I crawled into the hot tub and let the warm water relax every tense muscle. It was heaven. I felt my neck and back loosen. I did a few twists and my back popped back into place about six times. The headache that had been building started to go away. I leaned my head back and I must have dozed off.
Mrs. A and Beth came out with a plate of sandwich makings, a bowl of potato salad, and iced tea. I jerked awake when I felt cold water drip on my forehead. Beth held an ice cube over my face.
“Young Lady! If I weren’t hurting right now, I would be tickling you. So be advised, when I get better I owe you one,” I mock-warned her.
Beth stuck her tongue out at me and sashayed her cute little butt over to the table. I was starved, so I crawled out of the hot tub and headed for the food. Beth gasped and stared at me. Mrs. A chuckled.
“David, grab a towel.”
I couldn’t figure out what they were talking about until I saw where Beth was staring. My wet shorts had left nothing to the imagination. Thanks to Beth’s little show, Mr. Happy had come out to play. My heart skipped a beat and I quickly grabbed a towel. I just smirked at Beth.
“Well, I guess I don’t have any secrets from you anymore.”
“David!” Beth screeched and turned beet red.
“Beth, you shouldn’t tease the poor boy, he’s injured,” Mrs. A tormented her embarrassed daughter.
Beth turned on her Mom, not believing she had blamed her for my arousal. I snuck up behind Beth, circled her waist, and pulled her into my arms. She could feel my arousal on her butt, and I whispered loud enough for Mrs. A to hear.
“Baby, don’t start something you’re not willing to finish.”
She spun around in my embrace. Her eyes were huge and I planted a kiss on her. About that time, Tracy came out and froze when she saw Beth in my arms and the lip-lock I had on her. I winked at her to let her know we’re just having some fun. I broke the kiss and gave Beth an evil grin.
“You’re bad. We are so not even now,” Beth warned me.
Mrs. A gave us an amused look and I could see the wheels turning. I appreciated I had ratcheted up the sexy meter higher than I ever had before with Beth. We had flirted and badgered each other before, but I had never kissed her like that.
I walked up to Tracy, put my arm around her waist, and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
“You look nice.”
Beth had loaned her a swimsuit and t-shirt. We grabbed plates and made sandwiches.
“Mrs. A, this looks great. Thanks for doing this, and thanks for letting me use the hot tub. I feel like a new man.”
“How are you doing today, David? You were a little out of sorts yesterday.”
The ‘no secrets’ thing really did apply to all the Andersons and me, so I wasn’t surprised she would ask me directly about Tami leaving. Tracy gave me a strange look.
“Sorry I didn’t tell you. Tami made me promise. She wanted to be the one to tell you,” Beth said.
“No, you were in a bad spot. I know you’d have told me if she stopped keeping it a secret,” I told her to take her off the hook.
Tracy looked even more confused. She didn’t know Tami was going to Wesleyan in a few weeks.
“Tami Glade told me yesterday she’s been given a scholarship to attend Wesleyan Academy. She wants to be a doctor someday, and this is a fantastic opportunity for her,” I explained.
“You have to understand Tami and David have been best friends since I’ve known them. Heck, they’re both so stupid I don’t think they realize they love each other. For her to not tell him was kind of a big deal,” Beth said.
I just waved it off.
“Water under the bridge.”
I’m sure no one believed that, but they were polite enough not to call me a liar. I really needed to change the conversation. If I had to pretend this wasn’t bothering me for another second I think I’d start crying. I finished my sandwich and decided to change the locale.
“Let’s hit the hot tub again. My neck and back are still killing me.”
Mrs. Anderson, Beth and Tracy all decided to join me in the hot tub. Mr. Anderson was traveling this week. He worked for UPS doing on-site quality assurance reviews. When I got in, Tracy and Beth were seated on either side and Mrs. A was seated across from me. I have to say, Mrs. A still had a killer body. She had Beth when she was nineteen and she was now only thirty-seven. She was in her prime as a woman. Her looks gave me a glimpse into how nice Beth would look at that age.
However, I have to say the body I was interested in was Tracy’s. Beth had given her a white string bikini. I would have to thank Beth later. I started to become aroused when she lost the t-shirt. Tracy was five-nine with long dancer’s legs and athletic. Tracy was one of those rare girls who had both a great bottom and large breasts. Normally girls seem to have either one or the other.
Mrs. A turned on the tub jets and I just moaned in pleasure. After several minutes of total bliss, I felt the water shift as Mrs. A and Beth crawled out of the tub. Beth smiled and winked at me as she and her mom headed into the house. After a few more minutes, the tub jets stopped via the timer. I started to get hot, so I crawled out of the tub. Tracy checked me out. I knew my shorts were putting me on display. For some reason I wasn’t nervous that Tracy was getting an eyeful. I knew from the locker room I had nothing to be ashamed of. I guess I passed the test because her eyes finally met mine and she smiled.
“I need to cool off. I’m going to take a dip in the pool,” she said.
She got out, slid her hand into mine, and led me to the pool. The Anderson’s pool was nice. It had an area to swim laps. It also had an area that sloped down like at a beach. You walked into a few inches of water and then it gradually went to five feet deep. When we first got in the water felt like it was freezing, but after a minute, it started to feel good.
I leaned against the wall when I felt Tracy invade my personal space. Her large breasts brushed my chest before the rest of her slid up against me. I wrapped her in my arms and just moaned. She had a very intense look in her eyes.
“I want to thank you for what you did today. Bill scares me. I also want to thank you for stopping me. I’m afraid I would have done something I would’ve regretted.”
“It was all I could do to hold you back. I’m just glad you and Beth listened to me and got out of harm’s way. I don’t know what I’d have done if either of you had gotten hurt.”
“David, I know we’ve known each other since kindergarten,” Tracy said, as she got serious. “However, I didn’t really notice you until Saturday when you showed up with the Ice Princess. I’ve been asking around about you.”
“Oh really, heard anything good?”
“You’d be surprised. I actually talked to Tami Glade about you for nearly two hours.”
I wasn’t surprised Tami would put in a good word for me. I’d do the same for her if the roles were reversed.
“She’s one of your biggest cheerleaders. What has surprised me is everyone comments on what a good guy you are. I know you went through a rough patch last spring, but by all accounts, you’ve come out of that just fine. I guess the point I’m trying to make is you’ve shocked me.”
“Is that good?” I asked.
“Absolutely. I have a habit of going out with bad boys. Bill was the most recent and probably the worst one. I think I’m ready for a nice guy, but I need to take things slow.”
Mr. Happy would not be pleased with that. I think I’ll wait to tell him; he doesn’t listen to me anyways. I could think of three things I’d like to be doing with Tracy right now that didn’t involve talking. Emotionally, though, I wasn’t ready for a full-blown relationship either. I could see falling hard for her. She was a stone-cold fox with a wicked sense of humor.
Every guy has his ideal girl. Mine was Peggy Pratt. The only thing Tracy lacked was red hair, green eyes and alabaster skin with freckles, but Tracy surpassed Peggy by having a curvier body. The other thing that pushed Tracy past Peggy was we’re only a year apart in age. The last thing I ever wanted to do was to hurt Tracy. I had seen time and again how expectations, when set too high, ended up killing a relationship. Eventually someone couldn’t meet the expectations and the other person was hurt.