<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/35/CarlosFreire.jpg)</div><strong>Character name</strong>: Eric Salvatore (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=211572.msg10476534#msg104765341), Lifeguard<br/><strong>Who:</strong>Aki<br/><strong>Where:</strong>Front door<br/><strong>When: </strong>Saturday August 2nd, evening<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>dark blue cargo shorts, blue beach shoes (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/35/CarlosFreire.jpg), white shirt.<br/><hr/><div style="text-align: justify;">Eric walked with Aki, starting to relax at in her company. A part of him was just screaming to him that this was the woman he had spoken to almost daily for a year, that everything would be fine, but he knew he could screw up. Eric didn’t really fear rejection; he handled it well. He knew that rejection from her, though, would cut more deeply than any guest’s rejection because Aki mattered. The other women  had all of his attention when he was with them, but he knew that there would be no long-lasting relationship out of it. He wanted the long term thing with Aki. Hell, he hadn’t touched a woman in two weeks, because that’s how long he had known that she was to come to the island.<br/><br/>Eric closed his hand around her delicate fingers and smiled at her. The contact was welcome, there was no doubt about it.  “Not since we last spoke. We’ve had a bit of rain last week, one of those thunderstorms starting over water than you can see approaching. It was a beautiful show of lightning.” Eric said looking toward the restaurant that was rather close to the living quarters of both guests and staff. “I think it’s supposed to rain again sometime this week, but beside that storm the weather has been close to perfect. The guests are good people, I think, and no one tried to drown anyone else, or fell along the beach and was unable to get back up on their own because of the waves…” Weather? Check, Guests? Check. Work? Check. Okay, all the topic he should have avoided had been addressed.<br/><br/>“How about you? Did family cause any problem when they learned you were coming here to live and work? Or did you omit telling them the nature of the resort?” Eric asked, genuinely curious of how it had gone over for her.<br/></div>