My Coworker Dared Me to Go Skinny-Dipping
I’d wanted it all summer and never dared. That afternoon, with the pool silent and no one nearby, Adrián jumped in naked and looked at me from the middle.
I’d wanted it all summer and never dared. That afternoon, with the pool silent and no one nearby, Adrián jumped in naked and looked at me from the middle.
I only wanted to watch the sun go down and photograph the sea. Then I heard another bicycle approaching through the sand, and I knew that afternoon wouldn’t end like the others.
The door has barely closed and already his mouth is finding mine, still with the taste of the night between our teeth. Now the bed is ours alone.
We came out of the showers wrapped in short towels, shaking with cold. In the jacuzzi, two strangers were waiting for us, smiling like they had just found dinner.
I pretended to be asleep so I could watch him. What I saw that night in the other bed completely changed the course of the trip.
He promised he’d only rub a little. I relaxed, I trusted him, and that was the mistake I should never have made that night in his bed.
The coach looked at me from across the table and smiled. My father gripped the back of my neck and whispered, “Son, we’re going to do whatever it takes to get you on the team.”
What started as a silly afternoon on his sofa ended with me kneeling between his legs, learning that some favors can’t be undone.
Whenever he closed his eyes in that armchair, he returned to the harbor loft, to the hands of the only man before whom he stopped pretending to be someone else.
It was almost eleven at night and the whole building seemed empty. When I turned my chair around, all that was missing was someone opening that door. And they did.
They knew that strong smell and body hair get me going like few things can. That Saturday they showed up with that smile that meant only one thing: the surprise was for me.
We’d spent the whole wedding exchanging looks. When he whispered that he wanted to show me something, I thought it was a joke. It wasn’t.
I was twenty and had never been with a man. That night, while closing the gym, the only member left walked into the showers at the same time I did.
He caught me looking at him in the locker room and said nothing. But on the way out he was waiting by the fence, nodding toward the woods: just a minute.