The Egg Game
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2024 10:11 am
THE EGG GAME
A story by Gymnarchist. I thought I'd try my hand at putting the E in ENF for once. All characters are fictional, this is a fantasy, don't read this if it is illegal for you to do so, don't take this as any suggestion for real life activity, etc. All important characters are presented as 16 or older.
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MONDAY
*beep beep* “Two. Forty. Five. P. M.”
John Melmarch’s phone alarm jolted him out of his reverie. He had been working hard on debugging a recalcitrant API, and making what he felt to be a little bit of progress, in that at least he now understood what it was doing wrong, although why remained a dilemma at this point. His daughter Marylee would be finishing school shortly, and the alarm gave him enough time to get one of the good parking spaces if he left immediately.
Scooping up the phone and his keys, he yelled “I’m picking up Marylee,” and headed out the door. The drive was still unfamiliar, the three of them only recently moved to Calleyville for Jessica’s new job … and as he opened the car door he realized that he had yelled to no-one, as Jessica was in training today. He followed the phone directions, the traffic seeming light to him, letting himself fall back into contemplation of the problem. It’s only throwing an error when specific users called it, but it doesn’t always throw that error. Doesn’t make any sense.
John nosed the Ford into the parking space, one of the best ones he’d found so far, just in time for the bell. Students began pouring out of the doors, calling out noisily, grouping up with friends, some heading to buses, some to the parking lot, some to sidewalks. The warm spring sun shone bright, the leafy trees overhead dappling shadow onto the green grass. It was a pretty town, John had to admit. He had the good fortune of being able to work anywhere, unlike Jessica who needed equipment for the clients to use, so it was Marylee whose life was most uprooted. Hopefully she was making friends.
… what is she wearing? John peered at his daughter, who was padding barefoot across the grass. She clutched a large textbook across her body, and wore a backpack, but she … didn’t seem to have anything else on? Spotting the car, she tucked the textbook under an arm revealing herself to be in fact completely naked, and broke into a jog. She opened the door, threw the book and bag into the back, and buckled her seatbelt.
“Why are you naked?” John asked, concerned.
“Never mind, it’s fine. I’m OK.” Marylee muttered. Her tight jawline and faintly reddened eyes showed her emotional upset. Like her mother, Marylee tended to want to deal with her own problems herself, but this seemed like something serious, so John risked a further probe.
“What happened?” he asked, with some trepidation.
“I just … I lost a game. It’s OK. I’m fine, Dad. Go!” She shrunk down a bit below the window, and gestured at John and the steering wheel. He took the hint. The moment they pulled into the garage, Marylee leapt out with her bag, stuffing the book into it, and through the garage access into the house. John pressed the garage remote to lower the door, and followed.
Unsure whether to knock on her room door or return to the issue of the API, John filled the kettle and set it boiling. Marylee made the decision for him when she came back down about ten minutes later, hair wet from the shower and now wearing her normal house outfit of a T-shirt and shorts. She seemed calmer, and took out the tea makings.
“So … how was your day?” John asked, as Marylee sat down with her tea at the kitchen island bench. He sipped his own, and waited.
“Could have gone better. Like I said, I lost a game. The girls play it at lunch. I just need to practice more, I can definitely win next time.”
“What kind of game is it?” Like most programmers, John had an interest in games.
Marylee blushed, and pursed her lips. “A girl’s game, Dad. You don’t need to know the details.”
“You were naked, Marylee.”
“It’s not a big deal. Don’t worry about it.”
“You were naked after lunch? Didn’t you get in trouble?”
“No!” Marylee stood up. “Everyone knew I’d lost the game, including the teachers. So it was fine. People laughed at me but it was because I’d lost.”
“Is it …” John thought about how to phrase it, “is it the sort of game that the other girls have played a lot, and you’re new to?”
Marylee sighed. She knew where her father was going with this. “Yes Dad, it is. I thought I would at least do OK and I was the total loser. Last place. It was more embarrassing than having to be naked the rest of the day. I’m going up to my room to practice.” She finished her tea and fetched a carton of eggs and a bowl from the cupboard. Baffled but glad she was at least focused on something, John returned to his computer.
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TUESDAY
Jessica winced and spat. “Why are there eggshell bits in the scrambled eggs?”
Marylee, who had cooked breakfast, blushed. “Sorry Mom, I thought I strained them all. I must have missed a bit.”
“More than a bit,” John said, taking one out of his own mouth.
“Sorry! You don’t have to eat it if you don’t want!” the teenager blurted. “Just have toast!”
“It’s alright, they taste OK, just wasn’t expecting it. Hurry up and get dressed for school, I’ll take you,” said Jessica. She herself was dressed for work, in a tracksuit, T-shirt and gym shoes. Marylee was wearing the same outfit as last night, having slept in it. She quickly finished her breakfast and ran upstairs.
“I meant to say,” said John, “you should have seen how she came home yesterday. Naked!”
“What the heck?” Jessica startled.
“Some game, she said. Refused to explain. Said she was fine. I decided not to push it, maybe she’ll talk to you. ‘A girl’s game’, she said.”
“Uh … okay. That’s new. I don’t know of any girl’s games that the girls come home naked. Did the school … was the school okay with it?”
“She said so. I’m not sure whether I believe her.”
“What about the other kids?”
John cast his mind back, he’d mostly been thinking about the program but when his daughter came out, he hadn’t really noticed anyone staring, laughing, following her, et cetera. “I don’t think they minded. Maybe it’s not all that unusual. That is, though.” He pointed to Marylee. The pretty teen had come back down the stairs, wearing her pink bathrobe. Only her pink bathrobe.
“You’re not wearing that,” Jessica said.
“It’s that or nothing,” Marylee replied. “And I have to leave it in the car with you anyway, so if you’d rather I wear nothing, then that’s an option.” She undid the bathrobe, revealing that she did in fact wear nothing underneath. Also, she had apparently shaved in the shower.
“What the hell? I don’t understand, Marylee. Are you becoming some sort of nudist?”
“NO! I lost the egg game! I have to stay naked until someone else loses! That’s the rules!” Marylee yelled.
“What a stupid idea! Go upstairs, get dressed immediately, and come back down!”
“They’ll make me strip!” Marylee’s eyes brimmed with tears.
“No they will not, I am going to take you to the office. Get dressed. Now.” Jessica pointed upstairs. Marylee obeyed, coming back down in T-shirt, tennis skirt, and sandals. “Okay. Get in the car.” She grabbed her bag and headed to the garage.
John waved goodbye to his wife and daughter as he finished his scrambled eggs. *Crunch*, went another speck of eggshell between his teeth. He wondered whether the API itself changed user access permissions during its runtime.
The ride to school was tense. “You’ll see,” was all Marylee would say, and she stopped saying it after a few times. Jessica was worried, but she could see that Marylee was mostly angry, not frightened. Embarrassed? Probably that too. They pulled into the parking lot, much earlier than usual. Marylee kicked her sandals off and started to push her skirt down, revealing nothing at all beneath.
“Stop that,” said Jessica. Marylee glared at her, and pulled it back up. She grabbed her bag and got out, slamming the door, then grimly marched barefoot ahead of her mother towards the school office.
“Hello Marylee,” smiled the school secretary as they arrived. “You’re dressed today? I thought you lost the game?”
“My MOTHER,” Marylee angrily swept her arm towards the offending parent, “insisted. And she wants to talk to Ms Stuckhampton about it.”
“Oh, that’s fine. That happens sometimes. It’s alright, Marylee. Don’t worry ladies, Ms Stuckhampton will explain everything. Take a seat.”
“It had better be a good explanation,” Jessica glared. After a few minutes, the office door opened again and a tall brunette, slender and muscular, forty or so, walked in. She was dressed in skin-tight jeans, flip-flops, and a loose floaty translucent top with narrow strings that only barely covered her medium-sized breasts, under which she clearly wore no bra above her visible abs. She kicked off the flip-flops by the door, and smiled, holding her hand out to Jessica.
“Hi, I’m Ms Stuckhampton. Sandrine. You’d be Marylee’s mother?” Her accent was English. “Come in.” She opened the inner door to her private office, and indicated that Jessica and Marylee should enter, then went in herself and closed the door. “So, you’re concerned about Marylee’s participation in the girls’ egg game?” she smiled.
“I’m concerned that she wanted to come to school naked,” Jessica said. “I’m not clear on the whole game thing either.”
“Oh, that’s the loser’s forfeit,” Sandrine said. She smiled, as if that explained it all.
“I’m Jessica, by the way. What do you mean by forfeit?”
“The girl who loses the game has to forfeit. In this case, Marylee lost and forfeited wearing clothing to school. Which she’s in breach of right now, I should say.”
“What? How is that even legal?”
“Why wouldn’t it be? This state has no law against nudity in public, and furthermore the authority of an institution permits us to allow it, which we do.”
“But it’s embarrassing! Who even runs around naked?”
“You might be surprised, but yes, the embarrassment is the point of the forfeit. Are you embarrassed, Marylee?” Marylee agreed that she was. “You should probably give me your clothes before anyone sees,” Sandrine smiled.
“Wait, stop!” Jessica interjected. “Is that even safe for her? What if … boys touch her?”
“We are very clear about inappropriate touching, and that is definitely against the rules. Has anyone touched you, Marylee?” The teenager shook her head. “No-one will. For one thing the boys wouldn’t be allowed to watch, if any of them interfered. They’d probably grab any who tried before any of them got near a girl.”
“What are they even watching?” Jessica asked.
“Oh, it’s a competitive Kegels event based on the artwork of Milo Moire. It’s been a tradition of the school for several years now. They compete every Monday at lunchtime, and they are very eager.”
“I don’t even know … wait, I do know what that is! What are they doing?”
“Perhaps you should show Jessica?” Sandrine asked Marylee. The girl agreed, nodding vigorously. She stood up and took off her T-shirt and tennis skirt. “Oh, nice shave,” Sandrine complimented her.
“Yes, I was the only one with a full bush yesterday!” Marylee laughed. Jessica stared open-mouthed. Other than this morning she hadn’t seen her daughter naked for a few years, and Marylee had developed considerably. She had pert B-cup breasts, a narrow waist, curvy hips, lithe legs, and even with her feet together, a notable thigh gap. A body very much like her own, really.
Sandrine had procured an egg from somewhere and handed it, and a lunch bowl—taking out the spoon—to Marylee. Marylee spread her feet shoulder width apart, placed the bowl between them, and then (to a shocked squeak from Jessica) pushed the egg up inside her vagina! Sandrine nodded approvingly, tapped her watch, and said “Go.”
Marylee’s thighs and tummy flexed, and an expression of concentration crossed her face. The older women waited. They waited some more. Sandrine looked a bit concerned. “Are you okay?” she asked. Marylee nodded vigorously, bending a little. A few more moments passed. Finally *crack* went the egg and a gush of egg innards and shell pieces flowed out and splashed into the bowl. Sandrine passed her a tissue.
“And that’s why I lost,” Marylee glared, cleaning herself up.
“And that’s why there’s no eggs in the cupboard and we had eggshell in the scrambled eggs you made this morning.” Jessica glared back. Sandrine laughed. “Don’t you laugh, this isn’t funny, this is a stupid ridiculous game and my daughter isn’t going to participate in it any further!”
“MOM!” Marylee screamed. “NO! I want to win! I lost! Losing sucks! LET ME WIN!”
“It isn’t necessary to actually win,” said Sandrine. “Just the last girl to crack her egg loses, is all.”
“And that girl runs around naked for a whole week?” Jessica squeaked.
“YES!” Marylee screamed. “YES I HAVE TO! Before me it was Jane Wolver and before her Kai-Ling Hu!”
“What happened to them?” Jessica asked, pointedly looking at Sandrine.
“They didn’t lose, I suppose,” she shrugged.
“This doesn’t bother you? What about dress code standards?”
Sandrine giggled. “Jessica, do I look like I care about dress codes? My focus is on education. The kids want to blow off steam in harmless ways, and in my experience that lets them focus on education too. I genuinely don’t mind if all of them come here naked. In fact I’d prefer it. But it’s their choice that matters. They decided that nudity would be the forfeit for the egg game, so if other people are naked too that means it’s not a forfeit, so they’d have to come up with something else.”
“Like what?”
“I don’t know, kids are imaginative. Nothing painful, I hope. They’re not allowed to touch each other without consent but they’re also allowed to give consent, so it’s up to them. If there’s a problem, the teachers will referee it, or I will. Now, Marylee is late to class and you look like you might be late to your own work, so is there anything else I can help you with?”
Jessica looked at Marylee. “Are you sure …”
“YES! MOM! GO!” Marylee looked for a moment like she was about to stamp her bare foot. “And take these with you!” She handed the skirt and shirt over.
*Little brat*, Jessica thought. “So should I buy you some more eggs?” Marylee looked stumped by the question for a second, then nodded. “Hug for your mother?” They embraced, and Jessica left. Sandrine handed Marylee a hall pass and shooed her out afterwards.
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TUESDAY AFTERNOON
John pulled in again to the parking lot at 2:55pm. He’d had a good day, the API problem was looking all but solved, user feedback indicating that no more errors had yet occurred, but it couldn’t be fully signed off until his manager had reviewed it too. John didn’t expect that to be an issue. The next job down the pipe involved refactoring the user interface for font and icon consistency, the sort of work John loved and would volunteer for, if everyone else weren’t already eager to give it to him.
Marylee was naked again, this time with no book. She was talking to another girl, apparently on friendly terms, and the two exchanged goodbyes as Marylee ran to John’s car. “Hi Dad,” she said.
“Good day? Mom didn’t get you out of whatever this is?”
“NO! She tried but I didn’t let her!”
“So … it’s your decision, this?” John and Jessica had always let Marylee have a fair degree of freedom, only stepping in to prevent her doing things that were going to be dangerous, or get her into trouble. She had been a sensible kid, at least until this thing, whatever it was. John looked in her eyes as she mulled it over.
“I guess it is. I don’t like it, I feel stupid, but I want to play the game properly and I want to win.”
“That’s my girl,” John nodded approvingly.
Marylee picked up her bathrobe on the way in, showered, then came back down wearing it. She sat at the table doing homework while John tinkered in his office at the program. Around four-o’clock she cleared the table and played with her console game for a while, then a bit after five, she set the table and started prep for dinner.
Jessica walked in at 5:25, bearing grocery bags. Marylee helped her unpack them (two cartons of eggs included), noticing Jessica’s aloof mood. “What’s up, Mom?”
“I’m just wondering why you’re dressed,” Jessica said.
“What? I can be dressed at home, it’s only school,” Marylee replied.
“Why? Who says? Is that the actual rule?”
“I think it’s more that nobody checks,” Marylee laughed, the laugh trailing off as she noticed Jessica’s stony face. “Why?” Jessica held out her hand.
“But I don’t need to be naked at home,” Jessica protested.
“Is it embarrassing? More so than at school?”
“Well … not really. But it’s a break, you know?”
“Do winners take breaks now, Marylee?” Jessica asked. “Take it off.” Marylee stared. This was quite unusual from her generally supportive mother. But she supposed it didn’t really matter, it wasn’t as if they were going to see anything they hadn’t seen already. She shrugged out of the bathrobe. “Good girl. Now, I have something for you. I don’t want to be buying eggs every day and your father and I don’t want to be eating that many anyway. Here.” She took a small package out of her tracksuit pocket. “Unwrap it.” Marylee did. It was a blue rubber bulb, a little larger than an egg. Jessica gestured towards Marylee’s pelvic area. “Put it in.”
“Mom, what?”
“You had no problem showing me the egg game this morning, you can do this too. Put it in.” With some trepidation, the teenager did. It didn’t quite disappear, a blue circle the size of a dime remaining visible behind and between her labia. “Okay. Squeeze.” Marylee did. The circle pulsed. “I don’t want to see you without that unless you’re on the toilet or in the shower. You can link it to your phone by Bluetooth, and it will count your repetitions and your strength. It’s a Kegel exerciser.”
“MOM! You want me to wear that to school?”
“I want you to wear it EVERYWHERE, young lady. I want you to use it ALL THE TIME. You mess with the bull, you get the horns. This is what you wanted. I am a physiotherapist, this is a piece of physiotherapy equipment for rebuilding muscle strength after childbirth. This will get you cracking that egg in seconds.”
“Don’t people normally wear something over it?”
“Yes Marylee, I believe people normally do. Now help me finish dinner. We’re going out to the movies afterwards.”
A story by Gymnarchist. I thought I'd try my hand at putting the E in ENF for once. All characters are fictional, this is a fantasy, don't read this if it is illegal for you to do so, don't take this as any suggestion for real life activity, etc. All important characters are presented as 16 or older.
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MONDAY
*beep beep* “Two. Forty. Five. P. M.”
John Melmarch’s phone alarm jolted him out of his reverie. He had been working hard on debugging a recalcitrant API, and making what he felt to be a little bit of progress, in that at least he now understood what it was doing wrong, although why remained a dilemma at this point. His daughter Marylee would be finishing school shortly, and the alarm gave him enough time to get one of the good parking spaces if he left immediately.
Scooping up the phone and his keys, he yelled “I’m picking up Marylee,” and headed out the door. The drive was still unfamiliar, the three of them only recently moved to Calleyville for Jessica’s new job … and as he opened the car door he realized that he had yelled to no-one, as Jessica was in training today. He followed the phone directions, the traffic seeming light to him, letting himself fall back into contemplation of the problem. It’s only throwing an error when specific users called it, but it doesn’t always throw that error. Doesn’t make any sense.
John nosed the Ford into the parking space, one of the best ones he’d found so far, just in time for the bell. Students began pouring out of the doors, calling out noisily, grouping up with friends, some heading to buses, some to the parking lot, some to sidewalks. The warm spring sun shone bright, the leafy trees overhead dappling shadow onto the green grass. It was a pretty town, John had to admit. He had the good fortune of being able to work anywhere, unlike Jessica who needed equipment for the clients to use, so it was Marylee whose life was most uprooted. Hopefully she was making friends.
… what is she wearing? John peered at his daughter, who was padding barefoot across the grass. She clutched a large textbook across her body, and wore a backpack, but she … didn’t seem to have anything else on? Spotting the car, she tucked the textbook under an arm revealing herself to be in fact completely naked, and broke into a jog. She opened the door, threw the book and bag into the back, and buckled her seatbelt.
“Why are you naked?” John asked, concerned.
“Never mind, it’s fine. I’m OK.” Marylee muttered. Her tight jawline and faintly reddened eyes showed her emotional upset. Like her mother, Marylee tended to want to deal with her own problems herself, but this seemed like something serious, so John risked a further probe.
“What happened?” he asked, with some trepidation.
“I just … I lost a game. It’s OK. I’m fine, Dad. Go!” She shrunk down a bit below the window, and gestured at John and the steering wheel. He took the hint. The moment they pulled into the garage, Marylee leapt out with her bag, stuffing the book into it, and through the garage access into the house. John pressed the garage remote to lower the door, and followed.
Unsure whether to knock on her room door or return to the issue of the API, John filled the kettle and set it boiling. Marylee made the decision for him when she came back down about ten minutes later, hair wet from the shower and now wearing her normal house outfit of a T-shirt and shorts. She seemed calmer, and took out the tea makings.
“So … how was your day?” John asked, as Marylee sat down with her tea at the kitchen island bench. He sipped his own, and waited.
“Could have gone better. Like I said, I lost a game. The girls play it at lunch. I just need to practice more, I can definitely win next time.”
“What kind of game is it?” Like most programmers, John had an interest in games.
Marylee blushed, and pursed her lips. “A girl’s game, Dad. You don’t need to know the details.”
“You were naked, Marylee.”
“It’s not a big deal. Don’t worry about it.”
“You were naked after lunch? Didn’t you get in trouble?”
“No!” Marylee stood up. “Everyone knew I’d lost the game, including the teachers. So it was fine. People laughed at me but it was because I’d lost.”
“Is it …” John thought about how to phrase it, “is it the sort of game that the other girls have played a lot, and you’re new to?”
Marylee sighed. She knew where her father was going with this. “Yes Dad, it is. I thought I would at least do OK and I was the total loser. Last place. It was more embarrassing than having to be naked the rest of the day. I’m going up to my room to practice.” She finished her tea and fetched a carton of eggs and a bowl from the cupboard. Baffled but glad she was at least focused on something, John returned to his computer.
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TUESDAY
Jessica winced and spat. “Why are there eggshell bits in the scrambled eggs?”
Marylee, who had cooked breakfast, blushed. “Sorry Mom, I thought I strained them all. I must have missed a bit.”
“More than a bit,” John said, taking one out of his own mouth.
“Sorry! You don’t have to eat it if you don’t want!” the teenager blurted. “Just have toast!”
“It’s alright, they taste OK, just wasn’t expecting it. Hurry up and get dressed for school, I’ll take you,” said Jessica. She herself was dressed for work, in a tracksuit, T-shirt and gym shoes. Marylee was wearing the same outfit as last night, having slept in it. She quickly finished her breakfast and ran upstairs.
“I meant to say,” said John, “you should have seen how she came home yesterday. Naked!”
“What the heck?” Jessica startled.
“Some game, she said. Refused to explain. Said she was fine. I decided not to push it, maybe she’ll talk to you. ‘A girl’s game’, she said.”
“Uh … okay. That’s new. I don’t know of any girl’s games that the girls come home naked. Did the school … was the school okay with it?”
“She said so. I’m not sure whether I believe her.”
“What about the other kids?”
John cast his mind back, he’d mostly been thinking about the program but when his daughter came out, he hadn’t really noticed anyone staring, laughing, following her, et cetera. “I don’t think they minded. Maybe it’s not all that unusual. That is, though.” He pointed to Marylee. The pretty teen had come back down the stairs, wearing her pink bathrobe. Only her pink bathrobe.
“You’re not wearing that,” Jessica said.
“It’s that or nothing,” Marylee replied. “And I have to leave it in the car with you anyway, so if you’d rather I wear nothing, then that’s an option.” She undid the bathrobe, revealing that she did in fact wear nothing underneath. Also, she had apparently shaved in the shower.
“What the hell? I don’t understand, Marylee. Are you becoming some sort of nudist?”
“NO! I lost the egg game! I have to stay naked until someone else loses! That’s the rules!” Marylee yelled.
“What a stupid idea! Go upstairs, get dressed immediately, and come back down!”
“They’ll make me strip!” Marylee’s eyes brimmed with tears.
“No they will not, I am going to take you to the office. Get dressed. Now.” Jessica pointed upstairs. Marylee obeyed, coming back down in T-shirt, tennis skirt, and sandals. “Okay. Get in the car.” She grabbed her bag and headed to the garage.
John waved goodbye to his wife and daughter as he finished his scrambled eggs. *Crunch*, went another speck of eggshell between his teeth. He wondered whether the API itself changed user access permissions during its runtime.
The ride to school was tense. “You’ll see,” was all Marylee would say, and she stopped saying it after a few times. Jessica was worried, but she could see that Marylee was mostly angry, not frightened. Embarrassed? Probably that too. They pulled into the parking lot, much earlier than usual. Marylee kicked her sandals off and started to push her skirt down, revealing nothing at all beneath.
“Stop that,” said Jessica. Marylee glared at her, and pulled it back up. She grabbed her bag and got out, slamming the door, then grimly marched barefoot ahead of her mother towards the school office.
“Hello Marylee,” smiled the school secretary as they arrived. “You’re dressed today? I thought you lost the game?”
“My MOTHER,” Marylee angrily swept her arm towards the offending parent, “insisted. And she wants to talk to Ms Stuckhampton about it.”
“Oh, that’s fine. That happens sometimes. It’s alright, Marylee. Don’t worry ladies, Ms Stuckhampton will explain everything. Take a seat.”
“It had better be a good explanation,” Jessica glared. After a few minutes, the office door opened again and a tall brunette, slender and muscular, forty or so, walked in. She was dressed in skin-tight jeans, flip-flops, and a loose floaty translucent top with narrow strings that only barely covered her medium-sized breasts, under which she clearly wore no bra above her visible abs. She kicked off the flip-flops by the door, and smiled, holding her hand out to Jessica.
“Hi, I’m Ms Stuckhampton. Sandrine. You’d be Marylee’s mother?” Her accent was English. “Come in.” She opened the inner door to her private office, and indicated that Jessica and Marylee should enter, then went in herself and closed the door. “So, you’re concerned about Marylee’s participation in the girls’ egg game?” she smiled.
“I’m concerned that she wanted to come to school naked,” Jessica said. “I’m not clear on the whole game thing either.”
“Oh, that’s the loser’s forfeit,” Sandrine said. She smiled, as if that explained it all.
“I’m Jessica, by the way. What do you mean by forfeit?”
“The girl who loses the game has to forfeit. In this case, Marylee lost and forfeited wearing clothing to school. Which she’s in breach of right now, I should say.”
“What? How is that even legal?”
“Why wouldn’t it be? This state has no law against nudity in public, and furthermore the authority of an institution permits us to allow it, which we do.”
“But it’s embarrassing! Who even runs around naked?”
“You might be surprised, but yes, the embarrassment is the point of the forfeit. Are you embarrassed, Marylee?” Marylee agreed that she was. “You should probably give me your clothes before anyone sees,” Sandrine smiled.
“Wait, stop!” Jessica interjected. “Is that even safe for her? What if … boys touch her?”
“We are very clear about inappropriate touching, and that is definitely against the rules. Has anyone touched you, Marylee?” The teenager shook her head. “No-one will. For one thing the boys wouldn’t be allowed to watch, if any of them interfered. They’d probably grab any who tried before any of them got near a girl.”
“What are they even watching?” Jessica asked.
“Oh, it’s a competitive Kegels event based on the artwork of Milo Moire. It’s been a tradition of the school for several years now. They compete every Monday at lunchtime, and they are very eager.”
“I don’t even know … wait, I do know what that is! What are they doing?”
“Perhaps you should show Jessica?” Sandrine asked Marylee. The girl agreed, nodding vigorously. She stood up and took off her T-shirt and tennis skirt. “Oh, nice shave,” Sandrine complimented her.
“Yes, I was the only one with a full bush yesterday!” Marylee laughed. Jessica stared open-mouthed. Other than this morning she hadn’t seen her daughter naked for a few years, and Marylee had developed considerably. She had pert B-cup breasts, a narrow waist, curvy hips, lithe legs, and even with her feet together, a notable thigh gap. A body very much like her own, really.
Sandrine had procured an egg from somewhere and handed it, and a lunch bowl—taking out the spoon—to Marylee. Marylee spread her feet shoulder width apart, placed the bowl between them, and then (to a shocked squeak from Jessica) pushed the egg up inside her vagina! Sandrine nodded approvingly, tapped her watch, and said “Go.”
Marylee’s thighs and tummy flexed, and an expression of concentration crossed her face. The older women waited. They waited some more. Sandrine looked a bit concerned. “Are you okay?” she asked. Marylee nodded vigorously, bending a little. A few more moments passed. Finally *crack* went the egg and a gush of egg innards and shell pieces flowed out and splashed into the bowl. Sandrine passed her a tissue.
“And that’s why I lost,” Marylee glared, cleaning herself up.
“And that’s why there’s no eggs in the cupboard and we had eggshell in the scrambled eggs you made this morning.” Jessica glared back. Sandrine laughed. “Don’t you laugh, this isn’t funny, this is a stupid ridiculous game and my daughter isn’t going to participate in it any further!”
“MOM!” Marylee screamed. “NO! I want to win! I lost! Losing sucks! LET ME WIN!”
“It isn’t necessary to actually win,” said Sandrine. “Just the last girl to crack her egg loses, is all.”
“And that girl runs around naked for a whole week?” Jessica squeaked.
“YES!” Marylee screamed. “YES I HAVE TO! Before me it was Jane Wolver and before her Kai-Ling Hu!”
“What happened to them?” Jessica asked, pointedly looking at Sandrine.
“They didn’t lose, I suppose,” she shrugged.
“This doesn’t bother you? What about dress code standards?”
Sandrine giggled. “Jessica, do I look like I care about dress codes? My focus is on education. The kids want to blow off steam in harmless ways, and in my experience that lets them focus on education too. I genuinely don’t mind if all of them come here naked. In fact I’d prefer it. But it’s their choice that matters. They decided that nudity would be the forfeit for the egg game, so if other people are naked too that means it’s not a forfeit, so they’d have to come up with something else.”
“Like what?”
“I don’t know, kids are imaginative. Nothing painful, I hope. They’re not allowed to touch each other without consent but they’re also allowed to give consent, so it’s up to them. If there’s a problem, the teachers will referee it, or I will. Now, Marylee is late to class and you look like you might be late to your own work, so is there anything else I can help you with?”
Jessica looked at Marylee. “Are you sure …”
“YES! MOM! GO!” Marylee looked for a moment like she was about to stamp her bare foot. “And take these with you!” She handed the skirt and shirt over.
*Little brat*, Jessica thought. “So should I buy you some more eggs?” Marylee looked stumped by the question for a second, then nodded. “Hug for your mother?” They embraced, and Jessica left. Sandrine handed Marylee a hall pass and shooed her out afterwards.
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TUESDAY AFTERNOON
John pulled in again to the parking lot at 2:55pm. He’d had a good day, the API problem was looking all but solved, user feedback indicating that no more errors had yet occurred, but it couldn’t be fully signed off until his manager had reviewed it too. John didn’t expect that to be an issue. The next job down the pipe involved refactoring the user interface for font and icon consistency, the sort of work John loved and would volunteer for, if everyone else weren’t already eager to give it to him.
Marylee was naked again, this time with no book. She was talking to another girl, apparently on friendly terms, and the two exchanged goodbyes as Marylee ran to John’s car. “Hi Dad,” she said.
“Good day? Mom didn’t get you out of whatever this is?”
“NO! She tried but I didn’t let her!”
“So … it’s your decision, this?” John and Jessica had always let Marylee have a fair degree of freedom, only stepping in to prevent her doing things that were going to be dangerous, or get her into trouble. She had been a sensible kid, at least until this thing, whatever it was. John looked in her eyes as she mulled it over.
“I guess it is. I don’t like it, I feel stupid, but I want to play the game properly and I want to win.”
“That’s my girl,” John nodded approvingly.
Marylee picked up her bathrobe on the way in, showered, then came back down wearing it. She sat at the table doing homework while John tinkered in his office at the program. Around four-o’clock she cleared the table and played with her console game for a while, then a bit after five, she set the table and started prep for dinner.
Jessica walked in at 5:25, bearing grocery bags. Marylee helped her unpack them (two cartons of eggs included), noticing Jessica’s aloof mood. “What’s up, Mom?”
“I’m just wondering why you’re dressed,” Jessica said.
“What? I can be dressed at home, it’s only school,” Marylee replied.
“Why? Who says? Is that the actual rule?”
“I think it’s more that nobody checks,” Marylee laughed, the laugh trailing off as she noticed Jessica’s stony face. “Why?” Jessica held out her hand.
“But I don’t need to be naked at home,” Jessica protested.
“Is it embarrassing? More so than at school?”
“Well … not really. But it’s a break, you know?”
“Do winners take breaks now, Marylee?” Jessica asked. “Take it off.” Marylee stared. This was quite unusual from her generally supportive mother. But she supposed it didn’t really matter, it wasn’t as if they were going to see anything they hadn’t seen already. She shrugged out of the bathrobe. “Good girl. Now, I have something for you. I don’t want to be buying eggs every day and your father and I don’t want to be eating that many anyway. Here.” She took a small package out of her tracksuit pocket. “Unwrap it.” Marylee did. It was a blue rubber bulb, a little larger than an egg. Jessica gestured towards Marylee’s pelvic area. “Put it in.”
“Mom, what?”
“You had no problem showing me the egg game this morning, you can do this too. Put it in.” With some trepidation, the teenager did. It didn’t quite disappear, a blue circle the size of a dime remaining visible behind and between her labia. “Okay. Squeeze.” Marylee did. The circle pulsed. “I don’t want to see you without that unless you’re on the toilet or in the shower. You can link it to your phone by Bluetooth, and it will count your repetitions and your strength. It’s a Kegel exerciser.”
“MOM! You want me to wear that to school?”
“I want you to wear it EVERYWHERE, young lady. I want you to use it ALL THE TIME. You mess with the bull, you get the horns. This is what you wanted. I am a physiotherapist, this is a piece of physiotherapy equipment for rebuilding muscle strength after childbirth. This will get you cracking that egg in seconds.”
“Don’t people normally wear something over it?”
“Yes Marylee, I believe people normally do. Now help me finish dinner. We’re going out to the movies afterwards.”