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The Small Lake by the House Memory

There was a small lake by our home and I have the impression that the lake was indeed on our family property, so the only people that went to its shores were ourselves and our guests.  It was bright clear lake that the depth could be seen through to the bottom up to a certain depth level.  Several small streams fed this lake and a single small one emptied it.  It rarely froze over completely, but the edges would get hard enough for one to ice skate on it close to the shores.

In the summer time my siblings and I would play in it waters and the forest around it.  Due to the fear of losing a child to drowning, I believe that our parents made sure that we learned how to swim and when very small always had an adult present to watch when playing in its waters.  I don't recall having a pier into its waters.  All the boats we had were the kind that one pulled to shore or shoved into the water when needed.

The memory I recall today is during the summer time when the mornings were pleasantly warm and comfortable to lie in the sun.  I often liked to swim in the morning and then lie in the sun and dry off.  I often did this alone since my older brother was often busy elsewhere and seemed to have little time for me.

I am one of nine siblings and the second boy of the lot.  I believe that Wilhelmina is the oldest followed by Johann, then possibly Rose and another sister, then myself, followed by Eitel and three younger girls.  Eitel, not sure if her name is spelled correctly.  At first I wanted to call her Edsel, so I may have the spelling wrong or I may have shortened her name for some reason.  She is about a year younger than me and we seem to be very close.  The name sounds phonetically like "I tell".

Apparently, I liked to swim completely nude, which isn't much of a problem when it's your family's private lake, but it can be a problem when most of your siblings are female.  I am about fourteen years old and I have taken my swim and have climbed back onto the beach and have laid down on the blanket and pulled a towel over my groin.  Apparently, I feel asleep once and got my whole backside sun burnt, which made an impression upon me that getting sun all over might not be such a good idea.  So I let the lovely morning sun warm my skin and allow drowsy thoughts to prevail until I was asleep.  This is when the mischief begins.

Apparently, my sister Eitel had several girlfriends spending a couple of days with her and they also came down to the lake this morning to play.  I was suddenly awakened by the sensation that the towel had been pulled off rather quickly and girls giggling.  I turned to them as they started to run off and asked for my towel back.  One girl lingered kinda staring at me as I walked towards her and I realized that she was gaping at me because I was naked, so I politely put my hand over my groin and stepped closer and asked her for the towel.  She held out the towel to me and I took it and said thank you and turned and walked back to where I had been sun bathing.  I heard her take flight back to the other girls.  And I could hear the girls giggling and laughing.

Since I was awake again, I decided to take another swim.  The water felt cool and refreshing against my skin and when I felt subtly tired and a bit cooled down, I returned to my comfortable location for napping in the sun.  I kept thinking about the girl.

She was dressed in what looked like a nightgown.  As a matter of fact I think all the girls were wearing their nightgowns to swim in.  I thought to myself how impractical that was and that they would be better off just taking their clothing off to swim. I also must admit I did find it amusing to watch them come out of the water with the wet nightshirts stuck to their bodies basically showing off most of their lovely forms. I don't think my brother Johann ever came down and swam when the girls were around.  He was such a prude.  He never swam nude either.

I continued to think about Eitel's friend that had taken the towel and lingered to give it back to me.  She had long light brown hair that was parted down the middle and had the sides draped up in the back with a pin.  She was rather pretty and the look on her face was deliciously shocked.  This really amused me for some reason and I continued to think about her as I fell asleep again lying on my back.  Now my advice would be, if you are a fourteen year old boy naked on the beach thinking about a girl lying on your back with just a towel covering your groin, don't do it.  It's going to be embarrassing.

The girls came back and this time they found….a tent like structure.  Please understand that 19^th Century girls are nosey and curious in nature, and well they had to know why things were different this time.  This time the girls were not as quiet as the first time and I woke up just as they had gathered around to grab the towel.  Eitel was standing off to the side laughing and clutching her sides from laughing too hard.  I played a bit of a tug of war with the girls for the towel, and eventually I won, but not after the girls all got a good look at what they were so curious about.  At this point I decided I would get no peace and that it was getting late and I should return back to the house (schloss?).  I had a riding lesson that afternoon, and I never missed riding lessons.

The girls were back on their area of the beach so I folded up my blanket and wrapped my towel around my waste and walked towards the spot in the forest where I always laid my clothing.  I had put my underwear and trousers on and was starting to button up my shirt when she appeared again.  It was the girl with the long light brown hair that had stopped and gave up the towel.  She walked towards me navigating through the forest growth in her white night shirt.  She looked a little nervous and said that the other girls had dared her to come here and ask me a question.

"And what would that question be?" I replied with a smile so that she would not be so uncomfortable.  She was awfully pretty and was one of my sister's best friends.  I liked her very much, but I seldom got the chance to spend any time with her.

"Uh," she stammered and looked down at the ground, "We want to know how or I guess why,  you, uh er," she swallowed hard and finally gestured with her right hand towards me and said, "you changed size down there?"  And she looked me sheepishly in the eye.  "One of the girls said that the warm sunlight would do that to you."

I took this delightfully amusing turn of events and replied to her as I gently took her hand with my left hand and placed her flat open palm on my bare chest, "It is not the warmth of the sun that does that to me, but the warmth of your touch against my bare skin."   My heart was pounding under her hand.  She seemed to blush as I stepped closer to her holding her hand against my bare chest and leaned towards her kissing her cheek and gently caressing her face with my right hand.  I slowly worked my kisses towards her soft lips.  She did not move away.  I looked her in the eyes after kissing her on the lips.  I was not sure what she wanted.  She did not step away when I kissed her again and she finally responded in kind.  Our kisses grew more passionate and I slowly moved her hand down my chest and finally upon my groin where she gently explored what she had been so curious about.  This really got me going and I found the courage to put my hand upon her breasts, and well, you can use your imagination about how one thing led to another.

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