Chapter 1
As we walk down the pier I can't help but take in what a beautiful day it is. High 70's, low humidity, a few puffy clouds dot the otherwise bright blue sky. Days like this are rare in and of themselves, but having it fall on a weekend when I can be at the lake is a once-a-year coincidence. If there ever was a day for a bikini, this is it. We get to the boat and I take your hand to help you aboard. We are both reminded at the same time of the excitement of holding someone's hand for the first time. You thank me and smile, fully aware that my chivalrous gesture was just so I could get a closer view of the thong you're wearing underneath the sheer skirt. I'm trying to play it cool, but I'm still impressed that you have the confidence to wear that in public. And you certainly should, your skirt gently hugs your hips and well rounded butt. I study the musculature where your upper thigh meets the perfect crease and make a mental note of how many squats you must do daily to maintain the delicate balance between muscle and soft femininity. Looking this good is no accident.
You keep hold of my hand long enough to navigate the bow of the boat and find the bench on the starboard side. You know I'm checking you out behind your back, but your mind is focused on the warm and quietly commanding grip my hand has on yours, realizing how small your hand feels in mine. You fully embrace it, rubbing your thumb up and down the back of my hand a couple times to indicate how comfortable and trusting you feel.
I should have realized at the time that your comfort level in such a revealing bikini, and the graceful way you navigate the potential for accidental wardrobe malfunctions, would demonstrate the fact that you are more experienced than I am. More sexually adventurous. But I'm honestly too busy enjoying the view and repeating in my head: "I can't believe I'm bringing girls like this on my boat!"
You kick off your flip flops and immediately recline on the bench. You lean back on your stretched out towel to keep your skin from sticking to the sun baked seat. It's set at the perfect angle for you to lay out, but still read your book and keep an eye on me as I'm driving.
After we slowly pull away and get to open water, I have to take my hat off to keep it from being blown off at this speed. It's not a good look having my messy hair blowing around, but we don't keep that speed for too long. Just enough to get to the part of the lake that has the interesting views.
We are slowly passing several of the nicer houses on the lake, many of them occupied now that the weather has turned. A few are lowering their boats from the lifts, some are laying out to tan. We pass a couple groups on the beaches, drinking and playing. Eventually we pull up to an already packed sand bar. A cacophony of five different songs all playing from different boats, many of them beyond the volume their speakers can handle is the soundtrack to the laughter, shouts, and off-key karaoke, punctuated with frequent squeals of a girl getting splashed, and drunk middle aged men trying to relive their college days.
The whole crowd begins to point, shout, and cheer like a wave at a ballgame. Behind us floating by is an arrangement of about ten pontoon boats tied together so that each of their respective doors line up with the one on the next boat. An impressive feat for even the best sober Tetris player, let alone for the group of absolutely hammered people stumbling from boat to boat. They all cheer and wave back to the sand bar making us wonder what time they started drinking this morning to be this gone by now.
You make a mental note of how I am able to maneuver through the crowd, put out the bumpers and tie up to the tiki bar boat without help. You think I must have spent most of my life on boats. Just another thing that helps you relax into what will be a fun and carefree day that we have needed.
We belly up to the bar and you order a vodka and juice, that comes with the obligatory toothpick umbrella. I just get a Corona and we get lost laughing at some of the best people-watching the lake has to offer. It's hard not to notice the women in various states of undress. One in bikini bottoms and a soaking wet white crop top leaving nothing to the imagination. Several girls in thongs similar to yours and even a couple in g-strings. There's a frat-party energy that is fun to watch for a couple drinks, but we soon start to realize that this isn't our scene. This entire group will be hungover by 2pm from day drinking in this heat. White t-shirt girl makes her way through the water to the tiki boat. Like a slow motion scene from a James Bond movie she grabs the ladder, dunks herself under water and then slowly climbs. Her ample chest now on full display she steps up and orders herself a drink. It is obvious through her shirt that her right nipple is pierced. (I love pierced nipples) I have never known how to act in a situation like this. She is going out of her way to put herself on display, even ensuring that the shirt was freshly wet before she gets out. Should I stare? That makes me feel pervy. Should I look at the ceiling or count my shoelaces? She and I make brief eye contact, I give her a pressed-lip smile to recognize the interaction and look back to you. Her expression makes it clear it was not my admiration she was after. It's hard to tell through her sunglasses, but it's possible she even rolled her eyes at me.
That's a pretty typical interaction for me. But as she leaves we lean back toward each other and I immediately feel comfortable now that I have you to talk to. We both comment on how for a chest like that, she is wildly lacking in the butt department. She obviously looks great for her age (and knows it) but the combination of a flat butt and cottage cheese wrinkles across the cheeks are a big turn off for me. We have a playful real/fake debate after she's gone. I defer to your expertise and insert my standard dad-joke for any time this subject comes up: "You can't taste the difference."
There's something primal about having that much bare skin in your field of view. Everywhere you look are bathing suits. Like being at the beach, it just creates a low-grade bass note of semi-sexual excitement. The scantily clad women, the couples making out, the girls kissing each other pretending they've never done that before, and the roar of cheers from the men when they do all combine to create a specific kind of energy. But it serves the purpose of raising the already palpable sexual tension. We order enough drinks to fill our little cooler and decide to set off. And while I would normally leave a party like that envious, I am aware that this time I am the one most guys are envious of. I take the long way around to the front of the boat to make sure everyone had a chance to see who I'm with. And I knew what I was doing when I put the cooler on the floor before asking you to get me a beer. Of course, you knew what I was doing too and you happily obliged, even giving your ass a couple of shakes to the beat as you were bent over getting me a drink. This was enough to illicit some cheers from guys and girls alike, several lifting their drinks to toast me as you saunter over and playfully exaggerate handing me the beer. You smirk, and give me a quick, knowing wink over the top of your sunglasses as you run your fingers through my beard and gently stroke my cheek with your thumb. I take my sweet time driving off the sandbar in the direction that would pass the most people, basking in the jealous attention.