Dedicated to deal4n

NIKOLAS

As the water dripped down my body, I feel my erection going down. Since when did my body start reacting to her?

Ever since, you dummy. You've just been ignorant. A voice in my head says.

But she's way younger than I am. Another voice says.

And you are the first person to have a six years age gap with his wife? She is 23 and not under age. I stop all the thoughts running through my head and concentrate on having my bath. For a quick bath, there were so many thoughts.

Satisfied that my erection had disappeared, I fetch a towel and clean my body before stepping into the room. Empty. She probably went out. I change into a three quarter short and a polo shirt before heading out.

To my utmost surprise, few metres from me stood Amethyst talking to that idiot named Jude. Today will be the last day he interracts with my wife!

Your wife, huh? A part of my head teases.

Her eyes widen in surprise as she says something to him, making him turn around to notice me coming their way. He says a quick goodbye with the words 'Angry bird',  she chuckles and he walks out. Coward!

"Are you seriously going to keep doing this?" She cocks her eyebrow at me in  question. I don't say anything because words would fail me at this moment. So I do something else.

I pull her into his arms and run my hand down her hair in silent response, breathing in and out to calm myself. Calm down. Calm down. I keep repeating it in my head like a mantra. I peck her forehead and then continue running my hand on her hair till I feel my breathe become even.

•••••

"Couples! Good morning to you all. I am your moderator, Jude Jenkins popularly known around here as JJ." He smirks as he speaks.

"Today, we will commence the event with Sports......" He continues speaking.

The activities were shared; Light sports like sack race were allocated to the women while hefty ones were allocated to the men. The accumulation on both parts determines what couple wins the games section which will take place for three days.

On the third day, the games aspect was crowned with cards and board games like chess, scrabble and monopoly. We didn't emerge first but we came in third.

"There will be a bonus game today. Marks from this game will be summed up with the already known aggregate and divided to have a winning couple for games." Jude announced again as several couples groaned about how tired they were and the fact that they needed to rest.

The crowd cheers and he just merely laughs and continues speaking, clearly enjoying our displeasure.

"So it is simple." He goes on. "Men, get ready to carry your wives on your backs. You both should get ready to paint with egg mixtures. There will be a panel of judges to give feedbacks." I didn't miss the smirk that crossed Amethyst lips when he mentioned the word 'paint'.

On the other hand, I was excited for the one reason that I would be carrying her. I wanted to let go of his annoyance and give Jude a hug right now. You see, wifey here has been avoiding body contacts with me for the past three days since our near kiss episode.

As if realizing the terms of the game, she gasps and groans, smacking her head. I watch in pleasure as she asks.

"Meaning, you have to carry me?"

"Yes." I muse.

"Oh. Okay." The infamous fireball is short of words. Incredible.

Amidst disagreement, the instructional guide for the game is handed to each couple and we all read through.

The man carries his woman on his back and races to the egg bowl where she picks up as many eggs as she can carry with her hands, careful not to break any as that would result in loss of points, breaking of two eggs at a go leads to automatic disqualification. After that, she is expected to crack the egg into a color palette of five colors; blue, yellow, red, black and white to increase the volume of the color. Both of you are expected to paint anything of your choice. There would be an extra palette in the case of color mix being needed. Paint brushes will be provided, canvasses and other neccessary aids needed. Time allocated is thirty minutes and at the sound of the whistle the game commences.

I glance at Amethyst who had just concluded reading the guide.

"Ready?" I ask her.

"Sure." The whistle goes off as she answers. A big LED counter which we didn't take note of earlier began counting down thirty minutes. I take a squatting position, patiently waiting for her to hop on but to my dismay, she stood, hesitantly.  I could see the contemplation in her eyes.

"Come on. We are on a time limit here." I urge her by pulling her arms closer to me. She wavers a little before climbing on my back.

I feel a sensation and a rise in my pulses as her breast touches my back, resting tenderly against me. I let out a low growl and begin the game. By this time, it's twenty eight minutes left. I race to the egg booth amidst the stinging feeling of the hot beach sand against my feet.

To my astonishment, she picks up all four eggs at once, carefully holding them till we arrived at where the palettes were. She hands over two eggs to me and mixes the two in her hand before finishing off the other two by sharing an egg between the white and the black colors. She seems to be obviously enjoying what she is doing.

"I am clueless when it comes to painting on canvasses." I speak up, realizing that we have just twenty minutes left.

"Do not be bothered about that. Someone here knows how to do it. You will just assist with brushes and cleaning." She states and shrugs with a nod.

She starts by drawing strokes on the canvas using the red-blue-yellow mix which resulted to a brown colour. She draws what looked like the stem of a tree before attaching leaves and soon enough, a painting of a forest vegetation was made with the sun smiling down at it. Of course, yellow colour was used to give the effect of the sun with white and black to lighten and darken some edges.

To say I am amazed is an understatement. I never knew she had it in her to draw. The judges came by to check and observe each piece, making sure to jot down salient points by interraction with each couple.

Later on, result was announced and we emerged first in painting which moved us up the ladder to the second place of the games segment.

"Yay. I'm so excited." Amethyst jumps in excitement and leans in to give me a peck on the cheeks before winking at me and walking away to our room.