Naked In School

"I think it will," I told her. "Let’s just say that what I saw today was a friendship rekindled. I think Annie’s going to be around."

"That would be really cool," she said. "And it’s really cool that you have no problem with that."

"The past is the past. Relationships end. Friendships shouldn’t."

"I still can’t believe you got him over there!" she said. "You two really love each other. It’s so nice to see. You know how I feel about Ed. I love seeing him this happy."

"Yeah, I do, too. Almost as much as I love being this happy."

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE ED

I didn’t go right home. I went to Mike’s. Found him and Ellie in the kitchen.

"Hey, pal. What’s up?" Mike asked.

"Guess where I just was," I said, pulling a chair up at the table.

"Where?" he asked.

"Annie’s house."

If Mike looked shocked, Ellie looked really shocked. "You’re kidding," she said. "You actually went to see Annie. I do not believe it."

"Yeah." I went through the whole thing, with the letter, and Natalie convincing me to open it, and all.

"How was it?" Mike asked.

"Great. It was really great to see her again. Somebody want to tell me why I waited so long to do this?"

"I think you know," Ellie laughed.

"Probably," I agreed. "It wasn’t time."

"This isn’t going to, you know, rekindle anything and cause problems with Nat, is it?" Mike asked.

"Not a chance," I said. "I’m in love with Natalie. I told her that yesterday."

"Good for you!" Ellie enthused. "Where is she, anyway?"

"Getting her hair done," I laughed. "With Amanda. She said she couldn’t show off any fancy dress tonight, so she was going all out with her hair."

"Oh, I forgot," Ellie giggled. "When Mike told me that Natalie was going to the prom with you, I forgot you’d still be in the program. That should be interesting."

"I’m surprised she agreed to go, frankly," I said. "Very, very glad-but surprised."

"It’ll be fine. She’s a lot more at ease," Mike said. "I don’t think she’ll ever be Jared and Amanda when it comes to nudity," he laughed, "but she’s a lot better."

I chatted with them for a while, and then went home. Took a shower, all that.

Natalie had stayed at Amanda’s place after her appointment-not surprisingly, she didn’t want to go home. The plan was for everyone to meet at Mike’s house-including all the parents, so all could get pictures without making the limo go all over Westport. I stopped off at the florist to get her a corsage-a wrist one, natch, since I wasn’t going to be pinning anything to naked boobs-and headed over to Mike’s. I was the first one there.

"Very nice, Ed," Ellie greeted my naked self as I walked in.

"Thanks, Ellie."

"Are your parents coming?" she asked.

"Yeah, I had to make a stop, but they’ll be along. My Mom was joking about not having ‘real’ prom pictures of tuxes and dresses and stuff."

"She’ll get over it," Ellie laughed.

Just then, Amanda bounded in. "Hey, guys!"

"Hey, Amanda, looking damn good. So, where’s my girlfriend?" I said.

"Gathering her nerves," Amanda laughed. "I just had to tell her that all the parents will be here tonight-and her being naked."

"Yeah, and what’s worse, not all the parents will be here," I pointed out. "I don’t even think her mother knows that the prom is tonight."

"Oh, shit, I forgot about that," Amanda said.

"It’s OK. I’ll go pump her up."

"Before you go," Amanda said, and grabbed my arm. She leaned up and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "That was a very, very good thing you did today."

"For me, too," I grinned.

"Good. Go rescue Natalie."

I stepped out of the house, and there she was, coming up the walk. They had really done a great job on her hair, and I know Amanda helped with her makeup. That, plus her watch, a gold chain, and her shoes, was all there was. God, she was beautiful.

"Hi," she said shyly, coming into the house.

"Hi yourself, gorgeous," I said, and kissed her. I took her over and introduced her to Ellie.

"Pleased to finally meet you, Natalie," she said. "Ed, you didn’t tell me how stunning she was." Natalie just blushed.

"Oh, I love an all-over blush," Mike joked.

"Well, it’s not all blush. I’m a wee bit sunburned," Natalie admitted. "I have used sunscreen, but I think I spent too much time this week at baseball games."

"Well, you’re very light complexioned," Ellie said.

"Yeah. It’s the Nordic genes. My mom has a bit of Jewish in her-hence Weinberg-but she’s mostly Swedish. And my father, I’ve been told, was Latvian."

Mike and I just looked at each other-and started howling. Poor Natalie had no idea what was going on. We couldn’t stop laughing. When Mike finally did, sort of, it was only long enough to ask Natalie, "So, can you milk a goat?" Which started both of us up again. We finally calmed down long enough to explain the Ed’s Latvian Soulmate joke to Natalie. Then she laughed harder than either of us.

Anyhow, all the parents showed up, along with Jared and Lily, and the picture-taking commenced.

I know it was tough on Natalie-not just being nude, but being the only one without a parent there. However, Lily’s dad quickly sized up the situation, and grabbed a roll of film. "I’ll be your photographer tonight, Natalie," he said. "I’ll make sure you get these."

"Thanks," she managed to get out.

We plied in the limo and headed to the Prom.

You know what? It was great. Honestly, I had been a little nervous about doing the prom nude, but it was great. We had a blast.

There was only one problem. "You know, I didn’t think of this," Natalie said at one point.

"Think of what?"

"Think of the effect that dancing with you all night in the nude was going to have on me." She blushed. "I am really horny."

"Well, you just keep that thought," I laughed.

She did, until we got back to my house. Then she showed me how horny she was. I cured that problem. Repeatedly. Then we cured each other.

We fell asleep intertwined again. I hadn’t felt this good in a long time.

PART SEVEN SUNDAY

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX NATALIE

I woke up the next morning to the sensation of something eating my face. I screamed.

"WHAT? WHO?" Ed yelled, woken up by my screaming.

I opened my eyes, and saw what was eating my face-a very large black Labrador Retriever! "Oh my God, my heart just stopped." Ed chuckled behind me. "I’m sorry for waking you. He scared the crap out of me!" He looked up at me and started licking my face again, making me giggle.

Mrs. Bauer burst in the room. "Is everything all right? I heard a scream." Oh, now I was really embarrassed.

"Everything’s fine," Ed said. "Buster just scared the shit out of Natalie."

"I’m sorry. I’m so embarrassed," I said. "He started kissing me in my sleep and I woke up and didn’t know what it was."

"That’s OK. Didn’t you have the door closed?" Mrs. Bauer asked Ed.

"Yeah. But you know Buster," he laughed. "He opens doors," he said to me.

Mrs. Bauer chuckled and left-and then Buster jumped right up on the bed and started licking me! "Buster, DOWN!" Ed said, but Buster was having none of it. I sat up, trying to fend him off a little, and, when I did, the sheet fell off me-leaving me naked from the waist up. And the damn dog leaned down and licked my boob!

I couldn’t help it. I had to laugh. "Ed, your dog is a pervert," I told him.

"Of course he is," Ed grinned. "He’s my dog, isn’t he?" I just stuck my tongue out at him. "OK, Buster, that’s enough. I know she’s cute, but only I get to molest her." He pulled the dog off the bed and led him out of the bedroom. Then he climbed back into bed, took me in his arms, and kissed me. "Good morning, by the way."