There's a reason why your friends become your friends.
I enjoyed meeting each of the four women in this story, but generally our meetings faded into the patchwork of unremarkable encounters that made up my early twenties. I met Jules at a work party while desperately trying to avoid using up any more of my life in contact with my job. She was doing the same, so we did it together (so to speak); we knew each other for months before I found out what she did for the company. Half a year or so later, Sophia stood in line behind me for 2 hours outside a rock concert in the city. I chatted with her steadily for the last 45 minutes, and once we got inside she introduced me to Dani, who had shelled out for VIP entry. Lauren was a mostly-unsuccessful blind date who bonded with me by complaining about the mutual acquaintance who had arm-twisted us together. Small stuff, standard stuff, the usual stuff.
No indications that they would be the primary players in the most intense evenings of my life.
But there's a reason why your friends become your friends. Gradually, over about a year, the small stuff became big, and the standard stuff became dynamic as we encountered together a common streak of personality that never made an appearance at any of our initial meetings.
Jules was the first one to show it. That girl doesn't have many boundaries, at least not with her friends. One time about a month after we met, I picked her up at her house so we could go get sandwiches, and when she saw me coming, she whipped off her shirt and bra, snuck up to the door, and threw it open a split second before I knocked, just for the reaction. I swear I stood there for ten full seconds, staring like I was trying to make sense of an obscure Picasso. She didn't stop laughing until we got to the restaurant. I used the tease her about that incident, but it was obvious she wasn't bothered—if I made a crack about seeing her topless, even in front of our other friends, she'd just smile and bat her eyelashes, and launch into her exaggerated impression of my reaction, and the conversation would roll right along. Soon enough, the incident became common knowledge, and our friends would laugh about it with us. So, it wasn't the least bit strange when Dani began needling Jules the Flasher over a delivered pizza one night. As I recall, Jules was complaining about the inadequate air-conditioning in Dani's apartment:
"Dani, could you get me some ice water? It is
un
believably hot in this place." Jules has a trademark way of pronouncing words like "unbelievable", as though the first syllable is twice as important as the rest of the word.
"Geez, I know, it's not my fault! Take off a layer!"
"All I'm wearing is a tank top and a bra!"
"Well, take them off and show off for Eddie, like you do!"
Laughter. "Hey, I would, but he still hasn't recovered from last time."
Dani returned with the ice water, still smiling. "I was about to say, he's already seen them
at least
once anyway...". Then she suddenly squinted at Jules. "I will never understand why you aren't more embarrassed by that."
Jules shrugged and leaned back in her chair. "Honestly, I couldn't care less. It was fun. If I thought I could get him again like I did the first time, I'd totally do it." Her frankness gave the statement an odd feeling of finality. "I love being naked, anyway."
I'm not quite sure why I spoke up at this moment. It would've been so easy to keep the conversation light, keep teasing Jules about her love of nudity, or just shrug it off altogether. But something about the statement—combined, I suppose, with the intruding visual memory of my friend's bare breasts—touched a nerve in me, such that I brought forth with awkward sincerity: "Hey, being naked is amazing."
All the attention in the room immediately turned toward me. "Oh really? This is new information, Eddie", Lauren said playfully, "tell us more."
Sophia and Dani immediately piled on. "Yes, would you care to elaborate?" "Please tell us about how you wish you could be naked all the time."
I laughed loudly, and a little defensively. "Hey, am I wrong, though? Tell me I'm wrong, any of you."
"I understand, Eddie", Lauren pressed. "But I just didn't know that you felt that way. We all know about Lady Godiva over there, but sounds like you've been holding something out on us?" She asked the question with a you-can-tell-me-anything smile, but her eyes were dancing mischievously. In hindsight, she knew she had me right where she wanted me, and I should've just given in and let my friends make fun of me. As it was, though, I decided to wriggle a little more.
Much more weakly than I intended, I sputtered, "I was just agreeing with Jules. She's the exhibitionist here."
All of them broke out laughing at that, but Lauren again spoke up to finish me off. "We already know about Jules though! She's shown off her boobs to me too! But you haven't shown off anything! Does this mean you're going to start?"
"No, I just—" but my red face was already speaking far too eloquently. It was time to fess up.
I suppose it's time to fess up here as well, and explain clearly what I've been hinting at. Here goes: I am an exhibitionist, and as of recently, a CFNM enthusiast. I love being naked, and being seen naked, and the sexual rush I get from having a fully-clothed woman demand my clothes from me, leaving me exposed and helpless before her, is incredible. Furthermore, in case it wasn't obvious, Jules, Sophia, Dani, and Lauren are my partners in this particular crime. They are the CFs to my NM. They're all sweet, sexy, hilarious women, and as strange as it sounds, the anticipation of spending an evening in one of their homes naked, exposed, and embarrassed, while the four of them gently torment me, is sometimes what gets me through the week. I didn't get naked for them after that first conversation, but my confession instigates a weeks-long investigation of kinks that eventually made its way through the entire group, and it always circled back to the idea of nakedness. Finally, after a lot of tentative, awkward, exciting discussion, we agreed to try having a CFNM get-together, and we were immediately hooked.
The rules we settled on are extremely loose. I stay naked at all times, and they stay clothed; I have my boundaries, and we all abide by a standing safe-word code. Everything after that, though, is up to them. Sometimes our "scenes" are highly planned, and sometimes things change spontaneously; sometimes their instructions are highly sexual, and sometimes I only have to, say, cook and serve dinner without my clothes. The unpredictability is half the fun.
At this point, I should offer some actual introductions of my friends themselves. I'll try to characterize them quickly, in the order I mentioned them before:
Jules is bold, friendly, and guileless. She's an infusion of energy into any room she enters. An insufferable male acquaintance once tried to bro-bond with me by speculating about how exciting she must be in bed. I ignored him. He was right.
Sophia is a quiet, nervous person with an incongruous love of punk rock music. Even more incongruous, though, is her massive voyeurism kink. It took her weeks to admit this, even after she had seen me naked multiple times, but the look on her face the first time she watched my clothes hit the floor of her apartment is something I daydream about to this day. We swap nude pictures on the regular now, and hers are exceptional.
Dani is kind, empathetic, and thoughtful, but extremely mischievous. During one of our early CFNM nights, she got Sophia and Jules to hold my arms and legs, and she tickled me ferociously until full tears streamed down my face. On seeing this, she immediately stopped and began massaging my aching sides and abdomen, and helping me to my feet. Once I was standing solidly, she leaned in and, in one smooth motion, kissed me tenderly on the cheek and poked my naked ribs so that my whole left side crumpled. Brutal and hilarious.
Lauren is smart and composed in a way that belies her sexy side. She graduated
summa
with a degree in sociology, but got shut out of grad school for reasons I cannot comprehend. During our play, she's a devastating wicked witch with a core of steel. Usually she doesn't push it all that hard, but when she insists on her way, I get full-body chills. Never takes any clothes off, because she doesn't need to. Our blind date was a bust primarily because we both hate blind dates.