Almost

"You've got to be joking." Penny muttered to herself as she backed away. "Who the hell finds an animal in the bushes and goes to get a closer look? Any sane person would just be on their way-" As she backed away, however, her shorts finally gave up on life and with a magnificent tearing, came away from her, lodging themselves on the extended branch of a nearby bush.

Carrie watched, horrified, as one of the men reached into the bushes, his hand mere feet from a certain thong-covered butt, and pulled out what was left of Penny’s shorts. He held it up to the others with a grin. “Guess it wasn’t an animal, but somewhere there’s a chick who’s running around without any pants!” His friends laughed at this as they continued on their way, tattered shorts in hand.

And for a good few moments, the redhead merely sat there, chest heaving as she struggled to get a hold of her breath. She was now well and truly exposed, barely any better off than Carrie. Hell, at least Carrie had part of a shirt left.

Carrie remained frozen until she was sure that the pants-thieves were long gone. “It’s all clear now.” She hollered down to her evermore exposed friend as she started climbing down the tree. This proved to be harder than it was going up as a branch broke beneath her and sent her tumbling to the ground. Luckily she landed in the somewhat-soft bushes but narrowly missed Penny in the process.

"Eep!" Penelope let out a little squeal of terror as she just about avoided being crushed by her friend. But even with that, and the fear of being found, out of the way, they were far from out of the woods, in both a literal and metaphorical sense. Penny in particular was more exposed than ever.

The girls stood up and couldn’t help but stare at each other as they each thought that the other was so much more exposed than they. Carrie was particularly amazed by how much pale skin Penny was showing now that her shorts were toast. What she should have been paying attention to however, was the fact that she hadn’t come out of her fall unscathed. Unseen by either her or Penny, a strand of black fabric stretched out from the end of Carrie’s shirt and connected it to one of the tree’s many branches. With each movement, she lost a bit more from the bottom of her unintentionally-made crop top.