Just stay naked

( Chapter originally made by karlmarx700 in www.writing.com )

Zara covered her naked body, blushing red. She had had dreams about this sort of thing, ending up naked in public! Though the thing was, those dreams had always been kind of fun.

She had lost her brand new bikini, but that flimsy thing had never covered very much in the first place. Her father had said so when he got it for her. "Why would you even bother wearing this?" he had said. "It's so skimpy, you might as well just go naked."

The more she thought about it, the more she realized he was right. What was the big deal about those few square inches of skin now that they were uncovered? It's not like that bit of fabric had hidden anything about the shape of her body. She was slender and smooth, and losing the bikini just saved other people the trouble of undressing her with their eyes.

She stopped covering, let her arms fall to her sides, and shrugged. "Well, such is life."

"Such is life?" Tracy repeated. "You're naked! Bare-booty-butt naked in a park!"

"Yeah, I lost my bikini," Zara said indifferently. "I don't see myself getting it back anytime soon, so we have two choices. We could run back to the lockers, change clothes, and go home early which would be totally lame and a complete waste of a day pass, or we could stay here. I'm not wearing that much less than I was five minutes ago, so I vote we stay here."

Tracy stared at her. "What? Zara, think this through. What if someone sees you?"

She shrugged again. "Then they'll see me. It's not the end of the world, and our chances of running into anyone we know are pretty slim."

"But-but … we'll get kicked out!",_ _Tracy responded

Zara stretched, feeling the sun on parts of her body that had never seen the light of day before. It felt nice. "And we'll be no worse off than if we left now. Better, even, because we'll have had a few more rides. Come on, Tracy, it will be fun!"