If I ever get one, I want to have some breaking in to do."The not-so-huge gave me a wink. "And how lucky can Ric really be, beinghere?" Good point."We... stopped at a door. It slid open and the big one pushed me through. "Inyou go. Thank you for your co?peration."The door slid shut behind me. I was in what looked like the main room ofan apartment. The light-screens behind the shutters mimicked real windowsand sunlight well, even though we had to be deep under the ice, andperhaps even rock, by that. "You rock, Irene," Debbie said, andthe girls went to their rooms to dress up themselves.I just stood there, with mixed emotions and trying to find the courageto go outside.The girls came down again, dressed in several shades of urban streetwear, and it was clear that there was no way back.Since the weather was grey and a bit chilly, Debbie handed me a gorgeousblack leather jacket. "Ready?" she smiled, and opened the door.In a dream I stepped outside and walked the first yards down thesidewalk. She was always alone. She sometimes read. A few times I walked past her, offering a kindly “g’day,” yet never acknowledged. As the sun was setting, she would get up and saunter to the water. She strolled waist deep, before diving in, disappearing beneath the surface. After a short swim, she walked out of the water like a vision, before disappearing with the setting sun. She was mysterious.After four weeks, she disappeared as surreptitiously as she arrived. She was captivating. Now she was gone.. I ran upstairs to grab my watch, my dad was in my room hanging my fresh clothes into my wardrobe. I grabbed my watch, said bye and ran downstairs, past the hall and waited by the window next to the front door. A few minutes passed and I saw the bus’s two flashing lights picking up people from down my street, the bus was heading towards my house, I ran outside, towards the bus, pulled myself up into it and run down and found a free seat whilst the bus driver closed the door and took off.It was a.