A bit of a departure for me. This one is short and, hopefully, intense. I'm entering it in the Summer Lovin' contest; make sure to read all the worthy entries and vote on your favorites!
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I had already decided he would be a no-show when, all of a sudden, he arrived.
The day on the beach had been gorgeous: typical summer surroundings on a sandy shore I'd lounged on a million times. The same kids and families puttering around in the surf, as they had since my childhood. The waves, always the same waves, soothing me as they fretted ashore.
The weirdness came from the man I'd hooked up with on Pixboox Personals the night before. The man who'd claimed to be local. The man who'd said he'd come meet me here today, between lifeguard stations 3 and 4. Where the surf sucked.
Where nobody really hung out.
It had been free and easy last night, the way it sometimes is: two online strangers hitting it off, the usual questions and answers, the repartee. It never got old, no matter how many times I did it, the spark of new possibility: a new friendship at the very least, even the online kind that my generation thinks of as reality. Especially in the older-man fetish forums on Pixboox.
He'd said he was going to come to the beach too.
I spent the first hour or so, trying to look cool, staring over my shades at the passersby and new arrivals. Even after my friend Bethany went into the water I stayed on the towel, feeling the sun on my skin, wondering whether I should have gone with a one-piece; the bikini was fine, but I'd put on a few more pounds than I'd planned last year at college, and I was still furiously trying to work them off. And besides, I'd already told him on Pixboox that I'd be in a yellow two-piece. Not, I'd stressed, a bikini.
Waiting.
I dozed off after Bethany left with the guy she'd met in the water, the two of them ostensibly headed for the food trucks. I'd watched them go, smiling to myself at the way she was so shamelessly advertising her body, pressing it up against him as they stumbled off down the gritty sand at this part of the beach. That was the other reason for my relative solitude: rocks. I wondered how long it would be before she was giving him a blowjob in the porta-johns by the parking lot. I wondered what they'd already done, in the surf.
He came while I was drifting along in that lugubrious wasteland between sleep and waking, his shadow falling across my face, stirring me. I was still blinking the sleep out of my eyes when I heard his low chuckle. "Yellow two-piece," he rumbled, and I knew it was him because he'd sent me a growly little sound file last night. A sound file that had made me blush.
I sat up, my arms sun-dry after all afternoon on my towel. I felt the dried sunscreen crackling, my abs flexing me up, and I was craning my neck around when he sat unceremoniously behind me. I got nothing but a flash glimpse of greying chest hair, a fleshy face with sunglasses, the mustache from last night, and then his legs were scooting along my towel just outside my hips, his body looming suddenly. As I kept trying to turn around, smiling breathlessly, his hands were already along my body, just beneath the straps holding my top on, his stubby fingers pressing lightly where my tits became my sides. "It's a pleasure," he murmured, kisses already landing on my neck, and I lolled forward with a little moan.
He knew what neck kisses did to me. He knew, because I'd told him last night.
The hot flush started even before I forced my eyes back open, looking sideways now, catching half his unshaven face. He looked like his pics. "I wondered if you'd... if you'd show up," I stammered.
"I told you I would." The sounds of people in the nibbling surf, the feel of the hot summer sun, the distant flicker of other beachgoers: all of it went away, my body sagging back into his without thought. His hands probed around my waist, leaving fire behind them. His chest was hot and strong and hairy behind me, so unlike the college boys I'd been fucking all year. I shivered. "Yes," he said, simply, in my ear. "Tremble."
Involuntarily my legs twitched a bit, cranking minutely wider, imprisoned by his own meaty thighs. I felt my lungs inhale, the gasp sudden, while my mind tried to calculate how long Bethany had been away, and what she'd think if she came back to find me making out with a stranger.
But he didn't feel like a stranger.
He felt like comfort, like desire, like excitement, behind me and around me, and for a fleeting moment, inside me as his tongue found my ear. I was shaking like it was forty degrees. I knew I'd be in deep shit if Bethany came back now; I could feel my nipples, painfully tight against the yellow top, and I had no confidence in myself to stop this man from wrapping himself around me if she returned.