This story started out with an idea given to me by a reader of To Serve. It has taken a long time to get here and will, no doubt take some time to finish. Here is Chapter 1, I would welcome your comments and ideas.
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Mike threw his flight bag onto the bed and surveyed the hotel room which would be his home for the next four nights. The flight had not been particularly long but the usual air traffic delays and technical problems coupled with the rush hour traffic had turned the trip into a seven hour marathon. His personal humour was not improved by the fact that he was here to attend and give a speech at a conference when he would much rather have been at home trying to get to know his new neighbour. β a 30 something slim brunette with looong legs and a sexy smile. Accordingly, what Mike now needed most of all was to ease away his frustrations and use up some of his pent up energy - the hotel's pool seemed like the ideal place.
He quickly unpacked his things, grabbed his swim trunks and the robe hanging on the back of the room door and headed back to the lift. A soft ding announced the arrival of the lift and as the doors opened a young couple virtually spilled out of the doors in front of him. Clearly they had used the time between the ground and eleventh floors for more than idle chat as the girl giggled happily as she tried to cover the breast which had escaped her unbuttoned blouse. With more giggles from her and a mumbled apology from him, the couple disappeared down the hotel corridor, no doubt in search of their bed and a continuation of their activities. "Lucky sod" thought Mike "what I would give now to be naked with the girl next door and fucking her stupid."
He tried to suppress the thought as he punched the button for the lower ground floor, the small label indicating that this was the home of the Oasis Pool & Gym (Free to hotel residents).
The guy manning the desk looked bored and hardly cared if he was a resident or not as he grunted out a "Sign In Please" and pushed a towel across the counter to Mike. So much for a warm welcome! Mike swung through the doors behind the counter and headed for the changing rooms. He found the male room empty and quickly changed, showered and headed for the pool.
He was impressed it was wide and a good length and pleasantly warm. He dove into the water and started to front crawl his way up and down the pool. After four lengths his pace slowed and he turned in the water for a couple of lengths of back stroke. He had just turned for his second length of back stroke when he noticed the windows of the gym overlooking the pool. The gym was over the changing rooms and he had clearly missed them when he had first entered the pool. He could just about make out a couple of figures behind the glass β "Must be women" he deduced from no obvious evidence of others in the male changing room. His interest was mildly aroused and he found himself trying to catch a better view of the shadowy shapes behind the glass. In fact he became so engrossed that he lost his bearings and collided with the end wall of the pool. He stopped swimming to rub his head but his gaze did not shift. As he watched, one of the shadows became clearer, much clearer as a woman in a dark blue leotard came to the window and glanced down into the pool. She looked at Mike then moved away slightly to step up onto a jogging machine. Mike watched as she flicked the controls and started to jog on the moving belt β her eyes now seemingly tied to the TV screen in front of her.
Mike rubbed his head one more time and set off once again down the pool β slower this time and more carefully but still looking upwards at the female form which appeared to be so effortlessly working the machine.
After a couple more lengths of the pool and no change of view, Mike decided that he needed to return to the exercise and switched back to front crawl and ploughed back up and down the pool a further ten times. When it was over, he raised himself from the pool and headed for the changing rooms and a nice hot shower. If he had been concentrating he would have seen that the lady in the gym had stopped jogging after his fifth length and had, in fact, been watching Mike, admiring his slim toned body as it moved through the water. Courtney (for that was her name) had left the gym and hurried to the ladies changing room and switched into her new Speedo swim suit. It fitted her like a glove, the material clinging to her full body, the high cut sides accentuating her muscular legs. She entered the pool a mere 30 seconds after Mike had disappeared into the Men's changing rooms.
"Shit" she thought as her hope of meeting an attractive man at this boring conference she was attending seemed to have disappeared. Story of her recent life β her busy schedule made developing a lasting relationship very difficult. She entered the pool and started a leisurely swim up and down β breast stroke; that was a joke β it was a long time since somebody other than herself had stroked her breasts. She switched to a slow front crawl to remove any chance of further erotic suggestion.
Mike meanwhile had showered, dressed back into his jeans and golf shirt and was heading out of the changing rooms and back towards his room when the aroma of ground coffee reached him. "Perfect β I could do with a decent coffee" he mused and followed his senses up the stairs and to the small coffee area next door to the gym. He ordered a strong mocha coffee and took a table by the window. As he moved into his chair he saw the unmistakable shape of a woman swimming in the pool below. "Typical" he thought "just when I could do with some company, she arrives after I leave." He stared into the clear water below, the contrast between the woman's dark blue swim suit, her tanned skin and the pale blue tiles of the pool. He felt his cock stir slightly "Behave" he told himself, but he continued to stare. His patience was soon rewarded as the woman below moved to the side of the pool and eased herself from the water β nice body β Mike thought, not my usual style but nice curves. He watched as her hand moved to her head to pull her swim cap away. Mike sat mesmerised as a cascade of blond hair fell from the cap and down passed her shoulders. "A gorgeous blonde, I envy the guy that's taking that to bed."
As Courtney pulled the swim cap from her head she glanced up at the window and saw the face of a man looking down at her. He looked like the same guy she had admired in the pool. Perhaps all was not lost; she smiled up at the figure drinking his coffee.
Mike saw the smile and quickly looked away, embarrassed that he had been caught gawking at the woman below. He stole a glance below just in time to see the figure disappear from view.
Courtney hurried into the Ladies changing rooms, diving quickly into the shower to wash the chlorine and chemicals off her skin. She was in a rush; she didn't like coffee that much but now she was in a rush to have a cup. Would he still be there? She towelled herself off and quickly started to pull on her clothes. A sports bra and conservative knickers were hardly the things to wear to meet a man for the first time but she was not going to jump him today β well not now anyway. She pulled her things together and stuffed them into the plastic shopping bag which was deputising for her sports bag. A quick brush through of her hair and she headed out the door and up the stairs.
Such was her haste that she tripped over the last stair and virtually fell into the coffee area. She looked across to the window β the table was empty, just a used coffee cup stood on the table "Shit, shit, shit" she mumbled. "Pardon? What would you like?" the fresh faced youth behind the counter enquired.
"Oh just a black coffee please" her answer was more of a sigh, a resignation that for the second time in an hour her chance for a little excitement and companionship had gone. She watched the boy fiddle with the coffee machine.