Author's Note: This story is the final installment of a series. While it is not necessary to read all of the prior installments, reading a few will provide a much better understanding of the characters and how they have reached this point. The series has already gone on too long. However, some readers have expressed interest in the characters so I felt that I should try to write a finale that has a bit of closure. I apologize for my shortcomings as a storyteller and writer. I thank everyone who has read, rated, or commented on any of these stories.
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After the meets in Florida, Heather, Sandy, Sara, and I flew back to the island. I was somewhat apprehensive about how my relationship with Heather would be after we had made love (of course, that apprehension wasn't sufficient to stop me from fucking her). It seemed that my apprehension was unwarranted. Heather seemed more relaxed and more self-confident, and I detected no hint of competition or tension between her and Sara.
Although it was the height of a Caribbean summer, there was no letup in the training schedule which Sara imposed. Actually, between Sara and Sandy, Heather was getting good training and her times were coming down. In a bit of an anomaly, Heather's nude times were consistently better than her suited times. Nonetheless, I thought that Heather was making real progress towards an outstanding season swimming for the university. I also thought that Sandy and Sara were learning from each other. Hopefully, this would help Sandy when she returned to the university as Lauren's graduate assistant coach.
Soon after we got back to the island, Sandy got another piece of news. Her boyfriend Rob had been drafted by the White Sox and had been pitching for their rookie league affiliate in Great Falls. Rob called Sandy to say that he had done something to his right foot so that it was excruciatingly painful each time he came down on it as he made his delivery. He was headed to Chicago for more thorough examination and imaging.
A few days later, Rob called again to say that the organization was shutting him down for the year. Since he had planned to being playing ball all summer, he was now left with nothing to do. He wondered whether he would be welcome to come to the island and stay with Sandy. Sandy covered her phone with her hand as she relayed that question to Sara, Heather, and me. She needn't have bothered. The response was unanimous. Rob was definitely welcome.
If Rob was surprised at our skimpy dress when we picked him up at the airport, he didn't show it. Sara, Heather, and Sandy all wore sheer pareos with nothing underneath. I was commando under a very short pair of shorts. Sandy sat in Rob's lap on the drive back to the extreme southern end of the island.
It only took Rob about a day to fall in with our clothing discarded lifestyle. Wisely, perhaps, Rob did not participate in our training. Instead, he made himself very useful doing maintenance and repair projects around the house and grounds that I had meant to get to but never did.
The second week of Rob's stay, Sara woke us all very early one Thursday morning. "What's up?" I asked.
"Come on, we need to get going," Sara replied.
"Going where?" I asked.
"Fort de France," Sara said.
It took me a second. "Wait. It's Bastille Day. There's a parade and everything. FdF will be slammed."
"I know," Sara said, "that's why we need to get there early."
I had more-or-less learned that Sara wouldn't tell me what she had planned until she was good and ready, so I groggily pulled on shorts, sandals, and a tee shirt while Sara roused the others. It was still dark as we left our property headed for the largest town on the island. Once we reached Fort de France, Sara confidently navigated a series of back streets until she stopped outside what looked like a house. I knew that we were only a couple of blocks from the town center where the parade and festivities would be starting in a few hours.
Sara pressed a buzzer outside the building's street door. A female voice said "Allo?" over a scratchy intercom. Sara said a few words in French and the door buzzed open.
"Second floor" Sara said to us as she gestured for us to enter the building. Up the stairs, the first door to my right was half open. A thin black-haired lady, probably about 26, stood in the doorway. She and Sara spoke for a minute before the lady opened her door all the way.
Walking in, I saw drop cloths covering the floor. A much larger man, about the same age as the lady, leaned out of a room and said something to which the black-haired lady responded. To us, Sara said, "Quick. Get your clothes off."
Sandy put her hands on her hips. "Ok, Sara, what is up?"
Smiling broadly, Sara said, "We're marching in the parade. First, we have to be painted. That will take a while. Pierre will do us. Yvette will paint the guys."
Sara's plan was still not entirely clear but, sensing an adventure of some sort, we all stripped down. Yvette started on Rob. I soon figured out that she was painting him the colors of the French flag. It took much longer than I would have expected, but, eventually Rob's entire left side, front and back, head to toe, was blue. His middle, including his dick and balls, were white; and his right side was red. Yvette finally finished Rob and said something to him in French which Sara translated as "stand over there but don't lean against anything."
As Yvette started on me, I saw Pierre finishing Heather. I closed my eyes and let Yvette run her brushstrokes over my skin. Eventually, Yvette said something which I interpreted as "You're done. Go stand with Rob."
Pierre soon finished Sandy. Then Pierre and Yvette together began on Sara. While Heather, Sandy, Rob, and I had been painted in vertical stripes that ran the length of our bodies, Pierre and Yvette painted Sara in horizontal stripes. From her face to just below her tits, Sara was blue. Down to just past her triangle, she was white. Most of both legs were red.
Once Sara had dried, she picked up her small purse, pulled out some cash and handed it to Pierre. Yvette brought a plastic bag into which we stuffed all of our things save for our footwear. We followed Sara back to the street where she locked the bag in a small metal box welded to the back bumper of her SUV.
Wearing only sandals and her small purse over a shoulder, Sara said, "Come on" and started down a side street. Naked and painted like French flags, the rest of us followed.
I finally figured out that we were headed for the assembly point for the parade. I asked Sara, "Do we have permission to be in the parade?"
Sara gave me her 100 watt smile. "No one will say anything," she said breezily.
No one did. As the parade started to move out, Sara had us fall in behind a float celebrating God knows what. Behind us marched a group in the traditional dress of Paris mimes.
As we approached the town center, the sidewalks were jammed with people and more people hung off of balconies and out of windows. Sara was smiling and waving to one side of the street and then the other. The rest of us followed her lead. Our nudity was definitely noticed, but seemed well received. Parading through town completely nude, I felt totally on display and just a bit naughty. It was a great feeling.
At one point, Rob and I fell back behind the girls. We marched for a block or two thoroughly enjoying the three beautiful, bare, painted asses in front of us. Sara finally turned halfway around and gestured impatiently for us to catch up. We marched the rest of the route in line holding hands. Sara was, naturally, in the center. Rob was to her left and I was to her right. Sandy was outside of Rob, closest to one side of the street, and Heather was outside of me, closest to the other.
Heather was holding my right hand tightly. At one point, Heather turned her head to me and shouted over the crowd noise, "This is so hot. I'm really wet. I hope my paint doesn't run!" Judging by the looks that comment drew from the men on the float in front of us, at least a few of them spoke English.
We were only a couple of blocks from the bay where I judged that the parade would end. Sara suddenly said, "In there" nodding towards a faux English pub which she and I had occasionally visited called "Trafalgar Square." Naked, the five of us wormed through the crowd lining the street and into the pub. I assume that the girls were groped a bit. I know that several hands touched my dick. I hoped that they were all female.
The pub was busy, but not slammed and we found a high table to stand at. Soon, Rita, a rather buxom Englishwoman who ran the pub with her partner Tony, came over. She gave us all a long look. Smiling, she said, "Well, I think we're not supposed to serve you if you've got nothing on. But, it is Bastille Day so we'll make an exception." Rita was gone and back with our drinks faster than I expected.
Sara and I were casual friends with Rita and Tony. Like so many, they had bounced around the Caribbean for several years. They had spent the last two running the pub for a local entrepreneur and constantly complaining about his refusal to hire more staff. Sara asked Rita, "How late are you working tonight?"
"Oddly," Rita said, "Yves wants us to close around 6:00 p.m. What with clean up, Tony and I should be quit of here by 7:00 or 7:30."
"Sally's having fireworks at the restaurant just after dark," Sara said.
"I know," Rita replied, "I've seen her adverts."