[Kokopelli25]

EPILOGUE

Ellie would eventually find out that the school wi-fi network automatically downloaded everything that was sent via the network, mostly to prevent kids from cheating (or to catch those who did). She would never learn who it was who found the photos on the school’s internal network, never know that one of the band kids who was taking AP Computer Science had hacked the network weeks ago and thought to check it after last night’s incident, thinking maybe he could figure out who the streaker was. Never know that the kid had jerked off to her photos before sharing them on the alumni website. And while the alumni group would take the photos down (and the videos) by the next day, she would never know but would forever wonder who might have downloaded everything, shared them online with friends or strangers, who out there might have seen her body, naked from head to toe. For the next few years any time Ellie went back home, everyone from neighbors to strangers in stores would look at her as if trying to think why she looked familiar. Those who figured it out would often get a knowing smile, maybe a slight nod, as if figuring it out and remembering what she looked like naked. A few asked if they could take a picture - Ellie always said no in a quiet voice. Some wouldn’t ask, they’d just take it regardless. A would even look at their phones and start scrolling through photos while smiling.

And never in a million years would Ellie ever guess that 12 years from now, after graduating college and moving across the country, after getting married, changing her last name, and having a child, after volunteering for a school event put on by her child’s PTA, that she would eventually have another night like this one.

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