The previous day had been a stinker. Hot as buggery and humid with it. This had segued into a hot, sticky, night, depriving countless thousands of a good night's sleep. Well, it had deprived me, anyway, and I was the one who mattered.
Morning had come and, with it, a cool breeze, gently moving in off the water. It was still early, too early, but the sun was peeping over the horizon and I wasn't going to get any more sleep. I slung on some shorts and trotted down to the beach, strolling along the water's edge, enjoying the breeze. Soon I'd have to head back home for breakfast and a shower before going to work, but right now I was relaxing on a deserted beach.
Not quite deserted. There was another person strolling along the water's edge, heading in my direction. From what I could see she was about my age and quite pretty. A very nice figure, too. She was wearing some sort of beach robe but the material was fairly flimsy. With the sun behind her it shone straight through, giving me a nice outline of her shape.
Perhaps I looked at her a bit too much as she gave me an annoyed look.
"What the hell are you looking at?" she demanded.
Rather an inane question, I thought. It must have been rather obvious that I was looking at her. What else would you look at when the choice was sand, sea, sky, and her? I was tempted to just give a gentle put down, saying something like, "Nothing much," but she really was quite pretty and I found her very attractive.
"I'm not sure," I told her. "I need to take a closer look."
With that I pulled the tie on her beach robe, letting it swing open. In my defence I have to point out that I assumed that she'd have on a bathing costume, even if it was only a bikini. I have to admit a bikini was what I was hoping for. Unfortunately she wasn't wearing a bikini. Or anything else for that matter.
One moment the poor girl was comfortably covered by a beach robe, the next the gentle breeze was blowing the undone robe back, revealing all. Quite frankly, her face was a joy to behold. So was her body, come to think of it.
"I-it's hot," "she stammered. "I didn't want anything on but the robe."
I was startled to find she felt the necessity to explain when she should have been having a go at me for undoing her robe. Not that I minded. She also seemed too stunned to pull the robe back around her. I took hold of her arm in the manner of a comfortable friend, turned and started walking. She found herself walking next to me, finally trying to get her robe back around herself.
"Hey, wait a minute," she said. "Just where do you think you're taking me?"
"Not far," I told her. "You see that strip of green grass there, running along next to the trees?"
She looked and nodded. Yes, she could see the grass. It would have been pretty hard to miss it.
"Well, those trees running along behind that strip of grass means that you can't see that grass from any of the high rise buildings across the road. What's more, those bushes back there hide the grass from casual passers-by on the footpath. The only place you can see that grass is from here on the beach, a beach which is currently deserted, being far too early in the morning for normal people to be out."
"Well, I'm sure that's wonderful for the grass, seeing how grass values it's privacy so much, but why are we going over there?"
"The simple reason is that here on this grass," we'd now reached it, "we can't be seen either. This makes it the perfect place for me to pay closer attention to what's under that robe."
With that I pulled the tie on her robe again, which she had finally managed to do up. She really should have knotted it instead of using a bow. This time I also pushed the robe off her shoulders, encouraging it to slip down her arms, leaving her enticingly naked again.
"Stop doing that," she snapped. "You can't go around doing things like that. What are you doing?"
What I was doing was rather plain to see. I was pushing my own shorts down, leaving me as naked as she was. Very noticeably naked, I might add.
"Getting ready to pay closer attention to your magnificent body," I told her calmly, smiling as she blushed. Or maybe flushed, as I think she might have been more upset than embarrassed.
"Well, whatever you have in mind, forget it," she told me, taking a step backwards.