There was another lightning strike, followed soon after by another deafening boom. Shortly after that, I could feel the wind pick up significantly. The tent began to shake and the trees rustled loudly. Then the rain started. It was light at first, rapping gently against the tent, but it soon picked up, and, before long, it was coming down really hard. It was suddenly deafeningly loud in the tent and starting to get a little scary.
After what must have been at least five minutes of incredibly heavy rain, I grabbed a flashlight and pointed it outside. I could see that the rain had been coming down so hard and fast that it was causing significant pooling and runoff. Thankfully, there was a bit of a slope to the bluff we were on and the tall trees behind us were providing some amount of cover from both the rain and the wind. I began to worry about Hannah and Mei, though. Their tent was much more exposed and was lower on the bank than ours. It also wasn’t nearly as well put together or secured. It was just a little pup tent for backpackers.
Shortly after that, I heard one of them scream. I immediately grabbed the flashlight and unzipped our tent. I was still entirely naked, but there wasn’t time to worry about that. I splashed through the puddles in my bare feet until I got to the edge of the bluff overlooking their campsite. When I pointed the flashlight down, I was shocked to see that their tent was no longer where it had been. I couldn’t see it anywhere. I could see both women, though. Hannah was standing where the tent had been, completely naked. She looked confused or in a daze. Mei, also completely naked, was pulling on her arm, screaming at her, trying to get her to move. They were standing in what looked to be at least six inches of fast moving water that was flowing from the higher part of the bluff down toward the river.
Without thinking, I ran down to them, slipping several times on the way and catching myself with my hands while trying hard not to drop the flashlight. When I got to them, Mei immediately hugged me, thankful for the light and for something to grab onto. She screamed, “our tent was washed away… we barely got out!”
I shouted back to her, making sure she could hear me over the din of the rain and wind, “you’ve got to come back to our tent; we have to get out of this.” I grabbed them both by the arms and began leading them back up to our tent. Hannah seemed to snap out of her daze long enough to follow my lead. When we eventually got back up to our tent, Emily was waiting for us at the tent entrance. She had turned on our mini-lantern and had two towels (our only two towels) out and ready to dry us off.
When we finally all piled into the tent, we took turns drying off. But for the towels, all of us were completely naked. I was the last to dry off, but as soon as I was done, I gave the towel back to Mei so she could use it to cover up. Hannah had the other towel wrapped around her shoulders and seemed to be slowly returning to lucidity. I’m sure it helped that the storm seemed to be subsiding outside. The wind had all but died and the rain had quieted down to a trickle. We saw another flash of lightning, but it took a long time for the thunderclap to follow, and it wasn’t nearly as loud as before.
“All of our stuff was in the tent,” Hannah said when she finally spoke. “Our clothes, our phones, our car keys…”
“I think there’s a good chance we can find all that stuff in the morning, once it’s light outside,” I said, trying to sound reassuring. “But I wouldn’t recommend looking for it now.”
“Definitely not,” Mei said, “we’re not going out there again.” And after a pause she looked up at me and said, “I’m just so thankful you were here.” She then looked over at Emily and reached out to grab her hand, “both of you.”
Once the chaos had passed and the adrenaline had worn off, the bizarreness of our situation began to dawn on everyone. There were now four of us in a tent so small that it was unclear if we could even all lie down simultaneously. All of us were still naked and two of us didn’t even have clothes to change into. Moreover, the temperature was still uncomfortably hot and the heavy rain had left the air at nearly 100% humidity, so I doubted anyone had any strong desire to put more clothes on. On top of that, only a couple of hours had passed since we retired to our tents, so we were all still feeling the effects of the drinks and the edibles, particularly the latter.
And in my specific case, I was still feeling the effects of the viagra. After the immediate commotion had passed, I became keenly aware that I was in a very small tent with three naked, incredibly sexy women, all of whom I’d heard orgasm just a couple of hours earlier. I could already feel things stirring.
Not knowing what else to do, I reached into my bag and pulled out the small bottle of Jameson whiskey I’d brought with me. It was still unopened. I figured a drink might help calm people’s nerves and might serve to dull my own senses a bit. We didn’t have any cups, so I unscrewed the cap and offered the whole bottle to Hannah first, as she looked like she needed it the most. She smiled and immediately took a big drag from the bottle before handing it to Mei. Mei did the same and then handed it to Emily. Emily was not a big fan of whiskey, especially when it wasn’t mixed into something, but she made an exception under the circumstances. She took a sizable drag before handing the bottle back to me. I immediately followed suit.
We ended up passing the bottle around a few more times, until it was completely empty. It wasn’t a large bottle, so we probably didn’t have more than the equivalent of a couple of drinks a piece, but we downed it pretty quickly, and it definitely went straight to our heads.
Pretty soon the mood in the tent had turned. The tension and stress were gone, replaced by laughter and disbelief at the absurdity of our situation. Hannah cast her towel off completely, noting that it was like a sauna in the tent. Mei did the same. Under the circumstances, I couldn’t help but focus on the one part of their bodies that I hadn’t been able to see clearly before, the part below the waist. Neither of them were shaved bare like Emily was. Mei had a thin, closely trimmed landing strip, whereas Hannah had what looked like a nearly full bush. I found it a little amusing that she had way more hair down there than she had on her head, but it was somehow also very sexy, maybe just because it was so rare these days. I couldn’t remember ever being with a woman who didn’t at least significantly trim that area. It was like something out of a 70s adult movie.
It was then, as my eyes lingered a little too long on their naked bodies, that I felt myself lose control. I was getting an erection and there was no stopping it. I tried not to draw attention to it, tried to obscure it with my arms, but with the viagra coursing through my system, there was no stopping the cascade. It just kept growing and, after a few seconds, I was sporting a serious erection.
Hannah was the first to notice. “Oh my god,” she exclaimed, “that’s amazing! You know I’ve never seen one of those in real life, at least in that… condition?”