Passers by looked on with astonishment.

To start with, nothing had looked wrong; everyone was wearing a raincoat of some sort, some clear, some black, some normal ‘showerproof’ materials.

One girl was obviously having difficulties, however. Her raincoat looked more like a plastic globe, almost like a ‘hamster ball’ that had been popular a while back, or a Zorb ball. It was only when you looked closer that you could see the girl was frantically hammering on the ball, trying to get out, and the ball was beginning to steam up…

Shelly had been grabbed just as she was leaving college; the struggling girl had been gagged by two women and chained up, mittens fitted to her hands, then bundled into the ball. Just before they sealed the ball, someone had ripped off her skirt and knickers and fitted her with a plastic skirt, still pleated like her uniform skirt but completely transparent, which was then locked on with a padlock. They had then sealed the ball and glued shut the zipper in front of the terrified girl’s eyes.

Waving goodbye, they had walked away…

Shelly pounded at the ball, crying. The ball was soundproof, as well as airtight; all she could hear was the crackling of the rain falling on the ball.

She had no idea that the ball was airtight, or how much air she had left, so she frantically tried to attract people’s attention. To start with, people looked at her with amazement, thinking it was some kind of publicity stunt; however, the terrified expression on her face, as well as the gag and the chains, soon convinced people that there was something seriously wrong.

Shelly found the zipper and frantically tried to move it, but it was stuck fast, glued shut. She could also feel her mouth feeling weird as the glue on the gag set.

By now, someone had raced into the college and raised the alarm with staff. By sheer chance Shelly’s form tutor, Mary, was still there, and she raced out. She gasped as she saw Shelly trapped in her ball…

Someone managed to get some tools from the metalworking department, as well as the garage down the road, and people started attacking the ball. One of the tools managed to make a hole in the ball and force it open and an exhausted Shelly fell out onto the pavement.

The strong glue used on the zip was the same glue that had also been spread on the gag before it was rammed into Shelly’s mouth, as well as the waistline of her new plastic skirt. Both had bonded firmly to her skin.

Still chained and gagged, Shelly was rushed to hospital…

In hospital, Doctors tried but failed to remove the gag. The glue had spread throughout her mouth and was utterly impervious to anything in her mouth affecting it. It had stuck to the roof of her mouth, her tongue and the sides of her mouth, wrapping everything firmly round the gag. Even the clear strap that had held it in while the glue set was glued to her head. It was all completely irremovable. The skirt was the same. They managed to identify the glue, but it had been banned years before due to the fact that there was no solvent that worked with it, especially when it came in contact with human skin of any sort. All the records had been deleted, the stock supposedly destroyed.

Shelly just wailed and wailed into her gag…

A few days later, unknown to anyone, the same two women that had sealed her in the ball in the first place managed to get in and visit her in hospital, while her mother was getting a drink in the hospital café. She screamed when she got back. Shelly was wearing a transparent blouse to match the skirt, and transparent socks and shoes. She had also been fitted with a transparent hijab and veil (all glued on, of course).

The women had found another way to seal Shelly away in plastic…

Nobody ever found out why Shelly had been targeted...