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Eva
(page 1) Jim stood waist deep in the water and looked at Eva as
she took off the light coverup she'd worn over her swimsuit. She rolled
it up and set it on the sand, then stood and looked out over water. A
wave broke around Jim, almost knocking him over, and when he looked back
at her, she was standing at the edge of the water grinning at him. As he
watched his wife, Jim wondered why he'd never taken her to the beach
before. They'd dated for two years before they got married, and they'd
been married a year and a half now, but this was the first time.
She was beautiful, standing there wearing only three small triangles of
cloth. It was late August, and the water was as warm as it ever gets in
the Great Lakes. Jim relaxed in the cool water, enjoying the pleasant
relief it offered from the 90 degree air inland. The surf broke around
him, occasionally lifting him off his feet as he watched his wife slowly
wade out to him.
Eva yelled briefly as she lost her balance in the surge, then came up
grinning. "I've never been where there's surf before," she said. "This
is fun."
"That's why I brought you here," Jim said, grinning as she shook her wet
hair out of her face. "Want to try body surfing?"
"I don't know, is it safe?"
"Watch. Get used to the feel of the water while I show you."
The surf on the Great Lakes isn't usually high enough for serious body
surfing, but you can ride an occasional wave. There was a brisk breeze
blowing towards the shore, so the surf was high enough that Jim had fun
showing Eva how to do it. Fifteen minutes later, Eva had found her wave
and let it wash her onto the fine sand of the beach. She laughed as she
sat up and let the next wave wash the sand off her front.
"You OK?" Jim called, not sure she could hear him over the sound of the
surf.
"Sure," she called as she got up and waded out towards him. "That was
fun," she said when she was close enough to talk without yelling. "I've
got sand in my bikini, though, ugh."
"Take off your suit and clean it out," Jim suggested.
"What?" she said.
"Who's to see," Jim asked, scanning the empty beach. "We're a quarter
mile from the nearest people, and you're under water; there's nothing to
be modest about..." Jim lost his balance to a wave, and when he came up
Eva was laughing at him.
He grinned as he saw her bend down to take off her swimsuit's bottom and
then wade out into deeper water before taking off the top. As she undid
the bow that held it on, she lost her balance to another wave. She came
up sputtering and yelling something.
Jim couldn't make out what she was yelling until he got closer. "I let go
of my swimsuit when that damn wave hit," she said, looking angry.
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