"Hello?" Amanda yelled out as she stood on her tiptoes and peered over the wooden gate. "Are you back here, Dr Kim?"
"C'mon in," Kim Peterson yelled back, "I'm back here by the pool."
Amanda fiddled with the gate latch for a moment until she was able to get it open and swing the wooden gate in. She made her way around the corner of the house and spotted Kim sitting at the same poolside table where the two of them had spoken yesterday. Kim was completely nude as she always was when she was at home, and she was sipping a glass of wine as she relaxed under the stars. Even though she was not surprised by the fact that the town doctor who had examined her since she was in grade school preferred to be nude in the privacy of her own back yard, Amanda was still a bit at ease as she walked over and sat down.
"Is Dr. Rick here?" Amanda asked as she looked around the property.
"He's inside on a conference call with some doctors at the regional hospital," Kim answered, noting that this response seemed to relax her visitor a bit. "He will probably be out later, but he knows that you would probably want some time alone with me."
"I guess so," Amanda said, "but I am still not sure why I am here."
"Well, I think that will ultimately be up to you, dear, but I got the distinct impression yesterday that you needed to talk to someone. Someone who might be able to help you with your anxieties about your own body and the sexual feelings that you are starting to experience. Does that sound right to you?"
"Yes," Amanda replied a bit nervously as she looked down, "I think I would like to do that. Are you sure you want to spend your time with me?"
"Rick and I have been your doctors since you were in about 3rd grade, I would guess, and you have been a good neighbor for just as long," Kim answered. "We have watched you grow into a beautiful young woman and we both want you to be happy. I don't know if we can help you with the emotions that you are struggling with now, but we are certainly willing to help. I have some ideas, but if you are willing to try them, remember that we view you here as a friend and a neighbor, not as a patient at our clinic."
"I understand"
"So please feel free to call us Kim and Rick, without all the doctor formalities."
"I'll try, but it may be hard to break that habit for a while," Amanda said. "What did you have in mind for tonight?"
Kim took a sip of wine and paused as though to collect her thoughts. She looked over at her visitor and tried to get a sense about Amanda's readiness to embark on the plans that she had arranged for the evening. "How do you feel about your body, Amanda?" Kim asked with a surprising frankness. "Do you like the way you look when you see yourself in the mirror after a shower? Are you happy with your appearance when you are out with friends or alone with Ben?"
"I - I guess that I am happy with my body," Amanda replied in a voice that made it clear that she was startled with the question, "as much as any girl can be happy. Don't we all have thoughts about being prettier or thinner?"
"Of course it is natural for people to dream about being more attractive or athletic, but it is also important to accept the appearance of your own body and feel comfortable with who you are."
"Do you think because I did not take off all of my clothes with everyone else and go skinny dipping yesterday, I am not comfortable with my body?" Amanda asked with a bit of annoyance showing in her voice.
"Of course, not, dear," Kim replied, "there are many people who do not feel comfortable going naked in public, especially in a mixed crowd. I was thinking more of your comments about feeling uncomfortable about letting Ben see you when you are alone with him."
"I've never felt comfortable being naked," Amanda confessed after taking a long pause to collect her thoughts, "even when I am alone in my bathroom. That's why I never shower with other girls after practice or change in front of them."
"Then I think this may a place for us to start, because satisfying sexual relations with another person begin with a foundation of trust. If you are not able to develop that level of trust with Ben when it comes to showing your body to him or touching each other, everything about your physical relationship will be strained."
"I have thought that many times, but it is not so easy to just change my feelings when I am alone with Ben."
"When you watched all of your friends splashing around in the pool yesterday without swimsuits," Kim asked, "did you wonder what that might have felt like for them?"
"Yes"
"Then how about trying it tonight? No friends around to embarrass you now. If you would like, I can even turn of the patio lights so that it would be darker. Maybe if you try it, you will show yourself a kind of confidence that you have never experienced before."
"Would I be alone?" Amanda asked with a look that suggested that she was considering the suggestion.
"I can leave you alone while you undress if that would make you more comfortable," Kim answered, "but I was hoping to spend more time with you this evening and I am sure Rick will want to swim after he is done with his call. But remember, we have already seen you naked many times at the clinic, so you have nothing to show us that we haven't already seen."
Amanda sat and thought about the invitation for a few moments and then got up, walked over to the pool, and reached down to feel the water temperature. Apparently reassured that it was "like bath water" as all of her friends had declared yesterday, she returned to the table and nodded. "This is wonderful," Kim said as she stood up and gave her young visitor a reassuring hug. "Tell you what. I will leave you alone while you get ready and go in and make some snacks for later." With that, she went in the patio door and turned off the patio lights before she stepped into the house.
Now alone but still very nervous, Amanda began to undress. She kicked off her sandals and unzipped her sun dress, clutching it at her breast before letting it slide to the ground. As if to delay the inevitable, she picked up the dress and meticulously folded it and set it on her chair. Her lacy blue bra was next to join the pile. She began to walk around the pool deck in just her lace panties as if looking for more time to convince herself that she was doing the right thing. Finally, she walked back to her chair, skimmed her panties down her legs, and placed them on the pile of clothes.
To her surprise, she had to admit that it felt okay to be naked outdoors. The soft breeze felt good on her skin, and she was comforted by the fact that it was very dark with only a few small lights around the edge of the pool deck and a few underwater lights to illuminate the pool area. She walked over to the edge of the pool and watched her reflection in the water with interest. Despite her discomfort with nudity, she knew that she had a great body. She actually loved all of the stares that the boys gave her as she walked around campus, and she guessed that most of them would have done anything to have a poolside seat tonight to see her standing like this in her birthday suit.
She turned toward the house when she heard the patio door slide open and she expected to see Kim come out with a tray of refreshments. Instead, it was Rick coming out to join her. Amanda instinctively tried to cover her body as he got closer,
"I can see that you have decided to join us for a swim tonight," Rick said with a smile on his face. "And I must say, you have selected a beautiful swimsuit to wear tonight. And what a perfect fit!"
"I wasn't expecting you," Amanda stammered nervously, "at least not until later."
"Well, my conference call ended earlier than I thought, and I didn't want to waste this beautiful evening. Are you ready to try the shower? You know we insist on that for all of our guests before they get into the pool." He took Amanda's hand and led her to the outdoor enclosure.
Amanda faced away from Rick when she stepped under one of the two shower heads in the outdoor enclosure, and she let out a small yelp when the she felt the first cold blast of water on her skin. The water quickly warmed, and she timidly began soaping up her body, hoping that Rick was not looking at her. She could hear him talking over the sound of the spray.
"There's nothing more exhilarating than an outdoor shower," he declared. "How you doing over there, Amanda?"
"I'm okay," she replied quietly. All the while, she was thinking to herself how strange it felt to be showering outside, especially since she was standing three feet from a man who had been her doctor since grade school. "The water's getting warmer now, and it does feel pretty nice, I guess. Where did Dr Kim...?" she began to ask when she was startled by the feel of two soapy hands on her back.
"Kim and I always take advantage of the buddy system when we shower. You know, you wash my back, I'll wash yours."
For a few moments, Amanda said nothing as she felt the doctor's hands roam across her back. He could tell that she was very tense, so he began to gently massage the muscles in her neck and shoulders. When he could detect that she was starting to relax, his soapy hands began to caress her lower back and then make their way down and over the soft flesh of her beautiful ass. Amanda shuddered again since she had not been expecting that this shower was going to be such an intimate experience.
"Kim tells me that you and Ben have never had the pleasure of exploring each other's bodies like this. Is that true."
"Yes," Amanda answered with an embarrassed tone in her voice. "Ben has suggested it a few times when his parents were out for the night, but I was always afraid to do it. I really wanted to try it with him here yesterday after the volleyball game at the party, but then when I saw all my friends crowded around the showers, I got cold feet and didn't do it."