Ida covered her mouth with a hand to conceal her excited chortle when she cracked open the bedroom door of her Uncle Jasper. The room is dark and only illuminated by the lamp on the bedside table; but, nevertheless, she could see the shape of her uncle lying idle underneath the covers on the bed. Approaching the bed as quietly as an excited nineteen-year-old could be, Ida paused for a while to take in the peaceful features of her uncle. The yellow light of the lamp cast highlights on the streaks of greying hair tousled on the pillow, and Ida reached out to run her fingers through them but stopped when she realised that it would break his sleep.
She wanted this to be a surprise for her uncle for taking her in while her parents enjoy their vacation in Hawaii, which she would have gone along if she did not have summer school. But that did not matter now, because it meant that she could have her uncle to herself for two whole weeks. Such a thought alone could make her wet with anticipation. Her uncle was a handsome man, after all, and she dearly missed him after a month-long business trip to Europe.
Divorced a couple of years ago, her uncle had since been unattached and had turned most of his attention towards his only niece, who was attracted to his adventurous ways ever since she was capable of feeling anything romantic. For years, they danced along the edges of sexual morality with controlled embraces and hasty kisses on the cheek, until the eighteenth birthday of Ida, wherein she impetuously kissed her uncle on the lips and allowed him to take her virginity in the guest-bedroom right beside her parents'. Since then, they have tried to spend as much time with each other as possible without being suspicious. That was perhaps why her uncle jumped at the chance of taking her in when she could have gone to her grandparents instead.
Kneeling down, she laid her head on the mattress and closed her eyes to listen to her uncle breathe. It was a sound that mirrored the calm waves of the beach or rain in a cold night - something that she could listen to for the rest of her life. She glance at his face and sighed. She wanted nothing more than to ride him as soon as she arrived at his place, but a pile of homework and a project kept her away from him until now. In his sleep, he murmured something and shifted. It made Ida smile in amusement as she nudged him on the arm.