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I froze as I could see movement inside, Nevitha's parents room. I froze, any moment I was about to be discovered and the consequences being endless.

In what felt like a eternity, my mind raced through all possible outcomes. I finally bolted across the living room, and dove just behind the long sofa in the middle of the hall.

Down on all fours, hiding behind the sofa, with sweat dripping all over my body, with the still wet bottle, on the ground beside me.I could see as a figure emerge out from the room, It was Nevitha's dad. He ambled around still sleepy, into the kitchen.

He switched on the lights of the kitchen, which illumunated half the living room, Soon he was out of sight, I contemplated on making a run for the stairs but I was scared about the sound I would be making if I ran up the stairs. Maybe I took too much time or I didn't hear what was happening around me, with my heart pounding out of my chest.

I looked up and saw Nevitha's dad, standing in the kitchen confused. I wondered why he was standing there, I guessed he obviously wanted to have a drink of water. It was at that moment it hit me like a train, He was confused as to why the RO was running.

I held my breath, as I was damn sure, I am gonna be caught in just a moment, As soon as he walked around and flicked the lights on, I would be visible in all my naked glory, I started shivering and praying that I just get out of the situation that I am in, and held my head in disbelief.

I could see him come out into the hallway, looking puzzled and he looked up at the stairs and stood there momentarilym I was watching all of this, praying and begging for him to just go away or disappear, In what felt like ages, he was still there, he went to front door, made sure it was locked and walked back near the sofa, It was over , he was just mere meters from me, for sure if he just looked down, he could see a dark silhouette, creeped up behind his sofa.

I planned to dash at the stairs the moment, he switched on the lights, abandoning the water and covering my self, I crouched forward and got ready. The moment was tense and time slowed down to the point I could only hear my heart pounding. Fear had taken over and my limbs were trembling and sweat was running down my body and dripping on the floor.

Then he stopped. He turned around and went back inside his room, I was so scared that I barely moved. I could see the door close behind him and the light flicker off.

The moment has passed, the house fell silent and dark again, I was paralyzed in fear so much so that I barely moved, a moment later, I collapsed, I laid down face first on the floor, scared to even budge, but I knew the danger is far from over.

I got up scanned the room and got the bottle in my hand as I ran up the stairs, hoping to get away, from the situation and as I reached the top, i flung towards the door, to my suprise the door opened, there stood the girls all anxious for my return,

I came and stood inside, Abi made sure to close the door behind me, My sweat covered body infront all my friends who at this point have all dressed themselves up.

I opened the bottle and drank the water, it flowed over but I didnt care, I had just escaped from a nightmare situation that I would have never thought happen.

Kiruthiga threw me a towel, I dried myself, and collapsed on the bed.
Then came the barrage of questions. "Ennadi aachu?" "En ivlo neeram?" "Ennadi nee poita? naanga poga maata nu ninachom?"

I looked up and told them, what happened.
They could not believe what they were hearing, especially Nevitha. She was so scared that her dad showed up. "Paathutaara? unmayaa sollu?" (Did he see you? tell me the truth).

I let my rage go at her, "Unaala thaan elaam, en life la vilayaadra"
(Its all your fault, you are played with my life).
She started apoligizing, "Please ena manichidu, Na kovathula apdi paniten" (Please forgive me I am sorry, I did it out of anger) over and over again.

I just laid down and closed my eyes. In a few moments, I was back to normal, I made up with her, and we all got to talking over the experience.

Nevitha came and gave me my clothes, I took em, and for some reason I didnt know at the time, I did not want to wear them.

I told her "Anga vei kalaila kodu" (Keep it there, give it to me in the morning.)
She looked at me and smiled, and stuffed it back in my bag.

Then I teased her "Na pogum pothu nee ipdi ilayae, ena aachu?" (I dont remember you being like this when I went.) She looked at me, at that moment she knew what I meant.

She started stripping down and came and sat with me saying " Santhosama?" (Happy?), I just smiled, We looked at the other two, who like got it instantly, they both stripped down and stuffed their clothes in their bags.

We spent a little while talking and spending time with each other, and soon me bein g beat from my little "adventure", soon dozed off around 2 AM in the morning.

It was well into 9 AM in the morning when I was woken up by Abi, she threw my clothes at me as the other girls started dressing, I got dressed and we all went down for coffee and breakfast.

At the dining table, as we were having breakfast, Nevitha's dad asked "Yaarathu night vanthu thanni pidichingala?" (Did any of you come down yesterday to get water?) All the girls stared at me, I answered "Naan thaan uncle vanthen oru 1 pola" (It was me uncle I came around 1). He went on "RO motor oditu irunthuchu athaan keten ma, fast ah poita pola?" (The RO motor was on hence I asked, you went away fast it seems?)
I just smiled and ate we all looked at each other and giggled.

Soon it was time, I got my things and all of us said our goodbyes and I started home, It was around 11 AM when I reached home, I told my mom "Mummy, kulichitu konjaa neraam thoonga poren sapdu pothu solunga" ( I am gonna take bath and sleep, wake me up for lunch). My Mom said "Madam romba tired oh, seri po thoongu" (Are you so tired, fine so sleep)

I went in my room, and took a bath and came out momentarily with a towel wrapped around me. I passed across the mirror in my room, and stopped, never once in my life, did I stand before my mirror, before I put on my clothes.

I stepped in front of the mirror, I dropped my towel, and for the first time, I looked at myself, raw and unfiltered, something that I liked.

I moved to my bed, folded my clothes and laid down naked in sun and soon I dozed off.

From that day changed my outlook and at that particular moment I became a naturist, and I loved my life and my body as that awakening lead to the woman I am now.

There I was standing butt naked on front on my friends as they were egging me on, "Po, poitu va onnum aggathu" (Go, nothing will happen). I was in shock as it was one thing to be naked in a safe place, its another in an open space, not to mention the consequences.

I was like " Ena vilayadriya? nee ponnum na po na laam poga mudiyaathu" (What are you playing at? If you want you can go, I aint)  I protested on the verge of tears at this point. The next thing I knew I was pushed towards the door, my protests in vain.

The door swung open, into the dark hallway, illuminated by a small light at the start of the stairs. I was pushed out and once I got up the door closed.  I began sweating profusely in horror. I expected at any moment, to find Nevitha's mom or dad infront of me.

I knocked and pleaded at the door to let me in, the only thing I heard was " Nee ipdi kathithae iruntha keela iruntha aal vanthurum, naanga laam dress panitom, nee thaan maata pora" ( If you keep shouting like this, people will hear you and come up, we all are dressed, its you who will be caught.) That made me quiet. I just slid down sat in front of the door, with an empty bottle, hugging it to my chest.

It was 5 minutes later, which felt like an eternity, my fear turned to anger and anger clouded my judgement. I stood up and walked to the stairs, my anklets sound was defeaning in my ear, I took em off any placed them near the door.

I slowly approached the stairs and turned off the light illuminating them, I started walking down. My mind was raging at my friends, how could they do this? Even my bestfriend has stabbed me in the back, What am I doing listening to these people?
Likewise thousands of thoughts were circling through my mind.

I was so deep into my thoughts, that I hadn't noticed I was at the bottom of the stairs. I was starring down the hallway, will a faint light illuminating the kitchen, and faint light coming from Nevitha's parents room. I slowly crept forward ever so slightly, being careful not trip or step over myself. My eyes had adjusted to the darkness, and I was now infront of the sofas and coffee table, I crept past them, I was thinking to myself " Ipo thaan inga ukaanthu pesitu irunthom, ipo inga ena nadakuthu?" (Just now we were all talking here, Now look whats happening).

I crept past the first empty room, and my heart raced as I crossed the parents room, the door was ajar, a faint light lighting outside, I could hear Nevitha's Dad snoring inside, I expected any moment for him to come out and find me, thankfully that did not happen. I crept past the room. I stepped into the kitchen, in the dim light I could see the RO machine near the sink. 

The fear, the rage of betrayal everything was getting to me as I started sweating all over my body, I just wiped my face and approached the RO tank, I started filling up the bottle, my hands were shaking as I just wanted to bolt out of the kitchen and back upstairs.

It was a 1 liter bottle, it filled up quicky, then came the sound, that horrifying sound that felt like an alarm through my head, the RO machine started up, the motor whirring and waste water trickling into the sink. I got spooked, and walked out of the still clutching the now wet bottle with the lid screwed on loose, on my wet body.

The trickling sound of water in the RO machine felt deafening to my ears. I glanced at the clock at it was way past 1 AM. As I reached the threshold of kitchen, my heart sank in horror. 

Just a few feet in front of me, I saw a light switch on from the parents room. The door swung open.

The room filled with laughter went deadly silent the moment she uttered those words.

Everyone was staring at me. Me unable to comprehend the situation just said "Ennathu"  (What?)
Nevitha calmly replied, "Enna kekalaya? Shirt ah kalati kodu nu sonnen" (Can't you hear? I asked you to take off your shirt and give it to me).

I flat out refused, asked her to say something else but she stood firm.
I looked to my friends for support, for which she said "Yaar dare ah vendam nu solrigalo avangalae, antha dare ah pananum"( Whoever says no to the dare has to takeover the dare). Nobody said anything post that.

Even Abi said, "Kalati kodu ithula ena iruku, nama pathukalam". (Take it off, give it to her, we'll see about that)

I was cornered into a hole I didn't want and only one way forward.

I slowly unbuttoned my shirt. I took it off and revealed my camisole which I was wearing underneath. Gave it to her saying "Santhosama?"(Happy?), which she happily bundled up and placed beside her and said "Ilayae (No).

I sat there covering myself eventhough I wasn't naked, but I was very self concious of my body, since I was very small for my age.

The laughing atmosphere soon turned tense, not knowing what was gonna happen next.  I thought it was going to end post that but Abi took the bottle and spun in again. Waiting to see the bottle stop was nerve wracking. It finally stopped at Kiruthiga and Abi, Kiruthiga was white as a sheet. Abi knew that Kiruthiga was my Nevitha's best friend, didn't even bother to ask the question.She just said, "Nighty ah kalati kodu" (Take off your nighty and give it to me.)

She protested for a while and when Nevitha just nodded at her, she just stood up, took it off and threw it at Abi. She as well was wearing a panty and camisole.

She sat down obviously upset at the development, I tried to defuse the situation by saying " Pothum pa nala ila, vera ethathu panalam" (Enough guys, lets just do something else).
But no one bothered to listen.
Kiruthiga in a rage just said "Bottle ah kodu" (Give me the bottle) and spun it . It eventually landed back on me and Nevitha, I just looked at her, she knew, she took off her shirt and threw it at me and when I attempted to put it on, she gestured No.

The next spin landed on me again, I couldn't believe my rotten luck. She just looked at me and smiled. I admitted defeat. I stood up slid off my pants and sat down, there I was sitting just in my underwear, infront of the people whom I have never been in an compromised position before.

So the bottle spun couple of times, each of them taking off a piece of clothing every single time.

Then came the penultimate moment. So all four of us, were now sitting in our underwear, infront of a bottle. The next spin was gonna be critical, The next person was gonna get nude. I spun the bottle hoping to get the person that started all this.
To my dismay, the bottle pointed right at me. Nevitha laughed "Ipadi aagum nu ninachi paatha?" (Did you think this would happen?) and just held out her hand. I knew what she meant.

A sudden wave of courage swept over me, I  just slid my hands out of my camisole and gave it to her saying "Paravala, neenga elarum thaana" (Its fine, it you guys only).

I gave it to her and just stared at her, I  dared not look down at my own body. I just sat acting relaxed. There I was sitting topless infront of my friends who have never seen me naked and I them.

I was thinking out on what the hell has happened here, as the bottle spun again, this time it landed on Abi. Abi just followed through, took off her camisole and gave it to Kiruthiga. On the next spin Kiruthiga had to take it off.

Apart from the person who started it all, we were all sitting topless in front of each other, we were sweating like crazy. Finally the moment arrived, the bottle arrived at her, the instigator. As soon as the bottle arrived on her, she started taking off her camisole.
I said ("Iru na kekave ilayae?") I didnt ask you wait.

Nevitha looked up confused, before she could say anything, I said, "Enthirchi panties ah kalati kodu"( Get up and take off your panties.) For the first time in thew night, I saw her look flustered, unsure of what to do. I instigated her further, "Ena Bayama? (What? are you scared?)

Maybe she wanted it to stop from that point, but I was too far gone into my courage streak, I just pushed on.

She got up looked at me, slid down her panties and threw it at me using her leg.

She sat down and I was satisfied, In my mind, I made her naked, before she could do me.

The next spin landed on me, I kinda expected that, I stood up took of my panties, walked to my bag took a towel and dried my face, as I was sweating up a storm, and came and sat down.

At this point I was the only one completely naked,in front of the group and I was the least bit bothered. Cause in my mind, I had won.

The next couple of turns stripped the whole gang down.

Before we knew it, I was Naked and Nevitha was naked, Abi was naked and Kiruthiga just had her panties on.

At that point we were are giggling and making fun of each other to the point where we just pinned down Kiruthiga and remove the panties off of her.

There we were a close group of friends, through a game of chance were sitting naked across each other, chatting making fun of each other, just like we always do, one thing that changed was I lost the self concious mindset when it came to my friends.

We made fun of Nevitha. "Seriyaana aalu di nee? Game ah enga kondu poi viturka?" (Such a cunning girl you are, you twisted the game into something else entirely)

She fought back with "Kalata sonna kalatiduviya nee?" Podi fraud. (If I asked you to take it off, means you will take it off? Fraud)

At that moment our clothes were mixed up strewn across the room, but we didnt care, we were same group of people enjoying each others company, just minus the clothes. At that moment we were the same.

At that moment, I was having water from the bottle and could see the three of them whispering between themselves.

When I walked over, Nevi said "Thanni iruka?" (Water?). I had drank the last of it, and  gestured No.

"Poi  pidichitu va po" (Go get some) is what she replied.

I knelt down to get my clothes, to my horror, Abi was sticking all of my clothes into her bag.

Before I could get what was going on, Nevitha smiled and said 

"Poitu va"(Go, and come back). I stared in horror, now I knew what she meant.

Within Minutes I was at Nevitha's gate, her father was a successful businessman owning couple of factories in Tambaram, so they were pretty well off, I parked my cycle in their parking and walked in, apparently I was the last to arrive since most of them, had reached around 630PM.

I walked into the two story home, with a winding stair case at the right that lead to the first floor, which is where Nevitha's room was, it also featured a couple of other rooms as well, one of which was Nevitha's brother's room but he was off to college in Trichy. The ground floor had a couple of rooms apart from the kitchen, one of which was the parents room.

After the usual pleasantries, I put my bag in Nevitha's room, and walked down and we all sat in the living room chatted for a while with Nevitha's parents and watched TV till dinner. 

Post dinner, it was around 930 PM, the parents retired, so we went upstairs to Nevitha's room and got changed to our night clothes. Her room was as big as the living room, and she also had a TV in her room.

For context, I wore my Night dress combo with was loose fitting Shirt and Pants, which was the same for most of the girls except for Kiruthiga where she wore a Nighty for the night.

We all changed into our night dresses and retired to her room, Her Dad had bought CD's of new movies so we watched Kung Fu Panda, and by the time that was done it was around 10:30 PM.

We weren't that tired at all, an we were just lying down and talking about the school, our lives, crushes just basic girly things. Most of the girls were cagey in their replies.

Then Abi had the brilliant idea to play a Truth or Dare, almost all of us hesitated,
except Nevitha saying she was fine either way. And before we know it, the game had started so, the first round started with all of us sitting in a circle and a water bottle in the middle, whomsover the bottle lands pointing to, has to ask to the person on the other end of the bottle.

I was pretty new to this, and was mostly suprised at how everyone was okay and eager to play, so initially I went with it. The bottle first landed with Nevitha and across her was Krithiga, Krithiga said "Truth or Dare" to which the obvious answer was "Truth". "Nama class la iruka boys la yaaara pidikumm?" (Which one of the boys do you like in our class?) Nevitha twisted and turned for the answer we all were egging her on, she has answer, she finally blurted out "Yogesh". To which we all made fun of her.

So, round and round the bottle went, everyone went with truth, but we were having fun. Finally it landed across to me and Nevitha. I asked her "Truth or Dare" to which the obvious answer was "Truth". I knew that Nevitha fancied a guy from senior classes and I have seen them talking secretly.

So I asked her, "Yaar unoda crush...." (Who is your crush..) I was cut off by the answer "Suresh" (Suresh was a guy in our class).  To which I replied, "Na innum question ah finish panalayae?" ( I am not done with the question). To which she said fine.

I restarted "Yaar unoda crush from X B" (Who is your crush for X). Nevitha's face went white. She thought that nobody knew, her reaction was enough for everybody to get on the train.

Her face changed and she murmered out "David" for which the whole group went wild, it was question after question from each of them, like Sollavae ila? (Didn't even  tell us) and evlo naala poitu iruku (How long has this been going on?)

Finally it was settled, but I could see it in Nevitha's eyes that she was not pleased about me outing her. I reckoned she will get back at me with the same question.

So when the bottle eventually reached back at me, I was ready with a different plan.
When Nevitha said (Trutha, Darea?) I said Dare. I figured I wouldn't have to answer anything, since I can just do some random dare and get away with it.

But she smiled. She knew I would do this.

In the most calm manner possible she just said "Shirt ah kalati enta kudu" (Take off your shirt and give it to me).

This is the story of how I became a nudist, It was at a time, when I didn't know anything about naturism, exhibition or honestly about my own body.

It was during the summer of '09, school was out, the days were long, the nights were hot, there I was walking home with my group of friends, the final exams were over and the holidays had just begun, we were pushing our cycles, and walking home as we all lived on adjancent streets in the neighbourhood.

"Enna panna porom intha leave la?" (What are we gonna do in this vacation?) asked Kiruthiga, she was the class queen aka the most "sought after". She was an introverted shy girl, who was closer to us than anyone else.
"Venumna kodaikanal tour povoma?" (Could we go for kodaikanal tour?) was the response from Nevitha, the most extroverted of us all, and the most mischevious of the lot. She ran the class room, and had a way with words and we always had her as the "spokesperson of the group".

"Yaarta kaasu iruku avlo thooram poga?" (Who has the money to travel that far?) chimed in Abiraami, she was my best friend, the one who was been with me since L.K.G and our families are close friends as well.
"Venum na pondicherry polaam veetla vita" (We can go to pondicherry if our folks agree) I said, as I was taunted as usual for waiting for permission. I was always the biggest introvert of the group, never talked much and always slinking away from the social activities wherever I can, which always makes me the butt of the jokes.

We all were going back and forth as we reached the crossroad that split to each of our streets. "Athella aprom pesalam pesama onnum pannuvoma elarum enga veetuku vaanga inaiku night discuss pannitu naliku finalize pannuvom ( We can shelve it now, and why dont you guys come over to my home and we can discuss and finalize tomorrow.) said Nevitha, as she looked at us all.

Night stay ah I asked, to which she said yeah, we dont have school anymore so why not she replied. We all said we can ask our folks and decide once we got home.

As I walked through the last leg of my journey home, I was contemplating on skipping this ordeal entirely, as I wanted to chill home and watch TV. But I decided we can do that on Nevi's home anyway.

I got home and immediately poped the question to my Mom, who readily agreed, it was just my Dad, Mom and me, so I always got a little bit of leeway at home, and my mom was more excited that me, since I never step out of the house, rather than absolutely necessary.

So I freshened myself up, had some food and it was around 7PM when I stepped out with a bag full of night clothes and towels ans snacks, as I peddled my way to Nevitha's home.

Little did I know, that that one decision is gonna change me forever and I wont be same person who comes back.