Something Wild by Hanna Halperin

Author:Hanna Halperin [Halperin, Hanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

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“HOW OLD DO YOU THINK THEY WERE?” Nessa asked after they jumped in the pool.

“Twenties?” Tanya floated on her back, her toes emerging from the water.

“How old do you think they thought we were?”

“Old,” Tanya said. “You definitely. With your boobs.”

“They are kind of massive.” Nessa glanced down at her chest. “I don’t get it. Just two lumps of fat. What’s the big deal.”

“I get it,” Tanya said, and she gazed thoughtfully at Nessa’s breasts. “They’re pretty.”

Nessa looked down again and pulled at her suit, so that her right breast popped out. It did look pretty, soft and plump, half-submerged in water.

Tanya watched Nessa and as though she had dared her, Tanya pulled her bikini top over her head. They both started to laugh, and in one fluid motion Nessa pulled down her suit and Tanya pulled off her bottoms and they threw their bathing suits over to the side of the pool.

“I feel so free,” Nessa said, twirling in slow circles, the water kissing her all over.

Tanya hoisted herself out of the pool. She stood naked and dripping on the edge and Nessa watched her, transfixed by her sister’s body—the beautiful neatness of it: the one-inch valley of space between her breasts; the gentle slopes of her hips; her belly button, a dainty moon-shaped blip. Tanya had always treated her body as something to be honed and perfected, something to be looked at and admired, but from a distance. Nessa felt not envy, looking at her sister’s body, but pride.

Tanya glanced at the door and Nessa could tell her sister wanted someone to walk in. The men from the elevator. Or any man really.

Then Tanya arched her back and stretched her arms over her head. She dove, disappearing into the pool so gracefully that when she broke the water, it was almost soundless.

“What do you think those guys would do if they walked in right now?” Nessa asked Tanya after she came back up.

“I don’t know.” Tanya glanced again at the door. “Maybe they’d swim with us.”

Nessa looked down at her naked body, flickering under the shimmering blue. The details were obscured, but her shape was there. Nobody had ever looked at her the way those men in the elevator had, as though they had wanted to touch her.

“What if no guy ever wants to have sex with me?” Nessa said, and though she meant it as a joke, out of nowhere her eyes were wet and her nose was burning and she wasn’t sure how she’d gone so quickly from happy to hopeless.

“Of course guys will want to have sex with you,” Tanya said. “You just have to wait and find the right one.”

Nessa nodded. She was tired of waiting. She knew her imagination so well that the stories she made up in her head no longer excited her. She had thought about the server from her father’s wedding too many times for him to still be an actual person. Now he was just an extension

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