Happy Saturday! We’re having a relaxing day after the busy schedule the last few weeks. Our main computer finally died, and we had to replace it. Fortunately, the new beast seems to be working out well.
Todays’ snippet is again from my new anthology, Leaps of Faith. These stories are all part of the world that my novel Passing on Faith is set in. The series finally has a title: Faithfully Yours. (Note: This is not religious fiction, despite the title and symbolism.) I’m sticking with “From the Lips of Children,” since so many people seemed to enjoy teenage Cat’s voice. On a personal note, Cat expresses very much what I felt at his age, though his birth-designated gender is different from mine.
Blaze was a pretty average guy, and he liked to look at how the girls their age were starting to fill out their swimsuits. He’d told Cat it was okay to look, as long as they weren’t being creepy about it or anything. Cat had only rolled his eyes; he had no interest in boobs.
He did like looking at their bathing suits, though. He wondered what it was like to wear the cute two-piece suits that had become popular. How would it feel with the material stretched over his chest and the high sides of the bottom tied tight against his hips?
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I’m more with Blaze than Cat. 😉 But he would rock those swimsuits.
I might be a little bit with both of them, LOL. Well, maybe the opposite of Cat. I can’t stand regular women’s-style bathing suits. Before having babies, my hips were just narrow enough to look okay in swim trunks. Not so much anymore. 😛
I believe Cat *did* rock a bikini in one of the novels. 🙂
I can answer him in one word: uncomfortable.
Or maybe I’m the only one who always felt like my bathing suit was crawling up my butt crack.
ROFL! I don’t suppose that has occurred to Cat, but I guess he’ll learn once he decides to try it out. 🙂
I’m sure Cat could absolutely rock a bikini!
He definitely can! 😀
There’s one sure way to find out, Cat! 😉
Oh, no worries—he will. 😉
I’m admittedly more Blaze than Cat, but I get both angles. I’d rather have the trunks myself and am so very glad that longer cut bathing suits (boy shorts) are a thing. I don’t think I’ve owned a bikini as an adult… especially after giving birth to a half-grown kid (11 lbs). 27 yrs later and my gut is still a road map of stretch marks that will never see the sunlight… ugh.
Nice Snippet. I like Cat.
I do own one bikini. I like wearing the top with swim trunks. (I’m with Paula above and the bottom giving me a wedgie, LOL.) But yeah, I have a fairly squishy shape, and I don’t do it because it looks so awesome. I do it because, well, I can.
Cat is very sweet. I’m glad you like him. 🙂
Cat needs to work it! 😉
Oh, he definitely will. As an adult, a certain sea-green bikini might make an appearance. 🙂
I could almost see Cat practicing magick. He gets such strong, sensual, full bodied visuals which bloom within his mind.
Heh, well, I suppose that in a sense, he does practice magick. He’s a cellist, and he’s already beginning to compose his own music.
I’d tell him two-piece swimsuits are uncomfortable, and he better try a cute one-piece with an attached skirt. That’s what I have. Makes me feel glamorous 😀
I liked his thoughts on the suits (honestly Blaze if it’s anything like my life long experience, bathing suits are mostly uncomfortable).