They hadn't been able to come for Carina's birthday, but Lucia and Jerry had come for Jordan's second.
They slept at Maya and Carina's house. Everyone had been invited. Jordan had been given far more presents than were necessary, especially at her age and especially by her mothers. The party had taken place on Saturday the twenty-seventh, the evening before Jordan's birthday, and only the five of them had attended.
On Saturday, they had all arrived for lunch. Maya watched Jack playing with Jordan in the pool, still unable to expose herself and not particularly wanting to, she could have worn a one-piece swimsuit, but under her arm and across her chest the scars were still visible.
Carina was in a two-piece, and had come up behind her, slipped her hands over her belly and talked into her ear.
-"Are you jealous of Jack? Would you like to be the one playing in the pool with Zita?" Of course it was that, but Maya didn't like to show her jealousy in front of her wife.
-"Actually... I was just thinking..." Maya had turned her head and come to speak in her ear.
"...that everyone was in the pool when ten days ago we were making love in it..."
- "oh you mean when you had me clinging to the ledge while you showed me your talents?"
- "I was thinking more about when you made me sit on the ledge... That your body was still in the water... And that your mouth was between my thighs... You put so much passion into every time..."
- "giving you orgasms is a real passion..."
- "I thought I understood that when, once I'd come, you got out of the water and made love to me on the edge of the pool."
-"There are too many people at home for this conversation... Especially as there are my parents... And your mother..."
-"Jordan plays... The girls are asleep... Everyone seems busy..."
- "don't tempt me."
- "You know that with your mother and Jerry in the next room... We'll have to be very quiet... Much quieter than with the girls in our room."
-"Baby... We've got like twenty people in our house... Do you really think none of them are going to notice we're gone?"
- "Last year we did..."
-"Yes, and Andy saw right away that we'd made love... Dance with me instead..."
Maya had rolled over in her wife's arms. She'd slipped her hands over her shoulders and they'd started to slow dance, not even paying attention that the music playing wasn't a slow dance.
"Capo Battaglione ti amo tantissimo..."
Maya had slipped her hand down the back of her neck and had come to kiss Carina.
- "you know I'm not yet?"
- "I know it's going to be a lot harder than «capitano» moaning when we make love.... I'm already having trouble concentrating on that one..."
- "you know I won't have a captain's room to make love in anymore?"
- "You know I don't need a bed? Your desk... Even your desk chair... Anything will do..."
Carina had caressed her wife's buttock.
- "mommmyyyyy bathtub !!!"
Maya had turned around with a huge smile.
- "it's not a bathtub sweetheart, it's the pool"
- "pool mommy"
- "baby... Go ahead... Bathe in your tank top... Since the beginning of summer, she's wanted you to swim with her... If I have the privilege..." Carina whispered in her ear, kissing her jaw.
