Caroline is Confused - Part 5
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:19 pm
Caroline is Confused - Part 5
Caroline became aware of stepping into her kitchen and calmly sliding the door closed behind her. She paused, unsure how she had gotten there or what she was supposed to be doing. Her heart was pounding, but she couldn't say why. Her face felt hot. Was she coming down with something? Scratching her temple, she scrunched her face in confusion... She was home, but why was she coming in through the back door instead of the garage?
She thought a moment, but nothing came to her, until she took another step and saw the empty trashcan in the kitchen. Her vision spun and she had to grip the side of countertop with trembling hands to keep from fainting as the past five minutes came rushing back to her all at once. Her mind and heart got into a contest to see which could race faster. Mr. Collins had just seen her naked! Like...EVERYTHING!
She had experienced occasional times of confusion and forgetfulness before, usually centered around significant changes or a time of high stress in her life. But she had never even come close to doing something as stupid as forgetting to dress herself and going outside where the neighbors might catch her!
How could she have been so careless?! It's like when you bite the inside of your cheek while chewing food too fast. The sensation is so painful that you never want to experience it again and you vow to chew more carefully after that. But somehow, you end up doing it at least a few more times before the sore spot has fully healed.
Caroline's forgetfulness episodes felt like that. This was becoming a major problem which required her full and immediate attention. Showing up to math class in just her panties was traumatizing enough. But now she had slipped up a second time in less than a day and given her next door neighbor an embarrassingly thorough update on her body's current stage of physical development.
She absolutely had to deal with this brain fog and get her mind sorted out to make sure nothing else happened to shred her poor, already tattered modesty. Resolving to go back to the beginning of her day and put everything to paper and in chronological order and ignoring the alarm bells that continued to go off in her brain, she rushed into the mud room and retrieved her backpack. Commandeering the dining room table as a workspace, she emptied the contents of her backpack onto the large oak surface and arrayed all her textbooks, notebooks, and papers in an accessible arc.
When she pulled out one of the heavy chairs and sat down, the sensation of her bare bottom contacting the especially cold wooden seat made her shiver. She got out two clean sheets of paper and sat them side by side. At the top of the first, she wrote "Timeline", intending to record every single event that had happened that day since she woke up, even the embarrassing ones which she had been trying not to think about. She hoped, by putting her day in order, she could get the swirling events out of her head and finally take control of the situation.
That's what the second sheet was for. At the top of it, she wrote "Plan". This was where she would brainstorm; writing down every useful thought that came to her and ending up with a plan to eliminate any chance of future embarrassment.
Staring at the empty, white rectangles waiting for her to do all the heavy lifting and fill them with valuable information made her feel suddenly weary. She yawned involuntarily as an emptiness in her stomach also reminded her about that tasty afternoon snack her mother had left her which she hadn't been able to eat yet. Her brain also continued to warn her about another major oversight; that she was still naked and had failed to follow through with the task of changing into her after-school clothes as planned.
Shaking her head forcefully, she tuned out all the warning signals and buckled down to work. It was critically important to stay focused on the task at hand and not get distracted by lesser bodily needs which could be addressed later. Ironically, the very problem she was trying to solve - how to avoid any more embarrassing nudity - was the exact warning signal the poor, confused teen was ignoring.
Whomever designed the oversized antique dining suite had not considered the comfort of a naked girl when using it, and it took some adjusting to find a workable seating position that kept her tender flesh safe from all the sharp edges. Her legs had grown long enough that her feet now touched the ground when she adopted a proper upright posture. Feeling the luxurious area rug beneath her feet was a new sensation for her because she always wore shoes when the occasion called for her to attend a formal dinner.
Sitting as she was, while appropriate for a meal, was not suitable for intense study. So, she scooted the big wooden chair further from the table and moved her bottom to the front edge. Placing her heels on the lower horizontal bar so that her bare toes lightly grazed the floor when she wiggled them, she leaned her body forward and rested her forearms on the table which provided a better reading and writing angle.
Perched as she was on the edge of her seat with her whole body poised for study, Caroline made the ideal naked pupil. With her back maintaining its usual, perfect arch, the little pink caps hanging from her bare chest came dangerously close to catching on the table's sharp edge. All over, the subtle curves of her lean, but abundantly feminine frame contrasted with the sharp edges and straight lines of the dining room suite. She tucked the loose strands of black hair over her right ear to keep them from falling over her face and picked up a pencil. Tapping its eraser against her pursed lips, she tried to figure out where to begin...and promptly yawned again.
With fatigue building after such an arduous first day of school, she was starting to regret not picking a different room to set up in. Of the communal rooms in the house, this was the one in which she spent the least amount of time - probably because it had grown so boring lately. When she was younger, her father would occasionally invite the partners of his firm over for dinner. He was trying to impress them in the hopes that they would vote to accept him as a fellow partner someday. Caroline remembered those occasions fondly.
Her mother would always buy her a new dress to wear and cook something delicious. Like everything else the talented woman put her mind to, she was a very good cook. Caroline would sit at the table in her pretty, new dress while the guest of honor fed her a steady stream of fawning compliments about what a nice young lady she was. What girl wouldn't love that?
After dinner, they would retire to the den where young Caroline would show off her musical talents; sitting at the piano and playing whatever song her piano instructor had most recently taught her or showing off that she had also started to take flute lessons. She was no prodigy, and they were mostly just humoring her, but she beamed nonetheless when she finished and they showered her with applause.
She would then be sent upstairs while the grown-ups talked, and her father served after dinner cocktails. Sleepy and ready for bed, she would usually come back down, this time dressed in her nightgown, and get one last chance to show off with an adorable goodnight curtsey. One of those nights, just out of sight in the hallway, she had paused and listened as the conversation in the living room resumed.
"You have a beautiful family, Adlow," the partner spoke bluntly, his lips perhaps loosened by the strong drink, "you certainly lucked out with that wife of yours. She cooked and served us a wonderful meal without breaking a sweat all while dressed to the nines. Beauty, brains, and talent. What can't that woman do?"
"I won't deny it sir," replied Caroline's father graciously, "Diana is my better half."
"And that Caroline," the partner continued, "growing up to be just as talented and beautiful as her mother. You're going to have your hands full in a few years once she starts dating."
She was too young to appreciate the part about dating. But it made her smile to hear other people compare her favorably to her mother. That night, she drifted off to sleep thinking that, if that man was right and she really was destined to grow up with as much beauty, talent and grace as her mother, she had a very happy life to look forward to...
...Caroline awoke with a start to the distinct sound of a door slamming. Confused, she lifted her head and rubbed her eyes. Looking down, she saw a piece of paper with the word "Plan" written at the top in her handwriting. The page was blank except for a wet spot where she had drooled on it. As she heard her mother's familiar heels clicking across the floor nearby, she tilted her head further down and saw her bare chest and-OH NO! She had done it again! She scrambled out of the chair, but it was too late for her to flee the scene.
Diana had entered the house carrying a bag of groceries. As soon as she sat them down, she noticed light spilling out from the rarely used dining room and went to investigate. Her first glimpse was of some books and papers on a corner of the table. She smiled, proud that her studious daughter must be doing something related to school. But when she stepped further into the room, she found an unexpected sight. Her daughter was standing in the middle of the dining room stark naked.
She was frozen mid-step, like a prisoner or burglar in a cartoon when a spotlight shines over them. Her eyes were open as wide as they would go, and she had one hand raised with her palm facing her mother as if to signal "wait!"
Diana's mind whirred as it tried to process such an unexpected sight. She saw no sign of physical trauma or immediate distress, just a very surprised and very naked girl. Assuming there had to be some valid explanation, she looked back and forth between her naked daughter and the array of paperwork on the table.
"Caroline, why aren't you wearing any clothes? Were you...getting ready to take a bath?" she asked. The scenario didn't really make much sense even as she uttered it. But it's the only plausible excuse her brain could come up with to explain her daughter's nudity.
"YES!" Caroline exclaimed, seizing on the excuse. It was much better than the truth; that she was having trouble remembering to keep her clothes on and had already shared many of her body's most intimate secrets with her entire sixth period math class as well as Mr. Collins next door and was just now engaging in a little naked homework before dinner.
Dialing her enthusiasm back to a less manic level, she added, "yes, I-uh-I couldn't find a towel upstairs. So...I was coming down to borrow one from your bathroom and...I got distracted by my homework?" The explanation kind of fell apart a little at the end. But she held her breath and looked at her mother for signs that she was buying the story.
Diana crossed her arms and studied her naked daughter. Caroline had shown a preference for modesty at a young age. She wasn't the type to just run around naked like a wild child. As she reached her tween years, she had grown even more careful about privacy to the point that Diana couldn't remember the last time she had seen her daughter without any clothes on. She couldn't miss the light dusting of pubic hair between her legs or the budding cones on her chest. Before long, her little baby girl would be gone. They grow up so fast!
It wasn't like Caroline to be wandering around the house completely naked like this. Then again, if she really had come down to get a towel, she probably didn't expect anyone to come home at the worst possible moment and catch her.
"It's rather early in the evening for a bath, isn't it?" she asked, still not fully convinced by the excuse. Slowly she made her way closer to the naked teen and noticed that her hands were trembling.
Caroline shook her head in a vigorous denial. "It's not that early," she argued, "besides, I've had such a long day. I just felt so...icky."
When she got a few feet away, Diana caught a whiff of something and stopped. Her senses were telling her something wasn't right - something she was starting to think her daughter was hiding from her. "...how was school?" she asked, "did everything go ok today?"
Caroline gulped then tried to answer as casually as a naked girl trying not to have her lie exposed can. "Yeah, um, I mean, it was great!" Motioning to the table to get her mother's scrutinizing gaze off her exposed body, she added, "lots of homework, though."
Diana did turn to look at the table. "Homework? On the first day?"
"Well, not exactly homework," Caroline clarified, "just lots of...information. I was trying to go over it to make sure I understood everything I would need this semester to keep my grades up."
Mentioning her desire to get good grades was a stroke of genius. Diana commended her responsible young pupil. Caroline breathed a sigh of relief that she wasn't in trouble when her mother uncrossed her arms and started walking back toward the kitchen.
"I'm making your favorite, Cacio e Pepe, to celebrate your successful first day of school," she called out instructions from the other room in a normal, motherly voice, "so, you'll need to clean your schoolwork off the table. Also, when I came in, I noticed there's no liner in the kitchen trashcan. Did you take out the trash when you got home?"
"Yes," called Caroline in response. It was a surreal experience carrying out a normal conversation with her mother as if she weren't still completely naked. But at this point, she was just relieved that her mother was no longer interrogating her about her missing clothes.
Her mother thanked her for being so helpful but reminded her to replace the liner. Then she told her where to find an extra towel and expressed confusion about why there weren't enough in the upstairs linen closet. She would have a talk with the maid, Rosa, about that. Then she asked if Caroline would mind setting the table for dinner.
Caroline rushed to clean up her work and put some distance between herself and the kitchen before more little chores were assigned to her. Her list was already growing beyond her poor, overworked brain's ability to keep them all straight.
When she got upstairs to her bedroom, she found she was holding the sheet labeled "Plan" and remembered that she had left it out when cleaning up her workspace. She had intended to use it to record the most critical tasks she needed to complete that evening before she forgot them. But when she unfolded the paper, there was only a single task written on it in large letters with several exclamation points.
"1 - GET DRESSED!!!!"
Caroline became aware of stepping into her kitchen and calmly sliding the door closed behind her. She paused, unsure how she had gotten there or what she was supposed to be doing. Her heart was pounding, but she couldn't say why. Her face felt hot. Was she coming down with something? Scratching her temple, she scrunched her face in confusion... She was home, but why was she coming in through the back door instead of the garage?
She thought a moment, but nothing came to her, until she took another step and saw the empty trashcan in the kitchen. Her vision spun and she had to grip the side of countertop with trembling hands to keep from fainting as the past five minutes came rushing back to her all at once. Her mind and heart got into a contest to see which could race faster. Mr. Collins had just seen her naked! Like...EVERYTHING!
She had experienced occasional times of confusion and forgetfulness before, usually centered around significant changes or a time of high stress in her life. But she had never even come close to doing something as stupid as forgetting to dress herself and going outside where the neighbors might catch her!
How could she have been so careless?! It's like when you bite the inside of your cheek while chewing food too fast. The sensation is so painful that you never want to experience it again and you vow to chew more carefully after that. But somehow, you end up doing it at least a few more times before the sore spot has fully healed.
Caroline's forgetfulness episodes felt like that. This was becoming a major problem which required her full and immediate attention. Showing up to math class in just her panties was traumatizing enough. But now she had slipped up a second time in less than a day and given her next door neighbor an embarrassingly thorough update on her body's current stage of physical development.
She absolutely had to deal with this brain fog and get her mind sorted out to make sure nothing else happened to shred her poor, already tattered modesty. Resolving to go back to the beginning of her day and put everything to paper and in chronological order and ignoring the alarm bells that continued to go off in her brain, she rushed into the mud room and retrieved her backpack. Commandeering the dining room table as a workspace, she emptied the contents of her backpack onto the large oak surface and arrayed all her textbooks, notebooks, and papers in an accessible arc.
When she pulled out one of the heavy chairs and sat down, the sensation of her bare bottom contacting the especially cold wooden seat made her shiver. She got out two clean sheets of paper and sat them side by side. At the top of the first, she wrote "Timeline", intending to record every single event that had happened that day since she woke up, even the embarrassing ones which she had been trying not to think about. She hoped, by putting her day in order, she could get the swirling events out of her head and finally take control of the situation.
That's what the second sheet was for. At the top of it, she wrote "Plan". This was where she would brainstorm; writing down every useful thought that came to her and ending up with a plan to eliminate any chance of future embarrassment.
Staring at the empty, white rectangles waiting for her to do all the heavy lifting and fill them with valuable information made her feel suddenly weary. She yawned involuntarily as an emptiness in her stomach also reminded her about that tasty afternoon snack her mother had left her which she hadn't been able to eat yet. Her brain also continued to warn her about another major oversight; that she was still naked and had failed to follow through with the task of changing into her after-school clothes as planned.
Shaking her head forcefully, she tuned out all the warning signals and buckled down to work. It was critically important to stay focused on the task at hand and not get distracted by lesser bodily needs which could be addressed later. Ironically, the very problem she was trying to solve - how to avoid any more embarrassing nudity - was the exact warning signal the poor, confused teen was ignoring.
Whomever designed the oversized antique dining suite had not considered the comfort of a naked girl when using it, and it took some adjusting to find a workable seating position that kept her tender flesh safe from all the sharp edges. Her legs had grown long enough that her feet now touched the ground when she adopted a proper upright posture. Feeling the luxurious area rug beneath her feet was a new sensation for her because she always wore shoes when the occasion called for her to attend a formal dinner.
Sitting as she was, while appropriate for a meal, was not suitable for intense study. So, she scooted the big wooden chair further from the table and moved her bottom to the front edge. Placing her heels on the lower horizontal bar so that her bare toes lightly grazed the floor when she wiggled them, she leaned her body forward and rested her forearms on the table which provided a better reading and writing angle.
Perched as she was on the edge of her seat with her whole body poised for study, Caroline made the ideal naked pupil. With her back maintaining its usual, perfect arch, the little pink caps hanging from her bare chest came dangerously close to catching on the table's sharp edge. All over, the subtle curves of her lean, but abundantly feminine frame contrasted with the sharp edges and straight lines of the dining room suite. She tucked the loose strands of black hair over her right ear to keep them from falling over her face and picked up a pencil. Tapping its eraser against her pursed lips, she tried to figure out where to begin...and promptly yawned again.
With fatigue building after such an arduous first day of school, she was starting to regret not picking a different room to set up in. Of the communal rooms in the house, this was the one in which she spent the least amount of time - probably because it had grown so boring lately. When she was younger, her father would occasionally invite the partners of his firm over for dinner. He was trying to impress them in the hopes that they would vote to accept him as a fellow partner someday. Caroline remembered those occasions fondly.
Her mother would always buy her a new dress to wear and cook something delicious. Like everything else the talented woman put her mind to, she was a very good cook. Caroline would sit at the table in her pretty, new dress while the guest of honor fed her a steady stream of fawning compliments about what a nice young lady she was. What girl wouldn't love that?
After dinner, they would retire to the den where young Caroline would show off her musical talents; sitting at the piano and playing whatever song her piano instructor had most recently taught her or showing off that she had also started to take flute lessons. She was no prodigy, and they were mostly just humoring her, but she beamed nonetheless when she finished and they showered her with applause.
She would then be sent upstairs while the grown-ups talked, and her father served after dinner cocktails. Sleepy and ready for bed, she would usually come back down, this time dressed in her nightgown, and get one last chance to show off with an adorable goodnight curtsey. One of those nights, just out of sight in the hallway, she had paused and listened as the conversation in the living room resumed.
"You have a beautiful family, Adlow," the partner spoke bluntly, his lips perhaps loosened by the strong drink, "you certainly lucked out with that wife of yours. She cooked and served us a wonderful meal without breaking a sweat all while dressed to the nines. Beauty, brains, and talent. What can't that woman do?"
"I won't deny it sir," replied Caroline's father graciously, "Diana is my better half."
"And that Caroline," the partner continued, "growing up to be just as talented and beautiful as her mother. You're going to have your hands full in a few years once she starts dating."
She was too young to appreciate the part about dating. But it made her smile to hear other people compare her favorably to her mother. That night, she drifted off to sleep thinking that, if that man was right and she really was destined to grow up with as much beauty, talent and grace as her mother, she had a very happy life to look forward to...
...Caroline awoke with a start to the distinct sound of a door slamming. Confused, she lifted her head and rubbed her eyes. Looking down, she saw a piece of paper with the word "Plan" written at the top in her handwriting. The page was blank except for a wet spot where she had drooled on it. As she heard her mother's familiar heels clicking across the floor nearby, she tilted her head further down and saw her bare chest and-OH NO! She had done it again! She scrambled out of the chair, but it was too late for her to flee the scene.
Diana had entered the house carrying a bag of groceries. As soon as she sat them down, she noticed light spilling out from the rarely used dining room and went to investigate. Her first glimpse was of some books and papers on a corner of the table. She smiled, proud that her studious daughter must be doing something related to school. But when she stepped further into the room, she found an unexpected sight. Her daughter was standing in the middle of the dining room stark naked.
She was frozen mid-step, like a prisoner or burglar in a cartoon when a spotlight shines over them. Her eyes were open as wide as they would go, and she had one hand raised with her palm facing her mother as if to signal "wait!"
Diana's mind whirred as it tried to process such an unexpected sight. She saw no sign of physical trauma or immediate distress, just a very surprised and very naked girl. Assuming there had to be some valid explanation, she looked back and forth between her naked daughter and the array of paperwork on the table.
"Caroline, why aren't you wearing any clothes? Were you...getting ready to take a bath?" she asked. The scenario didn't really make much sense even as she uttered it. But it's the only plausible excuse her brain could come up with to explain her daughter's nudity.
"YES!" Caroline exclaimed, seizing on the excuse. It was much better than the truth; that she was having trouble remembering to keep her clothes on and had already shared many of her body's most intimate secrets with her entire sixth period math class as well as Mr. Collins next door and was just now engaging in a little naked homework before dinner.
Dialing her enthusiasm back to a less manic level, she added, "yes, I-uh-I couldn't find a towel upstairs. So...I was coming down to borrow one from your bathroom and...I got distracted by my homework?" The explanation kind of fell apart a little at the end. But she held her breath and looked at her mother for signs that she was buying the story.
Diana crossed her arms and studied her naked daughter. Caroline had shown a preference for modesty at a young age. She wasn't the type to just run around naked like a wild child. As she reached her tween years, she had grown even more careful about privacy to the point that Diana couldn't remember the last time she had seen her daughter without any clothes on. She couldn't miss the light dusting of pubic hair between her legs or the budding cones on her chest. Before long, her little baby girl would be gone. They grow up so fast!
It wasn't like Caroline to be wandering around the house completely naked like this. Then again, if she really had come down to get a towel, she probably didn't expect anyone to come home at the worst possible moment and catch her.
"It's rather early in the evening for a bath, isn't it?" she asked, still not fully convinced by the excuse. Slowly she made her way closer to the naked teen and noticed that her hands were trembling.
Caroline shook her head in a vigorous denial. "It's not that early," she argued, "besides, I've had such a long day. I just felt so...icky."
When she got a few feet away, Diana caught a whiff of something and stopped. Her senses were telling her something wasn't right - something she was starting to think her daughter was hiding from her. "...how was school?" she asked, "did everything go ok today?"
Caroline gulped then tried to answer as casually as a naked girl trying not to have her lie exposed can. "Yeah, um, I mean, it was great!" Motioning to the table to get her mother's scrutinizing gaze off her exposed body, she added, "lots of homework, though."
Diana did turn to look at the table. "Homework? On the first day?"
"Well, not exactly homework," Caroline clarified, "just lots of...information. I was trying to go over it to make sure I understood everything I would need this semester to keep my grades up."
Mentioning her desire to get good grades was a stroke of genius. Diana commended her responsible young pupil. Caroline breathed a sigh of relief that she wasn't in trouble when her mother uncrossed her arms and started walking back toward the kitchen.
"I'm making your favorite, Cacio e Pepe, to celebrate your successful first day of school," she called out instructions from the other room in a normal, motherly voice, "so, you'll need to clean your schoolwork off the table. Also, when I came in, I noticed there's no liner in the kitchen trashcan. Did you take out the trash when you got home?"
"Yes," called Caroline in response. It was a surreal experience carrying out a normal conversation with her mother as if she weren't still completely naked. But at this point, she was just relieved that her mother was no longer interrogating her about her missing clothes.
Her mother thanked her for being so helpful but reminded her to replace the liner. Then she told her where to find an extra towel and expressed confusion about why there weren't enough in the upstairs linen closet. She would have a talk with the maid, Rosa, about that. Then she asked if Caroline would mind setting the table for dinner.
Caroline rushed to clean up her work and put some distance between herself and the kitchen before more little chores were assigned to her. Her list was already growing beyond her poor, overworked brain's ability to keep them all straight.
When she got upstairs to her bedroom, she found she was holding the sheet labeled "Plan" and remembered that she had left it out when cleaning up her workspace. She had intended to use it to record the most critical tasks she needed to complete that evening before she forgot them. But when she unfolded the paper, there was only a single task written on it in large letters with several exclamation points.
"1 - GET DRESSED!!!!"