Having just hung her skirt on the hook in the changing booth of the clothing store, Carol stood naked save her bikini panties.
"Carol?" The voice boomed like the speaker were using a bullhorn.
Immediately, a lump formed in Carol's throat. A million thoughts raced through her mind. Who was calling her? Who even knew she was there? What did they want? Then, to things more consequential. What if he peeked in on her? What if he entered the booth? Why hadn't she worn a bra today? Why hadn't she put the new blouse on as soon as she'd removed the old one? Why had she chosen to disrobe so completely?
She stood trembling, frozen with fear, her nipples fossilized. She held her breath hoping whoever had called her wouldn't know she was there. Her name boomed again. It sounded like he was right outside the curtain. Should she answer? She didn't have time.
The curtain was swept aside. Nearly-naked Carol, on display for any eye that cared to take her in. One arm flew up to cover her breasts; the other was dispatched assist the translucent pink panties in shielding something even more precious.
It's difficult to say which was more shocked. The proper British mum standing half-naked in public or the young black man standing bug-eyed, ogling her. He spoke first.
"You're not Carol."
"I - I..." Carol began before realizing she had no idea how to finish her sentence. Her mind spun wildly as it tried to gain sufficient traction to formulate a thought.
Again, he made the first move. Placing two fingers on the arm protecting her breasts, he pressed down gently and Carol permitted the greater exposure having her arm at her side rather than shielding her assets provided. The young man stared and for reasons she couldn't explain or even understand, Carol became excited. His gaze moved to the hand still covering her pussy. Her excitement built. His eyes moved to hers then back to that hand making Carol feel uncomfortable denying the handsome, exotic youth intimate visual access to her body. She lowered the hand and stood before him, hands at her sides, curtain agape.
"There you are, Bl...," were the next words Carol heard as the most beautiful, caramel-colored girl she'd ever seen sauntered into view. Actually, that's not entirely accurate. The girl was the most beautiful person Carol had ever seen, regardless of color. That she also happened to be a mouth-watering shade of brown tinted gold wasn't germane to that.
"Blaine!" Caramel Carol shrieked. "What are you doing? People can see in..." and the privacy curtain swung shut as abruptly as it had opened. But not before Proper Mum Carol regained enough composure to look out, into the store, to check for peepers.
Sure enough a pasty-faced, pudgy, balding man was enjoying the show Carol unintendedly offered. A troubling sense of recognition came over Carol but she couldn't quite place the man. Worse, a similar, knowing flicker registered in his leering eyes. Fortunately, a woman (his wife?), who appeared to be the man's identical twin in drag, ushered him away leaving only speculation about who may have witnessed her embarrassment for poor Carol. She could only hope he'd seen enough to know she'd been the victim of her lascivious display and not its perpetrator.
Still, the oddest part of the whole episode, to this point at least, was that Caramel Carol had drawn the curtain with she and Blaine inside the change room with Carol rather than outside where they logically belonged. Now, two young Americans lingered at their "private" showing of Carol's nearly nude body. Carol's immediate thought was to again strategically deploy her upper limbs in an improvised modesty defense. But abandoned her posturing when she saw Blaine, almost imperceptibly, shake his head no. Carol remained with her hands fidgeting nervously at her sides.
"We're so sorry," Caramel Carol sympathized. "You must be so embarrassed. I have no idea what I'd do if I were in your place. I'm sorry...I'm Carol, by the way. I can't believe we didn't introduce ourselves. Um, this is Blaine which you may have gathered already." Clearly the younger woman was flustered as she held out her hand to Carol. For some reason, unknown to her, Carol shook the offered hand like they'd just been introduced at the opera and not as a naked matron sharing a dressing room with a couple of leering foreigners.
Carol's confusion continued unabated but her trepidation began to ease when her loins reacted positively to her condition. She felt a smile trying to form on her lips when she realized the effect her nudity was having on these young strangers. What should have been the most horrifying encounter of her life was turning out to be anything but as she found Blaine as exciting as his companion was comforting. Still, standing before a pair of young adults in nothing more substantial than a pair of flimsy knickers was too unseemly even for Carol's heightened arousal to justify. Fortunately, the brevity of their encounter was such that a rapid return to greater normalcy might yet salvage the better part of her dignity.
"I...uh... think I'd better get dressed," Carol said with a shy smile, reaching for her blouse.
"Why?" blurted Caramel Carol with genuine incredulity. "I mean, you're beautiful. Isn't she, Blaine?"
Young Blaine did naught but stand, stare, and nod as Carol turned turned bright crimson. She felt the flush rush to her face and silently cursed her mother for passing down the blushing gene. Blaine and Caramel Carol were treated to the sight of something even those most familiar with Carol's famed propensity to redden didn't know. When she blushed her breasts turned a rosy hue.
"Oh, god, you're making me blush," Carol stammered as she fanned herself with her hand. But, just as she felt the color begin to drain, Blaine cupped a breast, brushing his index finger over the nipple.
"Blaine!" yelped Caramel Carol for the second time in a span scarcely sufficient to include an introduction let alone an introduction and a groping. She slapped at her boyfriend's hand causing him to withdraw it but scratching her nail across Carol's engorged nipple in the process.
"Ouch!" Carol winced involuntarily, using her hand to cover her wound.
"I'm sooo sorry," Caramel Carol offered sincerely, pushing Carol's hand away and using her own to soothe the pretty blonde more than old enough to be her mother. "Let me," Caramel Carol continued, "I've just graduated nursing school." Disturbingly, Carol found the young womans's soft caresses mildly arousing.
Carol involuntarily licked her lips as her nipple hardened and began to throb deliciously. Now she had been groped by both strangers. This had turned into a most unexpected day and, unbeknownst to her then, what had transpired already was mild in comparison to what was yet to come.
"Feel better?" Caramel Carol asked hopefully, removing her hands from Carol's breast. A raised red mark could be clearly seen traversing Carol's once again milky skin from one side of her wide nipple to the other.
"I'm fine," Carol smiled, reaching again for her blouse. "You've both been sweet and, uh...well, exciting. Oh god, I shouldn't have said that. Now I'm going to blush again." Fortunately the Americans ignored her new, self-induced embarrassment.