For a while we are packed in, perfumed bodies pressed into one another and I lose sight of him. I half think that he’ll take the opportunity to jump...ship unseen but when the bodies thin out he’s still sat there unmoving with downcast eyes.For the final time I sway against the strap as the tube decelerates to our joint destination. The carriage is half empty now and as always there will only be a handful of us disembarking. With a final shuddering clunk we arrive and I step forward to stand. Finally I am able to speak a coherent sentence and say that I am ok. You pull back a little, just looking at me. Suddenly I am aware that my thin cotton dress is plastered against my body accentuating every line. A flush is creeps across my cheeks and with an ineffectual tug I try to arrange the fabric across my breasts to reveal a little less, but it is not helping at all. Finally I drop my hands and concede defeat, an amused grin crosses your face. With an easy movement you are up and. Some two hundred yards out from the shore, a low reef broke the surf, and kids bobbed on their boards. Out there, I saw snorkels, and remembered Amelia telling me about fish on the reef. I looked back up the beach to Amelia, but she was engrossed in her book and didn’t see my wave. I did as I was told, and bent to collect some shells. She’ll want to see them when I go back to her, to wonder at their colours and shiny surfaces. She’ll turn them over in her long fingers and trace the corrugations. "Huh," she muttered after checking the dozen or so different channels that were available. "Lots of bare skin."Every movie seemed to include nude shots. She'd seen late night cable back in Tiburon, and the closer it got to midnight, the more skin was revealed. They didn't actually show all of the details, but you had a good idea what was going on. This was like that, but more so. For one thing, the guys were naked, and they showed everything. In some way she liked that. The cable movies would.
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