"You decided faster than I expected."
I shrugged. I was sitting across from Smitty at one of the long dining tables going over the details of how the character concept would work. We had already come up with solutions for most of my main concerns, and now we were just fleshing out the details. "Well," I explained as I looked up from the page I was writing on, "I don't really have a problem with the nudity per se. My main concern was how certain people would react, but I'm not worried about that anymore."
I thought back angrily at the look of satisfaction I had seen on Gregg's face.
"Yeah, I think we found a good solution for that." Smitty patted the small device sitting on the bench next to him.
I smiled as I broke out of the memory. He wasn't talking about the same thing I was, but that was fine. I'd rather the fewer people who knew, the better.
I felt someone come up behind me. "Do you mind if I steal her away now? I would like to help her with her costume."
Smitty and I both looked at the costume mistress. She was holding a small box, and smiling like a kid with a new toy.
"Oh. I wasn't going to bother with the dress."
"I know." She shook the box and I heard a rattling sound. "I wanted to try out some ornamentation that I haven't had a chance to. I'm Meaghan, by the way."
"Hi Meaghan, I'm Rachel." I held out my hand and she shook it. Turning back to Smitty, I asked, "is there anything more you need me for?"
"Not that I can think of. I'm just going to work on some plot over here. I think we should have your character come in just after dinner. It should still be warm enough at that point. We'll just need to keep you out of sight until then."
I nodded, and Meaghan grabbed me by the arm and pulled me towards her costuming station. "That gives us a lot of time. This will work out great." She stood me up in front of a mirror, then slowly rotated me around in a circle. She seemed deep in thought, so I just let her do her work. She set the box down on a small side table and opened it up. I looked down and saw a variety of different beads and crystals of all different shades and styles separated into their individual sections.
"A glamour should look glamourous," Meaghan said, mostly to herself. "Let me see. Nicely tanned. No real bra line?" Meaghan looked up at me, questioningly.
"I told you the nudity wasn't really an issue. I usually sunbathe topless in my yard."
Meaghan nodded. "That makes things easier. I won't need to use too much tanner for concealment. Now off with the bottoms."
"What?" I looked around the room. Everyone had stopped what they were doing and were now looking at me.
Meaghan didn't even bother to look around the room. "If you can't strip naked in front of this small group, how are you going to be naked in front of 82 guys and 24 girls for the rest of the week?"
I closed my eyes and released the drawstring on my skirt. I let it fall, and quickly pushed my panties off as well. There was some slight murmuring from the other people in the room, but I was soon distracted by Meaghan's attentions.
"Nicely trimmed." I blushed. I had been expecting some "quality time" with my boyfriend this week. That wasn't going to happen now. "Would you mind if I did some shaping with it though?"
"Shaping?"
Meaghan looked around at the others in the room. They quickly pretended to resume what they were working on. "You know what. Let's leave these losers alone. You come with me, and we'll find a place to discuss all the fabulous things I have in store for you." She winked and guided me by the hand down a set of stairs. "Besides, they have to get set up for lunch, and we don't want everyone seeing you until you're ready."
Once again, I was reminded that I was about to be naked in front of a huge number of people. As I had said, I didn't mind being naked. The half dozen people upstairs hadn't even been the most I had been naked in front of - that would have been the twenty-plus at the cast party from our performance of Macbeth my senior year in high school. But the previous times had all been spontaneous. This would be the first time that I had planned to show my body off. And, it seemed if Meaghan had her way, I would be presenting it as a work of art. The idea both terrified me and made my body tingle...
Meaghan led me to a quiet room downstairs set up with a couple of bunks with sleeping bags on them and a table in the middle. "This is my room," Meaghan informed me as I looked around. "You can stay here this afternoon. I'll bring you food and anything you need. But first, please stand over there."
She sat down at the table and brought out a sketch pad. I moved to where she had been pointing, and watched as she drew a quick picture of me. "Wow, you're amazing." Her hands practically flew across the page, and I could see the form of my body appear on the paper in front of her.
As she finished, she turned the page to face me. I moved forward and leaned on the table. "So, here is what I have in mind. First, do you mind if I dye your hair?"
"Dye my hair?"
"Yeah. It's a temporary dye. Should only last about a week. But I think your character would look really good with blue hair. Really water-like. Second, I think it would look really pretty if we trimmed your bush into the shape of a water droplet. Color it blue to match the drapes, and voilà ." She made a few motions with her pencils, and I had to admit, it looked like a water nymph. "I'm also going to use tanner on your panty lines. Have to make sure to use the waterproof one." She seemed to be engrossed in her work again, so I sat down and let her talk. "Then create a design with the blue and green gems here, here and here."
Finally she finished her sketch, and I marveled at her masterpiece. "You really are an amazing artist."
"I'm majoring in graphic design at college. I love doing this sort of thing. So what do you think?"