My wife and I bought a summerhouse a couple of years ago in the south of Sweden. It is a small farm situated in a very rural area.
We spent the next two years to have the house rebuilt inside and to get the surrounding garden in order. The house had been more or less empty for 15 years so there were a lot to do. We spent quite a lot of money to get a new kitchen and a roomy bathroom.
The people in the small village to which our farm belonged were very friendly and were genuinely glad that we had bought the house and spent money to rebuild it. They wanted as to move down there for good. Especially our closest neighbors took care of us and looked after our house and the garden when we were in Stockholm, the capitol of Sweden. We had become good friends. They were a little younger than my wife and me.
Then my wife became ill and died in springtime last year after not more than a year of illness.
It was a chock to me. I hadn't realized how much her company meant to me. I had always taken it for granted that we should grow old together and share our time between our apartment in Stockholm and the farmhouse.
After her death I didn't spend much time at the farmhouse. I went there a couple of times during the summer to look after things but left most of the work undone. The neighbors helped a lot, cut the grass and looked after the flowerbeds. They urged me to spend more time at the house. They would keep me company they said.
This spring I retired from work as planned. I was sixty. I didn't know really what to do. I had nothing planned. So I decided to spend my time at the farmhouse and fix it up again and see if that could be a life for me.
The people in the village were happy and wished me welcome back. They invited me over whenever there was something to celebrate, birthdays the most common.
My neighbor Karin made it a habit to come over to my house a couple of times a week, "to look that I was all right," she said. She often brought homebred buns and we had a cup of coffee. She also took the habit to look over my house and do things when she thought it necessary. She also now and them cooked for me and made so much at a time that I could put several meals in the fridge. She and her husband really looked after me and I began to feel comfortable and at ease.
The summer came with good weather. Karen's daughters now and then accompanied her at her visits and I had fun talking to them. My own two daughters spent a week or two each of their vacations at the farm but they had a lot of their own and their children to take care of so they could not stay for very long. It was good to have them there, though.
In the beginning of august Karin told me that she and her husband should go on vacation for two weeks. I could not help but feel a little disappointed and told her that I should miss her and her visits and cares. She smiled and was obviously pleased to hear that. The next day she said that she had asked her eldest daughter Lisa to come and visit me in her place, of course if I didn't mind. I was glad and told her so. She looked very pleased and said that she had asked Lisa to take really good care of me.
A couple of days later Lisa showed up for the first time on her own. She had accompanied her mother a couple of times and I had met her at parties in the village.
Lisa was in her early thirties and lived on her own in a nearby small town. She was ordinary good-looking, rather tall and with a good figure. She was friendly and very easy to talk with.
She took up her mother's habit of looking through the house to see that it was in order. She had brought fresh pastries although she apologized for not having baked them herself. We had a nice time in the garden having coffee, talked and enjoyed the good whether. Suddenly she said:
" I saw that you have a whirlpool bathtub in your bathroom. I have never tried that. Can I use it some time?"
" Of course," I said, "you can use it anytime you like. Do you want to do it today?"
"May I," she said and blushed a little for no obvious reason, " I would like it very much. But then I have to borrow a towel as well."
"No problem," I said standing up, " come on and I will show you how it works."
We went into the house and to the main bedroom, my bedroom, to get to the bathroom. On the way she showed a good knowledge of my house. She went to the right cupboard and got towels out.
In the bathroom I began to run a bath for her. She stood at my side and I explained how to operate the different nozzles and how to direct the jet streams.
I was standing there when she giggled and said:
"Now, I think you have to leave. After all I have to get naked to get in the bath. See you later."
I withdraw and went back out to the garden. She took a long time in her bath but after about an hour she came out with flushed cheeks and a happy smile.
"Oh that was wonderful," Lisa said, "can I do it again another day?"
"Certainly," I said, "as often as you like, But you should take care of your skin if you use it often. It can get dry."
With that she left for the day. I went inside to the bathroom and I could smell her scent in there. I took up her towel and held it to my nose. It was nice. Suddenly my body shivered and I felt lonely. It had been so long.
Two days later Lisa was back. Full of energy she went like a whirlwind through my house tiding things up. As before we ended up in the garden with coffee and fresh cookies she had brought. But she was eager to get into the bath, she told me. It had been so fantastic the last time. So off she went to the bathroom.
After a while I could not stop myself from going upstairs to my bedroom and stand outside the bathroom door listening to the sounds from inside. The bathtub hummed and the water splashed. But the splashing calmed down and I could hear moans and suddenly she cried out several times.
When she started to empty the bathtub I withdraw to the kitchen busing myself with the dishes. When she came down I asked:
"Did you have a good time."
Lisa blushed deeply but composed herself.
"Yes," she said giggling, "I really had a good time. If only you knew how a girl can use that tub. Nearly as good as a real man."