The thoughts of my first night with a stranger in the holiday hotel were uppermost in my mind all the next day.
I thought it was strange, however, that my partner, Pete, never mentioned it. He carried on as though nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
We spent most of the day by the hotel pool, relaxing, and both of us reading novels. I wondered if I'd done something wrong. I was looking forward to the evening and hoping that I would get lucky again.
After the evening meal in the hotel, Pete and I shared a bottle of red wine before he told me, "Come on sexy, let's go and get ready. The nightclub will be open in an hour or so."
Immediately, I felt both relieved and excited. I hadn't upset him in any way, and it was obvious from the way Pete searched through my undie drawer that we would be looking for similar fun later on.
"Tomorrow, Mel, we are going shopping. You need to upgrade your underwear. I hope we can find what we want here. I'll have to Google it," Pete told me. I thought I had some very sexy stuff in my drawer, but apparently not.
Pete left it all to me in the end, and I decided on a cream button-down blouse with a bright red pencil skirt. My legs were already showing a little of a tan, so I decided against hold-ups or stockings. I wore a white, matching bra and pantie set which I thought was just revealing enough. Pete told me that I looked hot even though I knew he would have preferred me to dress much more provocatively.
Excitedly entering the nightclub, we both took exactly the same positions as the previous night. Pete went right to the end of the bar, and I found a table quite close to both the bar and the dance floor.
But things didn't go as well this time. I was befriended by a lovely middle-aged couple from Manchester. The music was a lot quieter, and we could hold conversations easily. They were very friendly and it soon became obvious that they were chatting with me because they thought I was on my own and they felt sorry for me.
I told them that my partner was in our room because he'd got sunburnt. That didn't help the situation with the lady telling me, "We're happy to stay and chat with you if it helps."
Feeling trapped, I excused myself and went to the loo, but they were still there when I returned and made it clear that I was welcome to join them. They were a nice couple, but there was nothing to suggest that they were interested in what I was looking for, nor I in them.
Fortunately for me, another couple arrived who they obviously knew very well, and gradually I was left more and more out of the conversation, so I excused myself again, telling them that I was going to check on my unwell partner.
Pete moved a little so that we were out of view of them. "I thought you were fixing yourself up with a couple," he said, smiling.
"No, they just took pity on me because I was on my own, and then I couldn't get rid of them," I told him.
"OK," he said, "Look, there's a couple of empty bar stools together not far from mine. Go and claim one of them and hope for the best."
So I quickly made my way, but Pete held me back and said quietly, "Undo a couple of buttons so that your bra is visible ."
I checked to see if anyone was looking, and then did what Pete had advised, and then got comfortable on one of those bar stools.
The Bacardi and coke that I'd ordered had hardly been started when I was asked out of the blue, "Is that chair taken?"
I turned around and saw a very tall man smiling broadly at me.
"No, the stool is free," I told him, moving slightly to my left to allow him to sit down.
He was talking in broken English, but very quickly I learned that his name was Johann and that he was from Eindhoven in Holland.
Johann had a presence about him. Initially maybe, a little threatening merely because of his size. But he had a soft and gentle-sounding voice and a smile that appeared regularly as we chatted about many different things.
He had short-cropped brown hair, sort of military style and he was dressed in a short-sleeved pale blue shirt and a pair of fawn slacks. I didn't ask his age, but he was probably somewhere in his mid-forties.
Before I'd finished my drink, he asked if he could buy me another.
"That would be lovely, thank you," I replied.
He moved his stool closer to me, and as the drinks appeared, I felt his leg against mine. I didn't move away. We kept on talking. To be honest, at this stage, I had no idea what we were talking about, because I was enjoying the sensations that I was feeling from his leg continually moving up and down against my bare leg.
Time went quickly as we continued chatting, and both of our glasses were nearly empty, and all the time, his leg never stopped moving against me. Johann turned towards me, looked straight at my cleavage and said," Would you like another drink here in the bar or my room?"
"Your room sounds perfect," I told him, "It's getting a little noisy in here isn't it?" I answered, probably much too eagerly.