What Now?

As Abigail walked through to the living area, her initial excitement at gatecrashing the party was soon dampened by the obvious sombre mood in the room. Not only that, but she was surprised to see only Barbie and Cassie waiting there. This was Mel and Lexie's place, where were the hosts? And why was Barbie cradling a frog against her tits? What kind of weird ass meeting was this?

"Hey guys, we thought we would come and lend y'all a hand" Abigail began "Um, where are Mel and Lexie at?"

"Hey Abi, Chantelle" Cassie smiled weakly "So tonight didn't exactly go according to plan. I'm going to explain some things to you, but it is very important neither of you say anything until I'm done talking, and even then, please don't say anything at all dismissive of witchcraft or insulting or threatening about our new acquaintance Rebecca"

Chantelle and Abigail shot each other a confused look but, trusting Cassie implicitly, remained silent. This was a very odd and strangely intense start to their evening.

"So I don't know how much of this you were aware of, but Mel has a friend back in England called James. He got put into an app called James Does Anything. It sounded an awful lot like Naked Forever, but when Mel and Lexie hired him he said it was the work of a witch named Rebecca that he had pissed off in some way or other. Anyway, Mel was determined to help him even though James warned her to back off so she didn't get on the wrong side of this Rebecca too"

Chantelle and Abigail shared another look. Neither of them liked the sound of where this was going.

"So, Mel called us all here tonight to figure out how to deal with Rebecca, but it seems the witch was watching us. A few minutes into the meeting, Mel just disappeared. We are pretty sure she is in the app now too. So she can be hired out by anyone to do anything they say, even impossible stuff like turning into animals or God knows what else."

"And speaking of people turning into animals.." Barbie took over from her wife "Lexie kind of lost it when that all went down. She was cursing at Rebecca and threatening to destroy her when she disappeared into a puff of smoke and, well, this is Lexie now"

"No fucking way!" Abigail's eyes widened in shock and disbelief as she looked at the amphibian Barbie had cupped gently in her hands.

"Not to be at all dismissive of witchcraft, but are you absolutely sure that is Lexie?" Chantelle asked sceptically.

"Positive. I saw it happen with my own eyes" Sophie butted in "So now we are all terrified to do or say anything about Rebecca, but obviously we need to help our friends. This might be even tougher to deal with than NA were"

"So what are we supposed to do?" Abigail wondered out loud.

"We have Mel's phone. The app is on there so we figured it would be a good start to explore that and see what we can find out about it" Sophie explained "She got a notification that some guy named Nigel had hired her for an hour. So she should be back in 45 minutes or so, though she could just get hired out again at any time presumably. And looking at this app, it's pretty scary stuff. It is encouraging people to live out their wildest sexual fantasies and fetishes on Mel. It really makes a big deal about how no holds barred the app is and how nothing is off limits. She really can be made to do anything, it seems, with the only proviso being that nobody, including Mel, is physically harmed."

Abigail and Chantelle, the former in particular looking somewhat shell shocked, sat down and tried to process what was happening here. The group sat and tentatively discussed the situation, being very careful with their words, until eventually a familiar figure rematerialised, naked and on all fours, on the floor in front of them.

"Oh shit, what have I gotten myself into this time?!" a visibly distressed Melanie fretted as she stood up and seemed to be examining her body to check everything was as it should be. Thankfully it was.

"Mel, are you okay?!" Sophie checked with obvious concern.

"I think so, but that was the worst hour of my life. I need to get off that app immediately!" Mel replied as she scanned the room "Hey, where is Lexie?"