A Beach of a Tale by Paul Schilling (pschill39@aol.com) Karoline gets revenge for being humiliated twice. Part 1 At a ripe old age (somewhere in her twenties), Karoline has the face that could launch a thousand ships. Her body, though, could sink the same thousand. Karoline Reddak has a problem; she is as skinny as a piece of Balsa wood. She's healthy, just skinny, no weight, no mass, and because of this she doesn't get out much. She works during the year at the local college bookstore and during the summer she acts as a tutor. She's had many a student but none like Geoff. Geoff is big, and if you were to ask Karoline, he is nothing but muscle on top of muscle handsome, but he needed help. It was because of his low grades that he had to be tutored, or lose his sports scholarship. During the last of their sessions, Geoff asked the question that Karoline wanted to hear but was long in dreading. "Uh, Miss Reddak," Geoff started. "Call me Karoline," she answered looking over her glasses at him. "Okay, Karoline. Would you be interested in going to the beach tomorrow? You know since it's the start of a long weekend," he finished his question. Karoline almost fell off her chair when he asked. "I..." and she hesitated for a second, her mind racing. 'The beach,' she thought, 'I could see dinner, maybe a movie, but why the beach? C'mon girl, this may be the thing that will spruce up your love life. Just get up enough courage to say...' "YES! I, I mean, yes... yeah... sure." "Good!" Geoff answered. "I'll pick you up about 9:30 at your place." She gave him her address and then went home. That night, she was getting things ready to go. Stopping at the mirror, she froze and stared at herself. "Who am I kidding?!" she stated rather loudly. "Look at yourself, Karoline, we're a big nothing. All that money spent on all those alchemic protein shakes, vitamins, and those damn muscle building courses, all for nothing. Still, maybe Geoff DOES see something in me. I guess we will see." Saturday morning came without a hitch. Geoff was there at 9:30 and, being so close to the beach, they walked. Every step filled Karoline's mind with trepidation. The beach was already full of people, all shapes, all types, and all sizes. As they passed a 'Muscle-Beach' style outdoor-gym, Geoff's eyes began to wander a little bit and that caught Karoline's eye. She stared at his muscular arms and thought that maybe he would give her a show later on, but trouble was just beginning to brew. So far everything was perfect. Geoff and Karoline went in for a swim and played like little kids in the water. It wasn't until they emerged that he noticed her eyes were fixated on his upper arm. "I'm a little stiff from that swim," he said. "Could we go over to the workout area, so I could give you a show... I mean... work this stiffness out?" "O... Okay," Karoline agreed, trying to catch her breath as she could feel her body slowly come alive. "I'll meet you over there. I just want go grab the bag and put on my sundress." Geoff nodded and ran off. At this moment, Karoline didn't care about one solitary thing, she was on top of the world. As she headed over to the outdoor gym, she felt puny as she looked at all the big women in their off-size bikinis and one-piece swimwear. She stopped and took a deep breath and continued on. As she got closer she saw a familiar face. "Laura... Hey Laura," she yelled. The head turned around and looked, and a smile came across her face. "Well I'll be...! Karoline... I... I haven't seen you since high school." With that, she stood up. "You haven't changed since then." It was a scene out of a Tex Avery cartoon; Karoline's mouth dropped and her eyes bugged out. "I may not have changed, but what happened to you? You've gotten bigger." "Oh this?" Laura said, "I started working out at the local gym and 'Little Laura,' as I was known, started to grow. A late bloomer, I guess." Laura was, at one time, a little under 5'5" and as skinny as Karoline was. Now, she's a little over six foot and all muscle, solid muscle. She now flexed one of her relaxed arms which grew thick, as a slight, but definite, hump developed. Karoline realized that if she had those type of genes, what she was wearing would be rags and she'd have no problem attracting men. "Karoline... hey, remember me, your date?" Geoff waived his hand in front of her face. "You want to introduce me?" "Huh... oh yeah!" Karoline's trance was broken. "Geoff, this is Laura and... visa-versa. He's one of my summer tutorials," she states. "Nice to meet..." Geoff stopped his statement and went wide-eyed at Laura's presence. He finally forced his last word out "...you." The stormclouds have been seeded, the mistake made. HE met HER. Laura got a seductively evil look on her face when her eyes met his body. She took in a slow, deep breath of air, slowly expanding her already large chest, popping several buttons off her sleeveless blouse, exposing just enough of her hard pecs and tanned deep cleavage to tease Geoff. Needless to say, Geoff interests were peaked. "Rather warm, ain't it," Geoff's words fumbled out. "How about I spring for something to drink. Karoline, why don't you go over and get them." Geoff's eyes were starting to wander more and more towards Laura's chest. "Okay, but I need some money... you know, cash!" Karoline said as she watched Geoff. "Huh..." Geoff snapped to. "Sure, here." "Make sure they're good and cold," Laura said. "Cause I'm getting real hot," she then said under her breath, looking at Geoff seductively. And with that, she took another deep breath and popped another button, exposing more of her cleavage and the perfect halves of the melons that were her breasts. "C'mon, big man, let's go over here and sit down and get to know each other... more directly." With that, Laura reached over and gave Geoff a kiss. It just wasn't a peck on the lips, it was a full unadulterated lip-lock. A lip-lock that lead to probing hands. It seemed like it was hours for the two, but within a couple of minutes Karoline came back and was shocked at what she saw. She stood there and listened in to their conversation. "I'm yours," Laura said breathlessly. "I'm all muscle, rock-hard, and all you need. Just ditch the toothpick and I can show you the time of your life." Laura stopped talking and guided her mouth to his again and took his hands rubbing them against her stiff-nippled boobs. Karoline had seen enough and grabbed Laura by her meaty shoulder and spun her around. Laura then stood up. With fire in her eyes, Karoline pushes Laura's chest and yells, "TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF MY DATE OR ELSE!" Laura doesn't even budge, she simply rolls her eyes in patronizing disbelief. "Really?" Laura says calmly. "Look, I don't want any trouble, so let's have a little contest of power." Karoline nods her head and opens her mouth to speak as Laura takes advantage and speaks up again. "Okay, here's how it'll be: one punch to the gut. If either one of us doubles over, Superman goes home with the winner. Agreed?" Laura looks over at Geoff and winks her eye. She turns back to her opponent and tells Karoline, "You first." With that, Laura grabs the bottom of her shirt and rolls it up exposing what seems to be a soft belly, but looks are deceiving. Laura raises her huge arms above her head and interlocks her fingers. As Karoline clenches her fist and rears back, Laura tightens her abdominal wall, causing her well-defined muscles to become as hard as a brick wall. 'THUD!' Karoline's hand hits the wall and is pulled back, throbbing with pain. "Now it's my turn, toothpick." Without warning, Laura's fist hit hard and sweet, sending Karoline into the air about six inches and landing her face first in the sand. Laura firmly planted her left foot and stretched her right leg, causing giant ripples of muscles to form in her thighs and calves, nearly ripping the seams of her already tight shorts. Then she slowly and rhythmically performs a double bicep pose with a double lat spread causing her chest to swell even more as her ill-fated blouse rips to shreds, almost popping her bikini top off as well. "What did I tell you, Twiggy?" Laura smugly retorts, picking up a doubled-over Karoline with two fingers. "It takes years to get this big." With that, Laura takes her free arm and slowly bends her arm as over 19 inches of sinew and veins erupt slowly, bunching and hardening with every passing second. "You would have been real good competition if you'd try eating your spinach," and she throws Karoline to the ground face first, smiles, and flexes the other arm, looking over at Geoff. "C'mon stud, let's go." Geoff hesitates for a minute and goes over to Karoline to help her up, but she snaps back still feeling the effect of the sucker punch. "Keep your hands off me... I don't need YOUR help with anything!" She begins to cry. "You found what you were looking for in that oversized, muscle-bound bimbo. Now get out of my face." Upon hearing that, Laura stops in her tracks, squares her shoulders and turns her head laughingly, smirking. "You coming, Geoff?" she says and turns around and starts walking. Geoff gets up, leaving Karoline standing there, crying. "I'll get even with that bitch someday," she mutters under her breath, and heads home. (The humiliation ain't over with yet, fan boy! Stay tuned for part 2)