When she returned he was clutching the plastic bag and ties. He'd remembered everything, she thought. She lit all five candles.Outside, Mike sat on th... couch to watch some television. He heard Jennifer close the door to her room, then the click of the lock turning.In the candlelight, Jennifer watched Steve place the plastic bag over his head and fasten the ties over the plastic that was wrapped around his neck. She shifted her restless hands to her lap and watched Steve. Then as planned she. " Good, great. I'll go set it up. Yell when you're ready."Chapter 2"Daniel!" Coming."Beverly was sitting on her unmade bed wearing her fluffy white terrycloth robe. A towel was coiled around her head. As I approached, she laced her fingers and reversed her hands in front of her chest. She seemed a little nervous but a bit eager too."You're such a sweet-talker, Daniel, but I'm a little embarrassed. Could you close the curtains? I'll be more relaxed if it were darker." Sure, Bev." I closed the. Since both blood trails were semi-dry I didn’t give either of them a second look, instead focusing on getting undressed as ordered by Alexa. It only took me a few more minutes to unstrap my ballistic vest and to get rid of the t-shirt that I’d been wearing under it.“So what do you think?” I asked casually as I tossed my kit aside.“I think that you’re a very lucky bastard,” Alexa muttered stiffly as she looked me over in the fluorescent lighting of the room. “A few inches higher and you’d have. Ithink it is to make an example of you and to remind them tokeep in line. We will need to make sure you areappropriately dressed, you don't want to break rule 3 sosoon after breaking rule 2! ;-)." The familiar smiley icontold me that she had now forgiven me and had got back hersense of humor.Jenny went to the wardrobe and looked through the clothes.She picked up the pen again. "It is traditional to make adramatic entrance in these coming out parties, the hoodgives you a good start, I think.