My neighbors had been married for fifteen years. Suddenly Jill found a new job and within a month or so, she found a new boyfriend. I should mention here that her new boss and new boyfriend is the same person. Of course, everyone knows what happened then. Time for a divorce. The only weird thing about this is that the other man is almost an exact clone of Mike.

Mike and Jill were on of the most normal couples I have known. He told me that the first day of Jill's new job, she came home in a funny mood and it was downhill from there. Dale, her new boss, owns a construction company. The company started out big and gotten bigger. Nobody knew exactly what kind of construction this company did. They just knew he made money and hired a lot of the locals.

I should say right here that I am single, also. After Dale moved in I could never get inside the house. She always met me outside before I could even get to the door. I might as well have been talking to a brick wall, she never mentioned anything about her job or Dale. It really didn't bother me as long as I got to see her. After all, it was none of my business.

Even Jill's daughter, Sheri, by a different marriage, wouldn't say much. And sometimes she would even lie about Dale having been at their house even when she knew I had seen them. She had just turned twenty-one and I just blamed all the weirdness on her age. Like I said it was none of my business but it was plenty weird.

I finally saw Dale drive up and managed to catch him before he made it inside. I introduced myself and explained who I was and told him if he ever needed anything to be sure to call me. He was nice but distant and seemed not to have anything to say or just didn't want to talk so I went back home and he went inside.

When they were first married Jill and Mike had given me a key to their house. They used to go out of town a lot so I would feed their pets and generally check the house. Then I got an idea. I was going to be on vacation the next week so I would go over and have a look when everyone was gone. If they noticed anything, I would use the excuse that I needed to borrow something. It had always worked before. Not that I was always a snoop but sometimes I actually needed to borrow something.

The first day of vacation came and I was waiting for everyone in her house to leave. I grabbed Jill's key and almost ran to their house. I knocked on the door just to make sure. Nobody answered and I didn't hear any noise so I unlocked the door and went in. Nothing had changed the house looked like it always did. For some reason I was really nervous. I did notice that they had painted the inside a different color. A bad color at that.

It was still somewhat dark outside so I found the light switch and turned it on. Geez, the whole room lit up like daylight. They must have installed new lighting fixtures in the living room. The light hurt my eyes so I turned them off, found the hallway switch, and flipped that on. Normal light, thank goodness. I walked down the hall to the bedrooms. I didn't want anyone outside to see the lights going on and off through the house. Then I remembered you couldn't see inside through the curtains, anyway.

I walked into the daughter's room. Nothing looked any different than the last time I had seen it. I opened her closet door and peeked around the corner. I guess I was afraid I would find a monster or something. Nothing but clothes. Next I looked in the room they had set up as an office. The computer Dale had brought with him was still there. I mean this thing was big and seemed to have every kind of accessories that were on the market. I wanted to turn it on but I couldn't even find the on/off switch.

I walked back to Jill's room. It was darker on that end of the house so I had to turn the light on to see anything. Normal lighting in this room, too. Everything looked normal in here. They had two walls full of closets with sliding doors with mirrors on all of the doors. I scared myself when I walked out in the middle of the room and saw all my reflections. What the heck, I thought, might as well look in the closet. I'd start with her side first.

I slowly slid the door open and looked inside. Wham, it hit me. That part of the closet was full of skin colored full length, footed body stockings, or unitards. Damn I should have been coming over more often. Maybe I could have accidentally seen her in one of those. I took one out and ran my hands over it. It felt exactly like a pair of pantyhose only a little stronger material. All kind of thoughts were running through my mind and none of which I can repeat.

I put that one back and pulled out another. I got a whiff of her perfume when I held it up. This was hers for sure. I looked at myself in the mirror again and noticed something was wrong. I couldn't see myself through the material. Nothing I could see my clothes around the outfit but nothing straight through. Then I made my decision to investigate more. I put the smaller one back and got the bigger size out. I sat down on the bed and took my shorts and shirt off. Underwear too. Why not? If you've got to do something stupid do it all the way. I tried to find a zipper or buttons to open the outfit enough to get into it. I finally found a slight opening in the front that when I pulled it opened the front just enough to get in. I also saw that it had a hood. They were really getting kinky, I thought.

I managed to get the outfit on without tearing or ripping it apart. When I pressed the opening in the front back together it closed up like it had a strip of Velcro. I stood up and looked in the mirror and I couldn't see a thing under the suit. I could see any bulges in my body that might be showing but I couldn't see any skin or even the hair on my arms. I slipped the hood on and pulled it tight around my face. The seam was on the back of the hood and it went together just as the front seam did. I could see clearly through the hood and breathe just fine. However, when I looked in the mirror I couldn't see my eyes. I could see the outline of my nose sticking out but other than that, nothing.

It had been hot in the house, even for that early in the morning. Now that I had the suit on I was very comfortable as if were climate controlled. I sat back down on the bed and tried to figure out what was going on. I did have to admit that having that tight suit on felt great. Maybe this was just their idea of sex. I had to get that picture out of my mind. I went back to the closet and found more suits. Nothing but those suits. Just in different colors.

I was reaching in to get a black one when I heard the front door open. My heart raced and I didn't know what to do. I had no idea to explain why I was there wearing one of his or her suits. I panicked and got into the closet, worked myself down to the corner, and tried to get behind all the suits. I barely had time to slide the door closed when I heard Jill's voice.

She was talking to her daughter Sheri. They were talking about finally being able to get the entire ordeal over with. It sounded like both of them were having second thoughts about whatever it was. I heard Jill tell Sheri to take her clothes off and get ready. Not knowing whether to be scared I just had to see them both take their clothes off.

I put my hand on the door and slid it open just enough to see. Luckily, they were right in the middle of the room so I could see them clearly. Both of them had taken their dresses off and were standing there in their little suits like I was wearing. Only they looked a lot better than I did. The last thing I saw them do was put their hoods up. Then I remember getting very excited and then nothing.

I was still in the closet but this time I was laying down. I tried to move but my hands and wrists were tied. I looked up and saw that the closet door was open and saw Sheri standing there looking at me. The only reason I could tell it was Sheri was because she was just a little bit shorter than Jill.

I tried to say something to her but nothing. No sound at all was coming from my mouth. Sheri just stood there watching me. Being tied up and wearing one of those suits, I knew I looked very strange but I don't know why she was just staring. Someone else walked in and stood beside her. There weren't any breast sticking out so I guessed it must be a man. I knew it had to be Dale. He told me to stand up and come out of the closet. Funny I had heard that term before.

I tried to tell him I couldn't get up but still no voice. He told me again to get up. I tried to move my legs and realized I wasn't tied up anymore. I know there had been some kind of cord around my ankles and wrists. I could feel them digging into my skin when I tried to move. I stood up and stepped out of the closet looking for whatever had been tied around my ankles and wrists. There were none that I could see, though. I could here the back door opening and closing in the background.

Dale told me to sit on the bed and I did. I was starting to get really freaked out. This was not fun anymore. I wanted to go home. I tried to get off the bed but I couldn't move. What or how was he doing that? Jill walked in, at least it was her voice, and whispered something to Dale and suddenly I could move again. However, I couldn't go anyplace. Somehow, he or they were controlling my body movements. Maybe it was through my mind. This was all getting too complicated and scary. Why had I been so nosy?

They turned and started to walk out of the bedroom and I followed, not voluntarily. I tried to stop myself but couldn't. I felt like I should be sweating bullets but in the suit, I was still very comfortable. I just gave up and let them control me. We passed through the living room. Everything looked normal. With all the noise I had heard I didn't know what to expect. Those awful bright lights were on, though. However, with the hood on, the lights didn't hurt my eyes. Sheri opened the back door and we all went out in the back yard.

What used to be the back yard, anyway. Now there was a metal storage shed. Anyway, we walked through the door and into the shed. I don't know what I had expected to see inside the shed but it surprised me to see that there were probably ten chairs spread around the floor. No windows no carpet no nothing. I thought at least there might be a big control panel or something so spectacular. But no, just chairs, regular metal folding chairs.

We all sat down in a chair. At least the seats were padded. The door closed and then I couldn't move again. I think Jill was sitting next to me but I couldn't turn my head enough to see for sure. All I could get a glimpse of was her leg and foot. And they looked good in the shiny material of her suit. Suddenly I felt very tired. Then I was dreaming, dreaming of being with Jill.

When I woke up, I didn't know how long I had been asleep. In fact, it took me awhile to remember what had happened. I tried to move and was surprised when I could. I looked over at the other three and they were still in their chairs. However, the were all awake. Dale stood up, I stood up. I felt like a puppet. I saw that we were in a very clean almost sterile room. I followed them out the door. We walked down a long hallway with windows. It was too dark to really tell but I could see what looked like desert outside. As we neared another door we stopped. Jill was still in front of me and she turned around and told me that I would, from now on, have control of my movements. I started to ask her a question but remembered I couldn't talk. She looked at me again and told me I had my voice back but not to ask any questions yet. I would be told everything later. We started walking again; I just kept my eyes on her rear end.

The door ahead of us opened as we neared it. Automatically I assumed or maybe I shouldn't assume anything, anymore. We entered this enormous structure. It was bigger than anything I had ever seen. It gave me the creeps just thinking about how big this place was. I looked up at the ceiling trying to see whatever and saw that this place had the same sort of lighting system that Jill had in her living room. Only here there were thousands of them but they were so high up I couldn't judge the height of the building. With all those lights, it should have been hot but I guess these tights somehow insulated our bodies. Sheri grabbed my hand and told me not to look at the lights for too long or it would affect my balance even through the hood. She took my hand and we followed the others. I really hadn't noticed until Sheri grabbed my hand that we now had gloves on. The same material as our suits was.

The more we walked the more I realized this was more than a building it was a city. The further away from where we had entered the more people I saw. They were all dressed as we were. Different color tights but the same type. They all looked the same. If the women didn't have breast, I wouldn't have been able to tell the men from the women. No one seemed to care about the other.

The air in this place was clean and free of any odors that I could tell unless the hood filtering out any odors. Sheri told me as we were walking that all the little buildings we were passing were the living quarters. There must have been forty or fifty stacked on top of one another. I couldn't really tell because I couldn't look at the top long enough to count. They stretched for miles and miles. I told Sheri that the looked small and cramped. "No," she said, "most of them are actually bigger than our house." Sheri stopped talking like she had been going to say something she shouldn't have said. Jill turned around just then and told me I would find out everything I wanted to know later. We walked about another ten minutes and stopped in front of the biggest house I had seen so far.

This time Jill took my hand and we entered the house. What I saw shocked me. The walls were painted black along with the ceiling which were about ten feet high. There was what looked like black lights on the ceiling shining downward so it shone a perfectly straight walkway on the red floor. It wasn't a bright red floor but it was more of a subdued red. It really wasn't as bad as it sounds. Even with the dark colors and the soft black lighting I could tell that this place was very, very neat and clean. There were no pictures or posters of any kind anywhere.

We stopped in a small room and sat down. I say between Sheri and Jill. I just couldn't make myself quit looking at those two. Somebody else walked in the room and sat down behind a desk. So far all the furniture, though sparse, looked just like ours, only fancier. Maybe these other people were us. Maybe I was dreaming. And maybe I had gone crazy. I didn't know if I should be scared again or what. Nevertheless, I had a nice calm feeling. It was like I couldn't worry. I had a lot of questions but figured this wasn't the time to ask.

We left the room as quickly as we arrived. This time Jill spoke in her normal voice and told me we were going to our house. She squeezed my hand as we walked. It didn't take long to get to our house. It was also painted that sterile white color just as the others were. However, when we walked into the front door it was a rainbow of colors. The carpet was a light blue, the walls were a pale green, but somehow it looked good. All the furniture was made to match and there was a lot of furniture. The lighting was the same kind of black lighting but it was made to bounce off the white ceiling and light up the rooms perfectly. At least through the hoods.

Dale disappeared through a door and the rest of us took a tour of our house. They were right it was a very big house. Jill took me to a door, opened it, and showed me the stairs to the second and third floor. They were more like and escalator but they didn't move until someone stepped on them. I hadn't even noticed that there was a second and third floor. As we stepped on the stairs, she explained that all the family's rooms were on the upper floors. There must have been ten rooms on each floor. All were decorated the same as the rest of the house except the one she told me was mine. It was still white.

Sheri had stopped in her room and I saw her lay down on the bed. Jill told me that maybe I should lay down and take a nap. There was no bathroom and I asked her where it was. She told me there were none. Come to think of it, I hadn't had to use the bathroom in well I don't know how long it had been. In fact, I hadn't thought of home or anything else since I fell asleep in their shed. I really couldn't think of anything that had happened before that. I asked her about taking a shower. You won't need to take any showers. The suit keeps us clean and you probably won't even think about it after today. She opened what looked like a closet door and pointed to all the tights that were hanging up. You can change your tights everyday if you feel the need to but they never need cleaning either. You'll learn all this later. Just remember that when you change your tights you have to be in the closet. It protects your skin and eyes from the light and cold.

When she was talking about the closet my mind tried to flash back to something but I just couldn't remember. It was like having déjà vu. She closed the closet door and turned to walk out. As I watched her rear end in those tights, I still had that old feeling in my groin. As if she was reading my mind, she said "later" as she walked out. I lay down on the bed and tried to think of what had happened so far but everything seemed a blur and the only clear thoughts I had were after we actually walked into our house. About the only thing that hadn't changed were my thoughts about sex. They were still there. Believe me, they were stronger than ever.

 
I woke up later. How much later I don't know and I didn't care. Time had no meaning anymore. I stood up and thought about going to the bathroom but I didn't have to go. Then I remembered what Jill had told me. I wanted to look in the mirror and see if my hair was messed up. But no mirrors. With the hood always on, I guessed it didn't matter. Oh well, I decided to change clothes. Let's see what to wear. Well I picked red tights out of the large selection of tights in the closet. I was really becoming attached to these tights. I felt that feeling again but then Sheri walked in and I forgot what I was thinking about. She was also wearing her red tights and red was definitely her color.

She told me it was time to eat. Funny I hadn't even thought about whether or not I was hungry. We went up to the third floor to the dining room. Jill was already there waiting for us. I don't think Dale was there but I really don't remember. She looked at us as we sat down at the table. I couldn't tell through that hood but I could swear she was smiling at me. Just then someone in multicolored tights walked in with a tray and put it on the table. I could tell this person was a woman. Seeing someone serve the food triggered a memory in my mind but I couldn't quite remember before it was gone.

I turned my attention back to the table. There were four glasses on the table. Jill and Sheri each took one and put the straw up to hood where their mouths were and drank the contents of the glass through the hood. I did the same thing with mine just as if I had been doing it forever. Sheri asked me if I had enjoyed my dinner, when I had finished. "Yes, of course," I told her as I was searching for a napkin. I didn't know why I needed a napkin but I was still looking for one. We were through with our dinner; at least Sheri and Jill stood up. I didn't feel like I had eaten anything but I was full. They decided to go for a walk. So we did.

We walked further into the area where our house was. There were only more houses. I didn't see any store of any kind. No nothing just white homes stacked on top of each other. There were people, though. Too many to walk around with ease. Now that I think about that it was like everyone was programmed to take a walk at that specific time. However, while we were walking I didn't think about it.

I could tell it was getting darker but I didn't know if the lights were dimming or maybe we were coming to the end of the housing units. We walked until we came to the biggest open area I had ever seen. It was dark but when I looked up at the lights to see if they were even on there weren't any. I couldn't even tell if there was a ceiling. All I could see was a beautiful night sky. Nothing but the stars and planets. I thought I could even see the moon but it looked different from how I remember it. Everything looked so bright. There had to be thousands of us, all looking up at the night sky. I thought I heard a slight rumbling and I looked up and saw the night sky was disappearing. It was being replaced by a bright blue sky like on a cold clear winter morning.

That must have signaled the end of the show. Everyone was leaving, walking back the way they had just come. Even with the bright blue sky, the lighting in the area didn't change. It stayed the same semi-dark as before. As we walked back to our home, I noticed that no one was talking. I didn't think about it then but it seems strange now. We made it back to our house and went upstairs to the family area. We all sat down in what must have been a den. Still no one said a thing. Jill and Sheri were both looking at me. Suddenly I had this strange urge to go to bed.

I stood up, Sheri and Jill stood up. It was getting to the point that the only way I could tell them apart was by the color of the tights they wore. Maybe we weren't supposed to know who each other were. I turned to walk to my bedroom and lay down on the bed. I thought about Jill and that feeling came back. As on cue Jill walked in and sat down on the bed. No words were said she just lay down beside me. Someway, somehow we made love. All that mattered at that moment was being with her. It was the most satisfying, the most gratifying sex I had ever had. We never took our tights off but we did it. The old fashioned way. At least I thought it was the old fashioned way. Then we both fell asleep, the old fashioned way.

Jill woke up later. I still had no concept of time so I didn't know how long she had slept. I hadn't slept at all. At least I didn't think I had. She rolled over on her stomach and as I looked at her lying there, I could feel myself growing excited. I looked down at myself and saw that I was actually growing excited. Jill had rolled back over and was looking at me. It was very difficult to hide anything in those tights. She reached out, touched me, and quickly pulled her hand back. Then slowly she reached out again and touched me again, this time she didn't pull her hand back.

It was like a brick hit me. I said her name. She didn't answer. I said it louder the second time and she finally answered. "You remember things, don't you," she said still holding on to me. I nodded my head. "Good, now we can help each other but let me get Sheri in here." Without Jill saying a word Sheri walked through my door, like a drone, just stood there. Sheri told us that Dale was downstairs. "I have to go down and see him," Jill said as she walked out of the room.

Jill came back in the room and told us that we were leaving for awhile "Are we going back again," Sheri asked. Jill didn't answer but somehow I sensed that Sheri knew the answer. "But it won't be till later on and maybe we can find a way for him to come along," she said looking at me. I took the chance and asked Jill what was really going on.

Jill sat down on the bed and as she did my mind flashed back to the night we had just spent together. I hoped I wasn't the only one that was able to remember. She began telling me her story from the present. It turned out that Jill and Sheri didn't know much more than I did. Just that they knew this place was underground. I almost had to laugh at that one. I tried to hide my disbelief but it didn't work. Jill saw the look on my face and started to get mad but something seemed to be keeping her from saying what she was thinking. Well if we are underground how did we get here? Neither one of them could answer that one.

They did know or at least suspected that the liquid that was served for meals probably had something to do with everything. Both of them would stop drinking the liquid before they finished the entire glass. After a week or so, they weren't sure about the length of time, they noticed they would start having the same memory flashbacks that I had experienced. And on the last trip home, when I had gotten caught in their closet, they had managed to avoid drinking any of the liquid. That's when both started to remember everything except where they were and how they got there.

It seemed that everyone in this place had the same liquid so that would explain why they all walked around in a trance like state. That seemed to make sense to me, maybe whomever had come up with a chemical that would cause you to forget almost everything and also make it easier to control that person. Like the different cults back home would do to gain control of one of their recruits.

I had to ask Jill about their sex life. "There is no sex life," she said flatly. I started to say remind her about today until she added "until today." Then she smiled I think. At least I could see her hood move a little. I hope that it was a smile and not just gas. The Sheri told me that she had heard Dale talking one day about the new babies. And from what else she heard she figured out that the women do get pregnant but not by having sex but by being artificially impregnated. However, as soon as they become pregnant the women were removed from the general population until after they have their baby and then returned to their housing units. Then the babies are raised somewhere else until they are old enough to join the general population. Moreover, nobody seems to notice any short disappearances or additions to their families.

I had to think about that one. That was a lot to try to understand. It made sense, though, no sex and no crime makes a perfect world. "So what now," I asked them. We thought for a few minutes. Then we came up with a plan. To start with, I would have to appear to remain to be still under their control and then we had to figure a way for me to make the trip back with them. I had to find out more before I left this place.

Jill and Sheri stayed upstairs in the living area and I went downstairs to Dale's area. His desk was unlocked so I started digging through anything I could find. The only problem was everything I found was all scientific data that I couldn't understand. There was what looked like a laptop computer on the desk. When I opened it that's exactly what it was a laptop. I wondered why in such an advanced place like this would have a normal computer around.

The same program that almost everybody used back on Earth. The one owned by the richest man in the world. I searched through files but most of them were empty. Then I clicked on one that was named 'top'. Finally, there it was the answer to all my questions. I found some disks and tried to download the file. However, I couldn't get it to download. Same old problems with their version of the software.

I started reading the file. The first part was pretty technical stuff. Something about salt domes and how they were used to store oil and gas. Mostly though it was about how they were washed out and stabilized. Back where we had come from there were plenty of salt dome storage wells. Therefore, this wasn't exactly rocket science to me. This, at least, explained where they got the energy to run the lights and air conditioning.

I read on for awhile until I came across something that really caught my eye. It was some kind of a proposal that was written way back in 1966. It was a proposal for building an under ground Nuclear waste dump. However, this went further. The author talked about how he thought it would be feasible to build and under ground living area in the salt domes. It would be self-sustaining and could handle up to twenty thousand people in each dome. Special lights that were in the process of being developed for sunlight could be used instead. By using special insulation, it would also be invisible by anyone using any known method of under ground surveying. Man this thing was written back in the sixties and over thirty years later it was still more advanced than what they were experimenting with on the ocean floor.

Then I saw something that made me start shaking. This place was to be finished by 1982 and in the same area where our houses were located. That was the year we moved in. I scrolled down the screen until I saw a map. A county map with our area outlined. There was a river only two miles from my house so that could be their source of water. In addition, according to the paper I had just read this underground living area would be up to six miles long and wide so that would put it under the river.

That was where we were. We were underground right beneath our subdivision. There it was in black and white. I found more blueprints and everything I had seen so far was right there in front of me. Everything seemed to be planned, financed and constructed by our own government. The only thing that wasn't clear was why? I tried to get in more files but some were password protected.

I finally found one more file that I could get into. And this one was loaded with information. It seems as if NASA was somehow involved with all this. They were in charge of recruiting the people to live in the underground habitat. No one was told anything about going underground, they told them they were going to be the first to colonize the moon. Once they were down below, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

That would probably explain the open area sky show the night before. It still had to come down to putting something in the liquid everyone had for his or her meals. There had to be some kind of drug being put into the liquid. That would explain the drone like actions of the people. I could understand why there is no television or radio. However, I couldn't think of any logical reason for actually making twenty thousand people disappear of the face of the earth.

I had been at Dale's desk too long already. I put everything up and went back upstairs with Jill and Sheri. I told them what I had found out. They seemed to be confused but they believed me. Now we just had to find out how I could go with them. I looked at both of them sitting there in their tights and thought about how much I would miss seeing them like that. We all heard Dale come in and heard the stairs start moving. He was on his way up.

It turned out I didn't have anything to worry about. He let me know that I was expected to make the trip with them. He also let me know he wasn't happy with that decision. Evidently it wasn't his decision to make. "Let's go," he said as he motioned us to get up. We followed him down the stairs and out into the walkway in front of the house. We had to walk what seemed like three miles before we finally came to a big door that opened automatically as we approached it. There was something familiar about the door but I couldn't quite remember.

The door closed behind us as we entered a small building and sat down in chairs. I saw Jill and Sheri put their head down so I did the same and closed my eyes. Next thing I knew we were moving fast, very fast. The kind of fast that leaves your stomach back where you started. So, this was how we got to the habitat. Some kind of elevator but without all the buttons. We had been moving for only a few moments before we slowed. We hadn't stopped yet but we were close. Finally we had stopped. Dale stood up and looked out the door of the storage shed. I knew we had to be back on the surface. The air was different and there was sunlight, beautiful sunlight.

We walked into Jill's house and Dale told us to put our regular clothes back on. I thought we would go into separate bedrooms to do that but I turned out we just put our old clothes over our tights and hid the hoods down under our collars. It had only been two days since I had seen Jill and Sheri's faces but they really were beautiful. I almost said something to them but then remembered I was still supposed to be under Dale's control.

I followed the girls out to the living room and sat down. Dale told us to stay there until he returned. No one said anything until after he had left the house. I didn't know how much time we had left so I talked fast. I told them to grab anything that was important and take it to my house. We had enough time to make three trips, so we had to hurry. They had a hard time trying to think about what to take. I was no help, either, because I had no idea what was going to happen. All I knew was that we had to get to my house before Dale returned.

Sheri and Jill mainly carried clothes to my house. Three trips and nothing but clothes, go figure. Of course, I did help them by getting all the tights out of everyone's closet. I had grown quite fond of those tights on them and myself and I certainly didn't want to run out. Finally we made it to my house to stay. Closing and locking all the doors we opened the blinds on the front window just enough to see out. I don't think it had sunk in all the way, about what I'd just been through. I had just been kidnapped to an entirely different world but it was still on earth or at least in the earth. I had no idea why this had happened or why the habitat had even been built. However, I knew if I could get to that shed on top of the elevator shaft in their back yard, maybe I could get someone to listen. I didn't know who I could trust, probably not the government. It would have to be a reporter or somebody. I didn't know yet I wasn't thinking clear enough to make any decisions.

Dale came back about an hour later. We had started shifts waiting for him so Sheri yelled that he had just driven up. We watched him get out of the car and go inside his house. He wasn't in their long before he came back out and looked over to where we were. I thought for a minute he was going to come over but he just stood there staring. Maybe he was trying to make contact with us by mind control but it didn't work. He finally turned around and went back inside.

It started getting late. We didn't know if Dale was still at the house or what. It was dark enough outside, now, to see if the inside lights were on across the street but we couldn't see any, through the curtains. I remembered I couldn't see the bright lights on in the living room before all this happened so I wasn't going to take any chances. Jill and Sheri were getting tired so I suggested that they at least try to take a nap.

I tried to stay up and watch for any sign of life at their house. I could never see anything. The house still looked deserted. I heard the shower running in my bathroom and soon after Jill and Sheri walked out drying their hair with a towel. Both of them commented on how good it felt to take a shower and wash their hair. They had both put on robes after their shower. That disappointed me but maybe later I could talk them into their tights. Sheri volunteered to watch her house if I wanted to take a shower. Reluctantly I did.

I will have to admit taking a shower certainly did feel good. I dried off and debated on whether to put another pair of tights on or just dress normally. The tights won out. I put a fresh pair of black ones on and walked out to where they were drinking coffee. They both looked surprised when the saw that I had put my tights back on. Jill asked me if there was something they needed to know about me. "No," I said, "I just like the way they feel on me and they way they look and feel on you two, so don't make fun of me." "Well to tell you the truth, we like the way they look on you, too," Jill said as her face turned red along with Sheri's.

I told them it was time to go over and see what we could find out. Neither of them wanted to go but they were the only ones for sure that knew anything about the shed in the back yard. I told both of them it was time to put their tights back on just in case. "No arguments, just put them on," I told them sternly. We were ready to go in another ten minutes so we went that way. We couldn't see anything through the curtains on the windows nor could we hear anything coming from the inside.

Jill tried the door and it was unlocked. We slowly entered the house. First thing I did was turn the living room lights on. Dale seemed to have replaced the bright lights with the regular fixture that the house came with. We went through the entire house and could find nothing unusual. All the furniture was still there. However, we couldn't find anything of Dales. It was like he had just vanished and taken all his clothes, pictures, or anything else that could tie him in with this family.

Nobody wanted to but we all knew we had to go in the back and look in the shed. We had our tights on under our clothes so before we opened the back door we put our hoods up just in case. I opened the back door and peeked out. Yep, the shed was still there. They followed me out the back door single file. We tiptoed the few feet to the door on the shed. Again, it was quiet inside the shed. I reached out and opened the door. I felt Jill's hand on my back. As I opened the door I reached in and found the light switch on flipped it on.

Nothing. Nothing but garden tools and lawn mowers, that is. I pulled the door open as wide as I could and motioned Jill and Sheri to look inside. The look on their faces lit up by the light of the shed told me they were as surprised as I was. We went in. It was a tight fit with all the equipment inside. I pulled some of it out so we could have more room. We looked around and couldn't find anything. The floor was made of wood planks so I pulled one up and it was solid earth underneath. No elevator shaft no anything out of the ordinary. We put everything back and walked around the outside of the shed. Still nothing but firm earth. How had they done that so quickly?

No signs of anything that shouldn't be in a normal back yard. Now what. We all looked at each other and started back in the house. We went through the house one more time this time looking in the attic and trying to find any hidden compartments in the closets. Still nothing. We pulled our hoods down, put our clothes back on over the tights, and walked back over to my house.

We walked in my house and I pulled off my clothes and for some reason they did too. I was sure nice to see them like that. Jill picked her jeans up off the floor and noticed an envelope in the back pocket. She pulled it out and opened it. Her face went totally white. "It's from him," she said in a shaky voice. Sheri and I sat down on the couch as Jill started reading the note. After reading for what seemed like forever she told us it merely said that it was over between them and there was no way any of us could find them again. And finally said that no one would ever believe us, there was simply no proof.

"What about these," I asked. "Well if you haven't noticed," she said, these tights are not functioning as they were'" As she was saying that I did notice that I was getting a little warm. And of course now I had to go use the bathroom. First time in two days. After I had finished, I was glad to see that the little openings still closed up tight and the hoods still closed up as they had but nothing else worked.

We stayed up for awhile longer trying to think about what we could do. Nothing is all we kept coming up with. Jill made up her mind to sell her house as cheaply as she had to just to get out of it. I suggested that they stay with me for as long as they needed. She agreed, thank goodness. I locked all the doors and windows and we all went to bed. Sheri went to the bedroom she always had used when her mom was out of town. Jill started off with her but I grabbed her hand and pulled her toward my bedroom. She didn't put up a fight so I knew it was all right.

She and I kept our tights on until after we were through making love. She did tell me that the more she sees herself in the tights that the sexier she feels. I told her that's the way I feel too. She looked at me funny. I tried to explain what I meant but she stopped me and told me she didn't care what I wore as long as I stayed with her. We took our tights off, pulled the covers up, and went to sleep. I ask Jill just before we fell asleep if she wanted to check on Sheri. "No she's fine." Too bad we didn't look in on Sheri we would have found her laying in bed still with her tights on and listening to something. Something in her head.