North Robert High School

10:00 A.M. Wednesday, Halloween, October 31, 2063

Nobody was late today, but the undressing took longer than usual.  Mainly because the undressing was followed by redressing in costumes of the sort that are not welcome in public schools� outside of Sex Ed.  The fact that there were two women and a man, plus myself, already in the classroom didn�t stop them, though some did step behind the bookcase to change.  Three of them wore leather and chains, two wore skimpy nightgowns, and three wore fancy underwear.  There were other costumes as well.

Mimosa Kang wore a long, almost formal gown.  I say �almost� because it was very shear.  All her feminine charms were visible.

Rita Banks was dressed as a streetwalker from the late 20th Century: short shorts, tight pull-over blouse, heavy make-up, and, just to make sure there was no mistake what sort of character she was portraying, several twenty dollar bills sticking out of her waistband and neckline.

Witashnah Gray Wolf was dressed as a cowgirl, with denim short shorts and a huge hat.  Being a full-blooded Na�tive American, I guess that this was supposed to be irony.  Cowgirls and Indians.

Linda wore nothing, saying it was the most cost-effective and sexiest �costume� she could find.

Amethyst wore her school uniform, only the blouse was tighter, short enough that her navel was exposed, and the top several buttons were undone.  The skirt was *much* shorter than regulation, and she wore no panties un�derneath.

It took me a while to realize who or what Lisa was.  With the metal band over her head, covering one eye, and the gun with a cord leading to that band, and the tight, camo-print catsuit, I wasn�t sure at all.  Then it hit me: Angel Putzaut, from the latest James Bond movie.  I hadn�t seen it yet, just commercials.

I walked around, complementing each girl and commenting on each costume.

�Amy, seeing you with that whip makes me wish they�d never banned corporal punishment in public schools� except maybe it should be the students spanking the teachers.�  Wink and move on.

�Caitlyn, I�m sure the Green Lantern Corp will be proud to have you, but WOW! you might distract the Guardi�ans.�  Wink and move on.

�Amethyst, why didn�t you wear a costume?�

�This *is* my costume!�

�It is?  Oh, yes, I see now!  Sorry, it�s just that you always look so yummy and sexy in your school uniform that I didn�t notice the diff at first.�  Wink and move on.

�Twenty dollar bills?  For a babe like you?!  Rita, you really need to charge more.�  Wink and move on.

And so it continued for almost ten minutes.  While this was going on, the girls complimented each other and posed for each other to take pics.  Then it was time to introduce the folks I�d brought in just for today.

�Everybody, this is Marcella Dubois.  She is a renowned body painter.  These are Richard and Jennifer Kirk, two of her apprentices.  They are going to paint you today,� I continued, �and Ms. Dubois is going to supervise.  Normally, her works go for hundreds, in some cases thousands of dollars.  You are getting the art of two of her apprentices, with her supervision, for nothing today.  Let�s hear it for Marcella Body Studios!�

General clapping of hands, with a few �yea!� thrown in.  It wasn�t as much of a bargain as I�d made it out to be; apprentices usually had to hire models to practice on, and here were sixteen of them at no charge at all.  And *my* students got painted for no charge, a win/win situation all around.

I turned on some music, mostly old songs about teenaged girls.  The girls lined up, two by two, removing their costumes (except Linda, of course) and giggling as the airbrush tickled them.  As soon as the painting was done, they would run around displaying themselves to each other, talking, and snapping still more pics of each other.

More than half of the girls lined up to be painted by Mrs. Kirk.  Dubois and I both had to convince some of them that it was OK to be painted by a guy.  Some sought out Mr. Kirk right off.  I was not surprised to glance over and see that Amethyst was one of these, as she lay smiling with her legs splayed wide apart so that the red stripe that had been started at her forehead could be continued all the way down.  She was flirting and talking up a storm.

�Oh!  What a figure!�

I turned to see Dubois had stepped in front of Mrs. Kirk to make a fuss over Mary Kang, who was blushing as everybody stared at her.  Dubois was not helping things as she continued to appraise the embarrassed fourteen year old girl.  �And what *tits*!  I want to paint you myself.  Oh, and I�d like a pic for the studio.  Ah, what I could do with these,� she cupped each breast, �and *this*!�  She spun the girl around and grabbed her ass.  Poor Mary looked like she wanted to crawl under a rock.

I ran over to save the young virgin from her admirer.  Mary looked relived to see me.

�Well,� I said, being sure to keep my voice down, �I sure hope you do a good enough job on her to make up for embarrassing her so.�

Dubois looked surprised, then realized what she had done.  She lowered her own voice to a more reasonable tone.  �I�m sorry.  Sometimes I get overly enthused.  I *would* like to paint you, though.  I promise not to bellow.�

�Well,� Mary looked thoughtful, �OK, I guess, but can I wait �till the end of class to decide whether or not I want you to have a pic of me for your studio?�

�Sure,� Dubois assured her, �Whatever you like.�

The crises resolved, I wandered back into the middle of class, only to be accosted by Lisa.

�I know this song!  Coach, dance with me!�

There was a lot of dancing going on, and I was a bit surprised by Lisa�s sudden boldness.  All the chairs and desks had been removed, so there was now plenty of room for the girls to dance.  The chairs and desks were actually removed to give the girls room to lie down on the padded floor; and lie down they soon would, but not today.  Today was for dancing.  We started steppin� and stompin� as the music of the Runaways played in the background:

�Hello Daddy, hello Mom;

I�m you ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb!

Hello world, I�m you wild girl,

I�m you ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb!�

I couldn�t help but wonder how Lisa knew this song; my grandmother had called it an oldie.  The next song was almost as old: �Hot Child in the City,� by Nick Gilder.  His only hit, back in the 1970�s.  Fifteen year old Gloria Lynstad, who had just moved to the States from Norway five years ago, danced this one with me.  Amy was danc�ing with Rita, and the Kirks were dancing together.  With fifteen minutes left �till the buzzer, only Mary was still being painted.  I was surrounded by dryads, water nymphs, and abstract colors in the form of sweet young curves.

I knew I wouldn�t be able to dance with each of them today, but there would be time tonight.

With five �till the buzzer, Mary stepped out to many ooh�s and ah�s.  On her young body was painted a land�scape of the planet Mars.  A crater was painted over her navel.  The horizon was at her sternum, with dark purple quickly fading to deepest black, with the stars shining up to her neck.  And, least anyone should miss that this was Mars, the two moons were painted on her breasts.  One moon was at first quarter, and the other was full.  The painting continued on her back, with sand dunes running up her legs, culminating at her buttocks.  The landscape continued past the small of her back.  The sky was there, too, but no moons.  They were hidden behind a towering natural stone formation of some sort� or was it some sort of alien ruin?  I couldn�t really tell, and decided that must be the point.

A slow song started up (�Sixteen Candles,� covered by a band earlier this year), and I took Mary into my arms and danced the last dance of the class.  The song finished just as the buzzer went off.

As the standard racket of getting dressed and yakking was going on, I shouted, �Now you can have your paint costume on all day under your regular one!  And you can wear it to the party tonight.  Don�t forget the party tonight!  You don�t have to come, I know you might have plans, but it starts at six and goes �till nine, if you can make it.�

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