This is the fourth installment in what has become a series. Hopefully, this story can be read enjoyably on its own. However, this story continues the story started in the first three installments. Reading those installments in sequence will provide context and an understanding of who the characters are. This story starts slowly. I apologize.
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Time gets away from you faster than we, or at least I, realize. It does not seem that long ago that Sara, Cassie, and I posed for our first nude photographs together just after Cassie turned 18. In truth, more than twenty years had passed.
A lot has changed since we became a nude family. First, and most sadly, my dear Sara passed away a few years ago from liver cancer. Our good friends Mike and Vickie were a great help during that horrible time. They are still going strong, although they are both now fully retired. They spend the worst of the winter at a condo in a clothing-optional community in Florida but still spend the rest of the year in their mansion down the street. I spend a lot of time at their place down the street, and have visited them in Florida.
I went "of counsel" at my law firm. That means that I no longer share in firm profits or had a vote in management. It also means that, while I still had an office, I can work as much or as little as I chose. I only take matters that I found interesting. I still live in the same house which Sara and I bought decades ago, where we raised our daughter Cassandra. Our community is still, relatively, a progressive oasis in a narrow-minded desert. The Skins Society still exists. However, I haven't participated since Sara died. It just wasn't fun without her.
My daughter, Cassie, did well in college, and met a wonderful guy named Peter. Cassie and Peter got married while she was in law school, just after Peter got his masters in electrical engineering. A couple of years later, they had my granddaughter, Gwendolyn. When Gwen was five, Peter's firm took on a project to help repair and modernize infrastructure in Afghanistan. The American experts were provided with 24/7 security. However, that security couldn't stop a suicide bomber from taking out a busload of the Americans. Peter was on that bus.
Cassie and Gwen moved back to town after losing Peter. Cassie joined a medium-size firm Downtown and Gwen started attending the same schools that her mother had gone to years before. Sara and I did what we could to substitute for Peter in Gwen's life, but there really is no substitute for a parent.
Despite everything that had happened, Cassie and Gwen had managed fairly well. Gwen had grown into an intelligent and mature young lady who is athletic and does well in school. Gwen has her Mother's and grandmother's brown hair and lovely, open face. However, Gwen is a little shorter and fuller in the chest, hips, and thighs than her Mother. While Gwen was not at all fat, she did have more curves than her mother.
Cassie, Gwen, and I started spending more time together after Sara passed; although school, sports, and other activities meant that "more" time with Gwen still wasn't a lot. Cassie still went nude if it was just her and me, but neither of us went nude around Gwen. We never talked about it, but I assumed that Cassie had taken the same attitude to raising Gwen that Sara and I had taken to raising Cassie.
I was having dinner and drinks at Mike's and Vickie's one Friday evening in late June. Cassie was off at somewhere with Gwen. Vickie, Mike, and I were sitting naked at one of the patio tables on their pool deck when a very beautiful blonde, who looked about Cassie's age, came out of the house wearing a short skirt and polo shirt. She looked familiar, but I couldn't place her.
"Hey, Mom, Dad," the blonde woman said. "I went by the farmer's market and the liquor store. Don't get up, I put everything away."
The reference to "Mom" and "Dad" clued me in that the blonde was Vickie's and Mike's daughter Sandy. Sandy and Cassie had been very close back when they were both in high school and, with Vickie's, Mike's, and Sara's knowledge and approval, Sandy and I had fucked occasionally after she turned 18. I had not seen Sandy in years. I had heard that she had married and moved to Seattle. Sandy was Cassie's age, almost to the day. In her forties, Sandy was still a compellingly beautiful woman.
Vickie, with only a little hint of irony, said "Harry, you remember our daughter Sandy, I'm sure." Sandy had seen me nude often enough years ago that I had no hesitation in standing and extending my hand to her.
Sandy stopped and then exclaimed, "Harry Stone! Damn, it is great to see you!" Sandy ignored my outstretched hand and, instead, stepped up to me and gave me a hug. Stepping back, she did a quick visual inspection of my nude front. "You look great," she said, "extraordinary for a man your age."
"You look as beautiful as I remember Sandy," I said. "What are you doing in the old neighborhood? Visiting?"
Sandy made a slight face and then smiled. "No, I'm back for good. I'm staying with Mom and Dad until I find a place of my own. Before you ask, yes I was married and yes I was living in Seattle. Trent and I divorced. The divorce just became final a month ago. I let Trent have the house in return for some money. Not being married to him anymore, I didn't see any reason to stay in the Northwest. I came back here because Mom and Dad are still here. Hey, may I join you guys for dinner?"
"Of course Dear," Vickie replied.
"Great!" Sandy said. "Let me just go in and get my clothes off." She turned and went back into the house. Her skirt was tight enough to disclose that she still had a very good ass.
Mike laughed. "We thought that we'd surprise you with Sandy being home."
"Well, you did that," I replied.
"The divorce was hard on her," Vickie said. "Still, I think that I'm glad it happened. She made a lot of compromises to be with Trent. He wanted her to be someone other than who she really is. She tried, but I don't think that she liked who she had become. I think that she's better off without Trent and, of course, we're thrilled to have her back here."
"I'm sorry that it didn't work out for her," I said.
"Well, not everyone is as lucky as we have been, "Mike said, adding "or as you and Sara were."
Fortunately, we were interrupted before discussion about Sara could go any farther by Sandy coming out of the house. Naked, she was much more reminiscent of the young adult I had known years ago. Her body was amazingly firm and in shape. Where once there had been evidence between Sandy's legs that she was a natural blonde, she was now shaved bare.
Sandy caught me looking. "That is one of the first things I did after Trent and I split," she said, "shave. Trent didn't even approve of me trimming down there. He said that no one is supposed to see it anyway." I guess I showed some embarrassment at Sandy having caught me looking at her triangle. "Don't worry Harry," she added. "I still enjoy people seeing me. Trent didn't get that and certainly didn't approve."
We had a good meal. During dinner, I got filled in on Sandy's life since she had left the neighborhood. While Sandy and Cassie had gone to college together, they drifted apart after Cassie met Peter. Sandy got her BS in computer engineering and took a job in Seattle. While she was there, she met Trent and got her master's.
"Trent pursued me relentlessly," Sandy said. "It was flattering to have someone want you that badly. He was an absolute doll until we were married." Sandy and Trent married after a little more than a year of dating. Trent was personally very conservative. Sandy was expected to stay dressed, a major change for her. "Trent also thought that I shouldn't have any life outside of work and him. He had a fit if I spent time with my friends. I think that he would have preferred that I not work and spend all my time at home, but the money I was making was too good for us to give up, and Trent did love money."
I asked if they had any children. "No," Sandy replied, "I wanted children but Trent didn't. That seemed odd as you'd think Mr. Hearth and Home would want a child or two, but he didn't. I think that Trent didn't want to have to spend the money on children. It got to the point where we quit having sex because he was convinced that I'd trick him and get pregnant."
The conversation was getting depressing. Vickie deftly changed the topic to what she and Mike had done during their last trip to Florida. Finishing that, she began questioning me about Gwen's diving (Gwen was a very successful diver on her school's swim team) and school, giving me an opportunity to brag about my granddaughter which she knew that I would take. By the time we were ready to call it a night, whatever pall had been cast by Sandy's account of her marriage had completely lifted.