Hope you're all enjoying the story so far. Still 7 days until the party! There's so much more to do in that time. I told you that it'd be a long one :)
The warm water that landed on his face felt so refreshing. He ran his hands through his hair, soaking his locks. He sighed out of relief, the morning had been stressful. He was worried about Linka and that worry had taken its toll on him. He had seen her face and somehow he knew what it meant. He knew that she didn't want any more of a relationship than what they already had and didn't know how to say that to him. He turned the tap off. He could think about this kind of thing without wasting water. He grabbed the towel from the rack and began drying himself. He didn't bother doing a good job, he was going to go to the beach soon anyway and the sun would take care of the rest for him.
He walked into his bedroom. He'd tidied up quite a bit and the room wasn't anywhere near as dirty as it usually was. He'd thrown all his dirty laundry into the wash basket and he'd organised all the clean ones. Loose papers had been put on his desk and he'd remade his bed and it had only taken about 15 minutes but it made the room look so much neater. It still needed a vacuum and a dusting and most stuff to be reorganised properly but otherwise it was quite passable. Wheeler put a singlet on and a pair of shorts and slipped a pair of sandals on before opening his door and stepping into the day. He grabbed a hat from next to the door handle and placed it atop his head before beginning to walk towards the beach, not 300m away. He could smell the fresh sea breeze and knew the wind was blowing north-westerly, straight from the beach.
He walked a few steps when he heard someone behind him call his name. He could recognise that voice anywhere and turned to face her. He saw Linka rushing towards him, almost running. He raised his hand a smiled, trying to hide the pain in his heart, knowing that he would have to let the feelings he had for her go soon, for her sake.
"Hey babe," he called when she came within a few paces, "joining me down by the beach?" Linka was going to thank him for breakfast but she decided that she'd follow through with her earlier promise and join him for a swim.
"I promised that I'd meet up for a swim this morning didn't I?" she gently touched his forearm before realising that she had and withdrawing, "lead the way."
Wheeler feigned a smile and started to walk in the direction of the beach. After a few seconds, she realised that she'd forgotten her swimming clothes.
"Oh, I forgot my swimwear," Linka realised, "do you mind if I rush back and grab them now? I'll meet you in a few minutes."
"Not at all," Wheeler raised an eyebrow.
She turned on her heels and started running back to her hut. He watched her as she ran, she seemed a lot different to how she did at breakfast. Maybe she did want a relationship with him after all. Bah! Perhaps it was best if he stopped thinking about it and just went along with whatever might happen. He began walking toward the beach, feeling the suns warmth on his skin and thinking that today would be another beautiful day on Hope Island.
When Linka arrived back at her hut, she threw the door open with a loud crash and quickly went straight to her drawer. She pulled open the bottom drawer and grabbed the blue bikini that she'd so far never worn. She'd bought it about 3 years ago to tease Wheeler and thought that now was the perfect time to try it on. Skimpy was putting it mildly, it could barely be considered clothing. She smiled as she started undressing and putting the tiny swimwear on. She'd lost a little weight in the past three years, not much only about 2kg, but enough to make a difference. The swimwear was a little tight when she bought it so now it clung to her body perfectly. Perhaps this was fate?
Linka put her other clothes that she had already been wearing back on and grabbed a large beach towel and a hat and sunscreen before rushing straight back out the door and towards the beach. Her excitement was uncontrollable and she didn't seem to realise how enthusiastic she was behaving.
She reached the beach less than 2 minutes later and easily found Wheeler resting against a big log that had somehow found its way to the shoreline. His feet dangled off and kicked at the water. He was only wearing swimming shorts, but they were dry and surmised that he must not have entered the water yet. She smiled at him and walked toward him. As she approached, he must have heard her and turned his head to look at her. He started to stand and walk towards her so she started flicking out her beach towel and laying it flat on the sand. He had reached her by the time she had set up the towel.
"May I sit?"
"Da, Yankee," Linka answered. She gently patted the ground next to where she was sitting. Wheeler took the hint and sat where she had indicated. She put her hat on her head and cracked open the sunscreen and began applying it to herself. He watched her as she did. Linka had beautiful skin. The hairs on her arms were fine and blonde, barely visible. Her skin was soft and pale without a single blemish. Her long legs were stretched out in front of her and she pulled them up towards her to begin applying lotion to them. Wheeler couldn't help but take a glance, feeling like a pervert as soon as he did and he turned away slightly when he caught her eye. She must now have known that he was checking her out.
"Do you want to use some?" she asked him once she'd finished, liking the way that he had been looking at her body. She was proud of her body and how she stayed in shape but still felt embarrassed when he looked at her.
"Um, sure," he turned his head back and accepted the bottle from her, squeezing a sizable amount of lotion on his hand and beginning to apply it to his skin.
"Wheeler," Linka put her hand on his near knee, making him stop momentarily, "I didn't thank you for breakfast this morning. In fact, I behaved terribly at breakfast this morning. I want to apologise for how I acted before, during and after breakfast."
He put the bottle down and put his hands on hers, "you're most welcome, and don't worry about it babe. I'm just glad that you enjoyed something that I cooked for a change!" She giggled and he laughed with her. He turned to begin applying more lotion and soon after he was finished. She removed her hand from his knee and sat back in the sun. It would soon be too hot for her overclothes and suddenly felt apprehensive about revealing her bikini to him.
As if sensing what she was thinking about, "Linka, aren't you getting too hot wearing that? Didn't you bring a bathing suit?"
"Yankee, you just want to see me with less clothes on!" Linka teased him.
Wheeler seemed to take it personally and began apologising, "Linka, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that way." He stopped when he saw her laughing.
"It's just embarrassing..." her voice trailed off.
"We've been swimming before, it's nothing I haven't seen before," Wheeler started to try to calm her down. It was true, but he hadn't seen this bikini before and she was sure that he hadn't seen anywhere near this much of her body before.
"I'm so stupid!" Linka said to herself, "I shouldn't have worn this bikini. It's not appropriate!"
"Just take your top off and cool off a little. Here, I'll turn away while you do." Wheeler turned away from her, but he didn't realise that she was embarrassed about her clothes, not about changing in front of him. She sighed and starting blushing as she slipped the shirt over her head and her shorts past her ankles. She placed them at the foot of the towel and folded her arms across her breasts, trying to disguise how much of them that Wheeler would have been able to see. When Wheeler sensed that she had finished from the lack of activity, he sat back to his original position.
"See, not so hard was it?" Wheeler turned to look at her, his eyes adjusting to the light as the sun was behind her. He realised why she'd been a little apprehensive. What she was wearing was quite revealing. He did the honourable thing and stopped looking at her body. Clearly she was regretting her attire and it wasn't right to make her feel insecure about it. "Linka, if you're uncomfortable in that bikini, do you want to go and change into another?" Linka had beamed at him, though he didn't see as he was trying to look away from her. He was behaving so gentlemanly, she would never have imagined that he'd behave this way a year ago.. a month ago.. or even yesterday! He'd have been wolf-whistling at her and saying she looked beautiful and would try to lie back to look at her ass, but not this Wheeler. He was doing everything he could to make her feel special, and whatever he was doing was certainly working as Linka couldn't help but admit to herself that she felt special around him.
"Niet," Linka put her arms over her stomach instead and lay back on the towel, trying to loosen up a little but she couldn't help but feel exposed. Wheeler followed her lead and lay down as well.
"If you insist," he said, turning his head to the side to face her as she did too. He took a glance at her body as he did, her breasts standing up above her and her stomach flat under her hands. He couldn't help but admire how beautiful she was. He quickly looked at her face instead, trying his very best to keep his attention there. He could see her cheeks were beetroot red and felt a little sorry for her. She must have been trying to impress him with her outfit but she'd put herself in a position that she didn't find comfortable and now she didn't have any way of getting out of it without hurting his feelings.
"There's something different about you today Wheeler," Linka said to him and furrowed her eyebrows.
"How so?" he asked. He knew what the answer would be. After admitting to Linka last night about some of his feelings, as he walked to his room, he promised to himself that he'd start behaving as an adult rather than as a child. For too long he'd gone through life as a rebel and a trouble-maker. The time for those kind of shenanigans was over for him and it was time to be responsible, like the others were.
"I don't know," Linka started, before continuing, "you've matured so much since just last night. I don't know how to explain it."
Wheeler leaned towards her and kissed her forehead. She had thought for a split second that he was going to try and kiss her lips and prepared herself to flinch away from him. "I don't want to be a kid any more Linka. I want to be an adult. I know that my age says that I am an adult, but I want my actions to start matching my age." He turned his head back and closed his eyes, "for so many years I've felt that I've needed to behave a certain way to get people to like me but also to keep people from getting too close. The time for that is over and I'm ready to change how I treat other people, but more importantly how I treat myself."
Linka didn't take her eyes off him. Her lower eye started shedding a tear. She'd never seen him emotional before. She could see that he was in turmoil.
"I just hope that it isn't too late to repair the relationships in my life, with my family and my friends but most importantly with you Linka," he turned to look at her when he had said her name, "you're a great friend Linka and I really appreciate your company. Sometimes we fight, it's true, but that's only because we care about each other. I just don't want to fight with you any more. I'm tired of arguing with you, I want to be a better friend to you and I want you to be happy to be my friend."
She started crying now. She couldn't stop herself. She could see that he blamed himself for all the rude or insensitive or annoying things that he'd done over the years, not knowing that those things hadn't negatively impacted their friendship in the slightest. "Wheeler, don't say things like that. You're a great person, and I admire that you're changing your perspective on life, but please don't change who you are. You are a good friend and I am happy to be your friend. I'm here for you." She pushed herself up and rolled over to hug him. He put a hand in the middle of her back and she could feel him sobbing softly in her ear.
"Thank you Linka," he whispered to her. He began to sit himself up, forcing her to do the same. He wiped his eyes and stood up. He held his hand out to her and she accepted it as she wiped away her tears. Her outfit really was revealing, now that he could see it properly. He didn't ogle her too much, instead putting an arm around her shoulder and hugging her.
"Oh! You need to put some sunscreen on your back! You'll burn if you don't," Wheeler said to her.
"Da, you're right," she looked up at him, "can you put some on for me? I need to do my front as well."
"Um, yep, sure," Wheeler felt awkward. He'd never been asked to do something this personal with her before and felt a little strange about it. He reached down and grabbed the bottle again, squirting some into her hand before into his own. He gently put his hand on her shoulders and she shuddered from the cold touch. He started making circular movements, rubbing the cream onto her before moving down progressively. He tried to be thorough but not too sensual either. They were still friends and although he wanted more of a relationship with her, he didn't know whether she wanted more and it would be inappropriate to try anything now. She'd finished slathering cream on her chest and stomach before he'd finished on her back and started giggling when he started touching her sides.
"Gentle," she said, turning her head sideways to see him from the corner of her eye, "that's ticklish."
"I'm sorry," he said and he was more careful. She smiled when she turned her head back forward and closed her eyes, taking in his touches in silence, reminding her of her dream last night. "Ok, done." She heard the cap on the sunscreen snap shut and her eyes opened in a flash. She could feel a fire within her and knew what her body was telling her. She started blushing at herself and turned around to face him. The first thing he noticed was that her cheeks were flushed. She must have felt uncomfortable with his touches. "Sorry, I hope I didn't make you uncomfortable."
"Niet, not at all," she smiled and kissed his cheek, "shall we walk? I want to go to the rock pools." He nodded and took her arm in his, leading her down the beach towards the rocks. She looked up at him and saw the sun casting shadows across his face. He was beautiful and she now knew that she was in love with him. Not only was he pretty, he was sensitive and mature. He was everything that she wanted in a man. He had always been this person, but he disguised it with his behaviour. She hated that he had been brought up in an unhealthy environment and wondered to herself how much time that had cost them.
"What are you thinking, babe?" Wheeler suddenly asked. They'd been walking for 3 minutes and she had been staring at him the whole time without saying anything.
"Just thinking about how beautiful you are," she responded, before realising what she'd said. It took a couple seconds for her to realise and she stopped walking instantly and pulled her hand back to herself, "Bozhe moi, I can't believe I just said that!"
She clapped her hands over her face, hiding herself from him. She could hear him laughing and pulled her hands away to see him smiling at her. She couldn't help but smile back. He grabbed her hands in his and stood directly in front of her. He pulled their hands together in front of their chests.
"Linka," he paused. The time seemed right. The mood seemed right. Everything seemed right.
"Da, Yankee?" she smiled back at him. Was this it? Was he going to ask her now?
"We..." for some reason, he couldn't speak. He knew the words but his mouth couldn't move. He stopped for several seconds.
"We...?" Linka prompted him, sensing his dilemma.
He sighed before continuing, "we should head over to the rock pools quickly, it's almost midday and it'll get too hot on the rocks soon." He stepped back and pulled her alongside him and they started walking together. He had wanted to tell her how much he loved her but for some reason he couldn't do it. Was he a coward? He'd told her hundreds of times before, why was this time different? He stopped and thought and knew that it was because this time he truly meant it and she would've known that he truly meant it. Perhaps he simply didn't deserve her love anyway, she could find a millions guys better than him. He looked over and wondered why she had a huge grin on her face.
Linka smiled to herself as she walked. She knew exactly what Wheeler was about to tell her, even though he had said something else. She could see it in his eyes, and she could see the disappointment when he changed the subject. He wanted to tell her that he loved her. She wouldn't pressure him about it, he'd tell her when he felt right about it and she couldn't wait to say it straight back to him. It felt good knowing how he felt. She just hoped that she wouldn't have to wait too long.
Pretty soon, the rock pools were upon them. Wheeler was barefoot but Linka was smart enough to bring her sandals. Wheeler gave everything he had not to stare at her body. Her bra didn't provide much support so each step caused her breasts to bounce excessively. Her panties didn't provide much cover and kept riding up so she felt like she was continuously rearranging them, even though it had only been a few times. Wheeler had hoped to himself that she hadn't noticed that his shorts had become tighter, but Linka had noticed. She didn't blame him for it though, she knew that she was quite attractive and she was scantily clad and he loved her. What she wanted most was to reach inside and feel it for herself...
"Hey, babe," Wheeler interrupted her and snapped her back into reality, "we're here." They had arrived at the rock pools and Wheeler let her hand go to climb up and over a large rock before holding his hand out to help her up. She didn't need the assistance but she accepted it anyway.
She loved coming to the rock pools. She didn't do it often enough anymore, she always had excuses as to why she couldn't. Sometimes it was because of the weather and other times it was because she had other things to do but in the end it was because she only liked coming here to share time with one of the other Planeteers. It just didn't feel right being here alone.
Wheeler started carefully walking over the wet rocks and began looking for crabs and starfish that would often habituate the pools. He wanted to impress Linka and find a nice colourful shell or something to present to her.
"Hey, don't move too fast Yankee, you'll slip and hurt yourself," Linka called back to him. He turned and could see that she was at least 20 metres away from him. Had he really gone so far so quickly?
"Sorry, babe," he called back, "I was trying to look for some stuff to see."
"Well, don't go too fast because you'll miss something or you might step on something!" Linka called back, more motherly this time.
"Yes, mother!" He called back to her and laughed. He wasn't surprised to hear her say bozhe moi to herself when he did. He did follow her advice now though and started looking around more carefully and watched his step. Linka smiled to herself as she saw him slow down and knew that things between them would turn out fine.
Linka and Wheeler spent at least half an hour at the rock pools before he started complaining that the rocks were too hot. It was just after midday and the sun was right above them.
"You shouldn't have come barefoot then!" Linka yelled over to him and started making her way towards the rock where they'd entered from. She'd found a group of anemones which Wheeler poked with a stick to get them to move before Linka had chastised him. He'd spotted 2 crabs following each other and they'd watched them move about for several minutes before they must have noticed the two humans and hid under a rock. They found heaps of starfish, pretty much on every rock. The tides had been high for quite a while and a lot of wildlife could be found.
Wheeler started making his way back towards Linka and jumped from a rock to another to try and save time. He realised too late that the rock was covered in a layer of seaweed and he could do nothing to prevent his fall. His leg buckled beneath him and he threw an arm out to brace his fall. His elbow got caught against a rock and he yelled out in pain. He swore at the top of his voice and could see Linka turn around and the worry on her face hurt him more than the pain he felt. He turned away from her, unable to look at her and gritted his teeth. He tried to lift himself and managed to roll himself over and steady on the seaweed-covered rock. He inspected his arm and saw blood oozing out of the cut he had. Linka had just reached him and knelt on the rock closest to him.
"Bozhe moi!" she exclaimed, "Wheeler, are you...? Quick, let's get you back to the lodge." She stood and helped him up, making sure to lift him by his good arm. Who knows what damage might have been done. He was grateful for the help but also felt sheepish. She'd told him to be careful and he wasn't and now look what had happened to him. They slowly but assuredly made their way back to the sand and then Linka lead him back towards their belongings. She gathered up all their things and then escorted Wheeler to her hut. She had thought about going to the main lodge, but she had the necessary first aid equipment at her house and it was closer.
She pushed open the door and ran inside to grab two towels. She rolled one up longways and wrapped it above the wound. It had stopped seeping blood by now but she wanted to make sure to cut blood off to the area. She held the other towel under his arm and guided him towards her bathroom. She pushed that door open too and made him sit down on her toilet. He felt light-headed, from the lack of blood, from the heat of the day and from the stress of the situation. He threw his head back and groaned. "I don't feel well.." Wheeler said, "...just wanna.. sleep."
Linka put her hand on his cheek and softly stroked him, "it'll be okay, but stay awake for me please Wheeler."
He nodded a few seconds later and she went to the wall and grabbed her first aid kit. She cracked it open and grabbed some bandage, antiseptic and sanitary wipes. She thought about using gloves as well, but didn't bother. She ran some warm water over a wipe and started to clean away the blood from the wound. It took a few attempts as the blood had set in some areas and was difficult to remove but soon enough, the wound was clean. The cut was jagged and roughly an inch long. It was just above the elbow and would no doubt be irritating for Wheeler during its recovery. She looked at her hands and saw some of his blood on the back of her hands and under her fingernails. She didn't mind though, she might have been disgusted if it had been a stranger who she'd been helping, but with her friends, and mostly with Wheeler, she didn't mind.
She grabbed the small bottle of antiseptic and opened it before holding the dressing over the lid and upending the bottle a few times to saturate the cloth. She grabbed Wheeler's hand and squeezed it, "this is going to sting." She warned him but he already knew that it would hurt. He'd hurt himself in school a lot of times and had had to visit the nurse several times for similar scrapes. He knew that Linka would be more gentle with him than his nurse had been but the antiseptic would still hurt regardless of who administered it. He took a deep breath and nodded to her, letting her know that he was ready.
Linka bit her lip and slowly lowered the dressing to the wound, feeling him flinch back at first contact. He yelled out expletives when she continued and started rubbing the wound, killing any bacteria but also causing his nerves to scream out to his brain. She didn't want to hurt him and she wished that somehow if she had done it that it wouldn't hurt him but she knew that it had to be done to make sure that it didn't get infected and just wanted everything to be over and done with as soon as possible. She moved her hand away and saw that the wound was sufficiently clear and reached for the bandage. She started wrapping the wound and eventually finished by clipping the pin in place.
She looked up at his face and saw that he was sweating. He was looking back at her, his eyes heavy but he managed to smile. She could feel herself begin to cry and jumped up to him, hugging him tightly. She cried silently and felt his body relax, a hand reaching around her as he hugged her back. She smiled to herself and pulled her embrace away. She stopped when her face was about 10cm from his. She could feel cool air on her cheeks where her tears were and went to wipe them away. Before she could, Wheeler raised his good arm to her face and started wiping them away for her. When he'd wiped the majority of her tears away, he held his hand over her cheek and then trailed his fingers through her hair and over her ears. He lowered his hand to rest on her shoulder.
"Linka," he started, his voice cracking due to being too dry before he coughed and continued, "Linka, I.." he paused and looked deep into her eyes, "I love you, Linka." He moved his hand up her neck slowly and gently rested it behind her ear. She saw him move his head towards hers and his lips pursed and his eyes started closing. He was going to kiss her! It all happened so fast and her body took control and she did nothing to stop herself. Before long, their lips touched and they were kissing each other tenderly. She raised her hand up to grab his head in between her hands and kissed him more passionately, forcing him to do the same. He put a hand on her hip and gently caressed her body and she lowered a hand down to rest against his chest, the other hand reaching behind his head and latching on to his hair. She pulled him up and they were now standing, without breaking their kiss. He pushed her back to the wall and used his other hand to reach down and touch her behind. The hand that was touching her sides began playing with the strap of her bikini bottoms, but he wasn't trying to take them off. He pushed his body up against hers and could feel her breasts pressing up against his chest. Linka suddenly realised what was happening and gently pushed Wheeler away from her and he quickly understood that she had wanted him to stop and immediately obliged.
"Linka, I'm sorry. That was too much," Wheeler misinterpreted her and apologised.
"Niet," she traced a finger across his collar bone, "I'm not upset. I love you too Wheeler, but I'm not used to this sort of thing and I want to take things slowly. This all feels a little too fast."
Wheeler smiled when she told him that she loved him and kissed her gently before pulling back away. She smiled back, realising that he was willing to go exactly as fast as she wanted and not even a little bit faster than that. "Can you say that again?" He grinned, making her push him back from her.
"Don't push your luck, Yankee!" she teased and knelt down to pick up the soiled cloths from the floor where she'd left them. Wheeler picked up the towels and unwrapped the other from his upper arm and threw them in the wash basket. Linka picked up the first aid kit and put in back in its cradle on the wall and Wheeler wrapped an arm around her shoulder and led her back into her main room. She left his embrace and sat down on the bed. He thought it'd be inappropriate of him to join her on the bed so he walked over to the chair at her desk, swung it around to face her and sat in that instead.
We just kissed and he's worried about sitting next to me... Bozhe moi, Wheeler truly has changed. She thought to herself as she watched him, perhaps for a little too long as he caught her gaze and his eyebrow lifted in surprise.
"Listen, I'm sorry that I fell. You told me to be careful and I wasn't and I ruined our afternoon," Wheeler started, changing the subject. He knew that things between them had changed permanently now, but he tried to lighten the mood a little. It felt awkward now to be around her. They been friends for many years now and now that their relationship was now more serious, they had to get used to the different feelings that they'd now be forced to share.
"Wheeler, our afternoon has not been ruined at all," she started to blush, "it's the best day I've had for a long time." Did this make them a couple now? Was she now his girlfriend? She'd never had a boyfriend and didn't know how things worked.
"Well, I guess you'd better thank me for that then!" Wheeler laughed and she joined in. It was something that the old Wheeler would have said but he said it differently. A few days ago, it would have sounded arrogant, but this time it sounded endearing instead.
"Hey, Wheeler," Linka got his attention, and he turned to her, showing that she had his attention, "where do we go from here? Am I your girlfriend and are you my boyfriend? I've never been in a relationship before and I don't really know what comes next."
"I don't know," Wheeler responded, he'd expected a question of this kind, "I've only had one girlfriend before and it was never like this. We hung out a little but it was more like a friendship than a relationship. I suppose that it is up to us as to how we define our relationship. Maybe we shouldn't really define it yet until it starts feeling right. I still can't quite believe what's happened, I'm afraid that I'll open my eyes and it'll all have been a dream. In the end, all I want is for us to feel comfortable. I'll only move forward as fast as you want to. If you don't want to kiss me again for 6 months, I'll wait however long it takes. I won't pressure you into doing anything, I just want to share my love and affection with you."
"Yankee.." she was touched, "I don't want to wait 6 months, I don't even want to wait 6 seconds!" She stood and walked towards him and kissed him again, quickly but affectionately. "That being said, I don't want to tell anyone yet. I.. it feels wrong to hide things but I want us to work things out together without them interfering, at least for the time being. And I don't know what other kinds of intimacy you want but I don't feel like I need any more than what we're sharing right now."
"Linka!" Wheeler started blushing, "I wasn't thinking of that for a long time. I'm a virgin too and that is something that I've always thought should stay until you're sure it's with the right person. I can't lie and say that I haven't thought about that but I won't lie and say that I want it right away either."
Linka was surprised. He'd been with Trish for a long time and he'd never had sex with her. Perhaps she hadn't been the right person for him, as he said. What if she was? She thought to herself and she thought of them twisting together under the sheets... "but yes, maybe we shouldn't tell anyone else what's going on until we're comfortable being with each other first. It might take weeks or even months but it might only take a day, whatever it takes is fine with me." Luckily, Wheeler continued talking and stopped her from what she was thinking about. She smiled to him and pecked him on his cheek before holding a hand out to him. He accepted and she lifted him up and into her embrace, hugging him tight to her. He hugged her back and they just held each other, hearing each others steady breathing.
A few minutes later, Linka pulled her head away and looked up at Wheeler. "Did you want some lunch? It's a bit late, the others have probably already eaten, but we could surely scrounge something."
"I do feel a bit hungry," Wheeler agreed, releasing their embrace, "but you should definitely change into something more appropriate if we're going to see the others." He looked down at her body and smiled in approval. She really was beautiful. She started blushing as she remembered what she was still wearing and made her way over to her dresser and reached behind her back to unclasp her bra. He made his way to her door. "I'll head back and change too, I'll meet you for lunch in a little while." She looked over at him, somehow forgetting that he was still there. She almost undressed in front of him! She tried to hide her embarrassment and smiled but her cheeks betrayed her.
"See you soon, dorogoy moi." He blew her a kiss and she reached out and grabbed it from mid-air. He smiled and left her hut. Her heart started fluttering as she was left alone to think about what they'd shared.