing their matching tattoos from beneath their short 
skirts, were over.


I did spent Christmas that year with Xiomara in Nicaragua, before continuing on 
up to the States to spend the Millennium New Years with my family.  I thought it 
was kind of funny the way she made me stay in a hotel and would not spend the 
night with me.  But I guess she did have a reputation uphold in her home town, 
particularly given what many people assumed young pretty single Nicaraguan girls 
were doing abroad in those days.

I had rented a car and Xiomara did make quite a point of showing me off around 
town, basically to counter rumors (which she insisted had been spread by the 
Comandante) that she had become a prostitute.  

At least I had a chance to finally meet Xiomara's family as we tended to spend 
most of the day over there when we weren't seeing the sights of Managua and its 
surroundings.  Her mother really did look like she was in pretty bad shape.  The 
strokes had left her unable to talk, so the most I could do was tell her what a 
wonderful daughter she had.  Her older sister looked like a plumper beaten down 
version of Xiomara, but at least she was in a pretty good mood as she had just 
gotten her first secretarial job (at the whopping salary of $90 a month), but 
she knew that wouldn't be enough money and was considering eventually sneaking 
across the border into neighboring Costa Rica, the way half of Nicaragua seemed 
to be doing at the time.  There she could earn at least twice as much plus room 
and board working as a household maid or in a factory (and what a sign of the 
times in Nicaragua that the daughter of a formally solid middle class family 
would even be considering those jobs).  But since it would mean leaving her kids 
with her ex-husband's folks (whom had backed her up in the divorce), she wanted 
to wait at least until the youngest entered high school the following year.  So 
it sounded like that economic burden on Xiomara was not going to lessen all that 
much in the short term.

I also met the infamous Comandante.  This last happened when Xiomara took me to 
see a performance by the National Dance Company and he approached us during the 
intermission.  He actually came across as a pretty friendly guy who seemed 
genuinely glad that Xiomara had found someone, but then again he is a politician 
of sorts, so take that for what its worth.  I looked it up and he currently has 
a somewhat important (though not cabinet level) position in the current 
Nicaraguan Government, now that the Sandinistas were voted back into power.  I 
guess having run an escort service and whorehouse for awhile didn't hurt his 
long-term political career.

The most interesting part of that evening was the conversation I had with their 
long time choreographer, a man who clearly felt an almost paternal affection 
towards Xiomara.  The sad part was when he told me that she had clearly been the 
most talented dancer in her generation and could have gone on to great things 
well beyond Nicaragua if she hadn't gotten injured.  But he followed that up by 
looking at her impressive bust size and asked straight out if they were fake or 
real.  When I assured him that they were real, he shook his head and said that 
perhaps her future potential hadn't been so bright after all.  I guess her boobs 
grew quite a bit after she turned 18 and left the Company.  

The funniest part was his description of her reaction to the infamous Contra 
attack.  The way he described it, Xiomara had been so pissed off at being woken 
up that she had started yelling curses and throwing pebbles at the attackers, 
until one of the soldiers tackled her to the ground to get her out of the line 
of fire, getting hit in the arm in the process.  This pissed her off even more 
and ignoring the orders of the military guys with them, she grabbed up his 
weapon and started firing short bursts roughly in the direction of the enemy 
while continuing to cuss them out using language he'd never thought he'd hear 
coming out of the mouth of a teenaged girl.  Now that certainly sounded much 
more like the Xiomara I had come to know than Zayda's overly heroic version of 
the event.

Another funny moment came on the day of our arrival.  Or at least is was funny 
to me though not so much for Xiomara.  It started at the airport back home when 
she had lit up a cigarette and announced that it would be her last.  She didn't 
want to ruin her reputation back home as a health nut.  While it was true that 
she had been able to sort of quit for the duration of Zayda's visit, she really 
hadn't been smoking that much before then.  This time I had my doubts it would 
be so easy, given that she had now been smoking at least a half a pack a day 
regularly since July. 

I started making bets with myself on how long she would hold out and I have to 
give her credit.  We got all the way to Managua, dropped my stuff of at my hotel 
and spent three hours in her house before she finally announced just as we 
finished eating dinner that she wanted to take me to see a friend of hers.  Her 
sister and the caretaker couldn't understand why she just didn't wait until the 
next day, but I suspected that I did.  Sure enough, as soon as we got a few 
blocks away, she directed me to stop at a small store.  She was in and out in a 
flash and before I knew she was sitting next to me sucking desperately on a cig.  
I couldn't help but laugh, which got me a punch on the shoulder for my troubles.  
After that, she made sure to space out our little excursions so that she could 
get her fix when she needed it.

The one more negative note came when we dropped by to see Zayda where she was 
living in her own small apartment (to our great surprise).  Xiomara had been 
seriously considering my suggestion from the previous summer that she bring the 
girl back with her and get her into counseling.  But from the moment she walked 
in it was clear that Zayda still resented Xiomara for what happened earlier in 
the year.  The first thing the girl did was defiantly light up a cigarette, 
almost daring Xiomara to say something.  My girlfriend quickly took the winds 
out of that little bit of rebellion by pulling her own cigs out of her purse and 
lighting one up herself.  At least that cut short any silly stuff, though to be 
honest; Zayda really did come across as much more focused and serious than I 
remembered.  She was already 17 and was clearly set on finding her own way.  She 
explained that she had hooked a Sugar Daddy of her own and he was paying for her 
apartment, acting classes and had helped her land a role in a local TV 
commercial.  At least the guy had also insisted that she finish High School, so 
it wasn't all bad.  

Xiomara was quite gloomy afterwards as she had hoped Zayda would avoid repeating 
her own mistakes.  I don't think Xiomara realized what she was getting into when 
she rescued Zayda years earlier.  But considering that she was only in her mid-
20's at the time and had plenty of other serious problems to deal with, she did 
remarkably well by the girl.  


Overall, it was actually a really nice trip, but I think it also led to our 
final breakup.  Once we got back home, it simply became impossible for us to 
continue while she was still seeing the Italian.  We started fighting all the 
time and lasted barely a month.  

The breakup was really tough, but it was mutual.  Xiomara finally came right out 
and said that we had worked better as friends with benefits, noting that we had 
even stopped talking with each other the way we used to (for which she correctly 
accepted the blame).  

To be honest, I was kind of relieved and it wasn't just the Italian.  A lot to 
the things about the way Xiomara treated her lovers that I hadn't liked when we 
first met were still bothering me, and though she did initially make an effort 
to improve, she started reverting to her old bad habits after the holidays.  
When we hooked up after Beatriz broke things off with me, I had somehow 
forgotten all the very good reasons for not getting involved with this woman 
that I had written to Chicho the previous summer.  By the end of January 2000, 
they had been rubbed in my face once too often. 

Surprisingly enough, one of my key additional gripes was that I had started 
becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the fact that Xiomara simply wasn't 
"cuddly" enough.  She normally detested too much PDA, even preferring not to 
hold hands in public.  That would have been OK, if not for the fact that she 
wasn't much better in private.  For instance, she was the first girlfriend I had 
who did not like to cuddle up after sex, preferring instead to that I move over 
to the other side of the bed.  Now some guys might prefer a woman who doesn't 
get clingy after sex, but I sure started missing it when it didn't happen.

Still, as I think back, Xiomara remains one of the most impressive women I have 
ever met.  I'm just glad I didn't end up marrying her.  

Ironically, it was a few weeks before that Christmas trip to Nicaragua that 
Xiomara introduced me to Liliana in another one of her attempts at matchmaking, 
though this time I wasn't the intended target.  But that's a story for another 
day.


WHERE ARE THEY NOW

I guess I shouldn't just end this account without including the obligatory 
"Where are they now" section.

The one member of the Mosqueteras whom I still have somewhat regular contact 
with is Sandra, despite the fact that I didn't see her for some 3 years or so 
after my breakup with Xiomara.  The first time we ran into each other again was 
at a cast party for the play her ex was in with my wife and I found her in a 
corner, smoking away while talking with Liliana, her ex, and another man.  She 
seemed really happy to see me and introduced the other guy as her new husband.  
Judging by how content she looked, this guy clearly was capable of appreciating 
her feminine charms.  She's repaid him by becoming the epitome of the devoted 
wife and mother.  Seeing her now, you'd never guess that this was a woman who 
slept with 30 guys in 7 months and even did some escorting on the side.

It's through Sandra that I get news about the other two, since true to their 
pledge during that beach trip; they've remained in close contact, even when 
living far apart.  Beatriz was Sandra's maid of honor and they remain best 
friends today despite the fact that they now live very different lifestyles. 

I did run into Beatriz occasionally around town over the next few years, but we 
always simply greeted each other and went on our way.  According to Sandra, 
she's still single, but has slowed down her hectic social life considerably.  
She got into a pattern of serial monogamy, breaking things off whenever a guy 
showed signs of becoming too attached to her.  She even ended up playing the 
role of the mistress herself a couple of times over the years (though never 
letting herself become financially dependent the way Xiomara had on the 
Italian).  This includes an affair with a former president of this country that 
they managed to keep out of the press.  As a result of the clever management of 
her ex-husband's assets and some of the gifts she received from lovers, she was 
able to afford to send her kids to the same expensive American school that the 
Belgian girl had gone to and her daughter will be heading off to a US college 
next fall.  

As for Xiomara, once she got her Master's and her mother passed away, she dumped 
the Italian and got a decent job using her new degree.  About a year later she 
surprised everyone by marrying Jorge, the German car rental guy.  They 
eventually moved back to Germany when he came into an inheritance.  Sandra and 
her husband went over there and stayed with them during the 2006 World Cup.  She 
reports that Jorge now manages a car dealership of which he's part owner, while 
Xiomara runs their household with an iron fist, takes care of their two kids, 
gives dance lessons to children in their neighborhood and writes poetry on the 
side.  Perhaps she needed a guy as laid back and easy going as Jorge all along; 
someone willing to let her be in charge as long as she doesn't go over certain 
lines.  Good thing then that she resisted the temptations of stripping or 
whoring.

But Xiomara - a suburban German housfrau?  It boggles the mind!  

Sandra has actually become something of a friend of Liliana's.  After all, they 
do have a bit of a wild past in common and my wife is one of the few people that 
Sandra can be honest with about some of the things she got up to.  But I tend to 
feel a little uncomfortable around her and it's not because she reminds me of 
Xiomara and Beatriz.  The problem I have is that I can't help but picture her 
cute little pussy dripping cum on to my bed that night at the beach.  Xiomara 
was right; I really am "pervertido".

  

Xiomena Was My Girlfriend and an Escort