INTRODUCTION
The story you are about to read is a sequel to "The Export" by Jacki
Pett. If you have not yet read the original three-part classic, I
strongly urge you to do so now. You don't HAVE to read that story first
to enjoy this one, but why deny yourself the pleasure?
I've been reading TG fiction on the net for a little more than two
years and "The Export" was one of the first stories I read. The story
was so shattering, had such an emotional impact on me, that I literally
couldn't sleep for days afterward. What made it so hard to take was the
utterly horrible situation the victim, Laura, found herself in at the
end. Never being one to leave good enough alone, I started a campaign
to encourage Jacki to write a sequel and extricate Laura from her awful
situation. I was able to get in touch with Jacki, but she evidenced no
interest in doing a sequel. I let that situation simmer for almost two
years when, finally, I decided that if Jacki wouldn't write a sequel, I
would ask her permission to do one myself. Please note that, although I
am a professional journalist, I have never written a fictional story
before. I submitted an outline of my story idea to Jacki and got her
approval to proceed last summer.
This story just about wrote itself, primarily because I have been
thinking about it for so long that all the twists and turns were pretty
much worked out in my mind long before my hands touched the keyboard.
In no way do I claim this story to be a match for the original. I do
not have the flare for the dark and foreboding and titillating that
Jacki has. What I hope I have produced is a fun story that will satisfy
the casual reader, as well as fans of the original. Please write a
review to let me know if I succeeded or failed.
I would like to thank Jacki Pett for producing the original story and
being kind enough to allow me to attempt this sequel; Kelly Ann,
another of my favorite writers, for encouraging me to try my hand at
fiction writing and watching over my shoulder during this project;
Nalofilk, the consummate professional, for her expert proofreading of
every word written here; Hans Staden, without whom chapter three would
have been incomplete; and the many wonderful folks on the FM Hyperboard
who answered so many of my stupid questions in connection with this
story. I couldn't have done it without all of you.
Finally, please note that there is a Portuguese/English phrase addendum
at the end of the story with translations of the Portuguese words and
phrases that are not translated in the body of the story. Warning: most
of those words and phrases are somewhat salty!
The Return
By Bluto
Chapter 1 - Peoria, Ill.
Harold Lee was having a good night.
He'd already picked up five bales of cardboard and it wasn't even dark
yet. The bales fit snugly in his Ford F-150 pick-up and at about 200
pounds each that was at least $30 at the current recycle price of 1.5
cents a pound. Hardly a fortune, but Harold didn't collect cardboard
for the money. To most people who asked he said he did it either to
help save the earth or for the exercise.
"Don't want to sit in front of the TV all day," he'd tell anyone who
asked.
Harold was only 50 but he was already twice retired: once after five
years as an undersized NFL running back and once after 15 years on the
Peoria, Ill. police force. Injuries to the body drove him out of
football and injuries to his pride out of the police, but he got good
pensions from both; enough, combined with some sound investments, that
he really didn't need to work anymore.
But he enjoyed collecting cardboard. It got him out of the house, it
paid for gas and it allowed him to meet some interesting people. He was
trying to decide if he should attempt to squeeze one more bail on the
truck when he heard a woman screaming.
"Babaca, take your hands off me!"
The voice was coming from the direction of an empty parking lot in the
large mall Harold was working.
"Bitch, I'll do whatever the hell I want with you!"
A man's voice. Even at this distance Harold could tell there was going
to be some violence. Without a second thought he ran toward the
disturbance.
He turned the corner of a building and saw a very large man with a
powerful grip on a slender woman. His other hand was drawing back,
preparing to deliver a blow to her terrified face.
"Hold it, man," Harold said. "Nobody hits a woman while I'm around."
The big man turned and glared at Harold.
"Ha, ha," he said with a sneer. "That's a funny statement in more ways
than one, Sir Galahad. Now why don't you just turn around and make your
black ass scarce if you know what's good for you."
Harold said nothing in the face of the big man's threat and casual
racism. He had heard worse. The man was much taller but Harold figured
he weighed about the same as the loud mouth. They seemed pretty evenly
matched and the man wasn't showing a weapon so he continued to walk in
the direction of the fighting couple.
In a flash the man launched a roundhouse kick at Harold's head. It
barely missed and Harold could hear the whiz of air from the missed
blow.
"Oh great," Harold thought. "Looks like we got a kung-fu fighter here."
The man swiftly tried another roundhouse with the opposite foot. This
time Harold blocked it with both his forearms and in the same motion
grabbed his assailant's leg and flipped him on his back. Harold then
planned to jump on the man to pin him down, but, showing surprising
agility for one so large, the man back flipped to standing on his feet.
Just then a police siren could be heard in the distance, growing louder
by the second. Someone had called the cops.
The big man took off like he was shot from a cannon.
"We'll meet again, bastard," he said as he jumped into his Mustang
convertible. He revved up the powerful engine and in a moment he was
gone.
Harold was wondering why the man was so sure they'd meet again when he
heard a sob and turned to see the woman standing there with tears
streaming down her pretty face. In the heat of battle he'd almost
forgotten her.
"Don't worry, miss," he said. "The police will be here soon and you can
fill out a warrant against your boyfriend."
The woman looked at Harold with a mixture of anger and fear and her
green eyes flashed impossibly open as she spoke.
"He's not my boyfriend and I don't want to talk to the police," she
said in a husky voice. "Can you please give me a ride away from here?"
Harold's cop training told him that the best thing would be to advise
the young lady to wait for the police and keep his own nose out of it.
But he had his own bone to pick with the local police and could feel
sympathy for the frightened girl.
"Okay," he said. "Come with me."
They ran to his truck and got in just as a Peoria police cruiser passed
by. Harold left the mall parking lot and stopped holding his breath
five minutes later when it was apparent nobody had fingered his truck
to the cops.
Harold drove down Jefferson Avenue, away from downtown. He didn't want
to go anywhere near the police station.
"What's your name mam, mine's Harold," he said in what he hoped was a
friendly voice.
"Laura," she answered. "Laura de Con--er, Laura Warren."
Harold looked closely at the young woman for the first time and he
liked what he saw. Her hair hung below her shoulders, longer than most
women he knew, brown with streaks of blonde, thick and rich. Her face
was a perfect oval with a cute button nose, expressive eyebrows and
those huge eyes. She had what Russ Meyer would call a "cupee doll"
face, almost unnaturally cute.
She wore a simple green tracksuit so Harold couldn't judge what her
legs looked like. At that moment she unzipped the suit's jacket and
Harold nearly went off the road. She was wearing a pink T-shirt with
some foreign writing on it (Spanish?) but it was what was in the shirt
that grabbed his attention. Laura had two of the most fantastic breasts
Harold had ever seen. They were very large, at least a 34 or 36 DD in
his estimate, and very firm. They seemed to be putting a real strain on
her flimsy black bra and Harold could easily observe the struggle.
"Those can't be real, she's too thin to have breasts that big," was his
first thought. "Jesus I'm going to run into that mail box," was his
second.
"Something on your mind?" Laura asked with a wry expression on her
face.
Harold was quite embarrassed. He had a fondness for breasts and these
next to him were prime, but he didn't like his sexual urges ruling him.
That had gotten him into trouble before.
"Now she'll think I'm some sort of old pervert," he thought, but he
said: "Your T-shirt, what language is that, Spanish?"
Laura took a quick glance at the twin mountains on her chest and she
knew what Harold was really looking at. She'd been getting that look
for years, but she decided that Harold was a decent guy and that she'd
give him the benefit of the doubt.
"Actually, it's Portuguese," she said. "It's an advertisement for the
Carnival in Rio."
"Oh, are you from Brazil?" Harold asked. He knew for sure Laura was not
a local. There was something exotic about her; her deep tan, her slight
accent, her impossible looks that told him she was not from Peoria.
"Most recently," she said and she closed her eyes as if thinking about
a far away place. "I used to live in Houston, Texas, about a hundred
years ago."
"Whew, you are very well preserved," Harold said, trying to keep the
mood light. "How old are you, really? Twenty, 21?"
"I'm 28," she said. "Or is it 29? Yeah, 29, I think I just had a
birthday."
Harold lifted an eyebrow at that strange answer. He had a real enigma
on his hands and he wanted to know more.
"Who was that dude hassling you?" he asked. "He may not have been your
boyfriend but he sure knew you."
"Oh, that was Jack," she said. "A private dick, although he doesn't
keep his dick very private. I knew him in a previous life and it was
not a pleasure, believe me."
"An ex-lover, then," Harold said.
"He's fucked me before, if that's what you want to know," she said
almost matter-of-factly. "I don't think he'd want to now though. I
think he likes boys more than girls."
"Err, okay," Harold said. This was more information than he'd expected.
"Strange I didn't recognize him. I was a cop for 15 years and I thought
I knew most of the local PIs. What's his last name?"
"Never learned it," she said. "You know, I thought there was something
cop-like about you. You have that 'Just the facts, Mam' air about you.
Why'd you leave the force, you can't be more than 40?"
"Actually, I'm 50," he said, taking some pride in the fact that she
guessed him younger than he was. "Police work was all right but it got
a little boring, you know. Peoria ain't exactly the big city. So I
stayed long enough to get a good pension and quit."
He wondered if she suspected he was leaving out a few details. He could
tell this girl was a perceptive one.
"Look," he said. "If I keep driving this way we'll be out of the county
soon. Where do you want me to drop you off?"
"Oh, and we were having such a pleasant conversation," she said,
rolling those big eyes around fetchingly. "Drop me off anywhere you
like."
"Do you have a hotel room?" he asked.
"Hotels cost money and I don't have any," she said.
"Family... friends?" he asked.
"Nope, none of that," she sighed. "I have just what you see. Do you
think I can find a place to stay using my looks?"
"Yeah, the jail, if the cops catch you using your 'looks,'" he said.
After a moment of silence he added: "You can spend the night at my
place if you like. I own a good size duplex and I live in the upstairs
apartment. I keep an empty bedroom in case one of my kids comes for a
visit but no one lives there but me."
Laura looked at Harold carefully. She had been hurt by those she
thought she could trust before, hurt to the point that death seemed
preferable to life. Should she trust this stranger after years of
trusting no one?
"Okay, fine," she said. "You don't snore do you?"
"Like a sawmill," he answered. "But you'll be in another room and the
walls are thick. I don't think you'll have any trouble falling asleep."
Within 10 minutes they were easing into Harold's garage. He lived on a
neat, quiet, middle class street. His house was large, but not
pretentious. Laura could see it had a fresh coat of paint and the lawn
had that fresh mowed smell.
They climbed up one flight of stairs and they were home.
"Please excuse the dust," he said. "The cleaning lady is on vacation
this week."
Laura was pretty sure Harold was kidding about the cleaning lady.
Besides, the apartment wasn't all that dusty, it just looked well-
lived-in. Harold asked if she would like a drink; she responded that
she would like water or a diet soda. While he was preparing something
for them in the kitchen Laura discovered a small piano in the dining
room. It was covered in a thin layer of dust and had music books and
sheets carelessly thrown on the music stand and the piano bench. The
top music book was turned to "The Holy City" by Frederick Edward
Weatherly and Stephen Adams. There were also some trophies and other
mementos and a photograph of an attractive young lady Laura assumed was
Harold's daughter.
On a whim she sat at the piano, uncovered the keys and began to play.
At first Harold thought she had turned on the radio, which he always
kept tuned to WBCU, the Bradley University station. Then he heard some
sour notes and soft mutterings in Portuguese.
"That piano is way out of tune," he said as he entered the room holding
two glasses of ice water (no diet sodas in this house). "Still, you
sounded pretty good. That was Chopin wasn't it?"
"Yes, the A flat Polonaise," she said as she graciously took the drink.
"You don't know how hard it is to play with these fingernails."
Harold looked at her hands and saw she did indeed have very long deep
red colored nails. But some of them were chipped and broken as if she
hadn't been able to care for them for a while.
"Do you play, yourself?" she asked as she began another piece, this
time by Bach.
"No, I'm a singer," he said. "I bought that piano new a long time ago
for $800. That was a lot of money to me back then and I figured if I
went to all that expense I'd learn to play. I never did. Oh, I can pick
out a tune with one hand but that's about it. That's mostly vocal music
I have there. I used to sing in a church choir."
"Hmm, I'll bet you have a nice singing voice. Do you know this song?"
she asked, pointing at "Holy City."
When he said he did, she started playing the intro. Harold put down his
drink and began to sing. He had a rich baritone voice and sung with
religious vigor:
Je-ru-sa-lem! Je-ru-sa-lem!
Sing for the night is o'er!
Ho-san-na in the high-est,
Ho-san-na to your King!
He smiled at her when they finished.
"Nice playing," he said. "That's my favorite gospel song, the signature
tune of Marian Anderson."
"Who's that?" Laura asked.
"A very important figure in black history I'll have to tell you about
sometime," he replied. "For right now let me show you to your room."
The apartment had two identical bedrooms back -to- back in the rear.
Harold took her to the one on the right.
"This is the room my daughter uses when she comes to visit," he said.
"She keeps some things here and I'm sure she wouldn't mind you using
them. You two are about the same age but you are a lot taller than her
and she probably weights more than you. How much do you weigh?"
"Fifty Five kilos last I checked," she said as she entered the room.
"Oh, in pounds that would be..."
"One hundred twenty one I believe," he said. "My daughter is closer to
145. She's husky like her Dad."
"I used to weigh 145 pounds... a long time ago it seems," she said with
that wistful look on her face again.
"I bet you looked a lot different back them," he said.
"You have no idea," she said, shaking her head slowly.
Harold realized that he was missing something from this conversation,
but he decided to let it rest for now.
"If you find anything that fits you're welcome to wear it," he said.
"If there's anything you want me to put in the washing machine leave it
outside your door. The bathroom is right across the hall if you want to
take a shower or a leak. I'm going to the front room to watch a little
Jay Leno."
Laura decided it would be good to take a shower. It had been a long
time since she'd been able to bathe. She found a bathrobe that was big
enough to cover her torso but was only mid- thigh in length. The pajama
bottoms were too short in the legs but she wore them anyway. There were
a couple of bras also but while they may have been big enough around,
the cups were hopelessly too small to do her any good.
"Looks like I'll have to wash out what I have and go bra-less until it
dries," she thought. "Hope I don't drive Mr. Lee crazy bouncing around
this place."
She also found a plastic shower cap and a disposable douche. Good, she
thought, I don't want to get my hair wet; it would take forever to dry.
She stayed in the shower for 20 minutes and enjoyed every second of it.
She actually felt clean, inside and out.
Harold heard all the commotion in the other end of the house but
thought it best to stick to his television show unless Laura asked for
assistance. He put her tracksuit and T-shirt in the washing machine but
couldn't help imagining what she must look like in the shower, naked,
the water bouncing off those magnificent breasts.
"Un-un," he thought. "Don't go there, man. That girl is young enough to
be my daughter, and besides, she's here because she needs help. I am
not going to try to put the moves on her. I know she caught me starring
at her tits in the truck."
As was his custom, Harold switched to Letterman after the Leno
monologue and watched that program until it was over. He turned the TV
off, checked for e-mails on his PC (nothing but spam,) and prepared for
bed. He hadn't heard any activity from the bedroom area for a while and
went into the bathroom to perform his nightly ablutions. He was treated
to the sight of a matching set of lacy black, bra and panties hanging
from the shower rod to dry. Overcome by curiosity he examined the sheer
garments. The brand name meant nothing to him but he could tell they
were expensively made. He also noted the bra size was measured in
millimeters.
"Well, at least she isn't lying about coming from abroad," he thought,
as he headed for his own bed.
***
Jack Mitchell went directly from the shopping center to the new
headquarters. It was located 30 miles out of town in an undeveloped
rural area. It used to be a medium-size farm but had fallen into
disuse. The owners had died and their children weren't interested in
farming so had put it up for sale. The property consisted of a large
two-story house with attic, a small cottage for the live-in help and a
substantial barn in good condition. The sellers were "motivated" and
the price was right and Jack paid in cash so few questions were asked.
Renovations were needed, of course, and Jack had supervised those with
the help of a couple of handymen/goons he knew who could supply muscle
and keep quiet.
Tina and Connie lived here now in the main house, although Connie
maintained an apartment in town in case of bad weather or when she had
to work late at the insurance company. Margaret was happily living in
the cottage. It allowed her to be around "her girls" 24 hours a day.
Jack stayed some nights with Connie, but he was too restless to move
out to the sticks on anything like a permanent basis. He was only here
tonight because he saw a crisis looming.
"I knew it, I knew that bitch was coming back here," Tina said as soon
as Jack entered the living room. "When Connie found out that Constanza
had been killed and they couldn't find the killer, I knew."
"Oh please," said Jack. "How could you know that Laura would manage to
get here from 4,000 miles away? I wouldn't believe it myself if I
hadn't seen her staking out the old loft."
The loft was the previous headquarters for this little group and their
highly profitable and illegal business. It was located downtown in the
heart of the Peoria business district and had served them well for
years. But due to the nature of their business it was decided that to
stay in one location too long wasn't very smart. So after a careful
search they had moved here about a year ago. Now they were all happy
they did.
"Man, nobody has ever come back before and Laura's not even from
Peoria," Connie added. "What do you think she wants?"
"That's a silly question," said Jack. "She wants revenge, that's what
I'd want if it had happened to me."
"But you're sure she hasn't gone to the police?" this was Dr. Ben
Rompat speaking, another member of the crew.
"I doubt it," said Jack. "She's wanted for murder in Brazil. The police
are going to ask her a whole lot of questions she's not gonna want to
answer. I'm pretty sure we have an extradition treaty with that
country."
"But didn't you say the man who ran you off was a policeman?" Rompat
asked.
"Hey Doc, the nigger didn't run me off, I heard the cops coming," Jack
spit out. "And he's no longer on the force, I told you. I know who he
is: Harold Lee, aka Harry 'Legs' Lee, former Bradley University
football star, mediocre NFL player and failed cop who quit because he
didn't like the way the local police operate."
"Well, I'm glad you recognized him because I couldn't tell him from
Adam," Tina chimed in.
"Oh he was big shit at Bradley when I was a kid," Jack said. "I think
he still holds the record for rushing yardage there. That didn't get
him very far in the pros, though. They put him on special teams and he
got his leg broken twice. Pow!"
"Yeah, I remember him now," said Rompat. "Looks a lot like Jesse
Jackson."
"Reggie Jackson," Jack corrected.
"I don't care if he looks like Michael Jackson, do you think he'll go
to the police?" Connie asked.
"Not likely," Jack said. "Not unless he feels he's in a real jam. He
has no love for the local police."
"Well, if he decides to help Laura the first thing we must assume is
they'll try to find us, " Connie said. "And if I'm not mistaken, Tina's
the only one of us who's last name she knows."
"You aren't in the phone book are you Tina?" Jack asked.
"Not for years," said the attractive blonde. "But we still have our ads
in the personals newspapers. Think we should stop answering that
number?"
"Naw," said Jack. "We screen those calls anyway. The only thing she'd
get if she called would be an answering machine."
"We need to go over the details of everything we remember about Laura's
stay," Connie said. "Who she met, where we took her, anything that
might give her a clue as to where to find us. And, Tina, you need to
call Justino, he's supposed to take delivery of our latest export soon
and this might upset the timetable."
"Don't sweat it, babe, if she does find us that may be a good thing,"
said Jack and then he told the group his plan.
***
Laura awoke to the smell of frying bacon. It had been a long time since
she had experienced that smell and it was divine.
"Mmmm, I wonder if Mr. Lee is a good cook?" she thought as she
stretched and yawned in the bed. She had slept dreamlessly, the best
sleep she'd had in two weeks. There was a knock at the door.
"Hey sleepyhead, how do you like your eggs?" she heard Harold say from
outside her door. She noted and appreciated the fact that he did not
just barge into her room without permission.
"Over easy," she said. "And add some peppers if you have them."
"Well, shake a leg, baby, food will be ready in 15 minutes," he said as
he strolled back to the kitchen.
Laura didn't want to miss breakfast so she hurried out of bed, grabbed
her purse, wrapped her robe around her body and headed to the bathroom.
She took a large comb from her purse and quickly ran it through her
luxurious hair. Despite the lack of care in the last few weeks, her
hair had remained remarkably tangle-free. She finished and tied it into
a ponytail. She took a quick look at herself in the mirror. She didn't
need to use makeup for breakfast but the habit was hard to break. She
quickly applied red lipstick and some subtle eye shadow, brushed out
her eyelashes and dabbed on some Amarige, her favorite perfume. She
took stock of herself in the small medicine chest mirror. She'd been on
the run for two weeks and she still looked gorgeous.
"I'm a fucking work of art," she thought to herself with a sigh.
She entered the kitchen and sat where Harold indicated. He loaded her
plate with bacon, eggs and toast. To drink there was orange juice and
hot tea. She ate the food with relish and noted that Harold was also
having his eggs over easy with peppers.
"I hope you appreciate that I don't usually eat such a tasty
breakfast," he said. "Usually I just have cold cereal and skim milk but
having a guest inspires me to go all out."
"Sorry you troubled yourself over me," she said. "In Brazil we don't
usually make a big fuss over breakfast. Just some fruit, and toast and
coffee, lots of coffee."
"No trouble at all, Laura," he said as he poured himself another cup of
tea. "I'm not much of a coffee drinker. Never developed a taste for
it."
"After drinking Brazilian coffee for five years I probably wouldn't
like the American brands anyway," she said. "Our coffee is much
stronger than yours."
"How does our Florida orange juice compare to the Brazilian variety?"
he asked.
"Not bad, but I must say the Brazilian juice is fresher," she answered.
"Remember they grow coffee and oranges in Brazil. In fact, I lived on a
coffee plantation."
She took a good look at her benefactor. He wasn't super handsome, like
a Denzel Washington, but he had a rugged attractiveness about him. The
gray hairs on his temple and in his neatly trimmed beard added a solid,
dignified appearance. He spoke well, like a radio announcer and she
noted that even though he was about the same age as Paulo when they
first met, he seemed much younger and more full of life.
"Penny for your thoughts," he said. "Or whatever they call it in
Brazil."
"The word is centavo, Mr. Lee," she said. "You've been very nice to me
and you don't even know me. In the less than 24 hours I've been around
you, you have shown me more kindness than I've experienced in more than
five years. I know you have some questions about me and yet you haven't
pressed me to tell you anything. I've decided to tell you something
about myself -- but I warn you, it's a long story."
"That's okay, I've got nothing else to do," he said as he took a sip of
his tea.
"The reason I don't want to go to the police is because I am probably
wanted for murder in Brazil," she said and was instantly amazed at how
far Harold could project tea out of his nose.
"Awark," he sputtered. "You what?"
"I killed a man in Brazil, a very horrible man who made my life a
living hell for five years," she said steadily. "And I've come to
Peoria to get revenge on the people who sent me to him against my
will."
"Anything else?" Harold asked as he tried to finish his tea.
"Yes," she said. "My name's not Laura Warren. It's John Warren. I'm a
man."
Awark!
Chapter 2 - The Export
Harold Lee couldn't believe his ears.
He had one of the loveliest women he'd ever seen in his house and she
was either crazy or a man or a murderer or a crazy man murderer or...
"You mean you're a transsexual?" he asked. "Lord, I had no idea, none
at all."
Harold quickly thought of all the transsexuals he had heard of before:
Christen Jorganson, Rene Richards, Wendy Carlos, the freak shows on
Jerry Springer. Laura wasn't like any of them. There was nothing at all
artificial or manly looking about her. Her voice was a little deeper
than normal for a woman, but not as deep as, say, Lauren Bacall's. And
that whisky voice, combined with her cute face, just made her seem all
the more desirable. She was all female, effortlessly female. Maybe
she'd had some plastic surgery, but - a man?
"I am not a transsexual," she said, noting Harold's confused
expression. "I am a normal man who was changed into a woman against his
will."
"Is such a thing possible?" he asked.
"The proof is sitting before you and I'm going to tell you how it
happened," she said. "I've felt depressed and even guilty about these
things for a long time and I need to tell someone. Some of this I
didn't discover until long after the fact and there are still gaps in
my knowledge of these events."
Before the story could be told, Harold escorted Laura to the living
room. He turned off the news program he was halfway listening to on the
television and had her take a seat on his leather sofa while he sat
opposite her on a Lazy Boy recliner. She took a sip of water and began.
"As I told you my name is John Warren and I lived in Houston, Texas. I
was a fairly average 25-year-old guy, just getting started in my first
decent job and full of hormones. I was a salesman for Wells Products
and had been there for six months. One job brought me to Peoria to make
a sale at Smith's Industries. I finished early and felt like doing the
town so I looked up the local date sheet. It's funny, but I can
remember that ad word for word: "SWF SEEKS SWM. Looking for the right
man to teach to appreciate what a woman desires. If you're under 5'7",
slender and anxious to please me, call Tina. We'll explore new worlds
together.
"There was a picture of Tina, but what I liked was the cocky nature of
the message. 'I'll teach her a thing or two.' I thought in my male
arrogance. So I called her. I had to go back to Houston before we got
together but apparently I was what she was looking for, so I got a
message to visit her here as soon as possible.
"It wasn't until much later that I discovered why she was so interested
in me. I was shorter than the average man and had somewhat feminine
features. I also had no close family or friends and had always been
something of a loner. And I had more than $20,000 in savings in the
bank.
"We met in Peoria one month later. I was on top of the world! She took
me to what I thought was her home. Here was this beautiful woman and I
was going to get her drunk and get lucky. Too good to be true. Then she
slipped me a mickey, just like in a B movie. In no time I was
paralyzed, I couldn't move or speak, but I was aware of everything that
was going on around me. Tina wasn't alone. Her partner, Connie, joined
her and they stripped off my clothes. Then they smeared a depilatory of
some sort all over me, washed me off and put me in a diaper. Not a
Depends, mind you, but a real cloth diaper with safety pins. They
talked to each other like I wasn't there and when they did speak to me
it was like I was a bocal, an idiot, or a baby, a female baby.
"Then I met the doc. Doc was the only thing they ever called him around
me and he must have been a plastic surgeon at one time, but it's hard
to believe a real doctor would get involved in this sort of operation.
He was telling them all he was going to do to me and they were actually
making jokes about it. Then he shot me with a sedative and I was out.
The next few days were a blur but I eventually woke up enough to find
myself covered in bandages.
"I'd been given breast implants, smaller than what I have now, but big
enough to be very noticeable to me. They did something to make my butt
grow. They tightened up the area around my eyes and bobbed my nose.
They narrowed my chin and made my lips all pouty. I'm sure they also
started giving me some concentrated female hormones. They didn't cut
off my dick, but the doctor chemically castrated me. My dick was
useless and my balls shrunk away to nothing."
Harold shuttered and quietly covered his crotch with his hands.
"So, you're a she-male?" he asked.
"No," she said. "I had sexual reassignment surgery later in Brazil but
I don't want to get ahead of myself."
"Did they do something to your vocal cords to make your voice sound so
feminine and natural?" he asked.
"I don't think so," she said. "My voice wasn't all that deep to begin
with and I never had much of an Adam's apple. They insisted that I
always speak in a high feminine voice. Connie said all men have two
sets of vocal cords, a lighter pre-adolescent set and a heavier set
that gets used starting at puberty. It hurt at first to use my lighter
cords, but I got used to it and it feels quite natural to me after so
many years.
"When I woke up I had no idea where I was. There were no windows, no
clocks, no radio or television. I was kept sedated and I believe they
used a muscle relaxant on me as well, because I couldn't even stand up.
The whole idea was to keep me disoriented, helpless and dependent on
others for everything. I was kept in diapers and forced to urinate and
defecate on myself. Someone always came in to clean and wash me. It was
humiliating and they wanted it to be that way. They never used a male
pronoun in addressing me, always 'she' and 'her'. I actually got used
to it. I'm not sure how long this went on, perhaps weeks; it seemed
like months. All I knew was that room and my captors. They had an older
woman, Aunt Margaret, who was my nurse. She cleaned me and dressed me
and fed me and acted like she loved me to death. But, oh, if I crossed
her, she spanked me mercilessly. She was a large woman and very strong.
I would be punished for anything; talking back, using profanity, not
referring to myself as a girl. Anything.
"I was bored to death. For days I had nothing to do but lie on the
floor or in a big crib. They fed me intravenously at first and then
with a baby bottle. When they finally allowed me to read all I got were
women's magazines and children's books. And they gave me three Barbie
dolls to play with. I would have nothing to do with them at first, but
after a while I started to play with them, to dress them up in the
little outfits they provided, anything to relieve the boredom and
loneliness. And I kept asking myself why, why was this happening to me?
What had I done to deserve such a horrible fate?
"I was in this mess because I'd tried to go on a date with Tina and I
guess she became something like the 'bad cop' while Connie became the
'good cop'. It was a classic case of Stockholm Syndrome, I was becoming
closer and closer to my captors, my worst enemies. I thought Connie
really cared for me but it was nothing but a sham. All the time this
was going on, I later learned, they were erasing my past. They emptied
my bank account back in Houston, then they gave my landlord notice that
I was leaving and I'm sure they told my bosses at Wells I was quitting.
They sold everything of value from my apartment and my car, which was
practically new. They must have made more than $40,000 from the whole
deal and they somehow convinced everyone who knew me that I had just
disappeared."
"I wondered how they financed this operation," Harold said. "But surely
that wasn't enough to make it worthwhile. How many people were involved
in this scheme?"
"There was Tina Foshe and Connie, they were the brains of the
operation," she said. "And Jack, you met him. And Margaret and the
doctor made up the core group of the loft, which is what they called
themselves."
"Did anyone punish you in addition to the nurse?" he asked.
"Margaret was the only one who whipped me, but there was something else
they did," she said. "Sometime while I was having my surgeries they put
something in me that caused extreme, nauseating pain whenever I did
something they didn't like. I blamed Tina for the pain, but I realized
later that they all could do it to me. It got to the point where I was
afraid to do anything that I thought might make my masters mad."
"Classic brainwashing," he said.
"You ain't kidding," she said. "By the time they were done with me I
was glad to go out in public wearing a dress and make-up. Anything to
make them happy and get out of that awful place. So they took me
shopping for women's clothing, dresses, panties, bras, shoes, the
works, and I was overjoyed to get them. They spent more than $12,000 on
one shopping spree and I actually felt guilty that they were spending
so much on me. Can you imagine, it was my own money! They took me to a
spa and I spent hours there getting a massage, manicure and pedicure. I
was taken to the steam room, given a pro makeover, everything they had
to offer. I was afraid people would recognize I was a man and make fun
of me or have me arrested. It never happened. I was actually flattered
when people, strangers, would complement me on how nice I looked. I was
encouraged to exercise and I did aerobics. I was instructed by Tina and
Connie in female behavior, how to walk in high heels, how to put on
make-up, how to be led around the dance floor."
"Did they keep you drugged?" he asked. "Did they use hypnosis?"
"No, damn it, they didn't. They didn't have to," she said in anguish.
"I was so weak. They knew, somehow they knew I wasn't a man, not a real
man. A real man wouldn't have let them do this to him, would he? A real
man would have fought the odds and beat them all or at least gone down
swinging. A real man would have died instead of letting them do what
they did to me. I did nothing. I acted like a wimp and now I'm a punk!"
Harold saw Laura was getting very agitated. He joined her on the couch
and gently laid her head on his shoulder.
"Look, baby," he said, "those days are over. If talking about this is
getting to be too hard for you, you can stop now."
"No," she said as she rubbed her tear-filled eyes on his massive
shoulder, "I really want you to understand what happened and you can
only do that if you know the whole story. Don't worry, I won't break
down again."
She took a deep breath and continued.
"They didn't use mind controlling drugs on me, the pain device was
enough," she said. "That's why they trusted me to go places to shop or
eat. They knew if I got out of line they could shock my ass silly, and
they did more than once. They each had a buzzer button to use on me if
I got out of line.
"As I found out later I wasn't the first victim of the loft and
certainly not the last. There's a steady stream of stupid young men
going into that place and highly disciplined she-males who come out.
You were right when you said earlier that they couldn't finance their
operations by just stealing from their victims. That was merely a bonus
for them. The real profit-maker came from selling their products to
rich, perverted gentlemen from South America who wanted to have sex
with young men but didn't dare to because of their positions and power.
So the people who run the loft somehow got in touch with these rich
South Americans and started a business selling them young men they had
turned into women. As far as the rich men were concerned they had the
best of both worlds."
"Wait a minute," Harold said. "You were sold! SOLD? Slavery, in this
day and age? In America? Mother Fuck!"
"I know it's hard to believe," she said, "but it's all true. I met
their middleman before I was sent away. His name is Justino Brevard and
he was a business partner with my owner, Paulo Constanza. I was rapidly
becoming a woman, partly because I had the silly idea that if I
cooperated I could catch them unaware and escape. I tried a couple of
times when they had me out but something always happened and blew my
chance. Before they could sell me they had to make sure I could perform
for my new 'master'. That's where Jack came in. Oh he'd had his eye on
me from the moment I'd arrived and I was afraid of him because he made
no secret of what he wanted to do. He tried to stick his finger in my
ass back when I was still helpless in my crib. When they decided the
time was right they let him have me. It was immediately after a little
party they threw for Justino and Paulo and their wives. I was on
display and everybody's eyes were on me. I must admit I was nervous at
first, then I sort of liked the attention.
"Later that night Jack entered my room while I was asleep. I was locked
in at night but Jack or any of them could come in whenever they liked.
He said he'd be gentle, that I'd like it if I relaxed, you know, the
usual bullshit. Lord knows I tried to fight him but it was no use. He
held me down and forced that huge cock up my ass. I'd been conditioned
for this and I'd expected it, but I was still horrified. I had to spend
the night with him, like I was his willing bitch, his vagabunda.
"I don't remember how many times Jack fucked me in the next few days,
it seemed like that's all we did. I felt ill. I could barely eat.
Connie, who was supposed to be my friend (and Jack's girlfriend) was
nowhere to be found, Auntie Margaret was busy with a new 'girl' and
Tina advised me to let John go and live life as Laura. I'm ashamed to
admit that I did get some pleasure out of what Jack was doing to me.
Please understand, I was not falling for Jack. I hated the bastard and
I always will. But, God help me, I was actually having orgasms. And I
noticed my penis seemed to be gone and a vagina was in its place. Of
course I realize now that it was just more of the doctor's work but I
was so freaked out at the time I thought it had happened spontaneously.
"The thing is, up to this point it was all unreal, like a sick game of
some sort. So I had to dress up, so my penis was shrinking, so people
insisted on treating me like a girl. I knew I wasn't a girl no matter
what I looked like and sooner or later I'd get out. But when Jack
started fucking me it was no longer a game. It was real and I was the
woman. It didn't matter that I tried to fight. I had become a female
sex toy, to be used for the pleasure of men and there was nothing I
could do about it. My spirit was broken and I went into a depression
that lasted for years.
"I figured out later that sex with Jack was all part of their master
plan. They were getting me ready in a hurry for export but I didn't
have a clue what their real plans were. My last night in this country
was spent with Tina and Connie and some girls we knew from a health
club at a Chippendales show. I guess they considered that they were
giving me a going away party, but I didn't know it. They even invited a
guy I'd met when I was on display at the loft; Ed, I believe his name
was, to come as a date for me. I was still playing the game so we held
hands and danced and even kissed. The best thing about the night was I
didn't have to go to bed with Jack. He came into my room and said he
was sorry but he had some things to do. The cocksucker actually thought
I'd miss him! I'm sure Connie and Tina called him off because they knew
what was going to happen to me the next day.
"That morning, out of the blue, Tina told me we were going on a brief
trip to visit friends in Brazil. They had already made all the
arrangements and the flight left at noon so I had to hurry and pack.
"After we got to the airport and checked our luggage I finally made my
bid to escape. I tricked them in the restroom and was heading for the
exit when I collapsed in pain. I was so out of it I didn't even realize
I'd been buzzed again. Constanza showed up from nowhere and helped me
onto the plane. I was sitting next to the window with Paulo and his
wife when the doors closed and Tina was not onboard. I still thought
she was going with us but Paulo told me there had been a change of
plans. It was another betrayal.
"I tried to struggle but Paulo had the pain device now and he used it
on me. I think they drugged me also because I soon drifted off to
sleep, but not before Paulo told me what was in store for me. I'll
never forget his words:
"Make me happy and you'll have a wonderful life. Make me unhappy and it
will be a living hell."
"I was about to experience five years in a living hell."
Chapter 3 - Five Years In A Living Hell
Harold was having a hard time accepting all he had heard so far. Here
was Laura, to his eyes a beautiful and desirable women, and now she's
telling him she was actually a guy named John who had been forcibly
changed into a woman and sold as a sex slave to some rich South
American pervert.
"I don't know, Laura," he said. "It all sounds like some bad story off
the internet. You don't look like a man, you don't sound like a man,
you don't even move like a man. I mean, how did you get away from
Brazil? Seems like it would take a miracle to get out of the fix you
were in and I don't believe in that kind of miracle.
"And besides," he added, "isn't Brazil one of the she-male capitals of
the world, along with Thailand and West Hollywood? (He remembered some
porn tapes he'd seen.) "Why in the world would they want to pay big
money to import men from this country who had been forcibly changed
into women when there are plenty of beautiful, home grown she-males
already there?"
"I wondered about that myself," Laura said as she took a drink of ice
water and a bite of a cookie Harold had offered her. "I think the
answer is twofold. Brazil is a more racially liberal county than
America. Indians, Africans, Asians and Europeans have been mixing it up
down there from the get-go and the general population is much darker
than here. My owner, Paulo, wasn't a black man but he was much darker
than you, Harold. I'm pretty sure they only imported light skinned
Americans, for our curiosity value. Also, you have to remember that
Brazil is a third-world county and America is both envied and hated in
the third world. Paulo was a big man in Brazil, with lots of power and
money. He would be a small fish here. So for a man like that to have an
American man at his bidding, compelled to do any and every degrading
thing he wanted was irresistible."
"So what happened after they got you to Brazil?" Harold asked.
"We landed in Rio de Janeiro and transferred to a smaller plane for the
trip to South East Brazil," she said. "Paulo had already used the
buzzer on me twice by the time we got there. I think he did it the
second time simply because he liked the way I jumped when it jolted me.
In any case, I was in no shape to protest when I was put in a large car
for the trip to Paulo's plantation. I wasn't sure how he managed it at
the time, but I didn't have to go through customs nor was I asked for
any kind of ID. I found out later that Paulo was a distant cousin of
the president and had considerable political clout. His spread was just
outside Araraquara, in the heart of the coffee-growing region.
"It was hot, really hot," she said. "It was early winter with light
snow when I left Peoria but it was early summer in Brazil. The car was
air-conditioned, but I almost fainted on the walk to the main house.
Paulo pretended to be a gentleman and held me up, which only got me
another angry stare from his wife. Can you believe it? The woman
thought I wanted that filho da puta, er, that son of a bitch.
"It was a large house with about 10 bedrooms, none of them air-
conditioned. I thought I was going to die from the heat, which wasn't
so bad because I wanted to die anyhow. My room was on the second floor
right down the hall from the master bedroom. It had a queen size bed, a
large dresser and a walk-in closet but no bathroom."
"This is your home," Paulo told me as the servants brought my bags.
"You will live here from now on. You will never leave. And if you try
to leave, you will be sorry."
He used the buzzer on me one last time to prove his point.
"Please don't do that to me any more," I begged with tears in my eyes.
"I'll be good, I'll do anything you like."
"Oh yes, little veado, that you will because you belong to me," he said
with a glint in his coal black eyes. "You will do anything and
everything I want. There is no doubt about that."
He took me in his arms then and kissed me hard. His tongue tasted of
stale cigars and tooth decay. For all his money, Paulo wasn't much into
dental hygiene. I almost vomited in his face but I dared not.
"They tell me you are new to the ways of love as a woman," he said. "Is
that true?"
"Yes," I said. "The only one I've had sex with is Jack. You met him at
the party."
He seemed pleased.
"That is good, little one," he said. "I want to be your instructor in
the ways of love. Don't worry, I am a very good teacher."
Somehow that wasn't a comforting thought.
"I will let you rest now as I am sure you are tired after your long
trip," he said with fake courtliness. "But so you understand, you are
my woman and mine alone. If I ever catch you with anyone else you will
not live to regret it. You will not leave this house or this plantation
without my approval. Your only function in life is to please me. If you
do please me the rewards will be great. If not..."
He didn't need to finish that sentence.
"Paulo left me alone that night and I was allowed to eat my dinner in
my room. That's when I found out that none of the servants spoke
English. They all spoke nothing but Portuguese. The only ones in the
house I could talk to were Paulo and his wife and I think he liked it
that way.
"The next morning I was allowed to have some coffee and juice in the
kitchen. I was still pretty much in a daze and I was happy no one could
speak to me because I had nothing to say to anyone. I tried to avoid
Mrs. Constanza as much as I could because I knew she hated me. As the
master's wife she was second in command of the house, but I was the
master's mistress so she had to put up with me. Most of her abuse was
verbal; I don't think she called me anything but bitch or whore for
years, outside of Paulo's hearing, of course. I found out later that
Paulo and Justino and their friends are not typical Brazilian men. That
country isn't as backward as I'd been led to believe. Celeste, Mrs.
Constanza, had every right to object to her husband keeping a mistress
in her house and could have sued for divorce and taken half of
everything he had. He must have had some other hold over her, but I
never found out what.
"That night my training began.
"Paulo made Celeste spend the night at her mother's house and I spent
the night in the master bedroom. It was richly appointed with rugs and
native art and expensive furniture, but all I could see was the king
size bed.
"Paulo made me strip for him so he could admire his purchase."
"Amazing," he said. "You look just like a girl."
"He took particular interest in my genitalia. As I told you, it had
been arranged somehow to look like a real vagina and Paulo had me lie
down on the bed for close inspection. He rubbed my fake clitoris fairly
gently and was pleased to have me moaning and gasping. I didn't want to
but I couldn't help it."
Harold was feeling a bit uncomfortable.
"Ok, you had sex with the lout," he said. "No need to go into detail."
"As you please," she said. "I don't want to offend you. A long time ago
I would have been too embarrassed to tell you the details but I've gone
way past being embarrassed by what happened to me."
"Suffice it to say that that was the first of the innumerable times I
had sex with Paulo," she continued. "We had anal sex and oral sex, hard
sex and soft sex, him on top and me on top. Paulo was also into B&D,
surprise, surprise. I was usually on the receiving end of the whip, but
sometimes I got to whip him. I had to be careful, though, because he'd
buzz me if I whipped him too hard or too soft
"I've learned the human mind can adapt to just about anything. I had
continuing thoughts of committing suicide after I got there. I felt I
had no reason to live. But somehow, some way, some tiny spark of John
remained in me. John might have been a coward but he wasn't a quitter.
He was aggressive and assertive to make up for his small size and frail
body. It might have made him obnoxious but it made me determined to
make the best of whatever situation I was in."
Harold noted with interest that Laura talked of John as if he were
another person.
"Having sex with Paulo was awful," she continued, "but he was away from
home on business a lot, usually for days, sometimes for weeks.
Strangely enough the hardest times were when Paulo wasn't home. Aside
from serving as his sex slave I had nothing else to do. How many times
can you polish your nails, or style your hair or clean your room? All
the housework was done by the servants and Celeste wouldn't give me the
time of day. Any books or magazines I found were in Portuguese.
Needless to say I was denied any access to the Internet. I spent most
of the time bored to death. It was almost like I'd returned to the baby
room at the loft.
"I spent a lot of time at the swimming pool in my Brazilian-style
bikini, which was about like a handkerchief cut in half. I could look
at television in the den, I didn't have one in my room, but most of the
stations broadcast in Portuguese. When I'd switch to an English
language news station, Celeste, or one of her three maids, would
quickly enter the room and switch back to some native language soap
opera. I became addicted to the damn things!
"It was then I decided to try to take piano lessons. There was a big
old Steinway grand in the main dining room that nobody had played for
as long as I'd been there, so after about a year I asked Paulo if I
could take lessons. I guess he found the image of a pretty girl at the
piano fetching because he approved. My teacher was a local woman they
called Madam Helena. She was about 70 and very European in appearance.
I think her father must have come to Brazil to escape the fall of the
Nazis after WW2. She was brusque and demanding and her English was not
too good. But she was a good teacher and I was a good student.
"You wouldn't know this, of course, but I studied the piano from the
time I was five until well into high school. I was told I had real
talent and my parents were very disappointed when I gave it up to chase
girls and try to play sports. It was just one of many disappointments
they had with me."
Laura looked at Harold and smiled an inscrutable smile.
"That piano saved my life," she said. "Oh how I looked forward to my
lessons. I had something to do that I really liked and when the walls
started closing in, when Paulo was more demanding than usual, when
Celeste said something cruel to me I could just go to the piano and
replace that awful world with the world of Mozart and Chopin and
Antonio Carlos Jobim.
"Paulo would have me play for his guests when he had company or for his
family when he had them over. He had a son and two daughters, all
grown. They hated me about as much as Celeste did, but they all enjoyed
my playing. Paulo called me his 'prot?g?' and insisted I call him Uncle
Paulo, even when we had sex.
"I also established something of a relationship with Isabelle, the
cook. Isabelle was amused because at first she had to make my coffee
mostly milk before I could drink it. She was a pleasant woman and the
closest thing I had to a friend all the time I was there. We couldn't
understand each other, of course, but that was okay. At least she
didn't treat me like a freak or a whore.
"After about six months I was allowed off the plantation to go to town
to help Isabelle shop. I guess Celeste was happy to have me out of her
face for a while because she was in charge of things like shopping and
had to approve of me going along. So Isabelle and I would go into town
with a bodyguard driving the car. The bodyguard never said anything to
me, but Isabelle was quite chatty. I could hardly understand a word she
was saying but I helped her shop for food and other necessities. We
went to the market once a week after that and we gradually came to
understand each other. She was an uneducated woman but she wanted more
for her children, particularly her oldest son, Manoel. He was the only
one in her family who had made it as far as what would be high school
here and he had ambitions of going to college. But he needed to learn
better English and they didn't have the money for a tutor. Isabelle
asked if I could tutor him and I got approval. Manoel was overjoyed
he'd be taking lessons from 'a Americana bonita' as he called me. We
had our lessons once a week in the kitchen and sometimes at the pool,
with Isabelle and at least one other servant always in attendance. That
was more for Manoel's safety than mine.
"Naturally, in order for me to teach Manoel English I had to learn
Portuguese, so we really taught each other. Paulo never made an attempt
to teach me the language, but he didn't seem to mind that I was
learning. I learned proper Portuguese from Manoel and all the curse
words from Isabelle and the other servants.
"A little after I started taking piano lessons Paulo took me on a trip
to Sao Paulo. He told me I must look my best and bought me a new gown
for the occasion and some expensive-looking jewelry. We wound up at the
most high-tone hotel in the city and I still had no idea what was going
on. After we got to our room Paulo made a phone call and I heard him
talking to Justino Brevard, so I assumed we were on a business trip. At
about 8 PM we went to a ballroom that was cordoned off for a 'private
party.' Inside I saw Brevard but he wasn't with his wife, Alexia, which
shouldn't have surprised me since Paulo had left Celeste at home.
Instead, he was with a tall young woman named Petra. She was quite
attractive and quite pleasant and I was surprised to learn that she was
American, the first American I had seen in more than a year.
"More couples began to arrive and every one of them consisted of a
Brazilian man and a much younger American woman. It didn't take long
for me to figure out that this was a convention of loft clients and
victims. Unbelievable as it seems they got together once a year to bask
in each other's company and show off their 'girls.' There must have
been at least a dozen couples in attendance and I learned there were at
least that many more who weren't there. Of course, I realized I
couldn't have been the only man Tina and her crew had changed but it
was still strange to see so many of us in one place.
"We started having these get-togethers about three years ago," said
Petra in her flat Midwestern accent. "They are a godsend."
"Why do you say that?" I asked.
"How long have you been here, honey?" she asked in return.
"About a year I think," I replied.
"And in all that time how many other American's have you seen?" she
asked.
"None, not a one," I had to admit.
"And you won't see any, ever, Paulo will make sure of that," she said.
"They can't take the chance that another American might help us escape.
This is the only way we will ever see someone else from back home."
Some other girls joined the conversation.
"We're all in the same boat, sisters forever," said Jacki, a bubbly
blonde with an impressive bust. "This way at least once a year we can
gossip, exchange information and commiserate with someone else leading
the same sad life."
"Speak for yourself," said Kelly Ann, a stunning brunette who was close
to six feet tall in her four-inch heels. "I'm not sad, I'm happy to be
here. Raul takes good care of me and I don't have to worry about the
nine-to-five anymore. Sure it would have been better if I'd actually
decided to come on my own. But now that I'm here, I'm loving it."
"Including the sex?" I asked with a look of disgust on my face.
"Especially the sex," she replied. "I don't know, maybe I'm gay, maybe
I just like sex, but when Raul puts that big tamale up my ass and..."
"Harumpt!" Harold exclaimed, clearing his throat. "Those are details I
don't need."
"Oh, right, sorry," Laura said. "The point is that some of us liked
what had happened, some of us tolerated it and then there were those
who never adapted. I found out that a number of the no-shows were
because the girls had been sold to others, for prostitution or who
knows what else. And there were some who simply disappeared. We didn't
even want to speculate what happened to them.
"The night's festivities included dancing to a grupo de samba, a
fashion show and a beauty contest, judged by the samba players. They
chose Jacki first and me second. Paulo seemed disturbed about that and
had a long discussion with Jacki's owner, a man called Jair. The man
gave him a business card and they shook hands.
"Two weeks later we were back in Sao Paulo and Paulo took me to a
private plastic surgery clinic. I'd had enough plastic surgery and was
about to protest when Paulo showed me the buzzer.
"Listen here, my pet," he said with a growl. "Don't forget your place
because I let you have a few piano lessons. If I say you are to have
surgery, you have surgery. Or you can have pain."
"No, please, Uncle Paulo," I begged. "Don't do that to me. I'll do
anything you want."
"It had been a long time since I last felt the pain, but I had no
desire to feel it again. It seems Paulo was convinced the reason I lost
the beauty contest was because my breasts were too small. I wondered
why the contest was so important to him but I found the answer out
later. Jair gave him the address of the plastic surgeon who had given
Jacki her impressive rack and Paulo had brought me there to get the
same. The doctor was Guilherme Solo, a somewhat well-known medical
figure in Brazil who specialized in breast implants and SRS."
"SRS?" Harold interrupted.
"Sexual reassignment surgery," she said. "Sex change operations.
Anyhow, Paulo had long before gotten himself declared my legal guardian
by a local judge who owed him a favor. The only identification I had
was a picture ID calling me Laura de Constansa. I was supposed to be an
orphan and not real bright. Dr. Solo seemed to be a decent man but he
had no reason to suspect Paulo of anything since he was a pillar of the
community. He even allowed Paulo to be present for my examination.
"She has been depressed because her breasts are so small and she can't
attract the young men," Paulo said in Portuguese. (I'm not sure how
much of that he thought I understood.)
"She is a beautiful girl," the doctor said. "I don't see why she'd have
any trouble getting a boyfriend."
"Oh this younger generation," Paulo said. "She tells me all the boys
her age like the big breasts, such as the famous American movie stars
have, so she must have bigger breasts, isn't that right, Laura?" Paulo
looked at me menacingly and I nodded in agreement.
"I want big boobs like Pam Anderson," I said with a silly grin in my
halting Portuguese. "Can you help me please?"
"I'm not sure how much of this the doctor was buying, but if he had any
doubts he kept them to himself. So I went under the knife again. When I
woke up I had a sore chest and "C" cups in place of my little "Bs."
Paulo wanted me to go straight to "DDs" like Jacki, but the doctor
convinced him it was better to increase size gradually to allow the
skin to grow naturally. So I visited the doctor two more times over the
next year and a half until my boobs were as big as Paulo wanted."
"I thought Brazilian men liked big butts," Harold said.
"That's not so true as it used to be, especially among the younger
generation, like the samba musicians," Laura said. "That darn American
influence again."
Harold had to ask. "Do they hurt," he said. "Do they strain your back?"
"Actually no," she said. "I had continued my exercise routine from my
days in the loft and was in very good shape. I graduated from aerobics
and started lifting weights. I had my own little set of plastic covered
barbells and I used them every other day. When I learned I was to be
'blessed' with outsized hooters I started doing a lot of lower back
exercises so there's no strain at all, see?"
At that point Laura stood and slowly bent at the waist until her
breasts seemed almost ready to touch her feet. Then she did a backbend
and touched her hands to the floor.
"No problem," she chirped.
"Oh, my God," Harold thought as his eyes bulged out of his head. "If
that's a man I'm Moms Mabely."
"Apparently the boobs did the trick, because I won the next two beauty
contests," she continued. "And I finally understood why Paulo wanted me
to win. Whoever owned the winner of the contest got his pick of any
girl for the night. So that night I stayed on the sofa bed in our hotel
room and Paulo was entertained by Brandy. She was taller than the rest
of us and darker. In