(Please read Parts 1 and 2 in order before reading this part)
We really enjoyed the rest of our stay. Sally and I talked constantly--about many things--and I grew to love and treasure her even more. Bob and I also talked a lot. He told me much about living on the land, and without making a point of if it, or maybe without even intending to, he taught me a lot about a man's perspective of a loving partnership with his wife.
Despite his brazen, blatant sexual talk and innuendo before, he was not at all that way in our conversations. Instead, he was respectful, deferential, innocently affectionate, almost shy, more like a kindly, loving father figure than the oversexed dirty old man routine he had been running on me. I had to admit to myself that I rather liked and enjoyed that humorous, over-the-top, oversexed dirty old man, but I really loved this version of him.
Sally spent a lot of time talking to Cody, seemingly very seriously, as if she was instructing or counseling him. He listened attentively, and was often quiet and thoughtful afterward. Sally had been a maternal influence for a lot of his life, but still was much more the beloved, fun aunt than mother because they lived some distance apart. Bob was making a point of taking him along as he did the work necessary to handle the cattle, fences, farmland, hay fields, pasture, and woods. He also showed him measures he had taken to protect the creek and other watering holes. Occasionally, I tagged along.
The next to last day we were there, they invited us to go to the creek. When I gave Sally a surprised, questioning look, she said, "If you don't have suits, we might have something you can wear," meaning no skinny dipping that day! I wasn't ready to be naked in front of Cody, and I didn't want the first time to be a group skinny dip!
We all enjoyed the sedate, peaceful day at the creek. When Bob and Sally fell asleep on a blanket in the shade after lunch, Cody and I went for a walk along the creek. We stopped at a big boulder that jutted out over the creek. It overlooked the creek for most of its distance across the property, and it was a beautiful spot. And, as Cody did not yet know, it was the site for some of my favorite nude photos. I smiled a little thinking of the surprise I had in store for him. Cody asked, "What are you smiling about?"
"Oh, just thinking about how lovely it is here, how much I like being here, how happy I am, and how much I love you," I said truthfully, continuing, "I hope we have thousands of days like this!"
"We will," Cody assured me, then smiled mischievously, as he told me in a confidential manner, "My mother always said that Uncle Bob and Aunt Sally swam naked in the creek!"
I laughed heartily and said, "I can see that, the way they are with each other," smiling because he didn't yet know how easily and vividly I could see that--because I HAD seen them doing that! Then I said what I had been thinking for days, "I want us to be like them--so physical, so affectionate, so wrapped up in each other, so happy together!"
He looked at me tenderly, then looked down shyly and said, "Yeah, I think we will be."
I kissed him hard, several times, thinking of peeling his clothes off and jumping him right then and there--and wanting to--but managed to regain my self control. "Wow!" he gasped, "It's getting harder--more difficult--to wait when you are so passionate." I noticed he tried to cover "harder" by shifting to "more difficult"; in our embrace, I had detected that HE was much harder than I had ever noticed before. Waiting was the last thing I wanted to do, but we'd make it, and I knew that it would be even more special when we finally got to consummate our marriage. My friends and I were working on how to make it even more special.
A while later, as we lay there hugging, we heard, "Are you guys decent?" Bob, of course. Cody responded, "Yes, we are... (long pause)... Dammit!" All of us laughed, and we made our way back to the truck to go back to the house to do chores and fix supper.
The next morning we got ready to leave. As Cody was loading his Jeep, Bob came up and told me, "We've really enjoyed having you here, and you're always welcome. And just so you know, there won't be anymore of the dirty old man stuff. I just wanted to push you a little, get you out of your comfort zone, see if you would be comfortable around us in our natural manner, and to see what you were made of. I have to tell you, I really like what I've seen!"
"Why, thank you, Bob, that is a nice thing to say--(I batted my eyes) particularly seeing as how you've seen just about everything!" I said, knowing he hadn't really meant it that way. We both had a naughty laugh.
Then I hugged him and said, "OK, Bob, let's be clear, if I ever turn around and catch you NOT checking out my ass, or if I wear something showing a lot of cleavage and Sally doesn't have to pull your face out of it, I'm gonna tell her that she needs to get you to the emergency room, you got that? Otherwise, if you don't do it publicly or in a way that humiliates or embarrasses me, or that angers or hurts Cody, I'm not gonna hold it against you if you let slip a 'nice ass' or 'great tits' comment now and then. That will just show that you're still alert, still paying attention, still have discriminating taste, and that I haven't lost my charm!" I don't know why I liked his naughty sexual teasing or liked giving it back him so much, but I did.
He stood back and looked at me a little surprised and confused a moment, then gave me his most lascivious smile and a sideways wink, whispering conspiratorially, "So, if I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"
I mashed my full breasts against his chest and hugged him hard, telling him, "Every time I see you, you old jackass!"
"Then, I hope to see you often!" he said graciously.
"Me, too," I admitted.
Cody came back as I turned away from Bob, and Bob told me pointedly, "You come back often, Gracie; don't wait on him to bring you. You don't even have to bring him!" I winked at him surreptitiously so Cody wouldn't see, thinking, 'Yeah, another nude photo session at the creek is what you're thinking, I'll bet!'
Cody feigned being hurt by Bob's remark, then led me downstairs. At the door, Sally hugged me tightly and I teared up and choked up. I'd see them in about a month at the wedding, but it actually hurt to leave them, to leave this place. Sally whispered to me, "The SD card is in your jacket pocket; let us know soon which ones you pick."
I nodded and just held onto her until Bob broke the moment by sliding in and saying, "Hey, now! You can't take Sally or I'd starve to death! And I could use one of those, too!" I gasped and sobbed as I clutched him too long, too.
Finally, Cody said gently, "We've got to get going." He shared a quick hug with his aunt and a quick handshake with his uncle, and we loaded up and drove away, waving out the windows as they stood together, arms around each other, smiling and waving us out of sight.
Tears crept down my face, and small, silent, sobbing shudders stayed with me until we were 10 minutes down the road. Then I reached out for Cody's hand, but said nothing. After another 5 silent minutes, he asked if I was all right.
I sniffed back the tears, wiped my eyes, and smiled, and said, "Yes! I am better than I've ever been." He looked to see if I was being sarcastic. I continued, "No, I really am wonderful. This is going to sound silly, but leaving them and that place just now seems like I just left my true home and my people, the people that I love. But I'm with you and we're about to get married and I'm so happy about that--and I get to see them soon--so I am wonderful! I just fell in love with them, and I already miss them." He smiled sympathetically and with understanding.
Looking back over the week as we drove, it was like a very strange, bizarre dream! Had I really willingly sat and watched people I barely knew in their most intimate moments? Yes! I had. Had I really carried on a conversation with them in the midst of them naked and engaging in sex, me a virgin, innocent, naΓ―ve, fully clothed--and none of us feeling uncomfortable or treating it as unusual? Yes! I had. Had I really watched them AGAIN, while being tutored while they had great sex, while I was nude, yet comfortable as I did? Yes! I had. Had I then really posed nude to be photographed by a man? I most certainly did! AND I LOVED IT!
Wow! I never saw that coming, and could never have anticipated it! Nothing in life prepared me for the way I reacted. Still, the only thing that seemed odd now was my lack of revulsion, shock, discomfort, or other expected feelings and reactions to it all. The rest had seemed to flow naturally somehow, and was not at all threatening or intimidating or perverse.
A few weeks after our visit, amidst all the turmoil and chaos and hustle-bustle of final wedding plans, it finally hit me:
My mother had told me that sex was something for men to enjoy and for women to tolerate. She essentially characterized it as basically a somewhat disgusting necessity to be endured, kind of like changing a baby's diarrhea diaper and cleaning the baby covered in the aftermath--quite unpleasant, but a sad fact of life that had to be attended to.
Sally had shown me that sex was wonderful and pleasant and reaffirming of love and affection and grace for BOTH spouses, something to be vigorously and actively SOUGHT, not avoided--nor merely tolerated. Wives could and should enjoy getting in on the fun and abundant pleasure!