Naked in a Crowd

Walking down her street naked almost felt manageable to Melanie now. She put in a pair of earplugs that connected to the phone in the small bag she was carrying and found that her music drowned out most of the wolf-whistles, catcalls and angry claims that she was a slut that she had started to become familiar with. She really couldn't be bothered shouting out her safety phrase to normalise her nudity to everyone she passed at this point. She just held her head up, looked straight ahead and kept walking towards her destination.

Melanie was starting to realise what other people thought of her didn't really matter all that much. She also now knew that men really liked looking at her body and a lot of women seemed to envy it. Melanie wasn't a vain or arrogant person but she figured that was something to be proud of rather than ashamed by. It wasn't like she had any desire to become a full time nudist when this was all over, but she could happily wear a much skimpier bikini next time she was on the beach working on her tan.

She was aware she still had much bigger challenges ahead of her though and, as she reached the tube station, she was about to face one of them. It wasn't rush hour but it was always crowded and on entering the station her heart sank as she saw there were delays on several of the lines, The carriages were going to be packed. Melanie nearly jumped out of her skin as she felt a tentative tap on her shoulder. She jolted and turned round to see a flustered looking young man in a railway uniform saying something she couldn't hear over her music. Melanie didn't need to be a lip reader to know he was telling her she couldn't go on the trains without clothes so she told him her safety phrase and he profusely apologised for bothering her before letting the naked passenger go on her way.

Melanie could feel the clothes of other commuters brushing up against her bare skin as she pressed her travel card against the reader and pushed through the barrier. This was by far the craziest thing she had ever done in her life and yet, logically, it currently made more sense than anything else she could do. Stood on the crowded platform moments later Melanie suddenly felt very naked again. She knew everyone was staring at her while they waited. She also knew from the state of the train that was leaving when she arrived that her carriage would be packed and she would find her naked body tightly squeezed between complete strangers for several minutes at a time. She tried to move along the platform to places that looked slightly less busy but found a committed group of men were following wherever she went, clearly wanting to travel next to the hot naked girl.

In the end, Melanie gave up trying to find a way to make this experience slightly less bad and accepted her fate. As the train pulled up and it's doors opened in front of her she stepped purposefully on board.