This is my first story ever. Any and all critiquing is very welcome. Hope you enjoy.
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I always liked the smell of coconut and salt. The beach was one of my most favorite places to be. Not just for the babes but for feeling of the sun warming your skin while the cool breeze coming off the ocean to cool you off. Today I was just relaxing by myself and taking in the rays. I think I half drifted off a few times but I was just aware enough to realize that some clouds had moved in blocking the sun. I also noticed the temperature dropping a few degrees. Anyone from some place with a beach knows that means it's about to start raining. I opened my eyes and saw that others had noticed it as well and were packing up to leave. Seams everyone was getting ready to leave so I guessed it was going to storm. One look at the sky told me I was right. It didn't look too bad but definitely not beach weather.
I started packing up my things when I noticed someone out in the water. Who ever it was, they were having a hard time trying to get back to the shore. Apparently they were out on the sandbar when the weather turned bad. I knew there was no way they were going to make it because of the undercurrent. Being a part time life guard I could swim pretty well but even I could not make that. I watched for a few moments to see if who ever it was made any headway. Right then I figured out it was a female cause she turned on her back and was floating. Not a good sign. It meant she was probably worn out from swimming against the current and was about to be carried out either side of the sandbar and out to the ocean because of the undercurrent. I took off into the water knowing I would have to take her back to the sandbar and wait till the tide changed before coming back in. I hoped it wouldn't start storming and lightning but I knew the sandbar was the safest place with all things considered.
The water was starting to get choppy and that made it a strenuous swim to get out to her. Luckily whoever she was she was at least smart enough to float to her back when she got worn out. As I started getting closer she began to look a little familiar. Oh shit! It's Julie. She hated my guts. Nonetheless, hating someone is one thing, being in the ocean and about to be swept out to sea was entirely another. I swam up along side of her and I saw that she was breathing very heavily and was shaking. I guess she heard me because she kind of lowered more of her body into the water just as I reached her. She really looked like she was having a hard time staying afloat.
"Julie, are you ok?" I asked.
"Go away Jeff, I am just fine!" she scorned.
"Julie, your about to be swept out to the ocean, we need to go to the sandbar and wait till the tide starts coming back in." I said.
She didn't say or do anything. She just floated there breathing. I guess somehow she knew I was right but didn't want to relent or ask for my help. I didn't know how she would take to me pulling her back to the sandbar so I moved behind her and put my arm around her and started making my way to the sandbar. As I thought she started fighting me and kicking her feet wildly. She was yelling something that I couldn't make out with the water flooding over my ears but it didn't matter. I had encounter people like this before. As a life guard we were always taught to approach from behind so that the wild kicks and flailing arms don't accidentally get us. Her kicks actually helped me tread water but her hands and nails digging at my arm didn't feel too good. It was a fairly tiring swim though because the water was pretty choppy and the undercurrent was pulling us toward either side of the sandbar. I managed to get us to the sand bar though. As soon as her feet touched sand she really started pulling away. Since the water wasn't in my ears anymore I could finally hear what she was screaming.
"I don't have any bottoms on!" she screamed.
"I'm sorry, but I had to get you out of the undercurrent. Don't you understand that you were about to be swept out to sea? I exclaimed.
She didn't say anything. She just sat there with her legs under her butt in the edge of the water trying to hide her face. I guess she was embarrassed. Oh shit, she's gonna start crying. Great, now what do I do. The last thing I need her to do is get irrational right now and try to swim it again.
I moved to the edge of the water a few feet away from her and said, "Here, you can have my trunks". I shucked them off and extended them to her while turning the other way. I had made sure I was in the water enough that I wouldn't be flashing her. I heard her move and finally take them from me. A few moments later I asked if she had them on and she replied a pouting "Yes". I turned and looked briefly and although they were ridiculously loose on her, they did the job. I didn't push my luck though and looked away.
We sat there quietly not saying a word. I could feel the tension in the air though. I don't know how much of it was her seething that I was the one that saved her from what she had to know was in a dire situation or the embarrassment of not having any bottoms on. 'Wait a minute. Why didn't she have any bottoms on?' I thought to myself. Oh well, I am not going to ask.
I guess I should tell you a little bit about Julie. Julie is tall. Six foot tall. That is the most remarkable thing about her. I am not short myself at 5'10" ½ and am in pretty good shape but still, 6' is tall for a chic. Sure she's a blonde and has a very good figure but what I have always remembered about her is that she is tall. I guess that is because she lacks depth in personality. She's nice and all but she tends to be on the fickle side. We had a lot of mutual friends, since we were the same age and hung out in the same crowds but never really talked.
Why did she hate me? Her sister, who was 2 years older than her at 21 used to work at the same beach hut that ran the life guard station that I worked at. I caught her stealing some of the bathing suits that the hut sold and turned her in for it and Julie got plenty pissed off at me for it. What she doesn't know is that I was the reason she didn't get arrested over the issue. I literally begged them not to. Julie never gave me the chance to tell her that and quite frankly I didn't really care to. I did the right thing and shouldn't have to explain myself for doing so. Julie's problem is that she doesn't see her sister for what she is. Julie's sister is a pothead. She probably stole the stuff to sell for drugs. I knew it was only a matter of time before she did something stupid. Julie refuses to see that.
"They came off when I was trying to swim back to the shore." Julie said, interrupting my thoughts.
"What?" I asked.
"My bathing suit bottoms. They came off when I was trying to swim back to the shore." She explained.
"Oh." I retorted, not wanting to seem as if though I was using this to engage in a conversation with her. I guess she just didn't want me to think she was nude bathing out here. I did notice though that she had not thanked me for my trunks. Oh well.
"Why did you bring me back to the sandbar instead of the shore?" she asked.
"We wouldn't have made it to the shore. With the tide going out the undercurrent was trying to pull us out to sea. With the water being choppy it made it even harder to swim. Our best bet was to come back to the sandbar and wait till the tide starts going back in." I responded.
"Is it going to storm?" She asked with a hint of fear in her voice.
"It looks like it is going to rain but I don't think it will be bad." I answered.
It then occurred to me that I had not driven here and was going to have to take the bus home. How the hell was I going to take the bus home with no trunks?
"Julie, did you drive here?" I asked.
"No, I took the bus, why?" She said.
"Umm, I took the bus too and I have no trunks now." I said with kind of a defeated look on my face.
"Oh, umm, well, hmmm." She stammered.
We both sat there quietly thinking to ourselves. Of all the people each of us to get stuck in a situation like this with it had to be her and I. I didn't particularly care for her and she certainly hated my guts. It was Julie that spoke first.
"Jeff, I don't really like this situation. I don't like wearing your trunks but I don't have much choice in the matter. I know you don't really like me wearing your trunks but I appreciate your being a gentleman about it and giving them to me. I have a wrap on the beach and once we get there I can give your trunks back to you, but I am scared to go on the public bus with just a wrap on for bottoms. You know how those perverts get on the busses, it gets crowded and they get touchy feely. This is hard for me to ask but can you please forget our differences for a bit and see me home?" She said eloquently.
I was in shock. Julie was always smart in school but she never had any worldliness about her. She never had depth of emotion and quite frankly I figured her for the type to just leave when we got to the shore with my trunks.
"Umm, yeah, sure." I stammered.
Julie then asked, "how much longer till the tide starts coming in?"
I answered, "about an hour and a half."
"Well, I am going to relax till then." Julie said.
With that she leaned back while still keeping her legs bent. I guess she resigned herself to have to be civil with me at least until this was over. I was still taken back by how prolifically she spoke earlier. She completely conveyed what she was thinking and how she felt. Hell, she even showed empathy for my feelings.
I sat there thinking and looking around just trying to pass the time till the tide started coming back in and I noticed something out of the corner of my eyes. I looked over at her and holy shit! I could see clear up my trunks to her pussy. The trunks were really loose on her and they weren't very long anyway. I couldn't believe it. I tried looking away and ignoring it but it was like one of those stains you find on someone's shirt. You know, when your standing there talking to someone and they have a stain on their shirt and you can't help but look at it. I didn't want to sit there and stare at it because if I did and got a hard-on she would definitely notice it being as she had my trunks. I had to do something. I decided to just roam around in the water a little bit. The cool water should help me keep my member under control. I did see enough though to know that she shaves completely.
The tide finally started coming back in and I gave it another 30 minutes and then called out to Julie to let her know it was time to go. We started swimming back to the shore and when we were about half way there she fell behind. I stopped and looked back and asked her if she was ok. She looked at me strangely for a second and then said she was fine and started swimming on. We made it close enough that we could stand without much trouble. We stopped about waist deep in water and I asked her to go get her wrap so I could get my shorts back and we could make our way to the bus stop.
"I can't." Julie said, looking down.
"Why?" I asked.