It was in the late 1980’s when Nick Ransome, a Uniform Police Constable in Abbottsford, was on holiday with a group of fellow officers at the traditional seaside resort of Sharpington-by-Sea.
Which was a popular destination for visitors with its
Victorian Pier, seafront hotels, crazy golf, The Palladium ballroom, well
maintained gardens, promenade, theatre and illuminations, has all the usual
things to have a great time by the seaside, as well as amusement arcades and of
course the Sharpington Fun Park.
They were staying in a Caravan Park up at Whitecliffe Hill for a week
beginning on the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend and were blessed with warm
clement weather, which brought many more visitor to enjoy all the seaside fun.
The lads had been there for one day when quite by chance they met up
with some familiar faces, a group of girls from Abbottsford and among them was
Rachel Purvis, who he knew slightly from his University days.
He thought she was pretty enough and had a nice figure, but he always
found her to be a bit aloof.
But early on Whit Monday morning as he walked along the pier he saw her
in an entirely different light.
It was 6 am and Nick had been up and about for a
couple of hours and had been to the end of the pier and had been enjoying a
joke with the fishermen and then he decided it was time for breakfast.
As it was early, other holiday makers were few and far
between but the first one he saw was a familiar face.
Rachel
Purvis walked towards him with the sunlight behind her and after the initial
recognition his eyes were drawn to the contents of her white summer dress,
which were unfettered, and dancing hypnotically, it was the most delicious
sight, because the early sun had rendered her white cotton summer dress almost
invisible and displayed her exceptional figure to great effect.
She
saw him staring with his gaze fixed and unshakable and she turned up her nose
as she approached him and gave him a look conveying utter disgust.
“Have
you seen enough?” Rachel asked with contempt
He smiled and nodded and then replied
“I’ve seen everything thank you”
Unaware
of his meaning she delivered yet another contemptible look and then he said.
“You might want to slip this on” he suggested as he offered her his jacket, but
she just gave him a puzzled look in response and sneered at his offering.
“Your
dress is totally see through in the sunshine” he said and offered her his
jacket again, but it still took a moment for the penny to drop.
“Oh
God” she said and quickly put on his jacket and she was blushing vividly as she
stood outside the toilets.
“Thank
you”
She
walked to the door and half turned as she opened it
“Thank
you” she said and smiled, and with that smile he saw her in entirely different
light again.
Once
she reappeared, her embarrassment had subsided so he took her to breakfast
where he discovered that a kind and gentle young woman dwelt beneath the
aloofness.
After
breakfast he walked her back to her guest house to change into something less
revealing and then they spent the rest of the day together.
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