Summer would never be the same
Author's note:
This is a submission for the 2018 Summer Lovin' contest on Lit. It builds off of "One Prince of Serendip," my submission for the Nude Day contest. You may want to read that one first. Or not. This is ending up to be a long one, since it covers weeks. Regardless of inspiration, this story is fiction, and if you think you recognize yourself in it, don't worry about it... no one else should. I'm putting this in Erotic Couplings, although I often have a hard time deciding between that and Romance. If I've picked the wrong category, please don't let it affect your enjoyment. Thanks for reading, and I particularly appreciate voting and constructive comments, regardless of any contest. That's how I know how well I am pleasing you, the reader. Cheers!
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I want to thank you for giving me the most wonderful summer of my life...
It was so heavenly, you meant the world to me
and anyone could see that I was so in love...
Wonderful Summer - Robin Ward (1963)
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Wednesday 6/23
]
Hi. It's me again. The guy who thought he was the luckiest guy on the planet a few short weeks earlier. Earlier than this story, that is. I had the incredible good fortune to meet Marsha and Kate over the Memorial Day holiday. To say we hit it off well would be severe understatement. Though we only had two more days after our first meeting, we promised to stay in touch and to try to get together over the summer. The odds were fairly high, since both our families liked to vacation at our properties on "the Thumb." The odds were unfortunately also very high that we wouldn't be alone.
So much for being a Hippie-Naturist. That's what Marsha and Kate had decided to call me when they stumbled across me sunbathing nude on my family's private beach. We'd had an incredible two and a half days of screwing our brains out, as well as just goofing around and getting to know each other, before we all had to go back to our realities.
For me and for Marsha it was back to college, to finish Spring Quarter. For Kate it was back to home... she'd just graduated high school and wasn't starting college until Fall. I put in my mandatory two weeks to finish the term, then went back to my parents' to rejoin the rest of my family. My next younger brother, Matt, was Kate's age and had also just finished high school. He was lobbying our folks to let him spend a couple of months with his best friend, whose parents also owned vacation property near ours. And I think my parents were getting ready to cave.
"I think you ought to let him go," I told them, when it came up around the dinner table. "He doesn't start until the Fall... why not let him have one last summer fling?" Matt was looking at me like I had sprouted additional heads because I
never
supported him in
any
of his wild-hair schemes. My parents may have been looking at me weirdly for the same reason.
"And what do
you
intend to do with
your
summer?" my Mom asked. "Another 'last summer fling' for you, too?" She had a way of bypassing your eyes and going straight for your soul. I had a very selfish reason for wanting to be alone up at the house. Or rather, I had
two
reasons. But I wasn't about to tell her that.
"Actually, I thought I'd get a bunch of the maintenance done on the house before everybody descends on it," I told her. I wasn't lying. I really did intend to do a bunch of the stuff the house needed. It's just... well, that wasn't all I intended to do.
"The gutters need cleaning and painting, the front porch needs to be stripped and painted... and since it's concrete, it's better to use the hydrochloric acid when no one else is around... the front hedge and walkway to the beach need trimming... there's a lot of things to do to keep me busy, Mom, and I don't have any good prospects for a summer job since Mr. Evans sold the Standard station."
"You don't want your brother's help with all that?" Mom asked. I'm sure she was poking at my motives.
"Am I going to start a civil war if I tell you I'd rather not have him underfoot?" I countered. "There's some stuff, like pulling out the dead wood and like that, that Matt and Jim could be helpful with. And Jim's folks are only twenty minutes from our place. But otherwise? He'd just be getting in my way."
My Dad finally chimed in. "I don't see a problem with it, Hon" he told Mom. "They both have their own cars. You're not going up until after the Fourth, because Mary and Luke are involved in the parade down here. So Matt could go to Jim's, Mark could start on the house and everyone else can go up after my sister and her brood get here." He was careful to express his opinion but leave the final decision in Mom's lap.
"Okay, I suppose that's fine," she caved. "Just both of you, be careful!"
"Yes, ma'am!" I smiled. "I always am." The look I got from
both
of my parents indicated I was probably wrong about that. Matt snorting into his milk didn't help any, either.
"Buy what you need at Borden's," Dad told me. "Charge it to my account. I'll call up there and let them know you're working on the house and it's okay. And if you could add putting up the screen house to your list, I'd appreciate it. Just don't put it up between the trees we hang the hammock on."
"Yes, sir," I told him. "I wasn't going to leave until the weekend, and I'll put together a list for you and Mom to check before I go. And thanks..."
"Thanks?" Dad iterated, quizzically.
"Yeah... for understanding why it's easier not to have people around when I'm trying to get shit done."
"
Language...
" That was my mother. My Dad just frowned.
"Okay, get