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// Chapter 08: The Deep End 
// Story: The Angels have Landed 
// by Tarri 
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	 “I didn’t know there was a name for it,” Starwishes confessed, after Peachy Pie gave them the abridged definition of a nudist.
“Me either,” Dreamstar admitted.
As much as the twins preferred to live sans clothing when they could, wherever they could, they had no idea there was a specific term to describe anyone who would prefer to live casually clothesless. As far as they were concerned, if you were naked, you were naked, and that was just it.
“Do you guys want something to drink?” Starwishes offered, as she began to untie her skate laces.
“Sure, I’m a bit thirsty after skating here,” Sunny Daze accepted.
“Yeah… okay,” Peachy agreed. The group removed their skates, and their socks, and leaving them by the front door, entered the house.
Dreamstar and Starwishes immediately made a beeline for the kitchen, where Dreamstar took four glasses from the cupboard, while Starwishes produced juice from the fridge.
Sunny and Peachy watched them, going about their little process in their birthday suits, though Sunny then began to pay more attention to her friend’s new house, leaving Peachy alone in her twin-centric thoughts.
Peachy wasn’t entirely sure what to think of this. It wasn’t as if she had any problems with nudists, it was just their choice, and it wasn’t as if living or going around casually naked was actually wrong in her mind. But she had never met any before, and she never thought for a second she would end up befriending any. She supposed that perhaps had she met any, she would probably not have become friends with them - it’s not that nudity bothered her, it was just… it kinda bothered her. Contradiction in all that right there.
Sunny came back after taking a little peek around the immediate area of the house, though not straying too far in case it was considered rude without permission. She came into the kitchen, and Dreamstar handed her a glass of juice, which she thanked him for, before taking a swig which consumed half of the glass’ contents.
Dreamstar handed a glass to Peachy, which Peachy took.
“Thanks,” Peachy said. She then looked towards Sunny, who seemed to all of a sudden lack the realisation that these two were naked. She knew Sunny accepted many things in her stride, but this being one of them? Peachy never saw that coming. Or perhaps she just being polite?
“You guys have a nice house,” Peachy noted, as they made themselves comfortable in the living room. She kept wondering if Dreamstar and Starwishes would actually leave to get dressed or not.
“It’s a really cool house!” Starwishes agreed, with extra kudos going to the dwelling.
“We still haven’t gotten used to a house with stairs, yet…” Dreamstar told them. “The house we grew up in was all one storey.”
“It was also away from the nearest town,” Starwishes reminisced. “There were some other houses in the area, but they were a distance apart… the nearest one was close by, but most of the others you couldn’t see from our house because of the hills and trees.”
“Our new house had hillage and trees,” said Dreamstar. “So it’s almost like home, except a bigger house and different trees.”
The party fell silent for a short while, as if the conversation had run out.
“Did you guys go naked all the time?” Peachy asked.
“All the time,” Starwishes replied. “Well… not all the time…”
“We didn’t go naked when we went to school or anything,” Dreamstar explained. “But at home we did…”
“I’m jealous…” Sunny Daze unexpectedly stated.
“Wait what?” Peachy Pie started, surprised at the sudden admission. “Jealous of being naked?”
“Well… kinda,” Sunny confessed. She was starting to redden in the face.
“Wait. Hold the phone!” Peachy began, trying to wrap her mind around the limited news. “Are you saying that you are a nudist now, too?”
“No, of course I’m not!” Sunny blushed. “But… I’ve always kind of liked the idea, that’s all…”
“Do you go around naked?” Peachy interrogated. What exactly her friend’s level on this, she had to know. She had been her best friend for years, and didn’t know anything about this. Why would she only be finding out anything like that now?
“N-no!! Of course not!” Sunny blushed. “I mean… okay, sometimes I sleep naked in the summer when it’s too hot for a t-shirt, but… I would never walk around naked!!”
“How come?” Starwishes asked.
“What if someone saw?” Sunny stressed. “What would they think? And I’m not sure if I’d be okay if someone saw me, either!”
“Then why did you stay in the shower the other day?” Peachy asked.
“Oh…” Sunny stopped. She felt her heart suddenly lurch to a halt, as if it had been thumped. “Well… see… well I guess… I guess seeing Dreamstar and Starwishes naked and not being bothered by being naked kinda… made me… sorta okay with it…?”
“...uh-huh.” Peachy responded.
“Part of me was like… ‘run away!’” Sunny explained. “But another part of me just felt as though it would be weird if I did, so I guess I wasn’t sure what to do, and… I guess a small part of me just wanted it to be… normal, I guess…?”
“Being naked in a shower with a boy,” Peachy smirked.
“It’s not like that!” Sunny argued. “I guess… I dunno…”
“Should we get dressed?” Starwishes asked their guests. She wasn’t sure if Sunny Daze and Peachy Pie were comfortable or not, there seemed to be a whole bunch of mixed signals. And she and her brother had just guessed that since they had seen them naked before, then there wouldn’t be anything to worry about.
“We can put some clothes on if it will make you feel more comfortable,” Dreamstar told Sunny and Peachy.
“Yeah… we thought it would be okay since you had already seen us,” Starwishes confessed. “We didn’t think it would bother you so much…”
“Oh!” Sunny responded. “I’m not bothered, really! I did not mean to make you think it made me uncomfortable, I mean… like I said, I just envy the fact you can be so comfortable without clothes on… and it must feel nice, well… at least when it’s not cold…”
Peachy sighed. “Look… it’s not that I’m actually bothered. It’s more like… it’s weird because I’m not used to this kinda thing. Y’know, hanging out all casual with people’s bits and pieces just… there. I’m fine with it, honest. It’s just a little bit weird for me.”
“Okay…” The twins both said, after a momentary pause. Another pause followed.
“So what should we do first?” Sunny asked, breaking the ice.
“Well… how about the grand tour?” Peachy Pie suggested.

The tour itself wasn’t so much the stuff of Hollywood, but it was a great place to start.
“So you guys both sleep in the same room?” Peachy Pie observed, when the twins’ room was next on the guided tour.
“Yep,” the twins replied.
“You guys have like… two extra rooms,” Peachy pointed out. “You could have your own room, y’know.”
“We know,” said Dreamstar.
“We just don’t like sleeping apart,” Starwishes explained. “We’ve been like that forever…”
“Pff the way you two are I wouldn’t be surprised if you slept in the same bed,” Peachy joked.
“We do,” the twins replied, seriously. Peachy Pie stopped. Of course they would.
“That’s really cute,” Sunny beamed.
“You guys sleep naked too, right?” Peachy asked.
“Yeah…” Dreamstar replied.
“Do you two snuggle?” Peachy Pie added, sort of teasingly.
“Well… yeah,” Starwishes answered.
“Do you guys like… y’know,” Peachy then asked.
“OH MY GOSH PEACHY PIE!!” Sunny cried, turning all shades of red.
“Y’know…?” Dreamstar asked, not sure what she had been implying. He looked to his sister, who had the same confused look on her face.
“I’m kidding!!” Peachy Pie assured Sunny. “But… seriously, sleeping together in the same bed naked is pretty… out there.”
“Don’t mind her,” Sunny apologised to the twins.
“What was she on about?” Dreamstar asked, still confused.
“Nothing…” Peachy replied, in an exaggerated, drawn-out tone. She began to whistle as the group moved on, as if to offer some attention to herself, and passed one of her fingers through a ring she made of her other finger and thumb, whether anyone saw it or not.
“You guys have a pool?” Peachy made the observation, after they came down the stairs and made for the deck.
“Yep!” Starwishes replied, proudly.
“Hey, should we go for a swim?” Dreamstar suggested.
“I don’t have my swimsuit!” Peachy Pie stated. “You never said you had a pool! I would have brought mine!”
“I don’t have mine, either…” Sunny Daze told them.
“Why do you just go naked?” Peachy suggested.
“N-naked?” Sunny Daze stuttered a little.
“Sure, they’ve already seen you naked,” Peachy Pie reasoned.
“I wouldn’t want to… I mean,” Sunny panicked a little. She wasn’t sure how to answer such a question.
“You don’t have to if you don’t want to,” Dreamstar assured her. “Not everyone likes swimming naked…”
“Oh…” Sunny blushed. “It’s… not that, it’s… I mean, it’s something I wouldn’t mind trying… if....”
“Sunny…?” Peachy Pie enquired. Was she really saying what she thought she was saying?
Sunny went silent, and was red. Was she really going to say it? Was she going to admit it?
“Sunny oh my gosh, just spit it out!” Peachy Pie exclaimed.
“I want to try it!” Sunny spat out, her eyes closed. “I’ve always wanted to try it but was too scared to because people would see me!”
“Wow…” Peachy said. “Seriously?”
Sunny Daze opened her eyes, her cheeks were puffed red.
“We can make it a pool day!” Starwishes proclaimed.
“We do have some snacks and stuff,” Dreamstar added. “What do you think?”
Sunny hesitated with her answer. She was not sure if she wanted to proceed with her announcement. She was curious, of course she was. But she was also very nervous. She had never told anyone about this, either… but since Dreamstar and Starwishes were comfortable in her own skin, a small part of her deep inside was trying to take advantage of the situation.
“I don’t know…” Sunny replied. Now she seemed to be flip-flopping.
“Do it!” Peachy Pie encouraged her. “Why not? I mean if you have always wanted to try it, you should! And it’s not like we haven’t seen you naked before, so it’s not like we’re going to judge you or anything. Not like those other two would be bothered, either… I mean look at them!”
Sunny looked towards Dreamstar and Starwishes. Dreamstar was making a helicopter.
“Well that was just wrong,” Peachy Pie stated. Sunny snorted at the immaturity of the situation.
“See?” Peachy Pie pointed out. “You’re fine with it! You just have to be comfortable with your own skin, and you can be! I mean you showered with them, for crying out loud!”
“I guess you’re right,” Sunny admitted. “So… you don’t mind, either?”
“If you wanna go right ahead, then just go right ahead,” Peachy Pie assured her. “I’m not bothered.”
“And I won’t mind or be bothered with you being naked,” Sunny returned the assurance.
“Me either,” Starwishes added.
“Same!” Dreamstar said.
“Hey no, I’m not taking my clothes off, no way!” Peachy Pie clarified. “I’m staying covered, thanks!”

The vote to use the pool first was quite unanimous, although lacking a swim suit of her own, Peachy Pie suggested they put off their pool plans after a skate to her house so that they could get her swimsuit. Starwishes then suggested that since she would be swimming naked, that she could borrow her swimsuit. And with Sunny braving the world of skinny dipping, it meant that only one swimsuit was needed.
“You sure this is going to fit me?” Peachy Pie asked, as she held up Starwishes’ swimsuit. “I mean, you aren’t exactly my size.”
“You could always try it on,” Sunny told her, still dressed, and most likely trying to put off her disrobing.
“You should just take it all off,” Peachy Pie suggested, noticing that Sunny was hesitating. “Like, just quickly. Otherwise you’ll never get to that pool.”
“I… know,” Sunny agreed.
“It’s not like we haven’t seen you naked before,” Dreamstar reminded her, trying to give her a little boost.
“Yeah, and it didn’t freak you out that much, did it?” Peachy Pie asked.
“Okay…” Sunny Daze breathed. She knew she had to just get it over and done with. They had already seen her naked before, and Dreamstar was the only boy. She looked towards Dreamstar, who was sitting on his bed, next to his sister. Her eyes fell slightly, momentarily gawking between his legs, before catching herself again. She blushed.
Sunny then took her t-shirt off, and tossed it onto Starwishes’ bed. She then slipped her fingers inside the sides of her skirt and underpants, and hesitated for a split second, before resolving to just get it over and done with. She pulled both down, and kicked them off, although not so perfectly, causing her to stumble backwards.
And now she stood in her birthday suit for all to see.
“Was that so bad?” Peachy Pie asked, grinning. She knew that Sunny was feeling awkward. Sunny didn’t say anything, she just stood there.
“You look great,” Starwishes assured Sunny Daze.
“Th-thanks,” Sunny replied.
“You actually look nicer like this!” Dreamstar complimented. Sunny Daze suddenly felt an eruption of red-face gush suddenly at what he said.
“OOOOH SUNNY IS BLUSHING HARD-OUT!!” Peachy Pie teased.
“WHY AREN’T YOU GETTING CHANGED?” Sunny Daze countered, trying to change the subject.
“I’m not getting changed with Dreamstar here,” Peachy Pie said, looking straight at the only boy in the room with a gaze that seemed to say ‘get out’.
“Come on!” Starwishes said, noting the cue, taking her brother in one arm and Sunny in the other. “Let’s go!”
The group, minus Peachy Pie, came down the stairs and made their way out onto the deck. Sunny felt a slight anxious panic inside her back, given that now she was outside, naked as the day she was born. She had not been naked outside for years, not since she was a preschooler. She wondered if anyone would jump out at any time, but then remembered that the house was at the end of an empty street. Also, this was private property.
“Together, okay?” Starwishes said. “One… two… three!”
The three of them leapt from the deck, Starwishes and Dreamstar almost leaping together, Sunny Daze almost being left behind, awkwardly jumping in as well. The water was fairly cool - the sun had not heated the water up so much yet, given that it was still morning.
Sunny surfaced, and paused, kicking her feet in place. The others surfaced as well. Sunny noticed how it felt - to feel the water all around her body… it was refreshing. It was amazing. She never thought it was feel so… different, and so good, compared to being in the water in a swimsuit. She still felt a bit awkward, but not so much anymore.
“This thing feels tight,” Peachy Pie’s voice interrupted the group. She had now joined them on the deck, wearing Starwishes’ swimsuit.
“It looks too small,” Sunny observed.
“I said it would be!” Peachy Pie reminded her.
“Sorry…” Starwishes apologised. “I don’t have any togs which are larger…”
“It’s fine, maybe I’ll get used to it,” Peachy Pie told her. Peachy then took a quick two steps, before leaping, and bombing. The water splashed over the others, and Peachy surfaced, grimacing a bit. “That was not the most comfortable of bombs…”