This story is the twentieth in a series. I am grateful that a few readers seem to enjoy the nude lawyers. While this story can, hopefully, be read enjoyably by itself, the earlier installments provide context and character background. My characters and their names are entirely fictitious. Any similarity to any real person is unintended and coincidental. Oh, and please do not rely on these stories for any legal advice.
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Following Erin's advice not to be so rigidly chronological, I am going to recount some things that happened well before the conclusion of the last installment. Since I think chronologically, this is a bit challenging for me. Hopefully, the reader will suffer no undue confusion as I jump around in time.
By the Sunday of Cammie's visit, we had completely broken through her inhibitions and all three of us were very glad that she had come (read that as you choose). However, Carla, Erin, and I realized that we did not know how long Cammie planned to stay. The subject simply had not come up.
The four of us were sitting nude around the pool when Carla finally asked her sister, "Cammie, I'm really not trying to rush you and you are welcome to stay as long as you like, but when are you going back East?"
Cammie smiled. "Getting bored of me already or do you not want to share Harry three ways? I don't want to impose and I'm fairly confident that Carla is in good hands. I booked a flight home on Tuesday morning. I don't absolutely have to be back at the university a week from tomorrow for a meeting, but I thought that I'd best get out of your hair."
Erin jumped in. "No. We're glad to have you. It has been fun. Can you switch your flight to next Sunday?"
Cammie pulled a smart phone out of her bag and fiddled with it for a few minutes. Lifting her head, she smiled and said, "Yes, there is a flight at 10:30 a.m. Sunday that I can take and it only costs a $100 change fee."
"Do it!" Carla instructed. "But, I should warn you that we need to go in to work tomorrow."
"That is fine," Cammie replied. "If you can give me a good internet connection, I can get some research done for the paper I'm supposed to do with the people at Berkley."
I said, "We have a couple of extra offices that are furnished and have good computers. A couple of partners left us not long ago. Or, if you're curious what our day is like, you can use the conference room behind Erin's desk. That has a good desktop as well." So, it was settled that Cammie would go to the office with us on Monday.
Carla had a further bit of instruction for her sister. "We always get in by 8:00 a.m. Allowing for traffic that means leaving here by about twenty after seven."
We spent the rest of the day relaxing around the pool and the four of us went to bed together early. When the alarm went off the next morning, Cammie headed off to the guest bathroom. She was not completely comfortable with the fact that Erin, Carla, and I did absolutely everything in front of each other.
Just before we left for work, Erin, Carla, and I were in the kitchen having quick cups of tea (in my case) and coffee (for Erin and Carla). The three of us were naked save for shoes. Cammie walked in looking lovely in a casual white top, tan slacks, and sandals. She gave us a perplexed look.
"I thought that you were going to work," Cammie said.
"We are and we'd better get going," Carla replied.
"But," Cammie said, gesturing at our bare bodies.
"We usually drive in nude," Erin explained. "We all keep clothes in the office if we need to go out during the day."
I gave Cammie a smile. "Don't ask." I said. "Just get your clothes off and come with us. You'll be pleasantly surprised."
Looking very dubious, Cammie started out of the kitchen as she unbuttoned her top. Carla called after her, "Wear shoes. You don't want to go barefoot in the garage at our building."
Soon Cammie was back wearing only her sandals. We got into Carla's VW and left for work. As usual that time of the morning, traffic was pretty thick heading into Downtown.
Carla, who was driving, explained to her sister, "As you know, I used to be a pretty aggressive driver. Once you start driving nude, you become a lot more conscious of the traffic laws. I'd rather not get pulled over in the buff. I'm a more defensive driver now, too. Who needs an accident when you have nothing to put on?"
"Nothing to put on?" Cammie asked.
"We don't carry any clothes in the car," Carla explained. "It is fun to know that we're in the middle of all these people going to work or wherever and we couldn't cover up if we wanted to." Cammie just shook her head in disbelief.
Our offices are in a high-rise Downtown office tower built about twenty years ago. Most of the lower eight floors are a parking garage. Carla pulled off of the street and the gate to the garage opened in response to the plastic card stuck to the inside of her windshield. Carla started up through the garage.
After Carla had driven past a number of empty spaces, Cammie asked "Why not park in any of those?"
Carla responded, "Watch and learn dear sister."
At the top of the seventh level, we reached another automatic gate which also rose for us. I explained to Cammie, "We have an incredibly tolerant landlord. Of course, we pay a bit over market for that tolerance. Once we started coming to work nude, the landlord decided to reserve the top floor of the garage for building tenants. That actually did make us popular with the other tenants."
Carla parked and we walked, nude, into a very short corridor with a bank of three elevator doors on each side. Continuing my explanation, I said to Cammie, "Only the door on the left will open. When the landlord dedicated this floor for tenant parking, they also dedicated an elevator. It stops at all of the building floors, but only at this floor of the garage. The others serve the rest of the garage but won't stop on this level."
As we waited, two middle-aged ladies walked up, clothed of course. Erin greeted them cheerfully, "Good morning Millie, Lisa."