There's Something About Emily

It was early evening in the Petersen household and things were much livelier than the usual, somewhat sedate, atmosphere there. With Jessie already staying over for the foreseeable future, Holly had decided it might be nice for everyone if the three remaining cousins were also invited over for the night. To make the girl who had been commanded to stay naked until further notice, which wasn't yet forthcoming, feel less self conscious and singled out, Kelly and Haley had stripped off in solidarity.

In contrast, Emily had remained clothed in solidarity with Tammy who, had Emily undressed too, would have been left looking strangely like the odd one out. The five were hanging together in the lounge like everything was normal when Brett strolled, completely unprepared, into the room.

"Hey Uncle Brett!" Haley looked up and smiled while Kelly gave a friendly wave.

"Oh goodness, this nudism thing seems to be catching on!"

Tammy's father tried to sound as unaffected by all the skin on display as possible, but it wasn't easy. When all was said and done, there were three gorgeous, naked eighteen year olds sitting on his couch, none of whom were blood relatives, and he was only human.

"I must warn you my poker buddies are coming over in the next hour or so" he chuckled nervously

"Can we play?" Haley joked.

"I think maybe you girls should head upstairs before then" Holly strongly suggested as she entered the room, not quite sure what kind of reputation her home would be getting at this rate.

Tammy, meanwhile, had an issue engaging with her cousins when they were naked. Jessie didn't usually, unless there was a practical reason, but Haley and Kelly both had a longstanding habit of stripping off at the slightest excuse, usually together. It didn't seem to be any sort of kink. Kelly was probably trying to be edgy while Haley was simply demonstrating how body confident she was and that she didn't see nudity as a big deal. Tammy could more or less guarantee at least one of those two would make a trip downstairs during the poker game. But any kind of nudity, other peoples and especially her own, always made Tammy feel uncomfortable. She certainly couldn't talk to her cousins about the extremely serious matter of them having been claimed while they were like that. So instead she concentrated on finding out more about Emily.

"What exactly happened with Craig at the party? You were right there next to him when he went down, right?"

"Oh yeah, it was weird. He just kind of collapsed" Emily lied "He was pretty wasted by that point"

"Right, but didn't you say something about him being on his final warning just before that?"

Emily looked momentarily thrown, as if mentally composing an answer, It was enough to raise the suspicions Philip had sown in Tammy a little further.

"I don't remember. He was being quite abusive to people at the time. I think I just meant, you know, get a hold of yourself or this is going to get ugly"

It wasn't the most convincing of answers, and Emily had looked more than a little shifty while delivering it. Tammy decided to press on with a couple of questions about Emily's master, and what she planned to do about them in the long term if she was only in the US for a semester. Emily gave an evasive answer at first, then responded to a follow up question with a very polite and roundabout way of saying she didn't want to continue that particular discussion. Philip had already cast doubt on whether Emily was who she said she was, and now Tammy was starting to feel the same way.

She excused herself to the bathroom and tapped out a quick message to Philip on her phone, asking her master for a command to let her see through any disguises the curse had been used to place on other people. She received a surprisingly quick and detailed response - he must have been anticipating this request and prepared for it in advance. Her masters text command might as well have been written in legalese and contained lengthy, and seemingly watertight, arguments as to why it should overpower any previous commands placed by other masters to stop their respective girls true identities from being detected. Tammy felt confident that if anyone in that room wasn't who they were supposed to be, she would soon know.

She felt a strange sense of fear as she walked slowly back to the main room. The thought hit her that she could be confronted by the sight of four complete strangers in place of her cousins, as far fetched as that seemed. She felt herself trembling a little and stopped and took a deep breath to compose herself. As she approached the open doorway, Tammy was relieved to see Jessie first, stark naked but very much herself, followed by Haley and Kelly and finally, as she turned into the room and faced the other direction.... her Aunt Maisie?!! Suddenly an awful lot of things made sense. But that didn't lessen the initial shock.

"Are you okay Tammy? You look like you've seen a ghost?" Maisie asked in her usual North Carolina accent.

"Um, yes, I'm fine. The last few days have just been a lot, that's all"

There was no way Tammy was going to blow her beloved Aunt's cover. This was actually good news - an ally she knew, adored and would trust with her life and who had a benevolent master that lived locally. Jessie might not be so happy about this development if she was made aware of it, though. Tammy was going to have to pick her moment to speak to Maisie very carefully.

"Okay, I think it's time for you lovely ladies to head upstairs before Brett's friends arrive and get a lot more than they bargained for from their poker evening" Holly instructed as she came back into the room "Oh, and Jessie, I spoke to the Dean from your college. He says you can stay here tomorrow, but he wants to come over to discuss your current lifestyle situation with you in person"

"I'll bet he does!" Kelly giggled.

"What?! And you okayed that?!" Jessie asked in horror.

"I'm sorry, I didn't have much of a choice. If you stop turning up to school without a very good reason they'll fail you. Now seriously girls, upstairs. Now!"

"Hey Hales, I dare you do go down to the kitchen later when they are in the middle of their game and grab a coke from the fridge!" Kelly nudged her cousin as they made their way to Tammy's room.

"That's way too easy" Haley rolled her eyes "At least give me a proper challenge"