Disclaimer: All the characters in the story are above the age of 18.
Deepa was waiting outside the main gate of her residential society for her cab. She was wearing a pink full-sleeve formal shirt, a beige pencil skirt, a white N95 face mask, and a large handbag with long straps hanging near her hips. It had been more than six months since she had last visited her office. She had been working from home for the last six months due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The pandemic situation was getting slightly better, and the lockdown restrictions were getting looser. Much to Deepa's dismay, she had been called to her office for an on call support for a US client that evening. She had to be at the office by 6:00 pm.
The formal attire that she was wearing belonged to her roommate Rima. Her own set of formal clothes, however, was still packed away in trolley bags in Kavya's flat which was opposite to hers. In fact, almost all of her wardrobe was in Kavya's flat. Deepa had been an exhibitionist for the past six months. During the early strict stages of lockdown, she found the thrilling excitement and arousal in not wearing any clothes in front of strangers and friends alike. Kavya was also her 'no-strings-attached' friend and had encouraged and developed Deepa's exhibitionist nature.
Deepa shared a two-bedroom flat with three more girls and shared her room with Rima. Deepa now only kept several sets of underwear and towels with her. She was decent enough to wear them while roaming around her flat in front of her other flatmates, in the living room or kitchen. But insider her own room, even in the presence of Rima, she liked to stay naked. Rima too got used to her naked body. For Rima, the sight of Deepa's curvy breasts and ass and her frizzy-haired pussy, was equal to the sight of her nose; she didn't even notice them anymore.
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Deepa was lucky enough to not get fired in the mass downsizing that happened almost five months ago at her company. She suspected that the reason for not getting fired was that she almost did a camgirl kind of striptease show for her manager, Vasan, on a personal video call, who in turn was excited enough to show her his own potbellied naked body. The call was cut short when some lady barged into Vasan's room and caught him naked, jerking off in front of the laptop.
Almost five months after the striptease video call, Deepa got a call one afternoon from Vasan, who asked her to go to the office by evening, to provide on-call support for a US client. She was the one of most experienced employees now, after the mass downsizing.
After the call, Deepa put on only a towel, got out of her flat and crossed the hallway to knock on Kavya's door. Deepa was more careful now about getting out of her flat and going to Kavya's flat with minimum clothing. She couldn't just cross the hallway almost naked, like she used to do before. More and more people came back to their flats in the society, after the lockdown was eased. She did like the added risk of more people coming back to the residential society, and trying not to get caught naked.
A middle-aged woman of the floor was waiting before the lift door, when Deepa was standing outside Kavya's door.
"Hey," the middle-aged woman said.
Deepa was startled when the woman called. She was ready to hear some questions regarding her choice of clothing.
"Yes?"
"Wear a mask even when you're just walking in the hallway," the woman said, "No place is safe. I wear it even when I'm inside my flat. I only remove it for eating, drinking or when I'm in the bathroom."
"Yeah, sure....I'll make sure I wear a mask next time," said Deepa in a fumbled voice.
The woman just stared at her for a moment, clearly looking at her towel. But before she could say anything, the lift door opened and she got inside the lift.
"Where are you now?" Deepa called Kavya on phone, after getting no answer at the door.
"Hey Ms.Nudie, I'm at a supermarket, doing some grocery shopping. I also have to go some places later. I will be back only by late night," Kavya answered.
"Damn it. I need to go to the office in the evening. I need some clothes. Can't just go there in underwear or towel."
"Is Rima home?"
"Not yet, but she'll back by evening."
"Then problem solved. Borrow her fancy formal clothes."
Deepa got back inside her flat, called Rima and asked her to come back home early to lend her her formal clothes. Rima always locked her wardrobe. There was one instance when Deepa had taken Rima's towel and she returned it back in two pieces. Since then Rima had been protective of all her clothes, so no clothing of hers was lying around for Deepa to grab.
Rima came home by around 5:00 pm, much earlier than her usual time. Deepa was sitting on her bed in her towel. As soon as Rima entered the room, Deepa jumped up in relief.
"Hurry up, I need to get dressed quick," said Deepa, "I need to reach my office by 6."
"Gosh, you really need to keep a set or two of clothes with you just for emergency situations like these," said Rima opening her locked wardrobe and tossing a pink full-sleeve shirt and a pencil skirt on Deepa's bed.
Deepa quickly undid her towel, standing totally naked for a second, and then hastily put on the clothes.
"What about your underwear?"
"No time for that, I'm booking a cab right now," said Deepa grabbing her phone.
"You could have worn them before I came."
"I forgot, force of habit," said Deepa now grabbing her handbag and slinging them on her shoulder.
"You do have money, keys, employee ID card and other stuffs with you right?"
"I have them all in my handbag," said Deepa, "Shit the cab is just two minutes away from here. Need to go fast."
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