Dorcas needed a break from her office job, she hates it and can't take it anymore; cramped in a small office with a certain dress code, unable to be herself. So she goes to the one place that she knows she can feel herself, the beach. At the beach, she feels nothing but the freeing feeling inside of her that most people fell at home or with a loved one but this is her home. Home isn't a four-wall box with windows, its the water dancing along her feet and the sun hugging her skin.
She's never thought that she would find that same feeling in a person, she always thought that her future was herself and no one else but she stands corrected when she walks onto her favorite beach and immediately feels drawn to someone. Dorcas lets her head turn until her gaze is satisfied by one person in particular, a blond girl who is sitting on a lifeguard chair. She's wearing a red bikini top with, what looks like, male swim trunks that are the same color red as the top. Dorcas takes more of an in-depth at the mysterious lifeguard and notes her hair. Oh, her hair Dorcas thinks as her eyes notice the bleach-blonde hair contrasting the darker roots showing at the top of this girls hair. Usually Dorcas hates the idea of not kept up color on people's hair but this, this is somehow different.
She has to pull herself back to reality, she knows its probably been too long to still be staring but she doesn't care; Dorcas could just admire this mysterious women forever and not get tired. Dorcas snaps out of it and takes a deep breath to try and center herself before walking off to lay on the beach. She doesn't know what tells her to pick the spot right in the view line of the lifeguard chair but something moves her there.
Dorcas layer her towel down and puts her stuff by it, feeling that amazing feeling that she's used to. Home. That feeling is interrupted when she feels like she's being watched. She knows that felling like someone watching you while you're at a beach with hundreds of people isn't usually unusual but something about this feeling is, different. Not bad different just special. Dorcas didn't want to scare off whoever was watching her so she pulled out her phone and opened the camera, pretending to check her hair. Her jaw almost dropped. It was that lifeguard girl, she was watching earlier. No way Dorcas thought. She couldn't believe that she caught this girl watching her the same way as she was earlier. Dorcas couldn't help but embrace the smile the spread across her face while a plan started up in her head.
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Marlene sighed as she looked out on the beach and saw all the people enjoying themselves. She can admit it's a nice view but she can't help but feel like something is missing, which is not an unusual feeling. Lately she can't escape that empty feeling not even when she's doing what she loves, lifeguarding. Some people don't understand why she would want to be a lifeguard as a full time job but she loves it; the sound of the waves crashing and helping people is what keeps her sane.
One day she's sitting in her lifeguard chair and notices this one girl. And oh does Marlene notice her, she's drop dead gorgeous. Her breath hitches as she looks her up and down unable to tear her eyes away even If she wanted too, which she doesn't. This mysterious girl's skin attracts the sun like the sun was created just to shine on her, she's wearing a couple rings in each hand and they look like they are made to be worn by her. She has some jewelry in her braided hair that makes her dark eyes have this sort of softness to them.
She forces herself to look away and actually focus on her job but she can't get this girl out of her head; it feels like something has clicked into the right place and she can't ignore that no matter how hard she tries. Her eyes find their way back to this girl and notice that now she's laying herself and her stuff down not too far from her chair. Marlene keeps looking at the mystery girl when she notices that the girl took her phone out and she's in the background; the girl can clearly see Marlene eyeing her up.
Marlene panics and starts looking anywhere and everywhere else but at this girl but soon enough her eyes are back on her. And if she wasn't panicking before she was now because that girl is walking up to her lifeguard chair with a limp that came out of nowhere.
"Excuse me?" the girl said. Oh god her voice, Marlene thought, it's so lovely. She knew she had to say something but no words where coming out until she forced them too, "Hi, hi uh can I help you?". This girl is going to be the death of her because she smirks at her, full on smirks at Marlene while looking at her directly in the eyes. "Yea, my leg is really hurting me and I think I might've hurt it. I figured being a lifeguard and all you might have something to help". Marlene takes longer than any normal person would to respond, she knows that this girl didn't go in the water yet and she was walking fine before so there's no way she's actually hurt.
She takes this opportunity to play this girl at her own game, smirking and tilting her head she says "Yea, yea I might have something to help," before asking more Marlene gets out of her chair and has Dorcas sit down on the ground. She joins Dorcas and puts her hand on her leg; she couldn't stop her hand and once it was on her leg it felt right. "What's your name?". "Dorcas, and yours?" She continues smiling and Marlene has to act like this isn't effecting her in very way possible and steady her voice, "Marlene".
"Hmm, pretty name. It fits you," and that's when Dorcas looks her up and down getting a closer look, not like she wasn't before.
"So does yours, pretty name for a pretty girl," it only just registered what she said after it was said and Marlene frantically tries to get back to the topic at hand. Marlene suddenly moves her hand away from Dorcas' thigh, "Um, so you said you were hurt? You were limping but what hurts exactly?". Marlene tries to focus on Dorcas' "injury" but the way she is looking at her is very, very distracting.
"You know, I think you're a miracle worker," Dorcas smirks and continues to play this little game they have going on, moving her hand so it's now resting on Marlene's wrist. Marlene doesn't know why or how but something inside her tells her to never let Dorcas let go. "My leg is feeling just fine but there's something you can do to make sure I'm okay," Dorcas trails off and keeps looking at Marlene who is just about to freak the fuck out. How is she supposed to be calm when Dorcas keeps making these antagonizing comments and smirking widely yet looking as pretty as ever.
Marlene trips over her words a little, obviously panicked, but Dorcas secretly thinks it's adorable. "Yea, sure. What uh..what can I do?"
"You can take me out tonight".
Everything is suddenly quiet and nothing else seems to matter right now. Dorcas starts to get a look on her face that Marlene knows it means that she has to say something, but she's utterly stunned. After what feels like minutes she finally is able to mutter an answer that somehow comes out rushed, "Yes, yea, I mean..sure yea I'd love too". The smile that breaks out onto Marlene's face transfers to Dorcas' when they look at each other and they can't help but laugh.
"See you tonight then Marls?", the nickname makes her face turns red like she's been in the sun for too long. The nickname really, really got to her and she tried to not show it but Dorcas knew. "Yea. Oh I almost forgot, I need your number obviously". Dorcas laughs and stands up with Marlene, now noticing that she is a bit taller than her; somehow Marlene loves that she's taller than her and her face gets all red again.
They exchange numbers and say their goodbyes for now; though, their eyes never really leave each other and something has Marlene thinking that they never will.