Fiona squeezed her knees together and swivelled on the seat to swing her legs out of Carlo's car. She took his hand to help her stand up and smiled as the breeze ruffled the skirt of her dress and teased her nakedness underneath.
She looked Carlo in the eye. "Have you got the picnic basket?"
He frowned. "I'll get it now." He bustled round to the boot of the car and came back dangling a large wicker basket from his hand. "Is everything we need in here?"
She looked at the basket with the blue fleece picnic blanket folded neatly on the top. In her mind she checked off the contents she'd stowed beneath:
● Two small bowls
● Two small spoons
● Two tall wine glasses
● One punnet of strawberries
● One pot of cream
● One small plastic pot of sugar
● One bottle of prosecco
She licked her lips to try and moisten her dry mouth and thought of the things she'd left at home:
● Beach cover-up
● Knickers
● Bra
● Spare dress
The cover-up stuck in her mind particularly. It might have been useful later on, but she'd made a conscious decision not to bring it. She felt her heart rate spike as the adrenalin kicked in. "Yes," she said, "everything we need is in there."
"Excellent." His face relaxed into a smile.
She saw the smile, but just before it she saw the briefest flash of a frown cross his face. If this adventure was to work properly she needed him relaxed and lost in the moment. She chewed her lip,
time for action.
She spun on her heels to make the dress swirl around and draw his attention. Then she fluttered her eyelashes, took his arm, and turned away towards the trees. With a giggle and a playful tug on his arm she called out, "Let's go this way!"
It was a beautiful warm spring afternoon. The light was soft in the dappled shade under the trees, a stream splashed and gurgled alongside the path and the whole valley was carpeted with bluebells. A well defined path led the way beside the stream, but after a while Fiona took a narrow track which branched off up the valley side. She led the way among clumps of bluebells and between bushes until they came to a wide ledge part way up the slope. She turned to face Carlo and smiled up at him.
He stood close in front of her and slipped his arms around her waist to hold her pelvis tenderly close to his own. He took time to look all round. "This is beautiful," he said.
She followed his eyes as he looked. There was just enough space between the flowers and bushes to spread the picnic rug out flat. Looking over the low undergrowth there was a view down to the main path beside the steam, but lying down they would be out of sight unless somebody ventured up the path they'd just climbed.
Perfect.
She gave Carlo a lingering kiss, and played her tongue between his lips, but as he responded she drew back and fixed him with a big-eyed look from under her eyelashes. "Let's get ourselves set up."
He grinned. "Yes, of course!"
She watched as he spread the blanket out on the ground, smoothing it flat with his hands, and set the basket neatly at one edge; but before he began unpacking the picnic she touched his shoulder. "I'll do this."
She waited until he'd sat down and turned his eyes towards her. She knelt on the blanket, then, easing the skirt of her dress up her thighs a little, stretched her legs out one by one and folded them so she was sat cross legged opposite him. She took care to give him glimpses, up her dress, of her inner thighs and beyond; but nothing too overt just yet. She watched his eyes grow huge like saucers, and his tongue flick back and forth over his lips.
Once settled, she arranged the skirt of the dress demurely over her thighs, but she took care not to pull it down over her knees. With herself all arranged she served up the picnic. First, two bowls of strawberries with cream and sugar, one of which she placed in front of him on the rug.
"Thank you," he said, "that looks fantastic." But his eyes stayed fixed on her, and watched every move she made.
She opened the bottle of prosecco and poured out two glasses. One, she handed to him. The other she held up towards him. "To fun and frolics in the spring sunshine," she said, and drained her glass in one go.
Emboldened by her drink, Fiona picked up her bowl of strawberries. Carlo followed her lead, and picked up his bowl, but his eyes never left her. She felt a fuzzy tingle in her belly.
Confident, now, of Carlo's attention, she selected a large strawberry from the bowl, grasped it delicately between thumb and finger, and lifted it out to examine. It looked magnificently red and juicy. She extended her tongue, licked the berry from bottom to top to collect the cream and sugar, and rolled in her tongue to taste it. She pursed her lips as if about to bestow a kiss and pushed the strawberry slowly through the opening into her mouth. Focussing over Carlo's shoulder she chewed slowly with a smile.