every chance I got.
As if just looking amazing wasn’t enough, she also always smelt
incredible. This little fact about her I have never shared with anyone
because I know I would get shit from my friends about what a chick thought it
is. It didn’t matter if we had ridden our bikes until sweat had drenched
our swim suits on the way down to the beach, I still always let her take the
lead so that I might catch a smell of her hair as she rode in front of
me. Sitting across the street I watched her walk up to the front door of
her house and I couldn’t take my eyes off her, even as Elliot pulled out of the
driveway and caught me checking her out. I couldn’t wait for the day that
he grew a pair and said something to me. All I needed was an invitation to bash his face in.
Cait waved goodbye again to Elliot but he was already too far away to see it
and I watched as her face became stoic and she drew in a deep breath before
entering the house. She did not know that I was aware of what was waiting
on her on the other side. When she came over to my house to get away from
her mother and find comfort in Courts room I could hear her cry on the other
side of my wall. I heard her talk about how lonely she felt over there
and how horrible it was to have a mother who slept in her own vomit until Cait
came home and cleaned her up. I hated to hear her pain and I would lay
awake in my room quietly cursing her mother. Every instinct told me I
needed to protect her, but I know her mother was not someone Cait wanted my
protection from.
Cait and I had shared one kiss and it is the reason I couldn’t get her off of
my mind. One summer night Court was sick and didn’t feel up to our ride
to the beach. I knew how much Cait looked forward to going so I suggested
we go without Court. Cait agreed right away and when she came out of the
house in a tiny red bikini with a little sundress over it I couldn’t help but
think that she had walked right out of my dreams. Her hair fell over her
shoulders and her skin looked so tan against the red of her suit.
I purposely let her take the lead so I could watch her as she rode in front of
me. By the time we had reached the beach it was taking all of my will
power to not pull her to me and see if her lips tasted as good as they
looked. We dropped our bikes like we always did where the sand meets the
lot and I couldn’t take my eyes off her as she lifted the small sundress up her
body exposing her thighs, then stomach, then breasts as if it was my own
private strip tease. I watched as she ran into the water and I dove in
after her knowing that our game would allow me to watch her for a while as she
lay floating on the surface waiting for me to find her.
Just like always we separated where the waves broke, each of us hiding from the
other as the darkness surrounded us. The game had never been sexual, but
that night as I searched for her the intensity to find her and touch her skin
built inside me until I thought I would burst. When I saw her silhouette
in the light of the moon I followed each curve of her body until my eyes had
rested on her lips. I swam over to her and touched her hand but this time
I couldn’t resist and I pulled her close to me so I could feel her skin against
mine. She smiled at first causing my body to react instantly and when I
heard her breathing heavily as we stared at each other I knew she had felt how
much she had turned me on, her body reacting to the same tension I was feeling.
I almost kissed her then but her face flushed and she treaded back to shore,
putting painful space between us.
We let the waves carry us onto the dark beach and when she rose from the water
she watched me watching her. I was amazed at how much just the sight of
her skin wet from the ocean did things to my body that no girl had ever done to
me before. I told myself to calm down, that she was