In the afternoon, wives of rich men sit talking on their blankets, watching a little girl do cart wheels, the child of one of them. They talk about their lives and that it is good that little girls do cartwheels, but not so good that this one makes snowballs out of Caribbean sand.
I am lying on a blanket with a t-shirt over my face so as to not get melanoma on my nose and I listen to every word they say. I sit up and occasionally look over at the two of them and squint as my eyes adjust to the light, as if I had been living in a cave, just yards away from them on that beach in the Caribbean. They don’t notice me watching them with a tight -lipped grin some people have when their face is plastered with salt and set with sun.
I look at the brunette who is the mother of the little girl. The mother is attractive and looks very fit. She has a youthful form and wears a bathing suit that flatters her legs and buttocks which create a tanned A shaped archway between her heel and bottom of her ass. The blonde woman sitting next to her is louder and doing most of the talking. She is also well put together, but less attractive.
Every now and then the little girl would do a successful cartwheel and the two women would congratulate her by clapping their hands and saying “good job” followed by the girl’s name. Sometimes the girl would call to her mother asking her to watch and the girl would do something with her body or with the sand. The women would cheer her actions regardless of whatever she was doing, and then go back to talking amongst themselves.
At some point I focus on the two men in the water just off from where the girl is performing. One is rather muscular with hair slicked back to just above his shoulders. The other man is skinny with more of a receding hairline on his angular skull. They are floating in the water up right and talking as they negotiate the on coming waves. My assumption is that they are the husbands of the two women, and one of them is the father of the little girl. Neither of them look at the girl amid her calls and announcements, so the paternity is not entirely clear.
At some point they both exit the water and the skinnier of the two men greets the little girl and raises her in the air. Paternity established. She summarizes quickly her routine and her father cheers. The more built man walks towards the blonde woman and reveals a somewhat exaggerated physical form that he obviously maintains regularly at a gym or with a trainer. He is a good match for his wife, although he seems a bit younger than her. On the other hand, the skinny man is quite older than his wife, which is encouragement to men seeking svelte beautiful woman later in life. Although the women are clearly American, the skinny man has a trans-European affectation. The built man spoke with an accent that seemed to come from Southern California. The girl returned to the water line to practice her gymnastics.
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