I have a bad feeling about this, Melissa thought as she entered the locker room. Kristy was standing before her naked, but that wasn't what bothered Melissa. The cheerleaders changed into and out of their uniforms in front of each other and frequently showered together after games and practices, and were quite used to the sight of nudity, especially in the locker room.
It was the fact that Kristy was scowling and tapping her foot impatiently that made Melissa nervous. "I know," she said, holding up a hand to forestall the captain's tirade. "I had car trouble again."
"When are you going to get rid of that piece of shit?" Becky asked as she finished straightening her uniform's skirt and checked to make sure that her long, shiny black hair was still straight in the mirror affixed to the inside of her locker.
"Better question," Kristy said. "How the fuck do you expect us to win any competitions if you can't even show up on time for practice?"
Melissa had already started removing her clothes so she could change into her uniform. Now, standing before Kristy in just her skimpy thong panties, she straightened and looked the pretty blond senior in the eye. This caused her perfectly shaped, gravity-defying 34D breasts -- tied with the identical twins, Tracy and Cindy, for biggest on the squad -- to point out intimidatingly at Kristy's smaller 34Cs. Kristy glared at them.
"I'm here now, and the longer you berate me the later we'll get started," Melissa pointed out. She had been about to apologize, but Kristy was being such a bitch she had decided to go another direction.
Kristy's expression hardened. "Next time you're late, don't bother showing up at all," she said darkly. "And tell Brandi the same."
"Brandi's not here yet?" Melissa asked. Her fellow freshman, though a year younger at 18, was usually more reliable than that.
"Nope," said Sheralyn, Brandi's best friend and the only black girl on the squad. "And no, I haven't heard from her."
"Weird," Melissa said as she started putting on her uniform.
Halfway through the day, there was still no sign of Priscilla or Brandi. This had caused Melissa to become quite preoccupied, and she slammed right into another girl going around a corner on her way to class.
"Oh! Sorry about that," the girl said, pushing her glasses back into position before bending down to retrieve the books and papers she had dropped.
"Totally my fault," Melissa replied. "Don't worry about it. Are you okay?"
"Yeah," the girl said. She was pretty in a nerdy sort of way, with long, straight, light brown hair, a fair complexion dotted with the occasional freckle, a body so slender it almost looked fragile, and large breasts -- about the same size as her own, Melissa guessed -- that looked out of place on her skinny body. She had a tight black T-shirt pulled over these huge melons, and it said I FEEL A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE on it. "How about you?"
"I'm fine," Melissa said, dropping to one knee to help the girl gather her things. Their breasts had connected pretty hard during their collision, but it had been more arousing than painful... Melissa hoped the girl couldn't see her hard nipples. "Just... worried about a friend that's gone missing."
"Really? Me too," the girl said. "My best friend Stacey didn't show up today, and she never misses a class. Weird... maybe there's some disease going around or something?" Stacey would have to be on her deathbed in order to miss a whole day of classes... it had to be an illness, maybe a flu outbreak or something.
"Maybe," Melissa said doubtfully. "But my sister's dropped off the radar too, and she'd still check in with a text message or something if she was sick."
"Yeah, it's not like Stacey to not let me know if something's up," the girl agreed. "But I'm making you late for class. We should continue this later."
Melissa nodded. "Lunch after this next class?" she suggested. The university had a cafeteria, and students met to hang out there in between classes all the time.
The girl, who introduced herself as Amanda, agreed... Melissa introduced herself too, then they parted ways.
About an hour later, Melissa and Amanda sat together in the cafeteria and talked about their missing friends and relative.
"Look at this," Amanda said, pulling out her smartphone. "I checked online to see who else might be tweeting about missing people -- three is a lot just for the two of us to know about, so I had a hunch there were more -- and I was right."
Melissa looked at all the posts, some of which contained pictures. Pictures of beautiful women, some of them even prettier than Brandi or Priscilla. "This looks almost exactly like my sister," she said, showing Amanda a picture of Tina Lawson, an up-and-coming model. "She's got different colored eyes and longer hair, but other than that they're the same."
Amanda nodded, taking the phone back and scrolling through the pictures to stop on a gorgeous redhead with cute glasses that enhanced rather than detracted from her beauty. "Same with this librarian, Summer Olsen. She looks an awful lot like Stacey, if Stacey dyed her hair red and straightened it."
"So do you think all these disappearances are connected?" Melissa asked.
"They're all occurring at the same time, which tells me they are. But this one, Kim Staples, she was a Laker Girl. As in, from California. Sure, a lot of the others were from the east coast, a lot of them from right here in Virginia, but then you've got this one on the other side of the country..."
"She doesn't fit the profile, though," Melissa said, reading about Lorraine Ling, a missing woman who ran a martial arts dojo she had actually driven past on her way here. "Not to sound racist or anything, but none of the others were black."
"Yeah, but she's young, pretty, athletic... most of the others fit that description," Amanda pointed out. "And skin color doesn't matter as much as it used to. I mean, I know we're in the south, but still..."
"Yeah, I know. So, you think she's connected to the others still? How? Aliens?"
"Don't be ridiculous!" Amanda said, tickling Melissa playfully. Her fingers accidentally grazed the underside of Melissa's breast, and Melissa felt her nipples stiffen again. She wasn't a full-fledged lesbian like her sister, but she was known to enjoy the company of women occasionally. She wondered how Amanda would respond if she made her feelings known, but then she saw her eyes drifting to Melissa's breasts of her own accord and realized that the interest was mutual.
"Maybe we should discuss this further in my dorm room," Melissa offered.