and we drifted off together. We slept for a couple hours, incredibly, and awoke to a setting sun.

"Hello," he said as I looked up at him.

"Hello."

"You are beautiful," he said, as he kissed my forehead, me still snuggling with his chest.

"So are you." I replied, as I kissed his chest.

"C'mon. Let's go for a swim and get cleaned up," he offered. "Then, I'll make us some dinner."

We approached the water, and I quickly realized that this would not be an incredibly pleasant experience. I was no fan of cold water, and this stream was quite cold. Still, we both needed to clean up, and there were certainly no showers close by, so the stream it was!

"Just go completely under, and it won't seem so cold," he offered, noticing that I was wrestling with my aversion to cold water.

"Yeah, ok."

Then, he took my hand and pulled me into his arms. With his arms now firmly embracing me, the fucker fell backward into the stream, dragging me down with him. The cold water felt like it was separating my soul from my body. I can't remember the last time my body was exposed to such cold water, and I came up spitting and sputtering, and he was laughing.

"Aw, you are going to get it!" I threatened.

"I'm sorry," he offered. "But, doesn't it feel better, now?"

Oddly, my body did seem to be adjusting to the cold water, and it felt refreshing. It was incredible being in the stream nude, and as he pulled me to him and I wrapped my legs around his hips, we locked lips and spent the next hour or so just making out and enjoying each other in the stream.

"I'm getting hungry. How 'bout I start a fire and make us some dinner." he said.

"Sure. That sounds great."

As he led me out of the stream, all I could think about was how just the first few hours were so much more than I could have imagined! This just wasn't what I was expecting at all, and now I felt like I had known Jay my whole life. I couldn't imagine ever being apart from him again.