After what seemed to be an eternity, (truth is it was just under a year) Randy was back in a place he adores dearly. He was once again in his beloved Kailua, a suburban Honolulu beach side bedroom community, that's blessed with a never ending summer, located on the Windward Side of Oahu, in the State of Hawaii.
Randy has been back in the Lanikai Beach area of Kailua now for about three days, having arrived from the East Coast on a flight from New York. By now, he's all settled in his cozy, one room, somewhat spartan, self-contained beach side studio, that he calls "his favorite place in the world" for his annual two and a half week vacation in the sun. He's been making this trip to Hawaii for many years now, mainly to participate in the annual Honolulu Marathon. Randy's an accomplished marathoner, having completed the 26.2 mile endurance run over thirty times, in various American cities.
Randy, a never-married single professional male from Rhode Island, in his late 40s, hasn't dated in over 20 years. For whatever reasons-truth be known, he's not that bad looking of a fellow (he's about six feet tall, brown hair and eyes, with a runner's body)-Randy has never been one who has had much confidence in his appearance and overall attractiveness to members of the opposite sex. He's hopelessly shy in the presence of women, finding them difficult, if not impossible, to approach. He's mortified with the thought of being rejected by a woman who he has an interest in, and rather than taking a risk of asking a lady out on a date to dinner or a movie, and possibly being turned down, he avoids doing just that all together. Hence his chronic solitude.
For the last two decades, due to his shyness in meeting a real-life woman, Randy freely admits, when asked about his love life, that his "girlfriends" are the various baby lotions and creams he keeps on hand to masturbate with when he gets the urge-along with his favorite girlie magazine and Internet porn site models, of whom he says he has "hundreds" of. He's exceptionally fond of young Asian women posing in teasing school uniform get-ups. He sardonically quips (with an element of truth, as well) that they never turn him down and are always there for him during his times of need.
Randy truthfully admits (not that many ever ask) that he's certainly addicted to masturbating to porn and he aspires to quit the habit one day. To paraphrase an old 16th century English author who spoke of the subject, Randy says masturbation is his personal suicide, committed daily.
For the most part, Randy is uneasy with his forced relationship with masturbation. He'd definitely rather have a real-life girlfriend and often thinks what it would be like to live free from the bonds of porn, with a living flesh and blood woman in his life, but again, he finds himself too shy to actually go out and meet one, and this drives him crazy. And thus, his vicious circle of being without a woman, forcing his reliance on porn continues, on and on.
In the absence of a girlfriend, Randy's particularly fond of masturbating with Baby Magic Original Scent Baby Lotion, finding its sweet scent very sexually stimulating. He says its scent evokes the memories of when his first girlfriend used to masturbate him with it at the conclusion their Friday date nights, back in his high school days, so many years ago, when young love and romance were far easier for him. He's been through scores of bottles in the last few years.
Randy's addiction to masturbation is not much of a solution for his women-less isolation, but it does give him some (albeit guilty) sexual relief. He figures any kind of sex is better than none at all.
As previously noted, Randy has been coming to Hawaii for many years. He fell in love with the islands the very first trip he made back when he was a teen in the late 80s, and he's been hooked on them ever since, visiting as often as his time and personal finances will allow.
Unknown to Randy, this year's trip is going to be different. There's going to be a potentially life-changing event to occur this trip. Something's going to occur which has never happened to him during any other of the 30 plus times he's made the trip to Hawaii. Yes, this trip is going to be unlike any other he's experienced. It's going to be forever special.
It's going to be a trip that he will never forget.
Randy has been especially looking forward to this year's edition of the trip with great anticipation for months now..at least since last January, just shortly after his last trip ended...when, during his last trip to Kailua in '16, out of sheer boredom and perhaps loneliness, he virtually befriended a local Honolulu woman who responded to an personal ad he placed on the free Internet ad posting site Craigslist.
Randy had made it clear in his ad, that inasmuch as he enjoyed being on vacation in Hawaii, and would never trade his time there for practically any other place in the world, he realized that he was tired of repetitively doing the same things over and over again by himself while there.
He was tired of running Lanikai Beach by himself, he was tired of going to the Windward Mall by himself, going to Jamba Juice for frozen drinks by himself, and eating at the Golden Coin Restaurant in town for dinner...again, by himself. He was tired of sitting in his studio alone during evenings in a place where a constant romantic, even sexual vibe, was omnipresent and perceived in the ever-blowing trade winds of the Windward Side. He was tired of returning to the East Coast at the conclusion of every vacation with nothing personally different for him to happen. His trips were becoming predictable. And always sexless.
In short, he was hungry for some female companionship. And this trip, he wanted to satisfy that hunger, once and for all.
The goal of his Honolulu Craigslist ad stated that he wanted to meet a local female woman for some friendship and companionship who he hoped would make his visit more enjoyable. Maybe even memorable. After all, if one read between the lines of his ad, he slyly insinuated that more than mere companionship was possible, should the responding female be willing.