My story takes place in the same fictional Colorado that has legalized National Nude Day as many of my Nude Day Stories. I was only going to write a single story this year, but Avery and Tess from A Wandering Muse at Camp insisted on another adventure.
Avery - A decade from now, National Nude Day in a small Colorado mountain town
Tess paced back and forth, holding the neck of her violin awkwardly as she tried to keep from hyperventilating. This wasn't the first time Avery and her wife had performed for an audience, but never had they had so many people awaiting their set. Avery peeked through the curtain out to the amphitheater.
Is this half the town?
In the front row, she saw the four friends that had come on the trip with them, as well as the set of six new friends they had met on vacation.
Devin had his camera clutched in his hand. He was the only one sanctioned to take pictures at the performance, and they knew he'd do an excellent job keeping Tess and Avery anonymous, but Avery doubted the venue could police all cell phones. Avery had been the subject of her wife's lens several times; however, there was something different about someone other than her soulmate taking the photos. Tess seemed to place an inordinate amount of trust in the man she'd only known for a few days, but Ori and Blake vouched for him.
"You sure you want to do this, babe?" Avery reached out to grab her wife's hand, the one with the bow in it.
"Of course. This is your fantasy, isn't it, Av?" Tess gave her a gleaming smile, but Avery could see the worry pulsing beneath.
Next year would be ten years since everything in Avery's life changed in a crescendo of a summer. Avery was supposed to be at Camp Winslow for only a single week, as she was a counselor for her younger sister. An accident involving who should have been the camp's computer expert and a lost internship presented Avery with an opportunity to teach campers to code all summer. After a rough start, it led to the discovery that she loved teaching on top of doing computer engineering. That would eventually lead her to get her doctorate so she could become a professor of computer engineering.
The far more momentous discovery, though, was the woman holding her hand. Prior to the summer, Avery had never harbored as much as a crush on another woman. One night, when Avery was driven from her bunk by a nightmare, she discovered Tess's nocturnal activities. The incredible woman was playing her violin as a camera captured her dancing and playing. Although it took weeks for Avery to come to terms with it, she'd fallen for the remarkable young woman in a single night. Unbeknownst to her, a similar reaction had befallen her now wife.
"Is it only mine?" Avery asked as she leaned in for a kiss.
"No." Tess's kiss was hungry. They hadn't been able to carry out their usual pre-concert ritual, which seemed to settle their nerves, as the rental house was overloaded with visitors all day, and Tess liked to be loud. "I kinda want to do this before next summer."
"Scared that you won't be able to get back in shape?" Avery had zero apprehension that her wife wouldn't look exquisite to her no matter what the future brought. "You saying that I didn't?" She teased.
"No! Of course not! You look somehow better since Addy."
"Good answer." Avery collected another kiss.
Addison Grace Ernst was their first child, whom Avery gave birth to a little over a year and a half earlier. They debated for quite a while which of the pair would be the first to be pregnant. Tess contended that she was a couple years older, so it made sense for her to go first, but the schedule worked out for Avery. Addy had been the best thing to happen in their lives, and Tess was going to have their second about this time next year if everything went as planned.
Their daughter was staying at Camp Winslow with her grandparents this week. Tess's mom and stepfather insisted on a week watching Addy so that her mothers could spend the week revitalizing their love. Addy had three cousins from Tess's stepbrother Carl and Molly's kids and another pair of unofficial cousins in Edith and Mateo's pair of daughters. They were another pair of lifers who showed up to be counselors every summer and had become friends despite a sordid history between Mateo, Tess, and Avery. Camp Winslow, with found and actual family, was the perfect summer location for Addison to grow up. For most of the summer, Tess and Avery worked as counselors in the place where their love first bloomed.
"Though I don't think I need my tits to get bigger like yours did." Tess reached out the hand with the bow in it to toy with Avery's chest as she giggled.
"They're perfect already. Why did I already do your makeup!" Avery had to restrain herself before the show.
In the almost decade they'd been together, and their five years of wedded bliss, Tess had only gotten more attractive. The Nude Day concert would be the first time that Tess had shared her favored way of playing her violin with anyone other than Avery. At least live, Tess had a few volumes of nude photography that she'd used a timer or Avery to procure as she danced and played her violin. Published under the name Quintessa Gossamer, Tess's pseudonym was joined by Avelina Gossamer for her third volume.
Their aliases were married several years before the ladies eloped. Avery's coming out was the final straw in the dissolution of her parents' marriage, and although she never had any doubt that Tess was her soulmate, a lavish wedding was never in the cards for them.
Avery's mother's overreaction to her daughter being a lesbian led to a mental break, the end of which was leaving Avery's car, filled with her childhood memories, abandoned on the train tracks near their home. There was a year of trials, and that was the last time that Avery saw her mother. After her time in prison, she ran away with the pastor she'd cheated on Avery's father with. Avery still prayed that the woman would finally seek out the help she needed so she could begin to atone for her prior actions, but if it never happened, she was coming to terms with it.
"Think they'll give us like twenty minutes of alone time before the concert?" Tess pulled her in close.
"Sadly, I think they have a schedule to keep, and we're just the opening act."
"I'll have to wait until after to have my way with you."
"We'll have the house to ourselves all night."
