Just then, Suzy’s toddler ran over and wrapped her short arms around my leg, pressing her cute face into my legs.   We’d become playmates during the flight. After the toddler had woken from her nap, we’d kicked her plush toy soccer-ball up and down the aisles in first-class. It had been more fun than I expected it would be.

While I exclaimed in surprise and Shane and Alice mouthed surprised questions like “whose child is she?” Suzy herself walked over, bent, and with a gentle tug on her toddler’s body, shook me loose of the child’s embrace. As she hoisted the giggling toddler onto her hip, she tossed her hair back, and gave me a calling card.

“Call me,” she said simply. “Even if you just want to talk.”

“Umm ….” I stammered.

Before I could string words together, Suzy introduced herself to Shane and Alice quickly and then apologized that she had to run off.

“I will,” I finally answered. She turned and blew me a kiss and then proceeded to continue making her way to customs. Seems to able to walk ok, I thought idly as I gawked at the elegant, sexy form walk away.

Shane and Alice gave me pointed looks.

“Long story,” I shrugged. “We met during the flight over.”

“Try us,” they answered.

“Um … but I don’t kiss and tell,” I answered weakly after an uncomfortable silence, realizing they weren’t going to drop the subject.

“Oh! Kissing strangers you’d just met now, are you?” Alice asked with a teasing wink, and elbowed Shane.

I flushed.   “Erm … no not kiss, exactly.”

“Not kiss?” they asked simultaneously. “Then what did you do to make her look at you that way?” Shane followed-up quickly.

I scratched an imagined itch on my neck. “Umm….”

After a couple minutes of strained silence, it dawned on them.

“Oh!” Shane said then covered her mouth, which had formed an O-shape.

“My,” Alice added, and then looked at Shane for confirmation about whether or not they were thinking of the same thing.

Shane blurted out when she swung to look at me again, “Did you fuck her? You just met … and you fu-…”

I clamped my hand over her mouth, lest people around us who hadn’t already overheard snatches of our conversation heard even more of it.