CHAPTER 7

I come back to my senses periodically.  I have no idea how long it had been since Karl and Alice dissembled me and I was set up in the front window of the boutique.  I never woke up during that process.  I now spend my time displaying lingerie in a store called Karen's Boutique.  I am currently displaying a blue, laced bra and panty set.  At least that’s my reflection in the store windows shows me.  Donna has taken everything from me.  First she took my body.  Then she took my identity, my job, my house, my car and finally my very humanity.  Donna is the only person in the world that knows I was alive.  To the rest of the world I am nothing but an inert, lifeless plastic mannequin in this store window.  A human shaped object used to display clothing and nothing more.  My sole compensation to my predicament was that my whole form was very sensitive and I orgasm in my mind over and over whenever someone touches me or changes the clothes I’m displaying.  During the times that I’m awake at least.

I think approximately five years passed very uneventfully except for my wardrobe changes every month or so. I tried to keep track of time by counting the seasons but I have no way of knowing how long I spent in that unthinking, coma like state that I found myself slipping in and out of. One afternoon on a day after a clothing change had roused me out of my stupor I saw someone staring in the display window at me.  It was Karl!  After a few moments he walked out of my field of vision.  He looked older from when I saw him last.  A few minutes later the store owner, Karen came into my display and started taking my clothes off.  When she had me undressed she  dismantled me and put my pieces in a box full of packing peanuts.  The box was then taped shut and I felt it being moved and then nothing.  More time passed and with all of my senses in the dark I had no concept of time or stimulation.  I slipped back into that unthinking, living death and didn’t wake back up from it the whole rest of the time I spent boxed up.

When I came to my senses I was reassembled, dressing in the outfit I was wearing when he first mannequinized me and staring at the familiar wall of my spare bedroom.  More time passed and eventually Karl came in to the room and stepped in front of me and started speaking.

"I know that you are probably furious at me for stealing everything from you and I know it probably means nothing to you but, I am sorry."  he said.

He then spent the next 20 minutes telling me of his divorce from alice and how he lost almost everything in the divorce.  He also told me that I had been a mannequin for eight years and that he was going to restore me to my own body today.

With that said he lifted me off my stand. propped me up in the corner and aimed his ring at me.  After a few moments he said,  “I just started a slow transformation to restore you to humanity.  While you are transforming I will go to the bank and get you some money I’ve saved for you from the divorce and then we can discuss if you want your body back.  With what I have to tell you I don’t think you’ll want to.”  He said cryptically and then walked out.

A few moments later I heard the front door open and shut.  I felt my pose becoming less rigid and a couple of moments later I took my first breath in eight years!  The air never smelt so good!  I then felt my body become fully human!  I was back in the land of the living and animate!  My first act was to take a step forward and fall flat on my face!  “Ouch!”  I shouted, my voice sounding strange since it had been years since I last heard it.  It only took a few minutes to get the hang of walking again and I went out to the living room and saw some clothes neatly folded on the coffee table with the transformation ring sitting on top of them.  I slipped the ring on and took the latex clothes I was wearing off and took a shower.  A long, hot, wonderful shower!

While in the shower I contemplated my situation.  Even though I was human again I was anxious to get my body back.  What did Karl mean when he said I might not want to trade back?  I have to admit it didn’t look like my body had aged very well which had me worried.  I finished my shower and put my hair back in a pony tail and got dressed.  I was dressed in the clothes Karl laid out for me.  A tee shirt, jeans and sneakers.

A few hours passed and even though I had absolutely no desire to see Karl again, I was getting worried that he hadn't showed up back at the house yet.  Another hour passed and I was pacing the floor nervously.  Did he loose his nerve to come face to face with me?  Had he skipped town in my body?  He was going to the bank after all.

Just a few minutes later the phone rang, startling me.  I picked it up and said hello.

"Yes, is this Miss Donna Marano?"  the voice asked.

"Yes...this is Donna."  I answered with a knot forming in my stomach.

"Ma'am, we need you to come to the hospital immediately.  Your purse was in the vehicle with Karl and he has been in a serious accident and is being operated on right now."  The voice said.

Ohmygod, ohmygod, OHMYGOD!!! I thought in panic.  ”I’ll....I’ll be there as soon as I can!”  I said quickly, with tears forming in my eyes.

If Donna dies in my body, I’ll be trapped!  This can't be happening.

I called a cab and arrived at the hospital about an hour after receiving the call.  I ran to the emergency room desk and let them know I was there.  They ushered me into a waiting area and said the doctor would be with me in a moment.  I paced the room nervously for a few minutes when the door opened and a doctor walked in, followed immediately by a priest.

"He didn't make it..."  I whispered as the color drained from my face.

The doctor shook his head no and started to speak.

With my body dead I'm trapped as a woman, unable to get my old life back!

The last thing I saw was the doctor lunging forward to catch me as I fainted.