Her parents came home

"You hid behind the bush for a while," Max said. "Crouching. Sometimes waving at me. Sometimes you ran behind a different bush, just because you could. Then, um, a car pulled into the drive."

"Seriously?" Chloe's eyes went wide. "Wait, so mom and step-douche are coming home soon?"

Max nodded. Chloe glanced over her shoulder, back towards the hallway leading to the front door, but made no effort to move. Instead she shifted, pressing her legs together.

"Feel up to rewinding and giving me a bit of warning when they make it home this time?" Chloe said.

"I- I think so," Max said. "It's not for a while."

"Awesome," Chloe grinned. "Shit, I must've been frantic when I saw them."

"Y-yeah," Max said. "You still tried to hide from them, moving around the bush, just, uh, you had to crouch by the side of the bush to stop them seeing you, which meant you weren't hidden from the street. Half the road could see everything."

"Fuck," Chloe said, breathlessly, almost hungrily. She shifted again, now resting a hand on her lap. "Go on."

"I- I didn't get to see everything," Max said. "I had to hide from them too. I watched until they found me, then rewound and watched from upstairs. They didn't come looking. But by then you knew you couldn't make it back inside without being seen, and they weren't going to go out again soon. You were so red, Chloe."

Chloe shifted again, breathlessly. Max's eyes widened when she saw where her hand was.

"Chloe!" Max said.

"What?" Chloe said. "Don't tell me you're not a bit hot and bothered."

Max's cheeks flamed; Chloe smirked.

"I was stuck outside naked, and half the street could see me," Chloe said, biting her lip. "Go on."

"I- I think you wanted to distract them," Max said. "You had to hide on the opposite side of the bushes, to not be seen from the windows. I could see your hair from above, but, um, it was kinda obvious that you got seen from behind you. A car literally stopped in the road just to stare; you ran around the side of the house not long after, close to the wall and pressed against the window.

"Then you went to the back garden," Max gestured towards the floor-to-ceiling glass doors that led outside. "You didn't go in, not properly. I saw you crouched outside; you threw a stone at the window. David went out to investigate. I think you wanted to just get him out, then run, but he saw your head peering over the fence. You still ran, but he caught you in the front garden."

"Shit," Chloe said, rather more breathlessly. Max blushed at her friend's display.

"How are you-" Max tried to say. "It was embarrassing! Why are you so..."

"Yeah, must've been," Chloe said. "That's what makes it hot. Go on, don't stop Max, what happened?"

Part of Chloe was still thrumming from actually having been outside naked, her exposure being too long for Max to just rewind completely. Still, she could barely imagine what the full experience must have been like.

That was why she loved Max's new power; while she wouldn't want to face the real consequences, thinking about them was...

"You got yelled at," Max said. "In the garden. He- He was really mad, didn't even let you get inside, or get dressed. You were... You have one arm over your chest, the other, uh, lower, but it barely covered anything, and you were right in the middle of the garden. People had been staring before, but then... It was unreal, Chloe."

"Fuck!"

Chloe closed her eyes, leaning back in her chair, suddenly being much less subtle with what her hand was doing. Flushing almost as much as Chloe had been, Max looked away-

And couldn't help peeking back, to see Chloe's ecstatic expression before she slowly slumped back. She didn't seem to care about the moisture she left on the chair.

"Shit," she panted. "We've got to do something like that again. Hella fun. Right?"

"Y-yeah," Max said, blushing. "It was... something."

Chloe grinned. Then suddenly she stiffened at the sound of a car outside.

"Upstairs!" Chloe said.

Max was already on her feet, hurrying out into the hall, then to the staircase. The nude Chloe was behind her, still slightly unsteady on her feet. They both heard the door open just as Chloe clambered to the top, following Max into her room.

"Shit," she panted, giggling madly. "Shit. I swear they saw my ass."

"Do you want me to go back?" Max said.

Chloe hesitated, then shook her head, grinning again.

"Sounds like they could've seen a lot more," Chloe said.