Chapter 58: The Big Secret

“So why did they cancel the Pageant?” asked Jessie. “Does anyone know what happened?”

The others all shook their heads in silence until Chris added, “I don’t know for sure but I heard my dad saying it was some kind of funding issue. The National Trust For Lifestyle Nudism wanted to increase the prize money for the winners but the financial backers didn’t feel the same way. They had some sort of a falling out after that I think ... or so I heard my dad tell someone on the phone. But it is a shame. I was thinking of entering just for fun and so was Tammy. Now that we are Clothing Optional Nudists we don’t mind any of this nudie stuff any more. It would have been fun to strut my pecker around the stage in front of a thousand people or so.”

Jamahl laughed at Chris then said, “Nah ... nobody would be looking at your pecker with Tammy about. They’d be crying out for those great looking titties every chance they got.”

Riona gave her boyfriend a playful, but rather hard, slap on the shoulder as she chided him again with, “Now you stop worrying about that there girl’s titties ... you hear me.”

Jamahl shrunk back from Riona with a meek and softly whispered, “Sorrryyyy!” but giving Tammy’s bare breasts a small thumbs up at the same time. At that point Shona looked across at Jessie and asked, “ ... and you, Jessie Harper ... what’s all this we hear about you and your church spending a week at a Nudie Resort? How does that work?”

Suddenly it was Jessie’s turn to feel slightly embarrassed. Her week at Camp Starkers hadn’t been kept as any sort of a secret but neither had she mentioned it to her group of friends here either. After a brief pause she replied to the question with, “Um ... well, firstly, it wasn’t just a Nudie Resort like in the ordinary sense. It was a Transitional Nudist Facility. There’s quite a difference you know.”

Nobody at the table argued with her on that point but neither did they make any comment either they just looked at Jessie waiting for her to say some more.

“Well, secondly, it wasn’t the whole church or anything like that it was just our Youth Choir and a few parent helpers. And it was a Music Retreat to learn a whole heap of knew stuff about music and singing and stuff like that. It wasn’t just so we could become Nudists or anything like that. We used the facility because it was offered to the church free of charge and we could try out the Nudist Lifestyle only if we wanted to and at our own pace. That’s why it’s called a Transitional Facility. People can transition into Nudism if they want to or if they don’t want to. It was built expressly for that purpose.”

“And did you?” asked Chris Maple. “Did you try out the Nudist Lifestyle?”

Jessie paused a bit before answering that question. She didn’t want to hide anything about what went on at the Music Retreat but neither did she want to have to go into all the ‘detail’ of what they got up to. In the end she just replied with, “Well, I guess I have to admit that we all did in the end. It took a whole day before anything actually happened but, yer, by the time we were packing up to come home just last Saturday we were all running around completely naked and not thinking anything of it. It really was just a whole heap of fun and it all just felt so natural. Just like I bet Tammy feels all natural now about being topless in front of everyone one. Right Tammy?”