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When I entered the corridor I noticed that there was something of a commotion down the corridor. Ah, finally someone else who is having a hard time, let’s go gloat at seeing someone else suffer, I wondered to myself, as I headed down the corridor.

It turned out to be a group of girls laughing at another girl who was cornered and trying to cover herself with her bag… It was the anxious girl who had just crashed into me in the classroom! And the girl leading the girl gang was the devilishly beautiful girl, Olivia, who had approached me earlier. Ugh, why did it have to be them? I wondered my suffering was over. Oh well I should at least check out what is going on. When I got closer I could hear Olivia laughing teasingly and saying:

“Come on, you are not allowed to cover yourself, you know the regulations, you don’t see any other girl covering themselves or do you think your breasts are special or something?”

Other than the gang of girls teasing her, a group of guys had also gathered, probably thinking that this was an excellent opportunity to ogle some girls without anyone looking at them and not just the anxious girl trying to cover herself. It was obvious that if the girl was flustered after falling on me, she was now in a panic. She knew that it was the covering of herself that led to her getting so much attention, yet she was too embarrassed to uncover herself. A catch 22 in its finest.

I sighed to myself. I don’t owe her anything. I am just some random stranger, why should I get involved? If anything their eire would fall on me and I might get bullied too, Olivia would probably step up her game to eleven. Yet seeing her there shaking in panic, with the girls continuing to laugh and needle her and more guys coming in to take benefit of the situation, I realized that I would have to live with what I did in this moment. If I left her to continue to suffer I would be an enabler, even if I was not doing the bullying itself. Besides, I really. Really. Hate bullies. Teasing is fine, but this was too much.

Before I could think about it anymore, I started to put one foot in front of the other and walked until I was in the crowd, then I kept walking, finally brushing past Oliva, until I stood right in front of the now panic girl.

When she noticed there was someone new in front of her, she looked up with real fear in her eyes and when she saw it was me, the clothed man that she had just had a very embarrassing encounter with, the fear transformed into anguish. I could hear Olivia asking, “What are you doing, Jonas?”. She sounded more worried than annoyed, perhaps thinking I would do something bad. I ignored her and instead looked the anxious girl in the eyes and said:

“Just remain behind me until you have recovered and the crowd has dispersed.”

I then turned around and faced the crowd, standing with as broad of a stance as I could using my arms and legs out to cover as much of the girl behind me as efficient and faced Olivia. She looked really annoyed, even angry, now that she had realized I was there to prevent her fun. It made me really anxious, even a naked angry Olivia is a fearsome sight. I am not a brave person, perhaps the absurdity of the whole situation is what made me act, because I would normally not do anything like this. Finally I gathered up some courage and spoke in an unstead voice:

“Hey, Olivia, can’t you see your needling is causing this girl real anguish? You should stop.”

Not a very strong statement, but it was the best I could manage. She looked more amused at my statement than angry, which was still an improvement.

“Oh, so not only do you like looking at naked girls, but you also have a hero complex? Don’t you want to see her breasts too? You certainly had no problem looking at mine earlier.”

Yeah, she definitely stepped up her game to eleven…

“I-I didn’t mean to, I am still trying to get used to not looking, but…”

I didn’t get any further before she started laughing at me again.

“Oh really, is the poor boy struggling to not look at the girl’s boobies? That hilarious!”

“Well at least I am not a bitch like you!”

The words flew out of my mouth before I had time to think them through. The whole corridor grew silent. you could hear a needle fall in the silence. I must have shouted it louder than I wondered.

Olivia looked furious. Boy, had I done it now. I fully expected her to yell and shout at me, so when she simply turned around and started down the corridor say, “Come on girls, I am hungry, let’s not waste anymore time here.” I almost stumbled, having braced myself so hard.

Once Olivia was gone, it was nothing to face the other people in the crowd and one by one, as I looked them in the eyes, they averted their eyes and turned around to leave, until there was just me and the girl behind me left.

My heart was pounding. I lowered my head and looked at the floor. That was so stupid, Olivia would definitely be back to have my head. However, I was distracted from my own thoughts by a meek voice from behind me:

“Eh… um… T-Thank you…”

I turned my head slightly to the side, enough that she could hear me better, but not enough that I could see anything.

“No worries, they were being really cruel to you. Are you okay?”

“Yeah I think so… It is my fault, I covered myself, even though we are not allowed…”

“Hey, don’t be so hard on yourself… Uhm, what is your name?”

“Anna…”

“Ok look Anna, I am honestly really impressed by you and the other people who are… Um… Naked. I am not sure I could do it myself.”

I heard her give out a sigh, before she continued:

“But I am not handling it as well as the others. Olivia was right, why do I think I am so special that I am allowed to cover myself? All the other girls have kept to the regulations and stayed uncovered, what is so special about me? Damn it, it wasn’t supposed to be like this…”

My heart fell at that statement. Craaaap. That was why Olivia had teased her, because she felt it was unfair that Anna was covering herself. Olivia obviously had a casual outer shell, but she must also have felt anxious and nervous about going around naked and having all the boys see her. Her casualness about it was a coping mechanism.

Yeah she went overboard, but me calling her a bitch when she just wanted fairness might have been too much. I mean, don’t get me wrong, what she did was bitchy, but knowing why she was being such a bitch changed things. I would have to apologize to her later.

Just then I realized the last sentence Anna had said. *Damn it, it wasn’t supposed to be like this…* What had she meant by that?

“Wait, what do you mean it wasn’t supposed to be like this?”

I could hear Anna twisting herself behind me, clearly she felt a bit awkward about the question, but finally she answered.

“My intention was to join this school and always get high enough scores that I never had to get… Naked. I have always scored well over 90 on all my exams during high school, so I thought I would be fine. But the first few questions on the opening exam were harder than I had expected and so I got really nervous thinking “what if I fail?”, and the more nervous I became, the more errors I made and the more errors I made, the more nervous I became… So I ended up making so many mistakes that I only scored 89 on the exam.”

The last sentence made me burst out into laughter. I immediately felt bad about it and tried to stop.

“I am sorry I didn’t mean to laugh, it is just such an unbelievably unlucky situation… 89 when you needed 90… That is just comical.”

It seems my opinion had lifted Anna’s mood, as I heard her giggle behind me.

“I know, that is why I am so anxious, this was never what I planned for, I have had no time to mentally prepare for it like the others.”

“Well there you go then, the others have a mental head start on you, the fact that you showed up anyway shows that you have real courage. Be brave. I mean the whole point of this school is that we are supposed to get used to each other’s bodies. Nobody expects us to manage that from the get-go. We are all in the same boat. Well, maybe not us uniformed student, but I am sure you will manage to score over 90 in the midterm and then you won’t have to worry about it anymore.”

“True. Hey, I think I am okay now. Do you want to go for lunch?”

I had forgotten in all our talking that she was still naked, so when I moved away and turned to face her, we both looked at each other a bit awkwardly, but she made no effort to cover herself. We then walked together to the lunch room. Hopefully Olivia and her gang had already finished eating.

NSFW: yes

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