<div class="floatleft">(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/wikisuburra/images/8/8c/Lelemarchillisuburra.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180908174344&amp;path-prefix=it)</div>The risk that either of the women were going to laugh at his misfortune was now done with and he was very glad that it was. He could certainly take being laughed<strong>with</strong>, but not at. As it was, Monica had skillfully put his mind at ease about his faux pas with a very clever, and not all that subtle flirtatious remark that had him chuckling and responding quietly back with "Very wise too, you can never be too careful about statements made by complete strangers now can you? Very wise indeed."<br/><br/>She'd taken his offered hand and instead of shaking was now... caressing it. That was not all that subtly flirtatious as well. He looked down at it and then back into her eyes as she explained that they had just got in today as well. She repeated his name back to him.<br/><br/><em>“Gabriel.  You don’t mind if I use your full name, do you?  I love the way it rolls off the tongue. As for what we’re doing here … we’re on an adventure.”</em><br/><br/>Gabe was still working out a very clever reply about how he loved how his name rolled off<strong>her</strong>tongue but he wasn't - yet - confident enough to say that back to her. The second the moment passed, of course, he realized that an opportunity had been missed and he'd not get the chance to say it later most likely. Damn. Well then, that was the last opportunity he was going to miss. This situation was the very definition of a low risk environment. Both women seemed to be looking for exactly what he and Brett were looking for. If they got what they all seemed to want then that was great, if they didn't then none of them were really spending all that much emotional capital on a long-term relationship now where they? These two were almost the first two women that he and Brett had laid eyes on in Key West. There were literally hundreds of others here besides them, if something here didn't work out.<br/><br/>Something brushed his leg. He looked at Monica - easy really since he wasn't actively looking anywhere else at the moment - and she held his gaze with the barest of curl of her lip into a Mona Lisa-type smile. So it had been no accident then. He moved his leg in the direction that her foot had gone giving her another moment of contact with his leg. He'd felt what she'd done and he wanted to signal that he approved.<br/><br/><em>"So you're both here for some...adventure?"</em>Brett asked<em>"So, are you still hungry?  What are you hungry for?"</em><br/><br/>Gabe marvelled at how easily his friend managed to match the women's suggestive tone. He could only think of saying something like that once the moment had passed. Lauren answered first by saying where they were from, but then tossing the ball squarely back at him and Brett.<br/><br/><em>“We’ve only had appetizers, How about you guys?   Do you feel like eating?”</em>Lauren said.<br/><br/>Gabe looked at Lauren and her bewitching smile. Then he moved back to glance at Monica and her Mona Lisa one. Any moment now he felt like she'd raise an eyebrow at him. Everyone else had spoken up and now it was his turn.<br/><br/>"We've not eaten, no, and I certainly<strong>could</strong>eat. I put some steaks and stuff to defrost back at our place.... If that's of interest to you at all."<br/><br/>He'd actually quite impressed himself with that remark. He<strong>had</strong>put some steaks out to defrost, and they<strong>had</strong>stopped off at a supermarket for some vegetables before parking up at the Worst Western. If the women were up for some actual food - and that was to be debated at this point - then he and Brett had ample means to satisfy them as well as having the pair of them entirely to themselves in a much quieter environment than a bar with a hundred guys just like he and Brett lined up behind them hoping they'd screw something up. It was a bold offer, but he'd just told himself that this was low risk and so why not try it? Subtlety seemed so last year at this point anyway unless he was massively misreading things.<br/><br/>He found his hand had sought out Monica's again and she didn't resist. The thing she'd done before with her thumb on the 'V' between his thumb and forefinger was hugely enjoyable without being 'rip your clothes off' erotic. He hoped that she'd do it again for a short while. He hoped that Monica would do a lot more to him too that was on a wide spectrum of 'not' all the way up to 'rip your clothes off' erotic. Her eyes seemingly refused to wander too far away from him as well and it was starting to get rather mesmerizing.<br/><br/>"Maryland?" He continued, giving them both time to decide whether they were ready to trust two cock-sure young guys they'd only just met. "Well heavens we're practically neighbours. I'm surprised I've not seen you both before today - and I'm sure I would have remembered you both if I had. What part?"<br/><br/>Of course he was being ridiculous. It was like someone asking a Brit if they knew the Queen but it kept the conversation going and gave them both something to latch onto if they wanted to side-step his offer of cooking them dinner if they didn't want to take him up on it.  He hoped they named somewhere well known in Maryland though, since it might fall flat if they both come from some tiny town with three hundred people living in it that no one had ever heard of.