Kim tests a dream with some old friends

“What are you two doing here?! Help! Thieves!”

Kim swung her hands wildly. “W-w-wait! We can explain! We are not thieves!” Kim was currently stuck doing her least favorite task of all, dream testing.

Her boss was the god of sleep and dreams, in addition to being the owner of an interdimensional resort/college and who knows what else. This meant that sometimes they would plop Kim back onto Earth to see if the dream scenarios that his dream spirits,oneiros, came up with actually elicited the correct emotional response on a human like her.

Sometimes that meant that Kim was sent to test some sweet dreams, like when they dropped her atop a mountain of ice cream or when she hugged the world’s biggest teddy bear. Most of the time, however, they tested nightmares, like, well…

“Then you are perverts! Do you enjoy breaking into other people’s houses and doing- Oh lord, you were doing it on my clean kitchen floors!”

“W-w-what?! No, We’ll never-!”

The elderly woman grabbed her broom and started chasing Kim and Harako around the kitchen. The ghost was also there, blushing intensely and more naked than usual, as her hair had been braided to avoid being used to cover her body.

“Ouch! My lovely bum. Why do we always have to do these things naked? Eep!”

An invisible redhead, one of the titular dream spirits, was taking notes on the corner of the room. “According to the data you gathered, being naked makes everything else feel that much more awkward.”

“Because you are perverts!” The elderly woman replied, oblivious to the oneiros answer.

“Wait! Ouch. This is a misunderstanding. Ow!”

“I’ll call the police!”

“Please don’t!”

“Hmmm, got to say, I’m a bit disappointed. Expected more out of the “trapped naked in a stranger’s house” nightmare, but this seems to have the same reaction as when I dropped you in the occupied honeymoon suite.”

“ …Maybe it would have been worse if it was the house of someone Kim knew?” Harako suggested. The woman was busy smacking Kim’s bottom with her broom, so Harako was free to stand in the sidelines.

The oneiros shrugged. “Hmmm, worth a shot.” She snapped her fingers and the scenery changed. They were now in a small living room. As Kim was still running, she crashed against a couch and knocked it over.

“Owww. What happened? Where are we?”

“I-is someone there?” a fearful voice asked. “I-I’m warning you! I’m armed with a very powerful weapon.”

“Wait… that voice. Please, let’s try some other nightmare? Drop me in a barrel of spiders! Make me walk on hot coals! Toss me off a plane again and keep me in freefall for the whole night!”

“No, you enjoyed the freefall dream way too much, it’s weird, and your reaction tells me we are on the right track.”

“Stop right there criminal scum!” A woman jumped into the living room, she was clad in pink pajamas and armed with a toy lightsaber. The woman had bronze skin, bedraggled fuzzy hair, and slight bags under her dark eyes. “Kimmy?! Is that you?”

The woman went in for a hug but stopped when she realized that her friend wasn’t wearing anything. “H-h-h-hi Clara. I haven’t seen you in so long!” Kim replied, propping herself on the table like she was on a normal visit. A shy smiled adorned her face.

“W-what are you doing here?”

“Well, I was in the neighborhood so I decided to come visit my favorite classmate!”

“Out in the neighborhood, naked? At midnight?”

”…Y-yeah.”

“Why? And who is this pale woman?”

Harako brandished a wicked grin. “Oh, me?! I’m her roommate. Kimmy here loves to get naked and run around. It’s her kink. She even locked me out after my shower to **** me to accompany her! She is quite the scoundrel.”

Kim was taken aback, she didn’t know that her ghost partner could talk so normal. And what did she say? Only the worst possible thing. “No, no, no. Harie here is just a big joker! Isn’t that right, roomie?“ Kim not-so-softly elbowed Harako’s in the stomach.

“What the hell?” Kim muttered to the ghost.

“…What? …You know that we are paid more by the intensity of the nightmare.”

“If you want to go for the maximum payout...” The redhead commented. “…we can drop you in the stage of A-“

“NOPE! No, I refuse. That nightmare is vetoed. V.E.T.O.E.D.”

“Vetoed? Nightmare? What are you two talking about?” Clara asked.

“Oh, it’s n-nothing. So, anyway, wat cha been up to, my friend-o? Knowing our valedictorian, you probably cured the common cold or something, right-o? Hahaha…”

“Interesting. Kim’s too flustered to talk straight. I think you are onto something with this friend thing Harako.”

“…Yes. …Maybe we can pull in someone else from her past?”

“Great idea.”

“Well, not really. I- What was that?” Outside the house, tires screeched as a car almost collided with the light pole. The bell ringed. Clara opened the door. On the other side was a tall, rugged man with a brown beard and captivating blue eyes.

Kim watched the man. Time slowed to crawl. Of all the people, why him? Why now?! Her fight or flight instinct kicked in.

“Excuse me, my car broke down and my cellphone is dead, can I borrow your-Clara? Is that you?”

“Brad? What a coincidence! Come on in, we were just catching up with Kim, remember her? She, hmm, is a bit different since you last her.”

“Oh, Kimmy is here? Great! Sure, let’s chat for a-” Brad mouth hung open when he spotted the pale woman in the living room. Harako bashfully looked away and waved at him.

“Hi, I’m Harako, Kim’s roommate. She is hiding in the cupboard over there.”

Clara opened the cupboard. Kim was sitting inside with her face buried in her palms. “Kim? You won’t believe this! Brad is here.”

“Of course he is…”

“Hi Kim. Did I come at a bad time? I can step out until you finish changing.”

“She came here naked. It’s her kink, apparently.”

“Oh, that’s- …good for you?!”

“Oh hi, Brad! Didn’t see you there.” Kim beamed a weak smile that tried to hide the loud drumming of her heart. “I was just taking a lil nap. So good to see you again. …I already said that, didn’t I? No wait, I didn’t…”

“Well, let’s grab a seat and catch up.” Clara offered.

“Sure.” Brad went to sit on the couch. Harako joined him on the other side of the sofa and Clara hesitantly sat in the middle.

Welp. All three of them were sitting and watching Kim contort herself into a small ball in the cupboard. She shouldn’t remain there hidden like a weirdo.

Kim carefully unfolded herself and climbed out of the cupboard. No way of doing so didn’t involve flashing her perky pink nipples to her friends, so Kim simply bit her lip and powered through. Once free, she shyly slid to a chair next to the three.

Oh gosh, both her friends saw her …womanly secrets. Their wide eyes and hung mouths were burned into Kim’s mind.

There was no cover on the chair either, so Kim crossed her arms and legs. She could tell that Clara and Brad were trying not to stare, but their eyes still constantly wandered to her intimates. Damnit, why weren’t they gawking at Harako? She was as naked as Kim was!

No one said anything. They sat in silence while Kim slowly melted under her friends’ gazes. She had to say something to get the room’s attention to literally anything that wasn’t her!

“Soooooooo, Brad. Bradi-o. Bradi-boy. Long time no see, huh? Look at those biceps, I still that you are see working out. Oops, word-switcharoo! Hehe…” Was it Kim’s imagination or had someone turned on the heating in the room?

“Mhmm, yeah?”

“You’ll have to excuse Kimmy, she’s been acting weird all night,” Clara interjected.

“Really? It’s not that different from what I remember. Well, except for the exhibitionism kink.”

“It’s not my kink!”

Clara slapped her knee, her face lighting up with the memories. “Oh yeah. I remember now! Kim used to be super awkward around you on account of that massive crush she had.”

“AAAAAHH! Clara, What the hell?!!!”

“It was pretty obvious,” Brad said.

“Y-y-y-y-you knew?” Kim squirmed in her seat.

“Come on. You were drooling when I came out of the pool at Clara’s birthday party. It got into half your shirt. It was kind of gross.”

Clara perked up and sat enthusiastically. “Oh! Remember that time that Kim came to class in her pajamas?”

“Hahaha! Yes! It had those little ponies around the-”

“I don’t like this topic!”

“Hey Harako, you are her roommate, right? Do you have any other embarrassing Kim stories?”

“Oh, do I!” Kim braced herself for the slander about to come out of the ghost mouth. Was she going to talk about their trip to the casino? The first time they met? All the possibilities were baleful.

“But first, I’m parched. What if we go for a couple of drinks and continue the conversation at the pub?” Harako proposed.