This story is the fifth in a series. I recommend reading the prior stories in order because this story is a continuation of those. I hope that you find my characters as interesting as I do. Any similarities to any real person are entirely coincidental. Whether you like the story or loathe it, comments are welcome. .Although it may not seem clear from context, all characters are at least 18.
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Coach Hill did not ask what Amanda, Meryl, and I did that afternoon with the players from HGA. We were back at the hotel by our deadline. I'm not sure that Coach ever knew that the three of us were nude as we walked into the hotel and road the elevator to our room. Everyone was on the flight home the next morning and everyone was happy.
The Florida trip seemed to have a positive effect on the girls' play. Collectively, they lost one match the remainder of the regular season. All four of Amanda, Meryl, Patti, and Joan made it through the district and into the regional tournament in both singles and doubles. All four girls were eliminated from singles at the regional; although Amanda lasted to a fifth set tiebreaker. However, the doubles teams finished one-two in the regional. All four girls were going to the state final as two of the sixteen best doubles teams in the state.
The state final was at the flagship state university, about 100 miles from us. The girls' enthusiasm and expectations were high as I drove Coach Hill's SUV up the freeway. Coach Hill was busy preparing the girls for their matches.
Patti and Joan would play first. For some unknown reason, teams were not seeded in the state final. Instead, the brackets were filled by a random draw. Patti and Joan had drawn the best girls' doubles team in the state for their opening match. The other worry was that the tournament was single elimination. In the event, the girls whom Patti and Joan played did play like the best team in the state. Patti and Joan lost in straight sets. That cast a shadow over the rest of the day.
Amanda and Meryl did not play until mid-afternoon. I think that the loss by Patti and Joan caused my girlfriends to try too hard. I watched both of them make unforced errors that they probably hadn't made since they were freshman. Still, they were the better team. That was enough to get them to a fifth set tiebreaker. It wasn't enough to win the tiebreaker.
After Amanda and Meryl lost, no one said anything. I gathered up the gear. We walked out of the stadium straight to Coach Hill's SUV. I handed her the keys. We all got in. She started the engine and we were out of there. Still, not a word had been said.
We had been on the freeway about twenty minutes when Patti broke the silence. "Shit," she said and pounded her fist into the seatback.
A couple of minutes later, Meryl said. "Hang on. Losing is a risk that you take any time you play a game. Ok, we lost. We knew that was a possibility going in. We still had a damned good season."
Everyone thought about what Meryl had said. The mood slowly brightened. By the time Coach Hill pulled into a fast food joint about halfway home, there had actually been a laugh or two.
We reached our school in the early evening. I was unloading the gear from the back of the SUV when Amanda said, "I smell. I need a shower."
Coach Hill said, "I guess we probably all need showers."
The girls started walking towards the varsity locker room. Had it been just Amanda and Meryl, I would have been right there with them. Because Patti, Joan, and Coach Hill were there, I hung back.
Meryl was first to the locker room door. She stopped, turned, and looked at me. Amanda looked at her teammates and her coach. Patti, Joan, and Coach Hill looked at each other. Finally, Patti shrugged. Joan followed by nodding her head.
Coach Hill said, "Harry, you smell a bit gamey too. You might as well come in and shower too. But don't any of you ever tell anyone that I did this."
I followed the girls into the locker room. Amanda, Meryl, and I stripped off right away and went into the shower. The shower was not your typical girls' locker room shower. Instead of separate stalls, it was a large shower room with showerheads placed along the walls. There was no privacy. I assume the contractor thought it was building a boys' locker room. Although, Amanda's dad paid for it. Maybe he told the contractor to build it this way.
I was a little surprised when Patti walked into the shower naked. I was very surprised when Joan walked in naked. She caught me looking and said, "Well, I guess it is fair. I saw you down in Florida."
I was shocked when Coach Hill came in, took off her towel, and stood naked. Coach Hill smiled. "Harry, I know that I don't look half as good naked as Amanda or Meryl. But, you've been a hell of a manager. Consider this your thank you." Coach Hill wasn't Amanda or Meryl, but she wasn't ugly either.
Amanda, Meryl, and I went through our usual wash each other routine. I fear that we made Joan uncomfortable because she finished her shower very quickly and left. Coach Hill wasn't far behind her. Patti, however, was in no hurry to leave and seemed to enjoy watching us. "I wish I had a man to wash me like that," she said. Patti had gone through a very public break-up with her long time boyfriend just before the tennis season started. She had caught him getting a blow job from a cheerleader and felt that wasn't a solid basis for a continued relationship.
Graduation came a week after the state tennis final. Meryl graduated as valedictorian and Amanda was salutatorian. As they made a point of showing me, it was probably the first time our school bestowed those honors on students wearing absolutely nothing under their graduation gowns.
Amanda told me later, "As I walked across the stage to get my diploma, I had to fight a strong urge to whip my gown off and get my diploma naked. I wish that I had."
The girls, of course, looked perfectly ordinary with bare legs showing beneath their gowns. Unfortunately, I had no choice but to wear trousers.
Amanda's parents and mine gave us a post-graduation party and cook-out around the Turners' pool. We were free to invite anyone we wanted. They just had to agree to get naked. Amanda, Meryl, and I had thought about that a lot. For the last several months of school, we had been our own exclusive social circle. Sure, I had teammates whom I liked, but I didn't trust them to behave when Amanda and Meryl were walking around naked. In the end, we invited Patti and Joan; Megan, a friend of Amanda and Meryl from the swim team; and Mrs. Cohen. Mrs. Cohen was not, of course, asked to get naked.
Megan gave an excuse why she couldn't come. I suspect that her parents objected to the nudity. Patti and Joan said that there were coming, but I was still surprised when they came through the Turners' house and out onto the patio about two hours after graduation. Both were barefoot and wearing sundresses. Patti and Joan looked at each other, giggled, and whipped their sundresses over their heads. Neither girl wore a stitch underneath. Of course, Amanda, Meryl, and I were already nude, as were Amanda's and my parents. We were pleased to see Patti and Joan get naked.
Once she was undressed, Joan came up to me. "Harry, I owe you an apology. I was a little cold to you this season. The nudity thing with you, Amanda, and Meryl was new to me. Since you were the guy, I focused on you. I started to get it down in Florida when I saw how much the girls from HGA enjoyed playing tennis naked. I sort of ran out of the locker room last week. Driving home, I asked myself why it bothered me that you saw me naked. I decided that I was being stupid and childish. I'm glad that I'm getting this one chance to hang out naked with all of you."