Chapter 4
When I woke up I was still staring off to the left and was completely unable to even bat an eyelash. I then realized that I was not even breathing! This machine turned me INTO the mannequin that I designed! I was starting to panic when I noticed someone sitting at the terminal just on the edge of my peripheral vision. What was the person doing? Did they walk in, discover a new mannequin and getting ready to ship me to a store? Do they realize what happened and are getting ready to restore me? The person at the terminal then pushed a button and I was enveloped by the red light again and I once again lost consciousness.
When I came to I was still a mannequin but I was now in a corner my mothers office facing her desk! She was typing away on her computer and talking on the phone conducting business. I was in the corner opposite of where the door was. I would have been hyperventilating if I were able to breathe. I had no idea if it was possible to reverse my condition and with my mom not acknowledging me I had no idea if she recognized me.
Time slowly slipped by and mom finally got up from her desk and walked towards me. She stopped in front of me and brushed something off of my shoulder and adjusted my shirt. She then stared at me for a long while and said “Well Colleen, how does it feel to be an inanimate object? A thing that people look at in passing and then ignore?”
“Lucky for you that your transformation isn't one-way.” She said as she held up a device that looked like a complex remote control.
“With this device you or anyone holding it can turn you back into a mannequin or anything else that is programmed into the remote. Yes, you heard me right. A mannequin is not the only object you can be turned into. I could turn you into my bra and wear you home for example.” She said while letting her thumb move over the buttons.
“With the remote anyone holding it can even turn your mind off so that far all intents and purposes you would truly be an inert, mindless object, whatever you are.” She said.
Her tone then turned more serious, “you MUST safeguard this remote at all costs and never use it with out letting someone you trust know where you are and what you are turning yourself into. If you turn yourself into something and someone walks off with your remote and you did not tell anybody where you were and what you were becoming you’ll be stuck forever.”
“You will find the remote has some VERY interesting side effects depending on the settings. Your father and I have LOTS of fun with our remotes” She said with a mischievous grin on her face. “Oh yes, you heard me right. Your father and I had the process done months ago! I will let you discover some things for yourself as they can be pretty personal” she finished with a wink.
“Now if you will excuse me, I am going to head off to lunch.” Mom said. She walked back to her desk and put my remote in a drawer and walked to the door. “Don't go anywhere now.” She said with a chuckle as she walked out the door shutting it behind her leaving me alone in her office.
There wasn't a clock in view so had no idea how long I stood there in her office. I had no choice but to stand there like the mannequin I was. When Mom came back another woman walked in with her. They sat a Moms desk and chatted for a while about work and family and then the woman left leaving just my Mom and I in the office. A long time passed while she worked at her desk for the rest of the afternoon. She eventually turned off her computer and gathered her briefcase and purse. She set her briefcase up on her desk opened it and then took her high heels off and put them inside. She then pressed some buttons on my remote and then pointed at me. I felt a tingling and then it felt like I was shrinking and melting at the same time. My vision was obscured when my head shrank down under the level of my shirt. It felt like I was becoming a puddle of goo. I then felt the weird sensation of my body compacting in on itself and a new form started to emerge. I felt my body become hard again and then I felt a wrenching sensation as it felt like my body split in two. I felt my body shift a little more and then all the sensations passed. I waited in the pile of my clothes wondering what my Mom turned me into. I felt my clothing being removed from on top of me one piece at a time. I could finally see when Mom removed the last article of clothing. I watched her fold it neatly and place it in her briefcase. She then walked back to me and stopped and bent down to pick me up. She towered over me like a giant! I then felt her pick me up and turn me around and sitting me back down so I faced away from her. I then felt her put her feet into me! She turned me into a pair of shoes. I felt a wave of vertigo and disorientation as she walked to the far side of her office and stand in front of it. I could only stare straight-ahead right into my reflection. I was now a pair of black patent high heel pumps with a four-inch heel. An exact copy of her shoes she wore in to work. Mom then turned from the mirror picked her stuff up and walked out of the office. If I was human I probably thrown up with how dizzying and disorientating in was to be split in two and seeing from both of the shoes that I now was. By the time she made it to her car the vertigo had passed as my mind got more used to the new input it was receiving. The sensation was still disorientating but not sickening so. This might be a long ride home.