This story is dedicated to a different Rickie. She dressed like a hooker, had a heart of gold, and was the hottest thing I ever clapped eyes on. The girl also taught Sunday school.
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I drove the Jaguar down off the highway, around some winding chicanes and through the palm groves that sheltered Morningstar Beach. It was clear and sunny, and when I wound the top back, I could smell the salt on the breeze from the ocean.
How long had it been? Six years, give or take? Eight of us, all recently married, brought our young wives to Morningstar for a long weekend in paradise. It was bikinis, sun lotion, barbeques, wine and relaxed evenings with friends.
Carol and I, and the others too, stayed in a comfortable old beach house owned by a new guy in the group - Jerry Rai, some kind of investment banker. Jerry seemed okay in his own way, but I'd be reluctant to have him minding my money. And then there was his wife. She was very young and very beautiful, but she didn't quite fit and he treated her like shit.
I flew for a living, so eventually I lost contact with the group from Morningstar and there was never any reunion. I moved to Hong Kong to captain Cathay Pacific's 747s on their long haul routes. A well paid dream job? Well I guess it was, but I was away so much it eventually cost me a wife. And after six years I found each eight hour stretch in the cockpit with a bunch of flight engineers was as much fun as a neighbourhood watch seminar. I never joined the mile high club or saw an exhibitionist airhostess do a striptease for the cockpit. Myths
Does this sound like I'd become a 38 year old pain? Well I had, and I knew it. And Carol leaving had hurt too. Finally, there was a one night stand in a Sydney hotel room with a flight stewardess who hadn't come upstairs for love and romance -- she'd simply decided to fuck the boss. I took a grip, resigned, and left Hong Kong.
I'd made some terrific real estate investments, inherited a modest amount from my dad, and what with the severance pay, I figured if I'd handled it right, I might be able to pull off the new career I was considering.
Don't laugh. I'm an airline jock who paints, quite well actually. I've had my work shown in a few exhibitions, but my real talent is collecting. I have an eye for emerging artists, which comes from the blue, certainly not from any family artistic bent. The de Burgh family's only bent connection is my two lesbian aunts. I stumbled on their leather bondage collection, and puzzled over a huge dildo, when visiting them many years ago. It turned out the aunts had made their kinky start with incest, as daughters fucking their father. When the shit finally hit the fan, he told his wife he'd kept his incest down to one-to-one encounters -- he disapproved of group sex. They were the other de Burghs. I'm not joking.
I considered finding a coastal resort town with a gap to open a gallery, and got seduced by the idea. It was a good excuse to spend a week driving back up the coast road, making a leisurely examination of my options.
Three days into my road trip I arrived back in Morningstar, and stopped. I checked myself into a motel room, and took the turn off the highway down to the beach. It was a weekday and quiet so I was able to pull over on a grassy knoll overlooking the bay. I had a swimsuit with me and pulled it over my butt in the car, grabbed a towel, and walked down to the sand. There were maybe twenty people and as I dropped my towel and bag on the sand I noticed the closest sunbathing body, about twenty yards away, belonged to a beautiful young brunette in a red bikini. She was massaging lotion into her shoulders, her face disguised by reflective sunglasses.
The water was clear and cool and I swam for twenty minutes, and body surfed a couple of small breaks. I dried myself off, and lay down on the beach to get some sun on my back. I was there five minutes when I heard sand scuffing, and realized a pair of long, slim, suntanned legs was standing in front of me. I heard a voice.
"Sorry to disturb you but aren't you Harry? Harry de Burgh?"
I sat up, surprised, and staring. "Yeah, that's me. But do I know you?" She smiled and slid her sunglasses up on to her hair, revealing dark brown eyes, and a very pretty face.
"So you really don't remember me?" she teased. Actually, she did look familiar, but I still couldn't place her, which was surprising as she pretty much defined "unforgettable." An absolute dead ringer for Jessica Alba, save for one thing. She had the body, the sultry face, and the pert little ass, but upstairs this beautiful beach babe was seriously stacked.
Embarrassed, and stumbling, I rose to me feet, trying not to stare down her cleavage. "Sorry, I think I know your face, but...."
"It's Rickie -- Rickie Rai. You and your wife were houseguests at our place --the beach house over there with the verandas and gardens. Remember?" Now I knew. But of course - the girl was Jerry Rai's reluctant young wife.
"Silly me --hi Rickie," I said offering my hand. "So you're down here with Jerry? How's our man, the banking whizz?"
Her face puckered and there was an awkward pause. "Well he's not here of course. You don't know what happened to Jerry?" she asked incredulously.
"No, I've been living in Hong Kong."
"Well that explains it. We'd split up before Jerry went inside -- he's doing time. Four to seven years for share market and tax scams, and lucky it wasn't longer. It's meant a mess for me even though we'd divorced. The tax guys were hell, but I kept the beach house, and my own stuff. That's why I moved here to live."
Rickie squatted for a moment, giving me a peek up her long tanned thighs, and decided she'd sit. "So where's Carol. Did she come down with you, or is she back at home?"
I shrugged and told her the short version -- the one you give when it's you who's been dumped, and don't feel like explaining. Rickie listened, nodding sympathetically, and for a while we chatted back and forth about the people who'd been with us on the Morningstar weekend. Then she made an observation I hadn't expected.
"So Carol's the cheating wife run off with some rich guy? Well no surprises. I got to talk to Carol for a bit. Everyone thought she was a two-timing bitch. You knew that, surely?" Actually I hadn't. That thought had been taboo. But I nodded anyway, and we settled easily into more do you remember Fred, Mary, Sally, stuff. Rickie was fun. I'd remembered a reluctant, rather sad girl, but with no Jerry on her case, Ricky sparkled. In fact, she was like a bottle of joy.
She stood up, brushed the sand off her cute little butt, wriggled it jokingly, and said "So, Harry de Burgh, did you know we girls called you Harry de Hunk? I need one more swim. You want to race me?"
I chased her, laughing, to the water. The surf was light, running at about two feet and Rickie bobbed about in it, her back to the waves, laughing and chatting, her stunning tits bouncing in her brief bikini, each time she rose to let a crest surge past. But then a bigger wave caught her by surprise, knocked her into me, and suddenly her legs were wrapped about my butt, her arms round my neck, as she struggled with the surge. We both went under, and she came up, spluttering, and pulling her bikini top back over her pointy, jutting breasts.
"Sorry, gave you an eyeful there," she said, not knowing how horny she'd made me. She'd given me an instant hard-on. Or maybe she did notice. "I've got to go back in," she said, turning towards the shore. "There's an electrician due at the house."
We got back to our gear, and while we'd been relaxed, suddenly it was the awkward moment where we either said goodbye and good luck, or someone put a foot forward. "How long are you here?" she asked.
I lied. Now I didn't want to leave the next morning. "Maybe a few days -- it depends."