The next day started the same for Aidan. Licking himself clean, putting his jeans back on, doing his business outside, having his can for breakfast and then heading to his classes. Said classes were mostly around working on their projects, so Aidan was mostly ignored. Only once a question was asked that he wanted to answer and he raised his paw. His teacher choose him, saying: “Okay, Starns, please explain.”
That resulted in Aidan barking his answer, which in turn send the class laughing at him. Their teacher got them silent again, using the word silence in his sentence and asked Aidan to repeat his answer, which now happened normally. But Aidan was still upset that the class had laughed at him. He had a vague feeling something had been wrong, but he couldn´t say what.
Aidan finished his project shortly before the end of his class, but had no time to decide on the next one. Soon enough, he and Mark were walking to his flat.
After working on his homework, Mark interrupted Aidan´s reading, as he had no homework to do, for his first planned change. With a grin, Mark stated: “Aidan, from now on you won´t be wearing any kind of pants anymore, as you like running around naked. You will strip your jeans off now, and then forget how to put something like that back on, as to you, you never owned any clothes like that anyway.”
Aidan turned as red as a tomato in embarrassment, but was too shocked to say anything while his body removed his jeans. Only when it was discarded on the ground next to him, he started to argue. “Mark, you can´t be serious. I can´t just run around naked all day, what will other people think of me then? Please, just take …” As Aidan´s mind cleared away from ever wearing jeans, he closed his mouth and returned to his book as if nothing had happened, slowly returning back to his normal color.
Mark laughed at seeing Aidan naked on his carpet, laying on his stomach reading a book. As much as he had protested just yesterday about losing his shirt, and now his last part of real clothing had been taken from him. The only thing still on his body was the collar around his neck, and for that he had another plan ready for today.
But first, Mark used the chronivac and erased Aidan´s pants from existence, watching the discarded jeans fade from next to Aidan. Wanting to see something else without Aidan asking questions, he asked Aidan about the mess in the kitchen. Aidan had not cleaned his bowls from breakfast today, and apologized for that before heading outside.
Mark quickly went to Aidan´s bedroom, finding Aidan´s wardrobe was now empty. Only some drawers of the smaller closet had still something in it, towels and bedclothes. Nothing Mark needed to erase. Next, Mark looked into the laundry basket in Aidan´s bathroom, which was also empty. “Without wearing anything, and with him licking himself clean and sleeping on the ground, there is nothing he needed to wash” he thought grinning. He returned to the laptop to wait for Aidan to return.