CHAPTER FIFTY: THE SAILOR'S SOIREE, PART TWO "Where is everybody?" asked Christine. "We be early a bit," Edward replied. "My man Jonah here, he like being first to come and last to leave." "With any luck at all, good friend, I won't be the first to come," Jonah cracked. Edward made the windows of the taxi vibrate with his loud laughter. Chris was only mildly amused; she was still upset with Jonah for having spiked her margaritas with Valium -- or at least, as upset as her tranquilized mood would allow. "Come on, let me show you around," said Jonah, and with that he practically dragged Chris by one wrist out of the cab. Chris was a bit concerned by the amount of time it took to get her feet firmly beneath her. The threesome did not directly approach the front door of the darkened cafe, but instead walked through a very narrow alley around to the back. A particularly smelly dumpster almost completely occluded a ratty screen door over a heavy wooden one that marked the back entrance. Jonah used both fists to pound out a complicated rhythm on the doorjamb which was clearly the entrance code. The inner door opened a crack. Chris couldn't make out specifics in the dim light beyond, but she could tell that whoever was guarding the entrance was a very large person indeed. Jonah mumbled something incoherent, but which sounded like French, and the door swung wide to admit them. As Chris took the screen door from Jonah, who preceded her, she was not prepared for how strong the spring on it would be. She let go of it too soon, and the door slammed hard into her right side, her breast on that side catching most of the impact. Chris's eyes went wide with unexpected pain. That hurt, a lot! She suddenly realized that both of her breasts were very tender, and had swollen enough over the past hour or so to cause the straps of her bikini top to begin to cut into her shoulders. At first she discounted it, thinking that while on vacation it wouldn't be possible to maintain her normal schedule of draining her breasts of their marvelous bounty, and so a little discomfort was to be expected. Of course she hadn't been able to bring along her milking chair or any of the other accessories she usually used at home to keep her milk flowing freely. All she had with her was a small hand- held breast pump -- and that was back at the hotel. She hadn't thought she'd need anything special; since having left home she had relied on her mental control over her lactation abilities to keep from becoming uncomfortably full. It seemed now that her control was not doing the job, and she was becoming painfully engorged. After a second or two of puzzlement -- the last time she'd been this over-full was that landmark first time in Dr. Ellis's office -- she attributed it to having been unknowingly pumped full of Valium, and so was unconcerned. Besides, in her current condition, it was biochemically impossible for her to be concerned about anything. When the Valium wore off, she'd regain full control, she was sure. Until then, she'd just have to squirt hard and long at her earliest opportunity. As she felt her right breast throb in time to her pulse, she hoped that opportunity would not be long in coming. As she entered the back room, she saw that indeed, the person at the door was huge. He had to be close to seven feet tall, with the frame of a world-class bodybuilder. It almost bowled Chris over, then, when she saw that atop this Arnold-like body was a head sporting a face painted with outlandish cosmetics, a beehive blonde wig, and baubles dangling from triply pierced ears. Oh, brother, she said to herself. I thought I was prepared for anything. Something tells me this is going to be one weird night. A transvestite bouncer. What's next? She got her answer within a few seconds. After greeting the bouncer, Jonah turned to Chris and said, "Leslie here tells me there's practically no one here yet. Why don't we take this opportunity to grab something to eat? Experience has taught me that one should not party on an empty stomach." The suggestion started a rumble in Chris's stomach, and so she nodded her assent. Jonah turned and roughly slammed open a pair of double doors to his immediate left, making quite a racket in the process. "Enrique, you old son of a bitch, are you in here?" he yelled simultaneously. A thin reedy tenor voice immediately rebounded from the large kitchen beyond the double doors. "Hey! Fuck off, you gas-bloated spawn of a venereal wart!" it said. "Good to see you too, you spirochete," Jonah said as he caught up in a bear hug a skinny, thickly mustachioed man who suddenly appeared from behind a rack of hanging pots and pans. Chris made a mental note. She was seeing quite a transformation starting to take place in her young Jonah. The veneer of the polished, polite second officer was peeling away to reveal an earthy, beer-swigging hedonist beneath. So far she was intrigued by what she was seeing, but wasn't sure she'd continue to like it as the evening progressed and the party got wilder, as it was certain to do. She'd already decided to blow Jonah off for having drugged her -- she was beginning to see that she might have to do so earlier than she'd originally thought. Jonah broke the embrace and turned Enrique to face Chris. "Enrique, this is the milker I told you about," he said. What the hell kind of an introduction is that, Chris thought. If I weren't so full of happy juice, I'd be pissed. She was therefore surprised to hear herself laugh. She extended her hand. "I've never been referred to quite like that before," she said. "I think I prefer Christine." "Of course," Enrique said, kissing the back of her hand. His mustache tickled. It was all Chris could do to keep from drawing away in reflex. "Leave it to Jonah to start getting crude before the first beer has even been spilled." "We're starved," Jonah complained. "Have you got anything back here we can nibble on before the party gets going? Besides Christine, I mean." Enrique encircled Chris's shoulders with one arm and was openly staring at her breasts. As always, when she felt eyes on her bustline, her nipples became instantly erect, pushing against the material of her bikini top and making the straps dig deeper into her shoulders. Without glancing up, Enrique made a vague motion with the other hand and said, "A tray of stuffed shrimp just came out of the oven. Help yourself." Jonah promptly disappeared deeper into the kitchen. Chris tried to follow, but Enrique held her fast. "I'm wondering whether you could do me a great favor before joining Jonah." "That depends greatly on what it might be," replied Chris. "I am currently working on a lobster bisque that is already the best in these islands, but I'm looking for something that will make it absolutely unique. I have run a bit short of cream, and I was wondering if you might be able to provide the missing ingredient." Where Enrique was still staring left no doubt as to what that ingredient might be. Chris tried to be appalled at Enrique's forwardness, but the Valium and her reconsideration of what this evening was all about prevented her. In fact, she was surprised to feel the mere suggestion of releasing her milk trigger the familiar tingle which signalled a pending letdown. The tingling grew rapidly in intensity until Chris knew that her top would soon be soaked if she didn't try to close down the letdown mentally. She invoked her usual procedure and went wide-eyed when to her dismay it failed to lessen the building sensation. She realized that she had better do something fast. She smiled and said, "I've always wanted to be part of a culinary masterpiece. Lead the way, Monsieur Chef." Enrique responded with a lecherous grin and led her through the large kitchen to a huge stove, atop which was a large pot. The unmistakable smell of lobster bisque steamed from it. Jonah was nowhere to be found. Enrique handed Chris a glass measuring cup and indicated the door to a pantry off to one side, suggesting that she could go there and express the milk privately. Chris knew there wasn't time for that, and decided to give Enrique a show. Wordlessly, she pushed away the offered cup, reached behind her neck, and untied the straps to her bikini top. As soon as it fell away, her nipples grew to full erection and immediately began dripping milk at a fairly rapid pace. Enrique's lips peeled back from his teeth in shock at the view before him. Chris turned to the pot, which Enrique hurriedly uncovered. The warm steam rising from it curled about Chris's burgeoning boobs, which her height placed just above the edge of the pot. The moisture and heat acted just like a hot shower, kicking the letdown reflex into high gear. Milk began streaming from Chris's nipples even before she had a chance to begin milking herself. The force of the twin blasts striking the inside surface of the pot made the same sort of sound that milking a cow into a metal bucket makes. Her milk made white swirls in the bubbling surface of the bisque as it poured in from above. Chris closed her eyes against the rising pleasure of the release and began tugging hard on her nipples, feeling her fingers grow slippery and milk running along her hands and down her upper arms as she worked. Somewhere in the fog of her building orgasm -- Boy, this is a quick one, she thought distantly -- she felt another pair of hands on her breasts and dimly realized that Enrique was standing behind her, gently trying to replace her hands with his own. She let her arms drop to her sides as Enrique took over the task. He was surprising adept at coaxing jet after jet of milk from her throbbing breasts, squeezing and tugging as fast as he could. The flow continued unabated for what seemed like forever and was probably actually a good ten minutes before Chris finally gave in to the orgasm she had been trying to keep at bay. Enrique felt her buttocks tighten and tremble against him as she whimpered and shuddered and came, her breasts giving up a final, amazingly long, solid arc of milk as her climax reached its peak. The maxi-pad Chris had donned before leaving the hotel just barely was enough to contain the force and volume of her southern squirt. It was now completely soaked and completely useless. Chris came down quickly from the orgasm, blinked her eyes open, and noted with some satisfaction that the liquid level in the pot had risen appreciably. Her wondrous, milk-slick breasts gleamed proudly in the dim light of the kitchen, her nipples refusing to lose their thick erection. Enrique, oddly, was now completely ignoring Chris and was instead staring down into the pot of lobster bisque, stirring it almost as if caressing it, and frequently sampling it, his eyes closed in gastronomic bliss. Chris knew then that Enrique's was a food fetish, and vaguely wondered what other "unique ingredients" might be in his other dishes. Seeing Enrique's fixation on his bisque, she knew that trying to communicate with him was pointless, and so as she corralled her bosom back into the bikini top (which miraculously was still dry), she looked around for Jonah. She found the tray of stuffed shrimp Enrique had mentioned, untouched. She wolfed a few down. There was a tang in the stuffing she could not identify and wasn't sure she wanted to. A quick inspection of the rest of the kitchen could not turn up her escort. She realized with a start that she was now on her own. Briefly she considered using the opportunity to make a strategic retreat, but remembered that had no money with her. She would be alone at night in Montego Bay trying to hitch a ride to Negril. Not a good idea. Besides, her animal side, boosted by the lack of inhibitions the Valium was still providing, was still growling within, telling her not to miss the party but to become the hit of it. She could already feel her breasts refilling. The night was young. She decided to make it even more memorable than it already was. Chris found the double doors marking the entrance to the rest of the cafe. She stood there for a few seconds, then suddenly reached into her slacks, removed the soaked maxi-pad, and threw it into a corner, where it landed with a soggy splat. She took a deep breath, stripped off her bikini top, and stuffed it into the pocket of her windbreaker, which, unzipped as it was, now only barely covered her upper body. Her tightened nipples pointed the way as she stepped through the doors and into the heart of the Sailors' Soiree. "Geronimo," she whispered.