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'Looks like another beautiful day to sit out on the beach and work on my tan,' Claudia thought as she glances out the plate glass windows of her beach house as she gazes thoughtfully. The sun had come up a few hours ago behind the house and it shone brightly out over the blue of the water. The wind hadn't come up yet so there was none of those annoying sand particles in the air yet from the dunes.
A Golden Retriever looked up at her intently wagging her tail hopefully.
"Need to go out?" Claudia asked and saw the intelligent look change immediately to determination as she headed for the door in answer to her question. Claudia let the large honey gold dog out and watched as she sniffed her way into the long grasses away from the walkways and deep into the uncut area alongside the house. Claudia had walked her there every day for a week before letting her out on her own. She knew not to go near the house now.
Claudia turned to fix a cup of coffee and peel a banana for her breakfast. The potassium would be good for her as she did her morning routine, watching the waves lap along the beach and a few beachcombers on the stretch in back of her house. She sipped the last of her coffee and looked up to see the Golden Retriever returning to the door. Getting up she let her in to a wagging tail and a happy expression. "Beautiful out there isn't it girl?" Claudia asked and the expression she got in return answered her question as the dog wagged acknowledgment of her question. The dog headed for a large plastic bucket in the corner of the room and her nose began to poke around in it. "Just one" Claudia called cautioning the dog. After several ball, rope, and chew toy selections had been chosen and then discarded, she came over with a rope tied through a ball and offered the rope end hopefully to Claudia, her soft brown eyes looking up at her owner anxiously, hopefully, playfully.
"Do you want to play?" Claudia asked amused. Of course the dog wanted to play, she always wanted to play. She took the end of the rope and the dog immediately began to tug. Claudia let her pull just enough before trying to yank it back in a tug of war. The dogs eyes twinkled excitedly as her tail wagged madly in appreciation of their play. Using both hands Claudia yanked back and forth causing the dog to lose purchase with her front claws on the tile floor before she pulled back enough to get on the carpet. Claudia let her win for awhile pulling her forward just enough to enjoy the play before letting it go so the dog sat unexpectedly. Immediately she was up again on all fours offering and teasing with the rope. As Claudia reached for it she would turn her head sideways as though to keep it out of her reach. Claudia was amused at her pets play. "Release" she commanded in a firm voice and immediately the dog dropped the toy at her feet and sat waiting expectantly. Claudia picked it up and threw it down the long hallway with the dog waiting patiently for her command. "Fetch" she quietly commanded and the dog bounded exuberantly down the hallway her toenails clicking on the tiles as she slid to catch the toy with her paws and mouth. She immediately picked it up and bounded just as excitedly back to her owner where she sat offering to Claudia. Claudia watched her for a moment and then with a quiet signal from her hand the dog went around her to a heel position and sat waiting expectantly. Claudia put her hand below the dogs mouth and said "release" and the dog dropped the toy in her hand. Claudia swung it and threw it down the hallway again. The dog waited impatiently, her butt about to come up off the floor and Claudia waited until the dog realized that Claudia wasn't going to release her until she was in total control. She sat back down fully, staring intently at the toy at the end of the hall but looking out of the corner of her beautiful eyes for a command or a signal. Claudia gave it to her and she took off like a pistol shot for the toy. They played like this for about 15 minutes, the dog following Claudia's commands perfectly until she was panting from her running. Claudia let her play with the toy on her own as she filled her water dish and food dish for her breakfast and allowed her to eat as she changed from her satin pajamas to a two piece swim suit.
Claudia put her blonde hair up in a hair band keeping it back from her pretty face as she gazed into the mirror. Glancing down at the pictures on her dresser her eyes were drawn to the one of her and a younger woman. The pain was almost as fresh as the day years ago when that picture had been taken. It showed the two of them so in love and happy. Her arms around her dark haired girl, both of them gazing and smiling into the camera. She hadn't known such happiness since then. She squashed the painful thoughts as much as she could and returned to getting ready to go out. She smoothed suntan lotion on her long limbs, knowing she would only get darker and more exotic looking and not really caring. She grabbed a wide brimmed hat and a pair of sunglasses and put a bottle of Evian in her beach bag which already contained a book, a newspaper, and a towel. As she went through the kitchen she grabbed a cordless phone and her cell phone to slip into the bag.
The dog stood up hopefully where she had been laying on the kitchen floor having finished her breakfast. Claudia glanced to see that her water dish and food dish were both empty and silently nodded at the dog before letting her out on the deck. The deck overlooked the sands right down to the ocean with a set of stairs that went over some of the small dunes to the shore. Beachcombers of every type walked up and down the beach, some holding hands, some jogging, some meandering in and out of the smooth waves that came up on this stretch of beach. Claudia waved to a few of her neighbors she saw that were out and about. She walked to the edge of her deck and picked up a sand chair which she slung from her other shoulder. The dog sat patiently at the top of the stairs waiting and watching her as it also gazed out over the sand domain behind their deck to the ocean. She looked on interested as people walked dogs, children played, and strangers came and went but she never moved an inch without Claudia. Claudia smiled down at the beautiful dog and said "come" as she made her way down the steps carefully in her sandals. The dog stayed at a heel position, perfectly matching her step for step until Claudia stopped and she sat immediately without being told. Claudia didn't go far from her own deck before setting up the chair. She put on her big, wide brimmed floppy hat and her sunglasses before sitting in the chair. The dog settled on her left side sitting proudly and surveying over all her domain.
"Down" Claudia said quietly and immediately the dog lay down, gazing non-challantly at toddlers and dogs and a host of other beach goers trekking up and down the sands. Her nose quivered as she smelled in messages and watched people come and go.
Claudia essentially ignored the beautiful dog as she read her newspaper, her long limbs spread out elegantly before her on the sands growing darker from the sun as it edged towards mid-day. Occasionally her hand drifted down to pet the beautiful honey gold head. The dog dozed in the sun and eventually put it's head down on her own paws. Once Claudia had read everything she wanted from the paper she began to read her book. She looked up from time to time from behind her dark sunglasses to watch and peruse the people walking on the beach. Occasionally she bobbed her head up and then nodded in acknowledgment of a wave or a similar nod from neighbors. She was well known on this stretch of the beach and while there were not a lot of houses nearby, hers was distinctive with its huge plate glass windows overlooking the sands. The house had been built 50 years ago by a famous architect and people came from all over to photograph it, to draw it's modern lines, to view it. Claudia didn't mind that, she minded when they knocked on her door and asked to see the inside as well or worse yet started looking through the windows as though she were on exhibit. Then she got a little rude about trespassing. Most of her neighbors knew not to push the solitary woman, she wasn't someone to fool with and she didn't suffer fools gladly.
The book wasn't holding much interest and she let it fall to her side as she lay her head back against the chair. Her hat flopped up from the pressure behind it on it's brim and exposed more of her face to the hot sun. She gazed absently through her sunglasses as she people watched. It was then that she saw a woman walking solitarily on the beach. She was coming towards Claudia from her left and something about her walk captured Claudia's attention. She shifted her head slightly so she could view her better through her glasses. She knew no one could tell from her glasses whether she was awake or not as they hid her eyes with their dark tint. She wasn't nearly as tall as Claudia and was a little chubby but she had an attractive way about her that for some reason captured Claudia's interest.
The woman was almost halfway to her position on the beach before she really noticed Claudia laid out there in her chair. Claudia watched her as she checked her out. Definite interest. Claudia knew what she saw as she looked up and down the tall blonde's fit body. Long tanned limbs, a tight stomach exposed to the sun's rays, a French cut bikini bottom with a tube cut top and no straps. Her blonde hair was mostly hidden by her hat but that hat at this angle couldn't hide the well defined facial features, the elegant nose, the perfectly aligned brows, the pouty lips, and the high cheekbones.
The woman must have decided Claudia was asleep by her stillness as she blatantly stared and looked her over. Claudia moved slowly and sensually as though she didn't notice the auburn haired beauty checking her out. She stretched as though she had just woken up and put her book in the bag. She pulled off her hat and pulled off the hair tie and shook out her long blonde hair into it's normal mane of beauty. It was calculated and Claudia knew exactly what she was doing as she did it. She could see the woman watching and almost stumbling over her feet as Claudia settled back down in her chair and looked back up at the sun pretending to go back to dozing. In reality she was squinting at the woman watching to see her reaction as she walked past Claudia's position.
Never had she seen such a beautiful woman in person. Her cousins had said there were some beautiful women on this stretch of beach but that word was an understatement when she saw the blonde. Her fit body demanded attention. Her breasts bobbed perfectly on her body, obviously real by the way their weight pulled them down slightly. Those legs, those endlessly long legs. They were worth another look and it was then that the auburn haired girl nearly tripped over sand on the beach. She quickly looked away to hide her little two step clumsiness.