BBRRRING! BBBBRRING! BRRRING! BRRRIING! "This is Ashley, leave a message."
Danny sighed, this was the fourth time they called and the fourth time no one was answering. Still, they tried to not sound desperate. "Hey Ash it's Danny, I just wanted to see how you were doing so call me back if you get a chance...or not call if you need more space...but call if you want to talk cause I want to talk but not if you need some time alone..kay bye." They hung up and then rested their head on their brand new desk inside the BDSM club.
"Okay, I know as your friend I'm supposed to be supportive but that last one sounded the saddest." Natasha chimed in as she poked her head out from the side of the flatscreen computer on the other side of Danny's desk.
Danny looked up and asked, "Was it really that bad?"
Natasha looked to Mistress Victoria who sat in between both of them with her laptop sitting on her lap. "Sorry Danny, I'm going to have to go with Natasha on this."
The laughter from both of Danny's friends numbed the pain of not hearing from Ashley two days after the suspension. It wasn't great but Danny would take it and laughed with them. "Okay fine, let's get back to the sorority." Danny said as they returned to the legal pad in their hand. The three of them had been brainstorming about the continued humiliation plan and it was the third hour.
"You two are absolutely sure you can't sneak on campus and capture them?" Mistress Victoria asked.
"Not with the cops on Kara's mom's payroll." Natasha said, "Heck, they'd see us, arrest us and take us to Kara to do it again."
"Then where else are we going to strip them?" Danny asked, "It's not like they ever leave the sorority house. Ashley said the only time they do is when they..." Danny trailed off as all the stories Ashley told them started coming back. "...have a volleyball game.. or a forensics debate."
"Or in Stephanie's case, an Equestrian showing." Natasha added. She was always adamant about adding Stephanie to the plan since it was her that ratted Natasha out.
"What are you both talking about?" Mistress Victoria asked.
"Cammy is on the volleyball team, Kara is on the forensics team. Stephanie does Equestrian, everyone in the sorority does some extracurricular and that means pretty soon they'll be leaving campus for these activities." Danny said as they wrote down in their legal pad. "Away from campus means away from Mommy's protection."
Like tasting a nice dessert, Natasha and Mistress Victoria let smiles slowly spread across their faces. "I like that these are activities that have public audiences." Mistress Victoria said. "The question now is how we get to them."
Danny rested their elbows on the table, "It would take so much time to grab them, strip them and then find a way to show them in public without being caught." at that moment a lump developed in Danny's throat. "If Ashley were here she could at least help us locate where they'd be so we could sneak in on them."
"And that's when you would strip them? By ambushing them?" Mistress Victoria asked.
Natasha scratched her head and said, "No. We never did anything like that. We always snuck in to sabotage something that would make them embarrass themselves in public. Taryn had the vibrating panties that made her take her own clothes off, we wrecked Madison's fashion show. The only time we did forcefully do it was when we had you come in Mistress."
"Really?" Mistress Victoria said, "Then that's where we start. We need to think of a way to sabotage Cammy's outfit. The volleyball thing is a good lead, that means she has a uniform which means we have a specific set of clothes that we can get to."
"We could find out where her next match is and sneak into her locker." Danny said, 'That won't be hard at all, since the gym would be public. It would just take some time to get the clothes and unstitch them."
Natasha curled her lip as she ran through ideas and thought about Cammy. Cammy, the tough tomboy who seemed to be Kara's bodyguard what with her fearless demeanor...or was it? "Maybe we won't need to unstitch anything if we can get her to take them off herself."
Danny raised an eyebrow, "And how would we do that?"
"Fear." Natasha said with a smile. "When I was tied up in the sorority house, I overheard Cammy yelling at someone for not cleaning the cobwebs. At first I thought she was just being a bully but she was really freaked out by them. I think she's afraid of spiders."
Mistress Victoria smiled and ran her fingers against Natasha's shoulders, admiring her pet's cunning. "No cobwebs means no spiders and no spiders means no way for anyone to see miss tough pants in a state of vulnerability."
Like ice in a bucket of warm water, Danny's melancholy from the past two days melted as the excitement in developing a new plan came to fruition. "I'm sure we could find some large spider somewhere before the next volleyball game to put in her uniform."
"No not a large spider." Mistress Victoria said, "She'll notice that too soon. Tiny spiders, ones small enough to where she won't notice. There's plenty crawling around here, they lived here longer than we have. You can search in the storage area upstairs. We collect a jar of them and leave them in her volleyball suit. Then she freaks when they crawl out from under her clothes."
Danny and Natasha both shivered at the thought of all those fuzzy legs scurrying all over their bodies. Mistress Victoria laughed. "Okay you got me sold." She said, "Now how do we get them into her bag?"
"We sneak into the dorm of course." Danny said, "Sometime when most of them are gone."
Mistress Victoria squinted, "You just said you couldn't get to them on campus without the cops getting to you."
"Yeah kidnapping another person in public is hard. But sneaking in and leaving something behind? Way easier.." Danny smiled, "We should look up when the next game is, Cammy will probably pack the day before."
"Already on it." Mistress Victoria said as she typed away on her laptop. She checked out the university web site and then for volleyball games to look for the schedule. Her lips curled as she read the list. "It looks like the next game is in two days. It's an away game about forty miles away. You have some spider hunting to to."
Danny and Natasha both looked at each other with nervous smiles. One spider wasn't something to bat an eye at, but multiple spiders? The thought of actually trying to capture them in a jar made them shudder again. Mistress Victoria must have picked on their fear because she smiled and said, "Get to it you two. If you keep stalling I'll make you both do it without your clothes."
The computer desk that Danny and Natasha shared moved as they shot from their seats and ran to the storage area.
*****
It took hours to catch a jar full of spiders. Danny never thought it would be so hard but the spiders weren't likely to scurry out in the open. This meant that Danny and Natasha had to lift old furniture, peel back cracked pieces of the wall and on occasion, climb up and look in the corners of the ceiling.
Nevertheless, the two of them got spiders. Some were the size of a nickel while others were smaller. Some of the larger ones had killed the smaller spiders but it was still enough left to make Danny scream at the thought of them scurrying against their bodies.
After the two of them were finished, Natasha went home while Danny needed something to take the image of eight legged creatures out of their head. Danny couldn't think of anything better than a nice cup of black coffee from Monroe's and with a new job, this meant Danny could spend money on coffee guilt free. They drove to the tiny coffee shop in town just a few miles outside of the university.
As soon as Danny stepped outside of their car, they felt pressure on their chest or more accurately, their heart. Nothing stung like the phantom memories of better times and for Danny, these times were during the semester when Ashley and Danny would go together. Now with Ashley missing, Danny would be alone and no amount of encouragement could ignore the cold hard fact of sitting at a coffee table alone with an empty seat on the other side.
Danny took a deep breath before opening the door and walking in. To no surprise, the coffee shop was full. Most of the patrons were students, studying for finals that Danny should have been studying for. At the end of the room was a musician, a young woman wearing jeans and a flannel shirt, singing to no one but herself and the occasional interested student who would look up from their books. "Looks like it's just you and me tonight." Danny remarked.They stood in line and looked at the food in the glass cabinet while they waited.
They must have zoned out while looking at the sandwiches because they didn't see the person in front of them arrive. It was the voice of a woman who startled Danny. "Hi how can I-oh...Danny..."
"Huh?" Danny said as they looked up and then froze when they saw Ashley standing on the other side of the counter. Her blonde hair was tied back in a ponytail. She wore a black apron and had a green sweater on underneath. She looked just as surprised as Danny was as the two of them stared at each other as if they were in a contest to see who could stay silent the longest.
Finally, Ashley broke it. "I-I thought you were going home."
"I got a job at the club." Danny said. "Mistress Victoria offered it to me and I'm staying at her home until Natasha and I find a place. What are you doing here?"
Ashley's eyes seemed to waver as she opened her mouth and slowly let the sounds pour out of it. "I got a job here...so I don't have to go home."
Danny forced a smile. It was forced because even though this was good news, it was news they were only finding out until now. "That's awesome. Babe..I'm so happy for you."