Disclaimer: This is a work of FICTION, I don't know anyone at Penn State, I've never set foot there, I chose this place only for the pun.
Any resemblance to actual names is entirely coincidental.
Also, I do not condone revenge-porn and the invasion of people's privacy.
*****
It wasn't even 7pm and they were veeeeery drunk.
Vanessa especially because
she
was the one in this. Knees deep. She didn't got just a few low-res pics with no face and half a buttcrack. No, she was part of the full HD-full nude-full frontal elite of (so far) 46 people, out of the 1824 who had fell for the hack.
Also it was her
second fucking time
.
"And you look so gorgeous it's retarded," Ashley concluded.
Of which Vanessa had nothing to respond besides slumping back into the couch with a pout and then pouring more chardonnay.
At least she had stopped ranting. The walls were so thin the whole dorm had probably heard her.
Ashley closed the photos of her friend naked on her laptop. It was time to refresh 4chan.
"Hey they found a name for it now: the FapPENNing. With two Ns. Get it?"
"What's
fappen
anyway?"
"It's German, means '
Would you like some meat in your sauerkraut?
'"
Vanessa chortled in her glass. She had not cried a single tear since the news came down two hours ago of the single biggest nude leak in the history of Penn State. She was not really angry either, mildly embarrassed perhaps. Jaded. Gone through this before. After all, as Ash said, they were nice pics, not like her first time. Good lighting, good framing. Actually they looked better than the Lara Helloran ones, and that bitch, Ms. Universislut, was getting all the retweets right now!
Ashley put the laptop in her face: "
Blair Buxton is going doooown!
"
"Clay's crazy ex?"
"Yea, apparently there're clips of her takin' a leak incoming."
"That's just nasty!"
"She has nice tits though... Do you think you're gonna have weird shit too out there?"
"No it's just that, some selfies I took for Sean. I've been careful. The good stuff was seized the first time, before the guy could sell it."
"The cops have your lesbian porn in their vault?"
"Shut up!" Vanessa said, throwing a cushion in jest, then another one, in jest again, and then there were no more cushions around so she threw herself at her friend into a hug, loose and under the influence but very, very sincere.
It was working. Ashley had managed to cool her down and warm her up. It had necessitated a lot of booze but only a small drop of friendship from the personal ocean they shared.
Plus now Nessa had reached that point where cynicism makes you funny:
"What about you? Should we expect to see your pissflaps on the innernet tonight?"
Ashley burst out laughing with wide eyes. "
My what?
"
Vanessa bolted up in genuine concern: "Oh my God, you never took nudes."
"No!"
"That is
so
not post-Empire!"
"What?"
"It's the new black!"
"Post-Empire is for celebrities, dumbass!"
"But think about David! All alone back in Boston with no nudes of you to rub his micropenis to!"
"I posed for the calendar with all the sports teams, leave me alone."
"You told me it was Photoshop! Fuck that bullshit, what's the fuckin' point?!"
With a sigh announcing she wasn't ready to give up, Vanessa crawled back to her designated corner of the couch and took her phone. Swiping away 179 missed calls, she searched her files.
"You should try it, it's liberating," she added, almost a whisper, almost for herself.
"I've been naked before, I know how it feels."
"Look."
Ashley leaned over the little black rectangle to see, squinting, and spilled white wine on her chin when she saw.
"
Is that Debbie?"
she cried out, crumbling into the narrow space between the couch and the coffee table.
"Yup."
Ashley's attention had gotten back its full agility. When Vanessa closed the picture, she had a glimpse of a folder stocked with various stages of undress of Deborah Cunningham, her former roommate.
"She wanted to send nudes to her boyfriend, she asked me for advice."
"I can't believe that slut didn't tell me about this."
"There's so much you don't know... Ok now do the Lara Helloran!"
Immediately and fearlessly, the dyed-blonde student tried herself at an impression of the real blonde thot: "
My dad will sue yo asses y'all motherfuckers!
" she drawled, gesturing the hefting of large breasts she did not possess. It was moderately funny if not downright offensive, women were supposed to stick up for one another, but that's precisely why the two girls laughed so hard.
"No, you idiot," Nessa panted, "do like one of her leaked pics!"
"Fine! Pull that up."
The complete set was easy to find and Ashley picked one shot to recreate as best she could with her intoxicated limbs. Nothing too complicated: knees on the couch, back tensed up sensually to present her chest.
"
This one time, at band camp—
" she drawled again, trying to keep on a sultry face before the snorting won over.
"Do it naked now." Vanessa looked closely at the screen. "Leave your bra on. And let your hair down."
She sat on the floor in front of the couch, lifting her phone, ready.
Ashley had frozen in shock. "We're
not
sending nudes to David!"
"I'll send them on the dark web then."
"No! what the fuck!" She had laughed out the last words.
"You're right, I'd get expelled... I'll send them from your phone!"
Ashley took her own phone and snapped her friend on the carpet:
"Here. Ness Stavinsky hammered stupid on a Monday night. How bout' dat, Mr. Stavinsky? Your tuition money at work!"
"Come on, the whole campus is masturbating tonight,
the whole fuckin' campus!
It's like a pagan feast or some shit! Can't we just have fun too?"
Ashley had been right all evening but now it was Vanessa's turn, it seemed. She was not wrong, at the funeral of dignity you have to have uncontrollable laughter.
The blonde—straight-A student, far from home, still don't know what to do after—observed her friend—best friend, brunette, wingwoman, mostly-C student but always something to say about it. That friend now, as if to make some obscure statement, was busy taking a selfie that involved giving the finger and mouthing
Fuck you
. She did not post it anywhere.
And when that friend was done doing that and pulled her attention back to the couch, Ashley was undressing, torn between giggling and blushing. But mostly blushing.
They stared at each other, throughout the removal of pants, hoodie, headband... There was no perceptible alcohol in Vanessa's gaze anymore.
"I'm not wearing a bra," Ashley said softly. So Vanessa pulled her shirt off and unhooked hers. She threw it at her, making her breasts bounce. Ashley's bounced in response when she caught the thin piece of clothing.
They were the same size.
She grabbed the laptop and muted goddam Spotify.
There was body heat in the fabric.
She grabbed her panties and pulled them down.
Again, she posed like in the hacked photo, scrutinizing it, feeling a little less heavy in the heavy silence. And Vanessa immortalized that moment.
They met somewhere down on the carpet to have a look at the result.
Ashley, if any proof was needed, saw how beautiful she was naked; for a second she understood the whole fuckin' campus.
"Ok, delete this," she said.
"One more!"
"Come on..."
"
One more!
"
"Alright! but not Helloran."