The girls repeated the procedure they had used to get out of the house, dragging the stool back in behind them and locking the door. As they made their way upstairs, much faster than when they had gone down, Kelly sniffed.
"I think we need a shower before anything else," Kelly said, wrinkling her wide nose. "We smell like the monkey house at the zoo." The look on Erica's face showed she agreed. As the girls entered the bathroom, Erica looked doubtfully at the edge of the tub, now at chest height. Kelly, however, simply put her hands on the edge and leaped into the tub.
"Well?" Kelly queried.
"You mean we're going to shower together? Isn't that, I dunno, kinda weird?" Erica asked.
"You mean weirder than two girls being changed into two-foot-tall spider monkeys?" Kelly snorted. "Besides, we're covered in fur, what's there to see?" Unable to argue with that, Erica clambered into the tub, slightly less gracefully than Kelly. Kelly turned on the shower, and the two took turns under the downpour, using a bit of shampoo on their fur and helping each other scrub the hard-to-reach areas. Looking a bit bedraggled, the two climbed out of the tub and rubbed themselves down with towels, causing their fur to stand on end. Grabbing a short brush, Kelly helped Erica get her fur under control, then felt the unique pleasure of having her fur brushed down by Erica. Finally tired and clean, the girls jumped on Kelly's bed and curled up against each other, back to back. Too tired to worry about their situation, they soon drifted off to sleep.
Hours later, the clock already past noon, the girls finally began to stir.