Julia drove to Bentley Park, and parked the car in a parking lot.
Lara opened the door, still nude, and began walking towards a dense grove of trees in the middle of the park.
"Oh my God Lara! You're naked!"
Lara didn't answer, but continued walking.
Julia followed her.
There were other people in the park, but no one close by. Even if anyone saw Lara, they were still too far away to get a good look at her.
As they entered into the grove of trees, Lara pointed. "This way!"
Under a thick shade of tall trees, the light grew dim and muffled the sound of cars driving along the roads nearby. They came to an area where the trees thinned, and came to a large, dense, overgrown shrub. Lara stopped and looked around.
"It's all overgrown now." She said.
"What is?" Julia asked.
Lara pointed towards the shrub. "Teresa and I used to come here".
"Oh." Julia answered.
Lara lifted up some branches and tried to maneuver her way through the leaves, trying carefully as she could to avoid being scratched by branches.
"Come on." She said to Julia.
Julia followed, while Lara pushed away branches and crouched down trying to find her way into the middle of the shrub.
"There." She pointed.
Lara and Julia were deep inside a tall growth of bushes and shrubs where there was an empty space of about six feet in diameter. A covering of dried leaves layered the ground. An old mattress rested in the middle.
"Teresa and I used to come here." Lara said pointing at the mattress.
Julia already knew what she meant.
Over the past few years Lara confided in Julia of the affair she had in middle school with Teresa. Lara told her of the times she and Teresa would come to the park to touch each other, but Julia always wondered where and how without being seen. Now she knew.
"We used to call this place the bushes" Lara explained.
"How did you get the mattress here?" Julia asked.
"We didn't. It was already here."
"Eww!" Julia made a face. "Weren't you worried about germs and bugs?"
"Back then, it wasn't like this. It looked more clean. Besides, we would lay our clothes on it first."
"But obviously someone else drug it here and used it before you guys." Julia countered.
"Well, we were just horny, that's all." Lara answered.
"This place looks scary!" Julia remarked.
"It's actually really peaceful. No one comes here."
The two stood there and looked around. Lara noted the tiny specs of sunlight that dotted the mattress and remembered the scenes of when she and Teresa would lay there nude together, clutching each other.
"You can hear the birds chirping, and the sound of the leaves rustling in the breeze." Lara said.
Julia looked down at the old mattress, "I don't think I'd want to touch that at all!"
Lara chuckled, and then looked at Julia.
Julia shook her head with a grin. "I can't believe you and Teresa here, on this old thing?"
Lara let out a laugh, and Julia giggled.
There was a pause again, while Lara looked at the mattress. "It's all dirty and moldy now." She said.
"You still haven't gotten over her have you?" Julia replied.
Lara just looked down, and then turned to look at Julia and smiled. "Let's go."
