I stood there, looking down at the pond with my flashlight. It was a colder day for spring, but it was still a nice day, and that's why I chose this to be the day I would finally go skinny dipping.
"Lily?" Porter worked his way down the hill where the pond lay at the bottom. "Is that you?"
I waved him down, feeling my heart skip. I was actually going to do this. The urge to do something like this started to form in my brain years ago, but I was always too scared to actually act on it.
That was, until I told Porter about it. It was supposed to just be a friendly tease, telling him that I'd put on a "show" if he helped me with my English project. He did, and thus I was bound.
But, in a way, this would be helpful. I'd have someone who could help me follow through with it. And I trusted Porter. He was a good guy and would be helpful and respectful about the whole thing.
Porter came down to me, holding a cardboard box. He looked at me up and down and blushed. I knew he was imagining me naked in front of him. His eyes had nearly bugged out when I asked him to help me skinny dip in the town lake.
"What's the box for?" I asked.
"To hold your clothes so they don't get dirty while you..." he couldn't finish the sentence. It was kind of cute, I thought.
I stepped forward and gave him a kiss on the cheek, which made him blush even more furiously. "Thank you," I said. I took the cardboard box and set it besides me. "Okay, here are the rules. I'm going to take off my clothes in front of you and then put them in this box. Once you agree that I'm naked, I'll go into the lake for ten minutes. If I come out before the ten minutes, then you get to tie me up and do whatever you want for a day."
"What?" He asked, taking a step back. "You never told me that I might tie you up. I..."
Again, I thought it cute how flustered he got. Maybe this was why I invited him, because I knew he would get embarrassed, and that would make my own embarrassment a little more manageable.
I shrugged. "It's motivation so I don't chicken out. It's only ten minutes." And it was for motivation. I hated the feeling of being tied up and helpless. My sisters did it once to me in the woods, leaving me tied up to a tree for a half-hour, and it was the most traumatizing thing in my life.
"What should I pull off first?"
"What?" He blushed again. Gosh, I was having too much fun teasing him. This alone was worth my little dip in the pond, never mind scratching the itch to go skinny dipping.
He coughed, composing himself. "I...I guess your pants."
I worked quickly, not giving myself time to bail. Belt unbuckled. Zipper down. My breath hitched and my heart thumped against my chest as I hooked my fingers in my waistband and pulled them to my knees. They stopped at my shoes, and I tugged on them to pull them out. I deposited them into the box
"Okay, next your shoes," Porter said. "Except do it so your back is facing me."
I blushed. I was super self-conscious about my big butt, and Porter knew it. He was never mean about it or teased me about it, but he knew that it was an embarrassment for me. I guess after my own teasing, I couldn't exactly blame him.