Black Eyes
By Simon Peter
I dangled my legs down the side of the pool, taking in the scene as the cold water rippled around my thighs making me shiver. It was already mid-September and summer was coming to an end. There was only a couple at the other end of the pool, and one person reclining on a beach chair, taking in the sun. What I first noticed about this guy was his bulging swimming trunks.
I lowered myself gingerly down into the pool. I made a couple of strokes since I wasn't the best swimmer around. When I leaned against the side of the pool, my arms stretched sideways, the guy with the bulge got up, sauntered to the side of the pool facing me, and executed the most beautiful and graceful dive that I had ever seen. He went in like a knife and emerged a few feet away from me.
"Wow," I exclaimed as he shook the water off his hair. "That was some dive."
He nodded in acknowledgment. "What about you? Do you dive?" His deep voice made my whole body shake.
"Me?" My own voice came out sheepish and nerdy. "No. I mean I can barely swim."
"Really?" His smile showed a set of white teeth, perfectly formed. Two dimples appeared on his face cheeks as he took a couple of steps towards me. His trimmed beard was still dripping and his hair fell over his forehead sexily. It was then that I noticed the eyes.
Black. Dark black. Piercing black. Boring into you. As if they were eager to get to your deepest depth.
"Well," I said with an embarrassed smile, "I can float on my back, if you can call that swimming."
He gave me his deep laugh. "Here," he said as he moved closer. "I will place my hands under you and you can float and move both arms and legs."
I let myself float aware of the extended arms inched below my body. I started moving my arms and legs as I had seen swimmers do. I sank right into his arms, spluttering and swallowing some pool water. I felt his arms wrapped around my waist. I almost died.
"Easy does it, bro. Try not to panic. You know that I'm here to support you. Just let it happen." His eyes held me captive.
On the third try, it happened. I floated, moved my arms and legs, awkwardly, but did not sink down into the water, as much as I wanted to, in order to have him hold me in his arms, to feel his muscles, his power.
"I'm Steven, by the way," he smiled at me as we waded back to the side of the pool and leaned back. I felt the heat of the sun on my face, but, more than that, it was the heat of his body right next to mine that made my skin burn with desire.
"Boudy," I croaked, and dunked my head into the water to cool down. For a second or so, I opened my eyes under the water and gazed at his crotch. It was enough for me to die for this guy. The water stung and I pulled out rubbing my eyes.
"Hey, Boudy, if you wanna see stuff under the water, you need to wear goggles."
I nodded, not able to tell this hunk of a guy that I would let my eyes sting for ages just to ogle his wet package, deliciously and invitingly bulged, outlining his dick and balls.
"So," Steven said with what I detected as a smirk and a boring black-eyed look, "was there something worth seeing below?"
What was that, I asked myself? Had he noticed my gaze? How could he have? But his smirk and his boring eyes told me that he knew that I was looking at his crotch. Was he making a pass? Could I have been so lucky?
"I guess," I hedged.
"Things look much better above water than below," he gazed into my eyes meaningfully.
Fuck! That couldn't have been but a come-on.
"I... I... I guess, depends on what you're looking at," I repeated with a stammer, but I couldn't control my eyes sweeping down his ripped naked chest and the rippling swim trunks under the water.
He laughed. He must have detected my nervousness. How could he have not? My body language was screaming attraction. His lean body, his bulging crotch, his boring black eyes. They were like a magnet drawing me in, and my body was responding.
I raised myself onto the edge of the pool, keeping my legs immersed. Steven did the same. The conversation turned to a regular guy-just-met-guy kind of talk. Getting to know each other. Steven worked as an IT technician. I was finishing my Masters in English and working part-time in a publishing house. Not much in common there. Steven was toned and suave. I was average and nerdy. Steven sported an inviting package. My loose swim shorts screamed geek.
"Want to try some more?" Steven asked after around ten minutes or so of small talk.
"Ok," and then I quickly added, "only if you're there to save my life."
He laughed and gracefully slipped down into the water as opposed to my awkward jump and splatter. When I started to sink and felt his arms holding me, I relaxed. Instead of pushing me back up, he kept his arms around my waist and I could feel him press on me, his hands lightly caressing my hips. I looked at his eyes. They told me everything. They said that he liked me, that he yearned to lean down and kiss me, that he needed to press his body on mine, that... I was fucking dreaming.
It was all in my imagination except for the light caress of his hands. That was very real and it sent shock after shock though me.
"You know, Boudy," Steven said, a bit throatily, I imagined, "What you'd tried to see under the water is available."