Gábor woke with Leo in his mind. Something has happened.
Gábor relaxed his mind and linked with Leo. The link had been in progress for a
while with Helena and Ivan and they were in a somber mood. Inquiring about what
had happened, Helena informed him.
"Ivan is in love
with Leilani and wants to talk with her and tell her why you are there. He does
not want to deceive her. Please talk with him, Gábor."
Gábor looked at his friend in shocked silence. This indeed
was serious. He scanned over Ivan who lay on the bed gazing at the ceiling.
"Ivan, what
happened?" he asked telepathically.
He looked at Gábor with a forlorn glance.
"I can't lie to
her Gábor. Last night we went for a walk over to the other side of the lagoon
and got into some heavy petting and it turned serious. Leilani and I had sex and
I'm afraid I can't keep up the game. It is wrong to deceive her. I feel I'm
using her. I would love to have a serious relationship with her and want to
base it on truth and trust, guys."
"That was fast
Ivan, and now what? You started the story and now it has become a problem. I
was afraid of that. I don't like the deception either, but what are we going to
do now? Has your priority changed? Do you want to get out of this?"
"No, Leo is still
a priority, but I must find a way other than to keep going on a lie. I just
don't have any idea how. I'm afraid to see her today because I feel my face
will betray me. I need your help here. I did not plan this and it hit me
unexpectedly, and you must understand; I will not start a relationship with a
lie. I know Helena and you think the same way, correct?"
"Yes, I do, but
if we tell her what we are really here for, would it not jeopardize Leo? You
know it is a huge chance we're taking if Lundy remembers what happened on that
cruiser."
"Do you think we
should involve her in our ruse?"
"What other choices do we have?"
Leo asked, looking for an answer.
"What if we delay
telling her about Leo until we find out how Lundy reacts to the dolphin rescue
scenario?"
Helena was desperately searching for a way out of this and
her fear was distressing them all.
"She will find
out from him about Leo if he remembers, and she'll know we've lied, or at least
she'll refuse to let Lundy leave with us."
Ivan's depressed mind was new for Gábor. Ivan feared for Leo
and he feared to lose Leilani before he had a chance to get to know her and her
to know him. Their relationship was too fresh to survive a lie.
"So we really have no choice?" Helena's
resignation felt by all was also a relief. Not a friend of lies, she felt they
could trust these women. Helena had had her disappointments with people and
she'd learned to read them well. Leilani and Vai came across to her as genuine
and authentic personalities. Perhaps it was them that needed to learn to trust.
"We must see how
Lundy will react to the dolphin rescue idea and take it from there. We can
explain to Leilani why we had to cover up the situation and hope she
understands and can forgive. If we do that before we leave with Lundy, she will
have a chance to make a decision based on truth to let Lundy go or to refuse.
In any case, we must pay the piper."
On one side, Gábor was relieved to get out from under a
cover story and at the same time, he was under trepidation divulging Leo's
existence, to expose himself and his family to strangers and Leo's existence.
Gábor made a choice. He would face whatever came at him and deal with the
results when they presented themselves. Leo was what Leo was and he was his and
Helena's child. He would deal with Leilani's reaction to Leo and whatever she
would think about Leo and his parents would not define them, but her only. He
was willing to start with a small circle of friends like Ivan and extend the
circle of friends gradually.
He would do his utmost not to hide from people's judgments
about him, Helena and Leo. If society didn't like what they saw, so be it. Leo
was his son and Helena his mother and he loved them with every fibre of his
being.
Unexpectedly Gábor felt a jolt of love and freedom surging
through him and all of them felt it. Leo experienced an outpouring of affection
from Gábor for Helena and for him, an acceptance for who he was. Deep inside
Helena had felt a very subtle feeling of self-accusation and rejection since
Leo's transformation, and thought it was her own feeling of guilt that was the
issue. Perhaps that was partially true, but her husband contributed to those
emotions with his. She had tried to make it up to Gábor by loving him with an
intensity that was almost pathological. He had crawled into a dark cave and had
deserted her emotionally nearly every night when they needed each other most.
But suddenly now she felt a sensation of unconditional love that made her heart
expand and became dizzy with emotion. She hugged Leo fiercely and wished to
have been with Gábor. She cried tears of happiness while Leo curled up in her
arms and purred. Ivan wished for himself that kind of love that he felt from
Helena for her husband and often envied his friend to have a woman like her.
With Leilani, he could possibly have that, but first, they had to get over this
hump created through a lie.
He pulled out from the link to let them have their moments
of privacy and sat on his bed with eyes looking toward the main building where
he noticed some movement. The shell curtain moved, an arm became visible and
Vai stepped through the doorway with a tray in her hand and walked toward the
other fare where Lundy was. She glanced toward the fare where the two men were,
but couldn't see them because of their own curtain, which didn't allow seeing
inside.
Gábor got off the bed and stepped into the bathroom,
relieved himself, removed his t-shirt and boxers and entered the shower stall,
turned on the water, and had a shower. He shaved, brushed his teeth and wrapped
the towel around his torso and left the bathroom to make room for Ivan. While
Ivan did his clean up, Gábor put on a fresh t-shirt and put on a pair of khaki
Tilley outdoor type shorts, but remained bare footed. Exiting the fare, as he
walked toward the house, Vai intercepted him.
"Ia Orana," she greeted with a smile. "Did
you sleep well?"
"I think so, but can't be sure. I slept all night like
a rock."
Vai laughed. She had a fresh hibiscus flower in her hair and
wore white shorts and a green blouse without a bra that allowed her breasts to
be visible a bit. Her breasts looked perfect, the cleavage deep and he caught a
glimpse of her areolae. Flirting with Gábor she nudged him with her shoulder.
"Not like your friend Ivan. He ploughed Ma's garden
until dawn."
Gábor was shocked and with a sideway look he scolded her.
"Vai. Is that not a bit profane? Did you spy on your
mother?"
"Didn't need to," she said frivolously,
"There is only the bathroom between my bedroom and hers. Ivan left just an
hour ago. All night long, they pleased each other and I felt envious. She is still
sleeping and when I looked in to wake her for breakfast, she looked extremely
happy. I envy her to have found love. I wish I had too. How is Ivan?"
"He is alive. How is Mr. Lundy?" Her smiling face
and emerald eyes seemed to have changed into a honey color and seemed to
penetrate into his and made him feel uncomfortable. She seemed to look inside
his soul.
"He is having his breakfast now and I changed his
bandages. His head worries me and I think a piece of bone might have entered
his cranium. Ma did a good job with his cuts, but he has to go to Papeete to
get that looked at there. We have no x-ray or special surgical instruments
here. The wound has stopped bleeding and he will keep his eye, but the four
scars will remain visible. There is also a possibility of impaired vision in
his left eye, but it seems the sight is still intact."
They stepped into the house and Vai walked into the kitchen
to make breakfast for them. Gábor followed her to assist and as he passed her,
he momentarily had her hands on her waist to step around her in the confined
area between the table and the counter. For an instant, he felt a current
flowing from her to him. Vai's eyes skimmed him with a look of appreciation.
The touch had been soft and gentle, and she equally felt a surge of electricity
from her waist throughout her entire body and then culminated in her loins.
Sharply sucking in a breath she blushed, she wished the touch could last a
little longer. It felt extremely pleasant.
"Tahitian men usually don't help out in the kitchen. Do
European men all help the women?" she asked, recovering quickly.
"Not all. They still need to learn to respect
women."
"Same here. What is the name of your vahine? You never
told me."
"Helena."
"Ah yes, I remember now. I like that name. She must be
very beautiful and she is a lucky woman to have a man like you."
"Yes, she is very special and it is me who is the lucky
one."
"You said you have children."
"One. A
son and he is also very special. Where do you want the dishes? Ah, here is
Ivan, looking fresh and ready for the dolphins."
Wiping his forehead mentally from having side-tracked Vai's
interrogating inquiries at Ivan's showing up, he set the bowls with fruits and
the dishes onto the table and then turned to Ivan. "Did you bring mask and
snorkels from the boat? I have mine, but I didn't see yours."
"I have them in my backpack. Is Lani around?"
Ivan's eyes looked toward the bedrooms, hoping to see his new love.
"I'll get her. She must be famished for food or for
love," grinned Vai, and with an exaggerated sway of her hips, she stalked
toward her mother's bedroom. Ivan looked at Gábor with raised eyebrows and
Gábor whispered:
"Her bedroom is just on the other side of her mother's.
You should have stayed at the beach or wherever you were."
A giggling sounded from the bedroom, then some kissing
sounds and Vai appeared with a grin on her face and looked at Ivan from head to
toe, paused on his shorts for a split second, then back to his face, winking at
him and said in a conciliatory tone: "Ooh-la-la, impressive." Ivan's
face turned a deep red. "Whatever she said, keep it a secret."
"I can, but will mother? She sounds as if she wants to
brag about it."
Leilani came into the kitchen wearing long pants and a sexy
wrap-around tunic, and with a big smile, she stepped to Ivan, kissed him on the
mouth, and whispered something in Ivan's ear. The color on his face deepened
and he murmured, embarrassed. "You're welcome, and likewise, thank you
too."
Vai smiled, looking conspiratorially at Gábor and suggested.
"Perhaps we could leave them to have their intimate
"breakfast alone."
Leilani laughed and again whispered something to Ivan, and
Ivan glanced at Gábor and his face displayed a wicked grin, but he caught it.
"He wouldn't, he is too much in love with Helena," Ivan said. Leilani
walked to Gábor and kissed him on the mouth."Thank you for coming to this
island and bringing this man here."
"You're welcome. And thanks for the kiss. It was my
first Tahitian kiss."
"It may not be the last," with a wink Leilani
turned to Vai.
"Let's eat and then I'd like to see the dolphins. Did
you see Mr. Lundy?" She looked very happy and Gábor observed Vai. She
appeared just as happy that her mother had hooked up with Ivan and with concern
Gábor wondered how they could straighten out the situation about their purpose
for being here and how would Leilani take it. It seemed that she fell in love
hard as well as Ivan and this lie could jeopardize this love affair. Ivan
deserved a woman like Leilani.
"I brought him breakfast, checked on his injuries, and
took his vitals. It's all on the report sheets. The bleeding has stopped and I
put new bandages on him and gave him a sedative, but the cranium worries me. He
will sleep and we will be back before he wakes up." "You will make a
great doctor, Vai, thanks. I will make my decision after the visit with the
dolphins as to sailing to Tahiti. Let's
have breakfast and then get the Avon from Kahekili and we'll go to see the
dolphins."
All sat down and ate in silence, each lost in their own
thoughts. Gábor used the opportunity to contact Leo and as usual, he was there
in an instant.
Lost in Leilani, Ivan was not in the link; Helena, Leo, and
Gábor had the mind waves to themselves.
"Leo, this
business with the dolphins will be the last thing here and I want to leave here
as soon as I can. Lundy may be ready to come with us at the latest tomorrow
morning, but we'll leave here with or without him. Can you stay in the background while we see
the dolphins? I may not be able to focus all the time."
"Dad, if you
relax and go into a meditative state, I can follow you and relay to Mom. We can
‘listen' in and you don't need to focus. As long as you open your mind and
imagine me, I can follow you. If you focus on something other than me, the link
breaks. In fact, when you focus on me, it is like shouting and you are getting
better at this by the day. I was with you during breakfast, very informative,
this thing about the birds and the bees," he chuckled. "By the way, Mom is busy making lei
for you and she is not linked in; it's supposed to be a surprise. Remember; I
didn't tell you. You don't know a thing or she'll have my tail."
"Is there any
privacy in this joint?" laughed Gábor.
"There will be
when you learn how to block telepathy. We will practice it when beautiful women
other than Mom are not sidetracking you. She is getting to be an expert
now."
"For me, there
are no other women, Leo."
"The whole banquet is not the meal, Mom
says. You made your choice and I know how you feel about Mom. I approve hundred
percent but you're married, not blind. Mom told me that it's important to keep
and open mind and says it makes you more of a man if you have eyes for other
women."
"Is Lena
listening to our conversation now?"
"No, as I said,
she is working on lei using the flowers she collected yesterday. Oh, and we've
got fresh water, plenty of it and it is tasty."
"Very good.
That's real good news. Then we don't need to worry, but it would be great to
‘connect' with her for a little bit."
A second later, there was the familiar gentle thought
pattern of Helena.
"You had a good
time dancing last night and I wanted to be there too. The men's dancing was
very manly and a turn on. I must learn the women's dancing and I'm sure it will
be fun. You seem to enjoy it, as I observed. How was she?"
"Lena. My love is
for you," he chided. "I
imposed all the moves on you and had my ideas," admitted Gábor, "and
they all concerning you."
"We'll see. I had some ideas too and when
you come back we‘ll see how they work combined, but for now we'd better watch
Ivan."
"I'll talk with
him," Gábor promised.
"Let Ivan have
his fun today, but tell him not to lose his head. He can be in love, but should
not abandon reason. We all are accountable for Leo's safety and we need Ivan to
make good on his promise or the entire plan will collapse" Helena
reminded Gábor.
"We will be
leaving from here latest tomorrow. I informed Leo and we're taking Lundy with
us if possible. On the trip, I will talk with him and try to come to an
agreement with him if his memory returns, but if his memory loss is permanent,
we could breathe easier. One thing is for certain. Ivan wants Leilani and Vai
to be in on our secret. He seems to think they are trustworthy. Honestly, I
trust them too, but Vai is very young and I don't know if she can keep a
secret. It is a big risk we're taking. But then you and I took chances with our
lives to get involved with each other and look; we're still together and alive
and I would do it all over again. Ivan's words have helped me to see what is important
to me and how I let myself be drugged with views and judgments. He helped us
when we needed help and I will help him when he needs it. Leilani seems to
genuinely love him. Let's give it a chance."
"Let's stay in
the link and watch what happens and when you come back I'll have a surprise for
you." A teasing thought flickered in Gábor's mind. He pushed his dish
away and noticed they all had finished and changed, wearing their sarongs.
There was a hot cup of tea in front of him, and the two women observed him with
query eyes. Leilani addressed him.
"You must have been far away Gábor. May I ask what's on
your mind?"
"I have been thinking about my wife and would like to
get this wrapped up so I can enjoy my holidays with her."
Leilani and Vai regarded him with a knowing smile and Ivan
looked at him, guessing Gábor was linked-up with his family. Leilani shook her
head.
"You should have been born Polynesian. We will take my
friends inflatable to the east end. There is a small engine in that corner
where the solar panels are and that will make the trip faster. Would you please
get that Ivan? I will check on Lundy before we go. Gábor, you can get your mask
and snorkelling gear and Vai, you put away the dishes, please. We can clean up
later."
"Oui, oui Madam General," Vai replied cheerfully
and saluted to her mother. Gábor got the gear for Ivan and he and Ivan found
the 15hp two-stroke engine, which looked like new, and he carried it to the
veranda.
Leilani got a sack cart from somewhere, Ivan lugged the
engine onto it, and when they got together and walked toward the beach.
Kahekili joined them, pulling a twelve-foot Avon dinghy on wheels with him.
"Ia Orana. You will see zee dolphin Lani tell me.
Better ooze ze robber duck, no?"
They reached the beach, Kahekili mounted the engine on the
dinghy, and the two men and the two women got into it, waved at Kahekili,
started the engine, and accelerated to top speed toward the East. Vai and Ivan
sat on the opposite side of the inflatable. Gábor sat on the starboard tube of
the inflatable beside Vai; Ivan held hands with Leilani and handled the engine.
This seating allowed him to observe Vai a little closer. She had turned toward
him and said something to him, but the noise of the outboard engine drowned out
her words, although he could see her countenance clearly in close-up. Her
heart-shaped symmetric face was even, and the high cheekbones magnified her
soft features. Her turquoise eyes changed with her mood, he observed. When
excited, like last night during the dance, they were darker, and when she was
in a relaxed mood, they were clear aquamarine.
The sarongs she and her mother wore now, hugged her
world-class figure, her breasts were the perfect proportions, firm, and he
could see the raised outline of her areolae crowned by her just slightly proud
nipples. Her narrow waist flared into her curvy hips and flat belly. Her
well-toned long legs and shapely thighs he'd seen last night were now half
covered. His eyes lingered on them for a while. He averted his eyes from her
thighs and unconsciously looked at those of Leilani. Her mother's legs were the
exact copy of Vai's as far as he could see. The sarong she wore left half of
her thighs exposed and the curve of her hips blended perfectly with her narrow
waist and flat belly. Further up her firm breasts complemented the rest of her
figure. Leilani could easily pose as a model in any fashion journal and he
could imagine her as a centerfold in a man's magazine as well. Her calves were
long-muscled and ended in small feet with beautiful toes that looked very much
like Helena's. Vai had inherited her mother's look. She was as beautiful and
the man who would ever end up with her was one lucky bastard. Then Gábor jolted
them back into reality. Vai talked about the dolphins, asked a question, and
was now expecting an answer.
"Sorry, I can't hear you over the engine," he said
and Vai leaned closer, their faces nearly touched. Gábor felt her hair on his
face, her breath as fresh as oranges. Her voice was as pleasant as if she were
singing. She asked if they had any dolphins in Canada.
"We have porpoises and mostly orcas."
"I would like to see them sometimes," Vai said and
looked at him as if she expected an invitation. He did not know what to answer
and Vai's turned her face away and looked forward again. She seemed
disappointed. The three km trip was fast over the calm, green, but the
crystal-clear water was almost the color of Vai's eyes and they saw coral down
to twenty meters easily. A few stingrays crossed their path and they saw a lot
of other fish, but nothing big.
They got to the beach and pulled the boat up on a narrow
sandy beach, grabbed the gear and started toward the oceanside beach. Vai
explained: "The dolphins like this side the most because they find more
fish here than on the other side; sometimes they go there too and I believe
they go there to play with me. This is their regular hangout, as the Americans
would say. I come here when I want to be alone with them. The villagers leave
me alone since they know I want to communicate with them and they almost see me
as their bridge between them and the dolphins. Some think I'm weird or some
kind of a holy person, at least the elders think so. The younger people are too
much into technology and expecting answers from machines and not from life.
The way I see it is that machines only reflect the human
mind and there is nothing to see but their own self. If they just would look
into the mind of life, they could see wonders they have never seen before. When
I'm with my friends, I feel I'm really learning new things." Ivan looked
at Gábor and Gábor ‘heard' Leo whisper; "She
is a sage."
Between the trees, they saw the ocean and heard the surf
crashing onto the beach. Between the coral and some larger boulders, some sand
was visible and Vai headed for the sandy spot. Water ran up to the beach and
made its way around the rocks, swirled around the coral, then it ran out of
mass and retreated, only to be run over by another wave, in its endless cycle
of coming and going. This was not far from where they had recovered Leo.
Vai waded into the water and whistled sharply through her
teeth a few times. The waves washed at her calves, then her thighs as she
walked deeper into the water, whistling again. A few fins appeared a hundred
meters offshore and more came into sight. Vai took off her pareu and stunned
both men for a moment with her naked beauty. When she turned sideways to throw
the cloth back to her mother, her nubile breasts showed up in profile
exquisitely and Gábor used to seeing Helena naked, drew a comparison between
the two. They both had about the same shape and size with the exception of the
skin color. Helena tanned fast and easy to a golden sheen once she exposed
herself to the sun and this young woman had a copper skin without any tan
lines. He had always thought that Helena could be a fashion model and this
native girl as well as her mother was of the same stock. Vai waded into the
deeper water and dove in. Both men expelled their breath, as her back and
copper-brown round butt disappeared from sight. The natural movement of her
body and the lack of worry that there were two strangers, who had never seen
her before, had such an innocent character that it made the men gasp.
Leilani had an amused smile on her face and she too shed her
clothes and followed Vai. Gábor and Ivan's jaws dropped. These women not only
were beautiful, but they were so absolutely natural, it took their breath away.
Both swam out through the surf and the dolphins surrounded them. Vai surfaced,
waved to her mother, and dove. Her head went under again, her butt and legs
visible for a second and she disappeared underwater for a long time. One of the
women surfaced again, but it was difficult to say which one, they looked so
much alike. Then Ivan recognized Leilani. No more than ten meters away,
treading water, she was waiting for the men to catch up with her. The men began
to worry when they didn't see Vai coming to the surface but then her head came
up. She had been underwater for at least three minutes before she surfaced
again and then Gábor's paralysis broke. He stripped out of his shorts revealing
his trunks underneath them and joined the women in the deeper water. With his
mask on Gábor slipped his fins over his feet and swam toward Leilani, passing
Ivan who in his trunks had also put on a mask and snorkel and followed. Vai was
underwater again and the dolphins gathered around her.
Putting snorkels in their mouths the two men dove. There was
Vai, her nubile figure among the dolphins; she swam like them, her legs
together, and her arms along her body, her body bending and twisting in an
erotic dance, her hair flowing with the movements of the water and her body.
There was something stimulating in the way she moved, but none of the men had
any thoughts of sex on their minds. The scene looked very aesthetic and pure.
They felt the need to surface to breathe and when they came up Leilani was
close to them. "So what would you
like Vai to ask of them?" she inquired.
Ivan pushed the mask up to his forehead and took the snorkel
from his mouth, and asked her if Vai could find out whether the dolphins
rescued Leo and Lundy. Leilani waited until Vai surfaced and then swam closer
to her and talked to her in Tahitian. Vai nodded and dove again. The men put
their masks on again and watched Vai. The dolphins were around her and seemed
to be attentive as Vai first swam agitatedly in the water, then surfaced and
with her face down remained motionless in the water. First, the dolphins
circled her and then nudged her a few times and waited, but Vai didn't stir.
When for a long time Vai didn't move, one of them with a few scars on its body
moved under her and lifted her out of the water. Vai took a breath and the
dolphins twisted and turned as if asking for her to play, but Vai just remained
with her face below the waterline, her limbs hanging and slowly sinking. The
scored dolphin moved under her while the others hung around, almost like
confused people at the scene of an accident not knowing what to do. Again, the
dolphin raised Vai and she took a breath and then swam to the men.
"I need one of you to play dead like I did. They don't
seem to think that there is something wrong with me. I want to see what they'll
do if one of you plays dead. Gábor, you could try without the snorkel and mask.
You see that coral head with the rock there about three meters out of the
water? Climb up on it and fall into the water from it. The water is deep
enough. It will be okay."
Gábor handed the mask and snorkel to Ivan and swam to the
indicated rock. The coral grew in a semi-circle around it. He removed his fins,
placed them high out of the surf and carefully climbed up on the sharp coral
and continued up onto the rock. It was not as easy as it looked and a few
times, he slipped off, cutting his knee on the sharp rock, and then he finally
made it. The water under him was clear and there was a spot about two meters
out that looked deep enough to jump into and not get hurt. Vai was with the
dolphins and they seem to be watching him.
He took a few deep breaths and filling his lungs with
oxygen, jumped out from the rock, spun onto his back, and landed with a splash
in the deep pool and then he remained still, his arms dangling and his body
slack. Blood from his knee was seeping into the water. At first, there was no
reaction from the dolphins and Gábor thought he would have to do it again when
he saw a movement from the corner of his vision. Sharks. Fear pulsed through
him, the beach was about a hundred meters away, and he didn't even have a
knife.
Then there was another, and then suddenly life came into the
dolphins. The one that he thought he recognized, came underneath him, its snout
slid under his belly and lifted him higher out of the water while he saw two
others going after the sharks, one hitting hard into the side of one shark and
the other was chasing another shark until Gábor lost sight of them. His
"rescuer" kept pushing him toward the shore and deposited him onto a
coral head in about one-meter deep water, turned back into deeper water, and
swam to Vai, nudging her towards him. She hugged the dolphin and held on to his
fin as he, or she, swam back to Gábor, picking up his fins on the way. He stood
in waist deep water, waiting. Vai stood up, her naked, slender body not more than
two meters from him. Her mature young breasts and the dark, medium large
areolae and proud nipples, her flat belly with hips of a fully developed woman
and narrow waist and curves belonged on a centerfold. Water dripping from her
dark, curly pubic hair and pouting labia conjured imageries of sexual context
in Gábor. He felt a twitching in his penis and felt it filling with blood. Vai
had seen the way he had looked at her body and enjoyed being seen. She looked
him straight in the eyes, lips slightly parted, and a seductive smile played on
her lips. Gábor saw himself in a passionate embrace with her and suddenly he
missed Helena. With a heavy sigh, he averted his eyes. Rolling her eyes at his
perceived prudish being, Vai said: "I think you got the answer you were
looking for, Gábor. The dolphins could have rescued Mr. Lundy," her voice
like music in his ears.
"Thank you. I think they rescued me too. When I saw
those sharks, my knees began to shake. I'm glad I had good practice last
night," remembering the rapidly open and closing the knees that the native
men did in their dances. Vai smiled and came within arm's length of him and a
puzzled look sat on her face. He thought he could feel her body heat.
"Those were reef sharks, not very dangerous, but when there is blood in
the water, they could be. In addition, I see you are bleeding. Did you get that
from the coral?" She bent her knees and leaned forward to inspect the
cuts. His penis filled and he felt it rising. Looking at her hips as they
flared into her bottom, he thought of Helena and sex. Vai's soft hands with
long, slender fingers washed off the blood. When she touched him, a jolt like
an electric current hit him and his knee jerked. "Does it hurt?" she
asked, her head level with his waist.
"No. It was from the rock when I slipped on it."
To no avail, Gábor tried very hard to suppress his arousal.
She must have noticed; he was sure. He looked down on himself and yes; it was
visible. He squatted deeper into the water and Vai smiled. She felt the same
excitement, noticing his state, but her excitement was not only due to the
sexual attraction she felt. Her body vibrated from a different kind of
excitement.
True, it has been too long since she had sex and he had a
very strong effect on her, but a sudden remembrance of a dream shocked her. She
needed to collect her mind. In the dream, this man was her mate. That he had a
partner already was fitting as well. Her interest in him peaked and she felt a
heat rising in her like last night at the dance. Seeing his bulge growing
filled her with anxiety, but the sudden insight and revelation of the almost
forgotten dream dazed her. Maybe he liked her and they could get together and
she could tell him about her dream. Even if she were only a close friend with
him and his wife, it would be enough for her. The vision was not so much about
an intimate relationship with him, but about pending changes in the
relationship that different species had with each other.
The role she played in this vision was that of a visionary
guide and it appeared this man would be her protector as well as her lover.
That she felt a powerful attraction to him was part of the vision, and also
being in a close relationship with him. Of course she knew that he was married,
but that wouldn't stop her being intimate with him if his partner permitted it
and he willing. She found him very attractive and her dream told her they had
some kind of special connection to each other. He said he missed his wife and
family, so he must love her then. Maybe he could love her too. She wouldn't
want him to leave his wife, but perhaps she could share his love with her. It
would be enough and she could see what this dream was about. But most
importantly, she needed time to sort out her feelings and find the meaning of that
dream. These thoughts took only a few seconds, but Gábor noticed her
absent-mindedness and wondered what caused it.
"That's good because from the coral you could get a
nasty infection. However, it was good you had been bleeding. It called the
sharks and then my friends got the idea of protecting you."
Vai straightened, pulling him up and looking into his eyes,
her lips still smiling, she lifted her chin, her pupils became dark and wide.
He noticed her nipples had stiffened and grown considerably and not because of
the water. She seemed to be leaning towards him and he caught himself. She is
aroused too, he thought, not only me. He turned toward the shore and adjusted
his trunks with a quick move so his erection was less obvious.
"They too must feel something special about you,"
he heard her quiet words behind him. Her voice was more like a whisper and he
turned back to face her. She was within arms-length; her wet hair and face
glittered with the light of the sun. Vai's eyes had that turquoise-emerald look
and a dreamy expression was in them. Gábor felt an urge to kiss her, his eyes
darkened with desire and for a moment, Vai and he felt encased in a private
bubble of emotions. He noticed her fresh breath on his face and was aware of
her closeness, her eyes, how close their lips were to each other and his body
vibrated. Like two magnets attracting each other, their bodies gravitated
towards one another. Vai's face lost its smile a bit and anticipation replaced
it. Her face had darkened and she looked flushed. The energy between them was
intense and Gábor felt his body responding as it had the day he had sex with
Helena for the first time. They heard Leilani calling to them and the magic
spell burst. But both had felt it, something powerful had happened between
them. This girl was upsetting his equilibrium.
They made their way up to the beach and Vai handed him his
fins, retrieved her pareu from her mother, and wrapped it around her in a
fashion that covered her breasts and half of her thighs. Gábor sighed with relief.
He was still a man. He felt Helena's
excited whisper in his mind:
"She is beautiful
and very sexy. I wouldn't blame you for taking her. I see her as a very close
friend, not a threat. I can imagine you being intimate with her, Honey. Do as
you feel. I'm sure she has the same strong desire to be with you as I do, I
sense that; it's okay."
"No Sweetheart.
You and I, we have a history together. Nothing could change that. I love
you."
"Whatever
happens, it would not change how I feel about you. I want you to know
that." Did she sense his excitement in him? What did Leo think about
all this adult stuff?
"Thanks, but no
thanks. I am with a woman who wants me for who I am. It's a tempting menu, but
I made my choice. It's not the body but the heart that matters. Only love
matters."
"Exactly. Don't
be afraid of it."
For a moment Gábor was lost for thoughts, Helena's image
hugging him and that only hardened his resolve to resist the temptation this
young woman presented. Helena couldn't mean what she implied strongly.
"I think you're
too hard on yourself, Gábor. Why would it not be possible for her to love you
too? Love is love, something we share, not own. Nobody has a monopoly on love.
There are no exclusive rights, only privileges; you know that. I don't own your
love and neither do you own mine. Remember; we are sharing our love with each
other unconditionally. You know how much I love you. Don't be afraid of
love."
Ivan stood hand in hand with Leilani and she had her sarong
wrapped around her again. Her eyes scanned Vai over and with a woman's
intuition, she sensed her daughter's condition; Vai was falling in love with a
married man as well as possibly she did too. Her dilemma was, she loved them
both, and they were Westerners. She looked at her daughter with a question and
a cautioning look in her eyes. Vai shrugged her shoulders. "The dolphins
could have saved Lundy's life, Ma. They saved Gábor."
She continued speaking Tahitian and the two men could only
listen to the sounds and not much more. Leilani sounded as if she was
reprimanding Vai and Vai sounded apologetic, but not contrite. She looked at
Gábor and said to him quietly for his ears only.
"I'm sorry if my nudity has made you feel
uncomfortable. I didn't think when I got into the water with my dolphin
friends, and then when you were standing on the rock you looked very sexy and
for a minute I forgot about your wife. I'm sorry if I have tempted you, but I
have no regrets. However, my mother wants me to apologize."
"I'm sure you didn't mean harm and you are very
tempting. The man who will win your heart will be a lucky man as I am with
Helena. I feel much honoured by your affection and this will not change my
respect or my feelings for you." Only Vai could hear his whispered words
and she looked at Gábor with a quizzical expression, her eyes moist and dark. Only
the dark green rings around her irises indicated her agitated state.
"This is the man who has my heart since and for
eternity," she murmured in Maori towards Leilani. She heard it and scanned
over Gábor with a thorough look. What did Vai mean? Yes, Gábor had that personality that seemed
to exude trust and virility and created interest in her too, she felt it
strongly and it wasn't unusual for mother and daughter to love the same man,
but this was a European man. Ivan had similar effects on her, although he was
more of a warrior presence with strong values and solid reliance, both men’s
traits appealed to her very much. Leilani hoped her daughter was wise enough to
tread lightly around Gábor. If he followed principles of European origin it
could break her or the relationship of Gábor and his wife. She had to forego
her desire to have both men.
Ivan was European too and she wouldn't expect him to make
changes and she loved him. She wouldn't endanger the just developing
relationship with him out of a notion to find out how it would be to be
intimate with Gábor. And of course, there was Gábor's wife. She was an unknown
equation. If Vai insisted on being with Gábor because she believed he was her
soul mate since eternity, as she put it, there could be trouble if his wife
objected. Adultery in the western society was a serious offense, not here.
Gábor had stepped closer to Vai and embraced her strongly
and felt something like an electric current flowing through him. She returned
his embrace, her arms pressing him, pulling him closer to her and for a minute
they stood like that and Gábor felt the heat of her body as it aligned with
his. Her breasts and pubes pressing against him, he could feel her soft cleft
on his shaft. His penis filled with blood and for a moment, he had the
sensation of being inside her. She must have felt him getting hard and suddenly
with tears in her eyes Vai broke from his arms and ran toward the dinghy on the
lagoon side. Stunned and confused Gábor and the others picked up their gear and
followed her. Leilani troubled eyes scanned both. It was a look of compassion
and worry and she glanced at Gábor, seeing his bulging trunks, wanting to say
something, but then bit her lips and walked beside Ivan, holding his hand as
they approached the craft. Vai stopped on the other side of the dinghy, tried
to compose herself, and shyly smiled at Gábor only a meter away. Something in
her posture made her appear older than her chronological age and she looked
very adult, but fragile at the same time.
"How old are you Gábor?" she almost whispered and
as a consequence, it created a sense of intimacy.
"Would it be important to know?" he fell into the
same whisper without realizing. His heart pounded in his chest.
"It wouldn't make a difference to me. I'm asking
because I'm afraid it would make a difference to you, in case you would
consider loving me," Vai whispered.
What did he feel for her? He could be her father, but she
stirred him up like Helena, excited him, and it scared him at the same time. He
felt dizzy.
"Helena is much younger than me," he replied.
"That's good to know. I've always felt attracted to
older men too. Forgive me, but I will always look for you or a man like you.
You are affecting me very strongly and you have a maturity I always wanted in a
man. I think it will be very hard to find a man like you," and with a
laugh, she added louder for Ivan and her mother to hear.
"Ivan found Ma and I will keep looking until I find
somebody like you. Maybe I will find someone in Europe or maybe in Canada. I
know I could drive someone crazy or maybe many, who knows?" she said.
"But please, one at a time, grasshopper," said
Ivan with a laugh.
"What's wrong with two or three at a time?" Vai
laughed and tossed her hair. Leilani shook her head, looking at Ivan.
"What did I tell you? She has always had a free spirit,
a true Polynesian woman, insatiable."
"We have to keep an eye on her or we will have a lot of
crazy men around the house," Ivan quipped.
"Yours or mine?" Leilani asked.
"I dare to hope ours," retorted Ivan.
With a searching look, Leilani measured him.
"Are you always this quick with your ideas?"
"No sense in wasting time at my age," Ivan shot
back.
"What about being one of my boyfriends for a while?"
"How many do you have?"
"Right now only one; that being you, but one never
knows. Why?"
"A boyfriend or girlfriend affair is for people who
can't make up their mind about what they want. My mind is made up and I'm
waiting for you to let me know when you've made up yours."
With a thoughtful expression, Leilani regarded him for a
minute.
"I have to get to know a person before I make up my
mind about moving in together. You seem to be very impulsive. You could be
fool's gold."
"You're not going to find out without examination from
the distance. You must know that from being a doctor. No better way getting to
know each other than being together, I'd say. You're always free to change your
mind if you don't like what you'll get."
Bobbing her head Leilani admitted that that made sense.
"Let's see what lies ahead, shall we?"
Gábor and Vai followed the exchange with great interest.
Although her mother's view had always been liberal with a disciplined
restraint, she seemed cautious after the split from Martin. Several men, some
good looking and well off bid on her, but she rejected them all for one reason
or another. Perhaps she knew them too well. With Ivan and Gábor here, both
strangers, she showed unusual strong interest.
She too, like her mother, felt an unexplainable attraction
to Gábor, as if he had some powerful pheromones that affected her, but there
was something else that lurked deep in her heart, something that gave her the
feeling she had met him before.
For Vai, he was like an irresistible force that made her
heart soar. Without knowing, she shared that with Helena. Even just thinking
about him made her heart flutter and a tingle in her abdomen signalled an
instinctive desire to mate with him.
Vai watched her mother. She seemed to be attracted to Gábor as
much as to Ivan and she recalled how she had shared a man from this island with
her and neither had a problem with that, many practiced that, but these were
Europeans. Their ideas about relating with the opposite sex were not like hers;
as a matter of fact, it was not even comparable. When she cared for someone
deeply it wasn't a question of whether it was appropriate to have sex, but
whether she wanted to be intimate with that person or not.
Early in life, she had learned that to be intimate with
someone was a means to have fun with that person and not a means to entrap him
or her or to lure him or her away from the other partner if there was another.
Her mother had often told her that a man would never turn down a willing woman
and more often than not it was the female's choice with whom she mated.
Occasionally a man had several vahines and there were women with several tane
(man) like Hanna, Kahekili's wife. Be that as it may, Gábor seemed to care for
her and there was her vision that pointed at him as being the one she had in
her dreams. She could refrain from intimacy if she had to, but she would have
to be near him if the vision was to work
