It was a fine Saturday late in spring and Jackson was feeling bored. He had no real plans for the day and he just felt restless. What he needed, he decided, was to get outside and let the warm sun and the gentle breeze get rid of the mental cobwebs. He'd go for a hike. In the mountains, he decided, as the exercise would be good for him.
He drove up to a picnic area he knew of and hit one of the hiking trails. There was one that gave quite a nice scenic route. A couple of hours brisk hiking and he'd fetch up next to a small waterfall and a pool. It was slightly off the main trail and unless you'd been shown the way you wouldn't know it was there. A good place to take a break and have a sandwich.
He made good time and it was around noon when he arrived at the pool. He was mildly surprised to find the area already occupied. A young lady was sunbaking on the grass by the side of the pool. He surmised that she hadn't been swimming as she had on normal clothes, what there was of them. A crop top and a pair of very short shorts.
As the young lady was lying down near the picnic table provided Jackson had to pass close to her. He had just about reached his closest point to her when she jerked her head to one side, looking straight at him, as if she'd just noticed him. He would have been willing to admit to being a little surprised at this as he was damn sure she'd spotted him as soon as he entered the glade.
To add to this behaviour she gave a small faux scream and seemed to be trying to edge away from him on her bottom. Jackson quite naturally looked at her to try to see the cause of this odd behaviour. Had she, perchance, spotted a spider and required rescuing? No, she'd spotted something worse, it seemed. A potential rapist.
"You get away," she said quite shrilly. "Don't think you can get away with raping me."
"Excuse me?"
"You're a monster. You're going to rape me. You'll never get away with it."
"Look, I'm sorry if I scared you, but I have no intention of raping you," Jackson told her in soothing tones, wondering if she'd skipped her pills for the day.
"You're not?" she asked, sounding slightly dismayed. "But we're alone. I can't stop you. Are you sure?"
"Quite sure. It's terribly rude to rape someone, you know. I do like to think I have better manners than that."
"Oh." She seemed to be thinking this over, and then she brightened a little.
"Oh, I get it. You're going to try to seduce me. I'm not going to let you. I'll resist your charms, holding steadfast to my honour."
Jackson was trying to hold steadfast to his sense of humour. The girl was clearly an escapee from an asylum. Either that or she'd been reading too many of the wrong sort of books.
"No," he said shaking his head. "Not today. I'll pass on both the rape and the seduction. Sorry if that disappoints you."
"Disappoints me? Why would it disappoint me?" she asked, sounding disappointed to Jackson. "I'm pleased that you're not going to molest me. Um, why not? Are you gay?"
"Listen, girl, a man doesn't have to be gay not to want to molest you. What's your name, anyway? I can't keep on saying, hey, you."
"I'm Pearl. Why don't you want to seduce me? I'm young and pretty, aren't I? I'm getting a tan so I haven't much clothing on. I'd have thought you would be eager to make a pass? Not that I would have accepted it," she added, making sure Jackson knew she wasn't being forward in her behaviour.
"You're right. You're young and very pretty. You have an excellent figure, most of which is on display in that abbreviated outfit, which I'm sure I could peel off you quite easily. And to emphasize one point you made, you're young. Too young, I suspect. You have no idea what you're talking about."
"I am not too young. I'm eighteen. I know all about sex. And I don't care if you don't want me. I don't even know you."
"Let me get this straight," mused Jackson. "You're eighteen, you know all about sex, you're scantily clad, we're all alone by our private little pool, you don't want to be raped, you'll reject a pass, and you think you can resist an attempt at seduction. Have I got that right?"
Pearl nodded slowly, not knowing where he was going with this.
"Now the basic reason I gave for not raping you was that it is not a polite thing to do. It occurs to me that as we're all alone in a romantic idyll it would also be impolite not to try to seduce you. I think you'd agree to that, wouldn't you?"
Pearl nodded even more slowly, not sure if she agreed or not, but he did sound reasonable.
"My trouble is, I never seem inclined to seduce a girl unless I've seen her naked at least once. So it seems to me that you should take off your clothes so that I can see what I'll be getting. Do you want me to assist you in getting undressed?"
"What?"
"Undressed, as in taking off all your clothes, so that you are naked."
"You have to be kidding!"
"No, I don't think so. If I'm going to make love to you, you need to be naked. If I'm going to decide whether I want to make love to you I need you naked to help me make that decision, so come along. Let's get the show on the road."
"Do you seriously think I'm going to get undressed in front of you?"
"Ah, yes, I do. For some reason you decided that you were going to get me to make love to you. OK. I have decided that I'm prepared to go along with your plans but I need you to get undressed. This may not be the way you imagined it but things never turn out precisely as planned."
"No way did I decide I wanted you to make love to me."
"So you want me to leave you strictly alone and go and have my lunch? Not looking at your lovely breasts or touching you where I shouldn't?"
Pearl just looked at him, saying nothing. Things were not progressing, Jackson decided. He wasn't sure why Pearl wanted him to fuck her but he was damned certain that she did. Maybe???
"You're a virgin, aren't you?" he guessed. "This is your way of losing it. You mentioned rape because if you're raped it's not your fault if you lose your virginity. Then seduction because you could tell yourself you were persuaded against your will."
Pearl blushed and looked elsewhere.
"It's OK," Jackson said gently. "Every girl has to have a first time and this is a fine place for it. I'll be delighted to help you out but you have to meet me halfway. Take off your clothes."