Disclaimer: I receive nothing for this little story since I don't own the copyrights to any of the characters from the Nickelodeon show Victorious used here. They are owned by Dan Schneider and Nickelodeon. This is purely a work of fiction from my twisted mind.
Premise: Tori Vega and Cat get invited out to Colorado for a little rest and relaxation after finishing high school and starting their careers in the entertainment field. They're just beginning to learn what's all in store for them after they'd accepted the invitation.
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Tori's Vacay
Chapter 3
Settling In
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Paul Bowman stepped out of the silver SUV, stripped his shirt off and tossed it on the driver's seat before shutting the door and retrieving the cooler and groceries from the back of the vehicle. He walked passed the girls who were gawking at the house and the view of the canyon and said, "Come on. I'll give you the nickel tour of the house and then let you get settled in."
Tori was broken out of her sightseeing and quickly followed as she asked, "Before the tour, can I see the bathroom first?"
"Of course," Paul said, stopping at the front door and setting the cooler down so he could open it. "You've been on the go for three or four hours now." He opened the door and allowed the two girls to enter before he picked up the cooler and headed for the kitchen. "Let me put a few things away first. Just leave your bags and stuff by the door."
"I can help," Cat enthused as she snatched the cooler from Paul's hand and headed for the large refrigerator/freezer just inside the kitchen doorway.
"Just put the packages on the bottom shelf," Paul instructed as he set one of the grocery bags on the spacious counter and brought the other bag over to the fridge. "I'm gonna use some of the shrimp for tonight's dinner." He let Cat put the two big bags of frozen shrimp on the shelf and then placed a few of the perishable containers on a different one before closing the door.
He put the other non-perishables on the counter, then with a come hither wave led the girls out of the kitchen and down a hallway. Paul stopped at an open door and said, "This is the bathroom on this floor. As I mentioned earlier, I try to stay as green and ecologically friendly as possible. That means there's no sewer or septic system in the house."
Tori scrunched up her face in confusion and asked, "Then how do you get rid of the um, you know, waste?"
Paul led the two girls into the bathroom and pointed to the toilet. It looked similar to a regular one except that it wasn't narrow below the bowl, it was boxier. "This is a composting toilet. Instead of flushing the waste, you have to empty it manually."
"Ewww, gross!" Cat cried in disgust. "You mean you have to do it with your hands?"
"No, no," Paul chuckled as he opening a short, two foot tall, white container sitting on the floor next to the toilet that looked like a standard metal garbage can, only made of plastic and a lot smaller. He grabbed a handful of material from the can and held it out for the girls to see as he said, "This is composting material. You need to put a cupful of this in the bowl after you use the toilet." He dumped the stuff that looked a little like tiny wood shavings, sawdust, dirt and small crumpled leaves back in the trash can and then pulled a hidden handle out that was situated at the front of the toilet bowl just below the seat. "Once a day the drum in the toilet needs to be turned clockwise... six rotations. Don't worry about that, I always do it before I go to bed. Then once a week, I rotate the barrel counter clockwise which empties the barrel into a tray at the bottom." He pulled the tray out to show them. "I can then take this tray outside and add it to the compost pile."
"That seems simple enough," Tori said as she checked over the toilet and container of composting material one more time. "Now if you don't mind, I need to pee."
"Me too," Cat blurted out, crossing her arms and legs in front of her and anxiously bouncing in place like she'd just realized that she needed to go to the bathroom bad.
"I'll leave you two alone to do you business," Paul chuckled as he left the room and closed the door behind him.
"You... you go first," Cat softly stammered, sounding a bit scared.
"Cat, it's just a toilet," Tori defensively stated, shocked that the redhead would be afraid of a simple bathroom fixture.
"Yeah but there's no water in it and I wanna make sure it's safe. It's so different."
Tori suddenly remembered when she first stepped into the halls of Hollywood Arts High School and how frightened she had been at the time. It was all so new and... different. This wasn't exactly the same thing, but it was different enough for the brunette to be reminded of how much new things can be scary.
"Okay," Tori said as she checked to make sure the lid was up and the seat was down before she dropped her panties as she sat. Cat stood there staring at her so Tori complained, "You're making it hard to pee. Can you not watch?"
"'Kay-'kay," the redhead chirped, swiftly turned and made an effort to check out the bath tub/shower and sink. (Although she would occasionally turn and briefly glance at Tori for a second or two before otherwise occupying herself in the room.)
Finally Tori finished, wiped and started to reach for the flush handle, but realized there wasn't one. She stood up and started to pull her panties up, then decided not to. Instead, she stepped out of them, picked them up and stuffed them in a pocket of the hoody.
"Okay Cat," Tori said to get the her friend's attention. "It's your turn."
The red velvet-hue haired songstress anxiously peered at the fixture and moaned, "I can't."
Tori immediately realized the problem her friend was having. Cat was nervous about using the toilet, afraid that it wouldn't work properly. Tori jokingly said, "Don't worry, it won't bite you. All you have to do is sit on it like a regular toilet."
"Oh," Cat yipped in what seemed to be surprise. She warily positioned herself and slowly sat down as she pulled her giraffe decorated underwear to her knees.
Out of common courtesy, Tori turned her back to the magenta-hue haired girl and waited. After a minute she finally heard some splashing in the composting material, a sound she recognized from when she'd done her business a few minutes earlier.
"Hey," Cat perked. "This isn't so bad."
That brought a broad smile to Tori's face. The drama was over and done with. At least for now.
"Okay I'm ready," Cat said after wiping and standing up, automatically pulling her panties up around her bottom. She opened the top of the compost can and asked, "Now, do we need to add two cups of this stuff since two of us went to the bathroom?"
The question made Tori stop and think, something she had done far too much over the last day-and-a-half if you asked her. She considered it for a moment before answering, "I don't know. Maybe we should only add one cup and then ask Paul. He would know if we need to add a second cup."
"'Kay-'kay," Cat chimed as she scooped a heaping cup full of compost material out of the can with the measuring scoop she found inside the bucket, then tossed it into the bowl. She dropped the scoop back in the can, brushed off her hands and put the lid back on. "There!"
Cat noticed Tori's bare butt sticking out below the hem of her hoody as the two girls left the room. She yelp, "Tori! You're bottomless!"
"Yes I am," Tori nervously laughed as the two stopped outside the bathroom door to talk. "I figured why pull them up if I'm gonna take them off soon anyway."
"That makes sense," Cat said, then stripped off her tank top and panties leaving her in only her pink flip flops. The redhead closed her eyes for a few seconds as she took a deep, cleansing breath and then slowly let it out. She opened her eyes, broadly grinned and giggled, "Hey, I like being naked. Now I don't have to decide what I'm gonna wear in the morning." Another thought struck her and she happily gasped in realization, "Oh! And there won't be as much laundry to do each week."
"You have two very good points," Tori laughed, feeling much better and more at ease now that one of them was naked. She grabbed the bottom of her hoody and, with a slight pause to gather her nerve, finally bared her body. (Except for the sandal on her feet.)
The two girls moved back to the front door where they'd dropped their carry-on bags, sunglasses and hats when they'd first walked in the house, deposited their clothes and moved on to the kitchen. There they found Paul at the sink in just his shorts (having taken off his sandals when he'd entered the house) working on something.
"What'cha doing?" Cat asked as she quickly moved over to the counter next to the sink and leaned on it, trying to see what Paul was working on. (And maybe to hide her nudity a little bit from him.)
"I'm peeling and deveining some of the shrimp for tonight," Paul answered without taking his eyes off what he was doing. He was running water over a bowl with some of the frozen shrimp in it, thawing them before he removed the hard exoskeleton shell and the vein that ran down the back. "I'm going to make Etouffe."
"Et Two Fay?" the redhead questioned, sounding out the syllables again with the strange French word. "What's that?"
Before Paul could answer, Tori shrieked, "Oh my gawd, I simply love Etouffe! Are we having dirty rice with it?"
"That's the plan," Paul laughed at the taller girl's enthusiasm. He turned to her and was about to ask Tori where she'd had the dish before when he noticed she was naked. He glanced at Cat confirming the redhead was in a similar state of undress, turned off the water and started putting things away before he asked, "Are you ready for the tour of the rest of the house?" Before he could get too far they all heard an old-fashioned "telephone ring" coming from another room. Paul wiped his hands off on a dish towel and said, "Excuse me, I just received an e-mail on my computer and it might be important."
"Go ahead," Tori waved him off as she stepped up to the sink and grabbed the paring knife. "I'll finish prepping the shrimp while you attend to business."
"Do you know what to do?" Paul warily asked as he slowly started for the door out of the kitchen.
"I think so," Tori said as she picked up a shrimp then started to expertly take the shell off of it. "I worked in a sushi restaurant for one day, mostly chopping up squid. But Robbie and I had to prepare ten or fifteen pounds of raw shrimp, too."
"Do I wanna know just why you worked in a Japanese restaurant for only one day?" Paul laughed as he stopped in the doorway, out of curiosity, to finish the conversation.
"My friend was supposed to pay but he forgot his wallet when we ate lunch there," Tori laughed at remembering the incident at Nozu a year or so ago, "and Mrs. Lee wouldn't let us call anyone. She made us work in the kitchen to pay off the meal. We missed almost a whole afternoon of classes."
"So that's what happened to you and Robbie that day?" Cat queried in surprise. "He asked me to look after Rex while you two went to lunch and you didn't come back til school was almost over. Rex really creeped me out since all he would do is just sit there and stare at me. I'd wondered what happened to you two."
"I'll probably be a few minutes," Paul chuckled at Tori's misfortune during the incident as he ducked out the door.
Twenty minutes later, as Cat and Tori were cleaning up the sink and putting things away, Paul returned to the kitchen all smiles.
"Was it good news?" Cat asked as she placed the packages of peeled and deveined shrimp back in the refrigerator. "It must be 'cause you're smiling." Paul was smiling, and he still had his cargo shorts on.
"I believe it's good news," Paul said as he took the shrimp out of the fridge and saw they were all peeled and deveined, even the package he'd left in the refrigerator that was supposed to be for another meal. He turned to Tori and begged, "You did all of them?"
"Yes, shouldn't I have?"
"I wasn't planning on it, but it's okay," Paul said as he placed the shrimp back in the fridge and closed the door. "It seems we're going to have three more people coming to stay for a week or two."
"Three more people?" Cat gasped in shock. "I'd better get dressed before they see me."
Paul grabbed the redhead by the arm as she started to dash out of the kitchen and said, "It's alright, Cat. They are three teens, just like you, who want to get away for a little vacation. And you already know them."
"Really?" the redheaded songstress begged. "Who are they?"
"I'm not going to tell you," Paul coyly said as he started to leave the kitchen. "Come on. I'll give you the nickel tour now."
As Paul showed the two young women around the house, except for his downstairs bedroom which was declared off limits, they tried every verbal persuasion they could think of to get him to tell who was coming. Even a pleading, puppy dog-type pouting face from both girls couldn't sway Paul to tell them.
After Cat and Tori saw the inside of the house and each had picked a bedroom on the second floor to sleep in for the duration of their stay, Paul led them outside to the back patio.
Neither of the girl had seen the patio when they'd arrived since it was on the other side of the house from where they'd entered and they were both stunned. The pool, cabana and deck area was a lot larger than either of them had envisioned from the pics Paul had sent. The pool was bigger than either girl had pictured it and there was a decent sized, fenced in vegetable garden just beyond. The pictures also hadn't show the jacuzzi situated beside the cabana.
"Wow!" Cat marveled as Paul led her and Tori over to the cabana and dug out a couple of towels and some sunblock.
"Why don't you two rest out here by the pool for a while," Paul suggested as he started off around the pool toward the garden. "I need to pull a few weeds while I have the time."
"Paul," Tori caught their host's attention before he could get too far. "How come you haven't taken your pants off yet?"
Paul looked down at his cargo shorts before turning back to the two girls. He shrugged a shoulder and nonchalantly replied, "Because I thought it'd be better for you to get used to being naked before you had to deal with a nude guy." He then turned and walked out to the garden before either Cat or Tori could respond.
"Wow," Cat quietly exhaled. "That is so..."
"Yeah," Tori immediately agreed. They both thought it was highly considerate of Paul to put aside his normal Naturist lifestyle just to let them get comfortable first.
Cat started to wander around the pool looking for the perfect place for them to sit down. She finally settled on a pair of sturdy wooden chaise lounges sitting together that had a half canopy top to shade a person's head and upper body and plopped down into one of them before she called out, "Hey Tori! These are really comfortable!"
The tall brunette singer moved to the other chaise, figured out how to adjust the canopy so it would only shade her head and shoulders then spread her towel out and sat down after kicking off her sandals. Tori started to spread the sunblock Paul had given them over her body, thinking it'd be a good idea since certain parts had never been exposed to the Sun before and might be a bit more susceptible to the burning rays.
"Do you want me to get your legs and feet?" Cat giggled as she got up from her chair and swiftly snatched the bottle of lotion out of Tori's hand. "I sometimes miss a spot when I do myself." Without waiting for Tori to answer, the redhead squirted some of the white goo onto both of Tori's shins and went to work.
Tori felt a bit uncomfortable with someone else rubbing lotion onto her skin, especially since they were both totally naked. She didn't have a boyfriend right now, and even when she had been going out with a guy she never let him touch her in a provocative way. Sure they would kiss and cuddle on the couch but it never went farther than that.
Now here Tori was, bare ass naked and letting her girl friend's hands move further and further up her legs.
As Cat's hands moved upward passed her knees, Tori nervously laughed, "Thanks Cat. I think can get it from there."
"'Kay-'kay," Cat said and sat down next to Tori's legs on the chaise, looking at her like she expected to watch Tori lotion up the rest of her nude body.
The brunette started on her thighs but when she looked back at Cat she noticed something. Thinking back, she remembered that the redhead always seemed to have a perpetual tan going on, but now Tori could see that the petite girl had a total tan from head to foot. Tori would normally tan by the pool outside of her parent's kitchen if she didn't have time to head to the beach. The patio/pool area was well guarded from spying eyes by a row of bushes and trees on the open sides and the steep hill behind the house, but she never went out there to tan nude. She just couldn't bring herself to do it so she always wore a bikini, or more, while out on the patio and now sported some very nice tan lines.
She just had to ask. "Cat, why don't you have any tan lines like I do? I thought you said you haven't tried the Naturist lifestyle before?"
"I haven't," the smaller girl defensively yelped.
"Then why don't you have any tan lines?"
"Oh that," Cat sighed in relief, sounding like she thought Tori had been mad at her for some reason but now understood what her friend wanted to know. "My parents own a tanning bed but I only use it when I know they'll be out for a couple of hours. When they're gone I sneak in, take off all my clothes and tan for an hour, then get dressed. But I never did it when I knew anyone would be around."
"Hey, that's right," Tori said in realization, remembering something her friend had mentioned yesterday when they'd talked about accepting Paul's invitation. "You said you were interested in checking out that nudist place in Topanga Canyon but your manager vetoed it."
"That's right. My private secret tanning sessions were so much fun that I started to look around the web to see if I could tan naked someplace else around L.A.. That's when I discovered Elysium Fields in Topanga."
"Elysium went out of business in the late '90's," Paul informed as he walked up on the two girls. "Ed Lange, the owner, passed away in 1995 and his two daughters sold the land." He turned to Cat and said, "You probably found someone's old website from when the place was still open."
"Aw phooey," Cat sadly sighed. She suddenly perked up and hopefully begged, "So are there any other places like it in L.A.?"
"Not really," Paul answered as he sat down on the lounge Cat had been laying on before she moved over to help Tori with the sunscreen. "Elysium had around seven hundred members at the time it closed. They tried to move out to a spot in Malibu but it was just too far away for most of the members to drive to. The only designated Nudist areas close to L.A. now are Black's Beach in La Jolla and there are a couple of hotels in Palm Springs that cater to Naturists."
"How do you know all this?" Tori begged in astonishment that someone from Colorado would know about the Naturist scene more than a thousand miles away. She absently slathered lotion on her stomach and chest and continued to rub it in.
"I was a member of Elysium at the time," Paul informed the two nineteen year olds as he stood up, "plus, I'm a member of a few Naturist clubs. I love to travel and stay at resorts that cater to my lifestyle." He started for the house and said over his shoulder, "I'm gonna get dinner started. I'll call you when it's ready." Paul stopped at the door and added, "Be sure to put sunscreen on your breasts and vaginal area so they don't burn. We're at an elevation of sixty-five hundred feet above sea level here so the Sun's rays are a lot stronger than in Hollywood." He quickly disappeared into the house.
"That is so true," Cat sagely nodded as if she knew that fact before she snatched the bottle of sunscreen from her friend and started to go to work on her own naked body. "One time, my brother forgot to use sunscreen when he was naked outside in our back yard and he got sunburned in places that you just don't want to get sunburned."
Tori had no doubt that Cat was telling the truth. She remembered a few of the bizarre stories Cat had told her about her brother back at Hollywood Arts High School, and could almost picture Cat's strange brother running around outside without any clothes on and sunburning his crotch and butt, among other things.
But then again, her brother's antic might've be one of the reasons Cat became interested in the Naturalist's lifestyle. She'd watch him having fun, running around without any clothes on outdoors, and wanted to try it herself.
Tori was brought out of her musing when Cat curiously begged, "Speaking of sunburning parts of a body... What hair color do they put on a bald guy's driver's license?"
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The two ladies only stayed out by the pool for an hour or so. Neither had anything to read and they'd slept and talked enough on the planes to bring them up to date about what was happening in their lives. (Tori had prevented Cat from taking the Sky Store catalog from both flights, remembering the incident where the redhead had gone nuts and orders a lot of goofy things from it when they where at Hollywood Arts.)
Cat and Tori wandered into the kitchen and found Paul standing at the sink washing a few utensils. There was a marvelous aroma coming from the large pot on the stove as the Cajun dish slowly simmered. The petite redhead asked, "What else is there to do around here?"
"What do you want to do?" Paul queried as he finished at the sink and dried his hands. He turned to the two singers and said, "The Etouffe will be ready in about twenty minutes but our other guests should be arriving shortly. Their plane landed about a half hour ago."
"Don't you need to pick them up?" Cat curiously asked.
"I was going to but they decided to rent a car, instead. That way they'll have something to drive around in to see the sights."
Tori defensively shot, "Well, we're both rich enough that we could've rented a car too. What if we want to see the sights?"
"If you want to go anywhere," Paul kindly answered as he stirred the pot on the stove, making sure it didn't stick or burn on the bottom, "then you can use one of my vehicles. They wanted a car to get around in and all I have is the SUV and two Jeeps: One's a hard top and other's rag a top."
"Oh, well, I guess that's okay then," Tori responded, satisfied with his answer. She could definitely see herself driving around the countryside in that big comfortable SUV or a snazzy little Jeep.
Paul put the lid back on the pot and turned to the two singers. "Don't worry about what they're driving. I'm paying for the rental so you can use it too if you'd like." Suddenly, a soft noise was heard coming from outside, sounding like tires crunching on the gravel driveway. Paul clapped his hands once and happily announced, "That must be them now."
The three moved to the front door with Cat and Tori holding back a little to hide in case it was someone they didn't want seeing them because they were both naked. Paul opened the front door and greeted two girls, a sight that instantly put Tori and Cat at ease.
"Carly? Sam?" the tall brunette singer laughingly begged in relief when she recognized the two ladies at the door from the highly popular web show and when they'd mingled at Kenan's house party. "I didn't know you were going to show up here?"
Tori had messaged the brunette web star the previous day after she and Cat decide they wanted to accept the invitation but hadn't heard back from Carly Shay or her blonde co-host from the web show iCarly.
"Tori? Cat?" the raven-haired web hostess gasped when she noticed the two coming out from their hiding spot. She giggled, "I guess this is a clothes free ranch. It's great to see you two in the flesh."
"Mamma likes what she sees, too," Samantha 'Sam' Puckett joked with a laugh as she lasciviously eyed the short redhead and tall brunette.
"Wait a minute," Cat suddenly perked up as she glanced around the hallway just inside the front door. She turned to Paul and queried, "I thought you said three people were coming? Carly and Sam only count as two."
"I guess I would be the third person," the deep male voice said as Fredward 'Freddie' Benson stepped through the open front door carrying three overnight bags which he set down, then snaked an arm around Carly's waist, pulling her close. He smirked, "You don't think I would let my girlfriend come out here without me. Do you?"
"Freddie!" rang out from both Tori and Cat, but with different inflections in the tone and demeanor. Cat seemed pleasantly surprised and happy to see the web show technical producer.
Tori, on the other hand, quickly tried to cover herself with her arms as she shouted in surprise and embarrassment.
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Author's Notes: Elysium Fields was a real place just west of L.A. and all the facts presented in this story are true. I was a member back in the late eighties and early nineties. I found it to be a great way to reduce stress and just get away from the normal hustle and bustle of everyday life in Los Angeles. (Plus it had a big old honkin' Jacuzzi that could easily seat twenty five or thirty people!)
And just to clear something up. I differentiate between the terms girlfriend and girl friend (and boyfriend and boy friend) in my writing. The first being someone who is in a romantic relationship and the second being 'just friends". Some writers don't differentiate between the two terms but I do so there isn't any confusion. (There are so many Jori stories on this site I don't want you to think this is a lesbian story. Just something to think about.)
