"Skinny dipping? Are you out of your mind? We're in public in case you haven't noticed. What if someone comes along?"
"It's nearly dark, so what if they do?" My identical twin Mary Helen sat on a convenient root to slip off her Superga chambray sneakers. "All they'll see is a couple of girls in the water. They won't know that we're de-liciously nekkid."
"Ha. And what if they decide to go swimming too?"
"We'll just keep our boobs under the water and outwait them," Mary Helen said unflappably. "Besides which, we'll probably spot anyone coming down the trail in the twilight and as soon as it's dark anyone who does come won't see us. Come on, Sarah Beth. For once in your life get the broomstick out of your butt and let's swim! I'm sweating like a virgin in an Ann Summers novel."
So we compromised. I will explain that whenever I don't want to do something, and Mary Helen does, and we decide to do the thing that Mary Helen wants -- as we always do -- she calls that a compromise. So it was that I found myself treading water quite naked in the sandpit that serves our neighborhood as a convenient swimming hole. At least Mary Helen was right about the twilight. It was fast getting dark and anybody walking by probably wouldn't even notice us.
And the water was so cool and refreshing. What could possibly go wrong?
That's when I noticed something moving on the bank.
"Mary Helen," I hissed. "Someone is trying to steal our clothes!"
She peered into the gloom and suddenly shouted "Hey! Get away from there! Then to me, "It must be some of those bratty boys. I can't believe their parents would let them out so close to dark." She noisily splashed towards shore shouting all the way, not even caring that she wasn't wearing any clothes.
It was then that I saw that those moving shadows weren't human at all.
"They're hogs, Mary Helen! Feral hogs. Watch out! Those things are mean!" I'd heard that they haunted the woods and brush around here but had never actually seen one.
Mary Helen yelled and splashed, trying to scare the swine away but it was no use. The beasts were too absorbed with rooting through our clothes, grunting and squealing as they fought over the tasty tidbits. I sprinted to the bank and bounded out waving my arms and shouting in my dripping birthday suit. That caught their attention. Glittering malevolent eyes fixed me in their glare and the nearest boar tossed his head and stamped. I suddenly remembered the diseases one could get if impaled by a tusk and hastily flopped backwards into the water - not because I was scared of a bunch of damned pigs. It was because I wanted to.
Mary Helen hooted derisively.
Twenty minutes later two buck naked girls, boobs and bottoms gleaming in the fading light, forlornly contemplated the remnants of the porcine feast. The only recognizable scraps were half of Mary Helen's bra, the collar of my University of Houston tee shirt, and two sets of sadly chewed sneakers.
At this point there was a short pause while Mary Helen intensely voiced her opinion of all hogs, feral and otherwise.
"Now that you've had your say," I said after her little tirade was finished, "what are we going to do?"
"Go home, of course, but I think we might want to wait until it's darker. At least we have our sneakers. Sort of." Those Superga's looked more like Supergags now. "We can cross the field easily enough. All we have to do is walk in the grass and no one will hear us, but if anyone's on the path we'll be able to hear them first and hide."
"And after we've crossed the field?" I asked. "It's still six blocks to our house."
"We'll sneak down the street. If we see anyone coming we can hide behind a fence or in some bushes. Nothing could be simpler! Stop worrying. Everything will be fine."
"It had better be," I threatened darkly, "because if it looks like we're about to be caught I'm going to throw you out as a sacrifice and run for it."
I rummaged around until I found a sturdy stick that I could use to fend off deadly creatures lurking in the night and felt ready to go.
The coast was clear. We slipped silently into the meadow from the cover of the thin band of trees surrounding the sandpit. I used my left hand to cover my boobs and my right hand to cup my crotch but the sad poverty of human anatomy left me wanting another hand or so to carry my stick and such. I had to make do. We waddled hunched over, stopping every few steps to "Hst!" and peer around the darkness and listen, afraid that a frat party would suddenly materialize with us in the middle as maids of honor.
Soon we were halfway across and nearing the only stand of saplings in that nearly naked expanse of grass and scrubby bushes. When we were but a few yards away Mary Helen stopped short and I plowed into her from behind. I gently remonstrated by shoving her in the back.
"Shut up!" she hissed, gesturing emphatically. "There's someone in the trees."
In an instant we were flat on our tummies behind a scraggly clump of muhly grass that would not have hidden a bunny but was perfect for a Gila monster. Texas does not have Gila monsters but if we did they would lurk in muhly grass. I am certain of it.
Voices came to us. Voices that I knew.
"Isn't that Emmy Hartman?" Mary Helen breathed.
"Yes, and Brian Thompson, too." I hissed through gritted teeth.
Why was I annoyed? How about because Brian had been pressing hard to date me and get me into bed, and I was almost ready to accept both propositions. And here he was alone in the meadow at night with Prissy Emmy the Sunday School Princess and her more-virtuous-than-you attitude. Why was she wandering the fields after dark with some random guy, especially one who was supposedly fixated on me? If it wasn't for a little matter of clothes and damned pigs my stick and I would be having a vigorous discussion with Brian and Emmy right about now. I lay behind that ridiculous tuft of grass and seethed.
They were just a few yards away, clearly visible in the waning light, and seemed to be arguing.
"Come on, Emmy," Brian wheedled. "You know I'm good for it. You can't just leave me like this." Right in front of us Brian unzipped, pulled out his package and waggled his hard manhood enthusiastically. I half expected Emmy to squeal and bolt, but no. She took hold of his willy with one hand and started stroking with the other, not that he had all that much to stroke. I hadn't missed much by not sleeping with him, I decided.
What shocked me apart from Emmy, of all people, acting in such a brazen manner is what she did next. She yanked hard on Brian's swollen dick bringing him face-to-face, pecked him on the lips and held out her other hand.
"Money first!" she cooed. "I know you've got it, because you got paid today. No more credit! My tuition is due on Tuesday and it's time for you to pay up."
I was beside myself. The skank! The hypocrite! But Brian was digging out his wallet.
"You know I wouldn't do this if I wasn't desperate," murmured Emmy as she deftly pocketed a wad of bills.
Brian laughed. "Really? Desperate? And here I was thinking that you might do it for free just to mess with Sarah Beth."
"Well, that, too," sniggered Emmy. "I am going to laugh like hell the next time I see her donkey face."
Brian chortled as he pushed Emmy down on the ground.
Damn you, Brian! If you're going to boff her right in front of me couldn't you at least strip bare and move closer to the bushes where you are more hidden to view? That way Mary Helen and I might be able to pinch your clothes, dress, rush home, change, then come back with flashlights as if we were out for our evening stroll. I wonder what we'd find? Oh, yes, I wonder.
But the lazy buttholes didn't take off their clothes. Brian just pushed Emmy to her hands and knees, jerked her shorts and underpants down and knelt behind her to line up his bobbing prick. Then he was banging it in and humping away with a rhythmic "Uh.. uh.. uh.." Mr. Finesse in action.
Under my breath I was stretching my vocabulary to describe the pair of them and I suspect Mary Helen was, too. As it was we were stuck until they finished because Emmy was facing the way that we had to go and somehow I don't think that she was so wrapped up in what Brian was doing that she would overlook two bare-assed women sneaking past.
But it turned out to be a short wait. Brian pumped back and forth while Emmy just crouched there like she was bored. Geez, she wasn't even bothering to hump her hiney to help him out. I'd have to tell her that a career as a call girl was not for her. Not if she wanted a successful career, that is.
After a few moments of frantic activity from Brian he groaned, pushed even deeper into Emmy and then just sort of sagged over her back. She turned and looked at him, decided he was done, got out from under and hitched up her panties without even bothering to sop up the mess.
"All right Brian, get going now. I don't fancy being caught out here with you. My daddy is used to me taking these little evening "strolls" but he'll start to ask questions if he sees us together."
Brian scrambled to his feet and the pair of them took off down the path back to our neighborhood, Emmy sauntering casually as if nothing had happened and Brian strutting along like he was cock-of-the-walk. A very successful rooster, that Brian.
We scuttled along in their wake until we came to the row of houses lining the open field, each surrounded by a six-foot-tall cedar fence. Directly in front of us was Mrs. Vogt's house. The Widow Vogt had been our piano teacher when we were girls but I'm afraid we took advantage of her timidity and mousiness until with uncharacteristic charity toward the abused Mom terminated the arrangement. Anyway, It was our habit to take a short cut over her fence and through her yard instead of following the path a quarter mile to the only gate because there was a pile of pallets by the fence and it was an easy matter to scale them, hop into her yard, sneak out the front gate and walk away undetected. Easy, except for tonight, of course. There's nothing like being naked in public to complicate things.
We vaulted the fence as usual, landing behind a low-growing magnolia, and slipped furtively through the philodendrons to the gate at the side of the house where we squatted and peered through the slats to the street beyond hoping the coast was clear. It was. Mary Helen was just about to lift the latch and dash into the open when the sultry sing-song voice of Mrs. Vogt right above us almost caused me to wet my pants! That is, if I had been wearing any pants. Those damned pigs had left me without any panties to wet through. Anyway, I yelped in surprise as Mary Helen fiercely gesticulated for me to be quiet.