chapter 6

Over the next week, Rose made several more trips to the buffet hoping to catch sight of the big man again. She was fairly successful in her endeavors and began to notice him around the resort more. She was too shy to approach the likely married man but she had noticed that he was never with anyone. He just seemed to be enjoying his solitude.

But every time she saw him it sent shivers down her spine and caused her to feel a small jolt of joy deep in her center. She felt like a fool sometimes but she caught herself trying to be more alluring, especially when she caught him at the pool. The sight of the man swimming around in the water, his large body glistening in the hot sun as he floated serenely on his back, the great mound of his belly rising out of the water like a desert island made her feel warm in certain parts of her body. New sensations, deeper, richer than she had ever felt before soon surfaced. She became obsessed, laying there, pretending to sleep behind her sunglasses as she watched the man and imagined being held in his large, strong arms. She wanted to touch every part of him that she could get her hands on.

Shanna had noticed where her friends attention had gone to the past several days. She smiled to herself, knowing what was going through the girls mind. She gave Rosie a hard time but all along she knew the girl was waiting for the perfect man, she just hadn't found him yet.

But now it seemed that Rosie had fallen head over heels with a man she had never spoken to. Through her many "connections" Shanna had learned that the man was going to be staying at the resort longer than her family so Rosie had time, but not much.

She had tried to get Rosie to approach him several times but she stubbornly refused, always mumbling some sort of excuse and turning red. She decided that if Rosie didn't do something soon she was going to interfere and do something drastic on the girl's behalf. But she would give her a chance. Sometimes Rosie could surprise her. Turning to Rosie she excused herself and headed inside. She had a date and she intended to keep it. Rose wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Rose absently waved her friend away. She knew what this "date" consisted of....she knew of it, the joining, the opening and penetration into a woman's most intimate spot, shivered guiltily as her friend whispered secretly about it...but had never experienced it. She was like a flying intructer who had never flown an aircraft. An intimacy and intense pleasure she ached to experience but at the same time dreaded it, dreaded surrendering herself to it. But now in watching this especially round and fat older man something clicked inside her, a warm moist loving that grew warmer everytime she saw him.

She kept her attention focused on the large man and dropped back into her day dreams. She wished she had her friend's courage to take that next step, to surrender herself to a man. But until now she hadn't met one would meet her requirements physically. Intelligence was another thing...but this man looked intelligent, appeared clean, and was obviously well off.

Rose felt her confident building, no longer feeling she was a withdrawn and reclusive young woman who found most of her friends in books.

"I really need to at least say hi..." Rosie said to herself under her breath. "Otherwise I'm going to regret this for the rest of my life."

She screwed her courage up to the sticking point and slowly moved up off her lounge. She spied where he was reclining in a large padded chaise poolside, his thick tanned thighs, almost ridiculously small speedo briefs and that big floral shirt she had seen him in the other night. As she swam closer she saw it was unbuttoned, his round belly rising round and firm, its underside folded onto his thighs almost obscuring the suit. The pool was empty, the guests changing for dinner she assumed...it is now or never.

She moved slowly, quietly, adjusting herself to the waters temperature. No matter how warm the water got it couldn't compete with the sun's heat. She continued drifting around lazily before ducking under the water and heading in the man's general area. Getting closer, closer ...the Jaw's theme song running in her head...dum dumm, dum dumm, umdumm, dundummdundumdum.

Then in one lithe movement pulled herself out of the pool like a seal and stood next to him, water cascading down her curves. She saw the look of brief surprise in his eyes and then pleasure as his eyes met hers. Feeling her nerves start to falter she broke out in a brilliant smile. "Hi! My name's Rose? What's yours?"

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T o be continued, much more to come....comments welcome