VRMMO: World's First Glyphborne

"Is this really necessary?" Valerie asked with a helpless whine to her voice, as she hid behind the curtain of the changing room.

They had gone through four different shops at this point, and bought half a dozen bags worth of clothes and still they weren’t done. Worst of all, this particular shop was incredibly fancy and seemed to only sell the expensive and the glamorous, as if one could only ever wear the outfits to a red carpet event.

Now, it wasn’t that Valerie disliked clothes, as much as her in-game nudist proclivities might suggest. Far from it, clothes were nice. It was just that she was the type to dress entirely for comfort.

She had nice clothes, the type that she kept for occassions like dates. But every day wear? Nothing was better than comfy lounge pants and a T-shirt that was so old and worn that you couldn’t even tell what used to be drawn on it.

None of which this store sold, and none of which Lucy ever allowed her to buy.

"Yes! Now Hurry up in there otherwise I’m coming in again!" Lucy excitedly bounced outside, a wide and giddy smile plastered across her face. Unlike Valerie, she was absolutely loving today and could not wait to get some more done.

Besides, she had some slightly hidden intentions for this particular shopping trip.

Valerie sighed in resignation before finally coming out, her cane tapping rhythmically as she padded out in her bare feet, to show the long black dress that hung off of her frame.

Hung was the correct term, as it draped over her like a rag on a coat hanger. Somehow, although so many of these dresses were built for women who were impossible thin to the point that they were skin and bones, it was still too big for Valerie. And that was after she put on some muscle. How was that even possible?!

It hung low in the front, as if it was expecting something more to be there, which made her feel like she was a child wearing her mothers clothes. There was a slit up the side of the dress, that stopped just at the top of her thigh.

It was supposed to be tantalising and sexy. Instead, It was just humiliating as it showed off the miserable and feeble sticks that she called legs.

However, Lucy must have been blind, as Valerie could see her eyes sparkling in the mirror as she sat behind her.

"Gorgeous." Slipped from her lips, and Valerie had to stop herself from scoffing. How did she not see the obvious failings that was her body? How did she not see that she just didn’t suit this kind of thing, and deserved to be dressed up in loose and comfortable clothing instead of embarrassing herself attempting to be sexy when no one would ever think of her like that?!

That was better suited to girls like Lucy. The naturally cute. The ones who aren’t broken and discarded, those who were actually desired.

Still... Valerie couldn’t help but shift her eyes away from Lucy’s sparkling eyes and glance over herself again, trying to see what she saw. The slightest blush danced across her cheeks, before Valerie quickly chased it away with click of the tongue and turned her head away.

She turned on her heels, disappearing back into the changing room and quickly pulled the curtain over. She couldn’t pull the dress off fast enough, feeling like a lizard peeling off and shedding its skin until finally she could breathe once it was off.

Putting on her own clothes, Valerie scooped up the dress and draped it over her arm. Her eyes lingered on it for a moment, her fingers trailing across the soft and silky fabric with a distant look, before she finally snapped out of it and left the changing room.

Her eyes immediately narrowed as she spotted Lucy whispering with the attendant, a glamorous woman with cybernetic eyes that shifted colour with the light and hair that shined with golden delight.

Their whispers immediately ceased as soon as they saw her, a very nervous and suspicious smile spreading across Lucy’s face, before Valerie moved away.

She placed the dress back, along with a few of the other pieces that she had been forced to try on, before pulling her clothes tighter to her body and shuffling towards the exit.

Before she could leave, however, the attendant stepped in front of her with a saddened expression, her hands resting gently on Valerie’s shoulders.

"I’m sorry our boutique didn’t have anything to your liking Madam." The attendant sighed, dragging her hands down Valerie’s arms before strangley shifting them to her hips.

"We hope that this experience as not dulled your opinion of the boutique, and that you will consider coming again. I hope that next time, we can find the perfect outfit for you."

The woman smiled sweetly, running her hands up Valerie’s hips to her back, before pulling her into a gentle hug.

Valerie turned stiff at the gesture, awkwardly patting her on her back, before she was finally released and sent away with more smiles and awkward rubbings.

Lucy was weirdly smiley when Valerie stepped out, however that smile dropped after a few steps, as the area around Valerie darkened significantly.

Something cold and round pressed against her lower back, pressing into her spine, as a heavy cybernetic hand clamped around her frail shoulders.

"Hello Ladies." A familiar voice rumbled. Valerie didn’t have to turn around to know which giant man this voice and hand belonged to, nor did she have to turn to know that he had a lecherous smile plastered across his face as he was already imagining what he could do with the pair of them.

She was sure it was some very vivid mental images. In fact her only concern was whether those images were the cause of what was pressing against her, or if it was a gun.

"Why don’t we take a little walk, hmm? And before you think that it will be a good idea to call for help, I’ve got a sniffer monitoring all the channels for alerts. Scream and... well, we will have to see how well this cripple walks with a few cases of lead in her spine."

Valerie let out a deep sigh. It was a gun, thank god for that. If it had been something else, this might have actually been a problem.

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