Return to Lucy's point of view as things keep getting worse...

Lucy was relieved to get back into the relative privacy of the dorm building, her bare feet welcoming the warmer flooring inside. She scampered up the stairs as quickly as she could, just **** to get back to the safety of their room and, mercifully, clothes. She was barely aware of how her cute little ass bounced with every step she took, or the view she was giving Kim and a few other students that happened to be climbing the stairs behind her. As far as Lucy was concerned Kim had told her she was covered, and she believed her.

Bare feet padding softly down the hallway and her hands still tugging cutely at her sweater for modesty Lucy hurried ahead of Kim, just anxious to get dressed again. From the end of the hall she spotted something that she assumed was her stuff left by Scott outside their door. But as she got closer she realised someone had left a pile of wooden planks and boards outside their room, she was sure she even recognised a pair of bed-posts in the disassembled pile.

Flustered by everything else that had happened to her that morning; the bottomless girl paid the pile little attention as she approached other than to look again to see if her bag and clothes were there too. But she couldn’t see her stuff anywhere.

Stepping closer, Lucy practically screamed in alarm when their room door suddenly opened and a burly looking man in a high-vis jacket stepped out into the hallway, practically on top of her.

“Hey sorry, didn’t see you there…” He chuckled jovially, tapping the door-frame with his fingers. Lucy squealed and jumped backwards, trying to remain calm as Kim caught up beside her.

“Who… who are you?! What are you doing in our room?” The brunette demanded weakly, conscious of just how vulnerably exposed she was in front of this guy. She squirmed uncomfortably, crossing her bare thighs as high as she could to try and shield her bottomless state from his eyes, it was only then that she noticed his jacket had the university logo and the words ‘maintenance crew’ emblazoned on the front.

“Bed replacement,” He said calmly, opening the door wide so the girls could look inside.

What they saw made Lucy’s blood run cold.

While Kimberley’s side of the room looked completely untouched, Lucy’s bed was gone; replaced, to the girl’s total horror and disbelief, by a large cushioned dog bed.

“N-no… W-what…?” Lucy gasped, on the edge of tears, this just felt like the final straw. Lucy felt Kim’s hand land reassuringly on her shoulder, assuming her friend was matching her shock; in reality the blonde was doing her best to hide her excitement.

“This is room 214 right?” The guy said slowly, scratching his chin.

“Yeah,” Kim faked a frown.

The guy pulled out a note from his pocket and started reading it aloud, “Room 214, Jefferson Dorm… Room is occupied by a blind student, second bed needs removing to accommodate her seeing-eye dog...?”

“This is Washington Dorm…” Lucy croaked, her heart sinking.

“Oh jeez… you know that’s my bad… I’m really sorry,” The guy said chuckling again and to Lucy’s disbelief she heard Kim start laughing with him too!

“Oh wow, that is a pretty funny mistake, huh Lucy?” Kim giggled.

Eyes wide the distressed girl looked back and forth between the two of them, mouth open in disbelief, why weren’t they taking this seriously?

“What are you talking about?” Lucy snapped desperately, stamping one of her bare feet against the carpet in annoyance. “Put it back!”

“Come on Lucy it was clearly an honest mistake…” Kim smiled as though there was an obvious joke she was supposed to get. She felt like she was going crazy, this couldn’t be happening… it was like the world was against her or something…

“So uh, bad news is that as you can see my guys have already disposed of everything we left out here as we dismantled the old bed… so uh, it would be a few days before we could get you a new one…” The guy shrugged. “Really sorry about that…”

Lucy shrieked, she’d been emotionally on edge all morning and to have another thing go wrong made her feel faint from shock, “No… no…no! I need a fucking bed!”

“Hey, easy on the language alright,” The guy said tersely, his tone suddenly serious as he stepped out of the doorway and started picking up the last of the discarded parts of Lucy’s bed. The brunette shuffled awkwardly when he started to crouch down, **** not to give him an accidental glance underneath her stretched sweater.

“Yeah, Lucy calm down. These things happen there’s no need to be rude…” Kim chastised her and Lucy balked, realising her friend was taking his side?!? “There’s nothing he can do about it now…” then to Lucy’s growing horror Kim turned to the maintenance guy and thanked him!

“No problem, sorry again…” He said with a sigh, standing with the bundles of wood in his arms and starting to walk away. “We’ll bring you a new bed as soon as we can.”

“Wait… but… what am I supposed to do until then?” Lucy protested, dumbfounded as she watched him calmly walking away, ignoring her and whistling to himself.

“We’ll make it work… besides I thought you were eager to get inside?” Kim said meaningfully. Lucy gawped, her gasps of disbelief stuck in her throat as she realised Kim was glancing up and down her bare legs, reminding her that right then she had more urgent problems.

“Fine…” the bottomless girl groaned through gritted teeth, her face burning as she reluctantly stepped into the room with Kim close behind her. The second the door was shut Lucy let out a squeal of frustration, shaking her head wildly as she tried to wake herself up from whatever nightmare she was in.

She stared at the dog bed in the corner, almost feeling like it was mocking her. The collar, peeing in the grass, and now this! Lucy couldn’t help but put the three together; she knew it was a coincidence and yet it was all too much… In her moment of self-pity she moaned despondently under her breath, “I’m not a dog…”

Kim whipped around in front of her, eyes wide, “Lucy…”