Joanna took her clothes off, picked up Lyssa, and carried the limp girl into the bathroom shower. She told Lyssa to stand up, turned the water on, and began to bath the compliant girl. She enjoyed soaping the satiny smooth skin and rinsing it. Lyssa's skin was almost baby soft. After bathing herself, Joanna shampooed Lyssa's hair, dried her with a thick terry cloth towel, dried herself, donned a heavy terry cloth robe, picked Lyssa up and carried her to one of the leather chairs and sat the girl on her lap.
"I'm cold. I've been cold since you left me on the post. Please, can I have some clothes?"
"I'm sorry, honey, but I don't want you to wear clothes anymore. I enjoy seeing you nude and, too, you're less apt to try to run away if your not wearing anything. But I can warm you."
She pulled her bathrobe around Lyssa, so they were both enveloped in it. She also put a lap blanket around the girl. The feel of Lyssa's naked body against hers was delicious. Lyssa curled up against Joanna and fell asleep. A while later, she picked Lyssa up and placed her on several thick towels on top of the table. Lyssa woke up and stretched. Joanna told her that she was going to shave the "fur" from her pubes. The girl didn't resist. She moved her legs apart when Joanna nudged them. Joanna shaved the fine silky hair from around Lyssa's pubic lips, but left a triangular patch above her clitoris. She stepped back to admire her handiwork, shook her head, and shaved the rest of the patch. Lyssa's pubes were now bare.
Joanna sensed that something was different. Lyssa was too submissive and compliant.
"Are you feeling okay, sweet baby?" asked Joanna.
"Mmm, hmm," murmured Lyssa. "I'm just hungry."
Joanna led her upstairs and sat her at the kitchen table.
"What would you like, honey? Asked Joanna. "How about a roast beef sandwich?"
"Hmm uh, " mewed Lyssa. "Can I have some hot oatmeal?"
Joanna fixed the cereal, but knew that Lyssa was not herself.
After Lyssa had eaten, Joanna led the girl into her bedroom, put her to bed and covered her. Lyssa was asleep immediately. Concerned that Lyssa was sick or traumatized; Joanna called her family doctor who said he'd come right away. He examined Lyssa from head to toe and told Joanna that the girl was fine. He thought the girl was just emotionally drained.
"Jo," he asked, "are you two ..."
"Are we what?"
"Are you a couple? Are you physical? Are you having sex with her? She's much too young, Joanna. She must be pre-teen. She doesn't even have pubic hair yet. Are you sure you know what you're doing? You must have had some sex session for her to react like this."
Joanna giggled, "This 'pre-teen' is twenty two years old, Doctor Janssen. She's a schoolteacher. Unemployed at the moment, but still a schoolteacher. You must know that women, nowadays, shave their pubic hair."
Dr. Janssen looked embarrassed and tried to apologize to Joanna.
"No need. She does look very young, especially lying there asleep."
The doctor reached down, turned the girl over and looked at her buttocks.
"Beautiful, aren't they, doctor. I don't blame you for looking." Sighed Joanna.
"Joanna, her bottom is beautiful, but I wanted to make sure it wasn't welted. Don't look shocked. Your mother would come to me to have her wounds taken care of when your father beat her. She made me swear that I wouldn't report him, but I knew what was going on in your house. Your mother was concerned that your father abusing her might traumatize you. She knew that some abused children grow up to be abusers. Celia sent you to doctors, but they were unable to determine how you would turn out. Your mother, and the doctors, told you that you were taking aptitude tests. Do you remember?"
Joanna laughed. "I wondered what that was all about. I'm going to chide Mom about it. She has never mentioned it since I took those 'aptitude tests'."
They left the room and Joanna asked the doctor how much she owed him.
"Nothing," he sighed, "I ought to be paying you. The sight of that beautiful nude girl will stay with me for days. At my age, I don't get to see beauty like that often. Actually, not at all. The women who come to see me are clothed or in a hospital gown."
"Will you come back and check her in a day or two, and maybe you can check me, too. In fact, you could check me right now. I haven't visited you in several years."
"Joanna, my heart couldn't take it. First, that lovely flower in there and then your sexy figure. My heart would give out. Have pity on an old man.'
Joanna laughed, "Doctor Janssen, you delivered me and have seen me nude – or near nude – many times over the years. Any time you need to see a naked woman, please feel free to examine me. It would be an honor. I love you like a father, or would that be incest? You were there for us when Dad died. For now, I'll see you out and go back to Lyssa."
The doctor left and Joanna returned to the bedroom, took off her robe, and crawled in beside the sleeping girl. Bliss.
Lyssa woke up in Joanna's arms and snuggled up tight. She lay there feeling Joanna's warmth for a while.
"Jo, can we do this, just cuddle, instead of having sex? I really can't be your lover, but this feels nice. You have nice breasts. Maybe I could even suck your nipples a little. We can go places and do things like we did before you made, uh, I had to sit on that post."