The following day was a busy one, but the thought of the coming evening's entertainment was on both their minds much of the time. In their stateroom, Matt had positioned a video camera with a wide angle setting that would cover the entire room. They hoped to have a memorable recording to watch later. They put on their bathing suits and waited, oddly nervous in anticipation. Finally, around 8:00 PM as planned, Janine knocked on their door and came in, wearing shorts and a sleeveless top and carrying a beach bag with her bikini and coverup inside. She was a bit embarrassed at first about Matt being there, but that soon disappeared as both he and Katie made admiring comments. Katie whispered "jasmine" in her ear, but gave her no post-hypnotic suggestions at the time, letting her react naturally.
Finally, she looked at Matt and, hesitantly, said, "When I put my suit on, I think I look nice and Sidney says I'm sexy." Then, blushing, "That's fine, but he's prejudiced and I just can't get it out of my head that people will stare at me...and...and laugh or think that I shouldn't wear anything like a bikini. I don't know why I react that way, but I do. Katie says I should overcome that fear and that you will give me an honest opinion."
"I promise you that if I don't agree with them, I'll tell you! It's hard to tell for sure when you're dressed, so I won't say anything until I see you in your bikini."
"Don't be concerned, dear. Matt will be honest and if he approves, your fears will fall away and you'll want to go up to the pool. The red bikini is on the counter in the bathroom. You will see it there. Now, undress and put the red bikini so he can look at you." She didn't say, "Go into the bathroom, undress and put on the red bikini," but in a non-hypnotic state, that is how Janine would have interpreted the instructions. In that state, however, she took the words literally and proceeded to strip off her clothes, fold them and place them neatly on the bed. She then, without concern, walked naked into the bathroom where she saw the red bikini on the counter.
Katie and Matt watched, enraptured, as Janine undressed and walked away. They both had seen her naked the day before and Katie had seen her change bikinis once, but there was something even more provocative about watching her removing her clothes, particularly her bra and panties, in front of them. Matt's cock, which had been half hard in anticipation of what was coming, surged into full rigidity. Katie's cunt began dampening her own panties as Janine's came off. Their eyes followed Janine's hips as she headed into the bathroom and then came together as they looked at each other. They were amazed and aroused.
The human mind is a weird thing. A woman will go with friends to a beach wearing a bikini top that hides her nipples and not much more. She may, even take it off and go topless. A male friend will look at her tits and enjoy the view. No big deal. But she's embarrassed if that friend sees her in her bra and he's excited if he does. A woman will wear a bikini bottom that barely covers her pubic hair (or less if she shaves it off) and enjoy being looked at, but is humiliated if her far less revealing panties are seen.
That was the way with Katie and Matt. Seeing Janine strip in front of them carried more immediate impact than seeing her naked before or later. It did, however, make them eager for the next part of the show.
In the bathroom, Janine saw the red bikini lying on the counter and, without hesitation, picked up the pants, stepped through the leg holes, and pulled them up over her hips. They fit perfectly. She took the bra, bent over and settled her tits into the cups and reached behind her back and fastened the clip that held it in place. Looking at herself in the mirror, she was quite happy with the perfect fit and went out to show herself to the judge, Matt.
As she came out of the bathroom, Katie and Matt saw something totally different. They saw a naked woman, quite comfortable in her completely imaginary suit. It was a pretty, exciting picture as described before. Two large, firm breasts topped by pretty pink nipples that protruded out a half-inch or more. As she walked toward them, they quivered with each step, making them really eye-catching. In addition, her pubic hair formed a neat triangle and drew the eyes away from those tits and focused them on the junction where her legs and torso met. Her cunt was concealed, of course, as her legs were together as she walked, but the hair marked the intriguing pathway to that private area. Janine walked up to Matt, pirouetted, and asked, tentatively, "What do you think?"
Matt looked at her standing naked in front of him, her nipples about at eye level as he sat there. Actually, he really didn't know what to look at, but he wasn't meeting her eyes! When she spoke, however, he forced himself to look up and replied, "Janine, you look lovely— lovely and sexy. You should go out there with complete confidence in yourself! Here, let me take a few pictures to prove it." Grabbing his regular camera which he had ready, he stood up and started photographing her.
Katie helped the process by instructing the hypnotized woman to get in any pose Matt wanted. Janine submissively did as instructed and he took a number of pictures which could have been successful on any porn site. The most revealing of all was when he had Janine pose bent over from the hips, her legs wide-spread and he took close-ups showing her entire crotch spread open. Ever thing from her asshole to her clit was photographed in excruciating detail. Of course, there were other less pornographic shots, showing her body in its entirety. When he finished, the pictures he took, combined with the video recording which continued to run, gave them a detailed photographic record of every aspect of her body.
Time was passing and, finally and regrettably, Katie signaled to Matt that they had to stop. Matt said again how wonderful she looked, and that she definitely should go to the pool. Katie repeatedly built up her desire to do so, trying to bury her fear and reluctance. At last, she felt that Janine's courage was built up as much as possible, she said to, "Change into your own suit and we'll go meet Sidney."
Janine, of course, was still in her post-hypnotic trance, but she surprised Katie somewhat by saying, "Maybe I should just wear this red suit. It feels so good on me and Matt liked me in it." Actually, people in their post-hypnotic are not automatons and speak and act perfectly normally except that they follow the hypnotist's suggestions as long as those suggestions are not too counter to the subject's values. (Katie couldn't, for example, instruct Janine to walk around the stateroom naked, thus the imaginary red suit.) Behind her, Matt grinned at Katie thinking of the reaction Janine would get by walking through the pool area in the red bikini!
"No, honey. You need to wear your regular bikini because Sidney will want to see it on you."
Janine didn't argue any further, and without hesitation, carefully removed each part of the red suit and with their eyes watching intently, donned her own bikini. Katie gave her some final instructions, including forgetting the pictures they had taken, but mostly making her less aware and less intimidated about leaving the room and making their way to the pool deck. Finally, she said, "As soon as we see Sidney, you will wake up. You will feel happy and confident. Your worries about other people will vanish and you'll feel good." She repeated those directives five or six times, sinking them into Janine's mind until she was confident that they were firmly in place. Then, at last, "Let's go meet Sidney!"
There is always some trepidation when hypnotists wait to see if the subject follows their "suggestions" -- they don't call them orders! -- but, in this case, it went like clockwork. Janine paused a moment when she first saw Sidney but the hesitation was virtually imperceptible. Janine hurried to him, kissed him and said, "Look, I'm here! It didn't bother me at all and I feel wonderful! She whipped off her coverup and stood there in her bikini without any qualms at all.
Sidney turned to Katie and said, "You're a miracle worker! She hasn't touched a cigarette in three days and, now, this! There is just no way we can thank you enough!"
"Well, I wouldn't exactly call myself a miracle worker, but Janine does seem to be doing well. We'll have to watch the rest of the cruise to make sure things stay as they should, but I think they will. Janine was at least as important as me in this. She was strongly motivated to stop smoking and to break through that phobia. Without that, it might not have worked so well." Now, let's go in the water! What a beautiful, warm night."
There was one more surprise in store for that night. Around about 10:00, Sidney reminded her that they had wanted to see a comedian who was performing at 10:30. Katie and Matt declined going with them -- they had seen his act twice already -- and Sidney went back to their stateroom to change out of his bathing suit and the other three went back to the suite to get Janine's clothes and she would meet her husband at the comic venue.
The three of them walked into the suite and, of course, Janine's clothes were still lying on the bed, bra and panties on top. Without hesitation or thinking, she, continuing the conversation they were having as they came in, walked over to the bed, reached behind her and released the catch on her bra and pushed her pants off.
Katie and Matt stared at her in surprise ...no, in astonishment ...as she stood there naked and reached for her panties. Obviously, there was nothing that they could see that they hadn't already studied in detail, but this was totally unexpected since Katie hadn't suggested that she dress in front of them and she wasn't under hypnosis! Suddenly, Janine stopped talking and there was total silence as she looked up and cried, "Oh, my god, what am I doing!" She immediately went into the traditional September Morn pose, covering her tits with her arm and her cunt hair with her hand. Then, almost as shocking as her stripping in the first place, she dropped her arms, stood up straight and reached for her panties.
"What the hell! You've seen everything now, so why run off to the bathroom! I don't understand it, but I'm not the least bit embarrassed with you two seeing me!" She looked at Katie and asked, "Do you mind?"
"Heavens no, honey! You're very pretty and sexy!" Smiling, she added, "I know that Matt doesn't mind!"
Then, with a savoir-faire that she couldn't believe afterwards, Janine pulled on her panties, fitted her tits into her bra and put on her top and shorts. "Well, that was an unexpected experience! No one had ever seen me naked until I was with Sidney and I just stripped in front of you two -- and it seemed completely natural. Apparently you freed me from more than the inhibition from wearing a bikini in public! Whatever. I hope you enjoyed the show, but I won't mention it to Sidney."
Matt responded, "You can give that show anytime, honey! You're even more attractive without your clothes than with them." Katie expressed the same sentiments and sent a happy woman off to join her husband.
