Dr. Hilbert convinces Brooke to join in

Kacey was about to knock on the door when she noticed it was already open and Dr. Hilbert was at his desk browsing the computer. She simply peaked her head around the doorframe and knocked on the wall inside.

Dr. Hilbert looked up and noticed Kacey staring back at him, her toplessness clearly evident even though she was looking in from the side.

"Carmen Silvia Dolores Gomez Criollo," Dr. Hilbert warmly but cheekily recited Kacey's full name as she cringed a bit inside, "come right in!"

"Hi Dr. Hilbert," Kacey walked in. John looked at his brightest pupil, who had completed a doctorate at an age where he was still bumbling around in high school, walking in butt naked. He had figured that Kacey was the adventurous type since he saw what appeared to be her nude backside through her gown throughout the commencement ceremony as the Chair of the Mathematics Department, but was greatly amused to see that she hadn't even bothered to get dressed afterwards, and had even taken her shoes off!

"What's with the getup?" Dr. Hilbert began, "I saw you naked under the gown at commencement, but I guess you're a full-fledged nudist now?"

Oh God, Kacey's heart dropped at those words. She had been seen... at the commencement ceremony? By all those people? Now all those cheers were starting to make sense...

"This is just something for admissions," Brooke butted in as Kacey was almost too petrified to speak, "we think promoting a free spirit will work wonders for Rocky Mountain."

"So all the attractive girls are dropping their clothes?" Dr. Hilbert asked skeptically, Kacey somewhat relieved and even in a way flattered that Dr. Hilbert thought her attractive.

"Just our brightest lights, John," Brooke tried to deflect the situation from Dr. Hilbert's questioning.

"Well you're not hard on the eyes yourself, Brooke, maybe you should join in and help Jackie with the admissions figures," Dr. Hilbert suggested both playfully and menacingly.

"John, that's dangerously close to sexual harassment," Brooke stood back, indignant.

"Hey, you lost all my clothes earlier," Kacey started to protest, "I don't think it's fair you get to keep your clothes, too."

"She's right, you know," Dr. Hilbert butted in to protect the honor of his favorite student.

"Hey, I found your clothes... eventually... they're still in safe keeping..." Brooke started to defend herself but found it increasingly difficult as she felt internally guilty (but not remorseful) about what had happened to Kacey.

"What about my top?" Kacey pouted as Brooke realized the corner she had painted herself in with Kacey's cut-up turtleneck, still in one of her drawers.

"I mean, you have Kacey's clothes, I can keep your clothes, and you two are even," Dr. Hilbert tried to reason the logistics of everything.

"Ughhh, fine..." Brooke wanted to get this over with, so she put her camera down on the floor, whipped her black jacket off, then her black midi-skirt, then her heels, then her white blouse, then her black bra, and finally her pantyhose - all in the span of a minute - and gave the pile to Dr. Hilbert as he put them in the drawers.

"Yay!" Kacey clapped her hands in celebration.

"This is highly inappropriate!" Brooke said in disgust but made no effort to cover herself.

"Well, if it's good enough for Kacey, it's good enough for you!" Dr. Hilbert said with a grin, "here, give me that camera."

Before Brooke could respond, Kacey picked it up off the floor and gave it to Dr. Hilbert, who soon corralled the two women into a photoshoot.

"Don Knuth stopped by last week, and until today that was the highlight of my month," Dr. Hilbert just chuckled as he snapped several photos of the naked women standing side-by-side and holding each other.

"Well, thanks for everything, Dr. Hilbert!" Kacey beamed as the two women left the room, Brooke still a bit peeved about everything.

"No, thank you!" Dr. Hilbert replied as he returned the camera to Brooke.