This story is a sequel to my two-chapter story "The Amateur Revival." I don't think you need to read that story to follow this one, but my other story does provide some background.
This story is a work of fiction. Some real places and institutions are mentioned or alluded to, but they are used fictitiously. Insofar as the author knows, no real person affiliated with any of those places or institutions has done anything akin to what is described in this story. Any similarities between any character in this story and any real person are coincidental and unintended. I encourage comments on this story, both favorable and unfavorable. Thank you for reading.
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I had become friends with Carol Dwyer and her late husband when I first moved to the midwestern college town of Cambridge. I was reeling from my divorce and had felt the need to leave the big city where my ex and I had lived. I had also lost interest in the law practice to which I had devoted my adult life. Several years after I moved to Cambridge, and about three years after her husband has passed, Carol and I shared an unusual experience. We both appeared in a play produced and directed by Carol's daughter Kim as her senior project for her B.A. in Theater Arts. (See The Amateur Revival CH 01 & 02). The play contained a great deal on onstage nudity. Carol and I discovered that we loved each other and that we really enjoyed showing off.
Seven years on, Carol and I were married and living in my house in the woods outside Cambridge. Carol was also a lawyer, having practiced in Cambridge for most of her professional life, but she was transitioning her practice over to a younger lawyer named Anne Mason. Carol and I focused on each other, on staying in shape (a challenge as we both grew older), and on maintaining the house and property.
We had become good friends with two other couples in the show. Weather permitting, LaTonya, Derrick, Sarah, and Aaron were often skinny-dipping in our pool. LaTonya had a side gig as a yoga instructor. For several years, she had held nude yoga classes one then two nights a week on the second floor of the old brick building Carol owned in "uptown" Cambridge. Carol and I usually participated (LaTonya let us in her classes for free in exchange for use of the space). LaTonya's classes drew many students from the university. In other words, Carol and I engaged in a lot of social nudity. However, we hadn't done anything which provided the exhibitionistic thrill of the play which was an ever more distant memory.
It was a hot Wednesday afternoon in late June. Carol was at her office. I was fixing part of the fence around our pool that had been damaged by a recent storm. As usual when weather permitted, I was working naked.
I was drilling holes in new horizontals so I could screw them to the fence posts. The drill was noisy. Once, when I stopped drilling, I heard an unfamiliar female voice say, "Mr. Stone?" I put down the drill and turned to face the speaker. I was so used to going nude that I didn't even think that I was exposing myself completely to the strange woman.
When we'd been doing the play, I was convinced that Carol and her daughter were the two most beautiful women alive. No one I'd encountered since had caused me to change that opinion, until that Saturday. The young woman facing me that day was, I guessed, was mid-twenties. Light brown hair with a slight wave framed piercing blue eyes, high cheekbones, a pert nose, broad smile, and strong chin. Her print sundress was clingy enough to show a generally slender woman with a nice chest. The hem of her dress was short enough to show firm, shapely, tanned legs. Whoever she was, she was a "wow!"
The young woman seemed to be looking directly at my dick. That reminded me that, as much as Carol and I enjoyed it, not everyone appreciated exposed genitals. "I'm sorry," I said. "Let me go in and put some shorts on."
The young woman laughed. Her laugh had a charming, almost musical quality. "You're fine," she said. "I should apologize for the intrusion."
"I'm fine with people seeing me like this if it doesn't bother you," I replied.
"Yes," the woman said, "I remember that." I must have given her a quizzical look. I had no idea how this beautiful stranger could claim any memory about me. "I'm Kelly West," she said, "Tammy and Jack's daughter. Don't you remember me?"
I remembered Kelly West. I just hadn't recognized her. Jack and Tammy West were friends of a couple who had been in the play with us: Sarah and Aaron Weiss. Back then, Kelly had been dating the Weiss's son Michael. Both had been high school seniors about to graduate and go off to college. Jack and Tammy had become friends of ours. They, the Weisses, Carol and I had spent many hours nude in and around this very pool.
"I apologize again," I said to Kelly. "I didn't recognize you. It has been a few years."
Kelly laughed again. I could easily get used to hearing that laugh. "The only time we met was right around my high school graduation," she said. "I've changed some since then."
"The change has been all positive from what I can see," I replied.
"Thank you," Kelly said with a smile. "I'm at a kind of a transition point in my life," she continued. "I'm spending some time visiting mom and dad. My first book was just published. I wanted you and Carol to have a copy. When you read it, I think you'll understand why."
Kelly handed me a thin hardcover book. The titled on the dust jacket was "Being Seen: I Young Woman's Quest to Expose Herself." That was intriguing, although I didn't know what it meant. Kelly had the look of, for want of a better term, a "good girl." Surely, the title wasn't meant literally.
I looked up from the book to Kelly. She was still smiling. "Well," she said, "I just stopped by to give you the book. I've got errands to run. It was good to see you again." That last sentence was punctuated with a very open look at my dick. "I'm here for at least a couple of weeks. I expect I'll see you again, and Carol I hope." Kelly turned and walked around one side of our house. Her dress was tight enough to suggest that she had a marvelous ass.
My encounter with Kelly West took no more than five minutes. However, I had a feeling something important had just happened. I forgot about my fence project. I pulled a patio chair into the shade, sat, and began to read.
The opening chapter was a short biography of Kelly. Some of it I had known and forgotten. My memory of Kelly was focused on a particular afternoon. I had not known much, such as the fact that Kelly had received a B.A., with honors, in English from a prestigious university in North Carolina.
Kelly's second chapter revealed why she'd brought us a copy of her book. I'm not the writer Kelly is, so I'll just quote her. Hopefully, this counts as "fair use." The most core of Kelly's second chapter read as follows:
I was a cheerleader in high school. Our short, tight-fitting uniforms were obviously designed to draw attention to our bodies. I had an attractive body, at least people told me that. People also told me I had a beautiful face. From the time I started cheering, I wondered why, if both were beautiful, I needed to cover my body why exposing my face. If exposing my body was bad, why were we required to cheer in uniforms which outlined our bodies so clearly? However, while it didn't make sense to me, I knew that you don't go naked in public.
I had a greater appreciation of people looking at me as I cheered my senior year. I fantasized about what it would be like to cheer at a football game naked. However, of course, people don't go naked in public. Very late in my senior year, I learned that some people do go naked in public.
Michael's parents, Sarah and Aaron, both worked for the university in town. Aaron was a professor and Sarah was an archivist. Like my parents, they were "open-minded" and "progressive." Just a few weeks before graduation, not long after both Michael and I had turned 18, Michael took me to see a play they were in. Michael had not told me what the play was about. I was very surprised when the play opened with Michael's parents and six other people onstage wearing robes. I was more surprised when they all took their robes off and stood before us completely naked. In fact, the eight cast members, four men and four women, were naked for most of the play. They all seemed to be having a wonderful time.
I thought both of Michael's parents looked nicer naked than they did in clothes. However, there was another man in the show who really caught my attention. He was obviously older but, in his way, as beautiful as Michael. He looked solid and powerful and had a presence that drew my eyes to him. He also had a wonderful penis. It was not as long as many I would see, but it was thick. The man was circumcised so the head of his penis was exposed. It was fat and, well, cute. I couldn't help imaging how that would feel inside of me. Michael and I had the best sex of our relationship the night we saw that show. I never told Michael that, although his penis was in me, I was imaging it was that man I had seen in the play.
Shortly after graduation, Michael called me. His parents were going to a pool party at the house of another couple who had been in the play. Michael's parents had asked if we would like to go too. Michael said that the other couple did not wear clothes in their pool and that his parents would also be naked for most of the party. Michael seemed unsure whether he wanted to go. I did. We agreed we would go. We did not talk about whether we would take our clothes off.
A few minutes after the call from Michael, my mother walked into my room. She asked whether Michael had called me about the pool party. I was surprised Mom knew about it until she explained that Sarah Weiss had invited her and Dad too. Mom said she and Dad were going. She asked whether Michael and I were going. I told her we were and asked whether she and Dad were going to take their clothes off. Mom smiled and said they had not decided that. After Mom left my room, I thought about the party. I hoped Mom and Dad took their clothes off. More than anything, though, I wanted to be naked in front of Mom and Dad.