.. yeah. I have a few times, I guess. Just to say hi you know,” reassuring me of her fidelity. “I know he's single and lives about an hour away in...Springfield.” I hesitated for a minute, unsure what to say next. I knew what I wanted to say, but a part of me resisted. A part of me didn't want to cross the threshold of sexual taboo, but another more primal part of me won the fight. “Well maybe we should invite Connor over for dinner and a movie. You guys could catch up on things and I could. Within a month, I am commonlaw married to him, I am on his insurance, and miscarrying the baby. He had a very good job, he took care of me and we dated occasionally but more often stayed in, ‘playing house’ as my mother put it a year later. Teenagers are fickle creatures. That was September and by December I was pregnant again and his daughter was calling me ‘mommy’. We were a happy little family. Three years go by. I went back to school and received my diploma. My husband lost his nice job but. It was really cool to get the whiteskates. And Jack got the black ones. He helped me tie my skates, whichwas nice because Mother made me wear a panty girdle to give me a moregirlish figure since I was wearing a pretty tight fitting leotard dress.The skirt length is below the knees. Not like some of those really shortcheerleader looking pleated skirts that some of the girls wore thatnight. But like I said, Jack is a real gentleman. He knows I'm really aboy and he still treated me like a lady. He. Until that time, the collar controlled everything.Later in the day, with the collar securely around her neck, Shumara had walked out of her rooms in the palace apparently of her own free will, but in reality with every slight muscle movement controlled by the collar. She walked down the royal hallway and came unannounced into the king’s throne chamber where the king was in the middle of his weekly vid-report to the people. He and his guards had been fully briefed and were expecting her.