Mark became obsessed with learning the skills that Amy had achieved, but he just didn't seem to have the knack. At best he could maybe make a pencil roll across a table but only after focusing on it for a ridiculous amount of time. Amy, on the other hand, had grown even stronger. Her powers had grown exponentially over the past few weeks. She thought it had a lot to do with Mark; he had encouraged her to not only exercise her power, but to embrace the fact that she had it in the first place. Amy was very concerned where this would all lead and she knew she was dealing with a force that was probably not to be reckoned with, but she felt that with Mark at her side she could keep it under control.
As for their relationship it hadn't changed much. They talked, they laughed, they held hands, and kissed; they kissed a lot. There was some heavy groping, but that's as far as it had gone. Mark, of course, wanted her to use her powers on him again, but she had held back wanting things to be normal as far as their relationship went. Plus, she had a deep-rooted fear of losing him and then losing her control too!
On their next day off they decided to go to the beach..
They went to a section that was known for being a little less family friendly and little more college age. That's where all the fun was and they were looking for a little fun.
"Let's just be beach bums, forget this working crap!" Mark said.
"I would love to live on an island, just you and me, we can build own our shelter near a waterfall. We'll swim and bathe in it, grow fruit and vegetables. You can run around and hunt animals with your shirt off!" Amy said.
"There's nothing sexier than a shirtless guy cutting Thumper and Bambi's heads off with a sharpened rock after shooting them through the eye with an arrow!" Mark joked.
"No, you would never kill anything—you're too great a guy for that, you would hunt and catch them, then bathe them and reassure them then release them to their woodland friends!" Amy smiled.
"Wow! Are these animals animated? Little blue birds flying around my bared, tanned, sweaty shoulders while I talk about the importance of honesty and good penmanship?" He laughed.
"That's right! Then we would make love under the moonlight as all our animal friends sang a song about being friends!" Amy added giggling wildly.
"What are we doing for food?" He asked.
"I'll magic-up some pizza!" She said.
"Speaking of pizza! Look at the pineapples on that pizza!" Mark said.
Amy looked over and saw a girl in her mid-twenties with an enormous rack busting out of an insanely small bikini top. She watched as all the guys on the beach stopped what they were doing and watched this girl make her way to her friends while shagging her butt the whole time and way over-selling it.
"Good Lord, Mark! Is that what you like?"
"No, not at all. I like boobies, as you know, but those are way too much. Who could deal with all that?"
"So look around, what girl on this beach is your idea of the perfect woman?"
Mark looked around scanning the whole area. He made sure to milk this moment for all it was worth. Amy rolled her eyes and smiled knowing he loved the permission she gave him to examine every girl's body.
"I . . . like . . . let's see . . . I think . . . this one." He pointed at Amy.
She smiled.
"Come on, tell me the truth I can take it. If you could see anyone one of these girls naked who would it be?"
"You, seriously. I'm not just saying that because I obviously have to. I genuinely mean it." He said and he did. Amy realized he was being truthful and that made her feel wonderful.
Then her mood changed and she looked at Mark.
"Well that's about to be put to the test! Look!" She said and nodded over to a new couple walking onto the beach.
"Ooh! What do we have here?" Mark said.
Kara and Jane were both wearing bikinis and walking to their spot on the beach. Kara was the girl that Amy knew Mark wanted desperately. They had worked together on the previous production and Amy had even allowed him to see Kara's boobs before erasing everyone's memories.
"Do you think . . . Are they?" Mark said.
"Yeah, I guess so. I knew Jane was, but I had no idea Kara was."
"Wow! Holy Hardon Batman! I didn't know Kara was in to chicks!" He added.
"Okay, here we go, so much for me. Bikini Kara walks onto the beach with another girl and I might as well wash away with the seashells!" Amy joked.
"No. You know I love you. But, I mean, come on! Look at her body! How can I help it? But, she's just a fantasy. I don't like her. I just like the cut of her jib. As well as her boobs, her butt, her legs!" He mocked her and Amy threw sand at him.
"I'm sure there are guys here that you like their bodies, that's fine with me." He added.
"Well, I kind of like that surfer dude over there. He's pretty hot." Amy said.
"Who that guy!" Mark yelled.
"Don't point at him!" Amy ducked embarrassed.
"Yeah, I guess he's okay if you're into flawless skin, no body fat and perfect hair. But he's no me. He lacks all of my sexy flaws!"
"That's right." She reassured him.
They sat and listened to the crashing waves, squawking seagulls, and slight breeze.
"I have an idea." Amy said.
Mark squinted through the blazing sun to look at her.
"Why not practice your powers on Kara!" Amy said. "Try to make her bikini top fall off. Maybe if there is more desire in it for you you'll be able to do it." She added.
Mark looked over at Kara.
"How? I can't just go over there and focus on her boobs without having the cops show up." He said.
Amy smiled and sat like I Dream of Jeanie and bobbed her head.
At first Mark didn't realize the magnitude of what happened. Then he began to notice there was no sound, no wind, nothing. He looked around and saw everyone frozen still.
Amy had stopped time!
"What do you think?" She asked and suddenly her voice almost seemed to echo due to the sound waves not bouncing off all the others.
"Holy shit! You stopped time! Did you know you could do that?" He asked in stunned horror/excitement.
"I had a feeling I could." She answered calmly. "And actually I don't think I stopped time, I think I just sped us up. We're moving at a crazy-fast pace while everyone else is totally normal. We're moving through their 1/10th of a second. So when I start it back up you and I will be a few minutes older in the time it took them to age 1/10th of a second. Does that make any sense?"
"Nope! But who cares, you stopped time!" Mark said smiling and walked around the frozen beach marveling at everything.
He walked under a seagull stuck in mid air and noticed that it had just pooped and its poop was just hanging there! He couldn't believe what he was seeing. He ran down and kicked a frozen wave. The part he kicked splashed like normal, but the rest of the wave just hung there.
"How come we can still breathe?" He asked in wonder.
"I didn't stop time, we're just going very fast through it. The air is still there." She told him.
"Oh yeah. This is incredible!" He yelled.
Eventually Mark calmed down and focused on his task—make Kara's top pop off!
"Why can't all homework be like this!" He said.
"Okay, now focus. Look at the little piece of fabric holding those breasts in and make it break!" Amy instructed him.
Mark tried to focus, but then again, trying to focus on her bikini top and not her breasts was almost impossible. He was astonished at Kara's amazing body, her skin was so tan, it looked so soft, it glistened in the sun, slick with sweat. He looked up at her face for a moment and stopped.
"Why does it look like she can see me?" He asked.
"It must just be the way she was looking when she stopped." Amy said moving in for a closer look.
"It looks like she knows what we're doing!" Mark said a little nervous.
"Yeah, it does. I don't know I never did this before." She answered.
Mark went back to focusing on her top. He focused so hard it looked like his head was about to explode. Amy watched him with a big smile on her face, enjoying his enjoyment. She looked down and noticed he was sporting a bit of a tent in his shorts. She decided to let him off the hook.
"Here let me give you a little help." She said and Kara's top popped off and fell to the ground. Her wonderful boobs fell out and hung majestically before Mark.
"Oh!" Was all he could say.
"There they are, Mark! What you've been waiting for. You've seen them before, of course, but you don't remember. I won't erase your memory this time though. Enjoy."
