Never The Bride(43)

'Abbie, your top's missing,' Georgie giggled, pointing to my chest. I quickly covered my bare breasts with my hands, my cheeks turning the same colour as my slide-slapped chest, stomach, and thighs. The lifeguard looked around, spotted it floating in the water not far away, and raced off to retrieve it.

'Great tits!' muttered the boy, still staring.

'Don't think I won't slap you just because you're a kid,' I hissed at him.

'Go on then, it'd be worth it when you have to let them go to do it. I wouldn't mind another look.'

'Yeah, me neither, Todd,' nodded his friend, who'd sidled up beside him. I just stood there, speechless, still trying to catch my breath from the shock of my journey and impromptu meal, the thought of which made me cough again.

'That was so cool, the way you were flying through the air,' Todd grinned, looking suitably impressed.

Cool? With bad boys my size? Cool was the opposite of how my chest and stomach were feeling right now. They were on fire from the succession of beatings they'd taken as I'd bounced my way down. Never had I wished for a flat chest more than I had during that descent. In fact, I was amazed my boobs were still facing forwards and not as flat as pancakes or poking out of my back. 'You need the kiss of life?' he asked, looking hopeful.

'No!' I retorted. 'Look, don't you have girls your own age to go and flirt with?'

'Yeah, but you're like  …  a Playboy model. You're hot.'

'Your friend is super fit, too,' Todd's friend added. 'I'll have her and you can have Supergirl.'

'Jesus,' I sighed, looking at Georgie for help, but she was too busy laughing and no use at all. 'Just tell me I beat him, that I beat you all, and that all the humiliation and the disgusting snack was worth it.'

'Win? You set a new record, lady. Instead of just a free picture of you coming down the slide, my manager's confirmed you'll get a free video of it as well,' nodded the lifeguard as he handed Georgie my white bikini top.

'Oh wonderful, my pain and shame immortalised, I'm thrilled,' I replied with more than a hint of sarcasm, which seemed to go completely over his head. But despite being in some serious pain, I was secretly chuffed I'd beaten Todd. And being seen as hot by a twelve-year-old, while incredibly wrong on so many levels, was also kind of a morale boost. 'You and you, beat it,' I ordered, flicking my head to them both as they just stood there, transfixed on my hands and hoping for another glimpse. I sighed when they made no move to disappear and turned my back on them as Georgie quickly helped me to dress.



       
         
       
        

'Quite the fan club you have going on,' she observed with another giggle.

'I can just see the headlines back home if we don't shake them off soon. Abbie Carter, the flying water slide flashing speedster, jailed in Mexico for grooming young boys. Seriously, where are their parents?' I shook my head as I started having a coughing fit, the thought of that gross plaster making me want to throw up.

'Kids now get so much more freedom than we ever did,' she agreed. 'Come on, let's go and get you some water. You need to sit down for a while and rest after that. Didn't it hurt?'

'Like you wouldn't believe. I'm in so much pain right now,' I groaned.

'I'm good at massage,' came an adolescent voice behind me.

'And I'm good at spanking, so you'd better scuttle off unless you want to be hauled over my knee,' I warned, shooting him a look over my shoulder, then coughing again.



'Can you report a teenage stalker?' I asked as I zipped up my wet suit. I'd just spotted Todd and his friend watching us from the benches that were dotted around the lagoon the dolphins were in.

'It is starting to get a bit creepy,' Georgie agreed. 'I'm just hoping we don't roll over on our sun loungers at the hotel tomorrow and find them both there, staring at us.'

'I think your new beau will have something to say about that,' I grinned, elbowing her in her ribs. She blushed and giggled.

'He's not my new beau.'

'I have a feeling he will be soon. We've moved from him smiling at you, to you smiling back, to him waving, to you waving back, then the exchange of the word "Hi" to each other as he jogs past every half an hour. You'll be on a date pretty soon.'

'Shut up, he's just being polite,' she grinned as we padded along the floating deck platform to where the trainers were waiting with the other couple doing the swim with us. Four dolphins were zipping back and forth in the water, occasionally sticking their heads up, looking as excited as we were.

'He doesn't direct his smiles and sexy, deep-voiced "Hi" at me, Georgie. And seriously, with a body like that, he doesn't exactly need to jog the amount he does. It's just an excuse to see you. You wait until we're home and I feed the data I've been collating into my spreadsheet. You'll see it's gone from one jog a day to ten in just over a week, increasing exponentially.'

'We're not going on a date. I'm not after a quick, hot holiday romance, and he could live anywhere in the world. I may never see him again.'

'He's got a very British "Hi,"' I observed. 'I'd lay bets on him being an army officer or something.' 

'Look at you, Miss "FBI profiler" from one word.'

'Ask him out then and prove me wrong,' I challenged.

'Damn it, fell right into that one, didn't I?'

I laughed and we shut up as we joined the group and listened to our brief. One by one, we were each asked to sit on the edge of the platform, with a bucket of fish behind us, and our dolphins were called over for an introduction, for which they'd be rewarded. Georgie and I gave each other a watery-eyed, emotional, and excited smile as the first dolphin squeaked excitedly and rose up to offer the lady a kiss. They were such adorable creatures. It swam backwards and did a somersault, then came back for its reward.

Georgie giggled her head off as her dolphin rested its head on her thigh and smiled up at her, allowing her to stroke the underside of its snout, then it shot off to do some acrobatics and came back for its fish.

'Ok, Abbie, you're next. Sit down, legs apart, so Mahi can get up close. No fish until he's performed for you.'

'Ok,' I grinned, quickly taking my place and dangling my legs in the water. Mahi came zooming over, chattering his jaw as he rose up, flippers on my thighs, and gave me a kiss. 'Ahhh, he's so sweet,' I cried.

'Stroke him, Abbie,' Georgie coaxed as she did the same with hers. I did, and giggled as he dropped back into the water and stuck his snout into my crotch.

'Hey, down boy,' I laughed. He pulled away when the trainer tapped him and ordered him to go and perform. 'He's friendly,' I grinned over at Georgie.

'I need to know what perfume you're wearing today, as you've got it going on,' she winked. I looked up as Mahi dipped and dived and zoomed back towards me, rising up to stick his flippers on my thighs as he came for another kiss.

'Steady on,' I warned him, rubbing under his snout again as he started bobbing back and forth, his tail thrashing in the water.

'Abbie, I need you to slide backwards now,' one of the trainers ordered.

'What?' I asked as I continued to stroke him.

'Slide back, slide back away from Mahi now,' he repeated, the urgency in his voice making me look up at him in surprise.

'Why – ' I began to ask, but was cut off in my prime as Mahi launched himself up and knocked me backwards, my head hitting the bucket of fish as I did, and I screamed as it all slithered out, smothering my face. First corn plasters, now a bucket load of stinky fish. What had I done to deserve this, I wondered. I struggled to push myself up while I held my breath, again at serious risk of throwing up from the smell and gross texture on my skin. I was pressed back down onto the platform as Mahi landed on my stomach, making me gasp for air. His excited cries filled my ears as I felt him bouncing up and down on me, the sound of his tail smacking the water mingling with my panicked gasps. 'He's going to eat me alive,' I shrieked, as various hands quickly tried to move the gutted fish away from my face and chest.

'Oh, Abbie, he's not hungry, he's horny!' Georgie roared. 'He's trying to mate with you!'

I kept my eyes firmly closed and felt myself vomit a little in my mouth as the smell of the small fish, as well as the large one currently trying to impregnate me, got too much. As soon as they managed to slide him off me into the water and helped me up, I turned around and threw up in the bucket they'd thrown his fish back into. When I finally stood up, with my hands on my hips, feeling and smelling pretty grotty, my three companions were trying to hold in their laughter, while the male trainer had gone to try and calm the amorous dolphin down. I gagged again, the smell of fish radiating from me horrendous.



       
         
       
        

'Come with me, Abbie,' Juana, the lady trainer, suggested. 'We'll get you showered and changed. You can't go in the water smelling like this or they might bite you.'

'As opposed to mating with me?' I mumbled, covering my mouth and nose with my hand.

'Are you ok?' Georgie called as I started to walk away. I put up one hand in a warning. 'I'm sorry, but it was pretty funny,' she yelled to my retreating back.



'Ok, we've moved Mahi over to Stephen, and we're giving you Tiki,' Juana advised as she walked me back to the group, all of whom were in the water with the dolphins now.

'Will he try and hump me, too?' I asked, feeling a little nervous, especially as three sets of shampoo under the open showers hadn't got rid of the scent of mackerel. The last thing I needed to add to my battered body and stinky aroma were dolphin bites as they tried to eat me.