Back when I was a lot younger, eighteen or nineteen at the time but I still thought that I knew more or less everything, an old boyfriend of mine invited me to go to his parents' house near perpignan in France. The house was on the coast there and sounded adorable. Even then though I wasn't stupid and soon checked out that we weren't going to go on our own but with three more friends, two girls and a guy. I wasn't even the youngest, she was a partial friend of mine who was only eighteen then. It wasn't a romantic escapade, no one was going out with no one else.
We set off from Barna in my friends Father's old car. This was a great big old Citroen, a shark. They were called sharks because of the fins on the back of the car. The car was large, blue and very dodgy.
We had left early in the morning to avoid the rush and the heat as this was at the end of July. Once we had passed Girona and the lack of air con was really making the trip rough we were all down to bikinis and shorts in the car with the windows open and sweating despite it all.
We didn't use the A7, the motorway, to save money and the main road was a drag. Off it and looking for somewhere to have lunch we took a coast road and came across a typical Costa Brava beach enclosed by two headlands of rock and with beautiful breakers smashing onto the beach. None of us wanted to miss the fun, so we parked up and threw ourselves into the surf.
I love beaches with good waves and this was a good one. My ex was also surprising me by being much more attentive and sexy than I remembered him to be. He still looked as he had done a year ago but now was more... manly.
One particular roller dumped me just out of my depth and I got rolled and swallowed quite a bit of water, he fished me out and helped me to the beach and didn't laugh once, quite a change from before.
There was a little restaurant just above the beach on one of the heads so we ate, had coffee and went on our way. My ex, I'll call him Gerard, was driving with me next to him. B
ack on the main road time dragged on and we caught up, we even went over why I had dumped him and he seemed quite willing to accept that he had been an asshole then. After a while we were laughing and mucking about like things had never changed.
The three in the back had dozed off the two girls leaning in on Ramon in the middle, he with his arms round them. Gerard was chatting away and when he paused as he changed gear it seemed natural for him to rest his hand on my leg.
He started to tell me the things about me he had really liked then and then went on to expand on them including the things he liked about me now too. It was hot but his hand was hotter, it felt like it was burning my skin. I told him why I had liked him, how he had seemingly changed now and how I now liked what I saw more.