My Naked Lady
People fear the human body, but the body is not obscene and sex is not vulgar. This story addresses that.
The first time I saw her naked I knew I was in love. Okay, well, I was in lust, for sure, but I was definitely in something. A friend had told me there was a nude beach a mile south of the state park. It was east, but who's going to quibble? I had not been naked with other people, except in the fifth grade at the YMCA where you had to swim nude to go in the pool. I was very modest and it was hard for me, but I bit the bullet and went swimming with my two friends, Ernie and Stan. It was very embarrassing, but I did it anyway, even as uncomfortable as it was.
Well, when I heard about the nude beach as an adult twenty years later, my curiosity was piqued. I got directions and set out to be naked with others, but the day was foggy and I was the only person there, nude or otherwise. The next day was Sunday and it was a postcard day and there were a lot of naked bodies on towels, beach mats, and blankets, playing frisbee, surfing, and just laying around in the sun with no clothes on.
I did strip down soon after arriving and it wasn't so bad, but then I saw her and my day got better all at once. I couldn't take my eyes off of her, but at least I had sense enough to wear shades so she wouldn't know I was studying her anatomy all day long. She had a perfect heart-shaped bottom that was as tight as a snare-drum; medium but luscious, hand-sized breasts; wonderful nipples; long, slim legs; and a face that would put Michelle Williams to shame. She also had long blond hair, which was another of my weaknesses. I was hooked.
I did not talk to her except a very foolish sounding, "Nice day" at the water's edge. She simply smiled and nodded, probably realizing I was a blockhead praying for words to come but nothing intelligent came out. I spent the rest of the day watching out of the corner of my eye. I pretended to read and watched over the top of the book I had found in the living room of my shared apartment. She swam a few times and I made sure I went in at the same time. We surfed the same waves, but she didn't seemed to know there was anyone else in the water at the time. She seemed relaxed and natural, but not dazzled by my presence.
The next day I could get off without a tow was Friday, and there she was again in the same spot, with the same large towel and the same book, with that same lovely naked body. I watched her again that day, and the next, and after three days on the same beach I managed to place my beach mat even closer and get an even better view of all those wonderful bare body parts.
My nights were filled with her, and every day on the job, as well. By now we were best friends, at least in my imagination. Masturbatory fantasies I had on a regular basis. I didn't know her name or anything about her except that she was hotter than an August Sahara afternoon.
Over the next month I managed to be at the beach, in the same spot a few short yards from her, six times. It got so a few people recognized me and made chatty conversation, and one guy invited me to play frisbee with him, Tony. However, the one person there I really wanted to chat up just read, surfed a few times, and kept my total attention every second of every day.
I had been coming to the beach everyday I didn't have a tow, and one day I knowingly left my phone off so I wouldn't be bothered by work. Then one day I heard someone call her Karen and I was happy to have a name for my fantasies. Karen. I thought about Karen again that night, just as I had every night since I first saw her naked at the nude beach one mile from the state park.
The twentieth time at the beach, I even marked it on my calendar, I spent the usual time admiring Karen from behind my dark glasses and played some frisbee with Tony, rode a few waves, and pretended to read. After Karen left I gathered my things and started up to the parking lot.
When I got to the top of the cliff, where I could see the cars parked next to the train tracks I saw Karen standing next to a twenty-year old Honda looking in through the driver's side window. Damsel in distress. It was clearly the body language of someone who lost their keys or locked them in the car. As a tow truck driver I deal with that look daily.
I went right to my truck and opened the front door and took out the lock pick from behind my seat. I walked to her car and held up the lock pick. "Lose you keys?" I said.
She looked sheepish but shook her head. "Locked them in my car," she said.
"I do this for a living," I said. I slipped the pick between the window and the door frame, pushed it down until I heard it click, then I pulled up and unlocked the door. "I am Dave, by the way."
"You're the one reading Kerouac, right?" It was the book I had pretended to read for we( eks. I nodded, embarrassed that I could be asked about the book I had fake read while in reality I was watching her over my book. "You like it?" she asked.
"Passes the time," I said, hoping she wouldn't ask me about the actual story.
"You play frisbee really well," she said. I was incredibly happy she had noticed. She shook my hand, then got in her car and drove away.
On my next day at the beach she waved at me as I came down the sand. She motioned me over and made a spot beside her, indicating I should take the place next to her. It was one of the only times I was really happy I worked in towing. Instead of reading, she wanted to chat and asked me about my job, if I went to school, and where I lived.
When I said I lived in Buellton, she beamed and said she lived in Solvang. Solvang is five miles from Buellton. Then she said we should go to the beach together. She said she worked at a bakery in Solvang in the afternoon during the week. She didn't work on weekends, so she was at the beach every Saturday and Sunday, and during the week in the morning at least a couple times a week.
"We should come to the beach together," she said with a smile.
Had the girl of my dreams just asked me to come to the beach with her? Holy shit. Life couldn't get any better. She gave me her address, and directions and I said I would pick her up Saturday morning.
"What time six?" I joked.
"I run at six," she said. I didn't tell her I usually turn over in bed at six.
"What time?" I asked, hoping for as early as possible, but discounting six.
"How about nine? That way we'll get there before ten, before it gets too crowded," she said. I didn't take tows on the weekends, the owner's son took the weekends, so I would definitely be there, maybe with bells on and nothing else.
"I'll be there at eight fifty-nine," I said.
Not that I was eager, but I drove into Solvang at eight thirty, usually about the time I was getting up. I went to the bakery where she worked, just to see it, ordered a pastry and a hot chocolate, and ate it in the truck a block from her apartment.
At eight fifty-nine I was parked in front of her apartment, cleaning pastry out of my teeth and heading up to her door. Before I got there the door flew open and the vision of loveliness stood in her doorway grinning at me.
"You really did mean eight fifty-nine," she said. On the way to the beach she wanted to know all about me: where I grew up, what my parents did, and what I was studying at Hancock College. I suggested we trade facts about about ourselves: I would do one and she would do one.
She was taking night classes and studying at the beach. I told her I could not study at the beach. What I didn't tell her was that I couldn't study and watch her at the same time. She said she grew up in Wisconsin, but they moved to California when she was twelve. She had been taking classes at Hancock extension classes in education and wanted to go into teaching. I thought how torturous it would be for a class load of fifth grade boys to be stuck looking at her all day.
I told her I was born in LA and moved to Buellton when I was nine, had worked in construction, now drove a tow truck, and was also taking classes at Hancock's Lompoc Campus. I told her I had discovered the nude beach and thought I'd give it a try.
"I am so lucky you did," she said, but I didn't say I was the lucky one, although I thought it. She wasn't dating anyone regularly, and I gave my thanks to heaven. I told her I had three sisters and they would love her, and she warned me about her very over protective brother, Randy.
We made three trips to the beach--Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday--when she told me she was losing her lease and needed to find a new place to live. It so happen that my place had an extra bedroom and it was available. She smiled and said I would get to see her everyday. That was wonderful news.
No, I wanted to see her every second. Looking at her was like watching your favorite movie all weekend. Now our spots on the beach were not just close, but they were side by side. She also asked me to apply sunscreen on her back. Oh, horrors. Could I also apply it to your front, your bottom, as well as your neck, your legs, and those awful shoulders. It was dirty work, but someone had to do it.