We Three
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She'd cheated on him once. But that was all it took. There was a
lot to work through and she thought they had managed it, but now
she wasn't so sure. What she was sure of was that he was spying
on her. Well, her guts were sure of it, even if the rest of her
wasn't. She had a suspicion, an intuitive certainty, but she
couldn't prove it.
She felt his eyes on her sometimes, yet he was nowhere to be
seen. When she went out with her girlfriends, she could feel his
eyes upon her. She asked her friends to keep an eye open for him,
but no one could spot him. If she went shopping alone, she'd feel
him watching. She'd try and trip him up, dart around a corner,
hide behind a rack of clothes, but he was nowhere to be found.
Was she going crazy?
The truth was more remarkable than she could ever have
imagined.
Finally, she brought up the subject of Angela's party. He
didn't want to go. He was busy. Would he mind if she went alone?
She could tell he didn't liked the idea, but he dismissed it with
a shrug.
It was a nice party. She was cautious. There were a few good
looking guys, one in particular that had been eyeing her all
evening. She knew better. Even dolled up, she knew better than to
start something she couldn't finish. Still, he was attractive,
but she was not about to risk things with Kevin. (And even now
she swore she could feel his stare.)
"Robin?" Angela called.
She turned and smiled. "I might get going."
"Oh no. Not so soon."
She shrugged.
"Come on, someone's been asking about you all night. He
wants me to introduce him."
"No, I can't. Kevin. You know."
Angela smiled her sweet, dimpled, you-know-you-want-to smile
and dragged her towards the fellow in question, which happened to
be him, the guy that had been eyeing her all night.
"Caleb? Robin. Robin? Caleb."
They greeted each other, shook hands, talked for awhile, and
almost at once there was a wonderful familiarity about it all. It
was as if they'd known each other their entire lives. He was
charming and warm and he smelled good and he looked good and was
sweet and God oh God oh God!
She tried to get away, but he followed her to her car.
"I'm very much involved," she told him.
She could feel Kevin nearby, judging.
"So am I," he admitted.
"Then that's it then."
He reached out and tucked a lock of her lush black hair
behind her ear. Her earring jangled like a tiny bell in her
exposed ear. "It doesn't have to be."
She blushed from head to toe, felt sick, felt horny, and
withdrew. "I can't."
"He doesn't have to know."
"I--it's--look... I cheated on him once and it just
almost killed us." The guilt was in her eyes, along with remorse.
"I can't do that to him again. To us."
He nodded. "Okay. I understand."
She turned to get in her car and used the window's
reflection for one last glimpse. He did a funny little step. A
quick bounce like he was getting a good start on the walk back.
The thing was... it was *exactly* like the funny little step
Kevin always did.
She turned and looked at him and realized he was moving just
like Kevin. A lot of his behavior was just like Kevin's. But
Kevin had no brothers that she was aware of.
"How--" she started to say, and it spilled out of her.
"Kevin."
He stopped and looked at her. "What?"
"You. You're Kevin." She wasn't making sense. She was just
blurting it out in hopes that the puzzle would somehow piece
itself together. "You're Kevin. I don't understand it, but you
are."
He said, "What are you talking about?" but his voice was
thick and uneven and his face was pasted with guilt.
Slowly, she repeated it though it still made no sense.
"You're... Kevin. I don't know how, but you are."
He took a deep breath, glanced around and when it was clear
no one had heard, hurried over to her. "Get in the car."
"How--you--I don't--"
"Just get in the car."
She poked her face into his and examined every detail, every
line, every wrinkle. It didn't look anything like him. There was
no makeup, no mask, nothing but flesh. She started to touch his
cheek, but he caught her hand.
"Yes," he whispered, "it's me. Just get in the car and I'll
explain."
She stood and shook her head in disbelief.
1
He could change himself. His face, his body.
She didn't believe it of course; she kept thinking it was
some sort of Hollywood magic.
He showed her, laying on the bed, relaxing, skin turning
pale and waxy, body turning to ice, and slowly, so slowly she
almost couldn't believe she was seeing it, he altered his face.
Not just the flesh, but the bone, the skull, the entire facial
structure.
"That's amazing!" she told him in a hush.
It took him the better part of thirty minutes, but his face
was again the face of the man she loved. His body, however, was
still foreign.
When he came out of it, she grilled him like a steak. "How
do you do it?"
He shrugged. "I've always been able to do it. As far back as
I can remember. I used to go into a store with my mom and change
my face so she couldn't see me. I could walk right past her and
she would say, 'Oh look, that little boy is wearing the exact
same outfit as Kevin!' but she wouldn't recognize me. For a long
time, I thought she was just having fun with me, but then one day
it dawned on me that she really didn't know who I was."
"But how?"
That required some thought. "I'm... not sure. I just go
into a kind of trance and I start moving things around. At first
I could only change my face, but after some practice I started
getting where I could change my whole body."
She shook her head.
"C'mon," he laughed. "I'm starving!"
Apparently, it took a lot of energy as well. He went through
two grill cheese sandwiches and was frying a third before she
thought of her next question.
"Have you ever become a girl?"
2
She hounded him for days. He tried his usual tactics of
avoidance, and when those failed, he invented a few more, but she
was relentless. Finally, she called out the big guns: she got him
into bed. When he was softened up, she tried again.
"Okay, no," he answered. "I've never even tried."
"Have you ever thought about it?" she pressed.
He shrugged. "I don't know."
"Come on. We all wonder what it would be like, what it feels
like. Don't tell me you've never even considered it."
"It's not like that."
"So, what is it like?"
"Those kind of changes are way beyond me. You might as well
ask me to change myself into an elephant."
Robin laughed. "Oh, pish-posh. Men and women are almost
identical to one another."
"Changing my face or my height is one thing, something like
this is way out of my league."
"But there was a time when you could only change your face,
then you learned you could do more."
He said, "Yeah," like he was considering it. But if she
thought she had him on the ropes, she was wrong. He rebounded.
"But see, you don't get it. Stretching my bones is like...
well like when you stretch your legs, only I can sort of make
them lock in place. But you're talking about hormonal things,
brain things, and... uh, internal things."
"But," Robin hummed sweetly in his ear, "that should be even
easier. Those are all *soft* tissues." She placed the word *soft*
deep in his ear and sealed it in with a kiss and a breath.
He shivered, sighed. "I don't know."
"Besides," she whispered, "you're missing a whole angle to
this thing."
"What's that?"
"Kevin--" She wrapped her small hand around that delightful
lump in his lap and gave it an encouraging squeeze. "--have you
forgotten?"
"What?"
"Before I met you... I was bi."
His brain played a wonderful picture show before sending the
signal to his mouth to say, "Jesus!"
3
They did a little research. She coached him where she could.
An extra layer of fat beneath the epidermis to increase the
softness of his skin. He would have to grow more nerves. Could he
do such a thing? He didn't know, but he'd give it a try.
Shrinking himself was easy. He'd tried being shorter before.
Being smaller-boned was a mere hour long adjustment. He had some
limited experience with changing his hair color and texture, from
straight to curly and back again. Even the pigment of his skin
and eyes had always been surprisingly easy.
It was the rest of it that was difficult.
He grew as pale as the sheets that covered him. His breath
and heart rate slowed; his skin became ice cold. His breasts did
not so much plump and swell as they folded over themselves and
drooped. His face did not become feminine, but leonine. And while
his pelvis did broaden, they did not match his narrow shoulders.
When the blood finally warmed his cheeks again, when his
eyes finally came to life again, he smiled brightly and asked,
"How does it look?" in his familiar and out-of-place male voice.
She winced. "We'll have to do better."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean you look like all jumbled up."
One look in the mirror was all it took to convince him.
He sighed heavily.
She placed a reassuring arm around his shoulders, surprised
by their even heights. "See?"
He shook his head. "It's a lot harder than I figured. And I
didn't even try the hard stuff."
"What do you mean?"
He grabbed his crotch, demonstrating that there was still
definitely something there to grab.
"Well," she shrugged, "maybe we're trying too much at once."
He shook his head. "It's not that."
"Then what?"
"Well," he thought aloud, "before I always had a clear idea
of how to move my face. It was easy to build or shrink muscle and
bone because I knew what I was shooting for."
Her eyes fell as the thought found her. "You need a woman's
touch."
He frowned. "Isn't it the other way around?"
"How do you do it exactly?" she asked.
"What? Change myself?"
She nodded.
"I just do. I talk myself down and then change things."
"Okay," she touched her lips, "once you have yourself down,
can you hear me?"
He thought about it. "No, the whole world sort of fades
away. I don't even know you're there."
"But could you? Once you had yourself in the trance, could
you tell yourself to listen to me, let me help with the changes?"
His eyes drifted. "Maybe...."
4
He was unconscious for a long time before making contact.
They'd discussed having him return to his old body and start from
the beginning, but she'd convinced him they'd have better luck
continuing where he'd left off.
With a long exhale, he said, "Oooookaaaaayyy."
She used the time to consider what kind of woman she should
make of him. Creating beauty was easy. She didn't have to be a
bisexual to know who and what was beautiful. Being female was all
the advantage she needed. She was painfully familiar with her own
facial features, what she liked, what she didn't, what she wished
she had, and what she'd always wanted to change. Years of makeup
had given her an expertise for accentuating and concealing.
She'd started out trying to think of a beautiful female face
she could emulate, but could only come up with friends and
celebrities. Then she realized that there was a much easier way.
She could just soften his face, make his existing face more
feminine and make little adjustments from there.
She talked to him. His responses where thick and slow. With
his cooperation she rounded the shape of his face, narrowed his
nose, raised his cheek bones, thickened and shaped his lips,
tinkered with his eyes and eyebrows, and whitened his complexion
till it was a rosy pink.
When she was done, she stepped back, took a breath, and told
him to come out of it.
It took nearly ten minutes for the life to flow back into
his eyes.
"How did we do?" he croaked.
"You tell me."
At the mirror, his mouth dropped.
The deep baritone leaving the pretty lips of the girl was a
peculiar sight. "Oh my God!"
"You like?" Robin smiled with pride.
"It's... incredible!"
Robin swept up his coarse male hair and gazed over his
shoulder at their reflection. "I was thinking auburn hair. We
could keep the brown eyes, but green would be spectacular."
He nodded, speechless.
"But then, there's always blonde. Anyway, let's work on the
rest of you," she suggested.
He continued to nod. "I think I can make it easier for you
this time."
"Oh?"
"Yes. When I was under, it was everything I could do to
listen to you and then make the changes. Toward the end I wasn't
really making them anymore. You were. My body was listening to
you. I just sort of drifted away and let you do your thing. I'll
really let go this time, let you have your way."
Robin rubbed her cheek against Kevin's neck. "I can't wait
to have my way with you."
5
She made a few mistakes along the way, but they were easily
corrected. When he was dead to the world, his body soft and
malleable, she narrowed his shoulders, broadened his hips, and
began the long process of adding an extra layer of fat beneath
his skin. A few million extra nerves grown in the right area
would give him just the right response. She enjoyed plumping his
breasts to perfection, widening his ass till it dimpled, and
displacing everything that was male about him.
The body was the easy part.
What she did to his mind was insidious.
Since he'd surrendered his very identity to her, she decided
to test his limits, and was surprised by the results.
By the time his eyes flooded with life again, there was
little resemblance to the man he'd once been.
The girl who awoke on the bed stretched like a man, but did
not sound like one. "So... how did we do." She got the cutest
little expression then, a quirky, befuddled look. "Why do I sound
like a chipmunk?"
Robin grinned ear to ear, eyes glittering, cheeks warm.
Kevin felt the oddest pair of twinges on his chest. His
hands fell instinctively and discovered two spongy mounds. His
fingers fiddled with the hard rubbery nubs that popped up with a
mind of their own. His nipples were cold, but warming.
"Wow. This is different."
She eyed him quizzically. "Is it?"
"Yes. They're so... right there!" It was Kevin's laugh,
but changed, thinner, higher, softer, not quite a girlish giggle,
but damn close.
With a hand, Robin caressed Kevin's new flat tummy, slid it
down to the dark, coarse tangle of pubic hair and pressed lightly
on the tender mound. Sounding entranced, Robin replied, "They're
perfect."
Kevin looked down at himself, peering over the rise of his
breasts, over the concave oasis of his belly, over his
girlfriend's petting hand, mesmerized by the shimmer of light
traveling down his long slick legs. "My God!"
Robin slid a finger so lightly between his thighs it nearly
tickled. Kevin's breath caught in his throat.
Robin giggled and grinned. She let her finger take a quick
dip.
Kevin's now vivid green eyes shone with surprise. He closed
them and shivered. "That feels incredible! And weird."
"Of course," Robin said, then swatted the extra padding
enveloping his hips. "Now, let's get you dressed and really show
you what being a woman is about!"
Just the slip from bed was different. Sitting up, swinging
his legs off the edge--he couldn't help rubbing them together,
they were so smooth--he leaned forward to get up and his breasts
knocked sharply together.
6
He stood before the mirror and stared. He stared hard. He
couldn't find himself anywhere. There was only *her*, a frowning
delicate face, cheeks smudged with roses, big startlingly green
eyes. He blinked and watched her dark lush lashes flutter. His
eyes dropped to her breasts.
*They look like torpedoes!*
He laughed at the thought, but it was true. Two fat
torpedoes, jutting out from his sternum, lurching out and away,
making a break for his armpits. They would always be a step
ahead, always be right out in front, impossible to hide. And they
jiggled. Dear God, how they jiggled. They rose and fell with each
breath, swayed with each movement, and trembled with each step.
And the jiggle itself was mesmerizing. He stood on his tiptoes--
finding it surprisingly easy (he'd have to remember to take a
good close look at his feet next)--and dropped to his heels. His
breasts bounced once and jiggled to a rest. He did it again, and
again, enjoying the effect.
Then he noticed something. 'The right one's lower than the
left.' He cupped his right breast with his right hand and was
surprised by its coolness. The nipple was hard and warm, and the
slightest touch, the slightest breeze or breath (he could imagine
it already) only stiffened it further. The breast itself felt
like nothing more than a mound of Jell-O. He raised it so it was
level with the other one, raised it higher to inspect it, then
dropped it, watching it bounce and jiggle back into position. 'Is
it my imagination or did she make them bigger than hers?'
He would have to ask her about that, ask and compare.
He touched the dark brown areola with his fingertip. It was
so much softer, so much smoother, like dipping his finger into a
saucer of butter. The rest of his flesh was rugged in comparison.
His finger nudged a nipple accidentally and the effect was
dramatic. He heard a light "Ohhh" of pleasure in a little girl's
moan and couldn't get over how foreign own his voice was to him.
He stood there, in the mirror, in all his female splendor
with *both* hands massaging his breasts now, head tilted back,
back arched, eyes closed, breath erratic and shallow, then
realized he was on his tiptoes again.
He took a deep breath, stared into *her* eyes, now dreamy
and half-closed with arousal, and forced his hands away. Shaking
his head, he whispered to her reflection. "... wow."
And that was just his breasts. He hadn't even gotten to the
good part yet, though he was clearly aware of *it*. Already,
something was missing. Usually, when he got aroused, it was
obvious. Blatantly obvious. There was a tight, sometimes painful,
lump in his shorts. He could just reach down and grab it and
stretch it and he was ready to fuck anything in sight, but this
was different. This felt gushy, leaky, maybe a little swollen; it
was hard to tell.
There was a knock on the door behind him. "Hey, what's going
on in there?"
Robin's voice startled him. He laughed at the girl in the
mirror, whose large green eyes narrowed and twinkled like never
before, whose face turned beet red, whose full lips stretched
into a smile.
"Uh, nothing."
"Well, come on. We've got clothes to try on."
He got it now.
The desire to dress up. It was like being a doll. Here he
was, she was, perfect in form--plump breasts, tiny waist, broad
sloping hips, shiny legs and all--and why not dress her up? What
would she look like in a skirt? How about a big long prom dress?
Or a wedding dress? Heels? What would denim shorts do to her
legs? There was cleavage to play with, outfits to sample--tee
shirts and ponytails; midriff baring blouses, exposing her little
"outy"; cocktail dresses; everything he'd ever seen a woman wear
in the movies or at parties. *He* could now wear those things.
And if he did, he'd be the center of attention. There was no
doubt about that.
He flipped the ends of his blonde hair (was it his
imagination or was there streaks of white in it?), tossed his
long hair like he'd seem women do in shampoo commercials.
He froze then and gathered his wits. Where in the hell did
all that come from?
Robin called through the bathroom door. "Come on, Kayla."
He turned and opened it. "Who's Kayla?"
She grinned and took his hand, their soft palms melding
together. "You don't like it? How about Karen? That's closer to
Kevin, but I like Kayla better."
He swallowed. "What are you talking about?"
She tugged him into the bedroom, met his eyes, and
explained. "If you're going to be a girl, you have to have a
girl's name, don't you?"
He frowned. "I don't know."
She laughed. "Just go with it. You'll love it. I promise."
She turned and whipped open the closet doors, revealing a portal
of feminine accouterment, giggling. "Oh, this is going to be such
fun!"
7
It didn't take long, one outfit actually, before he realized
that Robin had indeed made his breasts bigger than her own. Kevin
spilled out of every top he tried on, but being a typical guy, he
mostly liked the effect.
She put a hand on his arm and explained, "Believe me,
sweetie, you're not ready for that kind of attention."
"What are you talking about? I'm hot!"
"You're hot enough without advertising. No matter what you
wear, you'll be hot, okay? This kind of thing--" she eyed Kevin's
ample cleavage "--will bring the wrong kind of attention."
Kevin hoisted up his breasts, winced a little, fiddling for
the umpteenth time with the undersized bra. The straps were
digging into his shoulders and armpits. "Are you kidding? Look at
me. I could open doors with these puppies."
Robin nodded and tried harder. "Look, it's like this. A girl
dresses for her mood. Well, sometimes she dresses for how late
she is." She waved her hands in the air, forcing her brain back
on track. "Anyway, a girl dresses to send a message. This message
says, 'Fuck me'. Get it? I think you want something a little more
subdued than that."
"Well, what difference does it make. It's not like I'm going
to a bar or anything."
"No, but we are going to the mall."
He stared at her solemnly. "No, we're not."
"Sweetie, we have to. It's clear my clothes won't fit you."
Kevin's mind raced, his eyes shifted back and forth. "Then--
then I have to change."
Robin smiled. "That's the spirit."
"No, I mean I have to *change*. You know... back into a
guy."
"Why? We'll need your new girly shape to get a good fit."
"What do you mean?"
"Kayla, sweetie, we're going as girls to get you some girl
clothes."
"But--"
"You can't wear mine. That much is obvious."
"But you could just shrink me. Or I could--"
"Oh, no. You're not messing around with my work. You're
perfect. Look at yourself."
Kevin's eyes flitted back to the full length mirror. There
*she* stood in all her glory, black knit skirt, just above the
knee, tight red sleeveless blouse, breasts spilling out, legs
dark and silky in black hose, propped up on a pair of red pumps,
absolutely gorgeous, even with her long blonde hair uncombed and
her face unpainted.
"Do you really want to change back so soon?" Robin asked.
It wasn't that he didn't want to change back; it was that he
didn't want to lose sight of this beautiful girl. He was still
all guy inside, and enjoying having his own personal
centerfold/doll to pose however he wanted, to say whatever sexy
things he wanted. Then there was the promise of a girl on girl
tryst with Robin. He'd have to get out the camcorder for that.
"Well...."
"Besides, part of a girl experience is shopping. Haven't we
had fun so far?"
He nodded, smiled, watched Kayla nod and smile in the
mirror. Her green eyes seemed larger somehow. She looked baby
soft, innocent, even in the "fuck me" clothes.
"But we do have to get you into some shopping clothes."
He turned, his pretty face so cute with its befuddled
expression. "Shopping clothes?"
She stroked his cheek. "You need something that's still sexy
and smart, but that's easy to slip in and out of."
Robin dived into the closet for just the thing, leaving
Kevin to think. When she reemerged with the first hopeful, he
said, "Can I ask you something?"
"You can ask me as you're getting dressed."
He unbuttoned the blouse and felt his breasts explode out.
They slapped against his rib cage and jiggled to a halt. He liked
the effect so much he did a little jump to make them do it again.
He jumped up and down, then froze, slapping his arms across them.
"Ooh."
Robin eyed him with a smirk. "Doesn't feel so good. Does
it?"
"No, it kind of hurt."
She nodded. "What was your question?"
Before he could ask it, she snapped at him. "Come on, don't
dawdle. Let's go."
He twisted his arms behind him, and began the awkward, blind
search for the skirt zipper. "Why is it?" He searched further and
started to turn slowly like a dog chasing its tail. "Why, uh--"
She was just about to help when he seized on it and slid the
zipper down. Next was the bra, which even he had to admit didn't
quite go with the blouse. It wasn't supposed to be so visible,
was it? "Why did you make me so short? Even in heels I'm shorter
than you. "
"Guys like girls who are petite. Besides, I wanted you to
get a feeling for how it is to always be smaller than everyone
else. You wouldn't get that very much if we were the same size.
So I made you a little smaller."
Kevin held up his breasts and eyed her.
"Oops," she laughed, "and a little bigger."
8
An entire of day slipping into and out of every outfit had
left them exhausted and broke. Although, there was something
about it all that was pleasing. "Kayla" now had more clothes to
play with, and they fit her to a T. They were no less gorgeous or
sexy, but slightly less busty. There were tops that accentuated
her breasts and tops that hid them. And the latter, when coupled
with just the right skirt, accentuated instead her hips and legs.
There were shoes that were almost comfortable, and shoes that
were not about comfort, but which, even Kevin had to admit,
looked so drop-dead gorgeous on her that she had to get them, she
just had to.
And he'd noticed something else. Like his old guy self, this
new body had a mind of its own. Perhaps even more so. The most he
ever had to worry about before was acquiring the odd, unexpected,
public erection. Now, it seemed his body, or her body, had a way
of doing things that were unconsciously sexy, full of signals
that *she* wasn't even aware of.
On the way into the store, a cool breeze had slipped through
her hair, lightly kissed the nape of her neck, stroked her bare
arms, and her nipples had instantly popped up. She felt them,
looked down and saw them, through the bra, through the shirt, and
suddenly felt warm in the face. There was that "leaky" feeling
again. If being a man had been about feeling hard and strong,
being a girl was about feeling soft and gushy.
The cool air conditioning of the mall didn't help. Her
nipples remained "up".
The thing was--and he'd never noticed this before (not
consciously anyway)--that a girl moved differently when she was
aroused. Kevin wasn't sure he *was* aroused frankly. He just felt
good. His nipples were up, he had a slight sensation of dampness
"down there", but that was about it. There was no urge to fuck or
even to be fucked, just an overall kind of dreamy feeling. She
felt good, she felt sexy, she felt relaxed and happy, and her
body was finding ways to display it without her knowledge.
Once Robin had whispered, "Cut that out."
He hadn't known what she was talking about.
"The way you're walking. Tame it down."
Then he noticed that he *was* doing things: brushing his
hair out of his eyes, tossing it with quick shakes of the head;
licking his lips; twisting his hips a little. Jesus, he had been
strutting and hadn't even known it!
Suddenly, he became aware of the eyes, men's eyes, boy's
eyes, watching them. He tried to ignore them, but there was a lot
to ignore. Every once in awhile, on the usual look around, he'd
make contact. And what a contact. This was not the, "Hey, how's
it going?" kind of contact. Oh, no. This was, "I want to devour
you whole."
It popped the story of Little Red Riding Hood into Kayla's
mind. She felt like a little girl surrounded by wolves.
How did women put up with it all? You couldn't make eye
contact with anyone. Short of keeping your eyes on the ground, it
was a constant day of looking past people, looking through
people, pretending you didn't notice their stares.
Kayla felt constantly exposed, constantly on display.
9
A quick, sweet kiss had Kevin breathless. Even kissing was
different. The sensations were softer, deeper, more subtle
somehow, and yet it was the same lips to lips phenomena.
"Had a nice nap?" Robin purred.
Kevin stretched and felt like purring himself. In his little
girl voice he smiled and said, "What now?"
The invitation was offered and taken. Robin crawled on top
of him and giggled. "I have an idea."
Before, when Robin was on top, Kevin knew he could throw her
off anytime, turn the tables at a moment's notice, sink his cock
deep into her and firmly take control. Now, it was a toss up.
Kayla was smaller, her arms thinner, her wrists tiny in
comparison. But far from alarming him, he was surprised to find
it excited him.
As a man, it was all about control. As a woman, it was all
about control. Same coin, but vastly different sides.
He didn't struggle, didn't try to turn the tables. He
enjoyed the feeling of being trapped beneath her, felt oddly
comforted by it. The thrill of passivity rushed through him.
Robin wrapped her hands around Kevin's small wrists. At
once, Kevin's breath became shallow; he swallowed, licked his
lips unconsciously and parted them. "What's your idea?"
Robin grinned, gazing hard into his eyes. "We should get you
all dolled up. Really do it right. Show how you it feels, and--"
Robin laughed "--show you how long it really takes."
Kevin's laugh was like the titter of a happy four year old.
He couldn't believe such a baby-girl's giggle had come out of
him. "You're going to clue me in on the forbidden secrets of the
female?"
Robin's lips hovered above his, but when he opened his mouth
to receive her, she bit his chin instead. His nipples twitched to
life. Robin's thumb found one of them, flipped back and forth
across it idly. He closed his eyes and smiled dreamily, floated
for a moment in the hot foamy bubble-bath of pleasure.
He was ordered to the shower, and given a regiment in no
uncertain terms: Use this shampoo. Use this conditioner. Put it
in, count to sixty, then rinse it *all* out. Use this soap. Use
this razor and this cream. Shave like this, legs *and* pits. Be
careful around the knees and ankles. Call me when you're done.
When he stepped from the tub, dripping and glistening and
squeaky clean, Robin handed him two towels. He frowned at her.
"What's the other one for?"
She draped one around his torso, then showed him how to make
a turban out of the other, twisting his hair up inside it,
explaining, "You don't want your hair to dry too fast."
"Why not?"
"Because we have lots to do to it. Anyway, first things
first. We've still got your skin to take care of."
First came the lotion. He expected a greasy mess, but was
surprised at how quickly it soaked in. If his legs had been
smooth before, now they were as slick as an eel and twice as
shiny. By the time Robin was done, arms, belly, and breasts,
paying special attention to his buttocks, he was soft all over.
It was a good feeling, being soft; he felt like an angel in
the billowy clouds, and the way Robin leered at his naked body
heated him up from the inside out. Now he knew how Robin had been
feeling all this time. Every time he sank his fingers into her
breasts, or clutched her ass, showing her his wanton desire, his
need for her, she experienced what he felt now.
Suddenly, he wanted to see *her* again--Kayla. He needed the
shock of her again, needed to desire her again. The eat-you-up
desire was becoming harder and harder to hold on to. Running
through his head now were the being-swallowed-whole fantasies. He
needed to awaken his male libido once again.
Robin admonished him playfully, wagging her finger in front
of his face. "No-no, no peeking. I want the full effect."
"What are--" But he didn't have a chance.
He was led to a tall barstool in the living room. Robin had
rolled two enormous curlers into his hair, one for each side, and
he'd been left to drip dry. She began handing him clothes, one by
one. Slip into these panties. Why those? No questions. A thong,
of course. He should've known. Every female torture would become
known to him before she was through. It was so low cut, so
shoestring skimpy that it barely covered anything at all. The
brassiere wasn't much better. Black and lacy and lifting. So
that's how cleavage was made. He poked his finger down into it
and giggled.
"Hi guys."
"Please," Robin complained, "they're girls."
Stockings were next and they were nice and cool and tingly.
Those he liked. The shoes, which he could just spot in the box,
were killers. Killer fashion, death to the feet.
He squeezed into the leather skirt, which thankfully zipped
up on the side, even if it was a little tight, but as he reached
for the blouse(his first assertive act all evening) she slapped
his hand. "You can't put that on now."
"Why not?"
"Do you want to get makeup all over it?"
"Why do I need makeup. I'm hot enough already."
Robin looked to the heavens and shook her head. "He just
doesn't get it." Cupping Kayla's little chin in hers, she smirked
like the devil. "Just wait and see."
Makeup was greasy and sticky and smelled like medicine. He
did not like makeup. Through foundation, powdered blush, the
painful precision of eyeliner, the ticklishness of eye shadow, the
fly-crawling slowness of the lip liner, the gluey lipstick, and
the constant contortion of his face, he sat, whining like a child
in a museum. "Aren't we through yet?"
He got a top coat of powder to "set" everything, a coat of
gloss, and he was done.
He sighed with relief feeling like an entombed queen, mask
and all.
Robin, however, had just gotten started. The curlers came
out and so did the hair dryer, mousse, and two kinds of brushes,
one round, one flat. She was like Presto The Amazing, flitting
from side to side, jabbing him in the ribs every time he sagged.
Afterwards, he felt stiff and very unsexy. He couldn't touch
his face, couldn't itch his nose, couldn't touch his hair,
couldn't move. At all. And it was hot. The stretch top had long
sleeves and a low cut front, which had looked awesome in the
store, but was giving him second thoughts now. He was a little
*too* on display. He might as well be in a store front window.
She dangled two long earrings from his lobes, which she had
the foresight to pierce while "creating" him, and they were
nothing but annoying. He lived in constant fear that they would
get caught in his hair and he would look like a fool trying to
untangle them.
"Here." Robin handed him the strappy sandals. Again,
gorgeous in the store, not so ideal for walking around in. Kevin
tightened the tiny buckle and felt a foot taller, if a little
wobbly. "Practice," she ordered, disappearing into the bedroom,
barking out instructions. "Remember! Heel toe!"
"Christ," he muttered, "they won't let me walk any other
way."
Just as he made it to the opposite side of the room and was
preparing to turn, he spotted Robin out of the corner of his eye.
It wasn't easy, he was hemmed in by hair. He had to toss it out
of his way to get a better look.
"Let your hips go more. Don't be afraid to exaggerate them a
little. You can tame them down later. Move like you were moving
in the mall."
"I can't."
"Why not?"
'Because I was horny as hell then and now I feel like The
Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz.'
Robin was busy shaking a small red bottle at the bedroom
door. "That's better. Smaller steps though. Let your hands
relax."
Kevin stopped and sighed. "Just shut up already. I'll get
it."
He was so cute, she couldn't help but laugh. His anger added
pink to the blush on his cheeks, made his green eyes huge, and
flashed his earrings as he shook his head. He stopped and glared
at her, both hands poised dramatically on his pretty hips.
"What's so funny?"
"Well," she giggled, "look at yourself."
He was going to say, "I can't! You won't let me have a
mirror!", but when he noticed his pose he couldn't help but
laugh. It was the same pose she always adopted when she was
giving him hell. Plus, he was surprised by how naturally his had
hands drifted on to his hips.
"So," he wondered, sounding more like a prepubescent girl
than ever, "that's why girls always stand like this."
Robin went to his aid, slipped an arm around him. "Come on,
princess. Let's go have a look in the magic mirror. Then we can
paint your nails."
Teetering on his heels, he grumbled, "Don't call me
princess."
10
Kayla was super model perfection. Flawless complexion, wet
ruby lips, big innocent green eyes, her blonde hair brushed to a
shine, the ends curled in, framing her sweet face. Red
fingernails, red toenails.
"Oh... " Her jaw dropped, eyes popped wide open, giving
her the "deer in the headlights" expression. "Oh my... "
She raised her hand in disbelief. This couldn't be her. It
was an illusion. It had to be. While the hand was up there, she
swept a strand of hair out of her eyes and it was so graceful, so
feminine, Kevin almost forgot he'd ever been anyone else.
He stared and stared and stared, looking *her* up and down,
admiring the curves, admiring the clothes, even (God help him)
admiring the shoes. As uncomfortable as they were, impossible to
walk in, they made his legs so long and sexy that he couldn't
resist them.
Even Robin was impressed. This was something of a wish for
her too. She couldn't have been that unconsciously sexy if she'd
tried, and she had.
11
"Keep your legs crossed," Robin whispered to him across the
table. There was an open bottle of Merlot before them and two
filled glasses.
"What?"
"Cross them like this, above the knee. See?"
He peered around the table at her legs. "Why?"
"It's a good habit to get into."
"But that doesn't tell me why."
"Just do it and keep doing it. And don't lean across the
table like that."
Kevin rolled his eyes.
Robin sighed and explained. "It's about not showing the
world your goods."
Kevin looked around at the busy place. "No one's even paying
attention to--"
One man made eye contact over his date's shoulder. Kevin
looked away, and right into the eyes of another man walking by.
He smiled at her eagerly. He looked away again.
"When you lean across the table I can see right down your
top. When you forget to cross your legs you risk showing your
panties."
He felt his cheeks redden, brushed a ticklish strand of hair
from his cheek yet again, and crossed his legs. It wasn't
uncomfortable; there wasn't anything to crush, and it was a
chance to rub his slick legs together. He thought he could get
used to crossing and uncrossing his legs just to feel the tingle
of the nylons.
"Okay, when the waiter comes, smile at him and kind of blink
a lot."
Kevin was just about to sip some wine when he laughed. He
almost dribbled it on himself and that would've been a tragedy.
"What? Why?"
"Just do it."
"Blink a lot," he said, trying to make his tone deadpan, but
with his little girl voice it came out more like naivet?.
"Well, not blink exactly. It's more like fluttering your
eyelids every now and then. The rest of the time you should
concentrate on keeping your eyes nailed to his. When you're doing
that, blink really slow and smile slow. Do everything slow, and,
um, try leaning a little towards him."
He put the glass down, spotted the waiter, who spotted *her*
immediately. To Robin, he said, "Why am I doing this? I mean, how
dumb do you think this guy is? He's going to *know* what I'm
doing."
Robin smirked. "Try it and let's see if he does." As the
waiter approached, Robin whispered one final piece of advice,
"But don't make it obvious. Try it for real."
"Hello, ladies. How's the wine?"
They both said it was fine. Robin eyed him, urged him on. He
wasn't sure he could go through with it.
"So are, uh, we ready to order?" The "we" was aimed solely
at Kayla. Robin was beginning to feel a little invisible.
Kevin looked down at his menu, felt a light little kick
under the table. "Um," Kayla looked up at him, blinked a couple
of times, "could you recommend something?"
The waiter moved to her side, brushing her arm. He leaned
over her and peered down at the menu. The only way for him to get
closer was to crawl into her lap. "Well," he said softly, his
tone dropping, "this is delicious, if you like steak." He pointed
to an item, the bottom of his hand resting on the top of hers.
Kevin pulled away. "No, not really." He was trying to
discourage the boy, but pulling away only seemed to draw him in
further.
The boy inched closer. She could feel his breath on her
cheek. "Oh-oh, of course. You're probably trying to keep that
incredible figure, am I right?"
Kevin opened his mouth to speak but was promptly cut off.
"Let's see, if you like chicken, this is really good. It has
a nice cream sauce."
It did sound good actually, and Kevin made the mistake of
commenting on it. "Ooh, I like cream sauces." Even as the words
were leaving Kayla's lips, he knew it was a mistake.
He could hear the dry "clack" of the waiter's swallow. He
retreated as far away from him as he could without falling off
the chair. "I'll, uh, have that, I guess."
The waiter smiled, gazed hard into her eyes. "Anything
else?"
Kevin looked up at him, saw the wolf in his eyes, and found
it difficult to tear herself away. Feeling sexy and desirable was
one thing, but this guy wanted something she couldn't deliver.
Kayla felt trapped, felt small and helpless, and with a pitiful
whisper replied, "N-no, thank you."
"I'll have the steak," Robin blurted out.
For a moment, Kevin was afraid the waiter was going to snap
at her, but then he blinked and seemed to come out of his trance.
To Robin he said, "Huh?"
"The steak," Robin repeated. "I'd like that."
"Oh, okay." He wrote her order down. He hadn't written
Kevin's. Kevin guessed there was no doubt he'd remember it. "If
you ladies," the waiter said to Kayla and Kayla alone, "need
anything, just use that pretty voice of yours and I'll come
running. Anything at all."
Kevin smiled and fluttered her eyes as per Robin's
instructions.
When he'd gone, Robin laughed. "Christ, I thought he was
gonna get down on his knees and start begging."
Kevin breathed with relief, sank down in his chair, put his
head in his hands and groaned. "I can't believe I ever agreed to
this."
"What do you mean? Didn't you feel it?"
He looked at her. "Feel what?"
Robin's jaw hung open.
"What?" he repeated.
"Kayla... the power. Didn't you feel it?"
He thought about it. "What power?"
She shook her head with disbelief. "He would've done
anything for you--will do anything. All you have to do is smile
and laugh and be sweet and toss your hair and give him a little
cleavage and use that little girl voice and he'll come running.
He'll give you anything you want. *That* power."
Kevin narrowed his eyes, expecting a bad punch line. Then,
when it didn't come, he was left to ponder her words. "Nah," he
said, "men aren't that stupid."
"Kayla, sweetie, I don't mean any disrespect. I mean--I love
men, okay? But, yes, they are."
"But it's not like I could get him to tear up the bill or
anything."
"Well, the more you want the more you have to give. If you
agreed to a date with him, not only would he eat the bill, he'd
probably swallow his own tongue. All you'd have to do is ask."
"So we're suckers."
Robin patted his small hand. "Not suckers. Just men."
He wasn't about to go on a date with the guy, but he was
curious about what he could get away with. How much *could* he
get out of him? What could he make him do? How much power did
just one of Kayla's smiles really have?
He wasn't about to find out, but Robin kept pouring the
wine, and in typical guy fashion, he kept drinking it, not
thinking about his decreased tolerance. Kevin might have had a
hollow leg, but Kayla did not.
After only three glasses, he was feeling warm and squirmy
and delicious. Kayla leaned towards the waiter every time he came
around. Kayla smiled and giggled at the guy's compliments.
Kayla's eyelids fluttered like two butterflies when he announced,
unbelievably, "You have the prettiest eyes."
And Robin knew a good thing when she saw one. With Kayla
nice and warm and tipsy, it was an easy thing to convince her to
engage in some after dinner plans. Why not a little dancing?
"No, I couldn't. All those sweaty guys rubbing up against
me."
"Kayla, sweetie, we could get free drinks all night long.
Hell, in most clubs we can get in free. And it's not like you
have to do anything. You see how have our waiter running his ass
off? Imagine what you can do once you've let a guy get his hands
on you. Come on, it'll be fun."
"But I hate dancing."
"Kevin hates dancing. Kayla will love it. It's a chance to
really let loose. You know you want to. You've been doing nothing
but holding it in all day. Wouldn't you like to go a little wild,
shake your self silly?"
Kayla's eyes were glassy, but there was a grin on her face.
"I don't know."
She sipped some more wine and saw the print of her lipstick
on the glass. At once she felt an urge to check her makeup, to
recreate the glossy and sultry ruby red lips.
"Think about it, Kevin. Imagine Kayla on the dance floor.
Imagine her skirt riding up, tossing her hair. Imagine her making
all the guys crazy. And then, afterward, you can leave them with
their mouths wide open when you leave with me. We'll have a big
kiss at the door and make them cream in their shorts."
They laughed.
But she was right, Kevin realized. Kayla really did have the
power to get almost anything she wanted. Hell, if someone like
her had come around before he met Robin....
12
The music was infectious. It got under his skin, under his
skirt, tickled his spine, tweaked his nipples. Was he more
responsive to it now that he was a woman? Maybe it was the
constant flow of liquor.
Between the buzz that filled her head and the pounding
music, Kayla had completely forgotten about Kevin. There was only
the dance floor and men. Lots of men. For a guy who'd never so
much as set foot on a stage, it was another world. A world filled
with limelight. A world filled with gushing compliments.
Even Robin was surprised by how much attention Kayla got.
When she'd said Kayla would be fighting them off, she had no
idea. From the moment she'd entered, there had been a constant
stream of men, a constant stream of drinks appearing on the
table. Without warning, Robin felt her heart growing black. Like
a slow rot, jealousy set in. She could come to hate "Kayla".
Kevin collapsed into the chair beside his girlfriend.
"Whew!" he giggled. "You're right. This *is* fun!"
"How come you're not dancing?"
"I had to stop. *Someone* was getting too grabby."
Yet another man approached them, or rather, Robin fumed,
approached "Kayla". He squatted besides the giggly blonde and
yelled into her ear, still barely audible over the music. "You
were on fire out there!"
Kayla turned and smiled, mouthing the word, "thanks".
"Robert!" He offered his hand.
She took it by the fingers and gave it a half shake, tossed
her blonde hair over her shoulder and set her green eyes on him.
Only a woman with a man inside could notice the way Robert
shifted his position to accommodate his new "growth".
"Kayla!"
"I gotta get you back out there! Show you some of *my*
stuff!"
"Oh, thanks, but--"
"We could put these assholes to shame!" He tugged on her
hand, crushing her tender fingers in his relentless grip. "C'mon,
let's show 'em some real shit!"
"I'm tired just now, thanks!" She tried to reclaim her hand,
but it wasn't happening.
He leaned forward as if to yell in her ear again, but ended
up nuzzling her neck, his unshaven chin scraping her soft
shoulder. "I ain't taking no for an answer!"
Kayla blinked like a frightened rabbit, glanced to Robin for
help.
Robin seriously considered letting "Kayla" fight her own
battle. Let the bitch learn what men were really like. But,
finally, she yielded to her better nature. She showed Kayla her
watch and yelled, "Look at the time!"
Kayla nodded. "Yeah, right!" She turned and shrugged.
"Sorry! We're leaving! Maybe next time!"
The man squeezed her hand tighter. "Just one dance!"
"Can't! Gotta go!"
He scowled, shook his head. "Bullshit! You're just blowing
me off!"
Robin was on her feet. She held Kayla's purse out to her.
The man let Kayla's hand go so she could grab it.
The man stood with her. "Aw, c'mon!"
"Sorry!" She couldn't think of anything else to say. He was
scaring the shit out of her. They headed for the door and Kayla
made the mistake of looking back. The guy raised his hand and
flipped her off.
The busy street was like a silent movie in comparison, so
quiet, so peaceful. Kayla cursed. "Can you believe that guy?"
Robin nodded, made her way through the drunken crowd to the
street corner. Kayla hurried after her, the strappy heels
hampering her progress. "I mean, what an asshole! Jesus, I
thought he was gonna like rape me or something! All I said was
no. If he'd just given me a break I would've danced with him
later. What a fucking jerk!"
At the corner, Robin turned on her. "Well what do you
fucking expect the way you were strutting it for everyone?"
Kayla flinched.
Robin started across the street. Kayla stood there,
dumbfounded, too shocked to move. When the lights turned, she
came to her senses and hurried after her.
They walked in silence for awhile.
"Robin." Kayla wrapped her arms around herself, tucked them
under her breasts, feeling as if the world had suddenly turned
impossibly cold. "Robin."
Robin ignored her.
Her voice thick with sorrow, tears streaming down her face,
Kayla called again. "Robin."
Robin paused, took a deep breath, rubbed her forehead with
two fingers, and turned, surprised by what she saw. Kayla stood
there sobbing, lips quivering in a sorrowful grimace, tears
dripping off her chin, embracing herself with a death grip. Her
knees were pressed tight together, feet slightly apart, giving
her sexy, unbalanced appearance. "What did I do?"
"Oh my god."
"What?"
Robin nearly laughed. "You're crying."
Kevin realized she was right. It hadn't even occurred to
him. He hadn't cried in years, not since the funeral of his
favorite aunt. He brushed a wet cheek with a delicate hand and
peered at it in the streetlight. "I--I can't help it."
Robin folded her arms around her and Kayla really let go. "I
don't understand what I did."
Robin shushed her. "You did a terrible thing."
Kayla met her eyes, sniffling. "What?"
Robin rolled her eyes, sighed. "You upstaged me."
Kayla blinked and a crease appeared between her thin shaped
eyebrows. "Huh?"
Robin laughed. "I got mad because you were getting all of
the attention."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I guess you just surprised me."
"It feels so different. I had no idea how--how naked you
guys feel all the time, how fragile." He wiped his cheeks. "God,
what's wrong with me?"
"Nothing," Robin replied. "It's just hormones."
"Well, I hate it. I want to change back now."
"Look at you. You're smudging your makeup."
Kayla touched her face unconsciously.
"Come on, let's get you fixed up, then we'll go home."
Arm in arm, they found a bar with a subdued atmosphere and
headed to the bathroom.
Unfortunately, Kayla had yet to experience the phenomena of
the never-ending "restroom line".
13
It took forever to get into the bathroom, and even then it
was filled to capacity. Every stall, every counter, every mirror.
Kayla locked the stall behind her and realized for the first time
she would have to undress to do her business.
Through the door, Robin called as softly as she could.
"Don't forget what I told you."
Kayla whispered back. "Okay, okay." She wanted to say, "I
*have* gone to the bathroom before you know," but bit her tongue.
Down came the hose, down came the panties--she massaged the
crack of her ass and her hips where the straps had cut in. Up
came the skirt, down went her bottom on the cold porcelain seat.
It took only a second before the hot, acidic relief sent goose
pimples crawling down her arms. Her shoulders shuddered. All that
time in line had really boiled her kettle. By the time she made
it in, she was ready to burst.
What a weird night, Kevin thought and laughed quietly. He
wiped--yeah, yeah, front to back--flushed, and started dressing
himself again. What a pain in the ass. All women did all day was
dress, undress, dress again, put on makeup, fix makeup, adjust
their tops, adjust their skirts, straighten their hose, fix their
hair again and again and again. It never stopped.
While he waited for Robin, he spied an open space at the
mirror. He caught a woman watching him and gave her a friendly
smile. The woman scowled and turned away.
It caught Kevin off guard. What had he done to deserve that?
He tried fixing his makeup, but didn't do a very good job of
it.
By the time Robin joined him, he just wanted to get the hell
out of there.
Outside, it dawned on him, he hadn't managed one secretive
glance at any of the women. Not one snapshot of a panty, not even
a reaction to the woman who was hoisting her boobs back into
position.
Robin fixed his face as best as she could, but not to
"Kayla's" satisfaction.
"Look, we're never gonna get it as good as before," Robin
told her, "just live with it."
There was that tone again. He told her about the woman in
the bathroom, and she nodded with understanding.
"Well, you should probably get used to that."
"But I don't get it. I don't even know her."
"Kayla, sweetheart, girls aren't as nice and as sweet as you
think. Oh, around men, sure, but around each other...."
"Really." Kevin was truly shocked.
"We're real bitches at heart."
"But--"
"You did the one thing that no woman can stand."
"What was that?"
"You were more beautiful than she was."
"Okay, that settles it. I don't want to know anymore about
you guys. I'm ready to change back now."
Robin's smile dropped. "Wait a minute. Do this." She pressed
her lips together. Kayla imitated her. "There. Now just apply a
little powder and put on another coat."
Kayla grumbled. "I'm getting sick of all this. I feel like I
have a mask on."
"Don't think of it as a mask. Think of it as a filter. It
hides all the flaws and accentuates all the natural beauty."
Kayla twisted the tube of ruby red lipstick open, and felt
the greasy slip of it across her lips. When she was done, she
glanced into the compact mirror again and checked her teeth. Even
Robin was amazed at how quickly it had all became second nature
for her.
She didn't get two steps before she remembered. "Oh...
gloss."
Robin felt like the mother of a teenage girl who'd just
discovered makeup. She rolled her eyes and made her way for the
bar.
14
It didn't take long before someone "discovered" Kayla.
Although, Kayla's reaction was anything but expected.
The tall stranger sat a glass on the table before her and
smiled. "Here ya go."
Kayla waved it away. "No, thanks. I'm done drinking for the
night."
The man laughed. "It's not a drink. It's water."
Kayla peered up at him, confused.
"You look like a girl who's had a full night."
He had nice eyes, blue, friendly, a warm Southern twang to
his voice. His body was lean, a little lanky. He was nothing but
smooth, and she felt the effects right away. It had taken less
than three seconds for her to fall under his spell. A second more
and she was utterly captivated.
"Th-thanks."
Before she could touch the glass, he added a straw.
The foresight was touching. Now she wouldn't mess up her
lipstick. Here was a guy who understood women. Even Kevin was
impressed. This was the kind of guy who stole away all his
girlfriends, and now he understood why.
"Thanks," she repeated. She was reminded of the jerk that
had driven her out of the last bar. With him, she'd found herself
repeating "I'm sorry" over and over, but with this guy, it was
"thank you, thank you, thank you."
Robin watched as her boyfriend--firmly ensconced in Kayla's
luscious body--was quietly swept off his feet.
"I was just about to plug a quarter into the old jukebox
over there. What do you say? You like the Eagles?"
"Uh, sure, they're okay, I guess."
His smile grew. "My goodness, you sure are a pretty thing,
aren't you?"
Her cheeks were on fire. She couldn't breathe, couldn't
speak, could only squeak out yet another in a long string of
"thank you's".
He grinned at Robin, who felt firsthand the heat of his
charm. "Excuse me, miss, but do you think I could steal away your
friend here for a bit? I promise I'll take good care of her."
Robin stammered. "Uh, well, uh--"
"Thanks, darlin'."
Before Kayla knew it she was on her feet and being led away.
How did he do that? Kevin wondered. But before he could drudge up
another thought, "Kayla" was distracted by the warmth of the
man's hand on the small of her back. He ushered her to the
jukebox, chatting the entire way.
"I'm Matt, by the way. I didn't catch your name."
"Kay--Kayla."
"That's a pretty name you got there, Kayla."
He fed the jukebox, punched A-15, and took her small hand in
his. Was it just her or was his grip like a heated mitten, soft
and warm and comfortable? "You don't mind if I lead, do you?"
She couldn't help laughing. He used the moment to whip her
around into his arms. It was thrilling. This guy was good. She
responded automatically, her feet pivoting, her arms settling
naturally into position around him. It was like he knew her body
better than she did. He took her hand and held it against his
shoulder, making her realize just how much shorter she was.
With that hot hand glued to the small of her back, he
gently, so gently it went unnoticed, drew her closer. Before she
knew it, her breasts were pressing into his chest, her hips
swaying in helpless obedience, matching his, their clasped hands
melting together.
Every time she started to get herself together, prepared to
extricate herself, he whipped her around, thrilling her to the
core, distracting her. Every time Kevin threatened to reemerge,
Kayla's breath lodged higher in her throat, her cheeks inflamed a
little more. Every time, she felt smaller, more firmly possessed.
Every time, she melted further down and down, until she could no
longer resist, and didn't want to.
She was his. Oh God, was she his. She wanted to be his. She
had to be. But what if he didn't want her? What if--
She responded, or rather, her body responded, no longer
distant, but actively warming, glowing, spreading its delicate
gossamer wings, placing the word "yes" on her wet lips.
He must've noticed the difference, because he let her hand
go and drew her closer.
This was so much better than the mall. She wasn't just a
little aroused, a little "leaky"; she was on fire, and the gush
between her legs was like a flammable syrup. Her aching feet
disappeared, and for a moment she thought about having him
between her soft thighs, about him pressing her back as Robin had
done, capturing her wrists in his large hands, with so much more
strength, so much more force, imprisoning her securely and
forever until--
His lips were on hers. For an instant, Kevin exploded back
to life, whispering "Oh shit!" in her mind, then their mouths
gushed hot and wet. His cologne intoxicated her. She tasted the
flavor of his mouth, punctuated with whiskey, and the waxy flavor
of her own lipstick, but the two soon melted and became one.
It was a *deep* kiss, all the way down to her toes. She felt
them curl, felt her back spasm and arch in compensation. She felt
tiny enough to fit in his hand. She felt herself push against
him, press her mouth into his, press her breasts into him, press
everything she was into him. She wanted to disappear into him.
She wanted to be swallowed whole.
When the eternity had passed and the kiss broke, his breath
fell like a warm cloud down over her face. "Whew, darlin'," he
sighed.
"I--" She had to get away. "I need--" God, it felt so good.
"I need a break."
He was on her heels back to the table. Her thoughts were
swimming. She had to find a way to escape, to get Robin away, to
surface and steal a quick breath.
"Uh," she turned and smiled sweetly, thinking of the waiter
she'd charmed so effortlessly earlier. She couldn't do it to Matt
though. She was too aroused. Fortunately, her body was on
automatic, eyes like glittering emeralds, lips glistening, voice
soft and curious. "Could you go, uh, get me a drink?"
He laughed. "Well, sure, darlin'. What'll you have?"
"Um," she pretended to think, "something sweet?"
Before he could suggest anything, she grabbed Robin by the
hand and jerked her into the bathroom.
"What's going on?" Robin wondered. "Why'd you stop? You guys
were really hitting it off."
"We gotta get me the hell out of here."
"But why?"
"Because this guy is pushing all my buttons."
Robin grinned. "I can see that. You're all in a tizzy."
"Robin," Kevin panted, "help me."
She lifted Kayla's chin with a finger, which only served to
make her feel helpless and childlike again. "I will help. I'll
give you some advice. Are you listening?"
Kayla looked up into Robin's eyes and nodded.
Robin brought her face close and whispered intimately. "Go
with it. Let him take you. Let him flood over you and wash you
away. He's a good guy. You'll always end up on shore with him.
Although, maybe a little weak in the knees."
Kayla swallowed, dropped her eyes. "My knees are already
weak."
Kevin thought about it. How bad could it be? Kayla wanted
it. Her *body* wanted it. Why not?
"What am I thinking? No, damnit!"
"What's the problem?" Robin's voice was quiet and
reassuring.
"The problem is I don't want to be with this guy. I'm with
you. He only wants one thing and I can't let that happen."
Robin let her catch her breath. "So, you're saying you don't
want him because he only wants sex? Because he doesn't want a
relationship?"
She started to say yes, then realized how ridiculous that
sounded.
Robin continued. "Kayla... that's all you want too."
"Yes, but... he just wants to use me."
She put her arm around her. "Sweetie, he can't use if you
want to be used. Get it?"
Kayla was on the verge. If she broke now, she'd never be
able to stop herself. One more gaze into Matt's blue eyes and she
would be lost. Kevin would get the experience of a lifetime.
After a long silence, Kevin said, hating his tiny chipmunk
voice, "I can't. I just can't."
Robin sighed. "Okay."
15
It had not been an easy escape. "Kayla" had surrendered her
number, which was really Robin's number. They would think of
something to tell Matt when he called, right now Kevin was too
exhausted to think.
At home, he kicked off his shoes and sat down to massage his
feet. Robin heated some soup for them and listened to his sighs
from the other room.
After a quick meal, Kevin turned to her and said, "I'm done.
I'm going to change back."
"I don't think so."
"What do you mean?"
She wore a solemn expression. The truth was coming out and
he wasn't going to like it. "I made it so you can't change back
without me."
After a short pause, he laughed.
She shrugged. "Try if you want, but you're not going to have
much luck."
"I've been changing myself all my life. What makes you think
it's a power you can take away."
She shifted on the couch, turned to eye him directly. "When
you were under, you gave me everything, your body and, yes, your
mind too. I made a few changes myself."
He smirked, stood, smirked again, and went to the bedroom.
After nearly thirty minutes, she went in to check on him.
She'd stripped down, cleaned up, and got into her pajamas. When
she crawled in with him, she felt his body stiffen.
The silence passed slowly. The darkness was just claiming
her, when his voice awoke her. "Why?"
"Because." She rolled toward him, rubbed his shoulders.
"Because why?"
"Because I want you to experience all of it. Tonight, you
almost did. You should've. I would've let you change back if you
had."
Robin's hands dipped down. He was still dressed in his club
clothes. She caressed his thigh, worked her way up, past the top
of his stocking, until she came to his panties.
"Why is it so important for me to get laid as a woman?"
Her fingers knew the way. They slipped beneath the silk and
found his lips. With a light touch she rubbed up and down,
tickling the curls, until his thighs parted. It was an almost
invo