As soon as Azalea got home, she prepared herself a quick, healthy late-night dinner. More of a midnight snack, really. She wanted to give herself a break from her pasty problem to avoid stressing herself out too much over something that really wasn't any danger. Regardless, she found herself toying with the shields through her clothes as she finished her meal. This, in turn, started to make her horny again. So much for putting it out of mind, but at least she wasn't stressing out over it, exactly.
After dinner, she took a long, hot shower. Maybe fifteen or twenty minutes of soaking them in soap and hot water would loosen whatever was sticking those shields to her nipples. There was no such luck. The only thing all the scrubbing, kneading, and pulling had accomplished was to further stimulate her nipples.
Even though it was late, once she was done with her shower, she pleasured herself one more time that night, if only to calm herself down enough that she could fall asleep quickly. She grabbed her vibrator from her nightstand, laid down on her bed in nothing but her pasties, and gave herself what she needed. It hadn't been the wild, primal sex that had completely overtaken her in her changing room, but it was still a good one.
More importantly, it did the trick. She woke up the next morning still fully nude except for the shields, with her vibrator next to her and all the sheets kicked down below her ankles. She always washed her vibrator immediately after using it. The fact that she hadn't meant she must have gone out like a light once she had finished. She felt marvelously rested!
She sat up on her bed, then gave a couple tugs on the pasties, only to determine that they were still firmly affixed to her nipples. Those tugs felt amazingly good, so she decided to stop before she wasted her entire morning having sex. Not that that was a bad way to spend time, but, just like every day, she had a lot she wanted to accomplish. She grabbed her vibrator and went into the bathroom to clean it and herself up.
When she got dressed, she wondered what she could do make the shields less obvious. It was far from jacket weather, but she found that by putting on her thickest bra and a thin sweat shirt, she could at least hide the chains. The nubs in the center were another matter. She looked like she had the pointiest nipples in the world. Even her friend and fellow dancer, Dakota Peters, who was kind of known for having unusually pointy nipples, didn't stick out of a sweatshirt that much. She tried a few different options, but eventually decided that hiding the chains and not dying of heat stroke was the happiest medium she was likely to get with her current wardrobe. And it wasn't like a little bit of nipple was going to corrupt the moral fiber of society.
She decided to take care of essentials, first. Breakfast was a blueberry danish and hazelnut latte that she grabbed form the coffee shop around the corner from her apartment building. That kind of junk food was deadly to the physique she maintained, but with this strange predicament from last night still unsolved, she just wasn't in the mood for her usual yogurt and an apple.
Now, Azalea was a gorgeous woman, and putting up with stares from horny men and the occasional cat call was normal to her, even when she dressed modestly like today. Today, however, was different. Several men, even a few women turned away from their conversations mid-sentence to stare open-mouthed as she walked by. Were her 'nipples' really that noticeable?
Maybe not. Many of the stares didn't seem to be focused on her chest any more than usual. Possibly even less than usual. It was oddly similar to the audience's unusual sense of awe from the previous night.
As chance had it, she ran into Miguel at the grocery store, and even he seemed to be affected. He did a double take when he saw her.
"Oh, hey, Azalea! How... uhh..." He trailed off as that same wide-eyed star-struck look came over his face for a moment, before he snapped out of it.
"Something up? You never see a pretty girl before?"
"No, but did you change something? You look amazing today, but I don't know what it is."
"Thanks! But not really. Cabaret went particularly awesome last night, and I had some of the best sleep I've had in a while. I guess I'm just in a good mood!"
"I'll say!"
They continued to chat for a few minutes about the things they normally did. The whole while, Miguel gazed into her eyes, seemingly infatuated with what he saw. She caught him making a few quick glances down at her chest, probably him noticing her 'nipples,' but those didn't seem to be the focus of his unusual interest. He was acting very strange for himself, and it was making her feel a little uncomfortable.
"Hey, what are you doing for lunch today?" he asked as they were about to part ways.
"Why? You have something going on?"
"No, not really. There's this new taqueria down the block that I wanted to try, and I didn't want to go alone."
That taqueria had been there for months, and she was reasonably certain she had seen him with food from that place before. Why would he make up lies just to ask a friend out to lunch? He was nervous. Was he asking her out?