Alice looked around.

Oh shoot. She thought.

“Guys?” Silence followed. “G-Guys? This isn’t funny.”

She looked over to the dock where her pile of clothes once were.

They were gone.

“No, no, no” she muttered. “This can’t be happening.”

Alice went out with her friends that afternoon. They decided that they wanted to go skinny dipping. She was hesitant at first, but was sick of being left out so she followed in suit.

The others had stripped off and jumped in, already swimming further out.

Alice was peeling off her trousers and shirt. She was hesitant to take off her underwear.

“Come on Alice! Don’t be a party pooper!” Jake had shouted from across the lake.

Alice had had a small crush on Jake for quite some time.

“Screw it” she whispered before taking them off.

She jumped in, the cold water hitting her skin immediately.

She saw a patch of sunlight coming through the trees and decided to swim to it.

Her friends started to swim over.

“Alice, I see you’ve finally decided to join us” Janet said to her.

Janet was her friend. Or so she thought.

“Nice one” Jake said to her.

“I’m going to go over to there, where it’s deeper” Janet said, pointing to the other side of the lake.

“Me too” Jake said.

“Me three” her other ‘friend’ Bella said.

“I’ll join you guys in a bit”

Three hours after she went in, they had gone. And so had her clothes.

Alice decided to swim over to the dock.

“G-Guys?” She asked into the silence again.

Still no response.

Her head bobbed up and down.

She was naked. Fully naked.

Her house was at least a twenty minutes walk away.

I can’t walk back naked. I live on the high road for goodness sake! I’ll get spotted! She thought.

But she had no other choice.

Alice climbed out.

She then realised just how idiotic she had been. The others never wanted to be her friend in the first place. They just wanted to play a prank on her. And they had been successful.

She was fully exposed. There was no way she would get back safely. Something would surely happen on her way home.

It was dark, but not too dark. And of course there were lampposts and cars.

Shoot.