This story is a work of fiction. 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 worked at the Bank for eight years, ever since I graduated from college. There wasn't a lot of demand for someone with a B.A. in political science and I didn't have the money for grad school or professional school. I started as a teller. The Bank started phasing tellers out after I'd been there about three years. Some folks were let go. I was lucky to be made assistant branch manager.
About the time I was promoted, the Bank hired a young woman to work in the branch as "customer relations manager." Basically, her job was to placate customers who had problems with the Bank and try to sell them new services like another credit card or a home equity loan. The job required excellent people skills. Patsy Garner had them.
Patsy was positive and enthusiastic without overdoing it. She was intelligent, a good listener, observant, and witty when she chose to be. Most important, Patsy had a gift for getting people to do what she wanted them to do without being pushy or annoying. Physically, Patsy was a few inches shorter than me. She had wavy auburn hair that framed a slightly chubby face. Her face became beautiful when she smiled, and she smiled a lot. Patsy had a large frame and carried some extra pounds which, I think, made her seem less threatening to customers. However, there was something sexy about Patsy and I often caught myself looking at her in the branch.
Patsy and I had worked together about five years. While we both dated other people, we became friends. We reached the point where we'd have a drink together after work two or three nights a week for an hour or so. Trust had developed between us.
I recall it being late March or early April. I had taken a trip with my then girlfriend Danielle to a resort in Mexico. A week or two after we got back, Danielle dumped me for a young lawyer in the firm where she worked as a paralegal. One night after work, I laid most of that sad story on Patsy. She listened and said the right things. Fully consumed by my sense of injustice at how Danielle had treated me, I was not as guarded as I should have been talking to Patsy. To try to illustrate how Danielle had whipsawed me, I mentioned that the resort included a small island where nudity was mandatory for guests and that Danielle and I had spent most of our vacation there. We were having drinks a couple of weeks after that when Patsy said, "Bill, I want to ask if you will do me a favor. It is a little offbeat so I'm hesitant to ask."
"Patsy," I said, "we know each other well enough that I won't be offended. If I can't do it, I'll just tell you. Now, what do you need?"
"My mother took up painting after Dad's accident a few years ago," Patsy said. "She's really gotten good at it. She takes classes at the university. She finished a class recently that was about painting pictures of people. She, uh, wants a man to model for her but she doesn't have enough money to pay a model."
"You want me to model for your mother?" I asked. "Why me?"
Patsy gave an embarrassed grin as she answered. "You are pretty well built," she said. I had wrestled in college at 185 pounds and had continued to lift and run after wrestling was over. I was flattered. "And" Patsy paused, taking a deep breath before she continued, "Mom wants the man to pose with no clothes on. After hearing you talk about you and Danielle going naked at that resort in Mexico, I thought you might be ok with that."
"You're asking me to pose nude for your mother?" I asked in some disbelief.
"Yeah," Patsy said, giving me a huge smile, "you might enjoy it."
"When does your mother want me to model?" I asked.
"Saturday," Patsy said. "I can take you out to her place."
"So, you'd be there too?" I asked.
"I usually go out and help Mom on the weekends, since Dad passed," Patsy replied. "I'd have other things to do. It's not like I'd just stand there staring at you."
"Let me think about it, ok?" I said. Patsy and I were good enough friends that it would be highly unusual for me not to do something she asked, but his was a highly unusual request.
"Thank you," Patsy said. "I'll understand if you don't want to do it."
I didn't want to offend Patsy by saying "no" to her request on the spot, but that was my initial reaction. However, when I got home a bit later, I remembered the trip Danielle and I had taken together. We had gone to the resort because Danielle had found some sort of special deal. We were told about the island off the resort beach when we arrived and that guests were required to go nude there. We initially dismissed it. I had not, and I don't think Danielle had, gone nude in public.
By the middle of our first full day at the resort, Danielle and I had figured out that more resort guests were on the nude island than were at the main resort pool and beach where clothing was required. That evening, we started talking with another couple in the restaurant bar before dinner. The woman of that couple asked us what we thought of the nude island. We admitted we had not gone to it.
"I understand," the woman said, "the idea of taking everything off around strangers is a bit scary. It's also exciting. I've heard people say that, once you take your clothes off in a situation like that, you forget you're naked. I haven't. I'm aware every second that I'm naked, but I'm also aware that being naked feels a lot nicer, more sensual, and sexier than having anything on. You're here. No one here knows you. You really aren't being fair to yourselves if you don't try it."
"How long are you here?" the man with her asked.
"We leave next Sunday," Danielle answered.
"We're leaving Sunday too," the man said. "I'll make you a bet," he continued. "Go over to the island tomorrow morning and get naked. If you don't spend the rest of your beach and pool time for the week over there buck naked, I'll buy you both dinner here Saturday night."
"What do we pay you if we do stay over there?" I asked.
"Nothing," the woman answered, "except you have to have drinks with us over there every afternoon this week with all four of us in our birthday suits."
Before I could say anything else, Danielle blurted "you're on." The other couple were called to their table before we could say much more. Watching them walk out, I thought the woman was quite attractive. The idea of being naked with her was a little arousing.
Over our dinner, Danielle teased about how we'd have our pubes and asses out in public the next morning. Her apparent excitement at the prospect was also arousing. We passed on after dinner drinks, went back to the room, and fucked for a long time.