Chapter 17
She settled in and sighed happily, sitting opposite me. "Now this is going to be wonderful," she sighed. "Beer me, please?"
I shook myself out of my reverie and grabbed one of the beers while she took another picture with her phone, opening the top and passing it to her. She looked at the label and smiled wryly. "The moose, hm?"
"Hey, don't knock it 'til you try it, right?" I replied, taking a stiff pull from my own bottle in order to help calm myself after that wondrous display. She considered and then nodded, taking a decent swig of it and then held it in her mouth, grading the contents. She swallowed and grinned.
"Passable when served cold," she declared. "An acceptable offering."
"Thank you, oh goddess of European swag-beers," I teased, laughing. "Do you actually like it or are you just being polite?"
By way of response, she put the bottle to her lips and drained it easily. The then clunked it down on the side of the jacuzzi and looked at me. "I'll take another."
"My kinda girl." I said, grabbing another and twisting off the top before handing it to her. She looked confused for a moment.
"I thought these weren't twist-off caps," she said. "Didn't you use the bottle-opener on the first one?"
"Oh, uh, yeah, I guess I did." I mused, not really thinking much about it. "Don't worry, the seals are good."
"It's not that," Alexa stated, still confused by something. "Let me see one of the unopened bottles, if you don't mind?"
I passed her one and she tried to twist the top off with her hands. She paused to dry her hands thoroughly on her towel and tried again, unsuccessfully. She sighed and handed it back to me. "Could you, please?"
I shrugged and twisted the top off, displaying the defeated bottle. She giggled and smiled at me. "Well, you're definitely strong."
"Oh, thanks, yeah, I guess I am," I said, putting the bottle down next to the one I was finishing. "I swim competitively at the university and work out, so I'm probably stronger than your average freshman."
"Going to be big and brawny like your old man the professor one day?" she teased, winking at me.
"Probably," I replied, enchanted by her lovely smile. "Can't bulk up while I'm swimming, but dad says to make sure I work out all my muscle groups in a gym so that my body doesn't adapt exclusively to the swimmer's build."
"Smart cookie, your dad," she remarked casually, taking another pull of her beer and taking a picture of the bottle before looking at me. "But this isn't fair," she said, gesturing at me now with her hand. "You've seen me and my boobs now, I haven't seen you shirtless. Stand up, let's take a look."
Knowing better than to resist (and not wanting to, even if I was nervous), I put my beer down and stood up, water cascading off me as I showed myself to her. Alexa took in the sight of me and grinned widely.
"Vaizdeliai," she said under her breath as she stared at my body, a smile playing over her face. I wasn't surprised when she took a couple of pics of me. "Come closer."
I moved forward and she put her hand out and ran her palm over my defined pecs and then over my stomach, which, I am proud to say, definitely had a six pack these days after months of working out my abs. I had to try not to shiver as the pads of her fingers traced down my skin.
"Definitely explains why hugging you feels so good," she said softly. "That's quite the master-crafted work you've got going on, Alex."
"Thanks," I said, hoping my voice didn't quaver at her touch. "Takes work, but it's worth it."
She stood now, her magnificent body glistening with water, it was mere inches from mine when she looked up into my eyes, her own deep and emotive.
"Hug me?" she asked in the softest voice ever.
I drew her to me and wrapped my arms around her. Her soft breasts pressed to my chest, her stomach to mine, hips once again touching. I could feel our hearts beating and was acutely aware of how erotic this whole situation was- I was hugging an incredibly hot girl in my jacuzzi and we were both mostly naked.
But there was more to this somehow. Alexa was my family, someone who had experienced great loss, moved to a new world and needed comfort. She considered me her friend, not just a family member. This realization didn't not make the situation any less sexual in my mind, whatever it was in hers, but it added certain depths and dimensions to it that might bear consideration in the future.
She kept her cheek on my shoulder, eyes closed as she caressed my back. We hugged for close to a minute before she looked up into my face and pressed her lips to mine. We held one another, sharing the kiss and I'd finally given up on trying to contain or suppress my body's reactions to this sort of thing. She finally broke the kiss and giggled.
"Don't worry about it," she said softly. "Wouldn't have hugged you if I was afraid of that."
She sat down again, taking my hand and pulling me to sit down beside her instead of on the other side of the hot tub. She was sitting on a higher shelf now so that her breasts were above the waterline and I could see them clearly.
"You might as well get used to them, they're not going anywhere," she said, smiling at me. "Girls around here must be so uptight if this is how people react to a little skin."
I shrugged. "Doesn't help that you're hands-down the prettiest girl I know. Seriously."
She smiled and caressed my cheek. "I'll take your word for it, it's good for my ego. Then again, so is telling myself that I was responsible for that dream of yours this morning."
"You probably were, even if I can't remember it." I admitted. "You were the last thing I was thinking about when I went to sleep."
"Well that's gratifying to hear," she said sweetly. She took another pull from her beer and then stood up, wiggling over to get the remaining unopened beers and bring them back to us. I tried not to stare but apparently failed miserably because she giggled as she caught me. "Oh you..."
We sat and drank more beer while looking out into the darkness, letting the music play. I had put my arm around her and she snuggled closer, pressed into my side. She took more pictures, including some of us turning our heads in to kiss. Eventually, though, she made a wry face and reached down under the water. She fiddled around with something and then casually tossed her bikini bottoms out of the jacuzzi and onto the deck. My eyes went wide again, since she was now sitting next to me completely naked.