The next day we woke to the phone ringing. Lisa jumped up to answer it saying it was the airline. Thank God, I thought. Now I can get my stuff back. I walked over to the phone forgetting that I was naked. I was just excited that they had found my bag. After a couple of minutes trying to understand the guyβs broken English, he seemed to be saying he wasn't sure if it was my bag since it didn't have any name tag on it. As I stood there naked Jane walked into the kitchen and started to make a cup of coffee. She gave me the once over and I wasn't sure what to make of it but was too engaged in the conversation on the phone to care. I asked Lisa to get me something to put on. She brought me over my pair of sneakers. "Ha ha" I said. "How about a towel or something?"
Eventually, she brought me a towel from the bathroom. After what seemed like forever the guy from the airline opened the bag and described what was inside. It obviously wasn't mine. I started to get mad asking what was I supposed to do and what about my camera and the stuff in the bag. They said they'd keep looking and let me know as soon as they found it. By then everyone was up. Barbara and Lisa had showered and sat down at the table starting to munch on the food they had bought last night. I was really hungry especially after the dancing and hike so I offered to cook scrambled eggs.
Barbara and Lisa had changed into their bikinis and were all ready for the beach. Lisa's bikini was her favorite red and pink one. It was a nice suit, not too daring and fit her really well. Barbara's was also a nice suit; a little smaller than Lisa's, drawn high up her hips. The top showed a lot of her breasts but nothing you wouldn't expect. When Jane came out of the shower she already had her suit on. It was one of those bikinis with the short's style pants. It was kind of neon in color. It looked good but kind of boyish. There I was cooking eggs trying to keep the towel on.
I served the eggs and sat down at the table to eat when Jane brought out the string bikini she had mentioned last night. String was the right word. It was all string and a couple of patches. All together it wasn't much bigger than a napkin. What a contrast to the shorts suit she had on now. I was shocked. I said, "You actually wear this thing?" She said, "only for tanning in private."
Lisa said, "even if you do wear it, it probably won't stay on for long." Barbara said, "It should be interesting for you to go swimming in that." I just ate my eggs wondering what to do. I thought I'd just have to go down to the resort store and just buy a bikini. Lisa said, "Remember those prices we saw last night." The cheapest suit we saw was $89. And I didn't even like it. After we finished I decided to at least give Jane's bikini a try. I let the towel drop and went to pick it up when Barbara commented about my lack of tan lines. She said, "Looks like you used to not wearing a suit."
I was no stranger to nude sun bathing but in this case it was the tanning booth that I owed my tan to. Lisa said, "It would be a shame to ruin that great tan with tan lines." I said, "I had nothing against nudity, I had done my share of skinny dipping and nude sun bathing but it was usually in private." I said, " I'd give it a try if one of you would join me." Apparently no one was up to it. The bikini bottom was one of those Brazilian styles. Not quite a thong but not one that covered much either.
I joked that if I wore it backward it would probably cover enough to be respectable at least in the front. The problem was that there simply wasn't enough material from the top of the front to the back. When I pulled the back up my bush would show. When I pulled the front the crack in my butt would show. I said, "If I'm going to wear this I'll have to shave a little more; and off to the bathroom I went. I borrowed Lisa's razor and trimmed my bush a little more. It wasn't like I had a lot when I started but by the time I was done I was really trimmed. If I pulled it up all the way and tied the sides really tight, I think it may actually stay on.
The real problem with the bottom was that the ties stings were only about a quarter inch in diameter and they didn't provide much elasticity. When I tied it as tight as I did there was hardly any stretch left in it. I walked back into the living room and showed the others. Lisa and Jane really like it. Barbara said, "Why bother?" The top was the real problem. I knew it wasn't going to work but I tried it anyway. I pulled it up to my breasts and asked Lisa to tie it in back. She just laughed saying that the string wasn't long enough to reach. That didn't surprise me since I had to use every last bit of string on the bottom just to tie a small bow.
"Well, I guess you'll just have to go topless," Lisa said. Well I had gone topless before but never at a public beach resort and never with a bottom like this one. I might as well be naked, I thought. Everyone was getting impatient having to wait for me. Well, could I do this I thought? I certainly wasn't going to stay in the room, but did I have the nerve to go down to the beach practically naked. Again I asked if anyone else would join me. They said, "What are you kidding? What's it going to be? We're missing the Sun" Lisa said.
I grabbed my towel and sunglasses and said, "here goes, just bring lots of lotion, I'm going to need it." I wrapped the towel around me making sure it was good and tight. Everyone else already had their tee shirt and shorts on. As we walked to the elevator Lisa said, "I can't believe your actually doing this." I said "what the heck after last night I guess I can do anything."