I didn't have any sense of time in the crate. All I was aware of was some movement
and then some voices. The crate was opened and I was taken out. A woman was
looking at a piece of paper then said, "Ok get it dressed in a school uniform. Since it
has a bit of a bust put a white sports bra on it."
"Should we use the winter uniform?" a man asked.
"Use your brain for once," the woman said. "Is it winter yet?"
"No," the man answered.
"Has school started yet?" the woman asked.
"It starts next week," the man said.
"So what uniform do you suppose we put on this mannequin?" the woman asked.
"The summer uniform," the mam said.
"That's right," the woman said and her tone made it clear she had been over
something like this with the man before. "Now get this mannequin dressed." The
woman left the man and a girl to dress me.
"I wish that she was a mannequin then maybe we'd have a better boss," the man
grumbled.
"Well you really don't think before asking something," the girl said.
"How was I suppose to know what uniform to put on it?" the man asked sounding hurt.
"Well if you had thought about it you would have figured it out," the girl said with a
sigh. "Lets go get the clothes." They left for a few minutes and when they came back
the girl said, "Ok now we can dress her."
"Why do you refer to these mannequins as him and her?" the man asked rolling his
eyes.
"Why do men refer to cars and ships as she?" the girl shot back.
"That's different," the man said defensively.
"You're right there is a difference," the girl said. "While cars, boats, and mannequins
are all inanimate objects mannequins at least look human. And why is it always that
cars and ships are always a she?"
"They just are," the man said shrugging. "Perhaps we can get it dressed before the
witch comes back."
The girl rolled her eyes at one of those comments or maybe both. They started by
putting a pair of plain white cotton panties on me. It was weird because they did it
while I was still completely disassembled. I figured out why when they put a pair of
white pantyhose on me. They only pulled both up my right leg until they were a little
below crotch then stuffed my left leg in them. Once they had done that they connected
my left leg and pulled them up a little more stopping below my hips. I could see that if
they had tried to put them on with my lower half together they wouldn't have been able
to. They slipped on a pair of black shoes that had a strap across the top about
halfway down my foot. They then stood me on the base and I felt the rod go up my
heel into my leg. I didn't understand how that could be then I guessed that there was a
hole in the shoe and pantyhose so I could be stood on the base. The girl took a red
pleated skirt and unzipped the hidden side zip then put it on my lower half letting it fall
down my legs a bit. Then they picked up my upper half and connected it to my lower
half. I saw why they had left the panties and pantyhose down below my hips since they
came up over my hips and would have been caught when they put my upper half on.
The girl slipped a sports bra over my head and down onto my chest. I lost sight of
them as they went behind me but I could feel them putting my arms through sleeves.
Soon they were connecting my arms and hands. The girl came around buttoned up
what I was wearing and pulled the skirt into position. She then buttoned something
else and then put something around my neck. I heard a snap then the girl fussed with
what I could only assume was a collar and pulled my hair out from the back.
The girl looked me up and down then said, "I think her hair would look good in a
ponytail."
"I want no part of that," the man said. "You know how the witch hates people messing
with the mannequins' hair."
"Oh a ponytail will be easy to take out if she doesn't like it," the girl said sighing. She
then takes a brush to your hair and after a few minutes you feel her tugging it.
"There," she said coming to stand in front of you again. "Now we can put her out on
the floor."
The man picks you up and the girl picks up the base. As they start walking the girl tells
the guy to be careful. They get you out onto the floor in good shape and put you up.
The girl fussed with your clothes a bit and steps back just as their boss comes up.
"Well you managed to get it dressed alright," she said. "Now there's some clothes that
need to be put back where they belong." The man and girl went to put the clothes
back and the woman looked at you with a curious expression on her face. She shook
her head and mumbled, "If I didn't know any better I would say it was alive." She then
left still shaking her head slightly.
During the rest of the day you stood there watching the people that came into sight.
You were in the girl's department so most of the people you saw were girls and the
discussions centered mainly around clothes and boys. There was the occasional girl
who would shudder when they saw you and remark to their friends how they had
heard about the mannequins moving by themselves at night. One girl swore that her
older brother who was a night guard in the mall
actually saw the mannequins move. Her friend shook her head and told her that she
was being ridiculous and that there was no way the mannequins could move by
themselves. I knew that it was possible for for something to move by itself. I had been
transformed twice already so it wasn't a stretch of the imagination to think that
mannequins might be able to move by themselves. About two hours after those girls
had left a girl passed by me. She looked at me and smiled then she did something I
didn't expect, she winked at me. It was almost as if she knew I could see her. How
could she though? Could she somehow know that I was a real person before? I guess
I wouldn't know unless she decided to tell me and that didn't seem likely.