"Oh my god, would you look at that?"
"What?" I asked.
"Over there." Jeannie pointed across the street. "Check it out. Did he put her up to this?"
I turned around in my chair and stared. We were finishing up an afternoon of shopping with lunch at our favorite outdoor restaurant, and I had been busy looking at my menu to notice anything. As I looked in Jeannie's direction, I saw it: a young girl of nineteen or so, wearing only panties and flip-flops, being followed along the sidewalk by her boyfriend, who was carrying her bags.
The girl was lithe, with the sort of nice pointy, perky breasts that required little to no support. She was tan all over, and her pointy tits bounced as she jogged in front of her very amused boyfriend.
"Hmm," I said. "Probably a silly dare."
"You think he put her up to it?" Jeannie asked.
"Who knows?" I said. "She may have come up with the idea herself. Or maybe she chickened out, and he held her to it."
Obviously they had walked somewhere from the mall to this point, and being as it was a busy Saturday, much attention would have been paid. It certainly seemed so, since the girl appeared more than a little embarrassed. Her skin was flush, and she walked a little faster than normal. However, her face registered no anger or shame; just excitement. Her boyfriend was grinning ear to ear.
"She doesn't seem to mind much," Jeannie said.
"Probably likes the attention," I said. "Do you think she'll get caught?"
The girl looked from side to side to see if she was in view of anyone in the vicinity who might cause trouble. Satisfied that there were no cops or guards, she moved on, paying no attention to the onlookers who registered looks of shock or appreciation.
"No, there's no ordinance against public nudity," Jeannie replied. They might complain, but if you're outside the mall on public property, only the cops can arrest you on a complaint. And it's a hot summer day, so who really gives a fuck?"
I took a sip of my iced tea. "What do you think of that?"
Jeannie stared at the girl, who was now turned away from both of us. The view of her little ass wiggling from side to side was too cute to ignore. Jeannie stared, intrigued, smiling. "She's good looking. I think it's cool. You know, flaunt it if you got it."
"Would you do anything like that?" I asked.
Jeannie paused. "Um...no, probably not."
"Why not?"
"I don't have a problem being naked. We do it when we're at the right beach, or on vacation abroad."
"How about here?" I asked.
Jeannie flashed me an amused-annoyed look. "Because we shop here all the time. I don't want to get noticed."
"So..." I asked, "does that mean you'd do it in public elsewhere?"
Jeannie paused, then said, thoughtfully, "yeah, why not? But it would have to be really far away so I don't get recognized."
"How does the thought of that make you feel?" I asked.
"Well, I'd probably feel nervous doing it, but that would probably make me excited too."
I took a bite of my appetizer. "So how about after lunch we make a mad dash to the car with you stark naked?"
Jeannie swatted me with her menu. "I'm not going to do that here, today...and if you keep it up I might not do it at all!"
"Alright, alright," I laughed, waving my hands in mock protest. "I'll stop."
"Good," Jeannie glared at me, half-serious.
"She had a nice pair of tits, though."
"I liked her ass better."
"You think she waxes?"
"Shut up," Jeannie said. Then she shifted a little in her seat, preening. "Hey..."
"What?" I said, looking up.
"You like her tits?"
"They're cute."
"You like them better than mine?"
I looked down at her blouse, which was billowing open with one too many buttons undone. No bra. I could see the outline of Jeannie's smooth, pale C-cups, which hung naturally like tear drops. Each was adorned with a beautiful, pink and puffy nipple that I needed to lick every time I saw them. Jeannie smiled when she caught my stare, and then she pouted.
"Hmm...I dunno," I said. Maybe you should take your blouse off and conduct a straw poll."
"Fuck you."
"Anytime." Her foot trailed up my leg, and slid along my inner thigh, stopping to rub on my crotch, which immediately swelled to life at her touch. Then, just as suddenly, she pulled away before any of the other diners could see, and went back to reading her menu.
Jeannie was not a prude by any means. She was athletic, loved to work out and show the results of her lard labor. She dressed just provocatively enough to give an eyeful of her shape, and just enough skin to make you want to see everything underneath. Today she was wearing a tight mini that went so far up her firm thighs that the wrong move would have ripped them in two. That and the aforementioned blouse...only two things to undo and she'd have been jogging in front of me instead that afternoon.
On the drive home, I asked, "Would you walk around naked on a dare?"
"I might, depending on my mood."
"What about on your own?"
"Of course not!"
"Why not?" I asked.
"What is this, some new fetish of yours?" Jeannie asked.
"No, I'm just curious," I said. "You seemed like you might be interested in the idea."
"I was just reacting. We saw a naked girl in a crowded public area, and sometimes I wonder what things like that might be like if I tried them too."
"Yeah?" I asked.
"It's just momentary speculation. Would YOU strip naked and walk around for everyone to see?"
"Come on," I scoffed.
"Sexist."
"Huh?"
"You want me to do it, but you wouldn't do it yourself? That's sexist. You just want to see me naked in front of other people."
"No, I was wondering how you'd feel doing it. We've been together for what, two years? We're fairly open, and this sounds new coming from you."
"It's not new," Jeannie said. "You asked me about it first."
"You pointed her out. And you seem to know about the laws on indecent exposure here."
"That doesn't make me an exhibitionist," she said.
"What does?" I asked.
"An exhibitionist...I don't know," she said. "They seem to live for some kind of sexual charge. Like habitually."
"Like her?"
"Yeah, you know? She seemed to enjoy it, like she wasn't pressured. Like she had done it before a number of times and wasn't bothered by it."
"Doesn't it have to start somewhere, then?" I said.
"Right, you have to get used to it. I'm sure you're nervous as fuck trying it and then it gets to be more second nature. Like her. She was looking out for cops, it seemed."
"Okay, so if you were to do it, you'd feel nervous the first time?"
"Will you stop!" Jeannie said, laughing. "I don't know how I'd do it, if I were to at all."
"So, if I were to make your clothes disappear somehow, and you were forced to be nude in public, how would you feel?"
"Don't you fucking dare."
"I'm not. This is purely speculative."
Jeannie sighed. "Maybe once. Alright? Now shut up. For reals."
I traced my hand along her thigh, and squeezed it just shy of where her panty line ought to be. I felt no seam under the skirt. I felt a warmth coming from her leg that I only felt when we made out, and we were just at the point of confirming our mutual sexual desire.
Hmmm...
I thought. Gingerly I slid my hand further inside her thigh, and felt the first hint of her trimmed pubic hair grazing my pinky, slightly damp from summertime perspiration, or...
Suddenly Jeannie slapped my hand away. I looked up. She glared at me, but her face was flushed, and her breath was heavier than usual.
"Knock it off," she said.
"Okay, okay." I said.
Two days later I came home from work and found Jeannie on the deck, sunbathing topless. I went over and kissed her, and then gave each of her breasts a small peck. They glistened in the sunlight from the tanning oil.
"Hey babe," I said.
"Hey."
"You giving the neighbors a show?" I grinned.
Jeannie rolled her eyes. "Nothing they haven't seen before."
"I like how you're comfortable with your body."
"Well, you either can be or you can be ashamed about it. Most people fall into the latter category, unfortunately."
Well, you're very comfortable in the back yard," I said. "Maybe you should kick it up a notch."
"What do you mean?"
"You know, like last Saturday," I said. "Maybe you should go public sometime..."
"Jeez, are you still on about that?" Jeannie said, laughing.
"Hey, who knows? Maybe you'd like it. You've got a great body, and I think it'd be cool if you showed it off sometime. And you'd get to put some prudes in their place."
"Come on."
"What?"
She sighed. "I think you'll get more of a charge from it than me, what with you asking all the time lately."
"Hey, I'm not opposed to giving people a good view of your assets."
"Fuck you; you don't own me."
"That's not what I mean! I have a beautiful girlfriend, and I see people noticing you all the time, and I'm never the slightest bit jealous. One glimpse of your ass and people regret their life choices in a heartbeat."
Jeannie blushed. "You know, maybe I would...but I don't know how I'd feel about it. It's one thing to enjoy being nude at the beach, or here in the privacy of our home."
"Because it's safe," I said. "I think you'd feel on edge if you ever stepped out in public the way that girl did. And the effect might have some...erotic benefits."
"Really?"
"I think you were turned on. And I think you're thinking about what it would be like being in her place someday."