Chapter 2: The Date

“I am not coming out of here,” Liz Katz said through the locked office door. “I’m just not!”

“Oh don’t be such a big baby,” Charlie Kuzak responded as she looked down at her Cassio calculator watch.

“Baby? Baby!” Liz yelled for the first time before quieting down back to her normal mumble. Her arms were across her chest, squishing her c-cup breasts tight to her chest, the way her skin stuck together in the California heat an annoying reminder of her topless state. After hearing Charlie’s plan, the co-ed had locked herself in the office, terrified of stepping outside with a bare chest. “Thanks to you, I have to be all…naked out there!”

“Technically you still have pants on,” Charlie explained. “It’s more like you’re…half naked. Which is a good thing considering I still have money riding on…well that’s not important.”

“Money on what? What color my underwear is? Whether I shave or not? What degrading thing do you have riding on my body?” LIz asked.

“If you must know it’s the color of your socks, I got ten riding on white tube with a red stripe at the top,” Charlie explained.

Liz’s silence was the sound Charlie’s wallet wanted to hear.

“So what happens if I don’t come out of this room?” Liz asked.

“Probably expulsion? I mean you got to see it from ol’ Tarkin’s perspective. You flagrantly streaking like that? That’s bad publicity, I’m sure the boys at the Beav are already trying to figure out how to censor photos to get you on the front page,” Charlie explained. “But if you come out, take the early punishment, you put your shirt on tomorrow and then you laugh at it all the way to graduation.”

“And you’re sure about that?” Liz asked, taking deep breaths to calm herself down.

“Listen, I’m the best law student around. I guarantee it. And if not, my services are for free,” Charlie said as she heard the clicking of the lock.

“OK,” Liz said, her hands still covering her chest as she left the small shelter of the office into the harsh daylight of the world.

“Some ground rules though Lizzy,” Charlie said as she moved her hands to move Liz’s hands away from her chest, the perky c-cups in view again. Her pale skin and rosy areolas were covered in dirt and dust from the fire. “You cannot cover these…like at all.”

“Not even if I’m cold?” Liz asked, wondering why Charlie’s hands were so rough as her “lawyer” touched Liz’s skin.

“You’re nipples tell me you’re warm, and it’s a protest. Any sign of covering could be considered…not. So until we get this figured out, the girls got to be out,” Charlie said.

“Yaaaay,” Liz groaned.

“Secondly, we should probably get you cleaned up,” Charlie said. “You have a date tonight?”

“Yes, my boyfriend and I are going to the Pizza Shack,” Liz explained.

“Classy,” Charlie said as she took a good look at her client.

Liz’s brown hair was also covered in soot. The normally pulled back ponytail frayed from being dragged straight to Tarkin’s office. The jeans were still without suspenders, slightly sagging to reveal a glimpse of Liz’s white panties. Even her chucks were a bit more scuffed than usual. She was a mess, and if they were going to get pass this hearing, Liz couldn’t afford to be a mess.

“Please tell me you have a place you can freshen up?” Charlie asked.

“I’m fine. I just need to call Franklin and tell him…”

“Tell him you lit your bra on fire for the sisterhood?” Charlie finished her sentence.

“It was a computer fire, I’m not trying to make…a big point here,” Liz stressed.

“Well if you don’t want to get expelled, you’re going to need to make a big point. At least until tomorrow. Plus you look…smokey,” Charlie explained.

“But I don’t smoke, nasty habit,” Liz said.

“You look like you were just in a fire. You have a big date tonight, you should probably at the very least take a shower.”

“Right…” Liz looked down at herself, before tugging her pants up a bit. “Do you know what time it is?”

“3:00?”

“I have to be at the Shack in two hours, and by the time I get my bike, ride it, oh god I’m going to be late…”

“I mean…you could always hitch a ride in my car,” Charlie said with a smile.