It had been a brutal year. No... I'm not using that figuratively. I'm not trying to gain empathy with hyperbole. It was, literally, a brutal year. (Can you tell I'm an English teacher?) Something was in the water and I'd stopped more fights (physical, verbal, you name it) than I cared to count, winding up with a food-throwing free-for-all on the last day (which wound up sending three kids to the ER: one with a nut allergy, one with a broken leg from slipping on spilled Jello, and one who was just freaked out from the mass hysteria).Literally brutal.
It had only been a little better on her, but she was left holding the bag with the kids and general household stuff, every time I came home from school late needing medical attention. Yes, we had a routine for what to do in these circumstances.
So, by the end of the year, we needed to cut loose in epic proportions. As teachers (she's elementary school, which means her students are cute and she doesn't mind that she has a cold all year long), we are supposed to be moral examples. As parents, every day is soccer practice, carpool, and homework. Don't get us wrong: our children are our greatest joy, but parenting doesn't leave much energy to focus on each other. To love, and lust, the way we did when we met.
So, that's why, when she said on the last day of school she had booked us a second honeymoon, my response was simple: "I couldn't love you more than I do right now."
Miranda's response: "Wanna bet?" She reached in her drawer and pulled out a string bikini, the kind she was too self-conscious to wear at 22. We were celebrating losing the last of the baby weight (mine as much as hers), and I worked hard to get my abs and chest back. While I always loved her body, her stomach was tighter, and her breasts higher, than they had been in years. Her ass, well, it looked like her 22 year old ass. We were in the best shape in years, feeling pretty good about it. The hotel, it turns out, had a Tiki Bar by the pool... and umbrella drinks and the bikini seemed like a winning combination. I had secret hopes of the nude beach, too, but didn't want to push my luck too far. Little did I know.
Down to the pool the first morning, I look at her, as she slips out of bed. We always sleep naked, and just being in proximity to her body has gotten me through many a dark morning. Her firm ass, breasts... her body, despite pregnancy, still rivals that of most 20-year-olds-- and, unlike those children, she knows how to work it. She adjusts the tiny bathing suit bottom: it just covers her waxed body. The top leaves less to the imagination.
"Honey, you look unbelievable..."
"I know, right?" she says admiring herself in the full length mirror. I grab the towels, and she grabs... her cover up.
"We're on Key West!" I try not to sound as disappointed as I feel... I failed.
"I don't know that this is for everyone..."
How do I tell her that is exactly what I was hoping for? Her showing off her incredible body... making other men eat their hearts out, making other women jealous. I can't without seeming to push. Down to the Tiki Bar and pool-- no pressure. On our third drink, she turns to me. "So, is this what you've been dreaming of?"
I smile. "Yeah. This is great."
"Is it? Or have you been waiting for this..." She stands up, and slowly pulls off the skimpy pool dress she was wearing. Time stops, the pool boy almost drops his tray, and I see three men around the pool stop what they are doing as the dress slips up, revealing her perfect ass and stomach.
I spend the next hour or so pretending to read my book, while watching all the eyes go over my wife's glorious body. The smile never leaves her face, so I know she is enjoying the attention also. The pool boy is especially enamored... his eyes rarely leaving her, except to point her out to a friend of hisβtwo good-looking guys, and the lust for my wife is palpable. Yeah, I love it.
"I couldn't possibly love you more, than I do right now..."
"Wanna bet?"
We have massages booked for 4:30 PM. We go back to the room and I watch as the strings come undone and that suit that hints at it all, now falls to the ground and reveals it all. Over her shoulder, she glances back, her perfect ass leading the way to the small of her back. I can't help myself, my hard cock sticking straight out. Of course she catches me.
"Hmm... We're running late, maybe later?" I nod (like I'm going to say no). She grabs a pair of lacy red panties and begins to slip them on.
"Honey, we're going for a massage... what sense does it make to put those on when we are going to take them right off?" I don't even think before I say it. Because I'm so concerned about laundry? No. I just want to keep her as naked as possible.
She stops and thinks. "Yeah, guess not." She puts them back. Naturally, my intentions were completely practical. Ha. She slips her Daisy Duke cut offs over that tight, hot ass, and a loose gauzy top over her breasts.... The idea of her being nude under these clothes, tight and semi-transparent, makes me even harder, if that is possible.
The massage gets me even more worked up and afterward, she suggests that we people-watch on Duvall Street. Even in our younger days, we rarely "partied" like that. We read more than we drank.
We've always had hot sex, but always together... safely. So, I was more than a little impressed with her easy ways in the college frat party that is Duvall. We walked up and down, sipping bad margaritas, listening to hack musicians. She got more than her share of attention, her relaxed nature-- and probably the nipples poking through her top.