Tami, the Naked Freshman
by donnylaja
Part 4
Percy Jorgon, age 52, Dean of Campbell - Frank College for three years, Assistant Dean at another college for eight years before that, was a longtime veteran of bureaucratic politics. He was good at stroking egos, and at gently crushing them. He knew how to get his point across with such subtlety that one could hardly know that the point was his. He could engineer controversies and purges without anyone being able to detect his fingerprints on them. And he was a master of the surreptitious gesture. He now adjusted his tie, tugged on his jacket, and cast his eye in a certain direction.
Tami, standing with Jen and Gretchen in the back, grateful that people's attention had been directed at Deneisha and Roger, was waiting for another of the Armor of Christ recipients to volunteer to show their talents.
"Ah yes, Miss Tami Smithers," the Dean said. All the blood drained from Tami's face. The Dean looked across at her. "I see you've volunteered." She looked at him in fear. She had done no such thing. He responded with a steely glare disguised as a smile. Nobody else could tell. "We'd be glad to see your gymnastics skill. I thought you were shy. But let me say, folks, there are some things of which Miss Smithers is justifiably proud." He looked around at the crowd. "She is also a straight-A student in mathematics, her major. But watching you integrate a fourth-level derivative would be rather a dry divertissement, and for some of us, downright intimidating." There was some chuckling from people who had gone into arts or the humanities because they didn't know how to add.
As Tami gaped at the Dean in fear, he looked at her with a patient smile which masked a gleam of threat. And now the faces of Mr. Noyes and Mr. Comstock, as if on cue, appeared behind the Dean's. Their expressions were neutral except for cocked eyebrows which made their expectation of what she should do -- what she MUST do -- all too clear. Why are you hesitant, Miss Smithers? You're a religious nudist, right? You don't believe in modesty, right??
Jen nudged Tami with her elbow. "Good for you Tam," she whispered. "Show them your stuff!"
No, no. . . Tami found herself lurching forward, as if in a dream. She had a polite smile frozen on her face as she walked through the space the grownups in front made for her. She looked down and once again saw her bare feet, with the tacky white toenail polish, treading the soft carpet among the elegant shoes and socks and hose. And now she made it to the front ring of people around the circular clearing that had acted as a performing space for Deneisha and Roger. She was now directly across from the Dean and Mr. Noyes and Mr. Comstock. She carefully kept her shoulders back, kept her hands at her sides, while her face burned at the awareness of so many eyes burrowing into her full frontal nudity. She glanced up at the big portrait of old Joshua Campbell. His long gray beard and Old Testament scowl glared down a harsh judgment of disapproval on this young girl's brazen nakedness. In his day even wearing short pants was probably considered shameful. And now -- here I am -- little Tami Smithers -- all bare!!
Suddenly a thought hit her. "S - sorry but . . . th - there's not enough room for a floor exercise. I'd need space for the runup. B - bigger than this room," she added, looking back over her bare shoulder at the wall.
"Surely there are stationary exercises you can do."
"Tami," Jen called out. "Do the handstand backwalk! You know, with the scissors and split!"
Tami looked back with a tortured smile. Jen wants to help. If only she knew . . . !
"Yes, that sounds like a good idea," the Dean said. "Go ahead."
Tami gulped and padded to the center of the circle. With eyes fixed on a distant place -- a place, maybe, where she could be all covered up in clothes like everyone else -- she assumed the gymnast's opening position, arms out at her sides, chest thrust out, feeling her breasts wobble. Her toes gripped the carpet. In high school she always felt overexposed in her leotard, even with other leotarded teammates nearby. It was the one thing she didn't like about gymnastics. She always wished she could wear the slippers and tights like they did in the old days, rather than perform in bare legs and bare feet. Now, totally naked and solo, was a thousand times worse.
She shook and felt a warm flush over her breasts which she knew had to be visible. She said a little prayer and began.
What Jen was referring to was a minor floor exercise lasting about two minutes. It was not as showy as the big set pieces, with mid-air somersaults and lutzes. For Tami it was an easy run-through. As she did her handstand, came up again, then down again, and scissored her legs above, toes pointing at the ceiling, she tried as hard as she could to pretend she was all alone, doing this in a studio in front of a mirror. But it was impossible. There was the presence of the crowd filling the air. The occasional coughing somewhere from old throats. And now someone said, "Very impressive." An older woman, perhaps not meaning to be heard so well, said, "Amazing, how young girls are so flexible."
And now the Dean said, "We really should see this better. Harald, could you turn up the rheostat?"
The crystal chandelier directly above her, with its dozens of little decorative bulbs, grew brighter than the sun. Tami's upside-down face saw the sharpening of the shadows of her breasts on the carpet. She felt like a display in a museum under the suddenly bright lights.
On her hands, she kicked vigorously, her toes pointing to one side of the room then another. She heard a woman's voice say, "I've long thought that gymnastics was a sport that should be performed in the nude. There is no need for clothing. In fact it probably would hinder her movements."
The Dean chuckled and said, "Vanessa, I'm afraid the rest of our team will have to stay fully uniformed. Only Miss Smithers can be naked."
Damn! Tami thought. I'm the exception to everything. Everyone else has clothes and shoes and coats to cover themselves with. I have nothing! All bare!
And, all bare, Tami Smithers, gymnast, all 105 pounds of her, held the rapt attention of the assembly. The men who made up most of the crowd would never forget this exhibition of this Miss Smithers and her perfect body. She was younger than the bodies they lusted after -- indeed, she was barely out of high school and to them seemed hardly more than a child. But the men, and the women, were impressed by the tight muscles, the thin but strong limbs, the flat tummy, the trim butt cheeks, the nascent beauty of a teenage athlete. And the calm but serious face.
And now the last part of the exercise, the big handstand split. Tami took a deep breath and down she went, onto her straightened arms. Her hands spread and braced against the floor carefully. The carpet was a little firmer than a performance mat but not too bad. . . With her upside down face dully looking at the forest of shoes and boots and pants and skirts, she spread her legs to a split.
"Remarkable," a man said.
She was about to close her legs when the old professor in the beret said, "What a wonderful illustration. . ."
The Dean said, "Miss Smithers, could you hold this position for a moment?"
Tami nodded, her loose hanging hair reaching the carpet and wafting across it with her nod. A strange feeling. While performing she always kept her hair tied back.
She felt Professor Latimer's presence behind her. "You see here the unabashed female form, in a nonsexual context."
"Can it really be nonsexual?" a woman from behind asked. It was Professor Brignon of the Art Department. She spoke with a French accent, not Qubecois but French. "It was Velazquez, I think, declaring that any artist who denied the feeling sexual while painting a nude was the most hypocrite."
"In this case I think it would not be," the Dean said. "Miss Smithers's nudity is not about sex. As I have mentioned, her deportment has been exemplary, in fact demure."
"She is rather too young for me to be aroused," a man from some distance away said. There was a murmur of agreement.
"As an 18 year old," the Dean said, "Miss Smithers is a fine specimen of young womanhood, both in body and in mind." He said this, of course, to assure everyone that Tami was not 17, or younger.
"Note the tendons," Latimer said, pointing to the tightness of Tami's anatomy on either side of her pussy lips, "how exquisitely they perform their function of keeping the legs apart yet united. Also the lush forest of pubic hair. So often hidden, tucked away shamedly, the province of prostitutes and loose women, seen here in its proper place, a glory of the female form."
"Come on, Tami," Jen enthused. "You can split further than that!"
"Indeed," the Dean responded, with just enough of a hint of insinuation for Tami to get the message. Gotta show I'm not modest. Tami's concave tummy inhaled and exhaled, and she spread her legs out further, until they were in fact bent further than 180 degrees, her legs actually aimed slightly downward now to each side. In a further demonstration of her virtuosity, she flexed her feet, and spread her toes. Her toes now pointed in toward her hands, which now shifted slightly as they continued supporting her weight, pressed against the carpet.
"Remarkable flexibility," a woman said. "I don't see how they do it." Tami's butt bones jutted up on each side of her crotch. Her entire lower body was distorted by the stretch.
And now she felt her pussy lips open, and felt the air from the room start to go in there. It was an odd feeling -- and then she realized to her horror that her inner cave was illuminated by the overhead light. Oh God . . . These grownups can see right down inside me! She squeezed her eyes shut. Her face burned crimson -- which the assembled persons, fortunately, attributed to her being upside down and the blood rushing down.
Jen beamed with pride that competed with lust at the sight of her teammate, so exposed and open, her cute pussy lips and clit bright and pink under the brilliance of the chandelier -- it was hard to resist just walking up to her, bending down a bit, and giving her a lick! She smiled at the thought of Tami's body jolting at the touch of her talented lesbian tongue. She wondered: if I burrowed in there, lapping and lapping, chasing her clit around and finally sucking on it, showing no mercy, how long could Tami hold that position? Could she actually orgasm like that, holding a handstand split? Tami was a good enough gymnast that, just maybe -- ! Jen found herself getting hot under her blouse and jacket. She took a deep breath and tried to cool off. Got to control myself. This is my roommate . . . can't get involved . . .
"I can see the nonsexual beauty of this," an older-sounding man said.
"If her religion was to go around in push-up bra and corset, now that would be sexual. And damned distracting," another man said. Some hearty male-style laughter from the back, which was quickly suppressed by the Dean's careful glare. The other Armor of Christ recipients stood in the rear, not knowing what to think.
These comments just made Tami more ashamed. She wondered when she could dismount from this position. She was able to handstand for quite some time -- part of her training in high school had been to build up her endurance -- but she wished the Dean would hurry up and tell her it was O.K. to stand up. After which she wanted nothing more than to close her legs tight, cover her pussy and breasts with her hands, and scamper into the nearest closet!
As Latimer continued to point to the intimate features of the naked teenager's anatomy, her upside-down gaze continued without enthusiasm to survey the shoes and pants and socks around her. Then her eye caught that mirror, that big mirror she had seen herself in before. Her mouth opened in astonishment. Her naked body was gleaming in the bright light. She looked smaller than everyone else, these big grownups made bigger by their clothes. She was like a bright statue that they were closely examining. And ohmigod -- my pussy hair -- every single hair cast its bright shadow on my pussy lips. Her eyes widened unbelievingly as they took in the little clit poking out, the open lips with the light shining directly into and between them. And finally and most shamingly, her little butthole, surrounded by a ring of brown skin, in its open valley up behind her pussy hair. In a reflex of trying to cover herself, she started to squeeze her butt cheeks closed. But she could not risk the Dean detecting any attempt to cover herself, no matter how minor and inadequate. So she relaxed her butt cheeks. All that the grownups saw was a twitch of the little brown asterisk.
Tami tried to look away from the mirror but it kept drawing her attention. Her gleaming, nude, wide-opened form was unbearable to look at. She just had to turn away from it.
"If you -- don't mind," she said quietly, "I -- have to -- reposition." And with that, she turned around, her hands shifting a few degrees at a time. As her legs rotated her spread toes brushed against someone's jacket and another person's dress. Her poor bare toes, denied covering, thrilled at the touch of fabric. "Sorry," she said. "No, I'm sorry," came the replies.
Finally she was facing the other direction from before. She thought of how she must look in the mirror, her bare butt gleaming under the lights. And now she saw in front of her shoes and socks and pants she recognized. The Dean, Mr. Noyes, and Mr. Comstock. Her heart sank as she realized these three men were looking right into her secret womanly cave. And right at her brightly lit butthole! She wanted to turn around to where she was before but she knew how that would be interpreted.
It was becoming too much for the frightened naked teenager. I can't take all this exposure, all this shame! Please God . . . And now she felt her eyes getting wet. She had tried to control her shame, but now her tummy quivered and so did her mouth. She sniffled and immediately regretted it. Sniffling was a dead giveaway. I am so dead! She thought of her parents and how crushed they would be. Expelled as a streaker and a liar, scholarship revoked. Back to Providence. Waitressing, maybe, like a lot of her friends from high school. But mostly she thought of her parents. I've let them down!!
Blinking back tears, she looked up at the Dean, the corners of her mouth straining to keep back the sobs. And the Dean looked down at her with a raised eyebrow. And now a little, triumphant smile.
As their eyes continued to meet, confident gray eyes staring into wet young green eyes of fear and terror, Dean Percy Jorgon, master of the surreptitious gesture, coughed. He coughed casually, as if suddenly having a little tickle in his throat. He decorously put his hand up to cover his mouth, of course. The hand was clenched a little so as to block his breath. But only apparently so. In fact his curled fingers let his breath escape, they funnelled the force of his wind directly into the opened vagina of the naked 18-year-old freshman gymnast.
Tami's body flinched as she felt his breath go right up inside her, and waft over her cute little exposed anus. Everyone could see her pussy lips flinching under the bright chandelier, her sphincter twitching. There was no holding back now. Her wails of shame would no longer be contained. Tears fell from her upside-down face, rolling over her forehead into her hair. She sniffled again, louder. Her whole body trembled, her legs shaking.
"Oh I'm sorry, young lady," Professor Latimer said, guessing that she was straining from holding the position. "You can finish now."
Tami's heart was in her mouth as she finally, blessedly closed her legs, her toes pointing up to the ceiling. And now she did a backflip and landed her bare feet on the carpet, her chest stuck out and her arms extended backward in the classic gymnastics finishing position. She felt her breasts wobble for a split second before they came to rest.
And now the loud, loud applause rang in her ears as she listened through her tears. Probably the last applause I'll ever hear, she told herself.
She put her arms down and began to turn around. But then the Dean said, "Miss Smithers, you're crying. Are you upset about something?"
"Indeed," Mr. Noyes said, stepping forward, looking down at the naked girl from his height. "Perhaps we should talk about this."
Mr. Comstock stepped forward too, his reptilian face twisting into a smile.
Tami wiped the tears from her face and sniffled. "O.K." Out to that chilly portico to get expelled!
"No, that's normal," Jen said, stepping forward. "When you're upside down for a while your eyes get bloodshot and teary, and the . . . mucus (she was going to say "snot") goes down to your head so you sniffle."
Tami's eyes widened. "Yes, that's right." Yes it was! She remembered her high school coach telling her that! Thank you Jen!!
The Dean looked confused and a little flustered. He glanced at Mr. Comstock uncertainly.
Then Professor Kurilenko, that bald Russian man, spoke up. "What she says is true. The human body is not used to being upside down. Blood goes to the eyes, fluids go to the head."
"So . . . you're all right?" the Dean said to Tami.
Tami, sniffling and catching her breath, put her arm around Jen and said, "Yes, Mr. Jorgon. I'm fine. And thank you -- Ladies and Gentlemen -- for this scholarship." She smiled broadly, momentarily forgetting her nakedness.
Later, eating the last of the doughnuts as the reception wound down, Jen hugged Tami, pressing Tami's bare breasts against her jacket. "You were great out there, Tam!"
"Oh Jen . . ." And Tami hugged her friend harder than ever, feeling her breasts crush against the smooth jacket material. She held back saying, "You saved my life!!" Even though it was true.
End of part 4