This is the second chapter of The Haircut. This picks up where the story left off in the first chapter. This will be much easier to follow if you've already read the first chapter.
This story is a work of fiction. The story mentions or implies some real places and institutions. They are used fictitiously here. To the author's knowledge, no real person affiliated with any of those places or institutions has done anything akin to what is described in this story. 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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Back from the Arizona trip, Molly Havika told Vickie she wanted to talk with us. The weather was still nice, so we met her one afternoon on the shore of the lake that bordered part of the campus. Molly had told Vickie she wanted to talk "privately," and it seemed unlikely we'd be overheard on the lake front.
I think I already mentioned that Molly was a beautiful young woman, and she looked very beautiful that afternoon.
"I wanted to talk to you," she said, "because, that night at the pool in Arizona, you said you went nude as often as you could. I was raised a nudist. Going nude is important to me. I haven't met anyone else who is into social nudity since I've been here, but that isn't really a question you ask people. I'd love to have people to go nude with."
I thought this was risky ground since Molly was a student athlete and Vickie and I were both Athletic Department staff. However, Vickie started talking about it. Vickie knew Molly better than I did. If Vickie trusted her, I supposed I could too.
"I was also raised a nudist," Vickie said. "Mom and Dad sort of missed their era. I think they really wanted to be 1960s hippies. Dad had a very responsible job as an aeronautical engineer, and Mom wrote a food column for the paper. Dad took early retirement, and they bought a place out in the woods about an hour east of here. They almost never wear anything at home anymore."
What Vickie said about her parents, two charming people, was true. Vickie had taken me to meet them about a month after our first night together. I vividly remember driving up the gravel track to their house and seeing Gail and Fred standing on the porch waiting to greet us. Gail and Fred were both nude, save for sandals. Vickie had gotten out of the car and whipped her sundress over her head. Of course, she had worn nothing underneath. Naked, Vickie gave each of her parents a tight hug.
I had followed Vickie onto the porch, still dressed. After Vickie had hugged her parents, the three Traughers stood, naked, looking at me. After an awkward moment, Vickie said, "Come on Will, get those clothes off." I never expected to be stripping naked in front of my new girlfriend's parents the first time I met them. Of course, I didn't expect her parents to be naked the first time I met them either. I took my clothes off.
Once my boxers hit the floor, Gail Traugher stepped to me and gave me a hug. Gail wasn't as exquisitely beautiful as her daughter, but she was a very handsome woman. The hug was nice. When she let go of me, Fred stepped forward with his right hand extended. He and I shook hands.
"Vickie has been talking about you constantly for a month or so," Gail said. "This was a bit of a test," she continued. "This is the first time Fred and I have gone nude for our initial meeting with one of Vickie's boyfriends."
"And Will is the first boyfriend I've asked to undress to meet you," Vickie added.
"You did well for an experience you obviously were not expecting," Fred said. "You can put your clothes back on."
"If it is ok with you," I replied, "I'd prefer to stay nude."
Vickie, Gail, and Fred all smiled. "You passed the second test," Gail said. "We wouldn't want Vickie to be seriously involved with someone who doesn't like to be naked." I had figured that Vickie's parents would like me better if I stayed nude. Vickie and I arrived on Saturday morning and stayed at her parents' house until early Sunday evening Sunday. All four of us were nude the entire time. It was very pleasant, and I liked Gail and Fred.
Vickie told Molly the story about me meeting Vickie's parents. Vickie also told Molly about our summer trips to the beach on the Columbia River and the beach in British Columbia. Vickie just told Molly we went "with friends." Since Chandra was one of Molly's coaches, we left it up to her whether to tell Molly that she regularly goes nude with us.
Molly told us that she was the youngest, by several years, of three children. Her father was Hawaiian. Her mother, of north European ancestry, was from Indiana. Her parents had met when they were both in the Army stationed in Germany. Curious, they tried FKK sites over there and became committed nudists. They had left the Army and moved to Hawai'i before Molly was born. She and her older siblings had been raised as nudists. "Mom and Dad bought a place on the Big Island a few years ago," she said. "It is somewhat isolated, so my parents don't wear clothes at home, and I don't either when I'm there. There are beaches few people go to that I and some friends use for sunning, swimming, and playing volleyball nude whenever I'm home."
The three of us walked along the lakefront. The conversation moved from nudism specifically to our backgrounds more generally. Molly was articulate and seemed bright. I did get the sense that she didn't know what she wanted to do long term. We also learned that Molly had a boyfriend, a swimmer named Reilly Clark. "It is difficult," Molly said, "because I'm tied up with volleyball all fall and swimming starts as we're finishing our season. He and I don't see each other as much as we want to except in spring."
"Does Reilly know you are a nudist?" Vickie asked.
"Oh sure," Molly replied.
"He's ok with that?" I asked.
"He seems to be," Molly said. "I really haven't had the opportunity to get him naked with other people." Molly giggled. "He doesn't have any problem getting naked with me." I thought Reilly would have to be crazy if he hesitated for a second about getting naked with Molly.
Vickie asked Molly, "do you know about the Head and Body Salon?"