Kid Sister
By The Professor
Thursday, 24 October, 1996
I've looked at this little book with the pretty pink and yellow flowers
on the cover every day since it happened. At first, I just ignored it. It
was just one more prop in a play I didn't want to act in. I left it on
the desk, dismissing it as something only girls would be interested in. I
mean, I've never known a guy to keep a diary. I certainly wasn't going to
keep one. Not me. I was a guy, no matter the evidence to the contrary.
But I've noticed that with each passing day, I seem to be losing little
pieces of myself. When the change happened, I was angry and confused. Now
I'm frightened. I had consoled myself with the fact that deep inside, I
would always be Daniel Franklin Korby, no matter what the outside looked
like. Now I'm not so sure. That's why I've decided to bite the bullet and
start keeping a diary. I want to remember who I really am - not what I
appear to be.
I'm going to keep it my own way, though. If I find myself starting out
"Dear Diary" on an entry, I'm going to throw myself off a cliff. I don't
even really plan to keep this on a daily basis. I'll just make an entry
when there's something I need to say. My greatest fear is that the person
I will be in two or three years will pick up this book and wonder why I
would ever write this. That person would wonder who this person was.
Well, this person is me, and as I fight back the urge to get all
emotional and just sit here and cry, I'd better start committing my story
to paper.
Maybe I should start with a little personal history. That seems in order
if I really want to remember the person I used to be. I know I'll
probably never completely forget, but I might forget my hopes and dreams
if I don't write them down. I don't want to forget them, no matter what.
I was born the third son of Grant and Cindy Korby. Dad had been a
professional football player, most recently with the San Diego Chargers.
His career in football had come to an end about the time I was born. He
and my mother preferred San Diego to their native Midwest, so they
elected to stay in Southern California. When I was born, Dad had just
started working as a stockbroker in a suburban office north of San Diego.
It was only a thirty-mile commute from our home in Rio del Diablo.
"Rio del Diablo," he would chuckle as I was growing up. "You can tell the
Spanish weren't real estate developers. Who in their right mind would
call this place 'River of the Devil'?"
They had named it with good reason according to the local history I had
studied back in middle school. The river that cut its way through the
valley in which the town was built was an unpredictable one, providing
abundant water for crops one year, running practically dry the next, and
swelling with an incredible fury to spread across the desert not far east
of town and wipe out half the farms in the valley the next year. It
wasn't until the Corp of Engineers damned it up after World War II that
the valley really came into its own.
By the time my parents had moved there back in the late seventies, the
town was pretty well built out, already bordering on other small towns
that had grown through the years in the wake of San Diego's explosive
growth. It was a nice town, though, filled with middle class families.
There were no slums and little crime. In short, it was the sort of town
everyone sought. It was safe, fairly new, affluent, and comfortable.
My brother Jake was born two years after me, and my parents finally
resigned themselves to the fact that they would never have a girl in the
family. So with four boys, they concentrated on raising a football team.
As I've already mentioned, Dad was a professional football player,
playing quarterback at the University of Kansas and shifting to strong
safety in the pros. After a slow start with Chicago, he was traded to San
Diego where he really came into his own, going to the Pro Bowl three
times.
Mom was no slouch either. She had been a varsity athlete in her own
right, participating in women's track at KU where she held a couple of
records that had never been broken. And no, she didn't have the rawboned
look of many women athletes; she was an attractive blonde who looked
outstanding in a skirt and heels.
I don't mention this without a purpose. I just want to note that I came
from good stock. My oldest brother, Grant, Jr., is now in his rookie year
with the Denver Broncos as a tailback and my next brother, Allen, is a
starting safety at UCLA in only his sophomore year. My younger brother,
Jake, is coming on strong at wide receiver, and he'll probably replace me
- well, would have replaced me when I graduated.
Yes, I was a good football player, but I wasn't a dumb jock no matter
what some people would have thought. I was a wide receiver, with the big
strong hands and 6'3" height which, when coupled with my substantial
speed, meant I was an outstanding college prospect. My grades were good
enough to get me into Stanford if I wanted to, but I had a strong desire
to play for my oldest brother's alma mater, San Diego State. While I was
intelligent, I longed to play pro football, too, and the Aztecs had a
wide open passing game that would serve me well with the pro scouts.
Did I mention I was a pretty good-looking guy, too? No? Well, I was.
Okay, so a lot of the jocks who aren't dumb are egotistical. I suppose I
was guilty of a little of that. But I had the reputation of being a
pretty decent guy. I knew of guys not unlike myself who used their looks
and their physiques to intimidate everyone. They'd bully the guys who
weren't into sports and pop the cherry of every unsuspecting girl they
could find. Not me, though. I had a number of friends who weren't jocks.
It came from the fact that my grades were as good as theirs. I think some
jocks envy the brighter guys, but not me. I was right up there with them.
As for popping cherries, it was mine that got popped. My junior year, I
ended up on a date with... well, I suppose I shouldn't write her name
down. She's married now. Anyhow, she was a year older than me, and a
bunch of us ended up out on a beach at night with some wine. Normally, I
didn't drink. The coach had a fit with any guy on the team caught
drinking. But it was late spring and all sports were over for the year. I
just had a couple of drinks, but it loosened me up. The girl I was with
that night practically raped me. I have to admit I didn't mind.
The only other time I had a sexual experience was pretty much the same as
the first time. Only that was at the beginning of this school year with
Vickie Peters. It was no big deal, though. Vickie asked me out, as she
had most of the team. We did it in the back seat of Dad's Buick. It was
also where I experienced my first - and as it turned out - my only blow
job.
So there I was, a senior in high school. I was a starting wide receiver
with great college prospects, a good grade point average, good looks,
girls at my feet, and an upper middle class lifestyle. In short, I was on
top of the world. I never dreamed how fast everything could fall apart.
It all started last Saturday night. The Rio Red Devils had crushed our
homecoming opponent on Friday night. I had caught four passes for
seventy-five yards, including the first touchdown of the game - all in
front of half a dozen college scouts. My numbers would have been better,
but the coach let the second and third teams have all the fun in the
second half. My younger brother caught the last touchdown pass of the
game. When it was over, we had trounced our opponent 52-10. We were all
feeling good.
I had a date with Allison Mathews. She was a sweet little redhead I had
known since starting high school, but we had never dated before. I was
never one of those guys looking for romance in high school. I dated a
number of girls, but none of them very long. I think it was because as a
young boy, I had known several girls who had been good friends, so I
didn't have the urge to find my one true love in high school. I knew that
would come in its own time.
Allison and I had dated casually off and on for the past year. We could
tell early on that there was no spark between the two of us. We were just
friends. In fact, there was only one girl in the school who was a closer
friend, and that was Jennifer Dawson. Jenny and I were so close we didn't
even bother to call our time together dates.
Anyhow, Allison and I would date when she was between boys. There were
very few guys in our class who wouldn't have gladly surrendered their
right nut for the privilege of being the very first guy to get in her
pants. Fat chance, though. Allison was a very religious girl. She was
"saving herself." I admired that in her, and Allison knew that. That was
why we could date every now and then. She knew I respected her decision
and there would be no funny business.
The party was going great. We even had a live band that sounded for all
the world like Hootie and the Blowfish. Everybody was having a good time.
I was drinking strictly soft drinks and punch. That is to say, I wasn't
slipping outside with any of the guys for a quick jolt of anything with
alcohol in it. Coach Hendricks would kill any player caught drinking
during the football season, and I wasn't ready to die. I mention this
just because I wasn't drunk or high or anything else that night. That's
how I know I couldn't have done what they said I did.
Allison and I had slipped outside for a few minutes. No, it wasn't to
make out; we really had gotten a little hot, and the music was too loud
to talk. The party was being held at a local country club, so the grounds
were well kept and beautiful in the moonlight. As we walked, we talked
about classes and our classmates. Allison was telling me all about a trip
she was going to be taking with her parents to Mexico over Thanksgiving
when it happened. Right in the middle of the conversation, I blacked out.
I had never been out cold before. Even when I had gotten hit in the last
game of the previous season, colliding head on with an opposing safety, I
had managed to stay alert. Now there I was, walking along with Allison
when the lights suddenly went out - way out.
The next thing I recalled was a girl screaming. The lights came back on
slowly as if the senses were being turned back on one at a time. Even
before I could see, I could feel rough hands on my arms, pulling me first
backwards and then up to my feet. The screams had changed to cries of
fear and distress, and behind me I could hear rough voices yelling, "Get
off her!" and "What the hell are you doing?"
Then I could see again, and I almost wished I couldn't for what I saw was
Allison on the grass behind some shrubbery. There was a long scratch on
her cheek, probably from one of the branches of the shrubs, and her dress
was torn, literally ripped away, and her bra pulled away so that one full
breast was exposed. She was looking up at me with pure horror in her
tear-filled eyes.
"What?" was all I could manage to say as I was turned to face Coach
Hendricks. It had been he who had pulled me up.
"Korby, what the hell do you think you're doing?"
I had awakened into a nightmare. How could I answer the question when I
had absolutely no idea what I had been doing? "I..." I started, but
couldn't think of anything to say.
"And stick your dick back in your pants, boy!" the Coach growled in a low
whisper. "Have you lost your mind?"
Maybe I had, I managed to think through the haze. I looked down at my
exposed penis and as my face flushed at the sight of several of my
classmates - male and female - who had gathered at the sounds of the
screams, I managed to stuff it back inside my pants. It wasn't all that
easy since it was partially erect. The look of disgust from my classmates
will be with me forever.
Two other men, one of them a friend of my father's, rushed up. "I called
the police," my father's friend told the Coach, indicating his cell
phone. "They're on their way."
Coach Hendricks looked me squarely in the eye. "This is what comes of
drinking," he told me. I started to tell him I hadn't been drinking, but
I could taste something in my mouth. Although I never liked it, I could
tell it was whiskey of some type. I remained quiet as the Coach went on.
"You're off the team, Korby. You'll be lucky if you don't do jail time.
If I had my way, I'd lock you up and throw away the key. God damned
pervert."
I knew he meant it. The Coach had two daughters of his own, not much
younger than Allison. He appeared ready to say more to me, but two police
officers appeared suddenly. With little preamble, one of them moved me
away, one arm held behind my back. I was actually happy to be led away. I
was embarrassed to be seen like this by so many of my friends. All of
them, even Jennifer Dawson, were looking down or away so they wouldn't
have to look at me.
The next two hours were a blur. I was still a little out of it. I had
never taken drugs in my life, but I imagined this must be what it was
like to come off a high. I was confused and inarticulate, barely able to
stand as they took away my tie, belt, and the contents of my pockets. I
was just staring into space when they took my fingerprints and my
picture. Then they roughly shoved me into a cell. At least I had the cell
all to myself. I don't think I could have faced anyone at that moment,
even another prisoner. I didn't know what to do, so I did something I
hadn't done since I was a small boy - I lay back on the cot and began to
cry.
"Dan!"
It was my father's voice, bringing me out of a troubled sleep. It had all
been a dream! It was just a terrible nightmare, I told myself. But then I
opened my eyes, and the harsh jail light flooded back in. My father was
standing over me.
"Are you all right?" he asked. There was concern in his voice, and I
could see the pain in his face. I always been a son to be proud of, but
now, I was in jail, apparently being held for an attempted rape. I didn't
know what to say to him. How could I tell him what had really happened?
How could I expect him to believe me?
"I'm okay, I guess."
"Come on," he said, still standing over me without touching me. "I've
arranged for bail for you. Let's get you home."
The police sullenly gave me my belongings and made me sign for them. I
could see the distaste in their eyes. I was a sex criminal, and many of
them had daughters I was sure. I wanted to die right then and there.
What had I done? I wondered as my father silently drove me home. I didn't
remember a thing. Had someone slipped something into my drinks? And why
couldn't I remember any of it? It was as if I had suddenly been jerked
out of my life and stuffed into this one. How could I possibly defend
myself? What must Allison - what must everyone - think of me? My life was
ruined in an evening. Nothing would ever be right again.
"Your mother is sleeping," Dad said as he guided the car into the garage.
"The Doctor gave her something to help her sleep. She's... very upset,
Dan."
I closed my eyes. I tried not to imagine what it must have been like for
her when she found out about me. My mother loved all of her boys, but in
a way, I was her favorite. I don't know why, but I was the one she seemed
to confide in. I was the one whose goals had matched hers. I wanted to
teach and coach at the high school level when I got out of school and
finished a football career, and her goal had been to teach as well. Now
that goal would be shattered for me. A sex criminal as a teacher or a
coach? No way.
"Get some sleep," my father told me tonelessly. "We'll talk about this in
the morning."
Yeah, in the morning, I thought. Then we could start to plan my court
defense. Then we could start to figure out what needed to be done with
me. Even if by some miracle I managed to get off on sexual assault
charges, my life was ruined. I felt like a piece of glass that had been
shattered. No matter how many shards of the glass could be found and
glued back together, the glass would never be whole - or useful - again.
I stumbled into my room, pulling off my jacket and shirt as I went. I
didn't even bother to turn on the light, so I didn't see Jake sitting in
the corner.
"What happened?" he asked softly. Jake and I were the only two boys left
at home now that Allen had gone away to college. As a result, we had
become quite close.
"You wouldn't believe me," I said with a sigh.
"Try me."
"Okay, why not?" I told him what I remembered. I told him about how great
everything was going at the party and how Allison and I had left just to
take a walk. I told him about waking up without any idea of what had
happened.
Jake whistled. "I don't know, Dan. I don't think anybody will buy that
story."
"Even you?" I asked softly.
"I want to believe you," Jake said with sympathy. "I really do. But think
about how it sounds. What could make you do this and not remember any of
it?""
A perverse hope swelled inside me. "Maybe it's a tumor, Jake," I
theorized. "I might have a brain tumor. It might have made me do this and
then forget about it."
"You sound as if you hope it is," he observed.
"Maybe I do," I admitted as I fell into bed. "It's about the only thing
that might explain this."
"Well, I hope it's not," he told me as he rose to leave. He put his hand
on my shoulder. "I'd hate to lose you."
It was at least a small comforting thought, and it allowed me to drift
off to sleep.
I awoke the next morning hoping that the previous night had only been a
bad dream, but I knew deep down that that wasn't the case. The horror I
had felt upon seeing Allison screaming at me, the antiseptic smell of the
jail cell, and the dour look from my father all were too clear in my mind
for it to have been a dream. While I felt embarrassed, I did not feel as
if I had done anything wrong. Attacking Allison had not been a conscious
decision; it just happened. I mean, even if I had been drinking booze and
attacked her, I remembered none of it. One moment, we were walking and
talking and the next moment, my life had been ruined.
No one else was up yet, so I managed to get in a shower and get dressed
without my family looking at me as if I were a condemned prisoner. Come
to think of it, that might be what I was. I was only out on bail, and I
knew enough about the legal system to realize that only meant I was free
until tried and - in all likelihood - convicted of sexual assault. What
was the phrase? Oh yes: penetration no matter how slight. I just hoped
and prayed Coach Hendricks had stopped me before... before I had
penetrated Allison.
I went out in the yard to pick up the morning paper, cringing as I
realized I might even be the subject of a story. At least I wasn't
eighteen yet. That meant they wouldn't print my name. A fat lot of good
that would do me, though. Everyone in town would know about it by
sundown.
I picked up the paper just as Jennifer was running by, her long brown
hair tied in a ponytail and swinging as she ran. As I said, of all the
girls I knew, she was my closest friend. She only lived a couple of
blocks away and frequently ran past the house. I had even run with her a
few times. As bravely as I could, I called out, "Good morning, Jen."
She had been ignoring me I realized, but as I spoke, she stopped abruptly
in front of me, her blue eyes drilling into me. "How can you be so calm
after what you did?" she muttered in amazement. "How can you even speak
to me?"
I was taken aback. I hadn't expected that from Jennifer. Oh, I had
expected her to be upset, but our friendship went back to when we were
both in first grade. She had been there for me when my grandfather died,
and I had stood by her four years ago when her sister, Lynn, had died in
a car accident. I thought of her almost as family, and I guess I had
expected her to react like members of my family had.
"I... I'm sorry, Jen," I apologized.
"And don't call me Jen!" she snapped. "It's Jenny or Jennifer."
"But I've always called you Jen," I pointed out. I didn't add that I had
always been the only one who did. "You never minded before."
"You never did what you did last night before," she replied.
"Look, I'd like to explain about that," I began. I was about to go into
my story, but she stopped me with a motion of her hand.
"Don't go any further," she ordered. "I'll just get more angry with you.
You know Dan, I thought you were special. I thought you were different.
But no, you're just like the Swensons."
Who were the Swensons? I wondered. Before I could ask that, she was gone,
running down the street without another word.
"Jen... Jenny," I called after her.
"You'll get yours, Korby," she called out over her shoulder. "You can
depend on that!"
I don't think I had ever felt lower. If Jen - Jenny - felt that way about
me, what must everyone else think? I was a pariah. No one would believe
me. Most, like Jenny, wouldn't even listen to what I had to say.
The rest of the morning didn't go any better. My father continued his
stony looks, gruffly responding to me when necessary. Mother still
couldn't bring herself to talk to me about it. It was all she could do to
keep from crying every time I looked at her. Maybe guys who did the
things I was accused of willingly could live with themselves, but I was
having a lot of trouble. I didn't even remember what I had done, and I
certainly hadn't done it willingly.
Thank god for Jake, though. He got me through the morning. He even took
me outside so we could throw the football around for a little while. I
was go grateful to him that I did my best to hide the fact that every
pass from him I caught was a reminder that on top of everything else, I
had been thrown off the team. Hell, I realized, I had probably been
thrown out of school, too.
I considered myself one of the good guys. Sure, I drank a little when I
wasn't playing sports, and I had partied a bit. But I had kept myself
clean - no drugs, no criminal behavior. The worst thing I had ever done
apart from a little trip last summer to TJ to see the sex shows was that
little party some of the guys and I had held up the canyon along the
river before school started. Even at that, we had just sat around at one
of the old line shacks left over from ranching days and drank a few
beers. I had a little headache the next day and swore off beer until
after the school year.
Now here I was, one of the bad guys.
Imagine my surprise when I got a call from Jenny. Jake had told me who
was on the phone. I was a little relieved. Every time the phone had rung,
it had been more bad news. As I expected, the school called to notify me
I had been suspended until further notice. My father's attorney had
called with the "good news." The District Attorney was only filing lewd
and indecent exposure charges and some sort of sexual assault short of
rape charge. With luck, I'd only get a short sentence and a lot of
probation time. Of course, my life would be ruined, but so what?
"Hello," I said hesitantly. I half expected Jenny to just give me hell
over the phone.
Her voice was terse but steady. "I need to see you."
"Why?" After all, she had made it clear to me only a few hours before
that she never wanted to see me again.
"Let's just say I can help you with your problems."
I admit I was a little hesitant. Jenny had made it clear earlier that she
thought I was pond scum. Why was she suddenly willing to help me? I
supposed she remembered that we had once been the best of friends. And I
certainly needed all the help I could get.
I looked at my watch. It was a little after two. "Dad has grounded me," I
told her, "but I might be able to get away with a short walk. Can you
meet me in front of the Samuelson's house?" That was a couple of blocks
away and out of sight from my house. I didn't want Dad to see me with
Jenny. If he saw me with a girl, he would probably freak out, given what
had apparently happened the last time I was with a girl.
"Okay. Be there in fifteen minutes." She then hung up.
What did Jenny have in mind? How could she help me with my problems? All
I really wanted from one of my oldest friends was for her to listen to my
side of the story. I mean, there was no doubt I did what I did, but I
didn't remember any of it. How could I make her believe me?
Slipping out of the house wasn't a problem. Mother was resting again. She
seemed on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Dad and Jake were watching a
game. Jake had invited me to watch with them, but I couldn't stand the
thought of watching a football game knowing my own future in football was
nil.
I called to my dad that I was going to take a short walk. Apparently when
I called out to him, KU was on the five yard line with a third down, so
his interest was elsewhere. That was fine with me.
I had expected Jenny to come running up to me, but instead, I recognized
her behind the wheel of her mother's little BMW Z-3. The top was down and
her long brown hair whipped loosely in the breeze. She pulled to a stop
and ordered, "Get in."
I quickly got in next to her. Without a word, she pulled away from the
curb. Then she said, "I got a Coke for you." She motioned to an open can
in the cup holder next to me.
"Thanks," I said, taking a sip. I didn't say anything. I was waiting for
Jenny to talk to me. This was her game. She'd have to set the rules.
But she said nothing as she drove, heading over to the main drag, then
turning east.
"Jenny, something happened to me last night," I finally began, unable to
stand the silence.
"Sure," she growled. "You just saw Allison and couldn't help yourself."
I sighed, taking another drink. "You don't have to be sarcastic about it.
Look, Jen - Jenny - I wasn't myself when I did that. I don't even
remember doing it. One minute, Allison and I were talking and the next
minute Coach Hendricks was pulling me away from her. I honestly don't
remember anything in between. You know me, Jenny. You've known me most of
your life. If I was that kind of an... an animal, wouldn't you have
figured it out by now."
She seemed to be quietly considering that as she drove past the edge of
town out into the farmland that spread out from the river. "Maybe you had
too much to drink," she suggested. Was it my imagination or had her voice
softened just a little?
"I never drink during football season," I reminded her. "Unless somebody
slipped something in the punch last night, I haven't had anything to
drink in a couple of months. Jenny, you have to believe me. You have to
help me."
She looked at me, and her glare softened a little when she saw the tears
in my eyes. She even slowed the car a little, as if she was debating
about continuing.
"I... I..." I tried to speak, but I seemed to be losing my ability to
control my voice. Oh no! I thought. Was I starting to black out again?
Was the mindless animal who had attacked Allison about to rise up again
and attack Jenny? I fought for control. No, this wasn't the same
sensation I had felt the night before, but I seemed to be drifting off to
sleep.
"Dan, the decision has already been made," she said to me as I began to
drift off. "I'll do what I can for you, though. I just hope you're
telling me the truth."
It was the last thing I heard.
No, this wasn't like the last night with Allison at all. The night
before, I had blacked out, and the time when I had committed my crimes
were completely lost to me. But from the time I passed out in Jenny's car
until I awakened, I had vague perceptions of what was going on. I felt
the brakes of the car grip and heard the crunch of gravel beneath the
tires. I could smell the dusty air and feel the sun against my face. I
was pulled roughly from the car, and I could hear voices - familiar
voices as at least four people, one for each limb, carried me from the
car. All of the voices were female, and I could even remember musing that
I must have been quite a load for four girls to carry.
Then the sun was off my face. I was inside a building, but an old, unused
one from the musty smell and creaking boards. I was hot. October in
Southern California can be quite warm, and the was little ventilation in
the building.
"He's waking up!" a girl's voice hissed.
"I'll take care of it," another said. I felt my head being held up. There
was a bottle at my lips with something cool and refreshing in it. Without
thinking, I drank as someone held my head. Then I passed out again.
Unlike the night before, I dreamed, but I almost wished I hadn't. It was
dark in my dream - not the darkness of night, but rather the darkness of
something else - something evil and foreboding. It was the sort of dream
where you're standing in a shapeless room and can't even see the walls
unless you look right at them. But you aren't looking at the walls to
begin with. Instead, you are trying to figure out just what is in the
room with you. Whatever it is, it can't be seen; it can only be... felt.
And heard. It chuckled softly, amused by my discomfort. I had to get away
from it. I had to wake up. I -
"Welcome back, Dan."
I recognized the voice. It was Stacy - Stacy Palmer, one of the girls in
my class. Slowly, I opened my eyes, letting myself be flooded with
sensations. It was dark, but I was still in the building. The moldy odor
was still there. Moonlight flooded in through an open window, and a cool
breeze played over my naked body.
Naked?
Yes, I was naked. I tried to move an arm to cover myself so Stacy
couldn't see me, but my arm refused to move. It wasn't that I was tied
down. Rather, I was laid out, spread-eagled on the rough wooden floor,
unable to move anything but my head. I turned it from side to side,
making out five figures in the semi-darkness. They were all girls from
their shapes. I recognized Stacy from her blonde hair in the soft
moonlight. Jenny was standing next to her. As for the others, they were
too far from the light for me to see who they were.
I was relieved to see they weren't carry torches, long knives and wearing
black robes, but somehow I got the feeling they might as well have been.
"What... what have you done to me?" I managed to ask through drug-
thickened lips.
"Nothing - yet," another voice replied, amused. This got a little giggle
from the group. I thought I recognized that voice, too. Yes, it was
Stephanie Long, another girl in my class. Let's see, Stacy, Stephanie and
Jenny. That meant the other two were probably Karen Withers and Pam
Davison. The five of them hung around together.
"We're going to make sure you never do to any other girl what you did to
Allison," another voice said. Yeah, that sounded like Pam's voice.
"Are we ready to begin?" another voice asked. It was Karen. Hail, hail,
the gang's all here, my dulled mind thought.
"Not quite." It was Jenny. Good to her word, she was going to help me.
Good old Jen - Jenny. "I want to claim him."
There was a collective gasp from the other girls. Claim me? What the hell
was she talking about?
"Jenny," Stacy said softly, "we all agreed..."
"I know." I could see Jenny's head nodding in the moonlight. "But this
isn't like the Swensons. I mean, Dan's never done anything like this
before."
"And he never will again after tonight," somebody interjected to sounds
of laughter. I couldn't tell who had said it.
"No, he won't," Jenny said evenly, "but shouldn't some good come out of
all of this? You know what my... my parents have been going through. This
is a chance to use this terrible incident for good. I promise you he
won't have an easy time of it."
They were all quiet for a moment, as if considering Jenny's words.
"We'll all see to that," Stephanie said to the added mutterings of
agreement from the other girls.
"Then it's agreed?" Jenny asked.
"No!" It was Karen. Her voice was strong and angry. She got in Jenny's
face. "We all agreed what was to become of him and all like him."
"I'll take responsibility for him," Jenny argued, holding her ground. "It
won't be pleasant for him."
"Let her have him!" Stacy broke in, pulling Karen away. Even in the dim
light I could see the flash of anger in Karen's dark eyes. "It's nearly
midnight. We will all make sure he suffers as planned."
Karen relaxed slightly. "Very well, but remember our pledge. He suffers
as we planned."
As Karen looked from girl to girl, each silently nodded. I began to
sweat. What had they planned for me? Were they going to castrate me? I
had heard of girls doing that for revenge. I tried to speak, to make them
understand that I wasn't a rapist. There was something wrong with me that
I couldn't control. It wasn't my fault. But I could say none of that. All
that came out of my mouth were unintelligible mutterings.
"Oh look," Karen said, her attention suddenly focused on me. "He's trying
to talk. Enjoy your nice, deep voice. It's the last time you'll ever hear
it that way."
My eyes widened. Oh my god, I was right - they planned to castrate me! I
suppose looking back on it, they did - in a way. They gathered around me
in a circle. I couldn't turn my head far enough to see all of them, but I
could hear them, chanting in some language I had never heard before. In
the moonlight, I could see their eyes, or at least I could see Jenny and
Karen's eyes. Then I realized it wasn't just reflected light in their
eyes. Their eyes had taken on a luminescence of their own.
The night before waking up over Allison had been a frightening experience
for me, but it was nothing like this. I could feel my breathing becoming
rapid and irregular. Perspiration was forming all over my body. My
muscles hurt as I tried to move - to get up and run as fast as I could -
but I couldn't move, except for my head. I could feel my heart beating
faster, as if it were about to explode. I thought I might be dying.
Then there were suddenly new sensations. My skin began to crawl. It was
almost as if there were live creatures under my skin, causing it to
ripple and shift. There were other sensations as well. There was a
tickling at the back of my neck, a pinprick pain in the lobes of my ears,
and my body temperature seemed to be rising to an uncomfortable level,
almost as if it were cooking away.
I tried to look down to see what was happening to my body, but although I
could turn my head from side to side, I was unable to lift it. The
muscles in my neck seemed as unresponsive as everywhere else. I could
only feel what was happening. I cried out in fear and frustration,
surprised to hear that my voice sounded strained and high-pitched.
Curiously I felt an erection, as if fear could sexually stimulate me.
Then it seemed to ebb, my penis becoming flaccid. Well, not exactly
flaccid; it was almost as if it wasn't there. I felt an odd sensation
between my legs -not unpleasant but odd. In fact, my entire body felt
odd. I felt strange sensations in my nipples, as if the perspiration and
the night breeze had combined to make them suddenly sensitive. Again, the
feeling was more odd than unpleasant. Just what had happened to me? I
wondered as the chanting stopped. Before I could consider it further, I
passed out again. It was getting to be a disturbing habit.
I dreamed that night - vivid dreams of unimaginable scope. It was as if I
was living my entire life in the dream, but not as myself. I was someone
else, but I couldn't tell just who. Many of my friends were there, and to
my relief, none of them seemed to be angry with me anymore. I needed to
know who I was. I looked down at myself and...
...began to hyperventilate. I was alone in a room and no longer asleep. I
had heard the gentle morning sounds outside - the breeze, the birds, the
occasional hum of tires on pavement. I had opened my eyes, slowly at
first for I was still tired. Maybe it had all been a dream. I was in bed,
wasn't I? Perhaps I really hadn't been at the mercy of Jenny and her
friends. Maybe the dream went back further, to the night before. Maybe I
had never assaulted Allison.
Awareness came slowly. I began to realize that the room that I was in was
not my room. The early morning light showed a room cast in pastel yellows
and complimentary whites. The Chargers poster and football trophies were
gone, replaced by things I didn't recognize. My covers were not familiar,
being more silky and lacy than I had ever known, and as I lay on my back
staring down at them, I saw two perceptible bumps beneath them. Worse
yet, I could feel the bumps. I sat up with a start. That was when I began
to hyperventilate again.
My breasts - for I knew that's what they were - swung with gravity,
pulling downward slightly. My hips seemed to be a pool of flesh, far more
substantial than I would have imagined. Hair fell about my shoulders, and
I could even feel it through the thin garment I wore. I tried to control
my breathing, uncomfortable with the high-pitched whisper each breath
made.
My brain overloaded. The sensations that flooded into it were too alien
to understand. I had to let it go. I had to scream. I prepared myself to
do just that when the door to my room opened and Jenny stepped in.
"Shh!" she commanded. I was so surprised to see her that I managed to
swallow the scream before it happened. "You'll wake Mom and Dad."
"Mom and Dad?" I managed to ask, embarrassed at my high, musical voice.
"We're at your house?"
"Actually, we're at our house," she replied with a little grin as she sat
down on the bed next to me. I looked at her. She was wearing an outfit
which I realized was much like my own - a lacy nightie that I later
learned is called a chemise. The main difference was that hers was a rose
color and mine was white.
"Our house?"
"That's right," she said brightly. "You're my younger sister now."
It took everything I had to keep from passing out again. Jenny only had
one sister, and she was dead. I looked down at myself again, then up at
Jenny. "I'm... I'm Lynn?"
She shook her head. "No. But everyone will think you're a sister I never
had. Your name is Megan."
"This isn't possible," I mumbled, bracing myself on one arm. Looking down
at the arm, it was easy to see it was possible. Instead of my normal
large, powerful arm and large receiver's hand, my arm was small and
slender, nearly hairless, ending in a small, graceful hand whose fingers
were tipped with feminine nails coated in a frosted pink shade.
"I think you realize it is possible," she replied. "And before you ask,
it was magic. I won't tell you more than that, so don't bother asking.
You should thank me, actually. If Karen and some of the others had had
their way, you'd be like the Swenson brothers now."
"You mentioned them before. Who are the Swenson brothers?"
"They're the twin brothers who raped Becky Mitchell in July."
I knew Becky well. She dated one of the guys on the team; she had dated
him for about a year. Becky was a bright, sunny girl. If she had been
raped, I would have heard about it. "Becky wasn't raped," I argued.
"Oh yes she was," Jenny insisted. "You just don't remember it. That's
because we caught the Swensons just like we caught you. After they were
changed into girls, no one - including Becky - remembered anything about
the rape. No one but us even remembers the Swenson twins existed. But
they know. They're twin strippers at Girlville now."
Girlville was a local strip club. Well, as local as any strip club could
be. It was a couple of miles out of town on the road to San Diego. Come
to think of it, my older brother had gone there a couple of weekends ago
while he was home, and he had mentioned something about twin strippers.
The word was they could be had cheap.
I looked down at myself with a shudder. I tried not to think about what
it must be like to bare my new breasts at Girlville, a phony smile on my
face while I wiggled for tips.
"I don't deserve this," I blurted, almost in tears.
"I disagree," Jenny told me bluntly. "You nearly raped Allison. In fact,
if you hadn't been stopped before you could, I doubt if I could have
convinced the others to let me have you. As it is, it was close as you
saw last night."
"But I didn't..." I began, unsure where to go with it. I had been caught
ready to rape Allison. The fact that I didn't remember doing it didn't
change the facts. I let my voice go silent.
"Look, if you say anything else about how innocent you are, I'll let
Karen and the others have their way with you. It isn't too late, you
know. They can have you in platform heels stripping until your boobs sag
before you know it if I say the word. Is that clear?"
There would be no arguing with her. The look she gave me was the
exclamation point at the end of her statement. I looked away to avoid her
stare. It was hard to do without looking down at myself, and I didn't
want to do that either.
"And even if I believed you - which I don't - it wouldn't do you any
good."
I managed to look up at her. "What do you mean?"
"We can always change you into another girl, but we can't change you into
a guy again," she explained. "There are limits to the magic."
I felt my new, smaller stomach turn and bile rise in my throat. Was she
telling me the truth? If she was, then no matter what I said or did, I
was condemned to be female for the rest of my life. It was as if my life
was over. I suppose in a way, it was. I would never play football - at
least not in college or the pros. I would never do a thousand things that
I had never verbalized, but would have been part of my life if I had
remained male. I would never marry a woman and father a child. I would
never catch the winning pass in the Super Bowl. I would never bench press
four hundred pounds. I would never be a man.
Of course, other doors opened for me as surely as those doors had closed,
but I wanted no part of them. As I write these lines, I still don't want
them. I don't want to marry a man, get pregnant and give birth to a baby.
I don't want to live my life as a woman, although I see no other option.
But this was last Sunday, and I found the prospects of living my life as
a female even more frightening then than I find them now. How could I do
this?
Slowly I got out of bed. As Jenny watched, I made my way uncertainly to a
full-length mirror behind the door that Jenny had closed when she came
in. I watched in silent horror as the unfamiliar girl that was me got
closer and closer to the mirror. Through the chemise, I could see the
shape of round breasts, still not fully matured but substantial, that
bounced subtly behind the gossamer material of the nightie. My hips, I
could see were wide, although not as wide as other girls I had known, and
my waist was very narrow. My legs were long and well-shaped, ending in
narrow ankles and small, shapely feet. My arms were thin. I knew they
were normal, but after being a male who lifted weights often, they seemed
like weak, useless sticks.
My hair was long and brown - the same color as Jenny's, and from the pale
white skin and small collection of freckles on my face, I looked like a
younger version of Jenny. "How... how old am I?"
"Fifteen," Jenny replied. "You're a sophomore again."
Then I was the same age Lynn would have been if she had lived. I was
actually a little relieved. My face looked so young and my body so
girlish I was afraid I was only twelve or thirteen. It would be bad
enough going through two years of school again - this time as a girl. If
I had to go back to middle school or even elementary school, it would be
even worse. At fifteen, I'd still have a little freedom and not be
treated like a child. But of course, I wasn't quite old enough to drive
now.
"Now let me explain the rules," Jenny said, motioning for me to sit down
beside her on the bed. When I was seated, she continued, "The only way I
could get all the other girls to go along with this was to agree to how
you are to be treated and how you are to act. If you violate the rules,
my hands are tied, and most of the girls would love nothing better than
to make your life miserable."
It was already miserable, I thought, but I kept my mouth shut.
"You are now Megan Sue Dawson - Meg for short. You will act like a normal
fifteen year old girl at all times. That means you will dress like a
girl, act like a girl, talk like a girl, and think like a girl."
"But I don't know how!" I protested.
"I know you don't," she agreed, "but I'll teach you."
I said nothing. What was there to say? I couldn't change back if Jenny
was to be believed, and since she had never knowingly lied to me, I
believed it was true. I would have to learn how to be a girl or die. To
be honest, dying didn't seem like such a bad idea. Okay, I was feeling
sorry for myself. In any case, I began to feel something welling up
inside me. I could feel my lips quivering. Then without warning, I burst
into tears.
Jenny put her arm around me. "Cheer up, Meg. It won't be that bad.
Besides, you're helping three families."
"Th...three f...f...families?" I managed through the sobs.
"That's right," she replied. "Reality has changed since your
transformation. Allison was pretty torn up by what you as Dan did to
her."
I turned to face Jenny. "But I didn't - "
Jenny looked at me sternly. "Remember what I told you? I don't want to
hear that."
I was silent.
"Anyhow," Jenny went on, "Allison is fine now. Nothing ever happened to
her. And I'm sure your family is fine, too, without living with the shame
of what you did."
"But... you mean they don't even remember me?" It was bad enough that I
had been changed. Now it seemed I had never existed.
"That's right. It's actually easier since you had three brothers.
Residual memories they might have of you will be attributed to one of
your brothers."
I stopped to consider all the things I had done together with my
brothers. Jenny was probably right. Many of the things I did could just
as easily have been done by one of my brothers. I broke my arm at the age
of eight when I fell out of a tree. Allen had broken his at nine. Now if
my parents even thought about it, they'd just think of Allen. My god, I
wasn't even going to be a clear memory. This was worse than being dead. I
never even existed!
"You mentioned a third family," I managed to say.
"I thought that would be obvious," Jenny remarked. "I was referring to my
family. Meg, you and I grew apart a little when we got older. No, don't
protest. It's natural. I had girl interests and you had boy interests. Do
you remember how Lynn was killed?"
I nodded. "Yeah. She died in a car accident."
"That's right," Jenny agreed. "Dad had just picked her up from some Girl
Scout function. He was tired that evening; he had worked late the night
before. He got distracted and ran a red light. He was lucky, but Lynn was
killed instantly. Mom never forgave him for that, and to be frank, I
don't think he ever forgave himself. Meg, my parents - our parents now -
have been on the verge of breaking up. They fight too much and they drink
too much. It all started with Lynn's death.
"Don't you see? You were the perfect opportunity for me to correct that
tragedy. We were going to change you anyway. Why not use you to replace
Lynn? No one remembers Lynn now - except me. So you see, our parents
don't even remember losing Lynn."
"Wouldn't it just have been easier to make me into Lynn? You could have
made me forget who I was and warp reality so that everybody believed I
was Lynn and that the accident never happened," I pointed out.
"It takes all of us to do the magic," she explained. "I might have done
that if I could do it alone. The other girls wanted you punished for what
you did to Allison. You had to remember who you had been so you'd
remember what you lost. You have to be a girl even though you don't want
to be. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a punishment."
That still didn't explain why she hadn't turned me into Lynn. There was
something she was hesitating to tell me. I didn't know what it was. In
fact, I still don't. Whatever it could be, I would have to wait to find
out. I suspected it was just because she couldn't stand to have me
pretend to be Lynn. Better to have me be an entirely new sister and have
her parents believe that Lynn never existed.
"Now our parents will be up soon," Jenny went on. "They'll want us to go
to church with them. I have a lot of things to go over with you, so let's
get started."
I was sure I wasn't going to like my lessons in girlhood, and I was
right. The first thing I had to learn was basic feminine hygiene, like
how to take a pee and wipe myself. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to
release my now-full bladder, but I found taking a pee no more difficult
than as a male. The only difference, of course, was that I now had to
squat to pee. I watched in morbid fascination as I wiped myself. The
feminine slit was clearly visible through my silky pubic hair, and as I
wiped, I realized that it wouldn't be long until many guys considered
that innocuous little bit of anatomy as a grand prize. I vowed to myself
to make sure that day was a long time off.
Jenny had me take a quick shower. She emphasized the quick part. I think
she was afraid that the pervert part of me might want to play with all
the new parts. Nothing could have been further from the truth. I tried
very hard to spend as little time washing the emptiness between my legs
as possible. And as for the breasts, I reddened slightly every time I
looked down at them. I was particularly distressed to see the oversized
pink nipples become slightly erect as the water cascaded off them.
I winced at the thought of putting on silk pink panties and a matching
bra, but I had to admit - only to myself of course - that they felt right
over my altered body. They clung reassuringly to my skin. It felt strange
to be putting on panties without a slit in them. Of course, I thought
with a sudden twisted inspiration, they did have a slit in them - all the
way in them. Of course, even if there had been a slit in the front, it
wouldn't have done me much good. My days of standing at the urinal were
over.
Many people went to church dressed casually. It had to be my luck to be
thrust into a family that still believed in dressing up for church. Jenny
patiently showed me how to put on panty hose and a dress, selecting the
proper jewelry to go with the demure little blue and white floral print
dress that I was wearing.
I think I might have been able to stand the dress and the pantyhose and
even the black one-inch heels that I quickly learned to balance in, but I
was sure then and I'm sure now that I will never learn to like makeup.
Jenny found lipstick that matched my nails, and worked like an artist on
my eyes. Fortunately at fifteen, I needed only a minimum of foundation,
so I was spared feeling too much like a clown.
When she had finished, I looked again in the mirror. The little girl I
had feared was only twelve during my first glance in the mirror had
disappeared. In her place was a very attractive young woman. From my long
brushed hair accented by small pearl earrings to my small, heeled feet, I
was someone who was bound to attract attention. I nearly gasped when I
saw myself.
"Not bad, huh?" Jenny remarked with a grin.
I didn't know what to say, but I knew what I was thinking: No, not bad at
all.
Jenny got ready while I stayed in my new room, familiarizing myself with
my new surroundings. She was right, I supposed. It could have been a lot
worse. It was better to be her kid sister than a known sex criminal, that
was for certain. And it was far better to be her kid sister than to be a
stripper down at Girlville like the Swensons. Even though I couldn't
remember them, I pitied them - doomed to be strippers and horny sluts for
the rest of their lives. Did they know who they had been? I assumed they
did. That made it all the worse.
At least I knew Jenny's parents and had always liked them. I was sorry to
hear her real sister's death had hurt their relationship so badly. It
gave me a little peace of mind to realize that by becoming Meg, I might
be helping them.
I looked at myself in the mirror again. Well, if I had to be a girl, it
was better to be a cute one. Still, those slender arms and small hands
would never catch a pass again. The only passes I was going to catch were
the kind I didn't want. Okay, so I wasn't going to be much of an athlete.
I had always been a good student, and repeating most of high school meant
that I'd know how to ace most of the classes. So I was stuck with brains
and beauty. I suppose for a lot of people that wouldn't be much of a
punishment.
Wait a minute, I thought. The girls had indicated I was to suffer. Did
they have more in mind for me? I'd have to stay alert. But in the mean
time, I'd just have to be Meg. If Jenny thought I was knuckling under and
being a good kid sister, I might have time to figure out how to keep
control of my life. I might be stuck as a girl, but I was going to be one
on my terms.
My resolve almost collapsed in church. It was bad enough to present
myself as Meg to Jenny's unsuspecting parents, but it was quite another
thing to go to church with them and face a number of my old friends.
There I was, in the United Methodist Church with my new family, while
several of the guys I had known and played football with tried to hide
their stares. I told myself at first that they were looking at Jenny, but
I knew better. They were looking at both of us.
And it wasn't just the guys who were looking at me. Pam and Karen were
sitting together, and when they saw me, they both grinned at me and
snickered to themselves. I hoped they choked on it.
After church, "Dad" took us to breakfast. Richard Dawson was a nice guy.
I had always liked him. Like my father - my real father - he had played
football, but only through college. He had become a CPA after college and
now headed his own small firm. He was in his early forties, a little
overweight, and starting to get a little thin on top, but his hair was
dark brown without a trace of gray. My new mother, Jan Dawson, looked a
lot like an older version of Jenny - and presumable me. I supposed if I
could look like her at forty, I wouldn't be doing so badly - for a girl.
Apparently, my presence had already had an effect. My new parents seemed
to be deeply attached to Jenny and me - and to each other. The bitter
memories of losing Lynn were gone. Whatever memories they had of Lynn
were now attributed to me.
"So what happens now?" I asked Jenny once we had gotten home and were
alone again.
"Nothing happens. You just live your life as Meg," Jenny told me with a
shrug.
"I don't believe you, Jenny," I said as I put on a pair of jeans while
Jenny watched with amusement.
She frowned at me. I began to fear I had crossed the line with her, but
there was no going back. "What are you talking about?"
"I don't think your friends are content to just make me your kid sister.
They have something else in mind."
She relaxed a little bit. "You're right, they do. They want you to be a
slut. If they had had their way, you'd be one of the biggest sluts in the
school. We could have done that. You could have been one grade A little
sex bunny."
I shuddered at the thought. "But I'm not." Then worried, I added, "Am I?"
She shook her head. "No, you're just a normal girl with normal sex
drives. I made sure of that when you were changed. I've got enough power
to do that."
"So where did your power come from?" I asked, slipping on a T-shirt that
did little to hide my breasts.
"I told you not to talk about that."
"Oh, come on," I urged. "What would it hurt you to tell me? I'm just
curious." It was a true statement. Like most people, I thought magic was
something a guy in a tux did on TV. I never expected to find out it was
real - particularly in such a dramatic fashion. Besides, the more I knew
about what had been done to me, the more I could protect myself from any
further magic. I didn't want to find myself yearning for some guy's cock,
thanks to another magic spell.
"All right," she said after a moment's hesitation. She sat down on the
bed as I finished dressing. "Stacy's boyfriend found a medallion and gave
it to her last summer. It turned out to be some sort of magical device."
"How did you figure that out?"
"We had it researched," she explained. "We found it was something the
Indians in this area had back before the Spaniards settled here. It
apparently gave tribal shamans magical powers. We started experimenting
with it."
"So you changed the Swensons into strippers. Is that all it will do?" I
asked, sitting next to her. "Does it just change males into females?"
"We don't know yet," Jenny admitted. "It may have other powers, but we
haven't figured them out yet."
I kept quiet. Of course it had other powers. It could shift reality.
Otherwise, everyone would have known the Swenson boys had disappeared.
Just like everyone would know that Dan Korby had disappeared and that Meg
Dawson never existed. I didn't want to point that out to Jenny just yet.
It was almost as if she wasn't really aware of the significance of the
medallion. Why wasn't she? Jenny was a very smart girl - so were her
friends for that matter. It was as if their judgment was impaired. I
don't know why I realized this when she didn't. Feminine intuition? Yeah,
maybe. Or maybe it was because I had been exposed to the process without
being one of the wielders of the magic. I'd just have to file that
thought away until later. No sense in alerting anyone of my suspicions.
I spent the day studying, interrupted by phone calls from "friends." Most
of the friends were kids I knew. After all, our high school wasn't
terribly large - just a couple of hundred students in each class. So we
knew each other, either from sports or other activities. Some of my new
friends were younger siblings of my former classmates. Meg seemed to be a
fairly popular girl, judging from the number of phone calls I got. I was
starting to wonder if I would get any time to study. Brains and beauty, I
told myself. I had to do well in school.
Fortunately almost every course I seemed to be taking was a course I had
taken before as Dan. That meant I didn't have to focus on the concepts.
Instead I could focus on the details, giving myself that little edge that
was often the difference between an A and a B. As I studied, it was
almost normal again - almost like I was myself. Then suddenly about three
that afternoon, I realized I was missing the Sunday games. The odd thing
was that I didn't seem to care. Now that was quite unlike me.
That was the first inkling I had that something had changed besides my
body. If I concentrated hard, I still liked football, just as I had as
Dan. But if I didn't think about it, it became unimportant. What else had
changed? I hesitated to think. Maybe I should start to write things down.
While going through my desk, I had found a diary. "Meg" had apparently
begun the diary at the beginning of the school year. I glanced at the
first page with its feminine start of "Dear Diary." Gag me with a spoon.
I threw the flowery book back into the desk drawer as if it were
radioactive. You'd never catch me using a diary. Not me.
But I had to keep track of who I really was and what I really thought,
didn't I? There had to be another way, though. No diary for me. Not now -
not ever.
So I made it through my first day of girlhood. Maybe it was just the
shock of the change, but it didn't seem too terrible. I wondered if
prisoners got through their first day in prison the same way. Maybe just
the shock of being trapped by prison walls dampened all other feelings.
Maybe the shock of my transformation was sufficient to dampen my
emotions. After all, shouldn't I be crying and beating my chest (or
should it be breasts?)? Somehow that seemed counterproductive. Besides,
it was probably what Jenny and her friends wanted me to do.
Well, maybe not Jenny. While she had not exactly been her old friendly
self with me, she had not mistreated me. God knows she had the perfect
opportunity to rub it in. She could easily have been taunting, "How does
it feel to be a little girl, little girl?" followed by maniacal laughter.
She could have forced me to wear something frilly all day if she had put
her mind to it, instead of the jeans and T-shirt I had found actually
both modest and comfortable. For the most part, she left me alone, just
like most big sisters would do, I suspected. After all for the most part,
my older brothers had left me alone when I was a boy and I usually left
Jake alone.
The real challenge would be the next day, I realized as I got ready for
bed. I would have to face all my old friends in the body of a sweet young
girl. I had gotten a little taste of it at church, but I knew the next
day would be far worse. I couldn't then have imagined how much worse it
would be.
"You look great," Jenny said with an evil grin the next morning.
I didn't feel great, though. I hadn't argued when Jenny had helped me
pick out an outfit. After all, another T-shirt and overalls seemed a
modest outfit for my first day in school as a girl. Silly me. I hadn't
realized the overalls would be cut as shorts. "Shortalls" some of the
girls called them. This left my smooth, feminine legs exposed. I missed
my tanned, muscular legs covered in dark hair. And the T-shirt wasn't the
plain one I had worn the day before. Oh, it was still plain, but it was a
pastel yellow with lacy trim at the sleeves and neck. And the cut of the
overalls didn't disguise my breasts as I had hoped; rather it emphasized
them. At least I got to wear tennis shoes, but the lacy tops on the socks
were almost too much.
Jenny had helped me again with hair, makeup and accessories, but she had
made me do more of it while she critiqued me. Unfortunately, I did too
good a job. If I had been male and spotted a girl who looked like me, I
would have probably walked into a tree while staring. No, this wasn't
going to be a very good day.
Things really went downhill from there. Jenny offered me a ride to
school. Stacy was picking her up in a few minutes. I agreed. I didn't
really want to face Stacy, but I had even less desire to face a school
bus loaded with my classmates. I should have taken the bus.
"Don't you look hot today!" Stacy commented with a nasty little laugh as
I climbed in the back seat of her car. Jenny flashed me a look that
warned me to be quiet.
"I think your little sister is going to be a heartbreaker," Stacy went on
when Jenny had gotten in beside her. "And in another year or so, those
pretty little breasts might be even bigger. Then she'll really stop
traffic."
My face was flushed. I knew Stacy was enjoying my embarrassment. She
wasn't the only one. When we pulled up in the parking lot at school,
Stephanie, Karen and Pam were waiting for us. They were having a grand
time watching me bend over to get my books out of the seat.
"Ooh, nice ass, girl," Pam called to me. I took an extra moment fumbling
with my books so they couldn't see how red my face was.
"Great outfit, too," Karen called out. "It's very feminine."
They all laughed at that - even Jenny.
"So, do you have a date yet for this Friday?" Stephanie asked as we
entered the building and walked toward our classes.
As if on cue, Andy Thompson, a sophomore halfback on the football team,
turned from his locker and faced me. "Hi, Meg," he said smoothly. "How
about you and me - after the game Friday?"
Something told me his mind had been nudged to ask me out. I had no doubt
of it when I heard Karen snicker, followed by the others. "We'll see you
later, Meg," she said, and just like that, I was alone with Andy.
As Meg, I had spoken with a couple of guys on the phone Sunday. They had
called just to talk, and I had gotten rid of them fairly quickly. At
church, I had spoken to a couple of boys after church, but I was with my
"family" and could hurry away. This was the first time I had been forced
to stand and talk to a guy one on one since my transformation. And I
didn't like it.
Why? Well, the main reason was that standing there, talking to Andy,
something started stirring inside me. As Dan, I had talked to Andy - and
other guys like him - every day. But this was different. He towered over
my new form, every part of his body a reminder of what I had lost. He was
tall and I wasn't. He had broad shoulders and muscular arms while my
shoulders