She leans back with a smile like she could do no wrong, kicking the bubbling water up in the air with a flick of her ankle. Her eyes never leave mine, or at least it feels that way. Coming to me or running away is all the same. Every time I look at her she's there, smiling, eyes wide as the moon.
The Girl Next Door crosses and uncrosses her legs in the jacuzzi, making sure to flick water at my face with every motion. When I tell her to stop she mock pouts and says that I should be nicer to her. "You can't even swim," she says, splashing the water with her hands and trying to look demure. "What if you started drowning? You'd need me to save you."
I grunt some response and she seems pleased with herself that she got any kind of reaction at all. She arches her shoulders and shows off her breasts in the bikini top and then winks when she catches me looking. I tell her that I only looked because she was trying to get me to. "I only tried to get you to look so I could catch you," she says.
The underwater lights catch her spreading her legs wide open, sinking down into the water until only her head is above it. Then she blows a kiss and submerges completely. When she comes back up she's close enough to wrap an arm around, and when I do, she kisses me hard for a moment. Just a moment, then she slips away.
When I try and pull her back to me she laughs, dunks under water again and comes out on the other side. Still near enough to grab if I lunged forward, but still too far away.
She's a vision and she knows it, the way she laughs and is easy. Not captivated by me in anyway. Maybe that's what I'm drawn to. I don't know why, just that I want her.
When she leans back with a sigh I'm ready this time, it's a tell. She's ready to play her next trick. I feel the electricity in my fingertips. The heat in my palms. I'm ready. So when she kicks her foot to flick water over me, I grab her by the ankle instead. Wrap my hand all the way around. When she tugs, I hold tight and laugh.
She demands I let her go and I ask if she's going to stop splashing me. She refuses to answer and repeats the demand over and over again:
Let me go. Let me go. Let me go.
I ask it again and this time she answers with a kick from her free leg. She hits my wrist strong enough that I want to release her, but instead I bring my free arm up. When I've grabbed her other leg is when I realized that I was in control again and wondered what to do with it. The question didn't last long as she tried to wrench herself from me. She called me a monster and that was the last straw.
I pulled on her legs until her head was under water and then I released them, grabbing her by her shoulders and holding her under for just a moment, just to make sure she was aware that I could. Satisfied that I made my point I let her surface, moving my hands to hold her, squeeze her ribs.
Then she's silent. Breathing. Looking at me with different eyes, a softness to them that wasn't there before. I tell her that she should be nice to me. That it's night out and you never really know when someone might come along meaning her harm. And how awful that would be.
She looks resentful for a moment until I begin to push her back into the water and she cries out to stop. When I do that same softness reappears.
Some people can only be happy if you demand something from them.
I pull her into me and her lips are puckered before we even touch. She kisses me like I am the only thing keeping her afloat and her hands find their way to my ass. Our tongues stroke one another, embrace, just as out bodies press against one another and I'm tempted to drown her again just to make her feel me, but I want to pull her closer even more.
"You scare me," she says when we break the kiss.