Part 3 — Please
Sally walked down the road to the station in the morning. She sighed. It hadn't been that bad. She could cope; it was only for a month after all, or so the guard had said, but how was she going to juggle this -- this what? How should she deÂscribe it -- juggle this new obligation with being with Jerry? Jerry would susÂpect she was seeing someone else... and she was—actually. Well that was one way to dump him, if she did want to, especially now.
She thought about the guard and his cool confidence. He hadn't even asked her name -- probably knew it anyway.
Despite her initial resolution she hadn't been able to go through with it—stripping off for the guard. He had sat down and looked at her all expectantly but she'd stopped halfway through un-buttoning her blouse.
"I can't."
No sooner had she said it than she found the blouse in her hand with her standing there in trousers and her white bra but with the guard still seated as if he hadn't moved an inch.
"Nice. What next?" He had nodded encouragingly.
"I can't believe you just did that," she'd stammered.
The guard had just smiled. "Do you need any further help?"
Sally did not want help but the inevitability gave her courage and she had unhooked her bra and let it fall forward into her hands. She had frozen; really not wanting to go any further and unsure how to go on.
The guard had stood up and very gently taken the bra from her and she'd let him. "Nice," he'd said again and touched her, touched her breasts.
She'd pulled away.
"I can't do this."
"Of course you can. Let me help you" and his hand had moved to the waistband of her trousers and before she could stop him, the trousers were around her ankles. He had done 'it' again.
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
"None of your business."
She was almost naked.
"I don't want to do this."
He'd nodded as if understanding her difficulty and smiled and compleÂmented her on her body. "You should be a model."
"Page 3," she'd said with a snort.
"Well yes, but I was meaning fashion not Men's Mags."
He began slowly rolling her panties down her legs. Trembling, she let him. He took her hand and she stepped out of her panties and he led her around the room, both completely naked.
"So here we are. Two nudists at home."
It did feel a little like that to Sally.
"Do you sunbathe naked? Do you and your boyfriend like to be naked toÂgether outside?"
Sally thought of Greece, "Yes, on holiday."
"So there is a boyfriend."
Sally grimaced. His simple trick had worked.
"Please tell me about it."
And, what was surprising, she had told him about the holiday. About the little whitewashed villa and how she had dropped her clothes on the ground and she and Jerry had stepped naked into the pool. She found herself telling him about the sex and her worry; whether she and Jerry were suited; whether she should end the relationship or give it a few more weeks. And all the while he had listened, as they sat side by side naked on the sofa with her hand in his, him nodding but saying very little, just listening as she tried to make sense of her feelings.
"What do you think?" she had said—asking him his opinion about her reÂlationship. She was surprised at herself. Not only had she told this man, this man who had forced himself upon her—well not today so far, but he had cerÂtainly forced her here and to become naked—told this man some of her most private thoughts but was actually asking him his opinion. It was like counÂselling—nude counselling — forced nude counselling.
"Jerry sounds a good bloke, he does all the right things, that is what you are saying but you are also suggesting something is lacking. You don't want to be precipitate. Perhaps you should set a time limit and if your feelings haven't settled then call it a day."
"I'll give it a month," she'd said. Not quite counselling — he had ventured an opinion but it was what she had been close to thinking anyway.
"The same for us," he'd replied bringing her back to the present. Her preÂsent situation naked with this man, indeed about to have sex with this man she did not know, a man she was not romantically involved with—it wasn't even a one night stand with a man she had met having drunk too much. Not that she had actually ever done that, but plenty of her friends had had casual sex—sex for the sake of it, for the shear animal pleasure. No, she had not been like that. It had been with boyfriends; of which there had been quite a few leadÂing up to Jerry.
"I don't want to do this. I don't want sex." She was surprised he had not alÂready touched her, not already tried to get her to open her legs. Instead he had listened, gently holding her hand, as she had told him far more than she would have expected to—about her feelings for her boyfriend. Why had she done this? He seemed to be, or was trying to be, so friendly yet he had virtually taken her clothes off.
"Perhaps if you relax a bit, it will be easier. I'm not going to force you, you know, it's not something friends do, is it? But I would like to have sex with you, proper sex and not just for my own pleasure but I want you to come too, to orÂgasm, I want to see your pretty face with that especial look of ecstasy."
"I don't know you, I'm not in love with you, and I'm not excited at all. That is not going to happen."
"You think not? Well I wonder. Perhaps you are a little frightened; hardly the right state of mind for sex. Would it make you relax if I promise not to have sex with you unless you ask for it, as a friend?"
"Not very likely, is it!"
"Do you like being stroked? My cat does."
"Well, depends by whom, doesn't it?"
The guard's hand touched her naked arm and he began to stroke.
"You're not going to get me excited and wet just by stroking me even if you were to massage my breasts."