Chapter 7

I walked into the dining room of the lodge, and hung my raincoat up on the coat rack. Albert and Edna were sitting at the table next to the kitchen and waved at me to come and join them. Judith was sitting to the left of Edna, working on a plate of pancakes. I grabbed myself a cup of coffee and sat down across from the three of them. Albert was just finishing a bowl of cereal, and Edna was just sipping coffee.

"Pretty drippy day today, eh?" Edna observed.

"Yeah," I replied, stirring some cream into my coffee. "Is the rain supposed to last long?"

Albert looked up from his cereal and said, "It should clear up by tomorrow."

I glanced over at Judith, and noticed her watching me. She really had a pretty face. I hadn't paid much attention to her before, but she looked especially nice this morning. Maybe it was because she looked like she was wearing just a little hint of makeup.

"We've noticed how much time you've been spending with Audrey," Edna started, looking me right in the eye.

Oh shit!! I thought. This didn't sound good. I sat there and stared at Edna for a second, paralyzed. I began to imagine the trouble I could be in if they suspected that I was boinking young Audrey. I took a deep breath and fought down the rising panic.

"Oh, it really hasn't been all that much time." I said. My life was starting to flash in front of my eyes.

"Well, we saw you out on the sailboat with her, and she was telling us how you've been teaching her about setting up the network and all..." Edna continued. I happened to glance over at Judith. She was sensuously licking at the syrup that was about to drip off a forkful of pancakes poised before her mouth. Then she put the forkful in her mouth and slowly chewed while she finally made eye contact with me. I blinked in disbelief. I looked back at Edna and Albert.

Edna took a sip of coffee and went on. "... and we just couldn't help but notice."

My mind was racing. Were Edna and Albert trying to give me a friendly warning? Or would they tell Louise that I spent my entire vacation sniffing around her gorgeous young niece? Maybe I'd just wind up at the bottom of the lake in cement overshoes. Who knows with this family? I took a sip of coffee and glanced nervously back at Judith, trying to act nonchalant. Judith had put her index finger in her mouth to slowly lick the syrup off of it. To me, it looked like she was fellating her finger. Everything was starting to happen in slow motion, it seemed.

I couldn't help but notice that Judith's clingy top was cut low enough to show off the tops of her breasts. They weren't large, but were nicely shaped, and I wondered why I hadn't noticed them before. Judith was also wearing a black choker, which caught my eye for some reason. I wrestled my attention back to the conversation I was having with Edna.

"Oh, I think Audrey was just a little bored, and I was just teaching her how to sail the Princess." I started. My eyes darted from Albert, who was drinking the sugar sludge from his cereal bowl, seemingly oblivious to the conversation, to Edna, stirring her coffee, to Judith, who now had another forkful of pancakes in front of her mouth, and was pouting. The tip of her pink tongue delicately lapped the dab of syrup from the pancakes. I thought I saw it gently part the layers of the pancakes, and give the crease a subtle flick.

Wow, I thought, did I actually just see that, or am I just so freaked out that I'm starting to see things?

"Well, we just think it's wonderful of you to take the time to give Audrey sailing lessons, and teach her some skills that she can use in life." Edna said to me as she reached over and gave my free hand a squeeze.