Note: This story was dynamically reformatted for online reading convenience. ï>¿A Box of Tricks by ThanksForAllTheFish With her rant over Zoe took a rueful sip from her drink, then absentmindedly began playing with the edge of her towel. For a moment the girls lay there staring into the distance, lost in their own thoughts, then Alesha sat up and readjusted her bikini. "Free the nipple I say," she murmured solemnly as she quickly checked that neither of her own had slipped out of her top. "Free the nipple indeed," Zoe agreed, raising her can in a sarcastic toast to a more liberal future. "No I mean it, really," Alesha insisted, looking around them in excitement. "You said it yourself, the only reason you can't go topless here is because you'll get into trouble. But we have the box, so we can make the trouble just... go away." "I mean..." Zoe was going to come back with a sensible reply as to why Alesha was talking nonsense, but as she tried to think of one she quickly realised that her friend was actually right. "I mean yeah, I guess... we could." "And like you said, it would feel way better, right?" Alesha pressed. "Right..." "And you still owe me two dares, do you not?" Zoe had forgotten all about that. "I - oh, yeah... yes I do." "Then dare number one," Alesha declared victoriously, "is to roll over onto your back! Let's see some tits!" "I'm starting to regret this game..." Zoe grumbled as she leant up slightly to reassess how busy the park was. Surrounding the girls there were groups of sunbathers covering almost every blade of grass, meaning that the chances of Zoe's bare boobs going being noticed were absolutely non-existent. But then again Zoe had been the one to suggest this whole dare thing in the first place, and she was heavily indebted to Alesha. And so she reluctantly agreed, reached an arm under her chest to cover her boobs, and then used her free elbow to ease herself up and over onto her back. "Hey, hands down," Alesha instructed as she watched her friend settling down into place. "Free those nipples, right now." "Oh God..." Zoe scowled, forced her arm away from her chest, and then lay flat on her towel, with her hands clenched by her hips. "Happy?" she asked Alesha as she kept her eyes staring straight up at the clear blue sky, trying futility to distract herself from the fact that her tits were now out for all to see. "Very," her friend replied cheerfully, reaching out and playfully flicking one of Zoe's hardening nipples. "And I can see that your body is already enjoying it too!" "Leave me alone you pervert, they're just sensitive," Zoe joked, flinching away from Alesha's touch. "Now get your hands off me, and let me tan in peace." Immediately Zoe's boobs began to attract a great deal of attention from the other people in the park, particularly when she sat up and began to massage some sunscreen into her tits as she felt her chest starting to burn. No one ever said anything though, and most passers-by contented themselves with sneaking a few surreptitious glances at Zoe's body as they walked past, the men leering at the young student's svelte body with lust and the women glaring at it with envy. From behind her polarised sunglasses Zoe noted everyone's interest with a quiet delight, and soon the intoxicating combination of the sun's heat, along with the thrill of all the public exposure, was starting to get her seriously turned-on. She kept finding her hands creeping their way up to her nipples, or sliding down towards her bottoms, and she'd have to force herself to remember that she wasn't in the privacy of her own back garden anymore, where her fingers would be free to roam wherever they pleased. Beside Zoe Alesha had turned over onto her front, to ensure that she was tanning evenly too, and after a while she decided to escalate things by reaching over and gently tapping her friend on the hip. "Ok, so dare number two..." she grinned, before being immediately cut off. "Alesha!" Zoe's head whipped round to the side as she glared at her friend in alarm. She'd assumed that sunbathing topless in the middle of the park would mark the end of their current round of dares, but now it seemed that Alesha was intent on evening the score right there and then. "What, I still have one more to go right?" Alesha winked knowingly. "And I can't help but notice that you still have half of your bikini left on..." "You can't be serious..." Zoe whispered under her breath as she felt her skin erupt with goosebumps. She'd never tried sunbathing naked before, not even in the safety of her own home. As she'd told Alesha earlier she didn't mind going topless when it was just her and her mum in the house, but going fully nude would have left her feeling way too exposed. And yet her best friend was now trying to make her strip off in the middle of all these strangers, completely out in the open where there was no cover, or any hope that she wouldn't be seen. "Alesha," Zoe pleaded, "I think this might be going a bit too far..." Alesha tutted disapprovingly. "Ok, then how about you just pull your bikini bottoms down a little?" she suggested, grudgingly acknowledging that demanding complete full-frontal nudity was quite a big ask. "What, and just casually flash my pussy to everyone again?" Zoe replied incredulously, and perhaps a little too loudly, as a couple of eavesdroppers turned to look over towards her with interest. "Well then turn back onto your front, and just flash your butt instead. Either way though I'm pulling those bottoms down - you owe me, remember?" Alesha insisted. "Alesha, I don't think -" Zoe began, but this time it was Alesha's turn to butt in. "Oh come on," Alesha interrupted impatiently, "we have the box, so no one here will even remember any of this by the time we leave. What are you scared of?" Zoe, who was almost used to being topless by now, leant up to look around again as she deliberated with herself. Although she hated to admit it, Alesha was right - the Forgotten Cage made it almost impossible to wimp out on a dare, no matter how insane it may be. "Ok... I'll do it, but only if you lose your top," Zoe bargained, "so then I won't feel like I'm the only one lying here on display, getting stared at. How about that?" "No, hang on," Alesha protested, sensing a trap, "that wasn't what -" "Oh come on," Zoe mimicked, "we have the box, so no one here will even remember any of this by the time we leave. What are you scared of?" Alesha exasperatedly shook her head as she looked down at her body, which was glistening with a combination of tanning lotion and tiny beads of sweat. And then, just like Zoe had done before her, she decided to play along too. It seemed that neither roommate was willing to be outdone by the other, and their competitive spirit was pushing them both far, far outside their comfort zones. "Urgh, fine," Alesha relented, "you win, I'll take off my top. But I'm staying on my front, and I'm stripping you first, so come here!" She made a sudden lunge for her friend's bottoms but Zoe was just quick enough to dodge the attack. "Oh my God, hold on!" Zoe squealed as she batted away Alesha's prying fingers. "Let me turn over first, Jesus..." She flipped back onto her front, got comfortable again, and then looked over her shoulder. "Ok... do your worst." "Alrighty," Alesha grinned as she got onto her knees and reached for Zoe's waist. All around the girls astonished sunbathers, pretending not to look, watched on in visible surprise as Alesha slipped her fingers under Zoe's bikini bottoms and tugged them straight down. Zoe gasped as she felt the material between her legs being aggressively pulled all the way to her knees, revealingly her bare ass to the warm summer air. She'd never felt a breeze down there before, and it was an eye-opening, if surprisingly pleasant, sensation to experience for the first time, especially with so many strangers watching on. Despite the pleasant tingling Zoe kept her legs clamped tightly together, trying not to imagine what kind of view she was presenting to the strangers who were sitting behind her, and then she squealed as she felt two cold splatters of sunscreen landing on either butt cheek. "Enjoying yourself back there?" she asked as she craned her neck to look back at Alesha, who was busy massaging the lotion into Zoe's ass. "Yes actually, you have a very squeezable butt, and some very cute tan lines too!" Alesha laughed, slapping the side of Zoe's ass and watching it jiggle. "And obviously we don't want you to burn," she continued, working the sunscreen lower and lower until she was dangerously close to Zoe's pussy, "so I'm making sure that you're all covered up..." "Thanks..." Zoe replied suspiciously. She wasn't sure if she was more concerned by how hands-on Alesha was being with her naked body, or by how turned-on she was getting as she felt her friend's fingers tracing over her sensitive skin. Before things got too intense Zoe decided to call a halt to proceedings and put the focus back on Alesha's side of the deal. "Ok, I think that's enough," she frowned, twisting her hips away from her disappointed roommate. "Now it's your turn now, get that top off!" "Fine..." Alesha wiped the last of the tanning lotion off her hands and lay back beside Zoe on her front. Copying her friend's technique from earlier Alesha then slipped her bikini top off her shoulders and pulled it out from underneath her boobs, successfully stripping topless without flashing her nipples to anyone. "Mmm," she murmured, smugly wiggling her bare chest into her towel, "you were right, this does feel nice." "Told you," Zoe grinned, reaching over and stealing Alesha's top away before stowing it in her bag with the rest of her clothes. And so the two girls, now wearing only half a bikini between them, began to doze off as they lay there roasting in the sunshine. Zoe became used to her unusual state of dress surprisingly quickly, despite the fact that other than her bottoms, which were uselessly wrapped around her knees, she was now totally naked. She reasoned that people were now staring at her bare butt as opposed to her boobs, and so in a weird way she didn't feel that much more exposed than she had done before, she'd just swapped one notable body part for another. Her train of thought clearly wasn't being followed by the rest of the park though, and she was now well and truly the centre of attention as people walked past and did a comedic double take when they noticed her nudity. Zoe largely ignored them and found herself going through different phases, switching between periods where she felt so warm and gooey that she thought she might actually melt away into the ground, before experiencing moments where she felt so incredibly vulnerable that every single fibre of her being tingled with an electric energy. After another half hour or so this inner turmoil made Zoe increasingly restless, and she began to think about whether or not she could get Alesha, who was still only topless, to strip naked too. "Is there any way I can convince you to pull your bottoms down too?" she enquired, turning to murmur confidentially into her friend's ear. "My butt has never felt as good as it does right now, and I really think yours would enjoy a bit more sun as well." "I don't know," Alesha replied, raising her head up as she glanced back at her friend's bare behind. "You look a bit too naked for my liking, so I think I'm good as I am thanks." Zoe stared down at the grass for a moment, then apprehensively cleared her throat. "Alesha..." she began, speaking slowly and deliberately. "If you let me pull your bottoms down ... then I'll roll over onto my back." This time it was Alesha's turn to stare at her friend in complete disbelief. "Seriously?" Zoe nodded slowly. "Seriously." Things were getting properly dangerous now. Sunbathing topless was one thing, and flashing your butt was another. But lying bare-ass naked on your back and letting everything hang out on display? That was upping things to a whole new level, and both girls knew it. Alesha had to think about the offer for a moment, but in reality she immediately knew what she was going to say. Both girls were now officially addicted to showing themselves, and each other, off in public. And so Alesha buried her face into her towel and sighed, knowing that although this was definitely a bad idea, it was also one couldn't bring herself to say no to. "Fuck! Ok fine, strip me!" came her muffled reply as she groaned into the ground, and Zoe smiled to herself as she realised that her friend was just as into their crazy new game as she was. Now it was Zoe's turn to reach for her friend's bikini bottoms, but instead of just slipping them down a little she pulled one of the side knots completely loose, sharply tugged the entire garment away from underneath Alesha's body, and in a moment had stripped her friend totally naked. "Hey!" Alesha squealed in outrage, turning around to look at her pale naked butt. "I better be getting those back," she grumbled, watching as Zoe stuffed the bottoms into her bag along with the girls' tops. "Don't worry, I'm just keeping your clothes safe," Zoe smirked. "We don't want to lose our bikinis now, do we? It would be a long walk back to our dorm without them..." Alesha didn't respond, she just squeezed her eyes shut and clenched her butt as she tried to come to terms with lying there on the ground in the nude. She kept her arms bent and tucked tightly into her sides, with her ankles crossed over one another in an attempt to preserve a tiny bit of modesty, and after she'd taken a moment to adjust she looked over at Zoe and laughed. "Zoe... we're naked!" she giggled, looking around in delight. "Totally naked in public! Ahh!" Zoe also found herself laughing at her friend's giddy excitement. "I know... I had hoped that out last week at uni would be a crazy one, but I never thought we'd end up doing something like this!" The girls chatted for a little longer but then the relentless heat began to take its toll, and soon they both shut their eyes and began to melt away back into the ground. It felt vaguely ridiculous to be lying there with her bottoms tangled around her knees, so after a while Zoe sat up to pull them off and add them to her bag. She then settled back down onto her towel and laughed to herself as she wondered what her poor mother would think if she could see her daughter now, sunbathing completely naked in the middle of town. Zoe's legs inadvertently opened wide as she squirmed around on her towel to stretch out a kink in her back. When she settled back down she did so with her knees angled out to the side in a butterfly pose, purely out of habit because it was such a comfortable way to lie. She also found herself blocking out the sun from her eyes with her forearm, while her other hand lay on her stomach and gently stroked her skin. If she'd been left there to her own devices she genuinely may have ended up masturbating right there where she lay, but unfortunately for her that decision was about to be taken out of her hands. "Right you girls, wake up!" Zoe's heart dropped, and her legs instinctively snaped shut, as she first felt a shadow move over her face and then heard a deep, commanding voice appear from somewhere above her. Trying her best to play it cool she levered herself up onto her elbows, adjusted her sunglasses, and then squinted up at the policeman who had appeared to stand over her. He was a tall, burly man, and he was looking down at her with his hands tucked inside his stab vest and a fierce scowl on his face. To his right was a female officer, who was muttering something into her radio, and as Zoe looked around she realised that the entire park had fallen quiet as everyone sat up to watch the girls' imminent arrests. "Umm, hi?" was the best Zoe could manage as she tried to fight the instinct to guiltily cover up, and beside her Alesha craned her neck to peer up at the police officers. She too manage to resist the urge to curl up into a ball or reach for some clothes, although seeing as the girls' outfits were tucked away in Zoe's bag that wasn't really an option. "So is there any reason why you two aren't wearing any clothes?" the policeman enquired, adopting a mildly patronising tone. "I assume you both know this is a public park?" He let the statement hang in the air as beneath him the girls squirmed uncomfortably, wilting under both the sun's dry heat and the officer's stern glare. "We were just tanning here sir, we weren't trying to do anything disruptive," Zoe replied as calmly as she could, while her eyes darted anxiously over to her bag. This was actually a pretty risky situation, now that Zoe came to think about it - in order to get away safely she'd first have to get her clothes back on, and then use the Forgotten Cage on the officers, but if she made a lunge for her belongings too soon then there was a good chance that they would grab her, arrest her, and haul her naked ass down to the police station before she got a chance to wipe their memories. "And yet you are aware that public indecency is a crime?" the policeman continued, clearly unimpressed with Zoe's feeble excuse. "You can't just undress anywhere you please." "But there are other women here just wearing bikini bottoms," Alesha protested as she found her voice again, covering her boobs with one arm as she twisted at the waist to glare up at the policeman. "And all the guys in the park are allowed to be topless, so is going just one step further really that bad?" The female officer cut in irritably. "Right enough, we're not having this debate here. We've received multiple complaints about you two so you're officially causing a disturbance, understand? Now get up and come with us, then you can talk more back at the station." Zoe realised that this was their only chance to get to the Forgotten Cage in time, so she nodded obediently and then gestured down at her body. "Yeah, alright. But do you want to march us out of here naked, or can we put our clothes back on first?" she asked, pushing her chest out a little to emphasis her point, or rather points. The police officers rolled their eyes and turned to the side, averting their gazes to give the girls a modicum of privacy as they got dressed. Zoe immediately reached over to her bag and chucked Alesha's bikini over to her, then the two began to tug their clothing on, ignoring their shirts and shorts as they prioritised getting their swimsuits on as quickly as possible. Zoe decided to bite the bullet and stand up to slip on her swimsuit, telling herself that everyone had probably already seen everything anyway, while by her feet Alesha awkwardly wriggled around on her stomach as she tried to pull on her top and bottoms without exposing herself any more than she already had. As she unsteadily got to her feet, tangled bikini in hand, Zoe found herself making eye contact with another girl around her age who was looking up at her from where she lay on the grass. She allowed herself a moment to stare back at this stranger as she stood there with her arms by her side, feet a shoulder width apart, her naked body bared to the world. For a second Zoe felt like the most powerful woman on Earth, knowing that everyone in the park was absolutely fixated on her, but then she draped her bikini back over her figure, retied all of the strings, and just like that the moment was over. "Ok," the policewoman said as she turned back to address the girls who were both finally covered up again. "Now put your hands behind -" Before she could get another word out Zoe reached into her bag, pulled out the Forgotten Cage, and smugly pressed the Jewel. Around the park hundreds of pairs of eyes glazed over, blinked a few times and then slowly refocused, and in an instant Alesha and Zoe's naked tanning session had been completely forgotten. "Sorry there, excuse me," Alesha said in a noticeably shaky voice, cautiously stepping around the policewoman to roll up her towel and gather her belongings. The girls packed up their stuff, shouldered their bags, and then walked past the two bemused police officers, who turned to each other in the hope that one of them might know what they were doing standing there in the middle of the park. The rest of the sunbathers also looked around groggily for a moment, before forgetting what it was that they were confused about and lying back down. "Fucking hell that was close," Zoe muttered under her breath as the girls hastily weaved their way across the grass. Parked by the gate which led onto the street was an empty police car, and Zoe nodded at the back seats as they passed by it. "Without the box we'd probably be handcuffed in that thing by now," she noted, and Alesha breathlessly agreed. "I know, God that was so terrifying!" she gulped, nervously looking back the way they'd come. "I was almost asleep when those two appeared, I didn't even hear them walking up to us." "Yeah same," Zoe agreed, " and when I opened my eyes and saw that it was a policeman standing there I nearly had a heart attack!" "And what if they'd cuffed us before we got a chance to get to your bag?" Alesha gasped, reliving the encounter with a new appreciation of the danger the pair had been in. "What would we have done then?" "Yeah, I don't know..." Zoe replied grimly. "I think we might have to be a bit more careful from now on, because that could have ended really, really badly..." The pair walked in silence for a moment, oblivious to the glances they were still receiving from their fellow pedestrians as they walked along the road dressed only in their skimpy bikinis and sandals. Alesha was the first to break the silence. "But I can't lie... that policeman's uniform did get me going a little." "Oh yeah?" Zoe laughed, already knowing exactly what her friend meant. "Oh my God yeah!" Alesha giggled. "Lying there, completely naked in the park, while an officer of the law stood over me and told me that I'd been a bad girl and he's going to lock me up? I know we nearly got arrested, but at the same time that was also kind of hot! You were weirdly turned on by the whole situation too, right?" "Yeah, I was, " Zoe admitted, blushing a little as she reflected on just how horny she'd felt lying there totally nude in front of the two police officers. "Honestly it's weird... I never really thought of myself as an exhibitionist or anything before Jinn came along, but I think the box has unlocked a side of me that really enjoys flashing people!" Alesha giggled and then impulsively hugged her roommate. "I'm glad you said that, because I've been thinking the same thing too!" The pair grinned like idiots as they stood there clinging to each other, their sweaty, sticky bodies quickly gluing themselves together, then Alesha broke away and began to use her towel to dab at her skin. "Right, the second we get back I need to take a shower," she declared, looking down at her legs which were still glistening with tanning oil. "Sure, but then afterwards I dare you to do a Becky and walk back to our room naked," Zoe teased. "Oh God! Fine, but then I dare you to do it too!" Alesha immediately countered, taking her friend's hand and hauling her towards their accommodation block. Bouncing up and down in Zoe's bag, hiding deep inside the Forgotten Cage's metal core, something began to smile. ***** The following evening Zoe and Alesha went along with the rest of their flat - well, the rest of their flat minus the recently disgraced Becky - for one final night out on the town before they all graduated, and after an evening of drinking and dancing they found themselves partying into the early hours of the morning in one of the city's biggest, and busiest, nightclubs. Zoe, who was soon several drinks past her usual limit, was having a great time as she twirled around under the strobe lights, singing and chanting along to the music as if her life depended on it. Across the crowded floor appeared Alesha, stumbling slightly in her heels as she wiped away the last traces of a tequila shot from her lips, and she strutted straight over to Zoe and shouted into her friend's ear. "You brought it with you, right?" she bellowed. "What?" Zoe shouted back, so Alesha yelled even louder. "The box Zoe, do you have it on you?" "Oh sure, it's in here," Zoe nodded, patting the handbag which was slung over her shoulder. She took it wherever she went now, just in case the opportunity for a fun new dare presented itself. Her friend grinned mischievously. "Perfect..." Then, without any further words of warning, Alesha brought her hand round to the back of Zoe's head, assertively pulled her roommate in close, and kissed her. The pair had drunkenly made out a couple of times before, after receiving a dare at a party for example, but this time Zoe was not prepared for Alesha's unexpectedly intense show of affection. With her lips now locked onto Alesha's Zoe's vodka-addled-brain took a few seconds to process what their bodies were getting up to, but when it did she broke away and threw her hands up in confusion. "Hey, what was that?" Zoe demanded, gesturing indignantly over at the rest of their flatmates. They had all immediately began to crowd around them as they cheered and applauded, urging the two girls to keep on going. "Are you crazy?" Alesha just shrugged at her friend and smiled sweetly, before gently moving a strand of hair away from Zoe's face with the tip of her fingernail. "What?" she said. "We have the box... we can do what we want." Zoe frowned. "Yeah, but that's not really what I meant... mmm..." Her protests were quickly forgotten as Alesha confidently pulled her back in again and the pair melted into another long kiss. Although Zoe wouldn't go as far as saying that she was bisexual, and she certainly didn't think about Alesha in that kind of way, she did have to admit that she'd always enjoyed making out with girls, especially when she had a few drinks inside her. So, perhaps against her better judgement, Zoe decided to humour her friend, who was definitely enjoying the experience, and began to kiss Alesha back with a little more intent. "Ayy, go on girls!" "Let's see some tongue!" The girls now had a tight band of onlookers encircling them, a mixture of their flatmates and just random clubbers, and their impromptu audience all hollered and clapped as they watched the pair of hot students passionately making out. Zoe could hear all of their comments, even with the deafening sound of the club's music ringing in her ears, and she began to enjoy the fact that she was now the centre of attention once again. The box's insurance policy was definitely giving Alesha a lot of confidence too, and Zoe giggled as she felt her friend's hands slithering down her back and then firmly grabbing her butt. It felt like Alesha was determined to push through this giggly, teasing phase that the girls found themselves in and move on to something a little more explicit, and Zoe's suspicions were quickly confirmed when Alesha broke away and reached hungrily for her roommate's top. "Hey... not here, not in front of all our friends," Zoe hissed, suddenly noticing for the first time just how dilated her friend's pupils were. "Why not? We can make them all forget... come on, I dare you..." Alesha slurred, batting her eyelashes at Zoe who in turn nervously glanced away. "Yeah I know, but Alesha -" she began to shout over the roar of the club's music. "Ok fine, then do me instead," Alesha interrupted, eagerly taking her friend's hands and guiding them onto her chest. After a brief pause Zoe decided to let herself go with the flow once again, and to indulge her surprisingly horny roommate. Alesha was dressed in a strappy, shiny bralette top that was already fairly revealing, but in her drunken state she was clearly in the mood to show off a little more than just her cleavage. Zoe made Alesha's wish come true by slipping the left strap off her friend's shoulder, which got a huge whoop from the crowd, and then, when Alesha showed no signs of embarrassment, Zoe pulled the right one to the side too. Now Alesha's bralette was only being precariously held in place by the friction between the top and her tits, but still she didn't tell Zoe to stop. And so, with the dramatic flourish of a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat, Zoe yanked the bralette all the way down over Alesha's boobs and bared her daring roommate's nipples to the dancefloor. "Oh my God, nice tits Alesha!" "Where have you been hiding those?" The girls' flatmates went wild as Alesha turned to give them all a good look of her body, taking great pleasure in bouncing her chest up and down as she shook her boobs in everyone's faces. She'd never done anything like this before encountering the Forgotten Cage, but now she was more than happy to give in to her newfound fondness for public flashing. Soon though her attention returned to her fully dressed friend, and with a renewed energy and sense of purpose she grabbed Zoe by the arms, trying once again to get her top off. "And now you?" she whispered coyly as behind them the DJ transitioned into a more psychedelic, almost hypnotic dance track. As the thumping bass reverberated through her body Zoe realised that she was feeling a little bit jealous now that it was just Alesha receiving all of the attention. Jealous and maybe also quite turned-on as she watched Alesha standing there topless in the middle of the dancefloor, with flashing rays of multi-coloured lights casting pretty patterns over her boobs and back. And so, with another roll of the eyes, Zoe gave in and nodded at her friend. "Alright... after all, a dare's a dare..." Alesha's face lit up like a Christmas tree. "Yay!" The girls giggled as Alesha clapped her hands together and then immediately got to work on Zoe's strapless dress. It was fastened with a long zip which ran all the way up to the neckline, and so Alesha made the process of stripping her friend much more of a tease by slowly unfastening Zoe's top, then jiggling Zoe's boobs together as she kept her palms cupped over her roommate's nipples. She then let her hands slide down Zoe's waist as her tits burst free from her dress, then quickly pulled her in again for another reassuring kiss. "Woo, go on Zoe!" "Shake those things!" The two topless friends zoned out their flatmate's crass remarks as they got lost in each other's arms again, making out with a renewed intensity as Alesha playfully massaged Zoe's tits. Yesterday at the park it had been Zoe who had been the bolder of the two but tonight Alesha was the one leading the charge, and she continued to heat things up by moving down to kiss Zoe's neck, then the top of her boobs, and finally her nipples. Zoe squeezed her eyes shut and threw her head back as she felt her friend hungrily sucking at her tits, taking each one fully in her mouth as Alesha teased and probed. The girls were definitely entering into unchartered territory now, but Zoe had also reached the point where she was too aroused to properly think about whether or not they should stop. To her disappointment Alesha eventually did stop, abruptly breaking away and taking a couple of steps back as she decided to put on even more of a show. Suddenly fully exposed again Zoe frowned as she tried to keep up with what was going on and instinctively brought her hands up to cup her boobs. "Hey, what are you doing?" she asked, not quite believing her eyes as she watched Alesha reach down to the sides of her hips. "Me? Getting naked of course!" Alesha cackled, tugging her mini skirt down to the floor and confidently stepping out of it, then doing the same with her top, which had just been hanging uselessly around her waist, by shoving it over her hips until she stood there in the centre of the club in nothing but her panties and heels. Around her the crowd erupted, hungrily demanding more. "Alesha, show us your butt!" "Take it off, take it off!" Worried that any second a bouncer might notice her strip show and throw her out Alesha then pulled off her underwear, chucked her thong to one of the guys in the crowd, and victoriously raised her arms above her head. The mob of onlookers, who also sensed that they needed to keep the totally naked student hidden from the club's security, gathered in even tighter to form a protective shield around Alesha as they applauded her confidence. Alesha responded by reaching out and plucking an attractive guy out from the crowd, dragging him into the middle of the circle by the collar of his shirt. Alesha then pushed the guy down until he was kneeling before her, turned around to face the other way, and arched her back so that her bare butt was pushed out into his beaming face. "Someone get me a drink," Alesha demanded, and immediately a plastic cup was offered out towards her. Alesha took it and carefully reached behind over her shoulder, taking care to keep the drink level, then poured a thin trickle of the rum and coke down her back, shivering as the chilled alcohol came into contact with her skin. The stream of liquid followed the natural path created by the arc of her body, and quickly flowed along the curve of her spine and straight down into her butt crack. The hot guy didn't need to be told what to do as he eagerly reached out his tongue and intercepted the dribble of rum, thirstily diverting every millilitre straight into his mouth, and once Alesha felt him nestled snugly in between her cheeks she used her free hand to reach behind her and pull his head in even tighter. The hot guy gripped her by the hips for support as the trickle of alcohol turned into a steady flow, and to his credit his tongue managed to lap up every last drop. With the cup now empty Alesha spun around and playfully shoved the guy back into the crowd, dismissing him from his ass-licking duties. "Now I'm thirsty too..." she grinned, walking back over to Zoe and squatting down in front of her. Now it was Alesha's turn to get onto her knees in a suggestive pose as she reached for Zoe's zip, which was already at her belly button, and began to pull it even further down. Zoe, who felt like she was in some kind of trance by this point, just watched on as her dress was suddenly pulled completely wide open, immediately falling away from her body before landing in a heap on the floor. "Someone get this woman a drink too!" Alesha cried, and again a half-full vodka lemonade was instantly thrust into Zoe's hands. Zoe barely even noticed herself taking the cup because in that moment her attention was solely focused on Alesha, who was now eagerly reaching out for her underwear. Zoe felt herself breathing heavily as she watched her roommate pull her panties down a couple of inches, just enough so that her bare pussy was exposed to the room but not enough to tug them all the way off. The crowd went wild as they realised what was about to happen, and sure enough Alesha then leant forwards, tentatively reached out her tongue, and rested the tip of it on Zoe's mound, just above her clit. Zoe had never let a girl go down there before, let alone her best friend, but she immediately realised what Alesha wanted her to do. And so, acting autonomously as if someone else were in control of her body, she leant back as far as she could without toppling over, squeezed her shoulders together to make her boobs squidge up against one another, then brought the cup up to her chest and began to pour. This time the vodka trickled straight through her cleavage, flowed over her flat stomach, and then weaved its way down to her mound, where Alesha's tongue was ready to lick it all up. "Holy shit..." Zoe muttered to herself, looking down the length of her near naked body in amazement. The stream of alcohol glistened under the lights as it worked its way across her skin which looked like it was glowing, and Zoe made eye contact with Alesha as her friend's tongue darted left and right to mop up every drop. This sensation on her most sensitive skin was almost too much to bear, and Zoe felt herself getting wetter and wetter every time Alesha's lips brushed against her mound. All too soon Zoe's cup had run empty too and Alesha slowly got up off her knees as she kept her tongue glued to Zoe's skin, licking all the way up along her stomach, in between her boobs and up her neck, before going in for one final lemonade-flavoured kiss. After that the girls broke away from each other for the final time and began to cover up again, as Zoe tugged up her underwear and reached for her dress and Alesha began to untangle her skirt from where it lay on the floor. Finally dressed again the two then pushed through their ring of friends and walked off, hand in hand, to go and hit the bar. Zoe waited until their bar tender had finished measuring out their drinks before she pulled out the box and gave it a tap, then Alesha grabbed their free alcohol and the pair headed back over to their friends. "Was that ok?" Alesha asked, aware that she had probably just crossed a line of some sort. Zoe took a sip from her cocktail and then reached around her friend's waist, pulling Alesha in tight. "Was that ok?" she laughed. "Alesha, that was the single hottest thing I've ever done!" "Ok good, because I really liked it too!" Alesha grinned, playfully squeezing her friend's butt again in return. "You know I almost feel sorry for our friends - the poor boys have absolutely no idea that they just witnessed the show of a lifetime! They must have been so turned-on..." "Yeah," Zoe agreed, "and then they must have been so confused when we used the box, because they'd all have suddenly realised they were rock-hard, but with absolutely no idea why!" "Oh my God yeah, that's true..." Alesha mused as the cogs in her head slowly began to turn. ***** Half an hour or so later Alesha had once again grown bored of simply dancing, and as she zoned out and began to disassociate her overactive mind continued to wander. Soon it had come up with another fun new idea to try, an idea so appealing that she immediately had to share it with Zoe. "Hey, over here," she said, pulling her friend to one side so she could explain her plan. "I've thought of something else I want to do - I've got a great idea for how we can mess with Luke and Elliot." Luke and Elliot were two of their flat's most notorious fuckboys, both relentless flirts who seemed to bring home a different woman to screw every night. Ever since the first time they'd met Zoe and Alesha they'd made it very clear that they also intended on adding them to their list of conquests, but to their disappointment they'd always been firmly turned down. Admittedly both guys were very attractive, and under different circumstances the girls may have been willing to give them a chance, but they were both so obnoxious and cocky that neither Zoe nor Alesha would ever dream of giving them the satisfaction of sleeping with them. Unfortunately the boys never quite got the message and whenever they were all out together they would still always try to buy the girls drinks or dance with them, in a futile and vaguely pathetic attempt to get their hands on Zoe and Alesha's bodies. Over the years this had become increasingly tedious to deal with, and now this final couple of days before graduation provided the girls with their last chance to extract any kind of revenge. Alesha drunkenly shouted her plan of how they could get their own back on Luke and Elliot into Zoe's ear, and when her friend understood the idea she laughed and then nodded approvingly. "Oh my God Alesha," Zoe grinned, "that's brilliant! Right, you take Luke and I'll go for Elliot." The girls split up and zigzagged across through the dancefloor until they found their targets, who as usual were trying to dance with a cluster of largely disinterested girls, and when Zoe caught sight of Elliot she walked up her target and grabbed him by the arm. "Hey, Elliot!" Before her flatmate even had a chance to speak Zoe got onto her tiptoes and jammed her tongue down his throat. Elliot took a moment to react but then he began to snog Zoe back, and once she was sure that she had his undivided intention she broke away then gave him her very best 'fuck me' eyes as she walked backwards away from the crowd. "Follow me," she silently mouthed and Elliot immediately obeyed, quickly hurrying over to Zoe who took his hand and pulled him to the side of the dancefloor. When Alesha saw what her friend was doing she grabbed Luke and did the same, and together the girls led the boys over to the ladies bathroom. After checking that the coast was clear they pulled their targets inside, pressed them up against the sinks, and resumed their drunken make out sessions. As Zoe kissed Elliot she felt his greedy hands paw over her boobs and then quickly slide lower down to grasp her butt, quickly confirming that his handsy reputation was an accurate one. To be honest though Zoe was still feeling pretty horny after Alesha had got her all worked up earlier, and so she decided to let Elliot have his fun, just this once. In return she ran her fingers down over his shirt to feel his impressively firm abs, then reached below his belt and cupped the front of his jeans where she felt the unmistakeable hardness of his quickly growing erection. Beside her Alesha and Luke were both engaged in a similar manner, and after a few more moments of mutual groping Zoe and Alesha broke away to enact the next part of their plan. "Holy shit..." Elliot whispered as he watched Zoe give him a knowing wink and then run her hands along his thighs as she got onto her knees. Both girls sunk down to kneel with their heads resting in front of the boys' crotches, and Zoe looked up and grinned at Elliot as she playfully unbuckled his belt with her teeth. In a moment she had his pair of skinny jeans unfastened and tugged down, and out from the gap in his underwear sprung Elliot's boner, bobbing slightly as it was released into the air. It was a sizeable cock, and Zoe could immediately appreciate why Elliot considered himself to be such a stud. It was also the largest she'd ever seen in real life, so she didn't even have to feign much enthusiasm as she curiously reached out, took Elliot's shaft in her hand, and began to gently stroke him. By Zoe's side Alesha was giving Luke a handjob too, and although the two friends were incredibly close they'd never seen each other involved in any kind of sex act before. So Zoe watched wide eyed as Alesha pressed Luke's dick against his stomach, leant in close, and then slowly ran her tongue over his balls and up along the underside of his shaft. When Alesha reached Luke's tip she pulled his cock back down towards her, hungrily took him in her mouth, and then began to bob her head up and down as she gave him head. As Luke began to moan Zoe, who felt that maybe she wasn't treating her man with quite the same enthusiasm, reached up to fondle Elliot's balls with her left hand and began to jerk him off faster with her right. Both guys were now completely rock hard, so before they got too close to the point of no return Zoe released Elliot from her grip, stood up to give him a calming kiss on the lips, then reached over and pulled a slightly reluctant Alesha to her feet. "Just give us two seconds guys, we need to check that no one's going to come in and see this next part," Zoe said, flashing a smile at her half-naked flatmates. "Now make sure you keep those dicks hard boys..." With Luke and Elliot standing there grinning like idiots, resting against the row of sinks with their trousers pooled around their ankles, idly stroking their erections which were pointing straight to the sky, Zoe and Alesha darted over to the bathroom door and slipped outside as they pretended to check if anyone was in danger of walking in on their impromptu foursome. As soon as they were out of sight Zoe pulled open her handbag to retrieve the box, and this time it was Alesha who was given the honour of slamming her hand down on the Jewel. Inside the ladies bathroom Luke and Elliot froze briefly as their brains restarted, then suddenly they were both back and fully conscious once more. Fully conscious, half-naked, and standing there rock-hard with their dicks in their hands, alone together in the otherwise empty ladies bathroom. It was an awkward and confusing moment, to say the least. After defensively blurting out a string of expletives both guys turned away from each other and tried to painfully cram their boners back into their trousers. They had no recollection of walking into the bathroom together, or any idea why they'd been jerking off together, and they weren't in any mood to stick around and try and work out what they'd been up to. Outside Zoe and Alesha were hiding off to the side, waiting for the boys to re-emerge from the bathroom. The girls immediately collapsed into fits of laughter as Luke and Elliot appeared through the door, both men walking awkwardly as their tight jeans betrayed the imprints of what must be two very uncomfortably crushed erections. They were so intent in getting away from each other that they didn't notice Zoe and Alesha bent over double, tears streaming down their cheeks as tried to stop their hysterics. "Ah, that was good," Alesha sniffled, getting her breath back as she began to wipe her eyes dry. "Do you think they'll learn their lesson now, and stop trying to hit on any girl that moves?" Zoe asked as she finally regained her composure and began to dab at her mascara with a tissue. "No... but who cares," Alesha shrugged, "that was so much fun anyway. Alright come on, let's go back and find the others. We should probably head off soon, we've got to graduate tomorrow!" Zoe tucked the box back into her bag and nodded, still chuckling quietly to herself as she relived the Luke and Elliot's looks of horror as they came out of the bathroom. "Yeah ok, let's go... actually wait, before I forget - why the hell did you suck Luke's dick in there? That wasn't part of the plan!" Alesha laughed as she looped her arm through Zoe's and led her friend back towards the bar, determined to use the Forgotten Cage for a few more free shots before they called it a night. "Yeah I don't know," she confessed, "I just got carried away I guess, knowing that there wouldn't be any consequences no matter what I did. Honestly this box, it makes you do some crazy things..." "You can say that again," Zoe smirked. "It's like there's a devil on your shoulder, constantly telling you what to do." "Exactly! Now come on, follow me," Alesha said, taking Zoe's hand and shouldering her way through the crowd. "I've developed a taste for vodka lemonades and I want another one before we leave... and it looks like there's a long queue for drinks, so I dare you to flash to flash the bar tender and get his attention." This time Zoe didn't even bother replying, she just sighed and reached for the zip of her dress. ***** During their first two days with the Forgotten Cage the girls had summoned Jinn fairly regularly, mostly for their own entertainment as they probed the Genie with questions about life in the Spirit realm. To their disappointment Jinn was always vague and elusive with their answers, never really revealing anything of note, and after a while the Genie would always claim that they were tired and needed to go back into the box to rest. Ultimately Zoe and Alesha grew frustrated as they invariably got little to no useful information out of Jinn, and once the two friends were comfortable using the Forgotten Cage on their own they quickly stopped bothering to summon the Spirit at all. Soon that would change. ***** After the craziest three days of Zoe and Alesha's lives it was finally time for their graduation, and the girls' families were all set to drive up and watch the pair collect their degrees at a large ceremony in the university's main hall. Gowns and mortarboard hats were available to rent for the special occasion, and the morning after the night at the club a very hungover Alesha bravely volunteered to get up early and pick up their outfits from the students' union. Even though it was still only nine o'clock by the time she returned it was already swelteringly hot, and Alesha was sweating profusely as she trekked up the stairs which led back to the flat. Upon reaching their door she reached out and gave it a knock, then laughed when Zoe emerged to let her in wearing only a thong. "Nice outfit," Alesha noted, and Zoe looked down at herself and smirked. The girls had seen so much of each other's bodies over the last couple of days that it seemed only natural to walk around as naked as they pleased, even if that wasn't something they'd done before discovering the box. "Haha yeah, thanks," Zoe joked, giving Alesha a spin. "You know I literally haven't put any proper clothes on since I woke up, it's just too hot." Alesha walked inside and dumped her bags on the bed. "Urgh tell me about it, I'm actually boiling. I bet our neighbours have enjoyed the view through the window then, with you walking around dressed like that." Zoe looked over at the curtains, which were flung wide open, and shrugged, as after all of the girls' recent shenanigans it was a minor miracle that she was wearing anything at all. "Yeah probably, but oh well... ok, pass mine over please," she said, gesturing to the robes. "Let's try these things on." Zoe pulled her gown on over her head, and without taking anything else off first Alesha did the same. They put on their caps too and posed in the mirror, laughing at how grown-up and formal they looked, but then they quickly identified an issue with their new outfits. "Damn, they're a lot heavier than I'd expected, just feel how thick the material is..." Alesha complained. She was already starting to melt under the weight of the dense fabric, and although she tugged at her collar, to try and let some fresh air in, it didn't help at all. Despite wearing considerably less underneath her robe Zoe still found herself nodding in agreement, as she ruefully rubbed the gown's chunky cuffs between her finger and thumb. "I know," she frowned, "we'll be so hot tomorrow, wearing these things all day in the sun." "Yeah," Alesha tutted as she quickly tugged her robe back off and tossed it onto the bed. "I guess we should dress super light underneath them then, make that sure we wear as few layers as possible." "Yeah... you're right, we should," Zoe mused, slowly beginning to smile as she turned to her friend. "Hey... are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Alesha quickly recognised that devilish twinkle in her friend's eyes, a twinkle which usually heralded the imminent arrival of a naughty, and often bad, idea. "Oh my God... you think we could just wear underwear?" she gasped, remembering Zoe's thong. Alesha was shocked but also intrigued by the idea, but to her even greater surprise Zoe just smiled slowly and shook her head. "Nope, not just underwear..." Zoe hiked up her gown, slipped her panties off, and then let them drop to the floor. Now wearing only the graduation robe she smoothed the material back down and checked out her reflection in the mirror. "There, look, you can't really tell that I'm not wearing anything underneath the gown right? The material isn't see-through at all, and the cut is pretty loose, so you can't see the details of my figure or anything..." Alesha studied her friend's reflection intently but ultimately had to concede that yes, she was right, you couldn't really tell that Zoe was naked under her gown. "I mean yeah... I guess you're right. But could we really do that though?" she marvelled. "Spend the whole day with nothing on under our robes?" Zoe just shrugged cheekily. "I don't see why not? Why, what's the worst that could happen, there's a huge gust of wind and we accidentally flash someone?" Zoe jumped up and down a few times to see if that induced any kind of wardrobe malfunction, but other than a brief glance of her upper thigh the robe didn't reveal anything too scandalous. Alesha still wasn't convinced, despite the enthusiastic demonstration. "Well yeah, what if something just like that does happen?" she retorted. "I don't want to take any risks when my whole family will be following me around all day." Zoe rolled her eyes and gestured over to her bedside table where the Forgotten Cage sat. "But we've still got the box, dummy. If anything does go wrong we can just hit the button and everything will be fine, disaster averted." Her friend nodded thoughtfully, as once again the cogs in her brain began to turn. "True... we do always have the box..." This time it was Alesha who had that tell-tale mischievous sparkle in her eye, and when she noticed it Zoe laughed and raised her eyebrow. "What is it? What did you just think of?" Alesha licked her lips nervously as she weighed up the new dare in her head, wondering if even for them it was too outrageous to suggest. "Zoe," she began, deciding in the end that the idea was simply too exciting to ignore, "what if we do something a little crazier than just go commando? What if we really make our graduation day one to remember?" "Ok... I'm listening," her friend replied. "Just exactly how crazy are we talking?" Alesha sat down on the bed and took in a deep breath to steady herself. "Well, tell me what you think about this..." ***** Five hours later the two friends were sitting a couple of rows apart in the graduation hall, waiting for their names to be called out so they could go up and receive their degree certificates. Their families had arrived at midday and they'd all spent a pleasant afternoon walking around in the glorious afternoon sun, drinking free glasses of champagne and reminiscing about their favourite memories from the girls' time at university. Well, the memories which they could comfortably share with their parents. Only wearing the robes all day had been an interesting experience to say the least, and both girls had been mildly turned-on the entire time as the thick fabric rubbed across their naked skin every time they moved. And, as Zoe had correctly predicted, no one seemed to notice anything unusual about their risquÃ(C) outfits, even though she was sure that Alesha's mum and dad must have felt her nipples pressing through her gown when she'd greeted them with a friendly hug. At three o'clock they'd all filed into the campus' main hall for the ceremony, and all of the students were asked to sit in alphabetical order as the Dean of the university began to call people up to the stage. Zoe felt herself beginning to get increasingly nervous as she sat there with her legs crossed under her robe, but luckily due to her surname she didn't have too long to wait. As the students to her right all went up one by one Zoe reached down and slipped off her socks and shoes, then tucked them under her chair as those around her wondered why she was going barefoot. She'd agreed with Alesha that if they were going to do this then they were going to do it right, and for them that meant totally committing to the moment. "And next, graduating with a BSc in Politics and International Relations, Zoe Coulson." The Dean called out Zoe's name and, as the audience of families and friends broke out into a polite round of applause, she rose to her feet and turned to see a similarly barefoot Alesha getting up too, just as they'd planned. Her friend clambered over three rows of seating, stretched out her arm, and grabbed Zoe's hand as the pair walked out onto the stage, much to the confusion of the rest their course mates. "Umm, sorry but we only called one of you up, I think you -" The Dean stuttered in confusion as he tried to work out which of the two students he was meant to give the certificate to, but he was ignored completely as Zoe and Alesha breezed straight past the podium and took up a position at the front of the stage. "Ready?" Zoe whispered to her friend as they stopped to take in the sea of confused faces that were looking up at them from below. "No," Alesha hissed back as she gripped Zoe's hand with an iron grip, "but I dare you to do it!" "Ok," Zoe squealed, taking in a huge deep breath and clenching her fist, "then I dare you too!" The girls took off their mortarboards and tossed them spinning up into the air, which to be fair was a recognised tradition, then they both crossed their arms, reached down for the hems of their robes, and pulled them over their heads, which definitely was not. A collective gasp of shock emerged from the audience, and behind them Zoe heard the Dean and his colleagues spluttering in outrage. She didn't care though, they'd all be forced to forget about this soon enough, and so instead Zoe turned and pulled Alesha into a tight hug as the two totally naked girls embraced. "Fuck, I can't believe we did it!" Zoe screamed, as she felt her boobs squidging up against Alesha's. "I know this is crazy!" Alesha shrieked back giddily as she squeezed Zoe tight. "But now we need to run!" The pair broke off, bowed to their audience, turned to wink at the Dean, and then jumped down from the front of the stage, landing heavily on the polished floor below before they straightened and pounded up the middle row of the hall, completely and totally nude. It had been Alesha's idea to leave the box in their dorm room, rather than bringing it along to the graduation ceremony. Her logic was that this would force the girls to streak all the way across campus before they could use the Forgotten Cage to wipe everyone's memories, meaning that they would have no way of chickening out of their self-imposed dare - either they'd make it all the way across the university grounds as planned, or else they'd be left stranded naked in public without any way of excusing their reckless behaviour. Either way, their graduation day would definitely be one to remember. "This way, follow me!" Zoe panted as she led Alesha out of the hall and into the building's main lobby. The girls tore through the foyer, which to their surprise and relief was relatively quiet, before bursting outdoors into the sun, where the stifling summer heat hit them like a sucker punch and the paving stones burnt the soles of their bare feet. "Oh my God," Zoe gasped, "there's so many people here!" Outside the campus was still absolutely packed with students and their families who had already received their certificates in the earlier ceremonies that afternoon. At least five hundred people were standing around sipping glasses of champagne as they enjoyed the beautiful weather, lots of people were taking photos as they posed with their certificates, and everyone was dressed up in either robes or their smartest suits and dresses. Everyone that was apart from Zoe and Alesha. Both girls immediately froze up for a moment as the magnitude of their exposure came crashing down upon them, but then Zoe, who was the marginally more experienced of the two at being totally naked in public, regained her composure and boldly pulled Alesha forwards into the crowd. "Come on!" she shouted as the pair began to weave their way between the clusters of onlookers and sprint back towards their dorm. "We've got to get back to the box!" ***** Although their journey felt like it lasted a life time, in reality it took Zoe and Alesha no more than six minutes to make it back across campus to their accommodation block. By that point both girls' legs had turned to jelly and their lungs were on fire, but they kept on moving as the adrenaline which their exposure provided drove them forwards. After punching in the keypad combination to unlock their building's front door they both hugged their boobs to stop them jiggling uncontrollably as they summoned the last of their energies to jog up the stairs, shrieking with a mixture of terror and exhilaration as they bumped into yet another stunned family who were coming down the other way. "What on earth..?" muttered the astonished father, turning to watch the girls pass by as beside him his wife scowled up at him when she caught him staring. "Sorry!" Alesha breathlessly called out over her shoulder as she and Zoe disappeared up the stairwell. With their journey nearly at an end they rushed into their corridor and found six of their flatmates lounging on the floor, all still dressed in their graduation gowns as they drank one final beer together before they headed off home. Their friends all turned to stare in disbelief at the naked pair as they ran towards them and vaulted over their outstretched legs. "Zoe? Alesha? What the hell are you guys doing?" they demanded. Zoe turned around and jogged backwards down the corridor with her arms flung out wide as she indulged in one triumphant final flash. "We're graduating naked obviously!" she giggled as she shamelessly flaunted her body. "Why, what does it look like?" "What? Hey guys wait up!" their flatmates cried, but although the girls could have stopped to mess with their friends some more they'd both had their fair share of exposure by now, and so they kept on running down the hall. Alesha had wisely left their door on the latch so the girls were able to burst straight into their room, bolt the lock behind them, and then collapse onto Zoe's bed as they began to cackle hysterically at the absurdity of what they'd just done. "Oh my God Alesha, I can't believe we just did that!" Zoe cried out, tears streaming down her cheeks. "I know, I know... fucking hell, we just streaked the entire university!" Alesha kicked her legs in the air in delight, rolling around on her back as next to her Zoe slapped her thigh and struggled for breath. "That was insane, so any people saw us!" she laughed, wondering how many hundreds of strangers had seen them run past in the nude. "And not just strangers but our friends and families too! I saw your brother's face as we ran past him," Alesha teased, "and his jaw was practically lying on the floor!" Zoe cringed as she imagined Chester watching her run past him in the nude, but despite the intense embarrassment she still found herself giggling hysterically at the sheer absurdity of it all. "Eww, gross! Well I made eye contact with your dad and he was no better, it looked like he was about to have a heart attack when he saw you go past!" "No Zoe stop, I don't want to think about that!" Alesha shook her head as she tried to forget about what her poor parents would have made of her extraordinary behaviour, although she too was still clutching her stomach as she continued to crack up. The girls' hysterics were then interrupted by a banging at the door, as outside their flatmates assembled to demand answers. "Zoe? Alesha? Guys, what the hell was that?" "Hey come on, we know you're in there!" "You two ran here naked all the way from the main hall?" "Are you both out of your minds?" Alesha, who in that moment suddenly began to feel very naked indeed, self-consciously pulled a blanket up and held it against her chest as her eyes flickered nervously between her friend and the door. "Ok, come on Zoe," she said, "this has gone on for long enough. Let's wipe everyone's memories now, I can't deal with this embarrassment anymore!" Zoe was more relaxed than her roommate as she got up and nonchalantly strutted over to the Forgotten Cage, stretching her arms above her head as she enjoyed her last few moments of unconfined nudity. "Yeah, you're right," she sighed, "streaking was fun, but now it's time to go back to reality..." With more than a hint of reluctance Zoe retrieved the box from its customary place on her shelf, then frowned. The Emerald, which normally glittered and sparkled even in the dimmest light, today looked strangely dull and lifeless, almost as if it had lost some of its shine. Nevertheless Zoe pressed down on the Jewel but to her confusion it didn't move an inch. Across the room Alesha, still holding the duvet up to her body, grimaced as the knocking and calls from outside their door continued unabated. "Did you do it?" she asked Zoe. "Umm, hold on... it's like it's stuck," her friend replied. "What?" "I said hold on." Zoe tried to ignore her friend's concern and began to fiddle with the box as an increasingly sharp, panicked feeling started to grow in her chest. First she tried feeling along the side of the Emerald to see if there was something stuck underneath it, then she used her nails to try and wiggle it loose, and when that didn't work either she attempted to ram it in with brute force. It was useless though - no matter what she tried the Jewel simply wouldn't budge,. "Zoe!" Alesha cried out in frustration, not finding the situation at all funny anymore. Zoe dropped the box down onto her bare lap. "I... ok I don't know. It's not working." "What do you mean it's not working?" Alesha had finally grown tired of being naked so she let her blanket drop to the floor, tugged on an oversized t-shirt, and then sat down next to Zoe. "What's wrong with it?" she demanded. "The button won't go in Alesha," Zoe snapped, her voice betraying just how worried she was feeling. "I can't press it anymore, I think it's jammed." Alesha shook her head, unwilling to even entertain the idea that they might not be able to get the Forgotten Cage to work. "Give it here." Alesha grabbed the box and tried the same tricks that Zoe had used, but again to no avail. She too was now starting to feel a little breathless and she wasn't sure if it was down to of the heat, or to all of the running they'd been doing or if because deep down she sensed that something had just gone very, very wrong. "Then what the hell do we do now? We need to get it to work!" she hissed. Zoe was at a complete loss too, so for the first time in a few days she decided to call for back up. "Err hold on, give it back... ok. Umm, Jinn, Jinn, Jinn!" she chanted. Thankfully the summoning call still worked and in an instant Jinn had appeared, this time dressed in a blood red graduation gown and matching mortarboard hat. Zoe was so flustered that she didn't even question the Spirit's cheeky choice of outfit, and instead she puffed out her cheeks in relief that they were here to help. "Oh Jinn thank God, help us please, the box isn't working. The Jewel is stuck, but we really need to wipe everyone's memories, and quick. Can you fix it?" Zoe asked. Jinn looked down at the sun-kissed naked student with an amused smile, then raised a quizzical eyebrow. "That's an interesting outfit you've got there Zoe, especially on your graduation day," they teased. "So what have you two been up to, why do you need to use the Forgotten Cage so urgently?" Zoe realised that this was the first time that out of her and the Spirit it was she who was severely underdressed, and so she awkwardly crossed her arms over her chest and scowled. "We decided to strip naked and then streak our ceremony, ok? Just for fun, as a memorable way of ending our time at university. But now we need to make everyone forget that they saw us, but the box is broken. So please, can you fix it for us?" Jinn nodded slowly as they listened to Zoe and Alesha's sorry tale, then bit their lip thoughtfully and pondered. "I... think not." Zoe and Alesha both involuntarily blurted out in synchronised outrage. "You what?" they exclaimed, staring up disbelievingly at the Spirit. Jinn drew themselves up tall and smiled fiendishly down at the aghast friends, and their eyes, which were normally cold and lifeless, began to burn with an amber glow. "Well obviously I could fix it, yes. But will I fix it? No." Zoe nervously pulled her knees up and hugged them tightly as she began to feel very, very naked. "But why, why the hell not?" The Spirit simply chuckled. "I'm terribly sorry Zoe, but I think that I may have mislead you when we first met. I told you that these days the name Jinn best translates to Genie, but if I'm being honest a more accurate description would probably be... Demon." As Jinn hovered over Zoe and Alesha's heads their body, which up until then had always been formed of delicate rays of rich golden light, now darkened and turned to a deep crimson, and from their head two thin, curved horns slowly emerged to pierce through their cap. Zoe's bare skin was turned bright scarlet as Jinn's form began to pulse and throb with an intense energy, and soon the entire room was lit up red as if it were on fire. Alesha cowered on the bed, terrified by the ungodly scene that was playing out before her, while beside her Zoe felt herself burning from inside with an intense anger. "So you tricked us?" she raged. "You waited until this exact moment to betray us?" Jinn threw their head back and cackled, which was the first time that Zoe had heard them make such an unnervingly gleeful sound. "But of course! I'm an Evil Spirit you see... deceiving and humiliating unwitting humans is what we do. Admittedly I didn't think that you two would ever do anything quite as monumentally stupid as this, but I did know that given the power to wipe anyone's memory you'd eventually end up doing something insanely reckless which you'd be desperate for people to forget. And so yes Zoe, just four days after we first met you two closet exhibitionists already managed to provide me with the perfect opportunity to make your precious 'box' suddenly stop working. You two must know the old saying about the Devil right?" Jinn paused to let the girls answer, but they clearly had no idea what the Demon was talking about. "They say that 'the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist', and looking at you two naked idiots I can see that its true," Jinn sneered, shaking their head contemptuously as they looked down and wagged a taloned finger at the two chastened friends before continuing on with their scathing attack. "I mean really, streaking your own graduation ceremony in front of all your family and friends! You know that in all my time I think you two are probably the most foolish humans I've ever met, and believe me that's saying something. Definitely ballsy, I'll give you that, but also totally moronic." Zoe was quickly growing tired of this relentless barrage of insults, and so as Jinn paused for breath she took her opportunity to fire back at the Demon. "But that's not fair! Obviously we'd never have done it if we weren't sure that we could make everyone forget afterwards. You never told us that that you could just randomly sabotage the box whenever you felt like ruining our lives!" she argued. Again Jinn just laughed and then did that infuriating little shrug of theirs. "Yes, well, sorry girls... but the Devil's in the detail." Beside Zoe Alesha was gripping the hem of her shirt so tightly that her knuckles had turned white, and in a last gasp effort she looked up imploringly at Jinn and begged for mercy. "No, please... our parents, our siblings, all of our course mates... they all saw us. Everyone in our flat, they're all outside waiting for us right now... Jinn please, please let us use the box, just one more time, then we'll never do anything like this, ever again! Please, we trusted you!" The Demon nodded slowly as they appeared to take some time to consider the desperate student's suggestion, but they were just sadistically messing with the girls at this point. Jinn had known that this would be how it ended ever since Zoe had found the Forgotten Cage lying in her grandma's attic, and they weren't about to change their mind now. "I'm afraid not Alesha. You and Zoe have both made your beds and now you must lie in them, it's time for you to face the consequences of your truly inexplicable actions. Just go out there with your heads held high... but maybe after putting some clothes on first. Or just try and style it out, pretend you're both full time nudists now, see if anyone buys that. Either way this is goodbye girls, so best of luck to you both. God knows you're going to need it..." "No! Jinn, wait!" But the girls' final hopeless cries were all in vain, and with that same brilliant flash of light which had heralded their first appearance in Zoe's room a few days ago the treacherous Jinn was gone. Zoe took the box and began to slam the Emerald into her bedroom wall, ramming it in harder and harder until the plaster began to chip away. "Jinn! Jinn, Jinn, Jinn! Demon, get back here now!" It was no use though, for no matter how much Zoe cursed and swore the Evil Spirit wasn't coming back, the Emerald would not move, and the Forgotten Cage was now just a dull, lifeless, and totally useless cold chunk of metal. Zoe finally admitted defeat, slumped to the floor, and looked up in disbelief at Alesha, who could only stare back at her dumbly. "I... I... I can't make it work Alesha. I can't make any of them forget what they saw..." she admitted. Zoe then used up the last of her energies as threw the box away from her with such force that it ricocheted against the far wall, flew back across the carpet, and then rolled away under her bed. Alesha was feeling so numb that she didn't even flinch as the Forgotten Cage whistled past her toes and disappeared out of sight. "What... what have we done?" she whispered as she slowly turned to look down at her naked, defeated friend. "I...I..." Zoe began, before realising that she couldn't think of anything to say. ***** The next morning a middle aged woman called Sandra opened Zoe and Alesha's door and pulled her hoover inside. She was a part time cleaner at the university, and now that all of the students had packed up and gone home after graduation it was her job to go through the accommodation blocks, to make sure that they had been left nice and tidy. She had no idea who the newly disgraced Zoe or Alesha were, and she hadn't been on campus the previous day to witness their ill-fated streak, so for her this was just another empty bedroom that needed a quick going over. Well, it could also do with a lick of paint to cover up a mark on the wall to be fair, but that was outside the scope of her remit. Instead Sandra just gave all of the surfaces a light dusting, checked that the mattresses were both in a useable state, and then began to vacuum the carpet. As she poked her hoover underneath one of the beds she felt it hit something hard, and when she got on her knees to see what the obstruction was she found herself staring at a strange little box. "Weird..." Sandra pulled it out and rotated the unusual metal object around in her hand slowly, as she wondered what it was for and why the room's previous occupants would have left behind such a curious trinket. She also considered whether or not she should hand it into lost and found, then quickly decided that no, she wouldn't - finders keepers and all that. Instead she decided to pocket the metal cube and take a proper look at it when she got back home. Not realising the terrible mistake she had just made Sandra then got back to her hoovering, quickly finished up with Zoe and Alesha's room, and then moved seamlessly on to the next. Tucked away in her apron the Forgotten Cage slowly started to warm up again, its Emerald began to sparkle, and deep inside the metal core something rose from their brief sleep and breathed a sigh of relief. This time the wait wouldn't be too long, not too long at all... The End?