A week went by and Lara found herself fulfilled living and working in the nude with Lucy in a small single room cinder block house in the middle of the wilderness.
She learned to do the laundry herself, scrubbing clothes across a washboard and pinning them to a clothesline. She learned how to light the potbellied stove, and how to light the kerosene lamps. She learned how to pump water and learned how to shoot a rifle.
The fact that Lucy didn't mind her being nude and appreciated her presence made her forget about traveling to California. California was just a place she thought she needed to go to find the perfect environment for nude living. Yet, here was the place.
"I'm going into town to pick up some supplies". Lucy said. "Do you need me to get you anything?"
"No, I'm OK." Lara replied.
"Oh wait." Lara continued. "Actually, I could use a razor and shaving cream?" She said humbly with a slight smile?
"A razor?" Lucy asked. "For what? Your legs look pretty smooth as they are!"
"Um, well not for that..." Lara said cautiously.
"Well then, for what?"
Lucy stood waiting for an answer, but Lara seemed hesitant.
"Um..." Lara paused.
"Well, tell me what it is!"
"You know, it's for down there."
Lucy paused. And then took on a look of surprise, realizing what Lara had meant. "Oh, down there!"
Lucy chuckled, waved her hand and picked up her car keys. "OK, not a problem".
Lara sat on the couch and opened up a book she had started reading the other day, "Jane Eyre", at the advice of Lucy. "I think you'll identify with Jane." Lucy had said, prompting an admiring Lara to comply with her suggestion.
She no sooner got into the book when she realized that she hadn't heard from Angela or Annette. The fact that Julia had not been brought here suggested that police must have caught up with her. She wondered if Julia had made it back home to her parents.
Lara thought about asking Lucy if she could ask Angela to find out. But Lara realized it wouldn't do any good. She reasoned that if Julia was still at the Home of Abused Women, Angela would have told her where to find her. Moreover, Lara didn't want to impose on Lucy.
Later in the afternoon, after Lucy had come back, the two bathed behind the house.
Bathing consisted of standing in the galvanized wash tub with soapy water, and then scrubbing themselves with a sponge. There was room for only one person in the tub, so the two took turns. A naked Lara stood in the tub while Lucy ran the sponge up and down her body. After she was done, Lara stepped out on to a rubber mat that Lucy laid on the ground, and Lara dried herself off. Then Lucy stepped into the tub and Lara scrubbed her with the sponge. It was the only time Lucy ever removed her clothes outdoors.
"Have you ever thought about just going nude more often?" Lara asked.
Lucy laughed. "No, it hadn't really crossed my mind. Beside, it would probably scare off the deer!"
Lara, ran the sponge up and down Lucy's legs.
"I have to say, however, it's nice to have someone scrub your back for a change." Lucy added.
"Not a problem." Lara replied. "It's fun to help each other!"
Lucy stepped out of the tub and onto the rubber mat and dried herself off. Lara stepped back into the tub with the razor and shaving cream that Lucy bought for her earlier in the afternoon. She squatted down, applied some cream, and began shaving herself smooth.
"It always feels so refreshing to clean up." Lucy remarked as she turned around to look at Lara. Lucy noticed her squatting down, running the razor carefully across her outer labia.
"Dear Lord young lady, you're going to cut yourself!"
Lara chuckled. "I do this all the time!"
The sight of a young female squatting down and pulling the skin of her pubis taut while exposing her inner labia was something Lucy had never expected to see. But after catching Lara masturbating the first time she saw her, nothing seemed to out of the ordinary with her.
Having been married since sixteen and having worked her entire life keeping a house in the wilderness and raising children, sexuality was never something to express, but just simply an act that took place in the household. With Lara running around naked, masturbating openly, and shaving her pubic hair, Lucy got to see first hand how girls from big cities wore their sexuality publicly.
Lucy wasn't offended by any means with it. She spent her entire life gaining an appreciation for Nature, and saw Lara as simply a product of Nature. She was more intrigued with people than she was disgusted by their practices. She didn't spend much time attending church either, unlike others in nearby towns. She never developed any kind religious views aside from believing in God. But for Lucy, God was just a abstract term for describing something larger than humanity and Earth, and as far as Lucy could see, Lara was just being the way God had intended.
"There!" Lara said, displaying her cleanly shaven public mound and labia.
Lucy chuckled and waived her hand at her.
"OK Lara, that's good, OK!"
