Something In The Water

It was nice being outside of Philadelphia for a change....Sepia and I were the guests of our good friends, Attorney, Robert Foxworth and his wife, Bonita Turner.......I had known Robert Foxworth for a number of years...What I knew about him was that he was a damn good Attorney...Was once married to Lt. Sissy Van Buren of Philly Homicide, Was a bit of a ladies man, which was why he was no longer married to her and his second wife...Was now married for the third time and seemed to be a reformed man!   What I didn't know was that he was an accomplished  scuba diver and a member of the Black Scuba Divers Association!!!

He and several of his friends had picked a four day weekend to come to this Marina and dive and they invited me and Sepia and his wife Bonita to come up.  We were staying at a little seaside motel in adjoining rooms...
Today , As the three of watched Robert put on his gear, we sat by quietly enjoying drinks...

'Kev, you're an old Navy man...You oughta get into this." said Robert Foxworth...

"That's okay man...My time in the Marine Core was spent strictly on the ground...Boxing and of course, my time as an NCIS investigator." I said.

"Yeah?  Well that explains a lot about you...." he laughed... "I understand that Sepia was a champion swimmer in high school!" he said looking at my wife.

''Is that true Sepia?" asked Bonita.

'Yeah, we went to the New Jersey State swim championships, but we didn't win." she said.

"Yeah, but that bathing suit she had on was a winner." I laughed.

She looked at me and shook her head , then she laughed...So did Bonita...

"Well I can't swim ...I can barely tread water." laughed Bonita.

'That's okay girl...you've got three people who can swim and who got your back." laughed my wife Sepia.

I smiled and continued to drink my Corona..

"Hey Robert...you ready?"  came a voice...It was James Swanson, Robert's diving partner...He was tall, about two or three inches taller than both Robert and me, athletic build and a dead ringer for El Debarge...

Sepia and Bonita sat up and gave each other that look that women give each other when they see a sexy man..  I smiled wryly...

''Hey Everybody...This is my friend, Jim...Jim Swanson..Jim, this is my wife, Bonita, My good friend, Kevin Morris and his wife, Sepia.." said Robert.

''Pleased to meet you all." he said.

Both Bonita and my wife Sepia just smiled and smiled...I had never seen so many pearly whites....I just shook my head and laughed to myself..

''Well Jim..We'd better be going." said Robert as both men put on their tanks and head gear and  took a small motor boat out to the middle of the preserve...They dove into the water....


II-

"Wow Sepia...If I had known Robert's diver friends were this fine, I'd of been coming up here with him more often." said Bonita.

''Girl, you aint never lied..." laughed Sepia.

And they say that men are dogs!  While they sat and talked lustfully about Robert's diving buddy...I excused myself and walked around the marina...It was beautiful and the weather was wonderful...So nice to have a few days off and out of the city...So nice to not have to carry a gun , to not have to worry about players and murders and what not...This was sooo cool...The only thing missing was music.

I walked past one of the locker rooms...I heard something slamming hard against one of the lockers....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhh...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...ohhhhh jeeezz...Ohhhhhhhhhhh.." came the sound of a woman's voice...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,,,hohohohohohoohohohohoho.....ummmmmm." came the sound of a man's voice...

I peeped inside...

A man and a woman were having sex inside the locker room...It was away from the view of everyone...and yet their sounds could be heard right out on the boardwalk by anyone passing by...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh DEX...ouuuuuuuuuuu..."came the female voice.


""OHHHHH Mrs. Redding....ohhhhhh lord...it's sooo goood...ummmm.."said Dex.


"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu." came the female voice...

It was none of my business...After all, I was here for pleasure...relaxation...Who they were was none of my concern...I walked on......I saw Sepia and Bonita walking along the boardwalk....

"Hey..we were wondering where you went off to." said Sepia...

"Where are you girls off to?" I asked.

"Nowhere in particular...just walking.." I said.

"Mind if we join you?" asked Bonita.

"Of course not." I said.

III-

We found a Casino -Bar and the three of us went in....

"You gamble or play games of chance Bonita?" I asked.

"I never win anything ."she said.

"Me neither...but Sepia on the other hand.." I said.

My wife laughed...She hadn't been near any crap tables since our anniversary in AC , a few months earlier.

"You wanna play?" I asked.

"Nah..Let's get some drinks." she wisely said.

We got drinks and laughed and talked for about a few hours...Then we walked back to the dive sight where Robert and James Swanson would be returning..

As we walked back, we saw police lights and a crowd of people gathered around.....

'What's going on?" asked Sepia....

"Oh my God...Has something happened to Robert?" asked Bonita.

We all ran towards the area where the crowd was...There was James Swanson, sitting on the side of the boat and Robert Foxworth, dripping wet....Lying on the boardwalk was two bodybags....They had been ripped on the side and inside both were two bodies....Actually skelatal remains!!!!!

Bonita ran to Robert's Arms...

"Baby, what happened?" she said.

"James and I went diving and we went into one of the caves and we saw these two bags just floating....They looked like they had been covered up by something...Whatever it was had drifted away...Well...when it did, guess what we found?? Two bodies....They had been weighted down...." said Robert Foxworth.....

I looked at the skelatons...One was large...like it could have been a man and the other one was smaller, like it could have been a woman...There was a neat little hole in the side of the head of both!!! They'd both been shot and placed in body bags and dropped in this lake...and if what Robert and James said was true..They'd been hidden in a cave!!!!

Just then, a tall, well tanned White man broke through the crowd...His hair was disheveled and he was desperately trying to fix his pants....It Was Dex!!! The man I'd seen in the women's locker room screwing the brains out of some woman....

"Alright ,Alright...what's going on here?" he barked to one of the detectives on the scene.

"Well Sheriff , there's been a double murder here....Couple of divers found the bodies weighted down in a cave in the marina." he said.

"Where are they?" he barked angrilly...

"Those two Black guys over there." said the detective ,pointing to Robert and James..

He walked over to them and barked out-

"You two discover this?"


"Yes sir....I'm Robert Foxworth, I'm an Attorney from Philadelphia." said Robert.

"I didn't ask you who you were...What were you doing in that cave?" he asked.

"We are with the Black Scuba Divers Association ...We always dive here." added James Swanson.

"Didn't you read the signs down there telling you not to go in those caves?" he barked.

"What signs? There were no signs...and besides..We didn't go in any caves...One of these bodybags tore a loose from something and was floating away , when we first saw it." said James Swanson.

"YOU LIE!!!" screamed Dexter...

"Sheriff , what the hell is wrong with you?" came another voice...It was an older white man...He had a much younger woman with him....It was obviously, his wife...and she was the woman...Same woman.I saw in the locker room having wild sex with Dex hours before...Hmmmm, what was going on here? I wondered.

"Boys...I'm the Mayor of this town...I'm Otis G. Redding...Not to be confused with the great Negro R&;B singer." he laughed....Not that anybody would confuse the two... Sepia,Bonita and I watched..

"Did you guys give a statement to the police here about what you found?" he asked.

'Yes sir Mr. Redding." said Robert Foxworth.

"Good, just don't leave  town  for awhile, unless they need to talk to you further...but as for now, you're free to go." he said.

"Thank you sir." said James Swanson.

Robert, Bonita, James , Sepia and I were getting ready to walk away when I heard Mayor Redding say to Dex..

"Don't you ever let me hear you speak to guests in this town like that again you hear? They didn't commit the crime...They discovered it...You talked to them like they did something wrong....If you were ever where you were supposed to be ,instead of somewhere with your head UP YOUR BUTT!! MAYBE YOU COULD DISCOVER AND SOLVE A CRIME OR TWO!" he barked.

Dex just whimpered and walked away...The mayor's wife didn't blink....She just stared ahead....


I laughed -

''What was that about?" laughed Sepia.

"I'll tell you about it later." I said as we all headed back to our room.

(To Be Continued...)