"Goodbye girls, I'm leaving!" It was the call of the woman of the house, Mrs. Olsen, as she and the Mister left the two twins home alone so that the parents themselves could enjoy a night on the town. "And remember, if there's an emergency, call the number I left taped to the phone, since this cheap town has no 911 system yet (and problably never will). Dad and I are going out to dinner and a movie, and problably more. We problably won't be back until midnight, but you better not be awake then or you're going to be in big trouble when we get home. Have fun!"

"We won't, Mom! Goodbye!" cried Mary Kate and Ashley simultaneously, as the two adult authority figures surrendered control of the house to them. The door closed, and the family car drove off, leaving the two girls alone for the remainder of the night, as far as they were concerned, seeing as how they are to go to bed at 10:00, and the parents won't return for another two hours.

"Yesssss!!!!!!" screamed Ashley with joy. "We have the house to ourselves!!!! And Mom and Dad won't be back until late tonight, so we can do whatever we want until then!"

"Yipppeeee!!!" shouted Mary Kate, exilerated to the point of near-rapture. Immediately the minds of the identical-looking fraternal twins turned to fun activities to use to kill the remainder of the night. They decided to turn to prank phone calls.

"Okay," said Ashley, "I'll call first. We'll take turns calling people and driving them crazy."

"No, I go first!!!" shouted Mary Kate, and the two began to wrestle on the floor. As they wrestled, Mary Kate tore off Ashley's right shoe and threw it across the room. As Ashley ran to retrieve her shoe, Mary Kate lunged for her right sock and tore it off, then threw it across the room, exposing Ashley's cute bare foot. Ashley, realizing what was about to happen, didn't bother to get up and retrieve her shoe and sock. She just turned to Mary Kate and ripped her left shoe and sock off. Mary Kate didn't bother to get up and chase after her flying footwear either. She just reached out to Ashley's bare sole and tickled it.

Ashley let out a peal of laughter as Mary Kate's fingers ran up and down her sole. Immediately she thought of returning the favor, and noting Mary Kate's own bare foot, her hand flew there and poked at the foot, eliciting quite a similar response from her sister, the response Ashley had been looking for. The two wrestled on the floor, attempting to tickle each other's foot without getting tickled themselves. It was an interesting sight, to say the least. But finally Mary Kate called out "Stop!!!" inbetween peals of laughter. Ashley, upon hearing this, ignored the plea and continued to tickle the bare sole of Mary Kate. "Stop!" Finally, Ashley stopped. "Remember the prank phone calls we were going to make? Mom and Dad are gone, and we might never have a chance like this!!"

"Yeah!!! Let's do it!" cried out Mary Kate, and the two rushed for the phone. Mary Kate got there first.

As Mary Kate dialed up a random number, Ashley had decided that she liked the prospect of going barefoot around the house. It felt good on her feet, and it was a unique experience for her not to wear shoes and socks around the house. With these thoughts running through her mind, Ashley pulled off her left shoe and sock and hurled them threw the room. She was so lost in thought she barely heard her sister's call, and the laughter that was elicited from the response. "Okay Ashley," Mary Kate said, "it's your turn."

As Ashley got up to the phone, excitement ran through her head. Perhaps it was the idea that the response she will get will produce a great deal of humor for her benefit. Perhaps it was that she was doing something she knew she wasn't supposed to be doing, and that if she got caught, she would be in big trouble. Either way, Ashley grabbed the phone and dialed a number. After a few rings, the person finally answered.

"Hello?", called a drunken sounding man at the other end of the line. He sounded really friendly, possibly as a side effect from all the beer he had been drinking.

"Hello?", Ashley said, thinking fast. She had to come up with something funny to say quickly or else the whole prank would be ruined. "Is your refrigerator running?" Having heard that old joke before, the fact that it was stored away in her memory and the fact that she needed a joke desperately caused to choose that one. Now she almost wished she hadn't.

"Yes it is," replied the person, obviously not thinking straight.

"Then you'd better go catch it!"

"What?"

"Never mind." Embarassed, Ashley hung up the phone. "Your turn again."

Mary Kate got up to the phone and tried to think of a good joke for this next person. She dialed a random number, but the response she got at the end of the line was far from humorous.

A very loud shriek sounded at the other end of the line. "Help!!" screamed a woman, clearly in a great deal of distress. "Help!!!! He's going to kill me!!! You've got to call the co-" This was followed by a loud thump, and then the sound of a man's voice. "Hello? Whoever this is, you've got the wrong number!!!! You hear me!?!?!?!? THE WRONG NUMBER!!!!!!!!!" The phone went dead.

Trembling with fear, Mary Kate turned to Ashley. "A woman was just murdered on the phone!" Having heard the screams coming faintly through the reciever, a wide-eyed Ashley needed no further convincing. The two decided to stop making prank phone calls and wondered what to do.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in town, in a torn apart, practically destroyed house, a man named John Kohler stood over the corpse of his former girlfriend, lying on the ground with multiple knife wounds and the wounds of the various heavy objects John had used to strike her.

"I've got to do something about that caller," John thought, having not noticed before that the caller was rather young. "He or she might be a friend of Melissa's and could possibly call the cops on me, since everybody knows that Melissa and I went out together often." Thinking it over in his mind, John finally decided to trace the call and go back to the home of the person who had made the call, and kill that person, or do something to get the person from reporting the homicide to the cops.

John turned to the service of call-tracing to get a number, thinking that if it was one of his real close friends or a member of his former gang, he could easily get that person to shut up. But instead, call-tracing turned up an unfamilar number. "Hmmm...." John thought. "Who could this be? Problably one of Melissa's close friends. I just hope it's some sissy I can easily convince not to squeal to the pigs. I don't want another murder on my hands after the one I've just committed. I'd better pay a visit to this person. Besides, some neighbors must have heard this screaming and pigs will problably be here soon. I could seek refuge at someone else's house, and it might as well be the house of a perfect stranger - someone the cops couldn't trace me to." Grabbing some rope, a glass-cutter, and a sharp knife, John Kohler jumped into his car and drove off.

Back at the Olsen house, Mary Kate and Ashley still hadn't recovered from the shock of what they had just witnessed over the phone. They were watching "America's Most Wanted" on television, and that only made matters worse. Matters didn't get much better when they heard the sound of a car pulling up at the house. Immeadiately the two twins became paranoid and began to fear the worst, since their parents weren't supposed to be home until midnight, and it was only around 9:30. Several minutes later, they heard a booming voice come from behind them: "Don't move!!! Do not attempt to escape from me! Just sit right there and put your hands behind your back! If you dare resist me, this will be your fate." The man walked in front of them and then put the knife to his throat and pretended to slice it open.

Naturally the twins obliged. They sat there with their hands behind their back and didn't budge when ropes were wrapped around their hands, tying them together. The man then wrapped ropes around their feet and tied them together. Finally, he wrapped ropes around the girls' body, pinning their arms to their sides (but hands still behind back). Finally, the vile man stood back to admire his handiwork. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen sat on the floor with their hands tied tightly behind their back, ropes wrapped around them pinning their arms to their sides, and their feet tied together, Mary Kate having one shoe and sock off and one on, Ashley being barefoot. They couldn't move a muscle. They had no choice but to give in to the man's every whim.

Meanwhile, the man, who was John Kohler, began to ponder the situation. Panic from the thought of getting caught had clouded his mind and his thoughts ran in crazy circles. "I come to a house to seek refuge and silence a witness and I come across two girls? And twins, even? How old are these two? They couldn't be home alone, but I haven't found any parents anywhere. What am I going to do with the kids? What should I do if their parents come home? I've already committed homicide; can I do it again? I'm a fugitive now and now that the pigs are going to be after me soon, it doesn't really matter if I commit a crime, since I'll problably get the death penalty for what I've done. But now that I've gone here, broken into a house, and found two young girls here, what do I do now? And one more thing: why is one girl barefoot while the other has one shoe and sock on?"

While seeking refuge from the cops, John had decided it didn't matter what he did now. He changed the channel on the TV until he found one of his favorite shows, "2 Stupid Dogs", on Cartoon Network. He watched it for a while, until he noticed it was an episode he'd seen before. That problably meant that the other 2 episodes were ones he'd seen before also. He flicked the TV off, then turned to the girls.

"The girl with the one shoe, why aren't you wearing the other? What's this all about? You two look like identical twins, so if you dress identically from the legs up, why not your footwear?" Mary Kate was too frightened of the man to give a reply. John didn't wait for one anyway, and removed Mary Kate's right shoe and sock, exposing her other cute bare foot.

John pondered over this new development, and gave the girls a glare that reminded them not to struggle. Finally, acting on impulse, John reached out and tickled Mary Kate's bare sole.

"Hee hee hee hee!!!! Hahahahaha!!!!!!" Mary Kate laughed loudly and had a hard time controlling herself as John worked his fancy on her bound foot. But it didn't last long, though, as the intrepid Mary Kate covered her tickled foot with the other.

John decided he wasn't going to take this type of retaliation. He left the room and began looking for a piece of string. With him gone, the twins began to struggle to untie themselves. As they struggled, the ropes tightened, adding to the girls already great discomfort and helplessness. Giving up on trying to free their hands and general upper area, they then worked to get their feet free from the ropes. Their feet didn't go very far, however, as the ropes around them were too tight, and only seemed to tighten when the twins struggled. It seemed as though this man knew his knot-tying and knew it well, and the Olsen twins were the victims of this knowledge.

Finally John returned, brandishing two pieces of string. He used one to tie Mary Kate's two big toes together, and then used the other one on Ashley. Finally, he moved up to Ashley and reached out and ran his hands across her feet. "HAHAHAHA!!!! STOP!!!! I CA-HEH HEH HEH HANT TAKE HA HA HA HA HEH-NEY MORE!!!!" laughed Ashley as the man wreaked havoc across her helpless soles, as her toes wiggled and her feet tried vainly to escape. With her big toes now tied together, those feet were going nowhere, and the same with Mary Kate, who had previously been able to escape the nightmarish tickling by covering one foot with the other.

John finally decided to turn to Mary Kate, his other prisoner, and tested out his techniques on her bound feet. They worked like a charm. Mary Kate laughed as good as Ashley as she struggled to escape the tickling of John's flying fingers. "Ha Ha HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!! STAH HA HA HA HA HA HOP!!!!! PLEEEH HEE HEE HEE HEE HEESE!!!!!" Of course John had no intention of stopping. He continued to use his talented hands and fingers to cause this tickling nightmare to his prisoner, and kept it up literally for a half-hour, until he was exhausted. Deciding there was no way the two twins could identify him to the police, and feeling like leaving the place anyways, John turned to leave. But first he went through the house to get a pen and write a message to the twins: "If you tell the cops, you're dead meat." He then decided it was a bad idea, and finally he decided to go to them himself.

"Okay girlies, I'm gonna make sure you whine to the cops about this whole thing." John brandished his knife. He prepared to bring it down on Mary Kate's head, and as she saw this, her fear rose and she braced herself for what may well happen next. Fortunately, John changed his mind. He then stuck the knife into the carpet, and left a few words of warning, "let that remind of what will happen if you squeal to the pigs." Finally, the man left the house and drove away.

The twins then began to struggle some more against their bonds, trying futiley to slide their hands and feet out of their ropes. "It's no use!" cried Mary Kate. "We're tied too tightly! We'll never get free!" But Ashley noticed the knife and had an idea. After finally managing to slide over to the knife, Ashley began to rub her bonds against it and freed her hands. She then cute free the ropes wrapped around her, and finally, she picked up the knife and cut free her feet. She then put the dangerous instrument away, and turned to Mary Kate.

Even after having been through all of this, Ashley hadn't forgotten about how Mary Kate had torn off her shoe and sock and tickled her, and started the whole shoe/sock-removal thing. If they had been wearing their shoes and socks at the time the man the met them, he might have never thought to tickle them. So in Ashley's mind, part of this was Mary Kate's fault. Ashley ran her fingers up and down Mary Kate's bound soles and tickled her like crazy. She continued to do this for a while, then finally used the knife to cut her sister free. With the two of them free, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen then hurried off to bed, to ponder the events of the day, which will undoubtadly make an appearance or self-reference in their dreams.