Hide and Seek

thought. But I've never been much for display. So as soon as I moved

out of my shorts I ran for the water. She dove in ahead of me. The

last thing I saw was a slim pair of legs sliding in the water, toes

pointed. A clean, perfect dive.

Mine was not so perfect. As soon as I hit the water I went rigid with

the sheer numbing shock of it. It was like diving into a vat of scotch

on the rocks. Colder.

I exploded to the surface with ash out Pure agony. Then immediately I

felt her arm around my waist, so I shook the water out of my eyes and

grabbed for her, laughed and heard her laughing and pulled her to me

hard while she did the same to me. And suddenly there was body heat

between us, enough to make the water seem fifteen degrees warmer.

I felt her hand slide over my buttocks and I pulled her closer still,

and felt myself rising through the tiny space of freezing water so that

just a moment later I was nestled between her legs. Her laugh was more

private this time, just for the two of us. She scissored her legs

together, trapping me in there, in a small hot nexus between them. I

must have groaned.

"Not yet," she said softly. "Not yet but very soon."

And that was the first time I kissed her, there in the deathly freezing

sea.

The taste of her was salty. Her mouth was rich and soft, all tongue

and teeth and roaring heat.

When we came out of the water Kim was smiling at us. The classic

cat-and-the-canary grin. Though it was caviar on her fingertips and

not bird meat. She looked at us and spread her arms so that the

breasts jiggled slightly and said, "Love!" Just that.

Steven pointed his finger at me.

"You having fun, buddy?"

"I am, yes."

We all laughed.

It wasn't love exactly. But it wasn't disinterest, either.