Author's Note:-
Well, here we go again folks! The next chapter of Tommy, Beth and Terri's first year as university students in the beautifully historic city of York. This chapter ended up being a little light on the incest stuff (apologies if that's a disappointment but I can assure you that normal service will be resumed in the next chapter) but we get to learn more about Terri's new job and Tommy's nude modeling, plus a transatlantic reunion. Enjoy!
All characters are over 18.
Freshers - A Tommy, Beth & Terri story
Chapter Three - November 1985
First Time's A Charm (Tommy)
So, this is it, I thought to myself as I walked the corridors of Beth's art college, this is my first time posing nude. I had spent some time mentally working myself up to it, even though I had been naked in the presence of other people quite a few times since our wonderful holiday in southern France and our weekly meetings of the naturist club we had joined, the thought of being the
only
naked person in a room full of other people and being the centre of attention still made me feel a little uneasy. Beth, since she had a free afternoon that day, offered to accompany me for moral support but I ultimately decided not to take her up on her offer. She insisted however that she would at least walk with me to the studio. It was, in the end, a compromise I was happy to make, and as we strolled hand in hand down the corridor that led to Mrs. Southwick's art room, Beth tried to make small talk to help keep my growing anxiety at bay.
"It's good news about Terri's job." She said to me idly as we ambled along, "Should be a real help with the rent and everything. And you never know, it may do her self-confidence a world of good."
"Let's hope so." I replied a little dismissively.
Despite Beth's attempts to take my mind off things, she couldn't quite succeed in diverting my mind from wandering into imagining humiliating scenarios involving me being unable to conceal a raging erection and even spontaneously ejaculating onto one of the students in the front row of the class. It was silly I know, but at the time I simply couldn't help it.
Now that Terri had managed to find some work, there was no real need for me to have to pose for Beth's painting tutor's art class anymore and I very nearly backed out of it. But I had made a promise and I always considered myself a man of my word, so I decided to go ahead and get it over and done with. Besides, the extra cash could still come in handy. But I still couldn't help but feel nervous about baring all in front of a group of students, most of whom would be around the same age as me.
"She seems a bit cagey about exactly what her job involves though." Beth continued.
"I'm sure as long as it isn't anything dangerous she'll be fine." I replied as we drew ever nearer to Phyllis Southwick's studio.
"She just sounded a bit... I dunno, embarrassed about it." Beth said as we came to a stop outside the art studio door, "I mean it's just a job after all, what's there to be embarrassed about?"
"As long as she isn't doing anything hazardous I'm not going to question her about it." I said
"Listen Tommy, I can still come in if you'd like me to." Beth took my hand and said to me as I was about to open the door, "If you need some moral support. Phyllis said she'd be alright with me being in there if you were okay with it."
"I'm okay." I insisted maybe a little too firmly judging by the slightly hurt expression on my sister's face, "I'll be fine I promise, but thank you for the offer anyway."
I leant down and kissed her on her cheek.
"I don't know where I'd be without you to look out for me, but I need to do this on my own." I continued.
"I understand." Beth replied with a sigh, "I'll be here for you when you're done - you can let me know how you get on over a coffee later on okay?"
"Okay." I said.
"Good luck Tommy. I love you." Beth said as she returned my brief kiss.
"Thanks Beth." I answered, "Well, here goes nothing."
I opened the door and let myself in to the art studio. It looked not unlike the art room in my old secondary school back home in Sussex, except that the quality of the artwork dotted around the room was clearly by a more mature body of students. There were at least twenty or so easels and stools all ready and set up, and opposite them stood a low stage about a foot or so high with a chaise-longue covered in a variety of coloured throws - this was to be where I would be put on display for the students. Seeing it there made everything suddenly feel very real, and part of me was about to bail out and run out of the room and chase after my sister crying "I can't do it!!" But of course, that was the precise moment when Phyllis caught sight of me as she came out from what looked like a small store room attached to the art studio.
"Ah Tommy, I'm so pleased you could make it!" She said as she approached me.
She took my hand and in a typically artsy manner she kissed me on both cheeks. Even if I wanted to, there was no backing out now.
"Hello Mrs Southwick." I replied with a slightly nervous tremble in my voice.
"Call me Phyllis, please." She answered warmly with a lopsided smile, "We try not to stand on ceremony around here. Now then, just as I said the other day when we last met, because this is your first time doing this I shall put you in a fairly simple series of poses that are easy to maintain. And the easier to maintain it is, the more likelier it is that you'll be more relaxed. And the more relaxed you are, the less likely you are to... well, y'know... have any unwanted episodes of... ahem, sudden rushes of blood to your..."
"I think I get the picture!" I said with a nervous laugh.
"Yes, of course." Phyllis replied with a slight blush, "I expect you've thought of little else since agreeing to do this."
"You could say that." I answered, "But I'm not going to wimp out of this. I said I'd pose nude for your class and I'm damned well going to do it!"
"That's the spirit!" Phyllis beamed, "Now, did you bring a robe with you?"
"Yup!" I replied, patting the plastic bag I'd brought along with me containing my dressing gown.
"Excellent! Well, the students will be along in a couple of minutes so I suppose that all there is for you to do now is to go ahead and get undressed."
She nodded across toward a curtained-off area next to the store room.
"Just pop in there and take all your clothes off and then put on your robe - I'll come and fetch you as soon as the students are all in and settled." Phyllis said as she guided me across to the changing area, "And above all, relax. Do you want me to inform the students that this is your first time doing this?"
"Umm... no, that's alright." I replied - I wasn't sure if I wanted her students to know that this was the first time I'd ever posed in the nude. Well, technically it was the first time I'd ever posed for anything, apart from a family photo when I was a kid, and on that occasion I was most definitely not naked.
I entered the small changing room - it was little more than a curtained-off alcove barely bigger than one of the fitting rooms in the department store that Beth worked in - and I set down my rucksack on the floor. It took me several moments to compose myself before, my heart racing like a pile driver in my chest, I began to take off my clothes. Perhaps in a subconscious effort to delay the inevitable, I took greater care than usual to neatly fold every single item of clothing that I removed - I even folded my pants, something I never did at home. By the time I had finished undressing and stood there naked, the stack of neatly folded clothes would not have looked out of place at the foot of a bunk in a Royal Marines training barracks. As I took my dressing gown from the plastic bag I had brought with me I could hear the sound of Phyllis's students arriving. I hastily put the dressing gown on, tied the cord around my waist and then sat and waited.
"Okay everyone!" I heard Phyllis call her class to order, "Now, in previous sessions we've been getting to grips with the basics of life drawing - studying the interplay of light and shadow on the human form. Up to now we've been using photographs and studying classic nudes by various European artists from the old masters up to the impressionists, but it is now time to take what we have learned so far and apply it to a live model for the first time. Now, in a moment I'll be introducing you to our model for today, but first I'd like to quickly outline what I would like you all to achieve during this session."
I could do nothing else but sit there and listen as Phyllis talked her students through the next couple of hours. It was to be a series of five poses, each one lasting no more than twenty minutes. The students had to complete a sketch of me in each pose before deciding on a single sketch to work on further during the last twenty minutes of the session entirely from memory. At least that meant that I wouldn't have to be nude for the last twenty minutes of the class, but an hour and forty minutes of total nudity in front of a group of fully clothed students was plenty long enough for me!
"Right then, without further ado let us meet our model for today." Phyllis said brightly as she swished back the curtain, "Everyone, this is Tommy.
I was taken aback to discover that of the twenty or so students that had set up their sketch pads and pencils, only three of them were male. The entire rest of the class were women. I suddenly felt a lump in my throat - it was like that very first time back on the Γlle Solharvre back in the summer, or the very first meeting of the University's naturist club I attended. But I could not back out now, especially when Phyllis guided me onto the stage and then asked me to disrobe. I took a deep breath as I untied my bath robe - this was it. I shrugged off my robe to leave me stood naked before the class. There were one or two slight murmurs as the group took in the sight of my nude form, but apart from that they all seemed to be pretty much professionally detached from the notion of having a naked and quite nervous young man stood before them. In no time at all, Phyllis took my bath robe and deposited it out of the way on a nearby stool and instructed me to recline on the chaise-longue.