Imagine a classic Baroque painting: a voluptuous woman, nude, lies stretched out on a divan. Men and women mill around, talking, unconcerned with the nakedness before them. Just a figment of Peter Paul Ruben's fevered imagination, right?
Well, that was close to what was taking place at a sorority house at State University. It was a party welcoming this year's new pledges to the sorority. But the situation I'm talking about was not a planned part of the evening. One of the sisters, Lisa, was wearing only panties, stretched out on her back on a sofa, one foot on the sofa, the other on the floor. She did not have the exaggerated breasts, hips and fleshy buttocks so favored by 17th century painters. No, she was a modern woman, with full but not huge breasts, a lean curvy body and a tight rounded ass. She was drowsy from alcohol, half asleep. The party continued on around her, people drinking, dancing, trying not to stare at her -- but everyone fully conscious of her presence.
Back up an hour. The party at the sorority house had been going on for some time. Music played, drinks flowed, and the college kids were having a good time. Lisa was a pretty, long-haired brunette, a sophomore, but still new to drinking alcohol. Like so many in that situation, she had yet to learn to control her taste for the brew. She poured herself another glass of vodka. She hadn't met anybody; it looked like the evening would be a bust. But at least there was alcohol. She loved the blurred reality intoxication brought, the dream-like haze it produced. Alcohol calmed Lisa and she drifted willingly into its clutches. That last drink pushed her over a line, and she was now more in a world in her head than in the one around her.
Standing in a hazy state near one of the large sofas in the main room, Lisa announced to no one in particular, "I'm tired. I'm going to bed."
While the party continued around her, she slowly unbuttoned her blouse. She slipped it off her shoulders. Underneath was a push-up blue bra, which caused her breasts to swell invitingly.
The party-goers in the room began to notice what was happening.
"We should stop her," hissed a sorority sister to Lisa's friend Sarah.
"Screw it," said Sarah. "We've warned her plenty of times not to get blind drunk. She's got to learn. Let this play out."
Lisa, with unsteady hands, unzipped her skirt, and it fell to the floor. She was now in just her bra and panties.
"Where are my pajamas?" Lisa asked.
No one answered. Conversation in the room had slowed as all eyes watched this slow-motion strip show.
Lisa pressed the release on the front of the bra and it fell open. Her plump lily white breasts spilled out, the bra now hanging in two halves, suspended from her shoulders.
"Let me get that for you," said a fraternity fellow, helpfully. He freed the bra from her shoulders. Lisa was now only in her panties.
"Where are my pajamas?" Lisa asked, again.
A few of the young men at the party were eager to make this train wreck worse. They surrounded her.
"They're in the laundry," the frat boy improvised. "You'll have to sleep in the nude."
"No," Lisa said. "I always wear pajamas. I need my pajamas."
"You should get those panties off," one said. "You can't sleep in your underwear."
"Yes," Lisa replied, speaking deliberately, as intoxicated people do. "But first I need my pajamas."
Resigned that her pajamas were missing, Lisa sat down on the sofa, then reclined onto her back. One leg was on the sofa, the other on the floor, opening up a clear view of her groin. The panties fell back into the creases of her vulva, offering a tantalizing prospect as to what lay beneath. Lisa closed her eyes. Nude except for her panties, she drifted in a sleep-like state.