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**Part 42**

Elise was caught between the desire to move quickly while things seemed quiet and the impulse to stay slow in case she needed to turn around and run back down the stairs at the slightest sound of someone coming her way from the floor above. Leaning towards the former, she made the naked climb while practically holding her breath the entire time; both to keep herself from making a single noise, and also so she could keep an ear out.

She reached the landing at the top, grateful that any girls on their way to dinner had gone early and/or had taken the stairs at the opposite end of the building. Nervously swallowing, Elise peeked her head around the corner.

There was a girl halfway down the hall, and a muffled squeak formed in the back of Elise’s throat as she retreated back into the stairwell. Was that- was that another prefect? The dirty blonde hair looked vaguely familiar from the fleeting look Elise had been able to get, but the academy uniforms made all the girls match so much that seeing someone from afar often led to it being someone else at second glance. Still . . .

If it was Melanie, like Elise suspected, that would be good news. Better to be found by a fellow prefect than one of the first-year girls that lived in this wing. Plus, what would a study room get her apart from shelter until most of the students were at dinner? Elise would still be fully naked, and there were plenty of girls who scarfed down a light meal to get back to homework or social activities. Would there *ever* be a good time to streak across campus, apart from waiting until after curfew? And even then, she’d have to knock on her suite door and deal with all of her prefect roommates opening the door for her nude self.

Risking another glance around the corner, Elise was relieved for a moment to see the girl facing away from her and farther down the hall. Except if it was Melanie, and Melanie was walking away . . . Throwing caution to the wind, Elise called out, “Mel!” Even in the quiet of the otherwise empty upstairs hallway, her voice was far more quiet and meek than she expected. “Melanie!” she exclaimed, more assertively than before.

The dirty blonde girl turned around. It was indeed the girl Elise wondered, rather than a random first-year. Finally, a lucky break. After a short beat, Melanie replied, “Elise?”

“Yes!” she said. This was gonna be mortifying, but Elise was slowly coming to grips that there was no way out of her situation without *somebody* catching her in her current state. A single prefect was better than all of her suitemates, and certainly ideal compared to any more of the younger girls seeing her unclothed. “Can you- Umm, I . . . ” Only Elise’s head was sticking out of the stairwell, and she was curious whether or not Melanie had glimpsed the fact that her shoulders were bare. “Please, I need some help. Like, over here.”

“Umm, okay?” Though she seemed confused towards the request, she came back down the hall to join Elise at the top of the stairs. As Melanie rounded the corner, her eyes went wide. “Jesus, Elise!” Her eyes were naturally drawn to all the bareness below Elise’s neck for a moment, before she averted her gaze. “What- where are your clothes?!”

“Shh!” Elise blushed as the words echoed down the stone stairwell. “Study room,” she managed to get out after that, clutched her private areas with her arms. Speaking a lot more quietly in the hopes that her fellow prefect would follow suit, she said, “Where’s the nearest study room, Mel?”

“Fuck if I know,” Melanie replied. Under the circumstances, she didn’t seem to care about the lack of etiquette prefects were supposed to have in public. Shrugging off her blazer and offering it to the naked girl, she explained what Elise already knew, “Somewhere on this floor.”

Each hall had at least one study room where girls could go when their bedroom or suite wasn’t a productive space to work, but not every floor was identical. For the time being, Elise was just happy for *something* to wear. Taking away her hand from her crotch for a split second, she grabbed the blazer and turned away from Melanie. Racing to put the outfit piece on, she slowed just enough to not tear the borrowed layer in her haste. Unlike Anna, Melanie was slightly taller and slightly more endowed than Elise. The Edgewood blazer easily covered Elise’s top half, of course, and also partially covered her backside. Not all the way, unfortunately, but it was way better than the true nudity she had been faced with just seconds ago.

“Thank you,” Elise sighed. She was still in a pretty bad state of undress, but now it wouldn’t be noticeable from across a building. That, and she could cover more with her hands. Doing as much, she returned her hand to protect her most private area and used the other to hold the blazer together to fully keep her top half clothed, Elise turned back around and belatedly realized she had been showing Melanie her bare ass for most of the process. Unlike Kaitlyn and business, however, Melanie didn’t seem to be staring. “Study room?” Elise repeated. It still seemed like the best place to take a breath and regroup without as much risk of being seen by anybody else.

“Sure. And then I have a million questions.”

Obviously. But Elise didn’t care. She finally had a chance of getting back to her room without being further humiliated. Melanie led the way, and Elise followed while still being vigilant and ready to spring back to the stairs at the drop of a hat.

Just a little bit farther, and she’d be safe. Temporarily.

Clutching Melanie’s blazer tightly to herself, Elise let out another small sigh of relief when she saw the familiar windows of a study room.

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