Bedtime Stories – The sweet escape.

It was one of those hot summer days at the end of June over the Gulf of Naples, when i decided to do a daytrip to the island of Procida. I needed to escape from the heat of the city. So i took the ferry at noon and reached the island within an hour or two.

There was this one guy who stood out from the crowd. Mainly because of his clothes. He wore silk shirt and trousers and a straw hat. He did look quite exotic in the middle of this italian scenery – which, of course, immediately caught my attention. He was nice to look at, but i just continued my tour on the island.

As so often in these moments when I’m traveling alone, and which I can’t really understand afterwards, I spontaneously opened my dating app and scrolled around a bit. Of course there wasn’t anything interesting around (as small as the island is), so i turned off the phone again. After a while i had this “Hi”-message on the screen and it was – surprise! – from the “mysterious” guy I observed earlier.

At first we had the usual small talk. But then he mentioned that he wanted to go to the beach in the afternoon and if i wanted to join? And – I swear – I actually intended the same thing. So it didn’t take long for us to meet up in the afternoon.

He brought cookies and cherries, which i found literally sweet! (…well, the seagulls attacked some of the things while we were in the water, but that is another story, lol). So we snacked a bit, chatted, swam in the amazing warm mediterannean sea and tanned ourselfs under the blazing sun. It was pretty hot, but not necessarily in a sexual sense. I mean, it all felt good, but there was no special energy in the air, in my opinion. But maybe i was wrong, cause at some point he asked if we should have fun?

It wasn’t really a question, more of a suggestion. I was a bit hesitating at first, but the next time we went into the water I swam up to him and kissed him. Everything that followed was intense – the warm skin within the warm sea – the looks – the touches – the rhythm of the waves in time with our bodies. It was a moment out of time. And we had the moment all to ourselves, because for some reason the entire beach was suddenly empty. Only the sun was our witness.

In the evening he took me back to the ferry dock. With a smile on my lips and the summer breeze on my back, I then made my way back to Naples.

Unexpected things often happen, i thought…