The day I came back from my holiday in the Bahamas, I was so tired I could barely see straight. The ten-hour flight and copious amounts of alcohol consumed while on it had caught up on me. When I walked into my house, I looked in the mirror. "Oh God.." I sighed. My normally bouncy, wavy dark golden brown hair looked mud-coloured and hung limply on my head, even with my golden tan, my face looked drawn and pale, and I could have sworn I was a few inches shorter than my usual 5 foot 3. I decided that the best thing to do would be to go to bed, and leave the unpacking until the next day.
I changed from my grey jumpsuit into a pair of comfy pajamas and slipped into my bed and fell asleep. It was only 6pm but I didn't wake up until 1pm the next day when my mobile phone went off. I picked it up and answered it. "Rowan, is that you?" asked a familiar Romanian accent. Dalita. My dear friend Dalita is quite a few years older than me, at that point I was 20 and she 45. She looked closer to my age than her own though, she's a gorgeous woman, about 5 foot 6 with light skin, corn-blonde hair and the most beautiful dark grey eyes you ever saw.
"Of course it's me. Who else is it going to be?" I yawned. She laughed and asked if I wanted to meet her to tell her all about my holiday and show her photos. Looking at the clock, I told her I could be ready for around 4pm.
"Great, I'll come to pick you up at 4!" she said before hanging up. I got up and got dressed in a pretty cream floral printed summer dress. I put on make-up to hide the signs of exhaustion still traced on my face, and curled my hair. Looking in the mirror, even I was quite impressed with how I looked. My 34B breasts pressed against the material of the dress, but my slim figure allowed it to swing freely around my body everywhere else before stopping halfway down my now caramel-coloured thigh. My rich, mahogany brown hair bounced around my shoulders and a bit of eyeliner and mascara had made my blue eyes bright again.
When Dalita's little black sports car pulled up outside, I dug my gold wedge heeled sandals and my camera out of my suitcase, put the shoes on and the camera in my bag and made my way outside to meet her. When I got outside, she was standing beside her car, leaning slightly against it. She was dressed in a long red maxi dress with a beaded halter neck, her hair lying flat framing her face and flowing over her shoulders down to her chest. I'd never noticed before that Dalita had quite impressive breasts, I guessed around a D cup and surprisingly pert for her age. When I reached her she hugged me, as she always did when she saw me. As she held me close, I breathed in her smell. She smelled of vanilla, tobacco and tropical fruits. I also noticed that even with my wedge heels on, I still wasn't quite as tall as her.
When she let me go, I walked around and got into the passenger seat. She was already sitting in the driver seat and smiled at me as I got in. "Where do you wanna go?" she asked.
"I don't mind," I told her. So she started the engine and started to drive. After about twenty minutes of driving, she admitted she had no idea where she was going and was now lost. I didn't recognise anything around us and gave her an evil look.
"Don't look at me like that," she said, playfully swatting my head. "If you told me somewhere to go, we would not be lost!" I laughed at how she had made it all my fault. She laughed too, and our eyes met. We both stopped laughing and just looked into each other's eyes. I felt a flutter in my stomach as I realised how beautiful Dalita was. I'd never been attracted to a woman before, and in the 3 years I'd known Dalita I never thought of her as anything more than a friend. I took my eyes away from hers before she realised what was going on. She looked back to the road, then pulled into a little car park in a pretty wooded area. She pressed a button and the top of her car folded down, letting the sun into the car. "We will stay here," she smiled. "We can talk here and then we try to find our way back." I was quite happy to sit here in this sunny clearing in her car and talk to her about my holiday, as long as I didn't look into those eyes again I knew I'd be fine.
I pulled the camera out of my bag and turned it on. I snapped a picture of Dalita, and she covered her face with her hands just a moment too late. When I pressed the button that allowed me to look through my photos, the first thing that came up was Dalita's face with widened eyes and a cute but comical shocked expression on her face. She shook her head and called me silly in Romanian, but then we both burst out laughing. That was the kind of friendship Dalita and I had - not dissimilar to a pair of teenage girls. We then looked through my photos from the Bahamas. When we got to a picture of me and my sister standing under a palm tree in matching white bikinis, she looked closely. "Rowie! Your bikini has gone see-through!" she cried. I looked and sure enough, although my sister Amie's bikini covered her, mine showed my dark brown nipples and the pants showed the dark landing strip of hair on my pussy. I tried to click the picture onto the next one, but much to my surprise, she didn't let me. "I didn't notice you were so tanned," she said, zooming in a little. I felt my face flush as she surveyed my as good as naked body. Thankfully, she then clicked the "next picture" button, taking her to a much more innocent picture of me sitting underneath a palm tree. After a few more photos, she put the camera back into my bag and looked at me.
Suddenly her hand was on my knee. I felt my nipples getting erect, which wasn't good as I didn't have a bra on. I felt them pressing against the material of my dress and prayed to God that she couldn't see it. Or maybe I wanted her to.. Dalita's voice suddenly cut through my thoughts. "Yes, you are very tanned!" she exclaimed. I sighed, maybe from relief or maybe from disappointment. She was just comparing my skin colour to her own. I felt dirty for thinking she had any other motive for touching me. Then she was looking into my eyes again, and this time I knew she wasn't comparing skin colours because her hand slid up my leg and now rested on my inner thigh beneath my dress. "You're also very attractive, Rowan.." she said, in a much quieter voice. "Your eyes are just.. wow."