"Where are we going?" Jason asked as they walked along the road behind the cabins that surrounded the lake.
"You'll see when we get there," Karen replied, chuckling. "Try to enjoy being outdoors in the fresh air."
"All right," Jason replied. He wasn't anywhere near as enthusiastic about their walk as Sylvia's mother seemed to be. He'd never been much for doing outdoor stuff, and now especially, he would much rather have stayed at the cabin where there were lots more fun things to do than walk in the woods.
"So, Jason, do you really want to be a lawyer?" Karen asked as they strolled down the road next to each other.
Jason shrugged. "It's one of the things I'm thinking about," he replied. "I know the stuff Mr. Dooley said about lawyers is true about some of them, but I don't think all lawyers are crooks. Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer and he wasn't a crook."
Karen chuckled. "You should have used that line with Milton," she said. "Although knowing him, he'd have probably replied that Lincoln was the last honest lawyer the country has ever seen."
"Well, there have been other honest lawyers since Lincoln," the young man said. He laughed. "But you know, I'm not sure I could tell you who they are. So it's probably good I didn't use that line. I mean when you think about it, Richard Nixon was a lawyer, wasn't he?"
Karen laughed. "Yes, I guess he was." She found the young man's sense of humor and quick wit endearing.
They talked about the things Jason did in school and his job, and about his family, too, although he found he felt a little ashamed admitting to Sylvia's mother that he and his folks lived in a mobile home.
"My parents lived in a mobile home when I was first born," she said, surprising him. She laughed gently. "Back then, they called them trailers and, sometimes, people called us 'trailer trash.' My father was a mechanic and he was trying to keep a little garage going, so we didn't have a lot of extra money when he first opened it. Daddy's garage did turn out to be pretty successful, and we eventually moved into a house. I think I was a freshman in High School when we did.
"And actually, when Milton and I were first married, we didn't have that much money, either. Not until Milton's business began to be really successful. You should have seen the little apartment we lived in. The problem is, once you have more money than you know what to do with, you sometimes forget what it's like for those people who barely have enough."
Jason looked at Karen with interest. He was a little surprised to learn that her background wasn't all that different from his. For the first time, he found himself looking at her as a person, not just a sex partner. And, much to his surprise, he liked what he saw. She wasn't just attractive on the outside; she was a really nice person inside, too. "It's too bad she's so much older than I am," he thought. "She's really neat."
They had gone about a half-mile when Karen stopped. "Come on," she said, gesturing toward a path that ran into the woods. "We're going that way."
"What's that way?" Jason asked. He'd never been in the forest before and wasn't sure how safe it was. He'd read about forests and knew there weren't any really dangerous animals in the Poconos, but there were snakes, even poisonous ones. And he'd always been scared of snakes, even the garter snakes that occasionally showed up in the lawn of the mobile home park where he and his family lived.
"You'll see," Karen replied. She started up the path.
Jason looked around. Then, because Sylvia's mother knew where they were going and he didn't, he followed her. Walking close behind her along the narrow path, he couldn't help but notice the way her rear end twisted and her well-formed buttocks moved as she walked. He soon discovered that watching the undulations of her very nice backside was causing his penis to stiffen and bulge out the front of his pants. Not only did that cause him some difficulty walking, he also wondered what Karen would think if she saw the effect that she was having on him.
By the time they arrived at their destination, Jason was out of breath and his legs hurt. He'd walked farther today than he'd walked in a long time. He looked around and saw that the place where Karen had taken them. It was a spot where two high rock ledges met at an almost perfect right angle. A small waterfall tumbled from the junction of the two ledges and the falling water had formed a little pool in the bed of rock at the base of the ledges. The pool had a small, sandy beach, which was bordered by grass that was so short it was almost like a lawn. The thick forest canopy shaded a lot of the area. As he looked around he could hear no sounds, save for those coming from the forest. The spot was the most quiet and restful place he'd ever been and he immediately understood why Karen liked coming there.
Karen saw him looking around and smiled. "Now, isn't this nice?" she asked. "Aren't you glad I brought you here?"
"Yeah, it's really neat," Jason replied. "That pool looks like it would be a good place to swim."
Karen nodded and said, "Yes, it is. It's a lovely place to swim, although the water is a bit cold sometimes." She looked around and smiled softly. "I found this place shortly after we bought the cabin and I love it so much I've been coming here ever since, except in the winter. I don't know why, but I've never told Milton or the girls about it, and I've never seen anyone else here. I've always been surprised about that. I mean, it's such a lovely place, I can't imagine other people wouldn't want to visit it, too." She chuckled softly. "It's my private place. Sometimes I go skinny-dipping when I'm here," she added, blushing a little.
"You swim here naked?" Jason asked, surprised.
Karen smiled and nodded. "Of course. I've never seen another soul here in all the years I've been coming here," she said, and added an embarrassed laugh.
"Is it fun?" Jason asked. "Skinny-dipping, I mean."
Karen smiled and nodded. "I enjoy it," she said. "I used to feel terribly daring, swimming in the nude out here, but after all the years I've been doing it, it doesn't feel as daring as it used to. Especially since I've always done it alone." She took the knapsack from Jason, opened it, and pulled out a tablecloth. She spread that on the grass, then she started to take some food items out of the basket.
Jason kept thinking about what she'd said about skinny-dipping and, the more he thought about it, the more he wanted to try it. "Want to go swimming before we eat?" he asked.
Karen, who was kneeling next to the tablecloth, paused from what she was doing, looked up at him and smiled. "Would you like to do that, my darling?" she asked.
"Yeah, I'd really like to," Jason replied eagerly. "And if we're gonna do that, we probably ought to do it before we eat, don't you think? I mean..."
Karen's smile broadened and she raised her hand to silence him. "You don't need to convince me, my dear," she said softly. "I would love to go skinny-dipping with you." She stood up and began peeling off her clothes.
Jason wasn't sure what to do. Even though he'd seen Sylvia's mother naked more than once this weekend, he found watching her take her clothes off here in the outdoors surprisingly arousing. It evoked new feelings, too, feelings he couldn't quite identify other than that it felt different than it had before. At the same time, he found that he was feeling funny about taking his clothes off in front of her. Apparently it was one thing to be naked in the house and another thing entirely being naked outdoors.
He tried to watch Karen undress while he took his own clothes off but, when he pushed his pants down, he lost his balance and wound up jumping around in a kind of clumsy one-legged dance to keep from falling. Before he could get his balance and finish taking his clothes off, he heard splashing. He turned toward the pool and saw Karen's slim back as she waded into the water. "Her bottom looks a lot better when she's walking naked than it does in jeans," he thought as he gazed at her while he stood on one foot, holding a sneaker.
Karen waded out into the pond and dipped under the clear blue water. When she stood up again, only her head and shoulders showed.
Watching Karen disrobe had restored the erection he had developed on the walk up to the pool and, as Jason walked down to the edge of the water, he could feel his rigid penis bobbing and swinging up and down and around in circles with each step.
Karen stood in the water, watching him, her eyes glued to his middle, with a bright-eyed smile on her face. He felt like trying to cover himself with his hands, or a bunch of leaves or something, but he didn't.
"It's a little chilly, but it isn't bad once you get in," Karen observed, her eyes still twinkling.
"OK," Jason said. He didn't care if the water was cold. He wanted to get his erection out of sight. Given all the things they'd done with each other, he had no idea why having Sylvia's mother see him naked was suddenly making him feel so embarrassed, but it was. He walked slowly into the water, which wasn't that cold and, as he moved into deeper water, his erection disappeared beneath the surface.