Everybody goes to the hot tubs when the bars close. They're cheap, private, you can bring a couple bottles of wine or booze or some beer, weed if you like that, and get naked and hang out with a bunch of people. It's dark out there, with a little light coming in between the redwood slats but not enough light to make anyone self-conscious. The local joke is that there's so much semen in the water that a girl can get pregnant from it. Well, I don't know if that's true. But a lot has been spilled in that mineral water over the years.
Sometimes the women settle on the seat in front of a jet, where the water is spurting out from the side of the tub, and you will be talking to someone and she will have an orgasm in the middle of a sentence. Seems the powerful jets are placed just right, the water can be can be massaging your clit all under the foam and ripples and steam where no one is aware of what you're doing. People float around and get friendly under the bubbles, well who cares? There are stars overhead, the silence of the surrounding woods, a little smell of sulfur in the water, friends, good vibes.
We had been at the Top Hat and a bunch of us decided to go to the hot tubs. The country music shuts down at one and everybody seemed to want to keep going, so we paid up and after some chit-chat in the parking lot we all hopped into our cars and headed out, raising a cloud of dust. I got to the hot tubs first and paid the fifteen bucks and told the lady at the counter there'd be more people. It was a Tuesday night, not a weekend, but she took it in stride. The TV was going in the office and we were not likely to interrupt her show. She gave me tub four and I grabbed a towel and headed up. I had a liter bottle of Jim Beam with me, about half full, and was looking forward to a nice evening of small-town silliness.
The tub was warm, the water was swirling, and I tossed my clothes over by the redwood fence and got in. These are natural springs and it's pretty hot. You have to get in slowly, and after a while you have to get out and cool down for a while. Which is usually a good chance to get an eyeful of some cutie. That's just how it works. If you're shy, don't go. But everybody goes.
I floated around by myself for a few minutes and then heard some voices. I could hear the girl at the desk saying "Tub four," and then footsteps.
It was Desmond and Ruby. I'd known them for a million years. I worked with him on a job back in the day and I didn't really know his girlfriend very well but they'd been together for years now, and everywhere he went, she went. So we had talked a few times but she was his girl, you know? I could not remember ever having been at the hot tubs with them, and I floated around to the far side so I could watch Ruby undress. And I'm glad I did. She was not modest about it, just pulled her t-shirt over her head, unsnapped her bra, down with the jeans and she came to the steps. Ruby made an excellent naked person, lean and curvy and fit. In a few seconds she was up to her neck in bubbles. Desmond climbed in behind her, his cock flapping in front of him.
"I got some Jim Beam here," I said. "Have a hit." I passed it to Desmond, who took a healthy swallow from the bottle.
He handed it to Ruby. She held the bottle up to see how full it was and put the neck to her lips for a good pull. She released her breath and said, "Nice." Back to me, I took a sip.
"Where is everybody?" I asked.
"I don't know," Desmond said. "I figured they'd be right behind us."
"Maybe they'll be here," I said. "Oh well, I'd hate to have all this peace and quiet to ourselves." We all laughed and sat quietly absorbing the silence, the stars, the buzz of the JB, the hum of the pump. It was really heaven and we were lucky to live in a town with something like this.
We passed the bottle around again. Desmond and Ruby were sitting together and I was sort of roaming in the water, drifting with the current, talking to them. The water was nearly waist high. Suddenly Ruby said, "Oh!"
"What is it, baby?" Desmond asked.
She laughed a little. "Oh nothing."
Desmond looked at me and laughed. "I think she found a jet."
We hung out enjoying the peacefulness of it all. Desmond had his arm around Ruby and sometimes stroked her breast a little. She gave him a funny look after a minute and then went, "Oh, oh, oh, ooooohhhhhhhh." Then she broke into laughter. "Woo, good one."
