Another embarrassed nude female victim.

(chapter originally by Phantom Pen at writing.com)

Mackenzie was taken aback as a woman's head broke the surface of the water in front of her. Startled, the naked redhead's hands left their places covering her body and began to move her away from the new arrival.

"AH! Who are you?!" Mackenzie gasped in surprise.

"Sorry, I was hiding because I didn't know who you were! I thought you might've been the person that... uh..." the other woman said, trailing off.

"The person that what?" Mackenzie asked. It was then that she noticed the other woman's shoulders were completely bare, meaning she was wearing a strapless dress or... "You got stripped too?!"

"Stripped too?" the woman repeated, realization dawning on her face. "You mean you're... we're both... oh..."

Both women fell quiet at this, realizing the implications of their predicament. Here they were, two strangers, bare naked and concealed only by the murky water.

"I just thought it was a weird part of the scares." Mackenzie said. "But it looks like that's not the case after all."

"Yeah, no joke." the other woman said. "We gotta get out of here. Find the pervert that did this and... well, get clothes first, THEN find the pervert. Oh, by the way, I'm Lana."

A hand carefully broke the surface of the water as Lana offered Mackenzie a handshake. A bit awkwardly, Mackenzie took the Asian (or at least she appeared to be under the drops of red liquid gracing her features and coating her hair) woman's hand. "Mackenzie."

"Okay, so... Mackenzie. We need to get out of here. The only problem is I have no idea where to go." Lana said, looking around worriedly. "And, well, once we leave this water, this is gonna get a whole lot weirder for both of us."

Mackenzie blushed and nodded in agreement. Being naked alone was uncomfortable enough, but now she'd be sharing the experience with another equally naked woman. In a way this just made the whole situation more embarrassing.

"Okay, uh, let me think." Mackenzie said. She had to think of what to do. She didn't actually have any kind of plan, but Lana didn't need to know that. If at least one of them put forth an air of being in control, it might bolster both of them. "Okay, these places usually have fairly standard layouts, right? I mean, if this is laid out like a house, that must mean there's a bedroom, right? And bedrooms mean sheets and blankets, even if the dressers are empty set pieces. We just need to make sure we don't go the wrong way."

Mackenzie didn't want to mention that there was nothing but luck involved in whether or not they went closer to or further from the bedroom that this haunted house may or may not even have. Lana didn't need to know that.