The sun blared down, nothing but a clear blue sky surrounding it. The boardwalk was filled with people, shops visited by patrons and families dragging around their kids. Everyone was there because the weather was great and people wanted to head to the beach. The waves crashed onto the shore and men, women and children that filled the area laughed and enjoyed their time. There were some dogs playing fetch with their owners and older people lazily lounging in their beach chairs. All kinds of people were here today and were simply there to relax in the sun and explore the water.
A couple walked down the boardwalk, making their way to the beach. The shorter of the two wore a large straw hat over her head of red hair. She also had on wide dark sunglasses that hid a good portion of her face and a long, black and white striped sleeveless beach dress that covered her down to her feet which were adorned with these strappy black sandals. She carried a large bag over her right shoulder with everything the pair needed for the beach. The woman kept her head down as low as she could while still trying to see ahead of her.
A black hand grabbed her left hand and intertwined their fingers. This caused the woman's head to lift and look up at the much taller black man holding her hand next to him. Lennox smirked at Shannon and the woman blushed. As usual, Lennox looked handsome. This was the beach so the taller black decided to be the opposite of Shannon's more inconspicuous approach. He had nothing covering his upper body, proudly showing off his perfectly sculpted chest and abs. His large arms showed how greatly defined his muscles were and lower body was concealed by his swimming trunks. Lennox had his dreads in a pony tail today and his black skin was perfect as always.
They walked as a couple, hand in hand, and Shannon was feeling very embarrassed. She never went out with Lennox in public before. She was taking a huge risk, but Lennox had smooth talked her into doing it earlier in the day. He was very persistent and made a strong case for them hitting the beach together. It had been a quite a while since Ryan had taken her out to the beach, and even though his recent efforts had gotten better, they hadn't really had much alone time like this yet. Lennox told her he would drive them both to the beach so that could have a nice little 'date' together. Once again, Lennox was making Shannon feel all funny.
A date. It was like she was back in the dating scene again. That had been a long time ago!
But now it was obviously different. She was married. But the man with her today was not her husband, but a younger, smoother, more handsome and very outgoing black guy. A black guy who already had great influence over her and that influence was growing every day. She was falling for him. And in Lennox's view, she belonged to him a while ago.
Shannon finally agreed to go to the beach with him, but had to wait for her daughter Julie to leave the house. Shannon felt very weird talking to her daughter earlier that day, remembering what she witnessed the night before at Lennox's place, performing sexual acts on a black guy who she found out was Lennox's cousin. She was still shocked and was unsure how to feel. Well its not like she could say much, Shannon thought. After all, she was cheating on Julie's father with Lennox. Would Julie start bringing this black guy over to the house? Knowing how Ryan felt about black people, Shannon doubted it, but consiering her own situtation, who the hell knows what would happen next.
Shannon felt her hand get yanked, snapping her out of her thought. "You good?" asked Lennox.
She nodded back at him. "Yeah, i'm fine."
"Well you better be, I want you to be able to kick out here." he continued. "We trying to enjoy the weather baby girl. I want you to have some fun, trying to take my lady out for some sun." Lennox smiled and continued to walk with her.
His 'lady', Shannon thought. She guessed that she was in the eyes of the public considering how they looked together. She was falling for him, but was she really comfortable with that? Shannon looked down, that old unsure feeling bubbling up within her again.
Lennox sensed this and stopped them dead in their tracks, turning Shannon over to face him, shocking her. "L-Lennox?" she asked, confused as to why he stopped them.
Lennox shocked her some more and embraced her and placed his lips on her, kissing the woman in public. She recovered quickly from the shock and decided to kiss him back, engaging in a public display of passion where Lennox's tongue explored the insides of Shannon's mouth. Honestly, she loved kissing him. Lennox was a great kisser so this wasn't to difficult for her to do. Quite frankly, it felt natural to her. Oddly enough, almost anything she did with Lennox felt natural. That was made very apparent as she, without thinking, snaked her arms around his waist.
They were of course getting looks from the people that passed them by. Most of the dirty looks came from men of the Caucasian persuasion. Some women were taken aback by the PDA, but for the most part they weren't disgusted by it like their white male counterparts. Some women looked on with expressions that one might mistake for envy! Whether it was envy over Shannon's man or envy over seeing a couple show their love in public without shame is anyone's guess.
They pulled away from each other and Lennox looked down at Shannon's sunglasses covered face with his trademark grin. "Calm yourself girl. Just chill. Don't worry yourself with insignificant shit. Look to your man, I got you." Lennox added to his statement by tightly gripping on Shannon's hips. His hold was strong but not painful. Just letting Shannon know who was in control, and that he would make thing all right.
Shannon swallowed hard, looking into Lennox's gaze and nodded. "Okay, babe..." she said. "I'll be okay."
"Nice, that's my girl. C'mon, lets go find us a good spot out there in the sand." They continued to walk and Lennox led the way. They walked through the crowd and both of their sandals finally touched the sand.
As they walked, trying to find an open spot, Shannon looked around and noticed that Lennox was getting a lot of looks from a lot of the women, single or taken. Some of the women were bold enough to say 'hi' as he passed them by and Shannon even saw some winks thrown his way. Lennox would chuckle and nod at them. This caused a weird feeling to envelope Shannon and she clung onto Lennox a little more tighter. Shannon gasped a little, surprising herself by her own jealousy. Lennox looked down at her and raised an eyebrow before laughing, wrapping an arm around her, also keeping her close and tight. "No worries, baby." he smiled. "You my one and only, chill..."
Shannon blushed and continued walking. Lennox finally found a good place on the sand and looked over at the woman hanging on to his arm. "Right here." Shannon looked down at the spot and remembered that she held the bag.
"Oh right!" She moved away from Lennox and dropped the bag on the sand. She reaches in to pull out a couple of large towels and begins spreading them out together. There were also a couple of pillows she placed them at the head of the towels. Lennox and Shannon kicked off their sandals leaving them in the hot sand. They sat on each towel and Shannon took a deep breath, looked around to see if there were any familiar faces before she removed her hat and sunglasses. Lennox took them and placed them into the bag.
Shannon sighed and looked towards the sky, arms holding her up. "It's a really nice day out, perfect beach weather..."