Au naturale!

If Kate and Ilyana could be bold and uncensored, he could be TOTALLY uncensored, he decided. Stripping off his last vestiment, he checked himself in the mirror. His minor engorgement had subsided by this point, but his natural state was still pretty impressive, or so he hoped. He felt he could pull this off. Taking a deep breath, he turned the door knob.

As he stepped back into the bedroom, the two girls were busily debating some finer point of gymnastic warm-up technique.

"John, tell her how important it is to always..." Ilyana scolded, turning toward him, but as soon as she saw his unadorned physique, her mouth dropped open in surprise.

Kate's reaction was more dramatic. She immediately slapped her hands over her eyes and began turning numerous shades of red and violet.

Ilyana regarded her friend's reaction with some amusement before turning back to him with a smirk on her face. "Not that I don't enjoy the little show, but I think maybe you should put something on. Just sleep in your clothes if you don't have something decent."

Stinging with embarrassment, he re-garbed himself and then slunk under his covers, wishing he could just go to sleep and forget the whole evening. The girls followed suit, and slowly he descended into blissful unconsciousness.

The next morning he awoke to find both girls already out---probably for their morning warm up run, which he mercifully did not have to attend. As he prepared himself for the day, there came a knock at the door. It turned out to be Tanya.

"Morning, John," she greeted him rather coldly, "I see you're dressed..." "Thank god," she added under her breath. Clearly word had gotten around.

"Err... yes," he replied sheepishly.

"I just wanted to let you know that we did some investigating this morning and discovered that the hotel had a cancellation last night. We managed to get you your own room---here's the key. So you won't have to share a room the rest of this week after all."

"Oh, uh, thanks," he returned, somewhat relieved given the state of things.

For the rest of the week he tried to just enjoy the sun and skies of the island, and stay out of the way of the girls as much as possible. The team ranked a respectable 18th place overall, and Kate even won a medal. But when it finally came to a close, he was glad to part ways with the girls and leave his tarnished reputation behind him.

The End