Naked Girl: Part 1

Gabriella was never very girly by society standards. She would rather play outside in the dirt than play inside with dolls. She was good at sports, mostly soccer. Her family lived in the lower end of the city. She liked to play in the street with the other neighborhood kids. She always had scrapes or bandages on her legs or arms.

Her skin was shiny and tan, though not extremely dark. Her hair was brown but bleaching from the sun made it match her skin almost perfectly. She mostly wore shorts and a tank top. Most of the kids in the neighborhood called her the ball girl because she owned the soccer ball they played with. She kept her short hair tied on the top of her head and chewed gum constantly. She was always squinting because she needed glasses that her parents could not afford.

On one rather cloudy afternoon, Gabriella came out of her house holding her soccer ball under one arm. She trotted over to the boys that were hanging out on the front steps of their apartment and adopted a large grin, expecting them to perk up at the sight of the ball girl.

“Not today,” Manuel, the shortest of the boys, tried to shoo her away. He had dark hair and slightly tan skin as well.

“Scared?” she taunted him.

“For your information, Gabby, Manny just got an Xbox. We’re all going up to play it now.” A slightly fat Asian boy with a bowl cut and glasses explained.

“That’s so cool, can I come?”

“No, there’s no girls allowed in my house,” Manuel scoffed.

“She’s not really a girl though, is she?” Sam, the skinniest of the boys tried to make an excuse for Gabby.

“You mean she doesn’t act like one. That doesn’t change the rule,” Manuel was not budging.

“You’re just afraid your mother will hit you for bringing a girl into your room,” Henry, the Asian boy, laughed at him.

“Why would she hit him? It’s not like they’ll be doing anything. It’s not like she’ll be naked, right?” Sam asked with a stutter.

“Why would I be?” Gabby scoffed.

A grin had already spread across Manuel’s face though. “How badly do you want to see my Xbox?” he asked.

Gabby tilted her head in thought. “I’ve never seen one before. I’d really like to go.”

“What if I said you had to take off all your clothes before you could come in my house?” Manuel asked.

Both Henry and Sam gasped. Gabby was less shocked though. “Fine, if that’s all it takes to see your Xbox, I’ll strip right here.” She began to lift her tank top off over her head, exposing her still developing breasts to the three boys.

Henry leaned closer and gulped while staring straight at them. Sam covered his eyes. Manuel just casually patted Gabby on the shoulder. “You can wait until we get inside,” he assured her.

“Manny, what are you doing?” Sam hissed as they stood up and his friend began to unlock the door to the apartment complex. “You can’t do that. I mean, it’s just Gabby but still.”

“Dude, shut up before she changes her mind,” Henry growled at Sam.

“Maybe it’d be a good thing if she did,” he whimpered. He was by far the most cowardly of the three.

Manuel was the ring leader though and they usually ended up doing whatever he said. “Who are we to exclude Gabby, just because she’s a girl? We get naked together all the time.” It was not uncommon on the hottest days of summer for the boys to take a wrench and use it to open the fire hydrants on the street so they could go streaking to cool off. No one in the neighborhood seemed to care if they saw naked boys running around.

Some of the girls in the neighborhood, including Gabby, had joined them on separate occasions. They usually wore a swimsuit or at least underwear though. In Gabby’s case she just wore shorts, meaning this was not the first time the boys had seen her breasts. Of course she had grown since then. Her mother had been trying to get her to wear a bra and more girly clothes in general.

Once inside the apartment, Manuel shouted to his mother that he had brought his friends over.