It was an afternoon in Vichy, a sunny August afternoon of lazy ambling ambience and we were lounging our way through occasional window shopping in the ludicrously expensive ornate arcades and regular coffees, with the prospect of a pint or two by the bandstand before the evening struck. Beautiful people strolled by beneath the plain trees, the sun blazed through the leaves' dappling drift, and we sat outside the Café Imperial again with two pots of tea and a book of crosswords.
It was you doing the crossword mainly, as always, I just tried to fill in the gaps you couldn't get, I had a book open but I wasn't paying it much attention. I watched an elderly couple wander hand in hand, a stylish man saunter by and a couple of pretty girls giggle their way around the corner towards the traffic lights. I sipped my tea. Still too hot.
You looked up at me, smiled, noticed my gaze and looked around. The relaxation was good, no pressures of time whatever, and I smiled back beneath my panama and shades. You took another look about, two people left the table adjacent to ours and the waitress came over efficiently and cleared their crockery away swiftly and they were replaced by a whispering couple.
Carefully and slowly, trying to remain unnoticed, you smoothed the fabric of your dress over your chest tightly, holding it taut from beneath, you were carefully not looking at me as you did so; I did look at you. The swell of your small breast was firmly profiled, braless, your nipple clear in outline and before you let go, allowing the cotton to droop again, you brushed it softly, then looked up at me and smiled.
Beneath my linen trousers I'd certainly stirred and I stretched my legs out across the fine gravel, seeing your glance, I raised an eyebrow. You smiled, sipped your tea, and lifted the hem of your white dress to your knee, flapping the August heat away and showing me the pale intrigue of your thighs in glimpses of wishes. You leant into me, your cup in hand, suggested we moved on, but while I nodded, I was appreciating not your words or really agreeing, but watching the delicious lift of your firm breasts, loose beneath the fall of your open neckline, wishing my angle was better and I could catch a glimpse of your nipple too.
You laughed at me. Let's go.
We stood, leaving the money in a saucer, and sauntered off beneath the trees, past the men playing boules, beyond the opera house and toward the river. We strolled down side streets we'd discovered on our wandering a over the last few days, avoiding the busy direct streets to the gardens, taking in the churches and balconies, and as we walked I touched you softly. My fingers firm on the bumps of your spine, lingering in downward caresses as we changed direction, pressing against your arse as we paused on a corner to look, decide our direction, on a narrow street's tight bend we paused to kiss and I slid my hand between your thighs as we did, cupping your mound through your dress with snug emphasis.
We passed the mineral water springs and sat in the gardens by the river. People walked by on the promenade and small boats tacked back and forth on the river, finding a quiet spot away from too many other recumbent people, we settled again, you leant against a tree with your book, I laid on the grass, my book on the ground. You were reading Goethe, I Andrew Greig. I was hard against the summer grass because as I lay not really reading my book I was looking along the line of your pale thighs where you'd lifted you knees to rest your book. Your dress hung in folds across your knees, but nothing impeded my gaze and you knew full well I was looking directly at your cunt. I took my sunglasses off. I could see your lips through the darkness of your hair, relished the sight of the triangle rising from between your parted thighs, the smooth pale skin that highlighted the prominence of your sex. I imagined whether you were wet, wished that you'd part your lips and show me, or that I could reach forward and slide my finger within you, but neither of us could because there were people lounging nearby.
You smiled. Enjoying? I nodded. Good book then? And I smiled, oh yes, excellent.
You moved to lie beside me, a snug fit next to my arm, spread your book open on the ground and concentrated on the words. Or appeared to, because your other hand, the one that wasn't holding the pages open, slid purposefully beneath me to squeeze, stroke and manipulate my erection pressed against the ground.