I woke up early on that Friday morning. I savored the feel of the sheets on my skin for as long as I could, until the need for a hot cup of tea became primary.
In the chilly Wisconsin morning, I knew it would be delicious to sit out in the hot tub and wait for the day to warm up. So I picked out a two-piece bathing suit and pulled it on, and I slipped on a bathrobe on top of it, and went out to the kitchen.
I took my hot tea out onto the deck and set it down next to the hot tub. The sun had just topped the horizon, and there were still wispy mists out on the lake. I shucked off my robe in the chilly morning air and, leaving it draped over a chair, I slipped into the steaming water. I switched on the jets and quickly peeled out of my bikini, reaching up and spreading it out to dry on the deck.
In between sips of my tea, I let my head fall back and I just took in the feeling of being naked outdoors, under the water. The feeling was electric, and I think that the deliberateness of my resistance to the urge to touch myself only made my skin tingle that much more.
If my son Jake had not been there, sleeping inside the lake house, I doubt I could have resisted the urge. My naughty little secret of undressing under the water like this always made me, to be perfectly frank, pretty horny.
Much earlier than I expected, Jake came out on the deck. I flashed back to the morning, last summer, when we'd had our little talk, in another place, on another deck. Somehow, despite all of my best intentions, that frank conversation hadn't stopped us from, eventually, pressing our bodies together; had not stopped me from opening myself to him and letting my son into me in the most intimate way.
Jake stood on the deck and, unsuspectingly, looked down at the water. Down at me. He was plainly surprised by the nude woman he could obviously see.
"Oh... oops, should I...?" God, I loved seeing him flustered like that. It was so sweet, and it spoke of his innocence.
"It's OK, Jake, don't be silly, hon. D'you want to come in?"
"I would like to," he said, tentatively.
He moved to step into the hot tub.
"Well, either I should get into my swim suit, or you should get out of yours," I smiled.
I really wasn't proposing anything more indecent than getting bare in the hot tub together. It was probably something that many Europeans wouldn't think twice about.
But this wasn't Europe.
Jake hesitated for only one moment before he reached for the waistband of his trunks.
I stopped him quickly.
"No, don't!"