The Summer of '66: Barbara Ann
"Stop! Turn in right here! Right here!" Paula urgently directed from the back seat. The driver slowed the flashy convertible and turned left off the sandy beach road, facing the Gulf. "Paula! What..." Paula extended her arm between her friends in the front and directed their attention toward the water. "Oh my goodness! Can you believe those hunks? I call dibs on the big dark haired one in red trunks!" Judy saw the group of three tall, dark, handsome, and muscular men laying surfboards on the beach, and cried, "Then I want the one in the blue shorts...or the one in cutoffs! They are all so yummy! I'll let you pick, Barbara!"
Barbara peered through her sunglasses for a long moment, and then chose "I'll take Adonis; the one in the floral board shorts, just coming out of the water." "Floral shorts? There's no one with... Wait! That's not fair! We didn't see him! Let's all pick again -- I get to go first" Paula demanded.
"Do you enjoy walking, Paula? The owner of the car gets to keep her pick, so you'll have to 'settle' for your original choice!"
Paula moaned okay, and Barbara asked, "Now, how do we do this? You two are the experts at picking up boys!"
"Oh, okay, but you're going to wish you'd bought the bikini we begged you to get! 'Adonis' is going to take one look at you in your dowdy old-lady suit, and we're going to swoop in and carry him off!" "Maybe I'm not dressed like a slut like some people, Paula, but I'm certain I'll do just fine. Now, tell me what the plan is? Sitting here doing nothing isn't going to attract them!
Or is it?"
The tallest of the three big hunks pointed at Barbara's shiny red Oldsmobile Starfire convertible. They changed direction and walked toward it. 'Adonis' carried his surfboard out of the shore break and put it with the other three. He shook his hair and then picked up a towel to dry off. He saw his friends walking toward the car, saw the girls in it, and laughed; his boys were poon hounds of the highest order and they were on the hunt.
He looked around; seeing nothing else of interest, he wandered along behind them. He would be the odd man out, but you never know; since girls usually travel to the beach in gaggles they might have more coming.
He noticed that the dark-haired driver was watching him through her sunglasses, and she was startled when the others arrived at her car and started talking. He heard laughter and saw the driver flip her friends off before she returned to watching him.
He apprised the three girls as he walked. The blonde and red head were as eager as puppies, all poses and smiles, their flirtatious natures obvious. The brunette driver was reserved; she was barely participating in the conversation, but it appeared she was keeping a close eye on his approach. 'She will be an interesting challenge: rich, reserved, and snooty. I wonder if the rest of her is as intriguing as her face and attitude.'
After introductions, the driver returned to carefully appraising him. 'He's as gorgeous up close as he was emerging from the sea like a demi god' she thought. 'He's what I would sculpt if I could sculpt! He's probably dumb as a box of rocks, or has bad breath or something, but he is gorgeous!'
When 'he' arrived, he stood right beside the driver's door. Ignoring her, he looked at the platinum blonde in the back seat. She untangled her long legs, rose, and sat on the back of the seat, exposing a slender, athletic body whose sparse curves were enhanced by her tiny black bikini. "Hi, I'm Paula - who are you?" "Caelan. It's nice to meet you, Paula; I like your bikini." She beamed, preened, and giggled.
He turned to the red-haired passenger and asked "And who are you?" "I'm Judy," she replied with a big smile. "I like your bikini too, Judy. Well, what there is of it." He winked, "I love freckles, by the way!" Judy blushed, but winked in return.
"And what's your name, Princess?" he asked, looking down at the brunette driver. Her nose was scant inches from his washboard abs and bulging cock, and a flush spread up from her face to her neck and then her chest as she tore her eyes off his package and raised her chin to look at his face.
Before she could answer, "
Ba ba ba, ba Barbara Ann
" exploded from the girls; the boys joined in
Ba Ba Ba Ba, Ba Barbara Ann
. When they did the third stanza --
Ba Ba Ba Ba, Ba Barbara Ann, take my hand
,
Barbara Ann...
Caelan extended his hand, palm up, to the driver. She was looking down shaking her head in embarrassment, but when he held his hand near her face, palm up, she sat up straight and extended her hand, palm down, in a most ladylike manner. She calmly stated "Barbara Ann. Nice to meet you, Caelan"
Caelan completed their very formal introduction by taking her hand and kissing it gently; "It's a pleasure to meet you, Milady. Might I inquire if your last name is Fassert?"
She looked surprised; "No, it isn't, but that means you know the true story. My father always claims it was actually written about me, because Freddy lived down the block, but I was only 12 years old then!"
Caelan looked a bit disconcerted as he eyed her up close. "Milady, if I may be so bold, could you remove your sunglasses?" She replied, with an embarrassed little smile, "That was rather rude, wasn't it? I apologize, sir." She placed her glasses on the white dashboard and turned her face back to him. She thought she saw a flicker of recognition cross his face, but he didn't further react, and she surely didn't remember meeting him before; she was certain she would have remembered!
"Much better; I now see that you are indeed worthy of a song, Milady Barbara," Caelan assured her.
The others laughed, and Marc asked uneasily, "What the hell is wrong with you, Dude? You're acting like she's royalty or something! I've never seen you speak like this to a woman before, and I've seen you around quite a few women!"
"Oh, she is royalty, or at least California royalty! This, boys, is a brand new 1966 Oldsmobile Starfire convertible with a white interior, white steering wheel, and white soft top. It's Candy Apple Red with a chrome stripe down the side. She's riding on chrome wire wheels with wide whitewall tires, has an auto tranny with a shifter on the floor, a 455 motor with Quadrajet four barrel carb, and dual exhausts. Only royalty drives a custom chariot like this!"
"Royalty or a girl whose dad owns a bunch of car dealerships!" Judy snorted. Barbara Ann nodded, "He does. We have some money, but we're hardly royalty! Besides, my parents are from Texas and I went to high school in Dallas. Royals have better pedigrees. "
"Hmmm, let me guess -- Hockaday or Greenhill? Nah, you're from Cali, so Hockaday; it's a boarding school, Greenhill isn't. So how did you end up a cheerleader at SMU? Hockaday doesn't even have extracurricular activities, does it?"
"How do you know I'm a cheerleader?" Caelan pointed at the sticker on her windshield. "Okay, I am a cheerleader. Let's just say that I started gymnastics, dance, and cheerleading when I was 4, and I participated in cheerleading schools and contests even while I was at Hockaday, so not being on a high school squad wasn't really a problem at tryouts."
"Are you ladies also cheerleaders?" Marc asked the other two. "No," Caelan answered for them, "too long and leggy. I'd guess dance team members?" "Right again, Caelan!" chirped Judy. "Hey, how do you spell your name -- I've never heard it before."
"C-A-E-L-A-N; it's Irish, my last name if Kelly..." The girls giggled, and Theo informed them "His mom says it means 'Mighty Warrior'; his dad says it means 'Young pain-in-the-ass'"
Judy and Barbara Ann both perked up. Judy exclaimed, "I'm a Bailey; we're Irish too!" "I'd never have guessed you were Celtic, Judy, what with the red hair and freckles," Caelan replied with a grin.
"My last name is McLaughlin," Barbara Ann interjected, 'so I'm also Celtic, but I have dark hair! I used to ask my parents if I was adopted, because mom is a strawberry blonde and dad is a ginger! My genetics prof says the determination of hair color is complicated, and it just means at least one parent carried a gene for dark hair!"