The Naked Club Reconvenes

Sophie was the last to arrive at Melanie's place that afternoon. She had to remind herself she needed to be positive about the app today, no matter how much she hated it, since that was the second part of her assignment for today. She had completed the first, tougher part that involved her being out in public and interacting with strangers while naked and hated every minute. She wasn't going to screw up the easy part.

The mood in the room seemed mixed. Olivia and Laura were positively growing and looked delighted to be around each other. Anna and Lucy looked more pensive while Melanie looked like something was bothering her.

"So, how did your assignments go?" Sophie asked the group.

"Mine was amazing" Olivia beamed "A couple of days ago the idea of posing as a life model or for a naked shoot would have horrified me. But in the end I loved it. I have never hot before in my life!

"You've always been hot, Liv" Laura nudged her friend and sometime lover.

"I'm actually considering the life modelling even after this is over" Olivia concluded.

"Well, I had an amazing time. My assignment was the best!" Laura grinned "Is it bad to admit I actually found it pretty hot?"

"My assignment definitely wasn't hot, in fact it was even more humiliating than I would have expected" Lucy confided "But I'm still here. Who cares what strangers think about me anyway? Maybe I needed to learn that."

"I don't think it's fair to Michael to share our conversation" Anna also felt pretty awkward that the two girls she had confessed to cheating on him with were both in the room "But we probably needed to have it"

"I'm refusing. I'll take the hit to my score" Melanie shrugged.

There was no way Melanie was going to ditch the long term boyfriend she lived with immediately just because a nudity app told her to, not even if he had been there to end it in person. Maybe the app was right that her relationship was doomed but this wasn't the way to end it. If she decided to leave John she owed it to him to find a better way and time to do it. For the first time Melanie was starting to question the app and regret cheating on her partner with some random guy she just met the previous evening. Charlie hadn't even bothered to text her back anyway. Maybe Sophie was right about the effect the app was having on people being negative all along.

"Well, it sounds like you all had interesting and valuable experiences" Sophie felt compelled to say to ensure she passed the assignment the others didn't even know she had been given.

"Okay, so what has that done to your scores? I'm up to 65%" Laura smiled "I've lost my safety phrase though. Oh well, I can't say I was even using it."

"Holy shit I'm up to 65% too!" Olivia exclaimed "I've lost my safety phrase, but it says for doing the art class and photo shoot I've qualified for a Naked Reward!"

"What the fuck is that, it sounds amazing!" Laura gasped.

"I'm supposed to have one coming too" Melanie revealed without much enthusiasm "You're both ahead of me now, I'm down to 60%. My safety phrase had already gone."

"62%. No more safety phrase" was all Lucy said. It was hard for the room to read exactly how she was feeling about all of this.

"Yeah, it looks like we all lost our safety phrases" Anna confirmed "Holy shit, I'm up to 72%! No reward though!"

"This is good, we are all within 12% of each other" Laura did the simple maths "It would be kind of nice if we all got our clothes back at the same time."

Sophie smiled sadly at this. If she had access to her account she would have known she was now sitting at 10%. She checked her phone and realised with all the attention she was giving her friends accomplishments she hadn't noticed she had missed a couple of messages from Charlie.

I can't stop thinking about you Sophie. I need you to come over now. I want to get to know you properly! Here is my address..

Sophie shuddered at the thought. Then she read the second text.

Do not ignore me! Answer me now then get your butt straight to my place!

With a resigned sigh Sophie texted back that she was on her way.

"Okay guys, I have to go" she smiled weakly to the group.

"Aw, that's a shame" Laura pouted "Still, the plan is for us to try out ways to get our scores up. I guess you don't need to worry about that.

"Yeah" Sophie nodded as she reluctantly left to meet up with Charlie.