The sun heated my skin as a soft breeze cooled it back down. The shade of the palm tree above didn't quite cast over more than my face, letting me bask in the light that was slowly tanning me.
The pool around me was empty, one of the perks of being possibly the only tenant moved into the apartment complex built around me. I knew this peace wouldn't last forever, so I had prioritized coming down to the pool daily, soaking up the sun and the cool water of the pool basin.
I hadn't seen another soul since moving in, and even the leasing office hadn't been completely built out yet, leaving the agents responsible for the property in a sister complex a mile down the road. As an introvert, this was possibly my dream scenario, even though it would most likely come to an end in the next week or so. New tenants had to move in soon to keep the complex from dipping into the red.
I was lying on my back, sipping a low budget alcoholic seltzer when I heard the gate to the pool softly open. I slowly opened my eyes to see two long, tan legs walk from the gate towards me. The woman was wearing a black crocheted cover up that just covered her butt and large sun glasses. I smiled briefly at her to be polite, all the while wishing I had come an hour or two earlier so that I wouldn't have been interrupted. I supposed my alone time in this complex was coming to an end.
"It's a beautiful day, isn't it," the woman said to me as she set her pool bag directly next to my chair and sat on the chair parallel to mine. You have got to be kidding me. An empty pool and she decided to sit right next to me? This lady needed to learn to read the room.
"mmhmm. Very nice," I responded, picking up my book and turning to the page I had left off on. The woman seemed to notice I was busy and started pulling out things from her bag to get settled.
I started reading where I had left off at in my shameless romance novel. I was many things, but a literary prude was not one of them. The smut I was reading was my chance to fantasize about a sex life very different than the nonexistent one I was currently in. This particular piece of literature (if you had to call it that) was about a woman in the south of France who had her sexual awakening when a young Spanish woman took her holiday in the flat next to hers. It was a steamy read that had made me more wet than I cared to admit when I had started it this morning.
As I turned the page, I noticed the woman beside me pull off her crocheted cover up, revealing a bikini bottom that covered absolutely nothing. It was a bright white mesh material that disappeared between her two cheeks. I glanced up at the top, of which I could only see the straps and strings, as the woman's back was to me. More daring than I personally would wear to an apartment pool, but I didn't judge.
As the woman turned only her head, she interrupted my stare, "I'm so sorry, but would you mind helping me lotion my back? I'm so careful with sun exposure, but it's the one place I can never reach."
I put down my book and scooted to the edge of my pool chair. "Sure, I can help," I said as she handed the sunblock to me.
She collected her hair into her hands, so that I would have easy access to her back. I rubbed the sunblock in my hands to warm it and started spreading it over her shoulders and over her upper back.
"Did you just move in?" I asked as I made my way to her lower back.
"Yes, just yesterday into that building over there," she pointed to the building farthest from the pool and directly next to my building. "My name is Manon. What's yours?"
I was nearing the bottom of her back as I answered, "I'm Lilian." I finished spreading the sunblock and asked, "Is that good?"
"Oh thanks!" she replied. "Actually, would you mind just getting my cheeks as well? I don't want to miss anything." She leaned over a bit, giving me access to her whole ass and lightly put both hands on her hips, just spreading her cheeks and showing where her thong disappeared to.
My breathing slowed, as I said "Umm. Yeah, I guess I can do that."
I put a dab more sunblock on my hands and started spreading it over the top of both of her ass cheeks, working my way down and then inward. Her heat radiated onto my hands as I took one hand to hold the cheek aside and the other to spread the lotion near her thong. I could smell her from where I was sitting, and suddenly I found it very hard to swallow.
I did the same thing to the other side and was finally finished. "You're all set," I managed to blurt out.
"You're the best, Lilian. Thank you!" She turned slightly to grab the lotion and then stood up and slowly walked to the pool.
That was the oddest interaction I had ever had with a random human, although I couldn't hide from myself that my bikini bottoms had started to get slightly damp.
I leaned back into my seat and grabbed my book, pretending to read as I slowed my heart rate. Manon dipped her feet into the pool and then slowly submerged herself as she walked down the steps.
She swam to the far end of the pool and turned to come back. I tried to make it seem like I wasn't watching her, but my heart stuttered as she started walking up the stairs again back to her chair. I finally saw the front of her bikini top, which until now had been hidden from me. The white mesh that covered her breasts was almost see through, making her nipples and areolas visible through the fabric. Her breasts were large but lifted. They were what any woman would have paid good money for at her nearest plastic surgeon. My gaze lowered to her bikini bottoms, a small mesh triangle in the front, that were the same material, but slightly thicker, hiding what was underneath.
"Oh My god, the water is seriously perfection. You must try it," Manon said as she neared me. I looked up at her face again and took in her features. Ash brown hair and the brightest blue eyes I'd ever seen. She was smiling as she stuck out her hand to me. "C'mon, will you take a quick dip with me?"
