Annette and I were sitting on our dorm room, getting ready to sack out for the night. My walking around naked in our room all the time, and naked trips down the hall to the bathroom, had been having an effect on her. When the school year started, Annette would never have shown herself naked, not to me, not to her long time friends, and I'm not even sure to a boyfriend, not that she had one at the beginning of the year. But now? She and I were both nude, sitting on our respective beds, just talking about stuff, when she asked me, "Dana, just when did you start to become such a show-off?"
"It's kind of a long story, but it started in high school."
"High school?"
"Yeah. I never had any boobs, and while my mom bought me the typical 'training bra,' I never liked it and never filled it out, and almost always left the training bras in the dresser drawer. Naturally, that meant I had to wear camis and thicker shirts, so I wouldn't show through. And besides, it was a Catholic high school; if I'd tried to show off there, the teachers and the nuns would have been right there to drag me out by my ear.
"I wore sweatshirts a lot, actually, when the weather was cool, but who's going to want to wear them when it gets warm out, so once I'd graduated my classmates and friends got an eyeful.
"Anyway, one day a few weeks after graduation a bunch of us girls were going out to the lake. There's an artificial sandy beach on the lake, because it's a community park, and it's just where everybody went during the summer. I was wearing a fairly skimpy bikini, and I was so skinny . . . "
"You're still skinny," Annette interjected.
"I was even skinnier then. I'm about 160 lb now, but I was about 130-135 then." (If that sounds like a lot to you, remember, I'm 6'2" tall.) "Anyway, it was a kind of pale purple, with a bandeau top, and Lisa, one of my friends said, 'Dana, you ought to go topless.'
"'I can't do that
here,
I'll get arrested.'
"'Oh, c'mon, we've all seen your itty bitty titties, the guys, too, so what's being a bit more open about it going to hurt?'
"Well, there was just no
way
I was going to do that. Heck, I was only eighteen! But the more Lisa egged me on, the more I wanted to do it. Then the other girls chimed in, needling me about it as well. They all had bigger boobs than I did, and Lisa had one heck of rack on her. She was the first girl to grow boobs, and by graduation, she was a full D, but by 21 she was every bit of a size 16, if not more. The girl went
way
downhill after graduation.