Bikini

I followed Polly and her relatively new friend, Emily, obediently as they darted in and out of shops buying clothes and souvenirs and trinkety things that held no interest to me. I wasn't one for rushing about, we had a week booked at the hotel and I was more than thankful that we all had separate rooms so that I could have time to myself. I adored the pair but they didn't half do my head in sometimes, I could handle Polly on her own but Emily was just a double of Polly, I couldn't handle two Polly's. Not in this universe or in any other did the thought of two Polly's enthral me.

We finally came to the end of the string of souvenir shops and I was more than thankful to find a little cafe at the very end.

"Ooh, lets go and have lunch in there!" Polly exclaimed excitedly as she clapped her hands together. She glanced over at Emily and smiled as she nodded in approval, not even a passing glance was thrown my way.

I seemed to have been stuck with all of the shopping bags, none of which were mine, much to my annoyance.

The pair walked straight through the doors not even giving me a backwards glance to notice that my arms were full and to notice that I would be incapable of holding or opening the door by myself. I just about managed to sneak through the small gap in the door and as I dashed through to the other side I collided with a woman who I had never met before I'm my life and yet she had such a familiar face. For a moment I forgot about Polly and Emily and the fact we were on holiday because this amazingly beautiful woman was stood before me.

It was the strongest attraction I had ever felt towards anyone in my life and that terrified me, and intrigued me at the same time. It wasn't the first time that I had questioned my sexuality and I was sure as hell it wouldn't be my last time.

"Oh, shit, I'm so sorry." I apologised profusely as the tall dark-haired woman before me appeared to be wearing her cup of coffee. "I'm just so clumsy and I have all these bags and... Let me just put them down and I'll... I'll help you get cleaned up and... Just one second." I stumbled over each of my words but she didn't seem mad, instead she seemed more amused by my ramblings than anything.

I ran over to Polly and Emily and dumped the bags on the table before them before I rushed back over to the woman. "I am so so sorry, I'm a klutz sometimes." I took the coffee cup from her hand and placed it on a nearby table. "I will buy you another one I swear." She held her out her slightly baggy plain black tee with her fingertips presumably to stop the coffee from burning her. "I will buy you another shirt too, there's a shop down the road... I'll just..." I pointed my thumbs to the door.

"Its okay, seriously stop worrying, I just need to go and clean myself up., everyone is clumsy sometimes." I was in awe of her calm manner and I wondered what made her feel this way. She was so laid back it was incredible.

"I'll help." I said as I followed her into the bathroom. I didn't realise how much that phrase sounded like a euphemism as I was too engaged with the fact that this woman whom I had just wronged was so calm about the whole situation.

"I'll get you some paper towels." I mumbled as I pulled some from the holder. I heard her run the tap. As I turned around she pulled the shirt up over her head and placed it into the sink.

I paused as I took in every inch of skin that this woman offered me. She wore a basic black lace bra that fit perfectly and made me wonder if she was wearing underwear to match. Her toned stomach perfectly outlined her hips.. Her low rider jeans helped to further emphasise her amazing hips. I was in awe of such beauty. Her body was perfectly tanned. She smiled at me as I moved my eyes away from her abdomen and finally met my blue eyes with her greens.

"I've got to soak it." She said simply, referring to the shirt in the sink of which I was paying no attention. "I'll go and buy you a new one, what's your size?" She smiled at me again with that dazzling smile and my heart melted just a little bit more.

"Just get me a medium t-shirt, any logo or plain or anything will do." I nodded my head still mesmerized by her body and I slowly backed out of the bathroom door. I didn't even stop to speak to Polly and Emily who appeared to be ordering food without me. I just dashed down the road and into the nearest clothes shop. I grabbed a grey vest top with the guns and roses logo on it, paid and ran back.

"Hope this will do." I panted as I thrust the carrier bag towards her. She pulled the vest top over her head and straightened it out. "I always prefer them a little baggier." She said as she pulled at the hem of the top.

"Me too, but why hide that beautiful figure?" The words had slipped out of my mouth before I had even had time to think about it.

"Because there's way too many lecherous men about these days." She said it simply as if it was the most obvious thing in the world as she wrung out her plain black tee and thrust it into the bag.

"Amen." I commented as we both headed out of the door. "Me and my friends are sitting over there if you'd like to join us for that coffee I owe you."

She pointed to a table in the corner. "I'm already sat with someone but maybe I'll see you around."

The red-headed woman that she had just pointed to waved at her and glared at me, I sensed she was more than just a friend.

"Hopefully." I muttered to myself as I went and sat down. "Where on God's Earth have you been?" Polly questioned just as their plates arrived.

"Long story, I'll explain later." I muttered fairly down hearted as I sat down.

"You'll have to go up and order. We didn't know what you wanted." Emily said as she stabbed her fork into a leaf of lettuce. I rolled my eyes as I walked over to the counter and ordered my food.

I also ordered the mysterious woman, whose name I had forgotten to ask, a coffee. The guy at the counter remembered her order from before and had been kind enough to take it over to her so I didn't have to.

I didn't want to have to encounter the same thing over again. My mind didn't shift from the idea of meeting this woman again even as we walked along the promenade dipping into yet more shops and briefly a somewhat sleazy dive bar.

I finally arrived back at the hotel at around 10 o'clock and I was exhausted, the day had been so draining. I showered and climbed into bed hoping to forget about the whole day, from accidentally throwing a cup of coffee over the most beautiful woman I had met in my life and then seeing that she was more than likely taken (Just my luck). Then not to mention going into a dive bar and getting chatted up by a lecherous man before abandoning Polly and Emily in their ugly, hopefully unsuccessful quest for men. Also heading back, I tripped over a rogue paving slab and busted both my knees, one elbow and one palm of my hand. I almost cried in the shower as the hot jets pressed into my bloodied grazes. Day two of this holiday had been crappy, I hoped to God that by closing my eyes tightly and thinking happy thoughts I could pretend like the day never happened. No such luck.

After two hours of trying to get to sleep I was uncomfortable, hot, sweaty and mentally tortured. I didn't even stop to wonder where Polly and Emily could have been, I just knew where I wanted to be.

I threw my bikini on with a loose fitting t shirt and a pair of mid thigh length shorts, slipped my flip flops on, grabbed my beach bag and walked in the pitch black to the where I roughly remembered the beach being. It was so serene there, the night life was nowhere to be seen or heard and that suited me well.

There was no artificial light but the moon hung low and bright in the sky and the reflections off of the water gave off a wonderful dimly lit feel to the place. I walked from one end of the beach to the middle figuring that no one would find me here. I scanned my eyes across the sand for the perfect place to lay my towel down but my eyes were interrupted when they happened upon a body like form in the distance. A part of me said run but the other part that whispered 'get closer' won over and I did so. I finally came to stand over the body which was thankfully intentionally put there.

It was a female form. She looked as if she needed an escape just like me and I felt an immediate calmness with her.

"I guess I'm not the only one with this idea." I commented. She mustn't have noticed me standing there as she jumped as I spoke.

"Shit, sorry, you scared me." She sat up abruptly and pulled her shades up onto the top of her head, she must have had her eyes closed.

"No, that's okay, my bad." She recognised me but I obviously hadn't recognised her yet.

"You really have a knack for terrible introductions you know that kid? And stop apologising, it really isn't flattering."

I diverted my eyes from hers slightly shy. That was when I realised she was wearing a royal blue bikini that fitted her perfectly, her long tanned legs met with amazing ankles and beautifully pedicured feet with blue painted toenails that matched the colour of her bikini. I glanced my eyes back up her body and looked over her toned stomach only to spot an all too familiar figure. It was her, the woman I had tipped coffee over this morning.

"Yeah, I'm really not great at hello's." She laughed at my comment.

"Hello is a good place to start before you begin throwing things over people and giving them heart attacks."

I laughed back. "Mind if I join you..." I left a gap to see if it would prompt her to insert her name. "Alex, the names Alex and not at all kid. Lay your towel down next to mine." She gestured to the spot on her right hand side and lay back down before speaking again. "And your name is?" I placed my towel down next to hers and sat down before removing my flip flops and shorts.

"Piper." Alex shifted to her side presumably to speak to me better.

"That's a great name you got there Piper, mind if I call you Pipes?" I nodded until I realised that she probably couldn't see me due to the fact that the beach was dimly lit and she was wearing shades.

"Yeah, no problem." She let out a low throaty chuckle and I smiled at it. It felt so warm to be next to her. Her personality radiated calm and warmth. She felt to me a little like the sun and I was Icarus just begging to be burned.

She watched intently as I pulled my T shirt over my head and discarded it to my side.

"Nice six pack." Her voice deepened slightly as she spoke.

"Thanks." I replied as I lay down to mirror her position. We sat face to face now.

"What happened to your friends?"

"Left them at a dive bar about three hours ago, haven't heard from them since. What happened to your girlfriend?"

I pushed trying to drag the conversation further, not for the fact that I wanted to avoid silence but for the fact that I was eager to know every little detail about this woman's life.

I was willing to live her and breath her and everything she was. She was, to me, an odd kind of perfection.

"Girlfriend? No way, she was not my girlfriend. She wishes though, I guess. She was just a colleague who I owed a drink to." I nodded my head knowingly although once again I doubted she was able to see it.

"So you aren't..?"

Alex interrupted me before I could finish my question. She leaned in and took my lips with her own. She kissed me as if nothing had ever tasted so good.

She eventually pulled away, I didn't want it to stop but I was a little too surprised to kiss back.

"Does that answer your question?"

"Yeah I guess so."

She leaned forward and captured our lips in a kiss once more, this time she pushed even harder into the kiss as if it was the last time our mouths would ever meet, she manoeuvred herself carefully off of her own towel and onto mine, on top of me. She straddled my hips. I placed my hands upon her waist and she pulled away from the kiss.

"Race you to the sea!" She shouted as she got up off me and ran down the beach.

"Hey that's not fair!" I called after her jokingly as I too made my way down the beach. It was quite some way to the sea but with long legs and haste it wasn't long before we'd both dived head first into the water.

A little distance off stood two dressed up men who appeared to be waving at Alex.

"Hey, ever done X?"...

A/N: Hey guys, sorry it was a little over a week but you know how life gets right? So this one is a little longer but still sticking to short little one shots because that's how I like them, it's easier for me to write this way so I'm sorry there isn't a crazy amount of detail in this one. Anyways, happy reading and please leave a review. I love reading them, they always make my day a little brighter.