In her parents' driveway

Candace awoke with a start, unsure where she was. It took her a moment to clear her mind and fully come back to her senses. She'd had a terrible dream about winding up naked in public, being the only one naked surrounding by a crowd of onlookers. But the panic and embarrassment started to fade as she remembered that they'd only been dreams. ...Until she glanced down at herself. Candace was still very much naked. And with that, the memories of the real nightmare she'd experienced that day started coming back to her.

" Like I said, we're here," the taxi driver repeated. "You gonna be okay, miss?"

Candace's first thought was that she'd been completely exposed for the driver the entire trip! A fresh new wave of humiliation washed over her.

"I-I..." she stammered, before realizing they were parked in her parents' driveway. She'd made it! "Yeah, I'll be fine. I'm home now..."

"Alright well, consider tonight's ride on the house," the driver said. "You just go inside and put some damn clothes on!"

Candace couldn't help but smile at the thought. Now that sounded like a fantastic plan to her.

"Thank you," she managed to say as she slid out of the car, but she meant it.

She closed the car door and gave the driver an appreciative nod as he backed out of the driveway and drove away. It was only a few seconds later that Candace remembered she'd left her phone in the backseat of the taxi. With the weariest sigh she'd ever heaved, the naked girl began slowly trudging towards the front door, her hands her only form of cover.

Candace couldn't help but remember how she'd departed that morning, fully dressed and sufficiently packed for the break, and contrast it with how she stood now. She'd arrived at her destination, but had lost absolutely everything else in the process. As if losing the clothes she'd been wearing and winding up naked on the plane hadn't been bad enough, she hadn't been able to keep a single item she'd left her apartment with that day! Most of her break was now likely going to be spent replacing or tracking down her lost items. Not to mention getting some more clothes somehow.

But all of that were problems for tomorrow. In that moment, more than anything else, Candace felt exhausted. She'd been embarrassed so many times over and over again that day, that it felt like her tank had finally run empty. Right then, she wanted nothing more than to put on some warm pajamas and crawl into bed. But first, she had to face her parents. She was sure they'd have questions about why their daughter was showing up on their doorstep stark naked, and even worse, she wasn't even sure how she was going to answer them. But, at the very least, Candace knew that her humiliating trial was finally over. For the first time in what felt like forever, she was finally going to get fully dressed again.

Candace rang the doorbell, shivering slightly in the cold.