Note: I've tried to make this story work as a stand-alone tale, but for anyone wanting to see what leads up to the beginning of this story, this one picks up right where "Katie's World is Rocked by a Coat" leaves off.
Thanks for reading!
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"You saw WHO?" Amanda demanded of Ryan, "And HOW?"
Her flustered boyfriend was pretty sure he'd been clear about it the first time, but replied as calmly as he could, "I just saw Katie, our roommate. Naked. Nude. Not wearing any clothes!"
"Where, exactly?" Amanda pressed him for more detail.
"Right in the hall, just outside the bathroom. I heard the two of you yelling back and forth about her borrowing your coat, then as I was coming out of the bathroom I damn near ran into her as she was coming from the living room!"
"It doesn't make sense, I asked her to hang my coat up maybe 20 seconds at most before hearing her squealing and slamming her door shut. If you saw her naked in the hall in between those two events then she must have been..."
"Naked except for the coat when she came in the door! Wow, that's hot!" Ryan blurted, "God, I wonder where she went and what she was doing!" He realized even as the words were leaving his mouth that he was digging himself a hole and better not keep telling his girlfriend how sexy their roommate was, especially while naked.
Fortunately for Ryan, Amanda turned her attention away from him, thinking back to several other times she had been pretty sure her raincoat had been moved on days she never touched it. She hadn't thought much about it at the time and really didn't mind Katie borrowing it, but wasn't too keen on it being part of whatever kinky stuff Katie was getting up to. She definitely didn't want Katie walking around the apartment they all shared in her birthday suit!
The next morning Amanda waited until Ryan had left for his 9 AM class, then knocked on Katie's bedroom door. Still embarrassed at having been caught naked by Ryan, Katie started their conversation taking an apologetic tone, but her face reddened when Amanda scolded her, "I don't know exactly what, but I know you've been doing something sleazy. Just keep your perverted stuff to yourself, leave my coat and my boyfriend out of it. And keep yourself covered in the apartment!"
"Okay. Got it. Will do." was all Katie growled before slamming the door on Amanda. Though she thought Amanda was overreacting and was furious at being lectured to, she knew she'd been caught with no good way to explain her exhibitionist behavior.
Considering the tone of their conversation, Amanda wasn't satisfied with Katie's promises; the class and studio schedules of the three roommates meant there would be times each week Katie and Ryan would be home at the same time while she was away at the campus. She trusted Ryan but worried about what might develop if Katie kept flaunting her body while the two of them were together and she was away.
She remembered seeing some really cheap, really small wi-fi enabled security cameras when she'd been looking for a birthday present for Ryan a few weeks earlier. After a few minutes of browsing, she found a good deal on what looked like a fairly simple to operate camera and ordered a couple of them, hoping to either set her mind at ease or if her fears turned out to be justified, catch Katie breaking her promise.
When the cameras arrived, Amanda tried to get the devices set up to work with the wi-fi network Ryan had set up for their apartment, but the instructions were pretty confusing and she wasn't very skilled at this sort of thing. Since she couldn't very well ask Ryan or Katie to help with her surveillance project she visited a friend who had a work-study job with the college IT center. She thought Matt had a bit of a crush on her, so she figured he'd be likely to help if she asked.
She wasn't wrong; he jumped at the chance to do her a favor, setting up an account for her with the manufacturer of the cameras and doing most of the setup for each device. He told her how to complete the installation with a few details specific to her own home network. With the head start Matt's help provided she was able to finish the setup for the cameras on her apartment's network in just a few minutes. She found a good spot to set up the first camera at her desk, providing a good overall view of the apartment's living room and dining area.
With so much of the apartment covered by the first camera she didn't think the second camera would be needed, but just to be sure it was working she plugged its power supply into an outlet in her bedroom. She was just about to call the second camera up on the app Matt had set up on her phone when Ryan called, asking her if she could bring him some papers he'd left at home when she came to the campus an hour or so later, offering to buy her a latte for her trouble. She looked all over his garbage pile of a desk while talking with him, eventually finding the papers he needed. She left right away to allow herself time to relax and chat with her boyfriend at the student center coffee shop.
A full week after setting up the living room camera, Amanda had found nothing to be bothered by in her high-speed playback of the time she was away from the apartment. Ryan showed up, as did Katie, but there was no sign of Katie misbehaving. With a major project due in her photography class in a few weeks, she was relieved to have one less thing to be stressed out about. The photo assignment called for producing a series of self-portraits; the instructor made it clear to the class that the assignment was meant to be completed in a way which forced the students to produce images which would allow a viewer to know something significant about the subject's personality or interests, much deeper and more revealing than the selfies they were used to taking.
While the instructions for the assignment called for photos revealing the student's psyche, rumor had it that more physically revealing photos tended to receive better grades. Amanda had been struggling with how to approach the assignment, but had experimented with some fairly revealing shots, lounging on her bed wearing only lingerie; she'd even done a few photos where she was topless but kept her breasts mostly covered.
With just over a week left before her self portrait assignment was due, Amanda was up late reviewing her latest photos on a tablet, sitting in bed next to Ryan, who had been sound asleep for over an hour. Hearing the apartment's front door open, she quickly switched over to the living room camera's app in time to see Katie close the door. "Well, at least she's wearing her own coat these days," Amanda thought. Already bored by what looked like yet another ho-hum clip of her roommate passing through the apartment, she was about to switch off the app when she noticed Katie looking around the room as if checking whether anyone else was there.
Instead of closing the app, Amanda let the recording continue and kept watching as Katie took off her coat and hung it up, just like she'd seen her do dozens of times since installing the camera, but with one significant difference; tonight Katie hadn't been wearing anything under her coat! Amanda watched in stunned silence as her naked roommate casually walked over to a table near the couch and looked through the day's mail, eventually finding a letter addressed to her and taking it with her to her room. Hearing Katie pass by her room seconds after disappearing from the camera's view, Amanda had a hard time keeping quiet; she was beyond angry that Katie had broken her promise to stay covered in the shared area of their apartment, but needed to focus on her assignment. How to deal with her exhibitionist roommate was a problem for another day.
Amanda had only one class the next day, in mid-afternoon, allowing her to sleep in after her late night of editing her photos. It was nearly noon when she finally got out of bed and had a shower. She had just started to dry herself when she heard a loud knocking at the apartment's front door. Wrapping her towel tightly around herself she crossed the living room and checked the door viewer; she was surprised to see Ryan standing in the hall. He apologized for interrupting her shower, "I left my keys here; I was able to get in the door downstairs as someone was leaving. I tried calling but you didn't answer."