From: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) Subject: I don't know (a girl) Date: 9 Nov 92 11:18:52 GMT Before you read: C&C wanted! I don't know (a girl) by Gard Eggesboe Abrahamsen This is the story about three people being four people in the same house. But they are only four. It is the story about the cows that ran away from home and never came back because they found out that the cars were cheaper. This is the story that isn't dedicated to anyone in particular, but just another female whose name is Lene Kristin Tjervg. She was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen in his life. It was most logical that he felt quite sexually attracted to her. Mike got up from the chair and walked slowly towards her as she was powdering her nose. Just as he was going to grab her, she stepped aside, leaving him hugging his toothbrush. She looked angrily at him as if he'd tried to rape her, before she continued to simultaneously ignoring him and powdering her nose. "Tammy!" he uttered. "Why do you treat me like that?" "Talking to ourselves again, are we?" Mike turned round to meet the one who had spoken with such a scaring unfeminine voice. It was Rik who had just entered the room. "For your information, I was talking to Tamara." He turned back to Tamara, and was quite flabbergasted to see that she had managed to escape without using the only exit of the room. "...er...Well..." Rik gave a look of understanding to Mike, but deep in his darkest mind, he had a strange feeling about Mike's special ability to loose grip of the real world. "Listen, Mike." he tried to tell Mike. "Why don't you talk to the office guys about it. They might find one for you that looks exactly as you like your Tamara." He stopped to see how Mike was taking it. Mike was still calm. "They'll understand. Being locked up in an old house for months without seeing any females just because the big guys want a new toy is haunting us all. But you have to let them know before you get your illusions." Rik turned around and pushed a slow moving figure called Neil back through the door before he had the chance to enter the room, and Mike was once again alone in the room. Feeling the aggression come on, he lifted his hand and tightened his fist as if he was going to hit the mirror. "Don't do that," he heard a female voice say behind him. He tightened his fists a bit more and smashed the mirror, cutting his hand seriously. Blood spilled all over the bath room floor. All he could do was scream as he tried to stop the bleeding, twisting in the pain. The noise had attracted Rik's attention. The nosty head of his peeked into the bath room. "Oh my God!" he shouted as he studied Mike's wounded hand. "How the heck did you manage that?" "I smashed the mirror," Mike answered with a faint sound of pain in his voice. "But the mirror isn't broken..." Mike turned back to the mirror and saw Rik's point. But his hand was bleeding like hell. Quickly he bandaged it before the world blackened and disappeared in front of him. He turned over and stretched his arm over to the other side of the bed. There was something nice, warm and cuddly there. Slowly but surely his attraction to fleshy pleasures pulled him over to the side of the bed to which his arm had been sent to scout. A sensational feeling radiated through his body as he inserted his arisen sausage look-a-like sexual organ into a correctly sized hole in the cuddly thing he had crept over to, only to be shattered with a violent explosion as the cuddly thing was punctured by a sharp thing. Mike fell down on the now quite flattened cuddly thing that wasn't very cuddly anymore. Mumbling something about the low standards of todays inflatable females, he dressed and left the room, heading for the lab where he was supposed to work. The quicker the three of them had their toy finished, the quicker they'd get out of there. The lab was the biggest room in the house, but still, it was the room with the smallest walking space. This was because almost the entire floor was covered by the huge machine that the three scientists had been working on for months. In one end of the machine, there was something that looked like the electric chair, and in it, a monkey was not having the pleasure of eating pizzas. However, it was fastened to the chair and looked a bit sad, as if it had realized that it now was about to be executed for a brutal murder it hadn't done. And it would be executed without a legal trial. "Ready?" Rik shouted to Neil, who was at the other end of the machine, controlling some switches. "Ready?" Neil wondered and started reading the labels of the buttons. There were two of them. Start and stop. "Ready?" Rik tried again. "Oh! Ready! Yeah, sure. Of course." Neil slowly moved his finger to a position where he easily could push the start button. Rik checked the monkey once more before he raised his hand and showed Neil his thumb. He waited a bit before he started waving to Neil. Then he started jumping up and down. "Rik you fuckin' asshole! Start the fuckin' thing!" he screamed. Neil seemed to choke something in his throat, quickly moved his finger away from the button, hit his head, lost his balance and fell onto the button, starting the unidentifiable scientific machine of allmightyness or whatever. A twisted expression of terminal pain struck the monkey's face as it tried to get out of the chair. It seemed as if he was literally boiling inside, and his eyes started melting, flowing down onto the floor. Then it sat there calmer and cooler than it had ever been sitting before. Neil bent down in front of the monkey and looked into its face. "Is it dead?" he asked. Mike grabbed a scientific calculator from one of his pockets and started pushing some buttons. "According to my calculations," he began, still making lots of clicking noises by hitting different keys. After a while, he stopped. "Yes, it's dead." "Good," Rik commented. "Now, could someone please clean its eyes off the floor? I don't like dead ... things that are looking at me like that." Mike yawned as he went back to his room. He slowly undressed, studied his thing between his legs for a moment, playing with the though of using it to something more than pee pee before he slowly crept under the blanket which was covering most of his bed. He lay there for a moment, staring at the ceiling. One could not really tell what was happening inside his top floor accessory, but it was probably damaged and quite uninteresting anyway. In short terms, he was the mad scientist that had started it all, by offering the army a machine that could read somebody's mind and translate it to an NTSC standard TV picture to broadcast all over the US. Most people called it madness and an intrusion of man's private life. Mike called it business. Even though the army would use it for military purposes, Mike had calculated that with such a machine, he would be able to create 365 big success movies every year. And without the costs it takes normal film companies to make special effects. These would come for free. Green. The ceiling was green. He had had the ceiling painted green because he liked it green. Just the colour was attractive to him. And it reminded him of the fact that there was more in life than life. Slowly, he closed his eyes and turned over. He felt the sweet smell of perfume pour itself into his nose as he gently sniffed the odours that were connected to the body in front of him. It suddenly hit him. He quickly opened his eyes and got quite startled to find a female lying in the bed with him. Was it a dream come true, or was it a taped recording of last weeks Late Night Show on Filmnet? At least it was a quality brand video tape. "Tamara?" he whispered gently, trying not to make her go away. "Yes, Mike!" she whispered back. "Tamara!" "Yes!" "Tamara!" his voice started getting a little excited and a minute sense of hysteria and desperation could be interpreted from it by professional psycho analysts. "I love you, Mike!" "Tamara!" "Yes, Mike!" "Tamara!" "Yes!" "You're not very good programmed, are you?" "I love you, Mike!" "Fuck you!" "Yes, Mike!" "Cycle three, phrase two." "Yes!" "Open your mouth and say ah!" "I love you, Mike!" "Shut up!" "Yes, Mike!" "For my sake, drop dead." "Wake up, Mike." There was something odd about how she had said that. At first, he couldn't put his finger on exactly what it was, but after thinking for a while (doesn't that hurt?), he realized that Tamara had just spoken to him with the voice of a male. And not just any male. It was the voice of Rik. "Mike, wake up." Mike opened his eyes, discovering that he actually was strapped to the same chair as the monkey had been killed in. Desperation attacked his emotions and made his muscles tighten in a stupid attempt to get out of the iron grip the chair had on him. Tamara was laughing in front of him. Her voice had the most perfect vibrato he had ever heard. She jumped up and down, sang about gold and headed for the control table. "Don't," he cried as he felt a sharp pin penetrate his head and mess around in his brain. He started twisting in his chair, trying to think of something else than the pain. The room became just a blur in front of him, swinging from left to right and back again, in a hypnotic manner before it faded away in the darkness of the street. The street was empty, with the exception of a red car. The smell of warm blood struck his nose. He moved silently towards it. Only a faint image of two people having some fun together could be sensed. A car roared in behind him, making him turn around. It was red. A big red car, looking just the same as the one he was standing next to, and it was hurling straight towards him. Terrifying laughter sounded through the air, making his bones shiver. Everything was black, only laughter. An enormous laughter that could eat him raw as an appetiser. He wanted to puke. All in a sudden, big white lights flashed in front of him. It was impossible to see anything, he could only hear an electronic voice from somewhere in his head. "Welcome to Nightmares Electric, the company that gives you the nightmares of your life. The exit code for this progra.....fds.fdskagf.zkkkkkkkkk" The voice died into nothingness, and a bolt of electricity ran through his body. He was stuck. "Rik," he yelled. "Get me outta here!" Rik appeared in front of him, drooling, yearning for blood. He had a vicious look in his eyes. He knew what he wanted, how to get it, and where. The knife was already in his right fist. It was just to take all the slices he wanted to, and the victim was standing right in front of him. Mike couldn't move. He was chained to a lamp post. No keys. No way to get free. And a barbaric creature that used to be his friend was waving with a knife only an inch in front of him. The knife cut deeply into his stomach. Blood poured out through the wound and into Rik's mouth. He giggled. He was having a great time. A sharp string tightened around Mike's throat, and he heard the Tamara's evil laughter behind him. The string cut deeper and deeper, cut the veins and the pipes. He felt sick as the head snapped off. The ground hurled towards him but disappeared as in the impact. Everything was dark. There was a thick smell that reminded him of the lavatory after Neil had been there. He grabbed a match from his pocket and lit it. The sewer was easy recognizable. Just as easy recognizable as the chain round his neck and the rising water level. "Exit," he tried to say calmly. "Sorry, inaccurate code," a metallic voice told him. "Quit," he tried again. "Sorry, inaccurate code." "Just get me the fuck outta here," he yelled. There was an orange flash, some beeps, his eyelids turned green for a second before they faded into a greyish colour. A blue blur appeared in front of him, grew to cover his entire view and faded into something white. He quickly removed the tubes that were attached to his forehead. The room was small. Just a little black box with a green light and some numerical displays were put in a corner of the room. The bed on which he was lying filled most of the available space. It looked cheap. Just as cheap as the note attached to his toe. "Mike Etheridge, 37891" He tasted on it. He couldn't find any logical idea of what the number could be, other than a serial number. He couldn't remember why he was there, but at least he remembered his name. The door opened. A female stood there, looked straight into the air without focusing. "Hi," she said calmly, before closing the door. She had a most cuddly body, but her stare was cold and spiteful. Mike lifted his hand, as if to touch her. She took a step back without a word. A sense of tension filled the air. It could almost be touched, as electric impulses that would try to push him back, but he got up on his feet, grabbed her, gave her a big kiss. There was something divine about it. So soft and warm, but still with a trace of anger and spite. Good and evil was fighting each other between the lips, and evil was winning. An electric charge pushed Mike back to the bed. They looked intensely at him before she left through the door she had come through. There was a click, announcing that Mike would be unable to leave the room through that door. And unfortunately, it was the only door. Sunlight fell down on his eyes. He looked out of the window. It was a long way down. He had had near death experiences before, he wasn't afraid of that. But he would like to have a better reason to die than non-existence. He opened the window. If it was just another nightmare, he would wake up as he hit the street, and if not, he would die quite instantaneous. He would have nothing to loose other than the female he had just kissed. The thought played with his mind. Now he had the chance to kiss death. He jumped. As he hurled towards the ground, images flashed in front of his eyes. Images of a happy life, kids he would be the father of, his wife. He studied his wife. Her face was sad. She was weeping. The kids were weeping. They all had hate in their eyes. The wife had lost her husband. The kids would not be born. And he was still hurling towards the ground. "Forgive me," he cried. "Forgive me," The impact was hard to take. It felt as if the body exploded. His bones were shattered, the head split open and the brain flowed out. The body ached so much, he had to open his eyes, but couldn't. He couldn't move, just feel the pain. The entire world was pain. As he opened his eyes, he sensed the wetness of his bed. Wet of sweat. It had just been a bad dream. He grabbed his inflatable Tamara and hugged her. "At least you won't leave me," He got up on his feet, dressed and went to the lab. It was empty. With a quick touches, he snapped a few switches and sat down in the experimental chair. The straps automatically fastened him, and a rotating pin started moving towards his forehead. It hurt a bit as the pin forced open a hole, but after that, there was nothing...