Chapter 40: I’m Not Going First!

“Oh, SHIT!”

“Oh, it’s you Jessie. Sorry for swearing but you nearly scared me half to death! I thought I was completely alone in here.”

Polly Legett was still sitting on one of the beds in the Communal Dormitory of Camp Starkers as she craned her neck around to see who had just come in through the door behind her. She also still had all her clothes on which was meant to be against the rules of the camp. The Communal Dormitory and its facilities - including the swimming pool - were for naked campers only.

“Sorry, Polly” said Jessie in a rather subdued voice. “I didn’t mean to startle you. I’ve been looking all over for you and didn’t expect to find you in here of all places! I only came in because the gate was open then I saw you through the window. Does anyone else know you are in here?”

“I don’t think so” said Polly. “I don’t even know why I am in here. One minute I was reading my notes and getting ready to follow you guys down to the canoes then the next minute I find myself sitting in here all in a daze!”

Nobody said anything for a minute or two as they both looked around the large room filled with twenty beds. This main complex housed another four such rooms giving it a sleeping capacity of about one hundred or more if you included a few of the smaller side rooms with only one or two beds in them.

“Have you looked around the rest of the building yet?” asked Jessie.

“No, not yet” replied Polly. “I just came in here and sat down where I’m sitting now. It’s all just so much nicer than the Male and Female Dormitories we are using at present. I guess they are trying to keep the best for those brave enough to do the naked thing - a sort of carrot in front of the nose I guess.”

“I suppose so” said Jessie in a still rather muted tone that had just a little touch of awe about it. Then she added, “Do you ... do you ... do you think we should take our clothes off before we have a proper look around? I mean, we are meant to be all nude in here. Would they really mind if we weren’t naked?”

Both girls gave a nervous swallow as they looked at each other then looked up in horror as they heard someone else coming in through the same door they had come through. Seconds later there were three women in the room all staring at each other ... Polly Legett, Jessie Harper and Sonika Jharm.

Sonika looked at both girls then said, “I thought I saw you come this way, Jessie. And I see you found Polly. So, what do you girls think? Pretty swish in here, isn’t it!”

Both girls nodded at their choirmaster then all three quickly turned their heads towards the door as another figure came through ... Bjorn Erikson.

“So this is where you guys got to. Never thought I’d find you in here until I saw Miss Jharm heading over this way. Can we have a look around or do we need to get out or something?”

Bjorn, Jessie and Polly all looked at Sonika Jharm for an answer.

“Errr ... well ... I guess it can’t hurt to have a quick look round before we head on back ... can it?”

Before anyone had time to answer that question they were joined by yet another figure coming through the doorway ... Clarissa Stark ... then another ... Troy Pearson ... then another ... Carrie Pearson.

Now there were seven individuals, all from the Redsands First Congregational Church Youth Choir, standing in one of the dorm rooms of the Communal Dormitory of Camp Starkers on the shores of Lake Jackson, Georgia, USA. All seven were staring at each other and not one of them knowing what they should do next.

Finally it was Polly Legett who broke the silence with, “Well, I guess it’s only fair and true to the nature of this place for us to get naked if we want to have a proper look around this Communal Dormitory ... but ... but I’m not going first!”

For some reason the eyes of Jessie, Bjorn, Clarissa, Troy and Carrie all shifted in unison from Polly to Sonika Jharm. Even Polly Legett found herself looking imploringly at her new choirmaster ... looking for some sort of a clue as to what they should do.

Eventually Sonika just gave a little shrug and a pleasant little smile to the other six people in the room and said, “Yes, I suppose Polly is right. If we do want to have a look around in here, and I do, then I guess we should all be naked and I guess it is only fair if I go first ... then you Polly - since you were the first one in here, then you others in what ever order you like, or all together. OK, is everyone agreed?”

The other six all gave slow and slightly nervous nods of their heads but said nothing. Then they watched in absolute silence as Sonika Jharm began to take her clothes off in front of them all!