Bigger crowd than he thought

There was no trick of perception, it wasn't a matter of what 'looked' big in the back stage area, the stage itself was phenomenally bigger than what I was expecting. At least twice as big as the stage from the auditorium Sands showed me and the seating arrangements were even bigger than that. Right in front of me, the rows of seats could fit at least 80 people in the aisle and the same could be said about the other two aisles diagonally to my left and to my right. The house looked packed, meaning there was at least 240 people who were now looking at me naked! The audience took a moment to drink me in, then erupted into laughter. Not that quiet fake laughter Bob got from his bad jokes, but real, loud, and genuine laughter you get from seeing a naked man on stage in front of hundreds of people.

For a moment I was shocked. The sheer intensity that came from being displayed in my birthday suit before this many people had me freeze. As the laughter persisted, I slowly looked down at myself then back at the crowded audience and every part of my body burned bright crimson red. I finally threw my hands back down over my genitals and frantically looked around me for a place to run or hide. All my options appeared to have closed off. Right stage, left stage, even above me there was groups of people gathered from the tech crew and museum staff. All of them were pointing and whistling as they saw my head dart back and forth for a retreat.

Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Why are there so many people here!? What the fuck is going On!? I need clothes! I need to hide! Oh my God this is so humiliating! My mind raced at the same speed as my pulse as I tried to uncover a solution to this predicament.

Obviously diving into the crowd wasn't an option so I tried to focus my sight down the walkway to see if there was an exit I could make a beeline for. Before I even got the chance, the hooting and laughter died down when a loud, booming, familiar voice came out the speakers. Listening to the message, I knew it was for me:

"HANDS TO YOUR SIDES!"

Out of muscle memory, I snapped my hands to the back of my head and reclaimed my ridiculous pose from before. You already know the owner of that voice without having me say it.

Professor Sands came walking towards me on the stage with a mic in hand. Her voice resonating through the speakers, "My sincerest apologies for our model's behavior. It seems he was caught off guard before he was ready. Perhaps a nice introduction of our model is in order? That is what we usually do to get him use to these situations. Take it away professor!" She raised the mic up to my face, but all I could focus on was the crowd of hundreds of watchful eyes upon me.

"I...um...ugh...uh..." I could barely get the words out. I didn't know what to do. My brain was on overload from all the humiliation. I broke out into a nervous sweat.

"It seems all this excitement has you tongue-tied. No matter, I shall take over." Sands cleared her throat as she faced the crowd speaking into the mic, "Good afternoon everyone. My name is Professor Delia Sands. I work in the Arts department of Intectus Deprehendi University. It is a pleasure to be here today and it is an even greater pleasure to introduce my dear friend and colleague: Professor Avery Cornelius Finn of the Mathematics department of IDU." Oh shit, now all of these strangers know my name and where I work. Who were all of these people anyway? It's clearly not even possible for Sands' class to be this big. "As you are all aware, today is a special day for the museum. Students and educators get in free today, and it warms my heart to see not only our beloved Intectus has taken advantage of this fact but several universities as well." Several...! Universities!? No wonder it was so crowded! I should have known. Of course we weren't the only school that came today. It was free for all students and educators, why wouldn't more of them be here? "Let us begin this session by giving Avery here a hand. Without him, this would not be possible." The audience happily obliged. It was the same level of of clapping and wolf-whistling I received when the curtain unveiled my nudity. I sincerely don't believe they were applauding simply because Sands asked them to. "Yes, I cannot tell you how much this heroic man has saved our entire curriculum just by stepping in when we needed him most. So as a pleasant surprise to our handsome savior, I sent out an invitation to the esteemed members of the city's local college, Incommodi Mirum University to join us today, and I am happy to see so many of their students and long time staff members have arrived in answer to my call."

My blood ran cold at her words. How I wished the world could have ended right there. Why would I be so bothered that Incommodi Mirum University was in attendance to this event you ask? Well, simply put...that's the college yours truly graduated from. I was standing stark naked before people from my precious alma mater! I bragged about graduating there with honors to all my colleagues so it was no surprise that Sands knew of it. It was unlikely that any of the students recognized me (unless they were freshman when I graduated) but I have always had close relationships to my professors, it's mostly what influenced my decision to become one myself.

God I hope none of my former teachers were in the audience now. What would they think of me?

Thanks to my faulted vision without my glasses, I gratefully couldn't see most of the people out in the audience. Unfortunately, my vision wasn't so bad that I couldn't see the first few rows. In the aisle in front of me, I spotted the beaming faces of Professor Sands' students. All of them laughing and pointing upward toward me on the stage as they pulled out their camera phones. Among them was the darling face of Bridget, she sat there looking up at me adoringly and lustfully. I would have been flattered if I weren't naked in front of so many people. I couldn't bear to look at any of those students anymore so I turned to my right, and what I saw was so much worse.