I was incredibly embarrassed and blushed a deep purple. However, I got even harder. To my total surprise May was not at all phased and responded to Al...ce’s starring eyes with her unremitting wit. “Geoffrey is taking good care of me. He didn’t want me to slip in the bath.” The farce was unbelievable to me. Then she had to compound the embarrassment just to tease me and Alice too, it seemed. “You gave him a stiff one Alice. I hope you take care of Geoffrey better from now on.” They both laughed. .. we ... we kind of do like nudists." I think the new term is Naturist, as in natural. Meaning it is natural to be out in nature without clothes," I said.Three heads popped up, "Really?" Really," I confirmed. "So you go out in the woods and take off your clothes."That got three blushes. After a pause Amber continued, "We were wondering if you'd like to join us?"Her voice had faded until I could barely hear the last word. Three faces looked at me with a mixture of dread and hope. The woods. .”Knowing that the door would be stuck fast due to the snow that had piled on the other side, Schaffer waved forth Zagza, the enormous male taking a moment to greet Riya with a sort of Eskimo kiss that left a wet smear on her visor as his nose rubbed against it. She didn’t speak their language and so she couldn’t tell the alien to keep it casual, her face reddening as it brought back memories of their encounter the day before, and he stepped past her to take the door handle in his massive hand.. Beth seemed calmer now, the laughter had helped. So I asked her to tell me about herself, how she met her husband-the story of her life. It took about an hour. She met Ronnie in college, when they were both sophomores. He was her first serious boyfriend. She turned up pregnant and quit school after they got married. Then she miscarried and never went back to college, though Ronnie finished. He was some kind of auditor for a restaurant supply company, and Beth worked as a supervisor at Target..