VII
"Are you doing anything this evening?" Clarissa asked Charlotte as the two colleagues prepared to return home after a full day at work. Clarissa was pulling on a dress which like all her clothes looked awkward over her full round breasts and buttocks. Charlotte, who had always had more of a sense of style still found it strange becoming accustomed to wearing less clothes than she did before. She buttoned up the black silk blouse which was all she was currently wearing. As it was a warm day, she also had a pair of loose shorts, which she found more comfortable when not wearing knickers.
"No, I've got nothing planned," admitted Charlotte, who in fact rather dreaded going home. Who would Emma and Harriett be making love with tonight? she wondered.
"In that case I'll take you to the Haworth," announced Clarissa. "It's a naturist wine bar near here. We can have a drink and a chat."
"Ooh, that'd be a nice idea," Charlotte admitted. It certainly meant she'd be absolved of acting as a voyeur this evening. "Does it cost anything to go in?"
"Of course not," Clarissa assured her. "But you
must
take your clothes off."
After working all day with no clothes, this seemed quite natural to Charlotte. In fact, the sight of a man or woman wearing clothes now seemed almost odd to her. Clarissa led Charlotte down a few quiet back streets in the town centre to a fairly anonymous street, near a delicatessen and a shop selling apparently nothing but lamp-shades where there was the sign,
The Haworth
, just above a staircase which led down below street level. Nothing of the wine bar was visible from the street, and in fact it didn't really seem very inviting. It certainly wasn't the sort of place where Charlotte would normally choose to go.
Charlotte followed Clarissa down the steps, to a more inviting place than she'd expected. It was well-lit with subtly attractive decor and the people inside were indeed wearing no clothes. The large black gentleman at the door was also naked (or at least what was visible over the counter). "We'll have to leave our clothes here," Clarissa announced. The two girls undressed and handed their clothes to the gentleman. Charlotte was about to retrieve her handbag, but Clarissa signalled that it wasn't necessary: "You buy everything on tab here," she explained.
There weren't that many people in the bar. There was a group of four men in the corner drinking beers and looking well at ease in their nudity. They glanced at Charlotte and Clarissa as they entered, but in a fairly neutral fashion. A man and woman were chatting in the corner and held their hands together over the table. They had eyes only for each other. Clarissa went to the bar to be greeted by a bar-girl wearing only a welcoming smile.
"The same as always, Clarissa?" the bar-girl asked.
"Yes, of course, Emily," Clarissa answered. "And what are you having, Charlotte?"
"Oh, an orange juice I think," she answered.
"Nothing stronger?" wondered Clarissa quizzically, but this was what Emily poured into a glass which shone an orange triangle onto her apple-shaped breasts. She then made a note on a piece of paper of the purchases.
The girls chose a table which seemed unnecessarily hidden for such a relatively quiet place. While they chatted about work and colleagues, Charlotte gazed about the room examining the other customers as they entered. Clarissa did much the same, but in a decidedly predatory manner.
Charlotte was soon tempted to have a glass of wine, which seemed to go straight through her, so she soon had to go to the toilet. It was a very clean toilet, but nonetheless bizarre in that there were no doors in the cubicles. No need for modesty here, reflected Charlotte as she brushed through her long hair with her hands.
When Charlotte got back, she found that they were no longer unaccompanied, as Clarissa was talking apparently animatedly with a young man who was seated on a stool by their table. "Oh hello, Charlotte," smiled Clarissa, as she sat down. "Meet ... um ..."
"Edwin," announced the young man, smiling broadly at Charlotte. "I work in Electricity. Are you in the Civil Service as well?" Charlotte nodded. "In the same section?" She nodded again. "It must be wonderful not having to wear clothes all day. Electricity would
never
countenance it. But I guess, the Civil Service have got to provide some benefits to counter the lousy pay."
Edwin sat with the two girls for the rest of the evening which seemed to go on interminably. Edwin ordered a bottle of wine, which the three shared between them, with Clarissa drinking the most. Gradually Clarissa became more intimate with Edwin, and it didn't surprise Charlotte too much to see her stroking Edwin's penis. "Don't do that!" he laughed, but he neither removed her hand nor resisted the swelling of his penis from the attention. The conversation however essentially more prosaic, and by concentrating on that, Charlotte just about succeeded in ignoring Clarissa's blatant teasing.
It was gone eleven when Clarissa announced it was time to go home. "Do the both of you want to come back for some coffee?" she asked. Charlotte was feeling slightly tipsy, and assented as she thought a coffee might do her some good. Edwin didn't hesitate at all.
Clarissa's flat was only five minutes walk from the bar. The three of them got dressed, and settled their bill with the black gentleman at reception. Edwin put on a business suit, which seemed very peculiar after having so long worn nothing over his bronzed naked body. Clarissa's flat was up a couple of flights of stairs, and had a no-clothes policy like the bar, as Clarissa announced pushing open her front door, The three of them removed their clothes again and left them in the hall-way, before entering the flat proper.
Clarissa didn't live alone in the flat. Her boyfriend was sitting in front of the television and briefly greeted them as they entered. Charlotte sat in the living room while Edwin and Clarissa prepared the coffee. It seemed to take ages to arrive, and Clarissa's boyfriend seemed far more interested in the television than on chat.
It was the city's only naturist station,
Nude Horizon
, and like all naturist stations there were strictly no clothes, but also none of the explicit sex associated with Emma's station,
Harlot TV
. Like
Harlot
, however, it religiously pursued its preferred subject matter, and was often just as dull about it. There was probably less sex on
Nude Horizon