The lifeguard

Chapter 2: Our first day out

I’ve spent the first 6 months after we moved trying to make our home comfortable while trying to overcome the years of abuse from Derrick.

I was 18 years old when I began to date Derrick and we had 3 kids before I turned 22 and countless miscarriages. He wouldn’t let me have a choice to use any birth control, one time I snuck the pill and he found out and I got the beating of a life time.

Today was a hot day, it was summer and I was just beginning to start getting out more and getting to know the little town I was hiding out in. I didn’t have many friends and my family all went there own ways when we got older. I spent years keeping to myself but I wanted my kids to have a different life, to make friends and be normal.

I packed everything up the night before and today I was going to take them for a beach day, I prepared some home made pancakes for the kids while they ate I got ready.

I brushed through my long blond hair as I looked myself over, I had put some makeup on for the first time in a year. Derrick always expected me to be done up every single day. I remember when I went into labor with Jeremy and he made me go into the bathroom to fix my hair and put makeup on. My water broke in the kitchen then he told me I had to go shave my legs.

Luckily I had called an ambulance and they didn’t listen to him and brought me into the hospital immediately.

I looked over my makeup that made my green eyes pop, I had worn a dress type of bathing suit to hide my stretch marks and my c-section incision I had from Angel. I had a nice body considering I’ve had 3 kids, it’s probably because I didn’t eat much, I always fed the kids then I would pick at whatever they didn’t eat. Plus they kept me very busy, I spent the day running after them and cleaning behind them.

I didn’t have an ounce of fat on me but my boobs were huge, I was extremely disproportionate.

I cleaned the kids up and walked down to the beach dragging a full wagon of stuff. It wasn’t a very far walk at all, when I got there I looked around, the beach was very big and had a nice kids park on it. I scanned the area for a good place to sit my stuff there was only a few other people here. I saw a mother and two young children sitting near the lifeguard station, I took a deep breathe and pushed my anxiety aside as we began to walk towards her.

Jeremy and Ali were running up and down the beach laughing and screaming as I began to set up a little shelter for Angel. The woman I sat beside was around my age, she had long dark hair and big black sunglasses covering her eyes. She was very curvy and tanned, her kids were playing calmly next to her.

When she noticed me she gave me a small smile,

“Hey, I haven’t seen you around here. Are you new to town or just visiting?”

“I’m new to town, hi, I’m Bri!” I said nervously I wasn’t aloud to have friends with Derrick and when I introduced myself I felt like he would jump out from the bush and beat me.

She smiled at me, “Hey Bri, I’m Maddy, these two are Hunter and Raven.” She said nodding towards her children. They both looked up and smiled then continued to build their sand castles.

I gave them each a wave, I had Angel in my arms as Jeremy and Ali were wresting each other on the beach.

I shook my head, “Well those two are Jeremy and Ali, and this little beauty is Angel.”

She waved to them and told her kids to go introduce themselves to Ali and Jeremy,

“So are you here to see Max too?” she asked.

I gave her a confused look and shook my head,

“Max? I don’t think I know what your talking about.”

She let out a loud laugh, “Oh girlfriend do I ever have a treat for you!”

She went on to explain that Max was a lifeguard that worked here, he just graduated high school this year and he was extremely hot. All the women would come here to drool over him, I glanced around and noticed most of the people who began to pile in where younger women, some with kids and some without. They all had there hair done up and make up on.

“He works the 11-12, 3-4 and the 7-8 shifts Thursday to Monday and I guarantee most of the women in town have his schedule reminder on their phones. He usually hangs around here in between shifts so most of us stick around for the day but some of us have kids who need to get to bed.”

I glanced at the time, it was 1030, so he was bound to start, I was a bit excited to see what everyone was so hung up about. I looked over at Jeremy and Ali who were laughing and smiling as they played a game in the waves near the beach. Angel was curled up to me looking at everything, she was holding my swimsuit tightly as she took it all in.

Maddy continued to talk about herself, she was in a complicated relationship with her kids father, he didn’t live with them but he was always over. He worked a lot so she was mostly alone, from the sounds of it they were more friends with benefits. She continued to tell me how she lived here her entire life, and she lived just the street over from me.

I felt Maddy nudge me and nod towards the building behind us, I looked around all eyes were there.

I seen a tall built man walk out with a bright red muscle shirt stuck to his skin, he had dirty blond hair that was cut short and a blue baseball hat covering most of his head. He had on white swim shorts and flip flops, as he began to walk he smiled, and he’s smile was breathtaking, he’s teeth were so white they almost glowed. He began to fiddle with his hat as a woman walked up to him and tried to talk to him, I eyed her she had dark skin and a black bikini on. Her body was perfect and she was so beautiful. He looked back at her as he passed barely giving her the time of day.

I couldn’t keep my eyes off of him, I looked over to scan for the kids as I noticed Ali running towards him. I got up instantly to stop her, but I was too late she ran to him as he gave her a large smile he kneeled down in front of her.

“Well hello and who are you?”

She smiled, “Ali and you?”

“I’m Max, I work here as a lifeguard to make sure you guys are safe.”

She nodded at him, eyeing the lifeguard tower. He looked up also,

“Well Ali, I need to get to work, it was so nice to meet you. Have fun today cutie!”

She immediately stomped her foot in front of him and crossed her arms,

“I AM NOT CUTE, I AM BEAUTIFUL!” she yelled out.

I immediately ran up to her, I was probably redder then his shirt as I tried to apologize but the words didn’t quite come out,

“I’m… I… she… sorry!” is all that came out.

He laughed, looking into my eyes deeply. He looked me over and to Angel in my arms. He looked back to Ali and told her,

“I am so sorry Ali, you are beautiful just like you mama here.”