"I can't believe you didn't know there was a ball on the first night!"
Gemma felt so foolish as she heard Amy talk about the events of that evening. It was her first night in the dorm rooms of her new university, and at just 18, she had been feeling nervous all day about the right impression.
"Did you not get all the stuff from the union?" Amy asked, amazed at Gemma's lack of knowledge
"It must have got lost in the post or something - I had no idea!"
Gemma had only known Amy for 5 hours, since moving into her shared room on the third floor of their university halls. They had instantly got on, and had helped each other with unpacking, and preparing their new home. But this realisation had thrown things. Amy was excited about attending a first-night ball and 'checking out the talent' - she had already tried several dresses on, and by now was standing in her underwear, but Gemma hadn't even realised the event was planned.
"I don't think I'm going to go," Gemma began, "I haven't got a thing to wear, and I really don't want to be seen in half of the stuff I've brought at a ball."
"Not go? How can you not go?" The surprise in Amy's voice was clear. "You've got to go. Look, I'm sure you can wear something of mine - what size are you?"
Within moments, the two girls were sorting through Amy's wardrobe for a dress to wear. Gemma recognised her luck as she looked through Amy's collection of gorgeous dresses, recognising each one as her own choice of style, and her own slender size. Both girls had natural hour-glass figures, with finely-curved 34B chests.
Eventually, Amy reached into her wardrobe with a start.
"This is it! This is what you should wear!"
From the cupboard she pulled a sleek cream dress with a low-cut neck. Gemma knew it looked stunning, but she wasn't so sure that she could pull it off.
"I don't know," Gemma began nervously, "I don't really do light colours"
"Nonsense!" Amy's reply was blunt, "You'll look great in it, I can just tell. Come on, try it on"
Normally, Gemma would have taken herself into the bathroom to try on a dress, but as Amy was still stood in front of her in little more than a thong, she hardly felt the need for modesty. She slipped her sweater over her head, and then unbuttoned her jeans to slide them off, placing them on the bed. As she stood, she felt her body shudder slightly as she noticed Amy glance up and down her slender body, pausing briefly at her small black panties, and lacy bra. Then, she reached for the dress, and slid it on over her head, pulling it gently down into place.
"Wow!" Amy stared at her in the dress, "I officially hate you."
"What?" Gemma heard herself cry in surprise.
"You look so much better in that dress than I ever have. Just gorgeous. I hate you!"
"I don't know..." Gemma mumbled to herself, nervously. She glanced down at the area she knew would be a concern, and sure enough when you looked, the black panties were obvious beneath the light colour of the material. And to make matters worse, there was a clear panty line visible.
"Look, it's no good," she began, "I can't go out like this." She pointed to the ridge evident from the panty-line as she explain to Amy.
"So." Amy replied, with a sneaky look in her eye, "Go without."
That simple conclusion had been what Gemma feared most. For although she had on many occasions worn tight-fitting dresses without underwear, they had always been black dress. Always dark. Always able to cover her dark bushy mound.
"I can't," she explained quickly to Amy.
"Why not?" came the obvious reply.
"Well, just look at my hair." She reached to pull her long dark hair over her shoulder into view. "I'm just not the sort of girl who can wear light colours and go commando, am I?"
Gemma was surprised at her own confidence in announcing what had always previosly been a shameful secret to her, but not quite as surprised as she was when she heard the reply.
"So... shave it!" Amy stated, without batting an eyelid.
The look on Gemma's face was clearly enough to explain to Amy that this was not familiar territory to her.
"Have you never..?" Now it was Amy's face who told the story of her surprise.
Nervously, Gemma stood, almost embarassed to be there, as she wondered to herself why she had never had the courage to shave the hair which had caused her such grief for so long. Then, her thought process was broken by Amy's next statement.
"Do you want to?"
"What?" came Gemma's shocked response.