Of course I knew what was coming and I kept an eye on the interaction between Zoe and Jenny figuring that's where it all would start. So it caught me by surprise when, while wrestling with Kate sitting on the hunk she'd chosen for her partner I suddenly felt my bikini top strings being pulled. Automatically, as you do, I let out a squeal as I turned half around and found we were being set upon by Jenny sitting on Brad's neck. Brad already had Greg's shorts well down his thighs. I grabbed Jenny's bikini top string between the triangles and put the other arm around her back, looking for support as I also fumbled around for the knot.
By now she had both my pants knots untied too and Greg was immobile with his pants around his knees; unable even to turn to confront Brad. As Brad backed away, he pulled us off balance, pulling me tumbling back against Brad and Jenny; but because I had an arm around Jenny's shoulder and a hand clamped firmly on her bikini top string but my legs were still hooked over Greg's shoulders, I was for a moment suspended between the two. The mental picture flashed into my mind of Jenna at Christmas were she'd been suspended in a similar position with her pants untied, only her rug of pubic hair partly masking a prolonged detailed display of her gynaecological features. I was devoid of pubic hair and I could feel my pants weren't covering me, so just hoped the poor light would compensate. Brad continued to back off, eventually tipping Greg over too. As my full weight was applied to the arm around Jenny's shoulder and the hand around her bikini top string I eventually unbalanced Jenny and pulled her down with me.
Naturally with all the strings untied both parts of my bikini simply floated of as I fell. I was determined not to be the only naked person in this group, so as we landed together in the water I was already wrestling about with Jenny, succeeding in untying the rest of her bikini. Meanwhile Greg had completely lost his pants to Brad; who finished by tossing them over his shoulder in the dark somewhere towards the shore.
I figured Brad needed a quick payback, so ganged up on him with Greg to get Brad's pants off him; although I don't doubt he wished a woman other than his sister had claimed his pants. Jenny in the meantime had abandoned her partner to go after her sister Zoe. Zoe had heard the commotion made by me so knew she was coming, but a single person is more agile than a stacked couple and even with her partner helping defend her, Zoe's pants strings were soon untied and she found herself tipped off; whereupon Jenny completed the job. After that it was on for young and old. I was surprised how many, seeing what had happened simply joined in the process, immediately having a stripping wrestle with whoever they'd been engaged with. Others took a little longer to comprehend what was happening and like Greg and I at Christmas tended to stand back and watch, thinking it would all ignore them – which of course it didn't. But for the most part, the whole process spread out from Zoe and Jenny like a wave as those who had been stripped – not bothering to remount their partner - simply moved to the next couple and ganged up to strip them too.
As for me I initially did a quick look for my bikini hoping at least to chuck it somewhere I could find it, but having been separated from it as I fell and then wrestled with Brad I quickly found I had no hope of finding it in the dark. And as more swimwear was floating about or could be felt underfoot the chance of identifying yours even if you brushed past something became next to nothing. Besides which this time I wanted to join in the fun.
Because it was fun! It was fun tackling and stripping off both the girls and the guys. I was not by nature a tactile person. I didn't usually handle people; and especially in the extremely personal way you had to in order to get their swimmers off. This was all new to me.
Greg was my lover; stripping him one on one, was seriously sexual stuff, even if we were in a playful mood. That was different. OK so I'd had to strip Merc in the hogtie wrestle and Kate when she was sick, but that too wasn't the same – even though they had been strangely novel experiences at the time. That had also been serious; either competitively or in being concerned about Kate.
This was more voyeuristic, in its extreme maybe the sort of playfulness I wished I'd been brave enough to do before I met Greg. Mind you without him being there as my protector I'm still not sure I'd be a willing participant least things got out of control in a way I couldn't deal with. Whatever it was it was an enormous turn on. In the end I actually managed to be the one who pulled the pants on two guys and a girl – well above my entitlement and that wasn't counting Brad or Jenny. And the degree of body contact – and by that I mean every part of the body – that you tend to have between you and the person you are stripping was something I found an enormous turn-on. I even got to watch one of the guys I stripped crack a boner as I peeled his pants off his legs. If Christmas had been a hormonal miasma, this was a hormonal soup. By the time I was finished I was so randy that if I could have just slipped off with Greg for a quickie, I would have.
I didn't detect anyone – and I suppose I'm talking mainly about the girls here – who seriously objected to the stripping process. There were squeals and brief cries of "don't"; but – without for a minute detracting from the attitude that no means no - they were more the sound you instinctively make when someone pulls your bikini ties rather than indicative of a determination not to participate. Some may have stood back until they were engulfed by the process, but by the time it caught them they were ready for it.
But these were a less conservative type of young person compared to me. Three months ago I would have quickly got myself out of harm's way and probably screamed blue murder if I'd got caught up in something like this and in the process exempted myself from the fun and – I admit – hormonal excitement of participation. While Greg wasn't really all that different from me, with him and the experiences I'd had over the last few months it just all seemed natural.
In the end no-one escaped. We all ended up naked and with no hope of finding our swimwear in the dark. That would have to wait until morning. For a while the game of jousting restarted this time a naked version, then about half an hour later the first naked figures started emerging from the water – probably looking for another drink.
It didn't take long before a buzz came back to those in the water that attracted our attention. The clothes – clothes and towels – were all gone. In their place a note had been pinned on the door "Your clothes are safe. They will be returned in the morning". Great; a practical joker! Of course there was speculation and accusations about who it was and Zoe and Jenny had to be prime suspects. But everyone managed to deny it with a straight face. Most just got themselves a drink and didn't worry any more about it. Others went in search of the clothes; including a search of tents and car boots. But they weren't to be found.
So it turned out that those who just got on with drinking weren't any worse off than those who'd spent time searching. As one by one we collected back on the deck out back, it presented a strange sight. I suppose it's what a nudist colony is always like, but you just had all these naked young people standing around talking and drinking, trying to pretend it was natural and not look silly doing it. Plus it was lucky it was such a warm night so that even the lack of towels for drying was little more than a minor inconvenience.
That was helped a little by the light; or more specifically by the lack of it. Even up here on the deck those two spotlights and a bit of light spill out of the living room were the only sources of illumination. The parts of your body facing the light shone like beacons, the part facing away from it were in deep shadow and the features were barely discernable. So maybe it was not all that surprising that, without any fuss or apparent effort being made towards that end, nearly everyone in a conversation ended up facing away from the house; conversation circles being more in the shape of shallow arcs, with people bending their heads forward to talk to someone at the other end of the arc.
If you were in an arc closest to the house then the view that presented itself to you looking down towards the water was a sea of bare bottoms. Of course if you needed to go into the house for a drink or something else you exposed yourself to the full glare of the house lighting; so maybe it wasn't surprising that no-one was actually loitering in the house.
Still I did start to grow uncomfortable with the lack of any clothing. Even just pants would have been nice; after all my brothers were at this party too. At first I'd forgotten about my spare bikini in the car; but even when I remembered it, I was forced to confront the question of whether I wanted to be the only one with clothes. I was voluntarily part of this group, by the hand of fate (in the form of some joker) we were all naked; while I felt uncomfortable, should I turn myself into the only one who was not?
Surprisingly Kate was the one who answered the question for me; suddenly appearing in a G String and cami, probably originally intended as sleeping attire. I have to concede they didn't hide much; the G String speaks for itself and the cami was so brief, plunging and loose that you only had to stand next to her to see everything that was otherwise hidden by it. Still Kate always keeps me guessing. I would have thought she was one of the least inhibited girls I knew. Certain anyone sitting on the beach on a big surf day while she's out can be fairly certain of getting a glimpse of her boobs and that's never seemed to bother her in the slightest, so I might have guessed nakedness wasn't a big deal to her.
When Kate donning some extra clothes didn't seem to create any issue with the group it gave me the courage to give Greg a nudge and tell him I was going to get my spare bikini. He came along and put on his spares too; a pair of speedos covered by a brief loose very light pair of swim shorts. When we returned to the party it was at first as though nothing had changed. Once or twice we had to explain the lucky fact we'd had spares in the car, but that was all.