Now I laughed.
“Not funny! Not funny at all. And, your conniving son held them over his head when I screamed. ‘Come get them’ he said. But when I tried to reach them, he pulled the front tie of my top and before I could recover, had whipped it off me! Now I was as naked as he was!”
“I tried to get them back, but realized that as I reached for them—and he always had them just out of reach—my body was making way too much contact as he lay back and I swam trying to reach over his head. My boobs were in contact with his chest, and then I felt something else, something poking at my hips. I didn’t even want to think about what it could be.”
“I was furious, but didn’t know what to do—climb out and make a run for it? He would sit there in the pool and see everything. I wasn’t ready for that. But, looking back, that’s what I should have done.”
I couldn’t imagine Doug doing something shameful like that. He had never acted that way before, and I would’ve thought it was just a prank hadn’t the outcome been so serious. I really wanted to know how the situation had gotten to the point of them having sex, but thought I should let Gail have her space to have the whole thing unfold in her own way and pace.
“Doug took all my hope away of getting out of the pool with my dignity intact by throwing my bikini as far as he could up on the lawn. That’s when I should have run after it, but I thought still I might just wait there until he got tired of his game and left.”
She looked at me and said, “I wish I could go back there on that day and have it all to do over, knowing what I do now. You have to believe me. I’m so sorry.”
“Gail, I’m not blaming you. It’s Doug’s fault. I can see that now. I can see where this is going. You don’t have to say any more.” I surmised that Doug forced Gail in the pool, but she held up her hand.
“I yelled at Doug. Swore at him! He just laughed. All a joke still. He said ‘Relax, Auntie, and let’s just swim’ and swam up to me. I tried to swim away but he easily caught up and glided against me, pushing his crotch against my butt—not hard, but just enough so I knew what was there. I remember thinking that my eyes had betrayed me when he was diving. He knew I had been looking at his penis. Now he wanted me to be aware of it in another way. And aware I was. He would swim away and then back again underwater.”
“I knew he must be getting quite a view of my naked body. I would try to turn my back, but he was constantly telling me how beautiful I was and how lucky Vance was to be able to see me naked every night. Finally, as he was swimming towards me again, I didn’t even bother to turn. Now he had seen all of me.”
“I didn’t know if I was mad at myself or relieved I didn’t have to defend my nakedness any more.”
Gail took a long drink of coffee. I had forgotten I even had any. I mirrored her action and waited for her. She put her cup down.
“I tried to be more nonchalant and actually swim a bit in my own damned pool. But Doug, with those muscles and coordination always caught up with me, now more aggressively rubbing his body against mine. I told him to stop but he laughed and hugged me close until we both almost went completely under. that’s when he slid his hand down my right arm and took hold of my wrist. Before I knew it, he had placed my hand on his penis.”