Rebecca Green rode up the elevator from her college dorm's laundry room, a frown on her face and her brow creased in thought. Someone had definitely taken two pairs of her panties and dirty panties at that! It had been a week since she had last done her laundry, and each of the seven nights since, as she had undressed for bed, she had placed her soiled panties in her laundry basket along with all her other dirty clothes. Yet now, instead of the seven pairs of panties, there were only five.

Rebecca, a studious freshman, tried to consider all the possibilities. She hadn't left them in the room, as she always checked to make sure nothing had fallen out of the basket before she took her laundry down, and she had been downstairs keeping an eye on her wash and studying her Psychotherapy homework, so no one could have taken them out of the machine. And she certainly hadn't left them in the machine, she always double-checked to make sure of that. No, someone must have taken them from her room.

Rebecca, having to keep both hands on her laundry basket, tried to blow a tendril of her shoulder-length auburn hair out of her eyes and scrunched her nose to wriggle her wire-framed glasses back into place. Her roommates couldn't have taken them, as both Miranda Olson and Amanda Carlson were much bigger than her 5'2", 105lb. frame and could no more wear her panties than they could fit their matching 36C breasts into one of Rebecca's 32B bras. Besides, they could just as easily have taken a clean pair.

Rebecca got off the elevator and started down the hall, still pondering. Could it have been one of the boys playing a prank? It seemed unlikely, as she had hardly had time for any socializing, what with getting used to a college course schedule and dealing with the inevitable fact that her relationship with Marc Stone, her high school boyfriend, wasn't going to survive the separation, with him going to State and her all the way up here in Boston. Jeremy Wolf had been hanging around her lately, but he was hardly the type, even more naturally reserved than she was. Besides, Rebecca thought ruefully, why would anyone fixate on her? She supposed she was pretty enough, but she was rooming with Miranda and Amanda (also known as "Randi and Mandi", or "the Doublemint Twins") two big (5'8" and 5'9". respectively) blonde athletes (volleyball team) who had guys around them like bees on flowers. Sometimes Rebecca really felt like the Odd Girl Out, as Miranda and Amanda, despite having only met at the start of the semester, were now the closest of friends.

Come to think of it, Rebecca thought as she reached the dorm room door, why would anyone take my plain white panties when my roommates have all those ridiculous silky thongs and whatnot? Oh well, she sighed, enough of this. She set down her basket, brushed a few hairs off of her V-Neck sweater, fished out her key, and was about to turn it in the lock, when she heard the strangest sound coming from inside the room…