As it was, I didnât hear the end of it, anyway.
Weâd finished breakfast and were on our way to our next errand when she asked, âSo⦠how big is it?â
âLike I said, too big for you.â
âIâll be the judge of that. Do some women not like it? Does it, like, not even fit inside them?â
âWould you please shut the FUCK UP.â
âWhatever. Iâm gonna find out sooner or later, even if I have to barge in on you while youâre taking a shower. Although the waterâs so fucking cold, Iâm sure thereâll be shrinkage.â
She spoke mostly in Italian, so the sentence was, âSono sicuro che ci sarà qualche shrinkage.â
Just like âboomer,â I didnât recognize the English word.
ââ¦shrinkage?â
âYou know â shrinkage.â She altered her voice as though imitating a frantic man. ââI just got back from swimming in the pool, Jerry, and the water was cold. There was significant shrinkage â like a frightened turtle!ââ
âWhoâs Jerry?â
She stared at me like Iâd said Iâd come from the lost city of Atlantis. âSeinfeld?! Kramer?! Elaine?! George Costanza?!â
âI have no idea who any of those people are.â
âItâs a fuckinâ television show, dude! One of the most famous ones ever!â
âWhen was it on?â
âI donât know â like, the 1990s or something.â
âIf it was the early 1990s, that was before I was born,â I said scornfully.
âYeah, well, it was before I was born, too, and Iâve still seen it.â
âThatâs because you like to waste your time.â
âHow dare you,â she said in a deadpan voice.
I opened the door to a shop. âIn here.â
The place was a clothing store. During the winter, it transformed into a ski shop with cold-weather attire â ski jackets, bibs, overalls, and parkas. During the summer, though, it stocked up on clothes for hiking in the mountains.
âUmâ¦â Lucia said, staring around at the racks of clothing.
âWhat?â
ââ¦Iâm good. I donât need anything.â
âYou canât go walking around the forest dressed in designer clothes. Especially in those shoes. One of those heels is going to break any second.â
âWell, theyâre not made for freakinâ cobblestone,â she said contemptuously.
âAnd theyâre really not made for dirt paths in the woods.â
ââ¦fine⦠whatever,â she muttered.
An older woman with rosy cheeks and blonde braids came over. She wore jeans and a simple sweatshirt with âPadola Skiâ on it. âHello, how can I help you?â
âWe need clothes for her,â I said. âAnd boots.â
âWhat size?â the woman asked Lucia.
â35,â she replied â which was the European size and very small. The average Italian womanâs shoe size ranged from 38 to 42.
The woman laughed. âI think we might have something in the junior section.â
âKIDSâ shoes?!â Lucia exclaimed in disbelief.
âJust go with it,â I ordered.
She glared at me, then followed the woman to the childrenâs shoe aisle.
After some complaining â at which point I reminded her that she was going to wear them for a week at most and could throw them away after that â she settled on some girlâs brown hiking boots.
âWeâre also going to need three or four daysâ worth of clothes,â I told the woman.
âEverything?â she asked. âSocks, underwear â â
âEverything.â
âIâm fine with what Iâve got on,â Lucia snapped.
âMaybe today, but six days from now?â
âYou just said three or four days!â
âOf outfits. We could be here for a couple of weeks.â
Lucia glared at me, then turned to the saleslady and grumbled, âAlright, what about underwear?â
âWe donât have much,â the woman said as she pointed to a rack. âJust these â â
âGRANNY PANTIES?!â Lucia yelled. âOh HELL no!â
âYou donât have to wear them if you donât want to, but at least get them,â I snapped.
âWhat about you?â she challenged me. âYou ever gonna change your boxers?â
âYes, I am. Iâve got more back at the house.â
âWhy didnât you change them this morning, then?â
âBecause a very annoying person was in the room with me.â
Lucia smirked as she remembered. ââ¦oh yeah⦠okay, fine, whatever, but Iâm not wearing them unless itâs the end of the world.â
âBetter to have them and not need them, than need them and not have them.â
âBetter to not wear them at all,â she retorted.
She picked out three sports bras, four t-shirts, four long-sleeve tops made of cotton, two yoga pants, a package of socks, and an insulated jacket that could withstand both 50-degree nights and rainfall.
And the granny panties.
I also got a small JanSport backpack for her to carry all of that in, along with two five-gallon containers for water and some canteens.
While I was gathering the other supplies, she came out of the dressing room wearing the boots, black yoga pants, and a light blue top.
She looked different from âhigh fashionâ Lucia â but she still looked amazing. Everything was tight enough that it showed off her amazing ass.
âI kind of like this,â she said as she checked herself out in the mirror.
âYou look very pretty,â the blonde woman complimented her.
âThank you,â Lucia said, then looked at me and said teasingly, âDo I look pretty, Massimo?â
ââ¦you look nice,â I grumbled.
âI guess thatâs something,â she said drily, then turned to the woman. âDo you have anything for my hair? Scrunchies or clips?â
I paid the woman in cash. By the time we walked out, Luciaâs old clothes were inside a plastic bag, and her long hair was pulled back in a ponytail.
I couldnât walk behind her. The view was too much. I had to make sure I stayed right next to her.
I really like ponytails. I think theyâre sexy. My first girlfriend when I was a teenager wore a ponytail, and I kind of had a thing for them.
Watching the combination of Luciaâs hair bobbing along â and her gorgeous ass in yoga pants swaying back and forth as she walked â was way too much for me to handle.
I was gonna have to jerk off again when we got back to the house, I just knew it.