Shipwreck Writing Challenge : Round One | Jason and Sarah: a trip of nine months and nine lives
Jason and Sarah: a trip of nine months and nine lives
- Ok. Thank you so much! Have a nice day! Bye!
Jason closed his phone and went out on the balcony. He stared at the clouds and felt goose bumps all over his body. He had never felt like this before.
Winning two tickets for 7-night Mediterranean Cruise from Civitavecchia was his most desired dream. It was the beginning of year and until yesterday he was struggling to choose the best gift for his girlfriend’s birthday on January 13.
Jason was a 22 year-old student studying Business Analytics at the University of Bologna, Italy. He was in love with his girlfriend Sarah for the last 6 months.
It was January 8 and they had to show at Cruise Terminal in the morning January 12. She was the happiest girl when he surprised her with the pleasant news later that night. They both enjoyed looking at the itinerary that included visiting Tuskany’s Isola del Giglio and Savona.
Four days later they arrived at Terminal A of the Cruise Terminal complex. It was 8.55 a.m. and they still had 40 minutes before boarding on their cruise Costa Concordia.
Costa Concordia
Sarah leaned her head on Jason's shoulder and looked at the imposing figure of the colossal cruiser, almost 300 meters long, while sighing, experiencing that feeling of pleasure that from the first day he has contact with his boyfriend, as well as security that gives him to be next to that handsome Bostonian of almost 2 meters in height.
While making the train trip from Bologna to Civitavecchia, she remembered the months that had elapsed since the spring of 2011 when she met her boyfriend.
The time they had spent together had been characterized by a series of unexpected events, which most people could consider unfortunate, but that magically ended in the best possible way, contributing to strengthen the strong physical attraction that shook them and consolidate the feeling that united them at the moment.
The day they met, Jason avoided a great embarrassment, when his swimsuit burst half the way he was doing, practicing the butterfly style, in the Carmen Longo Municipal Stadium pool, jumping into the pool with his big towel , covering her carefully and escorting her to the locker room.
Weeks later he confessed that he had been watching her for several minutes and had the towel with him to hide the great excitement that came from seeing his perfect body in which he mixed prodigiously the genetics of his father, an American diplomat descended from the Cherokee Indians and his mother a beautiful redhead native of Bologna.
Then they met at the university cafeteria, which Jason had chosen very much in spite of his parents who hoped that, with his excellent grades in high school, he would study administration at Harvard or Babson.
His argument, which he would meet later when moving together, was that he wanted to graduate from the oldest university in the universal world and make love to every Italian he could, to enjoy what he called the most perfect bodies on the planet.
At that moment, while he was showing her a picture of Luna Voce, one of the most famous Italian top models, he tripped over his glass of blackberry juice and his pants were completely stained red.
Immediately, Sarah lent him his jacket with the logo of the university to cover the spotted trousers and accompanied him to the residence where he lived with three other foreign students who were on campus at the time and spontaneously and spontaneously Love for the first time.
And, so every month, since they were together, something unexpected happened that filled their bodies and progressively, the soul, of love.
His turn to board the Costa Concordia was already arriving and, suddenly Jason, made him consider that this trip would surely bring another unhappy circumstance that would be very convenient for them.
Just at this moment I am assimilating that we are like Jack and Rose in "Titanic", I won the tickets in a game and you are a beautiful redhead with a need to live the life that you dream big ...
But you and I, we take advantage of them, darling, we'll soon have seven months of lovemaking almost every day, -said Sarah, with a mixture of sweetness and mischief at once.
I think this trip will be the beginning of a new beginning where we can, knowing how much we enjoy each other, plan our future together, because simply, - Jason said, today I changed my personal vision: I definitely want to graduate in the oldest university in the world and making me old by making love to it, every day that our children allow it, to the most sensual woman in the world.
The welcome to the passengers, the tour of each of the decks, the visit to the wonderful Samsara Spa in the immediately after changing clothes, visited, to delight each other with admiring the beautiful butt of Sarah and the toned torso of Jason, while doing weight exercises, excited them so much that they practically did not heed the call to the first dinner of the seven-day itinerary.
They left the gym running. Sarah meticulously fulfilled the age-old rite of seduction and Jason fell exhausted before the infinite femininity of his girlfriend, who in a little while would hand him the ring that his father gave to his mother in the mid-'80s to commit himself.
They looked like two teenagers laughing, hugging, caressing each deck until they reached the room and started making love, in a way that they both noticed that it was different, their united bodies moving in unison seeing the Giglio Islands as close as if they were feeling the sand of the beach on their feet.
In their passionate frenzy they did not hear the electric failure warning and only the screams of their traveling companions made them leave their suite, naked, or almost, since Sarah was wearing on the ring finger of her left hand, the old engagement ring with which Jason's parents committed themselves.
Miraculously they returned to take their bathing suits, just like that first day and their excellent swimming training accompanied, and made effective, the decision to jump into the water to get to the island, avoiding the rocky bottom with more success than the boat. Costa Concordia itself could not cross.
The next day, Sarah's birthday, exhausted by the effort of collaborating with the natives of the island with the rescue work in full development, sitting side by side, they were once again grateful for the opportunity that life offered them. to continue together and love each other more, especially, at that moment, when Jason remembered, making jokes to forget the tragedy they had been part of for hours, that Sarah was turning 26 and had been born the year of the tiger and that Jason had been born in 1989, on August 4, therefore it was Leo sign and as they had talked after making love the first time the two were like cats and apparently, according to the facts they were showing it, they had 9 lives.
Let's enjoy every second, then - Sarah told him, kissing him passionately.
Hey Mauricio! Thank you for the submission! You can also add it here as a comment: https://steemit.com/writing/@steemfluencer/round-one-of-the-shipwreck-creative-writing-challenge.
Once again, thank you for taking the efforts and write your story for Round 1! :)
Thanks for your reminder. It's very kind of you
It's my obligation as the one hosting the contest :)
A well written story. You've added extra details. Didn't put accent on the shipwreck. Seems pretty legit. However remember that I'm not the jury. They will read and rate it, probably at the beginning of the next week.
Until then you can expect Round 2 being announced on Friday :)
I wanted to reserve the details of the escape, from the room where they consumed their passionate love, to the beach of the Giglio Islands for the second round in the case that the construction technique was to give continuity to the chosen option.
In this mental map, the first was the round story, the second will be the tragic and dramatic details and the third, the full closure of heroism and solidarity beyond the history of love framed by the shipwreck.
Thank you for your observations and for your reading.
I see. You can do it as an independent sequence, because Round 2 will include other types of prompts. Or see if you can't fit somehow within the prompts and still do part II of the first round. We can check if it will be possible together. Just ping me in a comment with your thoughts and decisions.