Angela's Party
By Sylvia Who?
1. A Visit to Uncle Arthur
"My Brother is someone Dad would rather not talk about!" Mother's raised voice
from the kitchen made Dad look up from his Sunday paper as I carried on clearing
away the breakfast things.
"What's that love?"
Mum appeared in the doorway. "Your Son suggested taking his girlfriend to see
Arthur this afternoon - what do you make of that?"
Dad scowled at me, "Most respectable people steer clear of him, Terry, best
forget that idea, don't you agree Pam?"
"But what's wrong with him Dad?" Asked Susan. "He couldn't stop Aunt Joan running
away with a fella if she wanted to father?"
Dad sniffed and poked his head back into the 'News of the World'.
"Anyway he has always been good to Susan and me so why has he suddenly become the
black sheep of the family?" but my query went unanswered as Mum bustled back to
the kitchen.
Arthur was about 10 years younger than my Mother, in fact there was only an age
gap of 8 years between him and me, and only 6 years difference between him and my
sister Susan, so we failed to understand our parents' attitude to someone who we
had seen regularly until six months ago when evidently there had been a family
row following his wife's departure on the grounds of cruelty during the time
Susan and I were away from home studying - my sister at Uni and me at public
school. Since then Uncle Arthur had been conveniently forgotten about, but I was
all the more determined to go and see him, after all, I was over just over 14
years old! But I decided against telephoning him in advance, that way if he was
up to something underhand, he wouldn't be forewarned of our coming.
So after an early lunch I retrieved my cycle from the garage and set off for
Pauline's house, who I had knocked around with on an irregular basis for a couple
of years or more, but since it was a bank holiday weekend, I wasn't surprised to
find the house was empty when I rang at the door - being a fine Spring day she
must have gone out with her parents.
I remounted my cycle and began the ten mile trip to Arthur's secluded country
cottage near Dorking. However the trip was going well as I free-wheeled down the
steep, narrow lane leading to Arthur's cottage when the front wheel buckled and I
ended in a heap in the muddy road, a bit mucky but fortunately with no gravel
rash and only a small bruise on my arm, as I half carried my bike the last 50
yards to my destination.
I left my cycle on the grass verge and went in through the wicket gate and up the
crazy paved path to the thatched porch but my repeated taps on the knocker were
unanswered. So skirting the herbaceous border surrounding the cottage I made my
way round to the rear of the building and since the back door was open I assumed
Arthur was somewhere down the garden, so I crossed the lawn under the fruit trees
to get a better look, but as I glanced down the garden I could only see a smartly
dressed woman, her back towards me, hanging out some very exotic 'smalls' on the
clothes line.
"Excuse me, I am looking for my Uncle, can you help me?" I shouted as I strolled
in her direction.
Startled at the sound of my voice she spun round, a powder blue nylon slip still
clutched in her hands as I advanced towards her across the lawn thinking the way
young boys do- 'If this is his bit on the side he's sure got good taste!' But
there was something strangely familiar about this person and she obviously
recognised me and looked flummoxed as to what to do next.
"I'm sorry I startled you just now Miss, please forgive me." I continued rather
briskly for my age, but her half-giggled reply just stopped me dead in my tracks.
"I'm afraid you have rather caught me with my trousers down Terry." came Arthur's
familiar voice as I stared horrified at this stylishly attired 'woman' standing
in front of me.
"Bu-ut what are you dressed like that for Uncle?"
My uncle reddened perceptibly as he protectively clutched the ladies petticoat to
his more than ample bosom before finding his voice to plaintively plea. "Perhaps
you had best come in the house so I can explain, won't you Terry?"
But as 'she' stepped forward to take me by the arm I backed away warily as I
spluttered, "Mum told me not to come here to see you and now I know why! What do
you think you are up to dressed like that, going to some sort of fancy-dress
ball?"
Arthur looked hurt. "I always dress like this now, Terry, and now you know the
reason that your Father and Mother no longer have anything to do with me."
"I'm not at all surprised at that, look at yourself, wearing women's clothes like
a fairy!"
Arthur looked downcast. "Obviously you made a mistake coming here, I think you
had better go back to the others and leave me to myself."
Suddenly I took pity on him as he choked on his words and I began to realise that
I should at least have the good grace to hear him out, and it would be a long
walk home with a useless bicycle.
"I'm afraid I had an accident on the way here, and my cycle is out of
commission."
My Uncle showed genuine concern as I showed him the bruises on my arms and legs,
so this time I permitted him to take my arm and lead me into his cottage. Inside
I could hardly believe my eyes - the place was spotlessly clean and tidy - so
much so that I hardly recognised the place.
"Aunt was never any good at housekeeping so who cleans for you now?" I asked
casually as he swelled with pride.
"Actually Terry, I do everything for myself, washing, ironing, cleaning,
gardening, decorating; I'll just pop the kettle on."
And as I stood watching him, he settled into a well rehearsed routine as he
folded the petticoat he was still holding, placed it neatly on a radiator, and
having donned a frilly apron, filled the kettle and placed it on the 'Aga'
cooker. While I found it increasingly difficult to think of this charming person
as anything other than female, his facial make-up was flawless, he was exuding an
exquisite perfume, and his two-piece floral dress and jacket was worn with grace
and poise.
"Come and sit down in the other room, Terry, and tell me all the news."
So with Uncle trotting in the lead in his stiletto heels I slowly followed him
into the lounge and he glided across the room and settled himself gracefully on
the sofa.
As I averted my gaze and plonked down awkwardly in the armchair across the room
from him I remarked: "I'm afraid I don't feel very comfortable with you dressed
like that Arthur, do you think you could go and change?"
"What shall I wear dear boy? My newest ball gown? A silk negligee? Or a skirt and
blouse?"
"You know perfectly well what I mean Uncle, go and put on some men's clothes."
He gave a girlish giggle. "Oh Those! I'm afraid I haven't any of THOSE - there
isn't a stitch of male clothing in the house - apart from what you are wearing of
course!" He giggled once again through his flawless makeup and then said in
deadly earnest. "From now on please refer to me as Angela - that has been my name
for the last six months - Arthur is, to all intents and purposes - dead!"
"But how do you earn a living as a computer whiz kid? Surely you don't go to work
dressed like That, or do you work from home!"
He pursed his lips pensively; "Up until now, ever since your Aunt left me, that's
exactly what I have done, although during the occasional trips to the office
there were a few objections from other male members of staff, but I was able to
use recent employment law as a shield, but with the recent downturn in the 'dot-
com' industry I was one of the first to be made redundant by my Company - and
since this, which is the first summer dress I have bought!" - he touched his
flowered frock - "is not from a cheapjack shop, I must get the cash-flow going
again either as a secretary or a saleslady, or what-have-you."
He then explained that his wife had found out about his quaint 'hobby', and since
she already had a hobby of her own, she had decided to run off with him there and
then, and since he was stinking-rich she only took her toothbrush, so she kindly
bequeathed me her somewhat Spartan and smelly wardrobe which I have only just
succeeded in replacing with clothing more in keeping with my style and taste.
"While my other clothes I bundled up and took round to Oxfam, so I am entirely
trapped in a situation of my own making, since I have no male clothes behind
which to go and try to hide my true desires and feelings, and from now on this is
the real me - a young woman is what I see and Angela is what people get - take it
or leave it!"
2. A Party Invitation with a Twist!
He suddenly remembered the tea, and having tuned in the television for me, he
trotted off and returned ten minutes later with a tray of tea, fairy cakes and
buttered scones.
"Made with my own, fairy hands," he quipped, helping me to jam and fresh cream,
as I began to settle more comfortably into the armchair feeling more relaxed and
at ease with
'Angela' by the minute. Evidently he had cross-dressed on and off all his life,
and then I mentally recalled the frequent occasions on which he had 'shamelessly
indulged himself' to use my Mother's oft-quoted expression, as he cavorted about
in women's clothes, although unbeknown to either him or my family, the example he
set had tempted me to dress in my sister Susan's clothes while mum and dad were
out; and a what a great kick I had got out of it as I recall. But eventually when
I was about ten, I was caught in the spare room by Mum wearing Susan's best lemon
satin party frock, and having checked to see what I was wearing underneath, she
stood by and watched as I stripped off the pretty frock, the net petticoats and
the white frilly knickers, after which Dad gave me an almighty thrashing; but it
didn't do any good though!
I then raised the question of my return home, and although he was sympathetic, he
explained his car was off the road, so I rang home and asked Dad to come over and
fetch me. But when I told him where I was he got all shitty and rang off, telling
me to make my own arrangements about getting home.
Arthur, or rather Angela, suggested I might like to stay the night, since he was
having a few friends round that evening for drinks, having first explained.
"You will find them a peculiar bunch, just like me!"
And having thought it over I decided to stay and enjoy the fun, adding as an
afterthought, "But I haven't a 'Thing' to Wear, - Umm! - not that I ever wanted
to of course!"
This he found highly amusing, as he quizzed me as to whether I was serious or
just joking, and gave me an old-fashioned look.
"You mean to say your mother never tried to dress you up as a girl when you were
a small boy?"
I assured him she hadn't.
"Well she did used to buy some very pretty dresses for your sister Susan, - not
that she appreciated the fact - too much of a tomboy I suppose - and that
brother-in-law of mine is rather homophobic - so perhaps she thought better of
it; - and in any case, she did open 'Madame Pamela's Academy for Young Ladies and
Gentlemen' her junior charm school which must have taken her mind off educating
'sissy-boys' as she concentrated instead on training real girls!
"Anyway, I can easily fix you up you know, the guest room is brimming with my
wife's freshly-laundered cast-offs, some of which I know will fit you, - and with
some make-up even my own sister wouldn't recognise you, just say the word." and
she then went outside to do the washing up leaving me to decide, one way or the
other.
While waiting I flipped through some American 'girlie' magazines, which I found
on the side, except that the 'girls' were all fellows, and cute looking 'chicks'
some of them made, despite the obvious flaws. The correspondence was quite
interesting, and I was so engrossed reading an allegedly true story of the
nineteen forties in England of a boy brought up as a girl, (even getting married
at the age of eighteen without anyone suspecting, eventually the authorities
realising their mistake, after which he took to wearing trousers) that I hadn't
noticed Angela had come back into the room and was sitting quietly observing my
behaviour.
"You seem to find my literature intriguing, most people find it dull as
ditchwater."
"Er. well- Er. Yes I suppose it is." I replied hesitatingly, but she just
laughed.
"Who's kidding who?" and I lapsed into an embarrassed silence and continued to
scan the pages of her magazines as she continued to sit quietly and observe.
I suddenly realised that Angela had again quit the room and having watched the
local news headlines on the television, I wandered off to the toilet, which was
upstairs in the bathroom.
Angela had been running a bath and as I went to go downstairs again found her
waiting on the top landing.
"I have run the bath, young man, so that you can soak those bruises of yours;"
Since this sounded such a good idea I allowed her to show me into the guest
bedroom where I could get undressed. I was soon floating around in a highly
scented bath while my 'Aunt' busied herself making up the spare room bed and
preparing herself for the evenings entertainment, but having quit the bath and
wandered back to the bedroom draped in a bathtowel found all my clothes had
disappeared from the bed.
"Angela, where are my clothes?' I shouted from the top of the stairwell.
She trotted into view in the hall below and looked up at me with an alluring
smile on her face and wearing a gorgeous low-cut bouffant style jet black party
dress from beneath which peeped multiple layers of starched lace net petticoats,
but it was the generous display of feminine cleavage which I found most
intriguing.
"I have put all your soiled clothes in the washing machine, but if you look in
the dressing table and wardrobe instead of looking down my dress, you will find
plenty to wear, - and when you are decent I will come and fix your hair." and
with a suppressed giggle she turned on her heel and disappeared out of sight
leaving me red faced and pondering my fate.
So what to do - wander round wrapped in a bathtowel for the rest of the evening
in front of her kinky friends? Go to bed early? Or 'be a man' and prepare to
'Join the ladies'?
I returned to the guest-room and flopped down on the bed, thinking back to the
time my Mother had ridiculed me as I stood there, dressed in girl's clothes, and
telling me how stupid I looked I was sure I didn't look stupid, I just felt
stupid with her looking on in apparent disgust and telling me she already had one
daughter in the family and father had no intention of encouraging a 'sissy-son'
in his proclivities. In a few of the photographs in the magazines I had read, I
recalled some of the men looked ridiculous, with their skirts hitched up -
showing their stocking-tops and white thighs; or showing too much petticoat; or
candidly displaying themselves in their underwear, posing in front of the camera
as though real women behave like that every day of their lives!
But on the other hand, the majority of the 'ladies' appeared to be perfectly
respectable and mostly everyday older people conservatively attired in floral
frocks and twin-sets - rather similar to - but perhaps not as smart as my newly-
discovered 'Maiden-Aunt' downstairs, I then giggled quietly to myself stupidly
thinking 'Perhaps the sexual imbalance in the numbers of ladies to men amongst
the 'golden oldies' may be down to petticoat government and not to any shortage
of widowers as I recalled a feminist on 'tele' once saying 'Everyone should
change sex at least once!' - maybe there was some truth in there somewhere?
Eventually curiosity got the better of me as I went over and examined the
contents of the wardrobe, and sure enough, there was a wide variety of female
clothing hanging inside, some cheap and flashy, which was much the way I
remembered my ex-Aunt; and some stylish and sophisticated, reminiscent of my new
'Aunt' Angela downstairs. I then burrowed through the contents of the dressing-
table, but the selection of lingerie was truly exquisite; typical of the 'Dallas'
or 'Dynasty' era, and as I reverently handled these perfumed wisps of intimate
joy, I suddenly 'went overboard' and with feverish haste attired myself from top-
to-toe in seductive satin and lace and loved every minute of it as I resolved
there and then to rid myself of my 'guilt-complex' and determined to face the
world as a 'New Woman' in the way that my late Uncle must have done, sometime in
the past.
"Well 'Niece', it looks as though you are well and truly 'hooked' from where I'm
standing! - Your mother would be proud of you!"
I was so intent on studying myself in the mirror, wearing a gorgeous lacy
princess-style peach-coloured satin petticoat decorated with lashings of lace
that I hadn't heard Angela's approach, despite the creaking floors. For a moment
I was flustered and ill-at-ease as she gave me the once-over and complimented me
on how well her foundation garments fitted me as she poked and prodded with the
confidence and expertise of a trained corsetier. The only fault she could find
with my lingerie was in the way my nylons were hooked onto my satin suspender
belt which had created some unsightly wrinkles further down my leg, and having
made the necessary adjustment she continued:
"You are wearing the first set of Janet Reger ladies lingerie that I ever bought,
I'm pleased they fit you so well. Regrettably I have gone up a size but you will
find they should fit you for quite a long time yet, so please accept them as a
gift, and anything else among my cast-offs that you may need- that is - until you
have acquired your own female wardrobe - as no doubt, you will.
"Come into my bedroom and sit down at my dressing-table 'Pet' and I will fix your
face."
Since I hadn't previous experience of this stage in the proceedings I was happy
to let Angela free reign in the choice of foundation, eye-makeup and lipstick
appropriate to the outfit I was to wear which, at her insistence, would be a
black and white polka-dot 'Fink' pure cotton high-waisted sleeveless dress with a
knee length skirt generously supported by layer upon layer of dazzling white lace
and net petticoats and matching jacket with full-length sleeves, black patent
leather two-inch stiletto-heeled shoes and matching clutch-bag.
"What did you mean, Angela? - when you said earlier that Mummy would be proud of
me?"
She was applying a touch of mascara to my eyelids but stopped and stared at my
reflection in the mirror and smiled. "As a young child, your mother always
treated me as her baby girl to play with and dress in any way she saw fit, even
when I was older and wiser, but despite my bitter tears of protest, somehow I
always ended up dressed as her little sister, wearing little flowered dresses
with short, puffy sleeves with oodles of petticoats underneath, and prettied up
and physically paraded before my friends, neighbours, and relatives. Strangely I
soon found myself revelling in the care and attention she bestowed upon me, and
even enjoying the notoriety my appearance was causing.
"But she eventually dated her first and only boy-friend and ended up with the
baby-girl that she always wanted, so at the age of nine, the mental abuse I had
suffered soon changed as she began to ridicule my 'dressing-up' games, which by
then I was really enjoying, and were so much part of my day-to-day life, despite
the constant bullying, which I suppose is the reason she has been so tough on you
not wishing for you to end up like me, especially with that 'macho-man' of a
father of yours!"
"But Angela you don't really expect me to swallow the story of Mother forcing you
to dress as a little girl?"
"Just look in there!" She grimaced and pointed to her dressing table drawer, so I
opened it up and the first thing that caught my eye was a packet of tampons.
"No not those!" But my quizzical look begged the question to which she candidly
replied. "Yes my dear, I do use them, - after all, why shouldn't I suffer a
similar indignity that which a woman has to go through most of her life, but not
in the same way of course! Now just thumb your way through those."
She smirked as she reached into the drawer and handed me an old sweet tin inside
which were a series of children's' photographs, some of which Mother had copies
of at home, the significance of which had escaped me until that moment in time. I
suddenly realised that Angela, the little girl who my mother was supposed to be
babysitting in the pictures was none other than her own brother!
"No, there must be some mistake, she wouldn't ever dress me up even though I
would have liked to, let alone you, - you must have imagined it!"
Angela curled her lips as I began to look at the pictures more closely, realising
that they covered a number of years in a child's development, the earlier ones
typical of an unhappy, sulky, tearful boy hating being made to dress in his
sister's clothes, and progressing forward to a pretty little girl playing happily
with her dolls-house, skipping in the garden or just surrounded by her little
friends as she blew out the six candles on her birthday cake and smiled at the
camera.
"That was the happiest birthday party of my life - do I look happy there?"
I suddenly realised in more than half of the photos, there were often two little
girls, and sometimes more!
"You did have girl-friends then?" I asked as I studied the pretty little faces in
the pictures, and one in particular was quite familiar.
"No Terri, all of my playmates were little boys like me, your mother had a
special way of coaxing young boys to do what she liked with - she was so much
older, and these photographs are proof of what I am saying is true, after all, I
am the only one crying and tearing at my dresses in the earlier ones."
"But what about grandma and granddad? Didn't they ever object?"
"Remember they had a busy store to run, so your mother was in sole charge, so
they didn't really object to having a son who always behaved so nicely and kept
his lovely dresses spotlessly clean, and never ever got himself into serious
trouble, apart from girlish hair pulling and name calling."
He sighed a big sigh.
"I was a wonderful girl! - They were so proud they even took me to church dressed
in my 'prettiest Sunday dresses' and nobody ever objected; - see? - in this
photograph here, I am sitting on my Mummy's lap having just come back from church
in my white communion dress!"
In later photograph, Arthur stood alongside his sister as he willingly showed off
his underwear to the camera.
"When I was nine my big sister even made me show off my bra and panties to her
girlfriends - not that I minded by then! - but that was a month before everything
changed, and your mother got pregnant."
I was appalled that all these years my mother had been telling me a pack of lies.
My Aunt's story was a revelation, and I felt very sorry for her, she was a victim
of a form of Pavlovian child abuse, whereas I had always dressed as a girl out of
freedom of choice - so she held the moral high ground, even though we both
remained true to our 'calling'!
Having completed my 'face-job' she clipped a three strand pearl necklace around
my throat, clipped matching pearl earrings to my ears, before selecting an
auburn-coloured three-quarter length 'corkscrew-curled' wig, and having teased-
out the ends, carefully fitting it over my own unruly mop to complete the
transformation. The skirt and jacket were a perfect fit as I walked up and down
on the uneven timber floor, while every step I took caused the weight of my high-
waisted skirt and petticoats to fan out and sway from side to side like a ship's
hull in a swell, and disconcertingly throwing me off balance, though my 'Aunt'
expressed her surprise at how well I managed in the high heels.
"To the manner born" I commented sweetly, and she looked pleased as punch at my
rejoinder, as I happily recalled the hours of painful practice I had in the past,
in my sisters cast-off shoes, which were too small for me; so wearing 'heels'
which fitted for a change was sheer heaven!
Angela finally squirted some of her 'Chanel' behind my ears and in those other
little places.
"I have emptied the contents of your pockets onto your bed pet, so just go and
put them in this bag."
She handed me a clutch-bag, which already contained make-up and the other odds
and ends a girl tends to carry around.
"But I won't need this Aunt, I am not going anywhere!"
But Angela ignored my protest as she commanded, "Just do as you are told, I go
nowhere without my handbag ? it's a useful 'prop' for us girls, and in any case
you have no pockets in which to carry your hanky."
Meekly I obeyed and the next moment she was escorting me downstairs for a medium
sherry to await the arrival of our guests who were due in about two hours time.
While we were waiting, my 'Aunt' went into more details of her sad story,
although she now related her experiences with relish including the usual traumas
of concealment from his wife during three painful and fruitless years of
marriage, but with his wife's determination to avoid motherhood at all costs -
shamelessly preferring instead to cultivate a multiplicity of lovers, while
Arthur secretly immersed himself in the role my mother had schooled him for, that
of a doting and faithful housewife, and in which he felt completely relaxed and
at home. But he was eventually found out, which resulted in my Aunt departing
forthwith on the arm of her 'sugar-daddy'.
3. Our Unwelcome Guests
Aunt excused herself and while she was away I heard some noises from the kitchen
and assuming it to be 'Candy', Angela's pet cat wishing to be let out, I trotted
across the lounge and into the kitchen only to be confronted by an unsavoury
looking character in blue denim overalls brandishing a kitchen knife and stuffing
his face with the sausage rolls which Angela had prepared for the evening.
I suddenly went weak at the knees as this guy grabbed my arm, and spinning me
round placed the knife at my throat as he rasped, "Your fairy friend will be back
in a minute, so call him out here, and no tricks Missus, if you know what's good
for you!"
However, he was not alone, as I then caught sight another similarly-dressed man
lurking behind the door to the lounge, who was carrying a knife in one hand, and
Aunt's telephone and her only contact with the outside world in the other. Then
it suddenly dawned on me - these must be two of the escaped prisoners mentioned
on the television news in connection with a goal-break from Maidstone earlier in
the day!
We listened in silence to the surge of water in the upstairs toilet as with an
evil grin the other man whispered. "He's finished making his 'maiden's water', so
won't be long now."
I watched, fascinated, following with my eyes, the sounds from the creaking
floorboards, as Angela made her way along the corridor, down the stairs again,
and into the lounge.
"Terri, where are you Dear?" she called and before I had a chance to reply, she
had already entered the kitchen.
Angela looked in horror and amazement at the knife being held to my throat.
"Wh-who the devil are you?" she stuttered at sight of the stranger in her
kitchen, but the next moment, as her assailant pushed her from behind, she was
sent sprawling on the flagstone floor, arms and legs akimbo, and with all the
breath knocked out of her, incapable of offering even token resistance, as the
man lunged forward to rough her up.
"Please don't" she pleaded, "You will spoil my dress."
As the jailbird, lifting her legs round the ankles, dragged her feet first across
the flagstones, back into the lounge, while his colleague let out a belly-laugh
in my ear as Angela's black dress and multiple petticoats rode up over her body,
threatening to part company with their wearer while tantalisingly revealing to us
all her stocking-tops and the pale pink French-knickers she was sporting!
"Okay Girlie, better find us a change of clothes quick if you don't want similar
treatment to him!"
It was now my turn to be floored by his demand.
"I -I - We don't have anything suitable for you to wear - my clothes are in the
washing machine there," I blurted out, pointing to my male clothes still visible
in the revolving drum, but the guy didn't twig my 'gaffe'.
"We want men's gear - not yours - where does he keep his men's clothes?" he
continued as my captor frog-marched me into the lounge and pointed at Angela
still recovering her breath on the floor.
"He doesn't possess any male clothes," I replied shakily. "He lives full-time as
a woman."
The other man snorted in disgust, annoyance and disbelief. "Fancy a nice chick
like you knocking around whiff a geezer who spends all his time dolled up like a
bird, - surely a tasty dish like you could do better, - take me for instance?"
I backed away as he licked his lips and his eyes greedily gave me the 'come on',
but his companion butted in.
"We can't go outside in these togs any more Vic, one of those newfangled Police
spotter planes is sniffing around, and they have set up road blocks in the
district so we wouldn't get far even if you two had a car we could take."
"We have a dozen or so transvestites dropping in about two hours time for
drinks." Angela volunteered this information from the floor, where she still lay
in an unladylike heap.
"Fat lot of good that is to us, unless you've got anything better to say best
'button it!"
"Hang about Steve, that might solve our problem; if we gear ourselves up as a
couple of dolly birds we could 'half-inch' a car when it gets dark, and in that
way fool the fuzz if we get stopped."
Steve scowled at Vic. "You couldn't pass as an old maid, let alone a bird - look
at you in the prison play - prancing about all dolled up and everyone took the
Piss, I could pull it off better than you."
"What! You with your ugly mug? Never a hope in hell!" came Vic's rejoinder and we
listened to the heated, but friendly exchange between the two until at an
appropriate moment, Angela diplomatically intervened.
"I am sure I could dress you up as a couple of convincing 'young ladies'." She
pointed to a photograph of 'Uncle Arthur' on the sideboard. "That is how I used
to look, and look at me now."
Vic and Steve were obviously amazed at the transformation from a 'macho' to a
convincingly feminine image, as Angela continued, "And as you say, you could
borrow one of my guests cars to make your escape and if you promise not to molest
my friend and I, or forcibly restrain us against our will, you have our assurance
we won't tell anyone who you really are until after you have gone."
"He's got something there Vic!" was the enthusiastic reply and I was pushed down
into an armchair and told not to move as our two captors went over by the door
and held a whispered conversation.
After a brief discussion, Steve announced, "Although we should really 'scarper'
right away, we are going to have to stay here for the time being, at least until
it is dark, so we will go along with your plan and be disguised in women's
clothes, - so - my Fairy-friend you had better get your finger out! And no
tricks, or it will be the worse for you, so cum-on! Lets git it over wiff shall
we?" and so saying, Steve encouraged Angela to stand up with a kick to the groin.
Angela climbed painfully to her feet and studied the two of them carefully before
taking them upstairs. Both men were quite young offenders, even though unkempt
and unshaven, they were roughly the same build as me, so her eventual reply
seemed to please them both.
"I think I can safely disguise the two of you as TV's, and then you needn't have
any arguments as to who plays the part, and should you decide to continue your
escape after dark, the police are unlikely to stop two women, but to convince my
guests you are what you seem, you must dress as females from the skin out, since
only 'gays' wear dresses over their male clothes."
Angela's plan met with guarded approval and after they made sure all the outside
doors were locked we were escorted upstairs by our captors, where preparations
were made for their metamorphosis, while each took turns to keep me under close
scrutiny.
Angela insisted, despite their objections, that they both took turns to bath and
at the same time shave their arms and legs, as well as their faces, before she
began the task of arraying them in suitable women's' garments, applying their
make-up and choosing appropriate wigs to suit their features.
Steve and Vic took the proceedings very seriously indeed, and it was only when
Angela had finally finished, Vic eyed Steve up and down, and flashing a smile let
out a low whistle and remarked, "Blimey! What a dish!"
While Steve chuckled. "This gear makes me feel randy all over, what a turn-on; no
wonder birds luv wearing it, I might git to try it again sometime!"
They both started laughing with relief as they appeared to judge themselves to be
passable versions of the female sex in their quaint attire, and we joined in the
hilarity, thereby relieving the nervous tension, which we were suffering.
I realised that Angela had chosen to adorn them in the most tasteless selection
of 'drag' she could lay her hands on - so they both looked like a couple of
'tarts' as they tottered about on outrageous stilt-heeled shoes, wearing garishly
flowered organza short-sleeved mini-dresses, courtesy of his former wife, which
were little more than 'fanny-pelmets,' barely hiding the cheap nylon 'see-
through' panties in fluorescent pink and fluorescent orange which they were
wearing, their faces heavily caked with make-up, as they fluttered their false
eyelashes, and flashed their vividly painted false nails at one another, and
wiggled their 'bottles and glasses' to show off their over-padded breasts, and
the unsightly bulges further down; clearly visible despite their feeble attempts
to shield the evidence with their dainty, plastic dolly-bags, - and thereby
ruined their one redeeming feature - their long, shapely, nylon-clad legs! But
the drone of an approaching car brought us all back to reality and the raucous
laughter faded away, as the four of us lapsed into an uncomfortable silence.
4. The Tables are Turned!
"I don't think this was such a good idea," Steve muttered through his painted
lips, as they hurriedly scooped up their discarded prison clothes and piled them
into an empty suitcase, possibly in anticipation of having to leave in a hurry,
as they no longer appreciated the novelty of the situation into which they had
been so easily led.
'Angela's no fool!' I thought to myself quietly, as the first of her guests
hesitantly 'tap-tapped' on the front door, and the three of us followed Angela
and clip-clopped awkwardly down the stairs as she went to admit the first of her
guests.
"Hi Angie darling, here's a bottle of pop from your 'first footer'" came the
cheerful voice from the door and in bounced this rotund creature dressed as a
little girl in a high-waisted powder-pink satin frock with short, puffed,
sleeves, edged with lace and a lace 'Peter Pan' collar, white ankle socks and
black character shoes - her chubby face framed in a mass of golden 'Shirley
Temple' curls which I immediately recognized as belonging to George, best man at
my Uncle's wedding, and who I now realised was one of the pretty little faces in
the photographs upstairs in the drawer of Angela's dressing table.
He stopped abruptly when confronted by three strange 'ladies' who Angie quickly
introduced, "Georgina, please meet Terri, who you may already recognise, and
Stephanie, and finally Victoria, three new novices for the club."
Georgina whistled through her teeth, "Gosh! Three new playmates at one go! - My
- I am a lucky girl!"
Hearing their adopted names for the first time brought coy looks from the two
jailbirds. So when the female equivalent of 'Giant Haystacks' stepped forward and
planted a sloppy kiss on all three of us we didn't even raise a murmur, and as my
new found 'friends' shuffled uncomfortably in their misshapen minis and high
heels even I felt uncomfortable with the damp, clammy air from the open door
playing on my scantily clad legs and arms.
Having closed the front door and hung Georgina's red cape on the hallstand,
Angela led us into the lounge where we were invited to help ourselves to a sherry
while she trotted out to the kitchen, to try and salvage some of the snacks and
sausage rolls, accompanied by 'Stephanie'/Steve acting as escort, while Georgina
was beginning to feel uncomfortable in the presence of two such unconvincing
'females', highlighted by their gruff, undisguised voices, lacking any semblance
of poise, elegance or grace in the way they disported themselves; two uncouth men
in 'drag'.
As a result, Georgina made heavy work of trying to engage Victoria/Vic in polite
conversation, who was keeping a close watch on me to ensure I didn't step out of
line. "Tell me Victoria, how long have you dressed?"
"First time."
"Did you 'shop' for yourself or have you borrowed for the evening?"
"Borrowed."
"Who 'fixed' your make-up?"
"Look here little girl, or whatever you are, you ask too many questions, keep
quiet - see!"
Georgina lapsed into an awkward silence, so was relieved at the opportunity to go
and admit some more arrivals as they rang at the front doorbell. The three
'ladies' admitted on this occasion were dressed more in keeping with their ages,
one was in her fifties, while the other two in the party were about thirty.
Angela bustled into the room and having placed the tray of snacks on the table
made the necessary introductions. I was rather surprised at the intimate
behaviour of 'Susan' and 'Diana' until Georgina informed me that Susan was
Diana's real-life wife in company with Diana's ex-father-in-law, duly renamed
Claire barely three months ago when she had had the 'proper job' done to her, so
she was full of the joys of spring in her fussy role of grandmother-to-be to her
expectant daughter.
Soon, as more and more ambiguously dressed guests arrived, I tried to decide who
was who, - which were the 'boys' in skirts and which were the wives or
girlfriends, although I found this was a fairly easy task. In the early part of
the evening, Claire told us how she had always been tempted to try crossdressing,
but with a family to support, and fearful of the consequences of being found out,
it was only after the demise of her lovely wife some five years ago, followed by
the departure of her three grown up daughters going off to do their own thing
that she had plucked up the courage and decided to give it a go. So with a house
full of discarded female clothes, she revelled in dressing up to her heart's
content, as she caught up with her lost girlhood, even venturing out to try her
luck on an unsuspecting public, and buoyed on by her success had experimented
with changing her bodily appearance, beginning with depilation of her arms and
legs, painful facial waxing to remove her stubble, acquiring hormone patches and
pills over the internet to develop her secondary female characteristics and also
learning how to 'tuck'.
"Not that I need to do THAT anymore!" she candidly admitted.
It was Susan who had accidentally discovered her Daddy's alter ego, and with his
tacit agreement had schooled her pupil in the finer points of womanhood, which
despite endless rows with his other two married daughters and the effect he might
have on his grandchildren, had culminated in drastic reconstructive surgery, and
happily the family were now reconciled to their newly acquired 'mother' and to
Diana, her sissy son-in-law.
Accompanied on the piano by one of the 'girls', the evenings entertainment began
with Angela singing the Madonna pop tune I heard her sing in the garden, but her
sweet voice seemed more suited to her smoochie love songs and so were more
enthusiastically applauded - not that up until then that I ever thought Arthur
could sing - apart from in the bath that is!
But to really get us into the swing of things, we had a variation on the lovely
legs competition, described by Angie as 'an all fall down' contest as three of
the girls stepped through the double doors into the conservatory; and while the
three made their preparations outside, Angie drew the curtains and the pinned up
the hems a wee bit, so that all we could see when they shuffled back into view,
was the bottom half of their nylon clad legs as they tottered about awkwardly
behind the curtain in their high heeled shoes thanks to their knickers hanging at
half mast and about to descend to their ankles any second; - But since everyone
in the room was now doubled up with laughter, the result of the competition was
never decided!
As the evening progressed, we were treated to a bargain sale and display of the
latest styles and colours in ladies satin and lacy lingerie, kindly arranged by a
member's girl friend. Diana, Claire and one or two of the more venturesome of our
number went off to change and came back to 'strut their stuff' modelling some of
the more respectable and desirable items available for sale which were soon
snapped up, and despite their lack of interest, as more sherry was consumed our
two jail-birds, Stephanie and Victoria, became more relaxed in their
surroundings, even settling themselves comfortably on the sofa while Angie and I
apparently continued to keep our part of the bargain, although I was sure Angie
must have been burning-up with resentment at the way in which she had been kicked
while laying helpless on the floor.
So when twelve burly policemen suddenly burst in on the scene, our two jailbird
friends were completely taken by surprise as we were all herded in a line against
one wall still dressed in our 'glad rags'. In spite of the suppressed smiles from
the constables present, the sergeant cleared his throat and began to address the
ladies.
"We understand from information received that there are two escaped convicts
amongst you, and since there are ladies present - while the rest of you are -umm!
- gentlemen in female clothing, we cannot therefore conduct a body-search - so
perhaps someone would point out those we are seeking?"
Amidst gasps of surprise at this revelation, Angela and I pointed out Steve and
Vic to the sergeant.
His only tongue in cheek comment being, "Oh yes, you mean the two 'ladies' with
'dildoes' under their skirts?"
Vic and Steve hung their heads in humiliation at the shame and degradation of his
chance remark, which, for the rest of us, rather brought the house down!
'Thank goodness for my cache-sex' I thought to myself privately, since I too,
thanks to the seductive 'feel' of nylon stockings, and the sensuous thrill of
cool satin and lace against my bare flesh, seemed to be permanently 'on heat'
when dressed.
Strangely enough we were all required to accompany the arresting officers to the
police station in a fleet of large police vans to make formal statements as Steve
commented acidly, "The 'Bill' are probably looking for a free floor show from all
of you." - which ruffled my feathers slightly, but didn't effect the others in
the least who were obviously well used to being ogled at!
It was during the journey that I was able to tell Angie and her friends the
reason for the fortuitous appearance of the police. During the course of the
evening it had become obvious to our other guests that neither Angie nor myself
were allowed out of the room without an escort, even to go to the bathroom,
although Vic did have the good grace to wait outside. This gave me the
opportunity to pull up my petticoats and lower my panties before sitting down to
'perform' in the way a woman performs, and while sitting there watching myself, I
suddenly remembered the interconnecting door to Angela's bedroom concealed by the
full-length bathroom mirror - and a germ of an idea began to form!
I quickly restored my clothing to its normal position, and thanks to Angela's
foresight, took the lipstick from my indispensable clutch-bag, checked the door
was locked, and slipped quietly behind the mirror, across my Aunt's elegantly
decorated boudoir, along the corridor, and clip clopped down the spiral staircase
at the back of the cottage and out into the darkness, eventually arriving
undetected on the muddy verge in the lane where all the cars were parked. The
doors of the first vehicle I tried were all locked, but not the trusting owners
of the next in line as I daintily climbed into the drivers seat in my girlie
gear, gently released the handbrake and allowed the car to roll forward,
effectively blocking off the road.
To make doubly sure I repeated the performance with the next car I found to be
unlocked - and for good measure laid my damaged cycle beneath the front wheels of
one of the 'runaway' cars and scrawling huge messages on both the windscreens
with my lipstick in order to summon the cavalry, then returning hastily to the
bathroom where an impatient Vic had begun to hammer on the door, and having wiped
my high heels clean with toilet paper, allowed myself to be led back downstairs
to await developments in the noisy atmosphere of the lounge below.
It took about fifteen minutes before I first heard the muffled strains of a motor
horn outside in the lane, which thanks to a skin-full of sherry went unnoticed by
Aunt's unwelcome guests, and I just hoped and prayed that the motorist would read
my graffiti before coming to the cottage. So it was rather gratifying when I
heard the vehicle reversing back up the lane.
"What's up Terri? Are you tiring of your petticoats already?" whispered Angela as
I tried to remain calm.
"I'm fine, but we might be out of this mess shortly, and will have cooked the
goose of those two, so keep you fingers crossed!" I replied squeezing her hand
reassuringly, "As for my petticoats - I haven't been so contented for years."
She smiled happily at my reply as she went off to refill her guests' glasses with
more sherry, unaware just then of exactly what I had done in order to rid
ourselves of the two convicts, so the look of astonishment on their highly-
decorated faces when the police broke in was worthy of a picture, although the
policemen looked just as confused at being confronted by so many spurious
'ladies'.
5. Front Page News!
Our arrival at the police station was equally as hilarious as the police officers
were subjected to 'gender-disorientation', gallantly trying to help the real
'ladies' dismount from the police vans, sorting the 'Misters' from the 'Misses',
and vice-versa, as Angie and her compatriots revelled in the novelty of the
situation; but as a relative newcomer, I was still very much the 'shy virgin',
unused to parading about in the public gaze dressed completely from top to toe in
girl's clothes (not to mention the unmentionables), smelling like a chemists shop
and without a stitch of masculine clothing to my name.
But when we tottered into the police station we were blinded by flashbulbs and
confronted by a scrum of reporters keen to snap up a scoop thanks to our public
spirited motorist and his cell-phone; anxious no doubt to make a quick buck, and
putting even the most hardy of my companions ill at ease while in the background
there even lurked a local television crew waiting for their chance to grab some
of the action!
"Perhaps my lipstick 'graffiti' wasn't such a good idea after all," I murmured
quietly to Angela, but despite the rumpus in the background, as the police
attempted to elbow a path through the throng, she had regained her composure and
she and some of the others were busy fixing their faces in anticipation of their
fifteen minutes of fame before she paid me any more attention.
"Come here pet, let me repair that make-up of yours, - you look a mess!"
And despite my heart racing away like an express train, I stood patiently still
as she prepared me to meet my public!
"What's your name luv?" A cub reporter had tapped me on the shoulder and as I
turned I found a grey furry squirrel's tail had been pushed in my direction.
"Umm, M-my name is Terri." I nervously gasped into the mike as the cameras busily
whirled and cameras flashed in the background.
"Terry was the one who stopped the cons!" shouted a voice in the crowd, and I
suddenly experienced super star status, as the whole world seemed to centre on
little me!
"Terry? Is that a boy's name or a girl's name luv?" The camera crew were now
having a field day as the lenses ogled me from every direction, and I suddenly
seemed to have a desperate urge to go to the toilet.
"It's a girl's name Dickhead, or are you lot blind as well as stupid?"
The gruff voice came from the towering shape of Georgina, my fairy God-sister as
she came to my rescue and lifted me gently in her arms, then with a loud yell
prepared to batter her way through to safety, even if it did mean using me as the
battering-ram! But there was no need! Her sheer size daintily perched on little
girls black patent shoes delightfully set off with white frilly topped ankle
socks was far too menacing draped as she was in pink and white satin and lace for
a bunch of provincial reporters to handle, and they quickly melted away, turning
their attention to more willing publicity seekers such as my uncle, while from
the safety of Georgina's massive, but flabby arms, I pondered whether they were
just scared of a punch up; or of what they might catch from this loveable, but
over-sized pansy-boy!
Meanwhile the two thugs had been led off to the cells in handcuffs to await the
arrival of the prison van, but I couldn't help noticing their skirts were now
appropriately enough, at 'half-mast' with all the heat taken out of their
adventure, while I gave an account of my part in their re-capture to the police
inspector who interviewed me.
As we left the interview room he thanked me for my co-operation and remarked,
"Well Terri, you are a brave girl and you might be entitled to a reward."
Angela had by now re-appeared on the scene and placed her arm round my shoulder
giving me a hug and a squeeze. "Yes Inspector, she is a real heroine in more ways
than one, but the worst isn't over yet."
He grinned knowingly, "Oh, you mean the television coverage and the headlines in
the newspapers in the morning?"
Angela smiled knowingly, "I was just thinking what 'her' parents would say!" -
was her parting remark as we made our way towards the door for the return journey
in a police car and I realised my troubles were only just about to begin!
We arrived back at Angela's just as the late news was finishing, and half a dozen
painted talons made a snatch for the zapper, so amidst excited giggles and
squeals we were rewarded with two minutes worth of coverage of the chaotic scenes
in the police station foyer. Despite the panic stricken look on my scarlet face,
the cameraman had taken some good angle shots of me in my pretty dress,
especially when Georgina swept me off my feet since as my petticoats billowed
out, I could now see that my frilly knickers were freely on display for all and
sundry to gloat over, hence whistles of derision from the girls.
Angela didn't spare my blushes on screen either, freely admitting when challenged
by the interviewer to being a full-time trannie, and giving a lengthy resume of
her life to date, then raving over what a heroine Terri had been in effecting the
recapture of the convicts, finally finishing off in grand style with a Freudian
slip by confessing how proud she was of her brave young nephew!
'Oops'! I thought - 'now for trouble,' but fortunately there was no late night
phone call from my irate parents so it seemed for the time being at least I was
in the clear!
After the news had finished, and we had run through the video recording half a
dozen times, we all enjoyed an alcoholic nightcap, but before our guests departed
we settled down to recall the hilarity of the nights' events until the early
hours of the morning. After we had seen our friends off the premises and kissed
each other 'night-night', I made my way to the spare bedroom where Angela had
kindly laid out a gorgeous knee-length white satin and lace nightdress and
negligee for me to wear, and having stripped and changed into my exotic outfit.
I trotted off to the bathroom in my furry mules before climbing thankfully into
bed for a well deserved rest and thinking to myself as I snuggled down 'who knows
what tomorrow may bring? - since I knew that as a result of the day's events my
life would never be the same again!
6. More Family Secrets Revealed!
Angie gaily tripped into my room in a red and green sleeveless summer dress at
around ten with a strong, hot, mug of coffee to help me wake up, before pulling
back my curtains upon a glorious sunny spring morning, then like a mother hen,
she began fussing around laying out my frillies for the day, before tripping off
downstairs to eat her breakfast out on the patio where after a long struggle
squeezing myself into a pretty yellow dress, I joined her about twenty minutes
later suitably equipped with a straw bonnet and sun-glasses as we planned what to
do for the rest of bank holiday Monday.
We were laying stretched out on a pair of recliners still mulling over the
previous evenings events, when we heard a car drive up and come to an abrupt halt
in the lane outside. There was the sound of car doors being opened and slammed
shut, but then there was an uncanny silence so we assumed it was some ramblers
taking the footpath opposite the cottage to visit the local nature reserve as we
continued to enjoy the warm sunshine.
"Have you seen this mornings papers! You two fairies are plastered all over the
front pages!"
I opened my eyes to find my father's scarlet face towering over me as he savagely
threw his newspapers into the skirts of my pink flowered dress and shouted.
"You two disgust me! I cannot bear to look at you Son, and as for you Arthur, I
would love to kick the shit out of you! Mother, you sort them out once and for
all." and he turned away to stalk off down the garden as Susan smirked knowingly
and my mother tut-tutted, forcefully rubbing her fists together in exasperation.
"We told you not to come here Terry; now see the mess you have landed yourself
into thanks to this useless brother of mine. Look at the two of you! The front
page story mincing about like a couple of tarts, and the pictures even show up
the petticoats and frilly knickers you were wearing underneath your dress Terry,
you look disgusting!"
Angela held her peace as we both stood up awkwardly from our recliners, and we
could see what she meant was true and my worst fears had materialised, since the
papers had made a real meal of the story:
'Boy in a dress apprehends convicts' was the first headline to catch my eye
followed by:
'Sissy boy shops slick Steve!'
'Crossed-dressed Cons Caught With Their Trousers Down!'
'Trannie Terri tricks his tormentors' read another with lurid details of the
nights events, with most story-lines having a generous plastering of fiction
mixed in with the truth, but some correctly identified my public school, where I
lived, who my friends were, also 'how I loved to fool the studs in my trannie
gear', and other endless drivel.
But Mum interrupted our intense session of reading with - "Your girlfriend
Pauline rang us up in a tizzy first thing this morning wanting to speak to you,
and she asked us if we saw last night's television news, but Dad was watching
football. - We couldn't believe what she told us, so Susan dashed out and bought
all the papers before we came over here to find out what was going on and also to
avoid the constant ringing of the telephone." Mother now turned all her spite on
Angie, "You should be ashamed of yourself encouraging young Terry to fall into
your perverted ways, - look at her - him, plastered all over the papers, you are
a disgrace, - no wonder your family disowns you! - Fancy me having a brother like
you, I am deeply ashamed of what you have become!"
Mother paused in her tirade to recover her breath, which gave me the chance to
jump in the deep end. "But Mummy! It's unfair of you to blame Angie, she didn't
'force' me to dress you know! -and - Well actually, - Mummy -" I drawled, as I
bent my arms limply at the elbows, directing the palms of my hands towards her in
an exaggerated pose, as I stretched out my fingers and studied the paintwork on
my fingernails, "Thanks to Susan's extensive wardrobe back home, I have been
secretly dressing as a girl for years! - even the day after you and Dad caught me
out, so this is no big deal!"
She blanched in horror, unwilling to accept, or face the truth of what I had just
said.
"Angela has some interesting photographs upstairs of a little toddler all dressed
up in his sister's clothes, and crying bitterly into his skirts; - and others,
where in his anguish he is lying on his tummy on the ground in pretty little
girl's dresses, and kicking and screaming and showing off his frilly knickers in
frustration at his sad plight."
My mother looked at me sharply, "You are making this all up, and in any case, I
had no idea of what my nasty brother got up to while I was away, after all, he
was always a difficult child!"
The look on her face showed her answer had caught her out.
"Okay then Mummy, who was it who was always on hand to take all those charming
photographs of Uncle Arthur! - after all, he could hardly take them himself, -
especially the ones where he was older, and really beginning to relish his little
dress-up games with some of your other converts."
Mummy was now on the defensive, "I don't know what you mean Terri! What other
converts?"
"I mean other little boys like George, the best man at Angela's wedding; last
night we had a nice long chat and she told me how you lured him into petticoats
by bribing him with armfuls of sweeties, even though his parents were trying to
get him to slim down, and promising to keep his little game a secret, but after
his first taste of seeing himself in a mirror, and experiencing the soft, silky
feel of satin dresses, the rustling sounds from his stiffened net petticoats
whenever he moved, the occasional glimpses of the lovely lace panties he was
wearing, and finally, the seductive smell from the dainty Mary Jane leather shoes
peeping beneath his white, frilly ankle socks, that he - or she - was well and
truly hooked, and no longer had to be bribed with sweeties!"
As I paused, my Aunt now butted in to have her say, "And Georgina wasn't the
first, was she Pamela? Thanks entirely to your tireless efforts to make your
world a prettier place populated by little boys in dresses, and you may recall
that at least half a dozen of my nicely dressed sissy friends shared with me in
the joy of my sixth birthday party, and some of us still meet up from time to
time even now." Angela gave a cheeky grin, "After all, thanks to you, we all
share something very special, and not many little boys learn to love and accept
such an earth shattering experience as you put us through when we were
Vulnerable and small - and so we have all kept in closely in touch down the years
since ours is a very exclusive sorority!"
My mother had now sunk down into a recliner as she murmured, "I think I'm having
one of my headaches again!"
"Oh no you are not Mother, I haven't had my say!" I looked round to find it was
Susan who had now chimed in.
"So that was the reason I had to endure being dressed in all those nasty, horrid,
old fashioned frillies, just so that you could recollect what you had achieved in
the past while I hated having to parade around in such prissy clothing! How you
would have loved to learn that Terri was always getting into my dresses, not just
on the one time you caught him, in fact sometimes I helped him dress and did his
make-up, but then he always had the full treatment, including wearing my undies,
hairbows in his hair and all the other paraphernalia girls love to wear, and
although I soon found out what he was up to I never told tales, and I even took
his photo in the garden on one occasion while you were out.
"So fortunately thanks to your concerns over Dad's opinion, you were deprived of
the chance to turn your own son into my little sister, since he did that all by
himself, so what I have just told you must have hurt your pride, since he did it
without being bullied, forced, or coerced by you! - But after all, you did him a
favour in the long run by buying me all those pretty - pretty dresses, so good
luck to him if that's what turns him on, despite what Daddy says, but that
doesn't mean to say that we don't still love you just the same!"
"And what does Daddy say?"
The booming voice of my Father startled us all as he made a sudden appearance,
having been lurking, hence forgotten, down the garden. I watched mother visibly
pale, since she must have wondered to how many of the secrets from her murky past
Daddy was now privy, but he just strode across to where she was reclining, leant
over, kissed her on the cheek, then whispered quietly in her ear at which point
she brightened as Daddy straightened up and announced:
"I don't want us all to become embroiled in a shouting match so I think we can
all pile into the car and go down to the 'Three Belles' for a liquid lunch if
that's all right with Angela, while we discuss what is to be done, - are we all
agreed?"
We were caught off guard by father's suggestion to visit Angela's 'local', but we
greeted the prospect with genuine enthusiasm.
"I forgot to mention, Terri, I do like your dress - it suits you!"
I wasn't totally speechless as I replied, "Umm! Thanks Dad."
"And Terri?"
"Yes Dad?"
"Please call me Daddy from now on."
But after a comment like that I was just struck dumb!
7.Out of the Frying Pan!
As Angela locked up the cottage before we joined the our parents in the car, she
took the opportunity to have a quiet word with Susan and me.
"Actually, I believe your mother quite enjoyed that little performance, after all
she must have realised that her kooky ways were bound to be commented upon
eventually. She was lucky it took so long, and that it was we who raised the
issue, and not some fast-talking lawyer on behalf of a possible client! And I
didn't want to say so in front of Pamela, but three of my former playmates have
actually had gender re-assignment surgery probably due to her activities many
years ago; - Susan might remember a girl called Karen, she was once a boy called
Carl but she was one of your fellow bridesmaids at my wedding Susan?"
Susan nodded in agreement. "You mean the attractive blonde girl?"
"Quite right Sue, you do remember! But Pamela failed to recognise her thanks to
the hormones she was taking, - and I wasn't going to give your mother the
satisfaction of knowing that some of her prot?g?s' had opted for castration and
casting themselves in her own image!" Then Angela giggled, "My! She would just
LOVE to know that; but let's go and find out what the 'Three Belles' has to
offer!"
It was such a glorious day that we all trooped into the extensive gardens and
found a suitable table at which to dine while Angela went inside the pub to order
the drinks. We were soon slaking our thirst 'on the house' as Angela explained
that the previous night 'mien hostess' had taken one of her bar staff home after
work in her car and was on the return journey when she had come across my
improvised road block, so a quick 999 call had sealed the fate of the two
absconders.
"But why the free round of drinks?" I asked.
Angela grinned, "That was her appreciation for being able to file a good
syndicated story, - she was a top newshound before she