A Week To Remember

"You're beautiful," Lacey said softly. "And I am not moving an inch until you are in that wetsuit."

Shelly turned her back to Lacey as she leaned over to get the wetsuit out of the chair. She knew she shouldn't be teasing Lacey, but she just couldn't resist. Lacey had been the one to put the three date rule into play, and Shelly had decided to make it as torturous as she could for Lacey. She stepped into the suit and pulled it up her legs. She wiggled her tight ass as she pulled the suit up over her.

"Is it supposed to be this tight?" Shelly asked.

"Yes," Lacey answered softly.

"Why is that?" Shelly asked as she turned to face Lacey. She found her leaning against a cabinet and gripping its top.

"That way there's no resistance when you're swimming."

"Makes sense, I guess." Shelly wiggled the suit up her torso and slid an arm in. She brought a hand up and cupped her breast as she slid it up and over her shoulder.

"Shell, you're killing me here," Lacey almost begged.

"If you had offered to help, then I wouldn't have to be getting in this thing all by myself." Shell slid her other arm in and again cupped her breast as she slid the suit over her chest and last shoulder.

"If I had offered to help you, you'd never get in the suit." Lacey finally released her white knuckles from the counter and pushed off toward Shelly. Shelly turned away from her and let Lacey zip up the back zipper.

"If you had taken me home last night then neither one of us would be in the mess we are in today." Shelly turned back around to face Lacey and slid her feet into her sandals. She grabbed the towel off the top of her bag and then handed the bag over to Lacey. "Is there anything else that I need that I don't know about?"

"You and a board is all that is needed for a day on the water here." Lacey unlocked her office and sat the bag on a chair inside. She closed the door and headed toward the back door. "Let me holler at Brian and tell him I am leaving." She stuck her head out the back door and waved at Brian who came in the door behind her. "I'm going to head on out. Just leave the key in our spot please."

Brian came in behind Lacey, running his hands through his blond wavy hair.

"Brian, this is Shelly, a friend of mine. Shelly this is Brian, the only man in my life." She rammed her fist into Brian's shoulder when she turned and found him staring at Shelly. She didn't hit him hard enough to hurt, just enough to get his attention.

"What?" he asked as he caught himself on the wall. "Hi Shelly, it's nice to meet you." Brian gave Lacey a look and a wink.

"It's nice to meet you too, Brian," Shelly said as she smiled at the two of them.

Lacey headed toward Shelly and started to escort her back out front. "The only open class I have this week is Thursday afternoon. All the rest are full for the week. You can start the next week if anyone is interested."

"Gotcha boss man," Brian teased as he followed Lacey and Shelly back out to the store.

Lacey gave him a finger before picking up the boards and securing them under her arm. She grabbed her backpack and slipped it over her shoulder before taking Shelly's hand and leading her out of the store. She headed down the beach a ways to a more secluded area where there wouldn't be too many people. It would be easier for Shelly to learn without a bunch of people around. She secured the boards in the sand before pulling her shop tee over her head and dropping it in the sand. She slipped off her khaki shorts leaving her in her board shorts and a tight shirt. She turned toward Shelly and started doing her stretches.

"The first thing you do before you ever step on the board is stretch all of your muscles. Your arms and shoulders will be pulling you out there, so they have to be totally stretched out and ready for work. Your abs and back will be doing a lot of the work as well so you'll need to turn from side to side and get all those muscles awake and ready to go. You have nice muscles in your legs so you won't have any trouble with the strength it takes to control the board, but it is a different type of movement on a board than what you are used to, so just make sure and stretch them out as well." Lacey continued stretching and watched as Shelly's fit body twisted and bent to warm up her muscles.

"Do you happen to have any old injuries that might cause you problems?" Lacey sat down in the sand and stretched her legs out in front of her, bent over, and laid her chest on her thighs. She grabbed her toes and pulled.

"My gymnastics career ended when my knee kept dislocating. After so many years of landing so hard, the ligaments and muscles just couldn't handle it anymore, and my patella kept dislocating. That is when I decided to retire from gymnastics rather than to continue doing more damage. But I haven't had trouble with it in years." Shelly bent straight over and stretched out the muscles in her legs. After a few leans to each side, she was ready. "Come on teach, let's get things going."

Lacey smiled at her exuberance and pulled the boards out of the sand and placed them down on the ground. "Come over here, and lay down on your stomach on your board." Lacey lay down on hers and Shelly laid down right beside her on her own board. "First thing is learning how to get from your stomach to your feet." Lacey glanced over and smiled at Shelly. "You want to lie toward the back end of the board with your toes curled and pressed into the end of the board." Lacy started stroking her arms in the air like she was swimming out into the water. "You'll use your arms and push you and your board out into the water. When you get out far enough, you'll use one arm and turn yourself around, or you'll sit on the board and use one foot to turn toward the beach. As the wave approaches, you lay back down and start paddling and kicking toward shore. After you've picked up enough speed and the wave is under you, you will place your arms on the board and push your shoulders and chest up off the board. With your toes, push your legs up off the board, then you quickly push up with your feet and pull your legs up under you."

Lacey pushed herself up and turned sideways as she brought her feet back down to the board. "It is very important to keep your body toward the back of the board so you can control the front of the board. You must make sure when you bring your feet up and underneath your body, that you place your body in the center of the board. If you are too far on the edges, you are going to fall off."

Lacey stepped off the board and walked over to Shelly's board. Lacey had Shelly slide her body forward just a bit and then set her feet like she had told her, pressing her toes into the back of the board.

"When you're swimming out there, you don't have to keep your feet like this but before you get ready to stand you must put your feet in this position. This pad on the back of the board is a grip pad and helps keep your feet gripping the board rather than sliding off. The small strap at the back is to secure your leg rope which will be around your ankle, and it keeps you and your board from losing each other. There are some other things I will show you in a bit. Relax down on your board, and pretend like you are swimming your board out into the water. Then get your feet set and bring yourself up to your feet. You need to end off facing the side of the board, not the front." Lacey stepped back and watched as Shelly moved her arms like she was swimming, set her feet, pushed her arms up straight and then quickly pulled her legs up, turned and landed perfectly in the middle of the board.

"You got that on the first try. Are you sure you're not holding out on me?" Lacey had never seen anyone get it as quickly as Shelly did, but she had never taught a gymnast before either.

"The balance beam work is not much different than this. Of course, there's no risk of it tipping me one way or the other, but otherwise it is very similar."

"Sit down on your board for a minute and face out to the ocean and let me explain a bit about waves." She watched Shelly sit down and Lacey sat down right behind her and slid up and brought her arms around her stomach. "The wind is the key to the waves. Today there is a light breeze, and you can see the small rolling waves coming in. These are the waves for beginners to learn on. If the wind is strong, that is when you get the big breaking waves, and you are nowhere ready to go near them. It is important that no one ever goes surfing alone. Always bring at least one surfing friend with you, and the more you can get the better. If you were to get hurt while you were out in the water and couldn't get back in, the people you have with you will help you."

Lacey gently ran her hand across the wetsuit and Shelly's tight abdomen. Surfing was really the last thing on her mind right now, but she had instructed enough classes that she really didn't have to think too hard to do it. "If you ever paddle out and get caught in a rip, it is likely to pull you way further out than you had intended. There may be other times you may get out where you are going and get hurt somehow. If anything like that happens, the signal to let the people on the beach know that you need help is to hold your arm way up over your head, and wave toward the beach until someone see's you. They will come out and help you get back in. If for some reason you get cut and are bleeding in the water, come in right away. It's not the place to bleed."

Lacey and Shelly needed to get up for Lacey to show the next part, but she didn't want to move. Her hands were roaming over Shelly's stomach and down her thighs. She could sit here all day and just feel the body that was sitting in front of her.

"Lacey, surfing honey," Shelly said over her shoulder. She felt Lacey lean toward her and lower her lips to her neck. Shelly couldn't help but lean her head back and give Lacey complete access. When Lacey started sucking on her neck, Shelly quickly wiggled out of her arms and stood up to face her.

"Is this how you usually teach your students?" Shelly said and tried to get her body back under control. She was actually looking forward to getting in the water in hopes of cooling off the heat that was settling between her legs.

Lacey pushed up off the board and walked toward Shelly. "You are a very special student and are getting some very special instruction." She kissed Shelly quickly and then got her backpack. She pulled out the wax and waved Shelly back over to the boards. She knelt down to hers first. "Always rub down the top of your board before you take it into the water. You don't have to do the whole board. Just from the middle back. The wax is sticky and will help keep your feet on the board." Lacey started applying the wax in a circular motion on her board and then handed it to Shelly. She crawled over to Shelly's board and showed her to move the wax in a circle all the way to the back of the board. She grabbed her bag and pulled out two leg ropes.

"These are leg ropes. They secure to the strap on the back of the board." She showed Shelly how to secure it in the strap. "When you get out to the edge of the water, you secure the other end around your ankle." She stood up and secured the strap around her ankle. "When you get thrown, you won't lose your board." Lacey lay down on the board with her feet at the back edge. She showed Shelly how, after paddling out to the water, to then get yourself quickly to your feet and centered over the board. "I expect that part will be easy for you, except you have to counter the movement of the ocean. Your balance is so good, you only need to learn the right way to ride the board once the wave hits." Lacey got up and had Shelly lie down on the board to practice getting to her feet. After a few times of Lacey correcting her feet placement, Shelly had the movement and position down easily.

"Grab your board and we'll head out. We won't go very far out today. They waves are smooth enough today, that you should have no problem getting to your feet. When I give you the word, move up to your feet, get your position and stand there, and the wave will pull the board toward the beach."

Lacey grabbed her board as Shelly took the other one, and they headed toward the water. They stopped to secure the ankle straps and then stepped into the water. They laid the boards down on the water once they had gotten out about waist deep. Shelly followed Lacey's lead and paddled beside her until Lacey motioned for her to stop.

"You may have to adjust your position on the board once you start paddling through the waves. You want your body lying basically in the middle of the board. But it is different for every person and every board. When you paddle, if the front tip of your board is sitting up over the water, slide forward enough to where it is gliding right across the water. Once you get to the spot to stop, pull your legs into the water and sit on the board."

"Why don't you sit right here for now, and watch me paddle out, sit up, and turn. Try to take in how I handle crossing the waves as I paddle out. Today, I am just going to do a basic hop across the waves. There are many ways to get through oncoming waves, but it takes experience to do most of them. I'll paddle back out here to you after I have ridden in." Lacey gave Shelly a wink and a smile, and headed out through the water.

Shelly watched as Lacey's muscled body paddled easily through the small waves. She popped her board up and over every wave until she was a distance from Shelly. Shelly watched as Lacey finally sat up on her board and turned back toward the shore. Lacey sat there for a few moments until a small wave started heading toward her. She lay down on her board and started paddling ahead of the water. Her feet started a fast kick and as the wave hit her board, she hopped to her feet and easily rode the wave in past Shelly. Lacey paddled back out to Shelly and sat up on her board with Shelly still watching her.

"Were you born on a board? You act like it's just another part of your body." Shelly was in awe of how easy Lacey made it look. But she knew that if she were to bring Lacey to her gymnastics' studio, she would be just as lost as Shelly was.

"That is more or less the way you have to treat the board, like another part of your body you have to control. Come on, paddle out with me, and we'll get past the break so you can learn how to hop over the waves on your board." Lacey took the lead with Shelly right behind her. After the break, and when the first wave came towards them, Lacey showed Shelly how to come up on her arms, lift her torso off the board, and push it forward and through the wave. Shelly quickly got the hang of it and stayed right with Lacey. Lacey didn't take Shelly out as far as she had gone. For now, she wanted Shelly to get used to getting through the waves and familiarize herself with how to keep steady on the board as it moved.

Shelly slowed next to Lacey and sat up on her board and followed Lacey's direction on turning her board. She barely managed to get to her feet the first time, before she teetered over the side and into the ocean. She quickly got her board underneath her and headed back over to Lacey. For the next hour Lacey taught her and led her in the right or best way to handle the board. By the end of the hour, Shelly was managing to get most of the way back into shore before finally abandoning her board. Shelly stood in the shallow water and watched as Lacey came in after her. They released their ankle straps and stuck the boards in the sand before sitting on the towels they had brought with them. Lacey handed Shelly a bottle of water and lay back on her towel.

"It's a good thing not all of my customers are gymnasts, or they would be flying through my courses as quickly as you are." Lacey put the cap back on her water and laid the bottle above her head. She reached over and tucked a strand of wet hair behind Shelly's ear. Her fingers lingered against Shelly's cool skin and down to the pulse point in her neck. "I've got a full day scheduled tomorrow, but I would like to take you out to dinner Wednesday evening, if you are free."

Shelly inched closer to Lacey and to the hand that was now openly caressing her neck and shoulders. "I have no where I would rather be." Shelly laid her hand at the bottom of Lacey's damp shirt and slid her hand underneath it. She softly slid her hand up Lacey's side and over her ribs. When she felt the bikini, she moved her fingers forward and wrapped her hand around the outside of Lacey's breast. Shelly's fingers teased just under the edge and she felt the pressure in Lacey's hand increase from her touch. "Well, maybe there is one place I would rather be than in a restaurant, but you would still be required to be there."

"Required?" Lacey asked with arched brows and a smile. "And what would happen if I wasn't where I was required to be?"

"If you're not at my house Friday at seven, you will find out exactly what will happen." Shelly pushed the last distance forward, slid her entire hand inside Lacey's bikini top and pressed their lips together. She felt Lacey's hand wrap in her hair and pull them even tighter together. Shelly couldn't stop the moan as Lacey's body finally touched hers. As their lips pushed for position, Shelly's hand continued to mold around Lacey's breast until she had the whole of it in her grip. She eased her grip and slid her palm across the nipple that had hardened even more in her hand. "I will go out to dinner with you Wednesday night, and you will come to my house for dinner Friday night. Our date will be over at midnight on Friday. Agree?" Shelly caught Lacey's nipples between her fingers and pinched just hard enough to get a reaction from Lacey.

Lacey's breath had caught from the attack on her nipple, but she nodded her head in agreement with Shelly. Lacey knew that at one minute after midnight, Shelly would likely have Lacey pushed onto the floor and be on top of her stripping out of her clothes. Lacey hoped she could last that long, since it had been her idea for making them wait. Right now all she wanted was Shelly's hand down her shorts and inside of her. Lacey stilled Shelly's hand on her breast and pulled it out of her shirt. She pulled the arm around her neck, and then pulled Shelly's lips to hers. She caught Shelly's bottom lip between her teeth and let her tongue tease across its surface, before finally releasing it and sucking it between her lips. Shelly's hungry eyes stayed on hers the entire time, and it was so easy to see the condition she was in, that they both were in.

"I think maybe we should wrap this up. If we don't, I'm going to make love to you right here on the beach, in the middle of the afternoon." No matter how much Shelly wanted Lacey, she was trying to respect her request, but it was almost killing her to be this close and not get the satisfaction that she needed.

"I'm sorry, honey. Let's gather our stuff, and we can head down the beach where the real waves are, and watch some of the surfers. Come on." Lacey and Shelly started gathering and packing up there thingsm and then grabbed their boards and headed back toward the shop. They did stop on the way back and sat down to watch the experienced surfers riding, turning and slipping in and out of the barrels. Shelly had a blast listening to the excitement in Lacey's voice as she explained everything to Shelly.

"Why don't you grab your board and show me one last time how this is supposed to be done. I would love to see you out there handling those waves." Shelly got a quick kiss and then Lacey jumped up, grabbed her board and ankle strap out of her bag and headed into the water. Shelly kept an eye on her the whole time. Instead of hopping over the smaller waves like she had taught Shelly earlier, Lacey would dive down under the wave and come out the other side. Shelly didn't know if she would normally have stuck with surfingn but if she and Lacey continued seeing each other, Shelly was going to put everything into learning. The grace of the riders and the smiles on all of their faces when they came out of the water made it seem like they had just experienced heaven. Shelly could see how being out there, being one with the waves would make you feel like you were a part of the ocean, a part of the earth.