~ 8 ~ #2
“Don’t worry about it.” Lily turned to me and Kaira with that sexy swagger that I was becoming so attracted to. “What about you guys?”
Her confidence wavered for a few seconds as she watched me eyeball the water and then back at her.
In the end, the look of hesitance and vulnerability in her eyes was the thing that made me want to join her, naked in the water under the moonlight.
She was human, too, and all she cared about was making the most of this moment, even if it meant putting herself out on a limb and asking us all to stretch ourselves and go for it.
“Fuck it. I’m in,” Kaira declared, lifting her shirt up over her head. She looked at Bouchra. “Come on. You’re always saying we never do crazy stuff anymore. This is a moment and we’ve got to seize it.”
Bouchra looked stunned.
“I like your thinking, Kaira,” Lily said, smiling now.
Kaira shrugged out of her shorts, still looking at Bouchra. “Babe. You’ll kick yourself if you don’t.”
“Okay, okay. I didn’t think you would be so keen.” Bouchra began taking off her clothes.
“Yes, team!” Lily said.
“We’ll sit on the jetty a bit further down and keep an eye on your stuff.” Vicky and Mathilde walked away, shaking their heads and laughing at us, hand in hand.
Kaira and Bouchra threw off the rest of their clothes and jumped in, hand in hand, screaming in delight or fear, I couldn’t be certain.
“Fuck me, this is wild!” Bouchra bellowed, once she surfaced.
Lily shrugged out of her clothes and neatly placed them on top of her shoes. She was full on naked. When she stood up straight and squared her shoulders, I didn’t know where to look.
“Are you coming in too?”
I swallowed. “I want to. But it’s so visible.”
“There’s no one around.”
I could barely think with her standing next to me like this.
Lily smirked. “It can’t be any more difficult than hitting on me the other night.”
“Oh no, that was easy, actually.”
“So is this.” Lily jumped right in, making a big splash. She turned around to face me when she resurfaced. “Show us your wild side, Rona!”
“You’ll love it, seriously,” Kaira said, from the water near the jetty, smiling.
I was so happy that Kaira and Bouchra were enjoying themselves.
I loved that Lily was daring and inspiring like this.
It was one of my new favourite things to learn about her.
I could be daring too. I found myself undressing, quickly taking everything off and willing myself not to overthink it.
I left my clothes in a messy pile at my feet, but I did fold up my glasses and place them neatly beside it.
I could still see without them, things just weren’t quite as sharp.
“Nice boobs, Rona!” Bouchra called up.
I had no idea why I was still standing up here on full display for everyone when in reality it was the last thing I wanted. Anyone could be looking! My friends looking was bad enough. The water seemed so cold though.
“It’s not that cold,” Lily said, as if reading my mind. “Once you get over the initial impact, it’s fine.”
I stepped off the edge and fell feet first, gently, but landing hard. When I came up for air, Lily was there, smiling.
The shock of it passed quick. The water was fairly warm, especially compared to the icy waters back home. Because it was nighttime I thought it would be colder.
“Welcome to the party.” Lily smiled, keeping herself and her very naked body afloat, right beside me.
We were basked in moonlight and the faint glow from the lights of the jetty. Lily was getting her dream situation. I couldn’t stop smiling, too. “This is amazing.”
“I know.” Kaira swam over, her short hair unchanged from being wet. “Livin’ the life.”
“Just hope nobody minds we’re out here by their boat in the buff,” Bouchra said, uncharacteristically worried.
Vicky and Mathilde were sitting on the edge of the jetty further away, their legs dangling over the edge. They looked peaceful, but this was better.
“It’ll be fine, babe. I’ve got you,” Kaira said. “Here, let’s just float around.” She gently pulled her wife towards her and Bouchra seemed to melt into her arms.
They started kissing and tangling their limbs together.
I caught Lily’s eye and laughed a little.
“Want to swim out to that boat over there?” Lily pointed to a boat next to a buoy about fifteen metres away.
“Sure.”
She swam onwards, leading the way.
It was weird, being naked in the water, but I was getting used to feeling it in places I wouldn’t normally. There were no barriers between me and the water. It was oddly intimate. The farther we swam from the jetty, the darker and quieter it got.
The lone boat was relatively small. Odyssey was painted on the bow in bright orange elaborate calligraphy, which went well with the white and blue colours on the rest of the boat.
I half expected Lily to swim around the boat and head us back to the jetty, as if this was a training exercise. There was a side to her that seemed strict.
Instead, she got to the boat first and held onto the narrow ladder on its stern. Her arm reaching up exposed her neck and made all the muscles in her arm and shoulder really pop.
“Want to climb on?” Her eyes sparkled mischievously in the glimmering light reflecting off the water.
“You want to go on this boat? Isn’t that trespassing? Won’t we get caught?”
“I don’t think they’re that concerned about people jumping on their boats here because it’s all very open. How about we go on and then jump off? Finish our mad week of new and challenging adventures on a literal high.”
She wanted to get on a boat with me, naked. While it was trespassing and risky, and I was worried we’d get caught, the way she was asking me was too irresistible.
“What the hell. It is the last night.”
“Do me a favour, though, turn around while I climb this ladder? Not sure I’m ready to show you my arsehole yet.”
I laughed.
“Turn!”
“Okay!” I turned. The water falling off her made a huge splash as she hoisted herself up.
“Ready,” Lily announced.
I took my time climbing up the ladder, being careful not to slip.
Lily watched me navigate the last step. “Do you need a hand?”
“No, thanks. Just doing my best here to make myself look as awkward as possible.”
“Nothing awkward about you. Magnificent, more like.”
I felt myself blush. I planted both feet on the small boat and felt the full weight of what we were doing here with each other in the open cabin of a stranger’s boat.
We’d only just met and everything was shiny and new and sexy, but I was starting to feel like this connection we had could grow into something, if Lily was in any way feeling what I was feeling too.
Lily stood in the middle of the boat, arms hanging loosely, as if she wasn’t totally standing naked in front of me. “How do you feel?”
“Embarrassed. Exposed. Kind of excited. You?”
“Nippy. Wet.”
I opened my mouth to reply but nothing came out. A warm buzz spread through my whole body.
Lily perched on the edge of the bench with her arms out behind her, kind of looking up to the sky, elongating her body and making it impossible not to look at her breasts.