"Do you trust me?"
Krista had forgotten how it progressed this far. On her back laying on her bed, her arms covered her small, pert breasts while Lia's hands had grasped onto the waistband of her panties, the only article of clothing on her body before she'd be completely naked. She stared down across her pale skin, her slim body. Lia's chin rested on her raised knees.
Krista was reluctant, but she knew how to answer, "I trust you."
"Then why so protective?" Lia inquired.
"This is just..." she had a moment's difficulty with words "... new to me."
"Come on," Lia tapped her hip, "let's get these off you." Lia again tugged at the waistband.
Although hesitant, Krista flexed her hips a little, lifting her small butt off her bed just enough that Lia could get the panties off her waist. Krista kept her thighs tight together, however, but Lia fought through that resistance, getting Krista's panties around her bent knees and off her ankles. Krista moved her hand immediately to cover her crotch, leaving her other arm across her chest.
Lia leaned in and tugged at her arm, "Come on, you shouldn't be so shy about this." Lia got to her feet next to the bed and slid her thumbs under the waistband of her panties. "Would it help if I did this?" She slid the panties off her hips, past her knees and let them drop to her ankles before kicking them aside. "See, now we're both naked."
Slowly Krista sat herself up, using the hand she had over her crotch to push herself up while keeping her thighs tight together and her arm over her breasts. "How can you be so comfortable like that?"
"What do you mean?"
"Naked!" she all but yelled. "How are you so comfortable being... naked in front of others?"
"Because I'm comfortable with my body," she was forward about it. "I mean, okay I'm not the slimmest girl around, and my tits could be a little bigger, but there's not much I can do about that. I just accept what I have."
"And you're comfortable with others seeing you naked?"
Lia seemed somewhat perplexed by that inquiry, "Why should I not be?" She pointed to Krista's arm, "Now lower your arm. Let me see them."
Krista still stonewalled, but didn't say a word at first. "Why?"
"If you want to be comfortable being naked in front of others, why not start with your best friend?"
"Who said I wanted this? You're the one pushing me into this."
"You wanted to see my tits, so it's only fair that I get to see yours."
Krista's voice was becoming elevated. "Yes, your tits. Just your tits. That's all I asked to see. And it'd be fair to see only my tits if you hadn't started stripping naked and then trying to strip me naked."
"And what's wrong with that?"
"Not all of us are as comfortable as you with being naked in front of others."