Relief without clothes
"Perhaps if you went without clothes for a few days. Could you do that? Leave them off for a couple of days. It's the weekend coming up." Steve was talking to Penelope about her problem. It was the end of another day and there were few other people still in the office.
"No. I share a flat and my flatmates are not all girls."
"Your parent's place?"
"Not really. My brothers and Uncle Bob'll be staying."
"Look, you could come and stay with me."
"NO! I mean, I couldn't possibly impose, you hardly want me wandering around stuck indoors for a whole weekend getting in the way." It was sort of kind and generous of Steve but she could not help feeling there was an ulterior motive. A naked girl wandering around his house, unable to dress. It was a bit of a young man's - a young wanker's - fantasy. Yet, yet..,
"Do you really think it would help?"
"I'm not a doctor - and you really should have gone to see a doctor."
Penelope knew Steve was right. She had been stupid.
"But would you mind?"
"Of course not, anything to help a colleague and friend."
Penelope had not at all thought herself a friend of Steve Knowles, or vice versa, but she was not going to say so. The thought that a weekend without clothing might help was uppermost in her mind. Of course she could see he might well have that ulterior motive, an obvious one, having a naked young woman around the whole weekend to ogle. It all seemed so wrong. She did not like Steve Knowles, yet she was finding herself more and more doing the strangest things with him. If only she had gone to see the doctor. She could not understand at all why she kept putting that off. Penelope really did not want to go and stay at Steve's, still less be naked the whole time with him. But she could not help thinking it might help.
"I'll hardly need to pack a suitcase."
"No, just a toothbrush in your handbag. That's about all you'll need.
And that was all she did need. It was not actually all she packed, so when she turned up at Steve's flat after work on the Friday with a suitcase he had looked at it askance.
"You really don't need that."
His flat did not look awfully big to be cooped up in for a whole weekend. She had not thought of it before but it suddenly came to her, a rather important question, and she came straight out with it suddenly so suspicious, "How many bedrooms has your flat got?"
"Just the one but we're not staying here. My parents are away abroad so I thought we'd go to theirs. It's a bit of a drive but their house has got plenty of bedrooms. Now leave that suitcase here Penelope and take those clothes off. You might as well start your therapy now."
"B...but I can't go in a car naked. I mean..."
"Of course you can. I've this silk wrap you can put around yourself. Silk is so light and just non allergic."
Penelope had misgivings. The light silk seemed to give the idea of a harem with girls in wispy pieces of silk giving glimpses of naked flesh for the delectation of the sultan and perhaps his guests. But the wrap was certainly light on her skin. Steve had not looked away as she undressed.
Clad in just the silk and without shoes, clutching her handbag containing her toothbrush, Penelope stepped out of Steve's flat and down the stairs. They met no one and within seconds she was at the car with Steve holding the car door open for her and she was inside before anyone even passed in the street.
It was indeed, a bit of a long journey, not helped by Friday night traffic jams. All the way she was conscious she was just wearing the lightest of silks and had absolutely nothing beneath. Steve's parents house was in a leafy suburban road and, when the car finally stopped, there was no need to walk along the street to get to and from the car. Their car drew into a short, gravelled driveway. There was no other car there and the house was dark.
"Shall I leave the silk here?" It really was not like her, but she found herself leaving the decisions to Steve, almost as if she was handing control to him. Perhaps unsurprising really, the whole idea had, after all, been his not hers. It was his parents' house and she found herself rather letting him tell her what to do.
"I would. You won't be needing it until Sunday night."
Peculiar, more than even the walk to the car in the wrap, was getting out of the car and walking up the front steps to the strange front door with nothing at all on, not even shoes. She could certainly feel the gravel beneath her feet.
Penelope had had the awful idea that Steve might take his clothes off too, on the pretence, as she thought it would be, of a fellow feeling, pretending to be showing solidarity with her. She did not think it would be solidarity, nothing of the sort, rather the getting of a sexual pleasure, a kick, out of being naked with her. She anticipated seeing his erection again more than once - that would be the 'solidarity.' It might be best to deal with that swiftly - a quick handjob to dampen his libido and remove his capability only, only, what if the lotion ran out? That idea worried her, worried her more than Steve being naked or even touching her - with his thing. She could not help feeling it would be best to save his ejaculate for an emergency, leave it stored, warm and ready in his balls, in case she needed it and just put up with seeing and perhaps feeling Steve's erection.
But Steve did not take his clothes off: he made her supper instead. She sat in his parent's kitchen, on a wooden chair which he insisted on wiping down thoroughly and drying first to remove any irritants, with a glass of cool white wine in her hand. Afterwards they watched television but, again, he did not even sit next to her on the settee though he did spread a large white bath towel for her to sit on, a towel he told her he had both washed in just soap flakes and then given an extra rinse with just water before drying it in the open air. He did not suggest they showered together or even shared the bathroom.
He stood in the doorway of her bedroom watching her getting into bed between white sheets (again just washed in soap flakes, extra rinsed and dried in the open air) but he had not been naked or even in his pyjamas with penis poking out of the fly. Steve had not suggested sleeping in the same bed 'to make sure she was all right.' He had merely wished her a good night, said his room was directly opposite hers if she should need anything - and had said that without the slightest suggestion of a leer - and closed the door on her and left her without doing anything wrong at all: quite the opposite really. There had not been a reappearance or even the slightest hint of her rash and itching all evening. Perhaps the nudity idea was not stupid.
Penelope awoke about midnight. She had gone to sleep so easily and so comfortably but now the itching she thought gone had returned and was building. She lay in the pitch darkness, scratching and wishing it would just calm down and go away. It did not, instead it slowly built. Penelope had to throw the bed covers and sheet off, get them away from her skin but that did not improve matters much.
Eventually she had to get up and padded across the floor feeling for the doorknob. Across the landing she found Steve's door easily and opened it.
"Steve, sorry to disturb, have you that lotion?"
Really she should have asked for it before bed but things had gone so well, there had not been the slightest tinge all evening. He had not offered and she had not liked to ask.
"Err, what, oh, it's... it's in the car, I'll go and get it."
She felt his body brush past hers. Steve was not wearing pyjamas. She was surprisingly relieved - relieved that scratchy, itchy cotton had not just touched her so sensitive skin. Penelope moved and stood in the pitch black of the landing waiting, waiting what seemed an interminable time for Steve's return. The reality was that he was very quick. Naturally he knew his parents' house like the back of his hand and could negotiate it as easily in the dark as the day and had no need to blind himself with the sudden harsh glare of electric light.
Such a relief hearing him coming up the stairs. Of course knowing your way around a house in the dark is one thing: allowing for unexpected obstacles another. Steve had not known she was standing there. He walked right into her - full naked body contact! Not good for Penelope, on several counts!
"Ooof!"
"Whoah, sorry Penny."