Author's Note:
Here's a short one, completely softcore, so if that's not your thing you may want to move on to something else. For those who enjoy whimsical exhibitionist stories, this may be up your alley. Cheers!
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Tracy Ellingham and Bunny Simms had been working at the Strandhaus Theatre since their Summer internships began about three months ago. In that time, they had only been involved with one project, a surrealistic drama called Dark of the Moon. Now that rehearsals were almost over and their first public performance was near, the entire crew was in overdrive mode and the girls were doing their best to keep up.
Though both Tracy and Bunny were seniors at Washington College of the Arts, the internship work had them performing rather mundane tasks better suited for lesser talents. Bunny was in charge of wardrobe and Tracy more or less just catered to the rather large cast, fetching water, coffee, scripts and whatnot. There were many wardrobe changes for the cast, even the extras, which kept Bunny frazzled, but considering her skillset, nothing she couldn't manage. Sometimes, Tracy helped Bunny when she wasn't running errands for cast members. There were two "witching" scenes in the play which required the entire female members of the cast to go naked, not just the extras. Though Bunny and Tracy both felt the nudity was cheap and exploitive, it gave them a break for about ten minutes during the repetitive dress rehearsals.
Bunny and Tracy had hoped they'd get to collaborate on the play in more creative ways. After all, Tracy, an attractive 22-year-old woman, intent on being a film and stage actress. Bunny hoped to become a film director, with her eyes set on Hollywood.
A staunch feminist at heart, Bunny wanted to share her views with the world through her art, and she wasn't at all too thrilled at the female nudity in this stage production. She found it biased and misogynistic that the men didn't have to get fully naked, yet all the women did, with even the lead actress humiliating herself. Bunny truly believed the scene could do without the nudity, especially since the script didn't originally call for it. It was the director's decision, but being a lowly intern, there was no power in Bunny's opinion and the director got what he wanted without stronger objections from other cast and production members.
Bunny never caught the acting bug, but she was passionate about filmmaking. Even if Bunny did have dreams of being in front of the camera, with her features, she knew she could never manage to get naked in front of people. Bunny had enormous tits and a thin waist that didn't make for traditional proportions. Because to this, she was often the focus of unwanted attention and she always disliked it. The dirty, creepy looks men gave her chilled her to the bone. Her tits were accessorized with large, dark nipples, almost comical in size. It was difficult to find clothing that didn't expose ample amounts of cleavage, and Bunny had equal difficulty finding bras that fully covered her uniquely large areolas. She absolutely hated her "rocket tits" as she called them.
Bunny thought Tracy had a much better appearance, with an hourglass figure and traditional, attractive features. Tracy was beautiful in a hot, girl-next-door kind of way.
Tracy walked into the dressing room early the morning of the first official public performance. "Hey, Bunny, figured I'd catch you here."
"Yeah, over seven wardrobe changes for the lead alone. I gotta have my shit in order. I'll be busy as usual. You gonna be able to help today?"
"Well, Peter, the director, told me to fetch you the moment I came in today. He seemed pissed about something."
"About what?"
"I dunno," said Tracy. "Maybe he wasn't pissed, but something was definitely wrong. Anyway, so here I am. I told him I'd come get you."
"Okay, well, what? We go his office?"
"Yup, that would be my thinking."
The girls collected their purses and walked backstage to the east wing of the building, finally making their way to Peter Kincaid's private office. Tracy inhaled nervously at the door and knocked gently.
"Come in!" they heard through the door.
"Ah, ladies! Thank you, thank you. I just wanted to express my appreciation for all the great work you have done. You've been wonderful to have on set and it will reflect in your grades."
"Um... okay," said Tracy, moving further into the room with Bunny tagging behind. It was not at all normal for the director to give praise to those around him. He was a known narcissist, but it was tolerated, because he was excellent at his craft.
"From the way you sounded over the phone, I thought we were in trouble," Tracy said.
"Oh, no, no, no. Nothing like that," said the director, getting up from his chair. "But close. Something troubling was on my mind, and you girls are going to be the solution."
"Yes, what is it?" asked Tracy.
"The Garwin sisters got in a car accident last night driving home from rehearsal."
Tracy and Bunny were intimately familiar with every cast member. The Garwin sisters were actually a strip-show stage act from Dallas, who were hired in and given accommodations. They specifically fit the script for the two nude witching scenes. Their roles required young, bosom-heavy girls positioned at both front ends of the stage, towards the front. In the script, they wear sheer robes while the rest of the cast remain fully dressed, but again, the director insisted on an edgier production and they went completely buff.
The Garwin sisters weren't twins, but they looked alike: blondes, equal in height and proportions, with big firm, fake D-cup tits. The two girls pretty much looked like live-action Barbie dolls. However, both Bunny and Tracy found them to be wonderful people, as they were always cheerful and surprisingly street-smart and witty. Bunny enjoyed some of their behind-the-scenes, strip-show stories, even if she didn't agree with the lifestyle.
"Are they going to be okay?" asked Bunny.
"Yes, yes. Morgan broke her foot and Megan broke her nose. Fortunately, nothing serious."
"Thank goodness," breathed Tracy. "Well, what can we do? I suppose I need to get busy seeking out replacements."
"Oh, we found them," said Peter. "You."
Tracy and Bunny both let out short screams before plowing the director with objections.
"I did NOT sign up for that!" shouted Bunny.
"Why would you think we would do that?" squealed Tracy.
"Look, we know the girls don't do much on stage, but they certainly do enough that we need people who know their places and movements. You both fit the bill."
"What do you mean?" asked Tracy. "They just stand there."
"Wrong," said Peter. "They have entrances and exits, a few specific turns to and from the audience, you know that. And of course the end of the last scene where everyone drops to the floor. It's important noone of the actions on stage are missed. You girls know this play as well as the actors themselves and hence, we need you to step up."
"Come on, Peter! You cannot just expect us to be okay with this!" Bunny was shaking.
"Ladies, I am sorry, but what would you have me do? What would you do if you were in my shoes?"
"I certainly wouldn't have ANYONE prancing around naked if I were the director!" yelled Bunny. "It's disgusting! Humiliating!" She was almost in tears.
"Look, I can see this is very difficult for you, and yet I don't know why you have such an aversion to the human body..."
"I don't," Tracy objecting, this time. "But you don't go around making a mockery of it. Exploiting people!"
"So you're saying if you could wear clothes, you would do it?"
Tracy and Bunny looked at each, believing perhaps they were off the hook.
"Well, yes, of course," said Tracy. "Because I, like Bunny, am not comfortable being naked in front of people and also like her, I don't think it is necessary for the scene or the play."
Peter took a very long pause, his face flushing red more and more as he inhaled.
"Let me tell you something. I am greatly concerned that you both do not understand the importance of the nudity in this piece. The weight of its meaning. It is certainly NOT exploitation and it is exactly about substance. In this particular case, it adds emphasis on the subjugation of these townsfolk from the antagonist of the piece. Do you even understand this play?"
"Naked witches are not art," said Bunny, challenging the director even more, who was becoming more impatient by the minute.
Instead of responding with a flurry of expletives as Bunny had expected him to deliver - she'd seen the director blow up a few times during rehearsals - Peter instead began tearing off his clothes. Within seconds, the two girls were face to face with a very average looking, middle-aged, naked man.