Chapter 93: Time to Go Home

If Jessie Harper had been on cloud nine before that Sunday morning church service she was on cloud ninety nine after it. The whole morning had gone just so well and with everyone in the congregation being just so fully pro the choir getting all naked the way they did. Some of those choir members put their clothes back on afterwards but some stayed completely naked and some just semi-naked. Some of the young girls put their skirts back on but not their bras and tops while others put their bras and tops back on but not their panties and skirts. Others were just chatting away in only their bra and panties and nothing else. Some of the young boys also only had on their underpants while others stayed totally naked like some of the girls and others just got all dressed up properly again. All permutations of a person’s dress code were just as equally accepted as all the others. Fully dressed, semi-naked or completely naked ... no one seemed bothered in the least which it was as everyone milled around over a hot drink and other refreshments being served at the end of the service.

Jessie Harper, now dressed only in that soft, canary yellow gown, witnessed all this as well as all the compliments being bandied about on how well the choir had performed and how ‘that girl with the voice of an angel’ had sung her heart out and spoken just so eloquently. Jessie was also very happy with everyone’s appreciation for Troy and Carrie’s performance and how everyone had wished them all the best on their trip to Germany even though nobody yet knew just what expense was involved. Jessie hadn’t mentioned that to anybody and nor had Carrie, Troy or their parents. This however, did not detract from the true bliss of the moment and for Jessie that bliss was just heightened so completely by the final positive outcome of the horrible events of the last two weeks.

Even the anti-nudity brigade seemed to have melted away into nothing ever so quickly. As it was, it turned out that quite a few members of that group knew nothing of the underhand tactics that had been employed and instantly distanced themselves from the movement once they did know. This, much to Jessie’s and Reverend Unsworth’s relief, caused a massive drop off in interest in the group - a drop off that it never ever recovered from.

On top of all this was the happy feeling for Jessie of her looking forward to registering for the Teen Beauty Pageant on Monday night ... but that was tomorrow ... right now the girl just wanted to enjoy today and all the joy she was experiencing as it unfolded.

For the rest of that day the young, fifteen year old Jessie Harper was gently swept along in the euphoria of the moment. She went out for lunch with her mother and a few friends and had a lovely time even though Bryce couldn’t be there. He had some unattended paperwork he wanted tidied up before Monday morning and so had stayed behind in his church office to sort the pile out while his wife and step-daughter enjoyed the afternoon together.