Foreword: A while ago I read the story 'Peter's Girl' on FM. The author
totok, a Brit, invited the reader to 'translate' the story into American.
I liked the story and the general themes Totok developed and I thought I
would take a shot at it. So what follows is my Americanized translation
with expanded themes and a new storyline and characters. Hope you like
it. Thanks for the ideas Totok. I'd love to hear what you think.
This story may not be re-posted without the permission of the author.
THE NEW-WOMAN ? by: Lana B.
PROLOGUE
It was the year 2102 and things were quite different for men now than
they were one-hundred years ago. For one thing males were in the clear
minority. The reasons for this were varied. Many men had died in several
wars, usually needlessly fought, over the last century.
There were also a number of plagues and diseases which, mysteriously,
afflicted and killed only males, further reducing their numbers. And also
for reasons unknown, women were giving birth to more females than males.
The 2100 census had shown that sixty-eight percent of all children born
in the previous decade had been girls. The net result of all this was
that seventy-nine percent of the population of the United States was now
female.
And during the last twenty or so years, women had been using their new
strength in numbers to great political advantage. Historically, a greater
percentage of women than men had always turned out at the polls on
Election Day and now with their clear numerical superiority it was
relatively rare to find a male candidate to vote for, if one were so
inclined. Women were more and more frequently voting only for female
candidates and, as a result, the emerging victors of State primary
elections were almost always women.
Consequently, the choice to be made in the general election usually
boiled down to the question of which of the two women from the two major
political parties a voter desired to support. Thus, women now held the
political power that fueled America's social engine.
All of the country's State legislatures were dominated by women and
forty-seven women sat in gubernatorial mansions. Women held ninety-three
percent of the seats in the House of Representatives and there were only
two men left in the U.S. Senate.
A man had not occupied the White House in the last eighteen years.
Although it was not quite impossible for a male to gain position to
elected office, it had become a very daunting task. It seemed that the
only way a man could get elected to office was if he sincerely and
passionately advocated the various causes embraced by women. And even
then he had a chance of winning only if his female opponent were an
outright dud or involved in some sort of political scandal. And even when
that was the case a number of such females still ended up beating their
male opponents when the votes had been finally tallied.
This gender-based phenomenon was not endemic to the United States. It
prevailed in all countries and women were consolidating their strength
and seizing political power and control in all of the nations of the
world.
Indeed, most if not all of the ambassadors at the United Nations were
women. And as a result of this worldwide phenomenon, the state of
international relations, on the political, economic and military fronts,
took on a new face that history had not previously seen. The various
nations of the world found themselves at peace. Their economies were
thriving. Civil and harmonious international relations were the rule, not
the exception.
And this, in turn, led to many cruel and insulting remarks from a number
a new female political leaders concerning how men, when they were in
control, nearly led the world to the brink of ruin on so many occasions.
And how women were so much more intelligent, emotionally stable and
better suited to lead the world. And even how the world would be so much
better off if men were strictly controlled.
It was, indeed, a new world order.
However, in the United States this new order did not come without some
degree of backlash from the new male minority. Many males spoke out about
some of the inequities they perceived in this new order. They felt, for
the most part, without political representation, as many female elected
officials seemed only concerned about matters and issues that affected
women.
And a good number of these female officials embraced the position that
some restrictions should be placed on males to control their naturally
aggressive and violent tendencies. They argued that men, even though
constituting less than one-quarter of the population, might attempt to
forcibly seize back the political power that they had lost to women for
it was, after all, in their nature to do so.
And four years ago, while the issue of restrictions was being vigorously
debated in the Congress, a plan hatched by about thirty-five male
military stalwarts in the Pentagon to forcibly seize control of the
country was exposed and thwarted.
While this scheme was soundly denounced by the general population as
illegal and unconstitutional, it lent fuel to the argument that some
restrictions on males were needed. And by a margin of two to one,
Congress passed The Suppression Act of 2098.
This bill became law when it was signed by President Julia Chambers and,
though legally challenged in the courts by the Male Anti-Defamation
League, was upheld by the Supreme Court a year later by a vote of seven
to two. Not surprisingly, the two dissenters had been the only males left
on the high court, both of whom were in their mid-nineties. These two
Supreme Court 'male seats' would undoubtedly be gone when the male
justices retired or died, which would allow the President to nominate new
female justices.
The Suppression Act of 2098 sought to "restrict and control the
inherently aggressive and violent tendencies and behaviors as exhibited
by males throughout history for the purpose of protecting the general
welfare of society," as stated in the Act's preface.
Ironically, many of the restrictions of the legislation, as contained in
the Act itself and in several amendments made in the last few years, were
patterned after some of the same limitations that had been imposed on
women in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
although it can be argued that some of the new restrictions went even
further than their earlier counterparts.
Men were stripped of the right to vote and to drive an automobile, and
they were banned from leaving their home after nightfall unless
accompanied by a woman.
The drinking of alcoholic beverages by men was outlawed, and serving such
beverages to a male was made a felony punishable by a year's
imprisonment.
It was now illegal for a man to own real property or to possess a credit
card.
All men were now issued national identity cards and the NFPF (National
Female Police Force) or the local FEMPOL had the right to ask any male to
produce the card without probable cause.
Possession of a handgun or any other sort of deadly weapon by a man was
illegal and punishable by a stiff criminal sentence.
Men were no longer permitted to attend college.
And in one of the more controversial provisions of the Suppression Act,
men were banned from holding jobs. The only exception was for jobs
essential to the national security which could not be filled by women
due to a lack of qualified applicants.
It was rationalized by the authors of the legislation that if men were
made financially dependent on women, their naturally violent tendencies
would be substantially curbed, if not eradicated.
The new male minority would now be financially provided for by their
wives. The small number of adult men who were single would receive a
modest monthly governmental stipend while being simultaneously urged to
find a spouse to provide for them.
And these new times also brought the advent of new medical marvels as
well as social and political upheavals.
One such marvel was a drug called Rejuve, which professed to stop the
aging process, although there was some dispute as to how long the
'stoppage' might last in the absence of experience with the agent.
Rejuve was introduced in the year 2100 and was provided free of cost by
the government to all its citizens, female and male, once they attained
the age of twenty-one.
As could be expected a great number of qualified people applied for
Rejuve for after all, who would not want to stay as young as she could
for as long as she could?
The limited experience with Rejuve over the last two years seemed to
confirm the manufacturer's claims that it really was the Fountain of
Youth. It actually did appear to stop the aging process, although it was
a little difficult to tell in some of the younger recipients.
But other more noticeable changes or side-effects from taking Rejuve were
more readily evident. And significantly, the changes were different in
females than in males.
Women tended to actually grow in size.
It was not uncommon for a woman to add six to eight inches in height to
her frame and anywhere from fifty to seventy-five pounds to her body
mass. And the extra weight was not composed of body fat but rather of
muscle tissue. Meaning that women also gained a significant amount of
strength from taking Rejuve.
As for men the effect of taking the drug was quite the opposite.
Men, in contrast to women, somehow lost body size and mass as a result of
taking Rejuve.
It was not uncommon for a man who took Rejuve to lose anywhere from five
to eight inches in height and fifty to sixty-five pounds in weight. A
concomitant effect was a tremendous loss of strength for as much of the
weight loss derived from muscle mass as it did from body fat.
Many males looked at Rejuve with a jaundiced eye and claimed it was all
part of a governmental conspiracy to make and keep men not only
politically weaker than women but physically weaker as well.
This contention was denounced as unfounded and baseless by both the
manufacturer and the government, both of whom alleged the side-effects
were simply the result of retarding the aging process and that the drug
had different consequences in women and men solely on the basis of their
biological distinctions.
In any event, many qualified males took Rejuve as they rationalized that
a change in physical stature, though certainly not a welcomed side-
effect, was well worth the beneficial result of thwarting the aging
process.
For after all, hasn't womankind been seeking the Fountain of Youth since
the beginning of time?
SAMMY'S STORY- PART ONE
It was March 15, 2108 and Samuel Stone, celebrating his seventeenth
birthday, was enjoying the pot roast his father had prepared in honor of
his attainment of this milestone in his life.
"Hope you like it, Sammy," his father said. "I worked on this meal for
three hours."
"Yeah, it's great Dad. Thanks."
"Your father is such a good cook, Sammy. He's a real catch," Sammy's
mother proudly announced.
Sammy looked at his mother and smiled. He then looked at his father and
began to reflect on his family's circumstances.
Ten years ago Sammy's father, Patrick Stone, was the proud owner of a
lucrative pharmacy that had allowed the Stones to purchase the lovely ten
room house in Huntington, New York in which Sammy now sat eating his
birthday dinner.
But with the passage of the Suppression Act of 2098 Patrick Stone was
forced to sign over the ownership rights to the pharmacy to his wife, and
Sammy's mother, Amelia. What's more Patrick Stone was no longer legally
allowed to work, so he was forced to stay at home and take care of
domestic matters while Sammy's mother supervised the operation of the
pharmacy.
Unlike her husband Patrick, Amelia was not a licensed pharmacist and she
hired a female pharmacist to run the pharmaceutical aspects of the
business while she attended to the administrative aspects. But Amelia had
enrolled in Pharmacy School, which she attended at night after work, and
acquired her pharmacy license in five years. It was a difficult task but
Sammy's mother was a hard-working, industrious woman who was determined
to keep up the lifestyle to which her beloved family had become
accustomed.
And while Amelia Stone attended Pharmacy School, Patrick Stone, out of
necessity, learned how to take care of the ten-room Huntington house and
the Stones' young son Sammy. After all someone had to do it, and Patrick
was the likely candidate. Amelia was busy all day running the pharmacy
and, for the first five years since acquiring sole ownership of the
business, attending school at night. She was completely bushed by the
time she came home each night and was in no condition to take care of
domestic tasks.
So even though it was at first somewhat humiliating to Patrick Stone,
there was no alternative but to do what the circumstances of the times
dictated. And Sammy's father rationalized that he was not doing anything
different than what millions of other men were being forced into doing by
the requirements of The Suppression Act.
So Patrick Stone learned how to shop, cook, clean house, sew, iron and do
the family's laundry. And he became reasonably proficient at all, if at
first only out of practice.
But after about two years he actually began to enjoy the rather mundane
aspects of attending to household tasks and started to take great pride
in his housework.
Indeed, after spending the first two years in his new 'job' as Amelia's
househusband, Patrick Stone enrolled in a home economics course at the
local high school offered to all the new househusbands in the area to
hone up on his domestic skills. And after spending about a year taking
these courses Patrick Stone had become quite the expert homemaker.
The refrigerator and shelves were always stocked with nutritious foods
and he always prepared delicious meals for his family. He beamed with
delight when his wife or son complimented him on his cooking.
What's more he kept the Huntington home spotless. He frequently scrubbed
the floors and vacuumed the house's many carpets.
He also ensured that his wife and son always wore fresh, clean clothes.
And in the last three years or so, Patrick Stone even made friends with
some of the other househusbands on the block and once or twice a week
they got together at one of their homes and drank coffee, played cards,
and gossiped.
Patrick Stone took his job as Sammy's father even more seriously than he
took his new household responsibilities. Since Amelia spent a great
portion of her waking hours earning the money her family needed to
survive, the prime responsibility of raising Sammy had fallen on
Patrick's shoulders.
And he could not fail in this responsibility.
For it was, after all, extremely difficult for a male to survive
comfortably in today's society and Patrick Stone wanted to ensure that
his son would attain a comfortable lifestyle by the time he reached
adulthood.
So early on, he emphatically tried to convince his son that it was very
important to be snared by the right woman, one who had the financial
means to take care of him and provide him with the most comfortable
lifestyle imaginable.
He told his son that women, who outnumbered men by more than three to
one, would do or say almost anything to attract and marry a man, and that
Sammy must be on the lookout for deceptive females. Sammy had to be
careful and discretionary to ensure that he ended up with the right
woman, one who would treat him fairly and with respect, a woman who would
not use the power of the purse-strings to embarrass or humiliate him.
And Sammy's father told him how females would contrive to snare him by
trying to get into his pants. How they would attempt to use this tactic
to make him emotionally and sexually dependent on them so that he would
accept their proposals of marriage.
"There are plenty of fish in the sea," Sammy's father would say, "So it
is important that you throw the bad ones back and select only the best
one out there."
And in this regard Sammy's father encouraged him to save himself for his
wife.
"The worst thing you could do is to become a slut, to let just any woman
have her way with you," Mr. Stone advised his son. "Remember, no hard-
working, respectable woman has any regard for a man who has slept
around."
And in his plans to make Sammy a "good catch" for a respectable woman,
Mr. Stone tried to teach his son the tricks of the trade to becoming a
good homemaker. He wanted Sammy to learn all of the ins-and-outs of
cooking and housecleaning so that Sammy would be able to attract the
appropriate mate. He wanted to give his son an advantage over the other
males.
But Sammy had no interest in domestic matters. He told his father, in not
so unconvincing terms, that he would learn how to keep house when the
time came. That it had worked well that way for his father and it would,
undoubtedly, work just as well for him.
But that still did not prevent Patrick Stone from trying to persuade his
son otherwise, though his pleadings continued to fall on deaf ears.
Sammy once more thanked his father for the meal and said he needed to get
ready for his date.
"You're going out with that Jill Claymoore, right?" his mother asked.
"Yeah," Sammy replied.
"Isn't she the captain of the senior varsity basketball team?" Sammy's
father asked.
"Yeah. She's picking me up at 7:00. She's taking me to the basketball
game tonight to watch her play. We'll probably head over to the diner for
a burger and fries after the game."
"Well," Mr. Stone said with a firm look on his face, "You just make sure
she knows to have you home by 11:00."
"Aw, c'mon Dad. I'm seventeen years old now. How about ditching the
curfew, it's embarrassing. And it's Friday, not even a school night."
"Now Sammy," his mother put in, "Your father is right. No respectable
seventeen year old male would stay out on a date past 11:00."
"And," Sammy's father added, "No respectable female would keep her
seventeen year old date out past 11:00. By the way, just how old is this
Jill Claymoore?"
"She just became seventeen two months ago, so she's my age, Dad," Sammy
lied.
Actually, Jill was a senior, one class ahead of Sammy in school, and she
had just had her eighteenth birthday a few weeks ago. But Jill was really
cute and Sammy found himself attracted to her. He'd been unable to say no
when Jill had asked him out for a first date last week.
She'd taken Sammy to a nice restaurant and then to a movie. She had acted
like a perfect lady for the entire evening. And Jill had, of course,
returned Sammy home by his 11:00 curfew.
"Alright, I guess it's okay," Sammy's father said, "But just you remember
what I've told you about females, especially the jocks. Don't you let her
have her way with you!"
"Geez, Dad...." Sammy stated, his face turning red.
Noting his embarrassment Mrs. Stone said, "Why don't you go get ready for
your date, Sammy. It's 6:30 already."
"Yeah, right," Sammy agreed, and he headed up to his bedroom to wash and
change.
As Amelia Stone glared at her husband with a disapproving look on her
face Patrick said, "Don't look at me like that. I'm just looking out for
his welfare, that's all. I have the right to tell him that, you know.
After all I'm the one who has been raising him all these years."
Now Amelia looked mad. "Right," she exclaimed angrily, "And I'm just the
one who brings home the paycheck so you and Sammy can live comfortably.
Do you know how many other househusbands are envious of you? How they
wish they were married to someone like me? Someone who is as good a
provider as I am?"
Now Patrick was red with embarrassment and on reflection, he agreed that
his wife had been correct.
"You're right, dear. I'm sorry, it won't happen again."
"Good," Amelia said and she smiled softly at her husband.
"I'm going to go watch the nightly news. Why don't you clean up and wash
the dishes. Join me when you're done, sweetheart, and bring me a cup of
coffee." She got up, kissed Patrick on the cheek and left for the living
room.
Jill Claymoore arrived right on schedule and Sammy was waiting at the
door so he could exit the house immediately without subjecting Jill to
his father.
They said hello to each other and walked down the slate pathway to the
street where Jill held open the passenger door for Sammy as he entered
her car.
Riding in the car they discussed Huntington's chances in tonight's game
and when they arrived at the school, Jill pulled over to drop Sammy off
at the public entrance.
"Hey, how about a good luck kiss, Sammy?" Jill asked.
"Sure, why not," and Sammy kissed Jill softly on the cheek before he left
the car.
Sammy watched Jill as she drove off for the player's entrance and he
entered the school.
Sammy made his way into the gymnasium and he looked around to find his
friend Cory Layton. He spotted Cory in the upper bleachers and began the
ascent.
Cory was probably Sammy's best friend and he too was dating an older
member of the school's varsity basketball team, Amanda Peele. Sammy noted
that Cory was wearing Amanda's varsity sweater.
"Hey Cory, does this mean you and Amanda are going steady or something?"
"Nah, she just asked me to wear it for good luck tonight, that's all."
That made Sammy think of Jill's request for the 'good luck kiss'. He
wondered whether it was one of those female tricks his father had warned
him against.
They watched as the players entered the gymnasium and began to take their
practice shots, and Cory said, "Listen, there's something I need to talk
to you about. I tried out for the cheerleading squad yesterday, and I
found out today that I made the team. Effective this Monday I'm
officially a member of the school's cheerleading squad."
Sammy had a look of astonishment on his face as he took in the surprising
news.
"Are you serious, Cory? Do you know what that means?"
"Yeah, I know," Cory said just as Huntington's cheerleaders entered the
gymnasium and began their dancing and cheering.
Sammy looked at them and saw seven cheerleaders in short skirts and
colorful sweaters. They all had shoulder-length hair and they all wore
lipstick. They wore saddle shoes and bobby socks. They all looked pretty.
And they were all males.
Under one of the many amendments to The Suppression Act males were banned
from engaging in official sports activities, as many women held the
belief that such activities encouraged violent behavior.
Only women were allowed to participate in organized sports activities but
males were encouraged to become cheerleaders, as the government deemed it
wise policy to encourage men to cheer women on in their endeavors.
Consequently women were discouraged, if not banned outright, from
becoming cheerleaders so that as many males as possible could apply for
the limited number of openings.
And for reasons which were not entirely clear and were widely debated the
government urged that cheerleaders should maintain the appearance of a
girl and don the more typical female cheerleading garb. Meaning that
cheerleaders would continue to wear makeup, long hair and a skirt.
Sammy turned and looked at Cory. He noticed that his hair had, in fact,
grown much longer than was customary for him. And he noticed the long,
shaped fingernails on Cory's hands that he had not seen before.
"This doesn't mean that you want to become one of those new-women, does
it, Cory?"
"I don't know, I just want to try something different, you know, keep my
options open, that's all," Cory answered, somewhat sheepishly.
And Sammy then began to think of the relatively new societal phenomena of
the new-man and the new-woman which appeared to be another consequence of
taking Rejuve.
As women grew as a result of taking the drug some of them took an
interest in manly activities and actually developed a desire or
compulsion to convert to men.
And as men shrank from taking Rejuve many developed an inclination
towards feminine affairs and concerns and expressed a desire to become
women.
And science and medical technology had sufficiently advanced to the point
where such conversions could be completely and effectively accomplished.
These gender-convertee's were referred to as new-men and new-women, in
contrast to original-men and original-women.
And the phenomena had become pervasive enough (with well over fifty
percent of all Rejuve users developing these tendencies) that the
government enacted an amendment to the Suppression Act covering the issue
in the year 2106.
This amendment provided that the restrictions contained in the
Suppression Act were to be applied based upon the original, not the
converted gender of the citizen. Thus, the Act's restrictions applied to
original-males and new-women but not to original-females and new-men.
And some male minors under the age of twenty-one who were not yet
eligible for Rejuve had also begun to take an interest in typical female
activities, such as cheerleading, in preparation of becoming new-women
once they attained the age of majority and qualified for Rejuve.
The reasons for this were not entirely clear. Some speculated that these
males were transvestites or transsexuals.
Others advanced the theory that these young males desired to be females
because society, and the government, treated women preferably. A weakness
in this theory was that the Suppression Act's restrictions applied to
new-women just as they applied to original-men.
In any event this phenomenon had affected only about ten percent of male
minors and it now appeared that Cory was in this group, the members of
which had been informally dubbed new-girls.
"Well, I wish you the best of luck, Cory," Sammy said for lack of
anything better to offer.
"Thanks, Sammy. I knew you would understand."
Sammy looked down on the basketball court and observed that the game was
in progress. He hadn't even noticed its start. He looked up at the
scoreboard and saw that Huntington was up by thirteen points and there
was only two minutes left in the first half.
The half came to an end and the pretty male cheerleaders returned to the
court, this time bearing pom-poms. They were very good and the crowd
cheered them on. Sammy could not believe that his friend Cory would be
amongst them at Huntington's next game.
Before long the second half began but Sammy could not keep his mind on
the game. He continued to dwell on what Cory had disclosed to him.
The game finally concluded with Huntington winning by seventeen points.
Jill had scored twenty-four points and was the star of the game. She
looked up in the bleachers and caught Sammy's eye. Jill waved, which made
Sammy blush.
It had been pre-arranged that Sammy would wait for Jill in the
auditorium. Cory, on the other hand, had agreed to meet Amanda in the
parking lot so Sammy and Cory said their goodbyes.
Twenty minutes later Jill, freshly showered, returned to the auditorium
to collect Sammy, who congratulated her on her team's victory. It was
10:00 and there was still time to grab a burger at the diner so they made
their way out to Jill's car.
As Jill started the engine she turned to Sammy and said, "So how about a
victory kiss?"
"Not now, Jill."
"What's the matter, Sammy. Did I do something to upset you?" Jill
inquired.
"No, nothing like that," and Sammy proceeded to tell Jill of the
troubling news concerning Cory.
"Hey, Sammy, maybe you should try out for the cheerleading squad too. I'd
bet you'd make a real cute cheerleader."
"What!" Sammy exclaimed, not believing what he had just heard. "Look
Jill, I have no interest in becoming one of those new-girls. I'm not even
interested in Rejuve. I have no desire to shrink! I like it just the way
I am now, okay?"
"Okay, okay, calm down. I didn't mean it, Sammy. I was just kidding,
that's all."
As they finished up their burgers and fries Sammy looked at his watch and
noticed it was almost 11:00.
"We've got to get going, Jill."
Jill paid the bill and they left the diner.
They talked about the basketball game on the ride back, and as Jill
pulled up to the curb across the street from Sammy's house she turned to
him and said, "I had a great time tonight, Sammy. What do you say we do
it again?"
"Sure. Maybe next weekend."
"Great, Sammy. I'll see you in school on Monday."
She leaned over towards Sammy and kissed him on the cheek and then on the
corner of his mouth. Sammy turned towards her and they began to kiss each
other.
Jill then began to rub Sammy's groin. Sammy broke the kiss, grabbed her
hand and removed it.
"I'm not that type of boy, Jill. See you Monday," and he abruptly left
the car and made his way towards his house.
As he opened the door Sammy thought about how his father would be so
proud of him over the way he'd just handled himself. But he reasoned that
he would be better off not telling his father about Jill's attempt to
feel him up.
Sammy had a fitful sleep that night as he dwelled on what his best friend
had told him at the game. At one point he had a nightmare dreaming of
himself as a cheerleader, jumping up and down, pom-poms in each hand, his
long hair and short skirt flying up and down. He abruptly awoke and went
to the bathroom to rinse his face with cold water, which calmed him down
a bit.
Although the rest of his night's sleep was not what he would describe as
sound he had no further dreams, at least none that he could remember.
Sammy awoke at 9:00 Saturday morning. He washed up and relieved himself,
dressed, and headed downstairs. He walked into the kitchen where he saw
his parents standing at the counter, drinking coffee and talking.
"Before you ask," Sammy said, "I had a nice time last night, I was home
by 11:00, and Jill acted like a perfect lady."
"Actually Sammy, your mother and I were just talking about the latest
news. We just saw a report on the vid that males are being allowed to
return work. A new amendment to the Suppression Act was just passed!"
Patrick Stone said with no small amount of enthusiasm. "Your mother and I
were just discussing my possible return to the pharmacy."
"Really?" Sammy asked.
"Actually Sammy, the new amendment is very limited," his mother advised.
"It seems that employers have been having great difficulty filling
certain jobs, ones that females are not interested in doing. Jobs like
secretaries, receptionists, and waitresses. So males are now permitted to
apply for and fill those jobs, not to exceed eight hours a day and forty
hours a week. That's about the size of it."
"So now I can return to the pharmacy as a secretary," Patrick Stone put
in.
"Patrick, I already have a secretary and you have no secretarial skills.
Besides, your housekeeping is a full-time job, something of which you are
quite fond of reminding me frequently. I don't see any reason to make any
changes."
"But..."
"No, Patrick. End of discussion. You will remain a househusband. That is
what your family needs of you. I need no additional assistance at work
and that's that."
Sammy waited for his father's reaction but there was none. His father had
conceded. He had a sad look on his face. He almost looked as if he were
about to cry.
Sammy had never seen his father back down like that before. Nor had he
seen his mother act so forcefully. If it was not apparent to him before
it was now obvious to Sammy that his mother was the boss of this family.
And as he continued to look at his parents standing by the counter Sammy
noticed something else too. They seemed to be of equal height.
He looked at them individually and he realized his mother was taller than
usual and his father was shorter than usual.
"Hey, you guys took Rejuve, didn't you?"
"Yes, Sammy, we went on Rejuve a few months ago," his mother replied.
"How come?" Sammy asked.
"I think you know the answer to that, Sammy. I'm forty-one years old and
your father is forty. We really don't look forward to getting any older.
Recent statistics show that eighty percent of the population takes Rejuve
before attaining the age of thirty-five. We're not doing anything
unorthodox or bizarre. Most people have already taken Rejuve at our age."
"But what about the side-effects?" Sammy asked.
"Your father and I discussed that and it's something we're willing to
endure in order to stop the aging process," his mother answered.
Sammy looked at his father who said, "Your mother is right, Sammy. I'm
certainly not looking forward to the physical changes but it's a price
I'm willing to pay in return for the drug's benefits."
Sammy did not even want to think about what his parents' Rejuve usage
might also lead to in the future. He looked at both of them and simply
said, "I understand. No problem."
It was six months later and Sammy was now a high school senior. He'd
discontinued his relationship with Jill Claymoore and had declined to get
involved with any other females at school. Many females had asked him out
for dates but he explained that he was just not ready to get involved in
a relationship at this time in his life. Word was beginning to get around
that he was a lost cause and he found he was not getting bothered as
much.
He was just too depressed about what was going on all around him to
pursue a romantic relationship. He decided to concentrate on his
schoolwork and grades although he was not quite sure why he did that
since the Suppression Act outlawed college attendance by males.
Men were allowed to attend high school on the theory that they needed to
be reasonably intelligent members of society and responsible mates, but
anything beyond that was strictly impermissible. While they were allowed
to attend home economics courses and clerical classes to learn skills
like homemaking, typing and shorthand, these endeavors were considered
vocational matters on the same footing, or even below, high school
studies.
Sammy thought that after he graduated high school he might take a few
vocational courses since he didn't have any firm plans. Maybe he would
get a job as a secretary? But for the most part he was rather confused
and unsure about his future.
The school bus dropped Sammy off in front of his house and he walked up
the pathway, opened the door with his key and entered. He dropped his
knapsack in the foyer and walked up the stairs and into the kitchen to
grab a snack. He saw his father busily scrubbing the stove's range top
and making it sparkle.
"Hi Dad."
"Hi Sammy. How was school?"
"Okay, I guess."
Sammy poured some milk in a glass and sat down at the kitchen table. He
watched as his father continued to clean the range. He seemed as if he
were on a mission.
As Sammy looked at his father he thought about how his appearance had
changed so much over the last year from taking Rejuve.
Before taking the drug Patrick Stone was 5'11" tall and weighed 175
pounds. Now, he was 5'4" tall and weighed 120 pounds. He was now much
smaller than Sammy, who was 5'9" tall and weighed 160 pounds.
And this made Sammy think about his mother, who now absolutely towered
over his father and was even larger than Sammy.
Amelia Stone, who one year ago was 5'6" tall and weighed 130 pounds, was
now 6'1" tall and weighed 190 pounds.
And recently Sammy had begun to notice some other changes in his mother
that had made him uncomfortable. She had begun to sprout some hair on her
arms and hands and even a little on her upper lip. And Sammy had begun to
notice a small Adam's apple emerging on her throat. Her voice even seemed
a little deeper. And she had cut her hair short and stopped wearing
makeup.
And in the last two weeks Sammy noticed that his mother had begun to wear
pants all the time.
Just as Sammy wondered to himself, "What's next?" his diminutive father
sat down at the kitchen table and said, "Sammy, I'd like to talk to you
about something, okay?"
"Sure Dad."
"Sammy, there's no way to say this but to just come out and say it.
You're mother has decided to become a new-man, and as for me, I guess,
well, I suppose that I've decided to become a, you know, a new-woman."
Sammy stared at his father in disbelief.
He finally offered, "Geez Dad, why would you want to go and do something
like that?"
"I don't know, Sammy. Your mother seems to be determined to become a
new-man. You've probably noticed that she has already started the
process."
Sammy thought again about the hair growth and the developing Adam's apple
he'd seen on his mother.
His father continued: "And she feels that it would be best if I became a
new-woman. It does seem to make sense. What kind of future could I expect
if she went through with it and I stayed as I am?" his father asked,
rhetorically. "How could I expect to stay with someone who is, in
essence, the same sex as I am? Neither your mother nor I are gay, you
know. And I'm certainly in no position to leave her. Even if I got a job
as a waitress or something, it only pays minimum wage. I couldn't afford
to live on that. Let's face it, Sammy, we men are financially dependent
on women. In today's society we can't make it on our own. We may not like
it but that's just the way it is. I've thought about this long and hard
and I just don't see that I have any other choice."
Sammy considered what his father had just said. He could not come up with
any logical response to controvert the points his father had made.
Nevertheless the news just did not sit right with Sammy and he said, "I
understand what you're saying, Dad, but it just doesn't seem natural."
Sammy noticed a slight look of anger on his Dad's face.
"Listen, Sammy. I really don't like this any better than you do but this
is essentially a question of survival. You know, you may very well be
confronted with the same problem yourself in the near future. Don't be so
judgmental. I'm doing what I have to do. Just like what you may have to
do."
What his father had just said made Sammy in equal parts afraid and mad.
"No way. Not me. I don't even plan on taking Rejuve!"
"Then how do you plan on living when you reach adulthood?" his father
asked him.
"I don't know. I'll get a job or something."
"Didn't you hear what I just said a minute ago? The only jobs you're
allowed to have don't pay enough to live on," his father stated
emphatically.
"Then I'll find and marry a woman who has no interest in becoming a
new-man."
"Okay, then what will happen if you marry her and she later decides to
convert to a new-man? Then what will you do?"
Sammy could not think of an answer, which greatly upset him. He began to
cry.
His father reached across the kitchen table and grabbed Sammy's hands,
attempting to console him.
"Listen, Sammy. It's not that bad, relatively speaking. We men are boxed
into a corner and we do what we have to do to survive these days. I wish
you were born a girl so you wouldn't have to go through this crap, but
that's simply not the case. I know it's not easy for you but you just
have to learn to roll with the punches and live from day to day. I love
you Sammy and I need your support in this thing."
Sammy looked at his father and saw that he, too, had begun to cry.
Sammy was touched and he said, "I love you too, Dad. Of course you have
my support. I wish you the best of luck. I'm in your corner."
His father smiled and wiped the tears from his face. Sammy also wiped
away his own tears.
"Thanks, Sammy."
Three months had passed and Sammy had noticed the gradual and regular
changes in his father.
Shortly after their heartfelt discussion he noted that his Dad no longer
seemed to have any hair on his body other than on his head and his
eyebrows. His skin also looked very smooth.
Sammy took note of his father's regular visits to the doctor's office and
the medical clinic. Sometimes his Dad didn't even return from one of
these visits until the next day.
About a month after their discussion Sammy had seen the changes in his
father's face. His nose looked smaller, his chin ended in a new point,
and his lips looked much fuller.
And he noticed how his father's hair, now died blond, had grown longer
and obscured his ears. And how his Dad's nails had grown and how he had
shaped them in a feminine style.
And a month later after his father returned home from an overnight stay
at the clinic Sammy observed that his Dad now had breasts. Breasts which
necessitate that he wear a brassiere. Sammy could not help but discreetly
gaze at his father's chest, at the two cone-like points which pushed out
his shirt.
And a few weeks later his father returned from another overnight stay at
the clinic with yet another change: a new voice. A highly pitched,
feminine sounding voice.
After hearing his father's new melodic voice Sammy gazed at his throat
and noticed there was no longer any Adam's apple to be seen.
As much as Sammy was astounded by these changes he felt the need to
demonstrate his support. But he was not sure what to say. Ultimately he
said, "You know Dad, you're starting to look nice, you know, like,
pretty."
His father had smiled with sincerity and thanked him, which made Sammy
feel good.
And a week after Sammy had complimented his father he returned from
school to find the biggest, and most emotionally taxing change yet.
Sitting at the kitchen table and having a glass of milk with a slice of
chocolate cake, Sammy was completely shocked by what he saw as his father
walked into the kitchen and said, "Hi, Sammy. How was school today?" in
his new-womanly voice.
Sammy gazed at his father who looked nothing like his father.
His Dad was wearing a powder blue cotton dress that ended at his knees
and revealed his legs, which were encased in nylon stockings.
Sammy noticed how his father's breasts pushed out the upper portion of
the dress, ending in two points. He saw that his Dad's waistline now
looked so tapered. And that his hips swelled below the waistline.
And Sammy noticed that his Dad looked three or four inches taller too, so
he gazed downward and saw that his father was wearing high-heeled shoes
which matched his dress.
Sammy then looked up at his father's face and saw that he was wearing
makeup. His complexion looked so smooth and his eyebrows were two tapered
arcs over his eyes, which were adorned with eye shadow and mascara.
Sammy gazed at his father's shoulder-length, golden-blond hair and
considered how nicely it framed his oval face.
And on his Dad's full lips he noticed the bright-red lipstick.
And on his father's hands Sammy saw the long, bright-red nails.
"So, what do you think, Sammy?" his father asked, breaking Sammy's
near-trance.
Sammy was stunned and arose from the kitchen chair.
He reflexively answered, "Geez, Dad, I can't believe it. You look totally
beautiful."
And Sammy had meant it too for Patrick Stone did, indeed, look beautiful.
"Thanks Sammy. That really means a lot to me."
"I mean it Dad. You look prettier than Mom did before she took Rejuve.
So this is it, it's all done, now?"
"Well, not yet, really. There are one or two procedures to go, Sammy.
I'll probably complete the transition next week. An overnight trip to the
clinic and that should do it, probably."
Sammy did not really want to think about what those remaining procedures
involved.
Sammy's father walked over to him and grabbed each of Sammy's hands in
his own. Sammy noticed how smooth his father's hands felt. And Sammy
felt the rims of his father's long nails.
"I just want to thank you for your support. I couldn't have done it
without you, son."
His father leaned up towards Sammy's face and softly kissed him on the
cheek.
"Oh my, look what I just did," his father said as he reached up and
rubbed the lipstick smear off of Sammy's face.
"No sweat, Dad. Good luck. I really hope you and Mom will be happy."
"Yeah. Me too, Sammy."
And Sammy's mother had also continued to change over the last three
months.
She was growing hair all over her body. On her arms, on her hands, on her
legs. Sammy also assumed she had grown hair on her chest too, where
breasts were no longer discernible.
And Sammy's mother did not seem to have much body fat either. She
appeared very lithe and muscular.
And her voice had lowered several octaves to the point where it could no
longer be mistaken for a female's voice.
Sammy also noticed that his mother had stopped shaving a few days ago.
She'd apparently decided to grow a mustache and beard.
Over the next week or so Sammy observed that his parents seemed happy
with the new changes which had occurred to their bodies. In fact, he had
never seen them enjoy each other's company as much as they had in the
last week. They talked to each other more, they joked around and they
fondly touched each other, something Sammy had never see them do before.
But Sammy also noticed that when a decision needed to be made it was
always his mother who made it. And that when she told his father what
she'd decided, he accepted the decision without hesitation. It seemed
Sammy's father had been totally removed from the decision-making loop,
something about which he did not appear bothered. His mother now wore the
pants, in more ways than one.
On Friday Sammy's mother told him that she and her father would be
spending the next several days at the medical clinic to undergo a few
procedures.
"We're checking in tomorrow morning and we'll probably be back on Monday,
Tuesday at the latest, Sammy. Your father's going shopping today so there
will be plenty of food in the house. You'll be okay, right?"
"No sweat, Mom. Don't worry about a thing."
His parents left for the clinic early on Saturday morning and Sammy was
alone in the house. He had some milk and a doughnut for breakfast and
went to the family room, where he sat down on the couch and turned on the
vid.
But he could not concentrate on the newscast. He was wondering about his
parents.
He arose and made his way into his mother's study, where he began looking
through the drawers of her desk. After a half-minute of searching he
found a brochure entitled "The Truth About The New-Man and New-Woman." He
sat on the chair and began to read.
He completed the brochure and put it back in the drawer. He thought he
now had a pretty good idea what his parents would be going through this
weekend, as detailed in the section of the brochure entitled "The Final
Steps."
His father would be having his male genitals and his prostate gland
surgically removed, and a vagina and external female genitalia would be
constructed in their place.
And perhaps, if he chose, he would undergo gene-splitting and nano-
technology therapy which, as described in the brochure, would precipitate
the growth of internal female reproductive organs which would actually
permit the conception and birth of a child.
And his mother would undergo contrasting procedures to remove her
reproductive organs and her external and internal female genitalia, all
to be replaced by a functional penis, a scrotal sac holding two
testicles, and a prostate gland.
Sammy was stunned.
He did not even know that some of these things were possible. He tried to
come to terms with the world in which he now found himself.
"Why can't people just learn to accept who they are and try to be happy
living life the way they were born? Why do they feel the need to go
through such drastic changes?" Sammy asked out loud, to no one.
He decided that it was all the fault of Rejuve. People did not want to
become new-women and new-men until Rejuve came on the scene. Once they
took the drug they became dissatisfied with themselves and wanted to
convert to the opposite gender. Whether it all resulted from the physical
changes in stature imposed by the drug or some other Rejuve-usage
ramifications he did not know but it was clear to Sammy that Rejuve was,
without a doubt, at the heart of the matter.
Sammy thought about the brochure he'd just read and could not believe
what people were willing to go through to change their gender. But the
medical details were not important to Sammy. What was important, in his
mind, was to stay away from Rejuve as he had no inclination to either
shrink in size or become a new-woman. He did not need to stay young or
live forever.
"I'll never take that crap," he emphatically announced.
On Monday night, Sammy's mother telephoned him to advise that she and her
father would not be coming home until Thursday afternoon.
"Is everything alright, Mom? I thought you said that you and Dad would be
back by Tuesday at the latest."
"Everything is fine, Sammy. Everything is going just as planned. It's
just precautionary. How are you doing? Is everything okay with you?"
"Yeah. Fine."
"Good. We'll see you Thursday then."
When Sammy got home from school on Thursday afternoon his parents were
not there. He ate a snack and then sat down near the front bay window and
gazed out. A half-hour later he saw the taxi-cab pull up to the curb in
front of his house and watched as his parents disembarked.
He saw how his father held on to his mother as they walked up the pathway
towards the house. He observed how they both moved so slowly and
carefully.
He rushed down the hallway stairs to open the front door and greet them.
As he opened the door he saw them ascending the steps.
"Hi. How are you guys?" he said.
His mother answered, "We're okay, Sammy. Just a little tired, that's
all."
Sammy gazed at his father who looked pale.
"We're fine, Sammy. Everything went fine," his Dad said.
Sammy held the front door open for his parents as they entered the house
and watched them carefully climb the hallway stairs and head into their
bedroom.
He closed the door and followed. He made his way to his parents' bedroom
to check up on them but was met by his mother outside the bedroom's
entrance. She closed the door.
"Listen, Sammy, we appreciate your concern but we've just been through a
rough couple of days. Especially your father. We just need to rest for a
while. Okay?"
"Sure, I understand Mom."
His mother noticed the look of concern on Sammy's face and said, "Sammy,
everything will be just fine. I guarantee it. We just need to take it
easy for a week or so."
"Sure, Mom," and Sammy turned around. He walked to the stairway and began
his descent as he heard the door to his parents' room softly close.
Sammy's mother was right. Everything had turned out fine except that it
took about three weeks for his father to recover from his six-day stay at
the medical clinic three months ago.
And Sammy was becoming accustomed to his mother's and father's new
appearances, too. He rationalized that he still had two parents, one of
whom dressed in male clothing and the other in female clothing. The only
difference was that his mother now wore trousers and his father now wore
a dress.
And they seemed pleased with their new changes, Sammy observed.
In fact, he could not remember ever seeing his parents this happy with
each other. They talked to each other more than they used to and they
obviously enjoyed each other's company. And this pleased Sammy, for it
was important to him that his parents were happy.
As Sammy made the adjustment to his new familial surroundings he also
continued to excel in school. He felt that he still was not quite ready
to get entangled in a romantic relationship and he politely turned down
the few females in school who continued to ask him out.
Over the last month or so Sammy had begun to think about his future more
and more. After all, he would be graduating high school in two months and
he was not yet sure what he would be doing after hisgraduation.
He certainly was not ready for marriage, and as a male it was illegal for
him to attend college.
He concluded that there was no other choice but to attend vocational
school, where he would take home economics courses and clerical courses
to cover all the bases. He needed to know how to be a homemaker if he
ever got married, and until that time came he needed to learn the typing
and clerical skills required of an office secretary.
For Sammy had decided that there was no way that he would apply for the
governmental stipend offered to single adult males, which he likened to
welfare payments. Instead he would go to work.
Two months later Sammy graduated from high school with honors. His
parents were so proud of him and they bought him a new computer as a
graduation present.
Sammy was in his bedroom sitting at his computer and browsing the
Internet. Although males were restricted from visiting many websites
there were still a plethora of permitted sites for Sammy to check out.
He heard a knock on his door.
"Come in."
It was his father.
"Hi Sammy. How's everything going?"
"Fine Dad. Just playing around with this great new toy you and Mom got
me."
Sammy's father walked over towards the desk and peered at the monitor. He
noticed that his son was visiting the Woodbury Vocational School Website.
"I think I'm going to enroll there, Dad. The tuition is only $100 a
semester. Then I'll probably get a job."
"Is that what you really want, Sammy? You know, most males have already
become engaged to be married by the time they've turned eighteen and
graduated high school. Aren't you interested in getting married, Sammy?
You know, finding a nice woman to take care of you so you don't have to
worry about getting a job. Not to even mention that the only jobs you're
allowed to have are ones which pay bare minimum wage."
Sammy looked at his father, who had a sincere expression of concern on
his pretty face.
"I know Dad. We've been through this before. I just don't feel like I'm
ready for marriage yet. There's not much of an alternative but to go to
vocational school and work. So that's what I'm going to do. Don't worry
about me Dad. Everything will be fine, okay?"
"Okay Sammy, but please don't rule out the marriage option."
"I'm not ruling it out Dad. I'm just not ruling it in for the immediate
present, that's all."
Sammy's looked at his father's face for a reaction but could discern
none. He did, however, notice how beautiful his father looked with the
long blond hair, the full red lips, and the pretty floral print dress
that accentuated his curves. He gazed at his father's shapely nylon-
encased legs that terminated in the black leather three-inch pumps.
While still in high school Sammy had had a number of classmates whose
fathers had also become new-women but none could hold a candle to his
father.
"Maybe this is a good time to tell you, Sammy," his father said with a
serious tone in his voice, "I'm pregnant."
Sammy was stunned into silence.
He often wondered just how far his father had gone in the treatment he'd
had to become a new-woman and now he had his answer.
Sammy finally stood up. He smiled and said, "Congratulations, Dad."
"Thanks, Sammy.
There was silence for a moment and Sammy broke it: "Can I ask you
something, Dad? How do you like it, I mean, being a new-woman and all?"
"Well Sammy, I'd be lying if I told you I liked it at first. Your mother
wanted me to do it so there really was no choice. When she'd begun the
treatment to become a new-man my fate was pretty much sealed.
"At first I found it embarrassing. Almost humiliating. You know, having
breasts, wearing a dress, the makeup, the high-heels, the long nails. I
was a man, for Christ's sake, and men don't do those things."
Sammy looked at his father as he talked and once again considered how
pretty he looked. As a new-woman he looked even better than most of the
original-women he'd ever seen.
His father continued, "Early on, for the first two or three months, I
guess I rationalized that I wasn't the only male being forced to go
through these changes. Millions of other men across the country were also
going through the same process. So I wasn't alone. I didn't stand out. We
were all victims of circumstance so I had nothing to be ashamed about.
Nothing to hide my head about. And this made me feel better about myself.
It put me at peace with myself to a large extent.
"And then you know what happened Sammy?" his father asked rhetorically.
"I began to like it. I didn't want to like it, I didn't decide that I
should, it just happened all on its own. I started to enjoy the feel of
wearing a dress, of the silk underwear, of the nylon stockings on my
legs. I began to enjoy using makeup to make myself look more attractive.
I began to like the look and feel of having long red nails.
"And I have to say that I really began to enjoy the attention your mother
began to shower on me and the affection she has shown. Like when she
brings me flowers or compliments my looks. So if you really must know,
Sammy, in retrospect it's the best thing I ever did and it comes highly
recommended."
"Thanks for the insight, Dad. I'm really glad you're happy."
His father smiled, turned around and made his exit. As he passed over the
bedroom door's threshold he looked back at his son and said, "By the way
Sammy, it's a girl. You're going to have a sister."
It was two months later and Sammy had been enrolled at the Woodbury
Vocational School for the past three weeks now. He took the twenty minute
bus ride to and from the school on weekdays for morning courses in
housework, cooking, household budget managing, sewing and knitting. And
he stayed there for afternoon clerical courses in typing, filing and
transcribing to build his secretarial skills.
Sammy could not help but notice that out of the twenty-five or so
students in his classes he was in the minority in that he was one of only
two students who did not wear female clothes.
Not that there were any original-women in his classes. There weren't.
Original-women usually worked full-time and, for the most part, did not
do housework or other domestic chores. These tasks were usually performed
by their househusbands or by professional pay services comprised of blue-
collar females who'd been trained to perform such chores.
And original-women surely had no inclination to take courses to learn how
to perform office secretarial work. It was, after all, their disinterest
in this occupation that resulted in the exception to the Suppression Act
that allowed males to fill these jobs.
No, nearly all of Sammy's classmates were either minor new-girls, adult
males who'd taken Rejuve and were in the process of becoming new-women,
or adult Rejuve-users who'd made the full conversion to new-women.
Sammy had known this because during the first day of classes several of
the instructors had asked each of the students to stand up, introduce
themselves, and offer a short autobiography. And if a student didn't
identify his or her gender with precision the instructor asked for
clarification.
Sammy sat in his cooking class and studied some of the other students.
He looked at Wayne Hooper, the only student besides Sammy dressed in male
garb. A few days ago Sammy had tried to initiate a friendly conversation
with Wayne but he did not seem receptive. Sammy certainly thought that he
and Wayne had a lot in common but he would not push it in view of Wayne's
chilly reaction.
Sammy studied the other students and considered how they genuinely
appeared to be attractive-looking females even though they all were,
or had been, original-males.
Some of them could even be described as gorgeous.
He looked at Carol Southern, a very attractive looking new-woman who,
curiously, did not wear a wedding ring. This almost certainly meant that
Carol was unmarried since it was against the law for a married male to
remove his wedding ring in public and, under The Suppression Act, new-
women were still considered original-men for legal purposes.
The 12:00 bell went off. It was time for lunch. Sammy gathered his books
into his backpack and made his way towards the school's exit. He was in
the mood for pizza today so he began the walk to the pizzeria three
blocks away. When he got there he ordered two slices and a Fresca and he
sat down at one of the shop's small tables.
Ten minutes later and into his second slice he saw Carol Southern enter.
Carol ordered a slice and a diet Pepsi and he looked for a table.
"Hey Carol," Sammy said, "Why not grab a seat over here."
Carol walked over to Sammy's table. "Oh, Hi. Your name's Sammy, right?"
"That's me alright. Pull up a chair."
Carol sat down and took a bite out of his slice.
"Boy that's good," he said.
"Yeah, this place makes some of the best pizza I've ever had," Sammy
agreed as he took a bite out of the remnants of his remaining slice.
They chatted about some of the courses they were taking and gossiped
about their instructors before walking back to school.
Sammy and Carol went to lunch together for the next two days and when
Friday arrived, Carol proposed to Sammy that they skip their afternoon
classes. Instead they would head over to Carol's house where she would
prepare lunch for them.
"Might as well see if I'm actually learning anything from cooking class,"
Carol offered.
"Sounds good. Okay," Sammy agreed.
So when the 12:00 bell sounded they hopped on a bus for the trip to
Carol's house. It turned out that she lived in Smithtown, about eight
miles east of Sammy's home. The bus dropped them off and they began the
four block walk to Carol's place.
They reached their destination ten minutes later as Carol announced,
"This is it."
Sammy gazed at a large, well-kept colonial sitting on what had to be a
one-half acre plot. Carol fished out a set of keys from his purse and
unlocked the front door. As they entered, he said, "Make yourself
comfortable. Mi casa, su casa."
Following Carol's lead Sammy dropped his backpack on the floor of the
foyer and tossed his jacket over the stairway railing.
"Can I use your bathroom?"
"Sure. It's down the stairs, second door to the left."
When Sammy finished his business he found Carol upstairs in the kitchen
standing at the counter and making a salad.
Looking at him Sammy thought that he really did make a pretty new-woman,
just like his father. Carol had shoulder-length dark blond hair framing
his pretty oval face. He had very feminine-looking facial features: full
lips adorned with red lipstick, a pert nose, pointed chin, big blue eyes
underneath highly-arced eyebrows, and a smooth complexion.
Sammy also noticed how the dark blue cotton dress Carol wore hugged his
body and accentuated his curves at his bustline, waist and hips. And he
also had nice-looking legs which appeared very sexy in the three-inch
blue leather pumps.
Sammy saw that Carol noticed him staring and he got embarrassed.
"Everything come out okay?" Carol kidded.
Sammy chuckled and answered, "Yeah. Can I help?"
"Sure. How about peeling those carrots over there."
Carol walked over to a drawer and fetched the peeler. Sammy noticed his
long red nails as he handed the peeler to him. They made Carol's hands
look very sexy.
After about fifteen minutes they were finished slicing and cutting the
vegetables and Carol began to toss the salad in the bowl. He brought the
bowl over to the dining room table where Sammy saw the two place-
settings.
"Okay, what do you say we start. By the way the main course will be
roasted lemon chicken breast, which should be ready in a half-hour or so.
"Sounds great," Sammy said as he dug into his salad.
Carol left the dining room and returned with a pitcher of lemonade.
"Salad's delicious," Sammy said, as Carol poured drinks into the two
glasses.
Carol sat down and joined Sammy and they both ate in silence for a
minute.
Breaking the ice Sammy said, "This is such a nice house. Any