A Day at the Rec Center - Chapter 1

by Moonlight

“Heather, wake up!” I heard a voice say as it dragged me out of my dreams.

“Can’t I have five more minutes?” I asked as I started to drift back to sleep.

“No, we’re here and I want to swim so c’mon!”

I groggily opened my eyes and looked out of the front window of the car to see that we had finally arrived at the local rec center, or rather the rec center of the nearest city. One of the major disadvantages of living in a small town was having to drive to the next city for a lot of things and the rec center was just one such example among many. Sure, we could easily just swim in our high school pool for most of the afternoon (like all of our classmates did) because it remained open for a few hours after the end of the school day, but the pool here is usually pretty empty so this is where we usually come.

“Finally awake sleepyhead?” Lily asked as she opened the driver side door and got out of the car.

“Yeah…” I mumbled as I got out of the car and stretched in an effort to wake myself up.

I walked to the trunk of the car as Lily opened it and we each retrieved our backpacks. Now that we had everything we needed we closed the car and left it behind as we walked across the parking lot and into the rec center. We showed our IDs to the person at the entrance and walked through the building and into the locker rooms to find our lockers. I set my backpack down on a bench and took off my clothing, placing it on the bench next to my backpack. Naked, I opened my backpack and instead of finding my swimsuit and towel waiting for me I found nothing.

“Um, Lily? I forgot my swimsuit…”

Lily, as naked as I was, set down her one piece down and sighed, “Are you sure?”

“Yeah…” I answered as I lowered my head which caused my shoulder length light brown hair to fall in front of my face and cover my light green eyes.

Lily simply rolled her bright blue eyes and sighed again as she leaned back against her locker causing her curly blond her to bob slightly, “Heatherrrrrr…don’t tell me we came here for nothing…”

“I could borrow your suit?” I suggested.

“I only have one suit and I don’t know how you’d share a one piece,” Lily responded.

“Looks like we’ll have to do something else then, it’s not like I could swim naked,” I sighed, I had really been looking forward to going swimming this week.

“Yeah, I guess we could go-hey, wait a sec…You could actually swim naked!”

“Um, no I couldn’t.”

“Yeah you could. The rec center allows people to swim without suits, that’s why little kids and babies are naked sometimes.”

“But we’re in high school, I’m not a little kid!”

“You might be able to pass for one at a distance,” Lily laughed as she looked over my body.

Okay, so I might only be about 5’5” (it’s not like Lily is much taller, she’s only 5’7”), my slim body might make me look younger than I actually am, and my small breasts (B cup, same as Lily’s) might not stand out all that much but I still think I pass as a high school student, and I don’t want to leave the locker room naked to find out.

“Lily, I’m not swimming naked and I’m sure that that rule only applies to little kids anyway.”

“How about a bet then?” Lily asked with a wide smile on her face. “If I can prove that you’re allowed to swim naked then we go swimming, and if I can’t then we do something else and I do our entire English project myself.”

I thought about her proposal for a second. I really didn’t want to work on the poster and slideshow we were supposed to do about the book we were reading and there was no way that the rec center would let me swim naked…

“Alright, you’re on! But you aren’t allowed to take forever trying to think of a way that I could swim naked.”

“I don’t need to,” Lily said as she pulled the rec center membership guide out of her backpack and began to look through it, “Ah, here it is! ‘Swimsuits are recommended while using the swimming pool, but they are not required.’ See, it says nothing about age!”

“That’s because an age restriction is common sense, they don’t need to list it!” I argued.

“Wrong again. ‘Life vests are available for poor swimmers and are required to be worn at all times by children under the age of 6.’ The fact that it lists an age requirement for life vests but not swimsuits proves that anyone of any age doesn’t need to wear a swimsuit.”

“But…no one else ever swims naked…” I said, now scared that I was about to break that trend.

“That’s their choice, the rules clearly say that they can,” Lily said as she turned the guidebook towards me and pointed out the rules that she had just read. “Looks like we’re going swimming after all.”

“B-but…” I stuttered, “I’ll be the only naked person out there…”

“Not my problem. Just stay under the water and no one will notice,” Lily said as she began to put on her one piece.

“B-but…”

“You lost fair and square so c’mon!” Lily, now dressed in her solid blue one piece, said as she put her backpack, my backpack, and my clothes in her locker.

I didn’t want to follow her out of the locker room, but the two of us had always lived up to our bets in the past (although they were always a lot tamer than this) and I didn’t want to be the first one to welsh on a lost bet. Besides, the pool was usually pretty empty on Fridays so as long as I keep my body under the water I should be okay. I slowly followed Lily to the exit of the locker room, my legs shaking more and more with each step. I went through the door when she opened it and now stood completely naked in the hallway that led to the pool. I began to panic as I realized we would have to get to the end of this hallway before we got to the pool and that anyone who happened to walk past would see my naked body. Any stranger could easily see my small breasts with their light pink nipples, my bare backside, or even my bare vagina. I started to regret having shaved it to prevent any hair from showing through my swimsuit. Sure, people still wouldn’t see any hair, but them seeing my bare pussy lips wasn’t exactly what I would call more desirable.

“D-do I really have to walk all the way to the pool naked?” I asked as I covered myself with my arms and ducked into a corner by the door.

“Well I guess you could borrow my towel-oh, I guess I left that in my locker…” Lily said as she started walking towards the pool. “I’ll make sure the coast is clear and then you can make a run for it.”

I stood in the corner and watched Lily round the corner and disappear. Wait, wouldn’t I have to walk back like this too? I pressed my arms tighter against my bare skin as I waited for Lily to come back. When she finally did after what seemed like hours, she said that the hallway was empty so I took off running for the pool door and Lily followed behind me at a more leisurely pace.

“Hurry up!” I pleaded as I stood by the door to the pool.

Lily sighed and ran to the end of the hallway to catch up with me, “You don’t need to be so inpatient…”

“I’m kind of naked here! I just want to get in the water so I can hide!”

“Okay, okay. I’ll open the door and you can run in the jump into the pool before anyone has a chance to notice that you’re naked. Ready?”

I nodded and Lily opened the door. I ran to the pool as fast as I could and jumped in, grateful to feel the water against my skin because it meant that I had a way to hide my nudity. I looked around the pool only saw 5 other people swimming around: a man and a woman that looked to be in their late 20’s and 3 boys that looked like they were only a few years younger than me. None of them were looking at me so I was fairly sure that they hadn’t noticed my lack of a swimsuit. It was clear that the other girl was wearing at least a bikini top (no reason why she wouldn’t wear the bottom too though). I also noticed that Lily’s swimsuit was easy to see and ducked even further into the water in the hopes that no one would look at me and notice that there weren’t any straps on my shoulders.