For many weeks after the first time I got wet while wearing jeans with Rick at the construction site,
we talked about how much fun it was.
But we never did anything more about it because it seemed a little wrong to us
and we knew we'd get in trouble with our parents if we deliberately got our clothes wet.
But every time we talked about the incident we resolved we had to somehow find a way to do it again.
One weekend we were riding our bikes and stopped as we rode over a bridge near our houses that crossed a small stream.
That was it! We'd never thought about the stream and yet it was only a half mile from our houses.
We immediately agreed that the following weekend we would go exploring in the stream if the weather was OK.
All that week I could think of nothing else and I know Rick thought of it too.
I mean we were deliberately going to go wading in the stream in our T-shirts, jeans and sneakers.
We were going to do it Saturday when our parents were going to be out shopping.
That morning I was very excited and called Rick to reconfirm
and ask if he was really just going to wear jeans and not shorts.
He said yeah and I ran to my closet to pick out which jeans to wear.
I knew right away which ones I would wear, my faded and ripped jeans from eighth grade which I knew would be very tight.
I tried them on and struggled to pull them up, not realizing how much I had grown in the two years since I bought them.
They were so tight I took them off and tried them back on without my underwear, and it felt good.
I looked in the mirror as I tucked my white T-shirt into the supertight jeans, worrying that Rick would think I was weird.
But it felt so good I just decided to wear them anyway. Jeans and T-shirt, what a cool outfit for swimming!
Rick came over and I saw that he was in some old jeans too, almost as tight as mine, and a black T-shirt.
I wanted to say something like it looks like you had the same idea as me,
but it seemed too stupid and I was a little embarrassed.
We walked to the stream, talking about how wet we'd get; up to our ankles, knees, thighs or waists.
When we got to the stream we walked along the edge for a while looking for the right spot to go wading.
Somehow it just didn't seem right to walk right into the water in our street clothes,
even if we had deliberately worn old jeans; we needed some excuse to get wet.
We found it right away. There were a series of little islands, some of them not much more than big rocks,
in the center of the stream, and Rick said "Let's go over to that island".
With a particular mission now agreed, we both stepped into the water, instantly soaking our Nikes and socks,
getting wet up to our ankles.
The water felt good squishing in my shoes and we sunk a little into the mud.
We took a few more steps and Rick and I looked at each other, grinning like crazy, because we both knew this was fun.
We asked each other how deep we would go as we kept wading toward the first little island.
By now we were up to our knees and the island was just a few feet away.
The water made my jeans leg heavy and I liked the feeling.
In fact the anticipation of getting even wetter was turning me on and I was definitely excited.
We got to the island and we knew we wanted to go farther.
The next island downstream was only 20 feet away but the water looked deeper.
We both said let's try it and we waded close together,
sometimes holding onto each other to make sure we didn't slip on the muddy bottom.
We were halfway there when the water level was just below our waistline.
We stopped. My heart was pounding.
Rick and I looked at each other, checking to make sure the other wanted to go deeper.
We knew the next step would get our jeans completely wet.
We were both thrilled about the prospect of getting completely soaked and weren't even trying to hide it from each other.
"Chet, you wanna get more wet?" said Rick and I said yeah.
The bottom was slippery here and the current stronger so I held onto the beltloops of Rick's jeans waist.
We took the next step together.
It was deeper than we thought and we both went in about four inches deeper,
with the water just reaching our T-shirts.
It felt so good to have the water swirl around my body,
and feel the denim that was clinging to every part of my body.
We both were breathing heavily cause we were excited.
We got to the island and climbed up.
I watched as Rick's shiny wet jeans clung to his legs and butt.
And I could almost feel his eyes looking at my jeans crotch,
with the wet clinging jeans outlining how excited I was.
We stood up on the little island, admiring our wet jeans and knew we had to tackle the next island.
We started wading toward it and realized we weren't going to make it there without getting totally wet.
As the water was now chest deep, soaking our T-shirts,
we just plunged into the stream, swimming and splashing.
It was a hot day so the water was pretty warm.
The current carried us to the island but Rick got there first and started climbing up
and once again I had a perfect view of his wet T-shirt clinging to his chest and back,
and his tight wet jeans.
I don't know why, but it just looked great and I couldn't control my joy.
It felt so unbelievably good that it almost took my breath away.
I scrambled up the rocks to find Rick lying on the top, sprawled out in his wet jeans and T-shirt,
with an embarrassed look on his face.
I said "Don't worry, you look cool." We both laughed and looked at our wet clothes, just totally messed up.
I would have been embarrassed, but since we both did it, it just seemed OK.
We both said there was just something exciting about getting wet in clothes, but we didn't know why.
We jumped back in the water, splashing and dunking each other.
We finally got out of the stream and we each said how cool the wet clingy and shiny T-shirts and jeans looked,
and we knew we were going to get wet again and again in our jeans.