Heated Surprise

It was almost winter now. As the time flew, the rest of the summer was gone soon, the trees wrapped itself in red then in yellow and finally they remained hollow trunks as reminder of coming snow. All that was left of that fateful summer were few photos, several e-mails and one lone Skype call. Josh was trying to contact her for two weeks now, but without any luck. The last message said she was going to move somewhere else, but he haven’t heard from her since. The movies were right; the long distance relationship doesn’t work. She will probably forget him soon, if she didn’t already. But he will treasure the memories forever. And to think he didn’t want to go on family vacation in the first place...

Josh’s mother stopped the car in front of hotel and turned back to the rest of the family.

“Here we are. The Sunrise Beach Resort. Week full of fun and recreation is ahead,” she announced.

“More like week of doing absolutely nothing ahead,” Josh snapped back at her.

“Oh shush, it is going to be great. Sand beaches from one horizon to the other, azure blue sea and don’t forget the sun.”

“My idea of vacation is not lying on a beach being burned by sun. All of my friends are doing something exciting on vacation and I am the only one in this boring place. I am adult and I can make my own choices.”

“Watch your language young mister,” his father stepped into their conversation. “As long as you live under our roof, you have to listen to us. We have talked about this at home and I won’t let you to ruin this vacation. Your mother, your sister and I are looking forward to this and I hope you will too. Now enough talk, let’s get luggage to our rooms.”

***

As Josh ditched his family unpacking in the hotel room and went to explore the beach just behind the hotel, he quickly realised that the reality was even worse than his expectations. The beach was crowded. The rows and rows of parasols went on forever as most of the other visitors spent their time on the beach. If he wanted to go relief the heat in the water, he would have to dig his way through piles of bodies and heaps of screaming kids. Instead he found free parasol and lay down with a book. He didn’t even finish first chapter when volleyball flew over him, almost knocking down his parasol.

“Hey watch out, there are other people here!” he shouted angrily in the direction from which the volleyball flew, expecting some small kids.

To his surprise, girl roughly his age came for the volleyball.

“Hi, I am really sorry. We were playing with few friends and we were careless with the ball,” she smiled at him. “Do you think you can forgive us?”

“Yeah sure, why not,” he nodded in response. “Here is your ball.”

“Why don’t you go play with us? You seem awfully bored.”

“Thanks, that is great idea. Let me just put on some sunblock.”

“Great! We are playing over there,” she pointed.

Josh looked at the girl going away. Her nicely shaped butt in shorts, slightly tanned skin, beautiful legs, mane of red hair... Josh shook his head, chasing thoughts away. Soon he got up and followed the girl to the court.

“Ok people, I got new player. This is...” girl tried to introduce him to others.

“Hey, I am Josh,” he waved people gathering around him.

“And I am Mary, pleased to meet you. These are your teammates Sam, Alex and Jessica. We have some house rules, so listen carefully.”

***

Hour and half later he had to sit down, sweaty and exhausted. The game ended, the players were packing and heading out of the beach

“Good game for a newbie,” Mary sat down next to him. “Or do you play more often?”

“No, I have played only few times before. And never on beach. Actually this is my first day here.”

“Oh you really are a newbie. I have to give you a tour. You won’t believe what...”

“Josh! There you are!” sudden shouting interrupted them. “Mother was worried sick and sent me to find you.”

Josh’s sister came to them with stern look on her face.

“Everyone is waiting for you with lunch and you are picking up girls instead,” her ranting continued.

Josh’s face turned beet red as he got up from sand.

“I guess I have to go. See you later maybe.”

He turned and made way to the hotel, closely followed by his sister, who was shooting curious looks after Mary.

“Of course. I am sure we bump into each other again!” Mary shouted after him.

She only hoped he didn’t see her face getting red as well.

Later that day Josh decided to explore town up the hill few kilometres

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