Stripping off her bra, Debbie quickly grabbed a piece of cardboard and
a black marker and walked with them and the chain to the center of the
living room.  She wrote SEXY DISPLAY on the cardboard piece and
set it on the floor in front of her.
  Debbie then took the gold
  chain and wrapped it around her waist  just enough so she could
  close the clasp on her right thigh. 
  
  Standing upright, Debbie smiled brightly as she held her pose like the
  many statues she and Nancy had walked past in their nighttime
  excursions.  Strangely, she felt an odd tingling sensation that
  was starting to spread from where the chain was on her through her
  entire body.  She dismissed it as part of the excitement she was
  feeling about being discovered like this by Nancy. 
  
  However, when she saw her reflection in a nearby brass sculpture, the
  true nature of the feeling and its repercussions revealed itself to
  her.  Her skin was rapidly changing from flesh and blood to warm
  plastic devoid of freckles and blemishes and any other signs of
humanity.
  Debbie could see lines forming out of the blue on her
  shoulders, wrists, waist and left leg as the change swept through her
  body. 
  
  "A
  MANNEQUIN... WHY.. HOW..... PLEASE NO.... I DON'T WANT TO CHANGE !!!!" 
  Debbie shouted to herself as her ability to move or talk had
  ceased.  She saw that her breathing had also ceased now with her
  breasts now two mounds of solid plastic with dark brown circles capping
  them.  Her eyes had changed into twin pieces of colored glass,
  though somehow she could still see out. 
             
  As the change neared its completion and Debbie's mind started to fade
  away, she became aware of two things occurring.  The first was
        Nancy running into the room and screaming in horror at the sight that
        she took in.  The second was the distant sound of police sirens
        that seemed to be heading in their direction.  After that, there
        was nothing as the change was complete and an inanimate plastic figure
        stood where a living human being was just a few minutes ago. 
  
             
  Nancy heard the approaching sirens as well and figured if she didn't
  get out of there, she would be arrested for certain or even changed
  like her friend was.  Grabbing  her purse and wearing only a
        T-shirt and shorts, she raced out the door vowing to try and find out
        what had gone wrong that night with her friend.. 
  
Twenty minutes later...
             
"All right, let's dust the place for prints and go talk to the
  neighbors for a description of who lived her.."  Detective Kojak
  shouted to the men bustling in and out of the house.  He pulled
  out a lollipop and sucked on it thoughtfully while looking over the
  semi-nude mannequin. 
  
           
"Detective!... Detective, we've got a problem here!"  a
  man shouted as he ran up to the bald officer. 
  
            "What is it, Sergeant Hutch?  Did you get hold of the museum
  curator who put this anti-theft device in his exhibit?  I want
  this mannequin changed back to the woman she was right away!" Kojak
  snapped at the curly haired man. 
  
           "Well,
  that's the problem, sir.  You see, the curator tried to get hold
  of the inventor of the unique device that was designed to look like an
  ordinary chain earlier today but was told he had died in a house fire
  just recently .  Unfortunately, the same fire had also destroyed
  all his notes including how to reverse the change.  The curator
  was going to remove the chain tomorrow but..." Hutch said softly before
  trailing off. 
  
           "DAMN!
  All right, Hutch, get over to the curator's house and arrest him right
  away!" Kojak shouted as another officer threw a tarp around Debbie's
  figure. 
  
           "On what
  charge?" Hutch inquired 
  
          "Mannequincide...."  Kojak muttered to himself as he walked away slowly........ 
  
THE END