Dealing With It

As it became clear Priscilla was gone, for now at least, Nicola stood frozen in place, with no idea what to do next. She had two fairly major new problems to deal with. The first was that a malicious fairy had apparently decided to use Nicola's own forgotten wishes to torment her. Priscilla could act like she was trying to be helpful as much as she wanted, but Nicola knew when she was being fucked with. She dreaded to think of all the times in her life she must have said "I wish..", the words that might have come afterwards and how they could be twisted. It could have been a figure of speech, a joke, sarcasm or a childish whim. Nothing she had ever said was intended as an actual wish, because even as a small child she hadn't believe they could be granted.

That was the bigger picture, longer term worry, though. Of more immediate concern was the fact she was stuck naked until her fairy godmother decided otherwise, and she had no indication of when that might be. Nicola decided to check she was still unable to wear anything and wasn't being tricked into walking around in the buff by some kind of illusion Priscilla had pulled off earlier. She found an old bra, one she could stand to lose, and pulled it over her breasts. Sure enough, seconds later it was gone.

It was at that point she realised she was pretty much screwed here. She had two housemates who would be home soon, one male and one female and both around her own age. Liam had already tried to hit on her, unsuccessfully, on more than one occasion, and being naked around him was simply not an option. Worse still, he often had his buddies over and they usually got drunk and then lecherous towards her if she was nearby. In an emergency, she could allow herself to be seen without clothes by her other housemate, Diane. But that would be incredibly awkward since Diane was a quiet and serious young woman who didn't have much of a relationship with Nicola despite living in the same property.

She couldn't just stay in her room twenty four seven. At the very least she needed to eat, drink and go to the bathroom. Nicola figured she still had time left before either Liam or Diane returned, and decided to make use of it. She dashed downstairs to the fridge and grabbed as many snacks and drinks as she could possibly carry back in one trip. Her heart was racing, acutely aware that if the front door went now, there was nowhere safe she could reach before she had company. But, thankfully, she was undisturbed as she made her trip back to her room and locked the door behind her.

She figured she would stay where she was for the rest of the evening. She didn't want to risk a second fridge run, even though she probably had time for it, and figured she probably had enough supplies to last until the end of the day. A 3 am snack run would probably be a relatively safe move if, God forbid, she still wasn't able to wear clothes by then. Thankfully, the bathroom was right next to her bedroom, so if she was quick and careful she could probably get in and out of there unseen when she needed to.

She couldn't bring herself to think about her interview tomorrow, so she didn't. Instead she tried to see if she could find something, anything that could give her a clue as to how to reverse the spell that had been placed on her and get a crazy and perverted fairy off her back. Unsurprisingly, there was nothing beyond tales for kids when she searched for fairy godmothers online. There were a few people who claimed to be able to remove curses, but they all gave off crazy vibes. If Nicola remembered correctly, Cinderella's wishes all wore off at midnight. If that was the case, she could probably ride this out. Then again, there was always the possibility that real life wishes didn't function the same as they did in a children's story.

Nicola thought it might be helpful to test the parameters of exactly what was considered "wearing anything" according to the spell. She reached into her cupboard and pulled out a towel, wrapping it around her body. Much to her dismay, within seconds it was gone. That had been her best idea for being able to move between rooms freely when the others were home.

The next thing to test was her duvet. Surely if she was naked but under the covers in bed, that didn't count as wearing anything? She climbed in, lay down, covered herself and shut her eyes, barely daring to open them for fear of what she might, or more pertinently might not, find. It certainly felt like the duvet was still there and on top of her several seconds later. She opened one eye tentatively and breathed a sigh of relief to find her body still covered. So if she stayed in bed all the time, she could get away with being naked. It was far from ideal but would have to do for now.

Her experimenting was interrupted by a knock on her door. Apparently the others were back now.

"Um, hey Nicky" Liam called out "Are you decent?"

"Uh, not really"

"Okay..." there was an awkward pause "Well can you get decent? Something has come up. We need to have a house meeting. Like, now."