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GIRL Center - A Leap of Faith
Copyright 2003
By Karen Elizabeth L.
Harry and I were as close to brothers as two friends could get; we
spent almost all of our free time together, went to the same school,
and just like any other boys we got into trouble together.
We thought we were just pulling a few pranks here and there, nothing to
get all worked up over, but for some reason our parents, teachers, and
other adults didn't see things the same way. We started out small,
ringing doorbells and running, phone pranks, stuff like that, and then
we moved up a little shoplifting. We never took anything really
expensive, just a few candy bars and some magazines, but it was just
another thorn in our parent's sides.
Harry seemed to go out of his way to cause more and more trouble, which
drove his mom crazy. Just after starting the eighth grade Harry thought
it would be fun to skip school, borrow a neighbor's Jaguar and take it
for a little ride. I wish I had gone along that day, it's not everyday
you get to drive a Jaguar you know, but I was home in bed with the flu
and missed all of the fun. The fun, at least what I thought would have
been fun, was tearing along at seventy five miles an hour and taking
turns on two wheels.
The cops who were chasing him weren't amused though and neither was the
owner of the Jag when Harry slammed into a fence causing several
thousand dollars worth of damage to the car. Harry was arrested; there
was a quick trip to the local magistrate's office who, after reviewing
Harry's record, decided that he would spend the next two years in a
reform school called the Great Indian River Learning Center.
Harry wrote to me often after he got sent away to Great Indian River.
He mentioned that the name was sort of a joke to the students but he
didn't explain the joke. Several times he begged me to get him out, he
swore they were going to do something terrible to him but he never did
say what it was. He had to know that there was nothing that I could do
to spring him because in one letter he said that he couldn't take it
anymore and that he was running away.
I thought that he must have been successful since I didn't hear from
him for almost three months. He'd been caught trying to run away and
had his letter writing privileges suspended for three months. He said
that he was glad that he was allowed to write again and it seemed that
he was much calmer and didn't seem to mind being at the school. He said
that his grades were improving, he had a girlfriend who was helping him
to adjust to the school and that things weren't that bad after all.
From then on Harry actually sounded happy to be at Great Indian River
but repeatedly warned me to shape up to avoid being sent there myself.
I couldn't figure out why he was so worried about me ending up there,
after all if it was so bad, why did he stay after his sentence was up?
Yeah, that's right, by then Harry was into his third year at the school
by then, he'd decided that he liked it so much he decided to stick
around and graduate from the school. Even though we'd been best buddies
before he got sent there, the longer he stayed the stranger he seemed
to get. I mean really, warning me to shape up? This from the guy who
stole a Jag, raced it around at seventy-five miles an hour and then
wrecked it? If it had been anyone else I would have told them to get
lost but I couldn't do that to the guy who almost my brother.
Just about that time My mom mentioned that Harry's mom, who had moved
to the Great Indian River area herself just after Harry got sent up,
was going to get married and that we were invited to the wedding.
Normally I wouldn't go anywhere near a wedding, I think they're less
fun than watching paint dry, but when mom said that Harry would be at
this one I was more than happy to go!
The church part was pretty dull; mom and most of the other women were
crying and the guys were looking bored. I considered taking a nap until
I noticed that one of the Bridesmaids, a foxy looking redhead, kept
looking in my direction and smiling. We weren't close enough for me to
get a really good look at her but even from where we sat she looked hot
to me. I caught her staring once and smiled back which seemed to make
her pretty happy judging from the smile on her face. When the ceremony
was over I got another big smile from her as she walked down the aisle
with the rest of the wedding party. I couldn't wait to get to the
reception and check this babe out!
While I waited for the wedding party to get to the hall I looked
everywhere for Harry but couldn't find him. I watched as the wedding
party walked past me in church but he wasn't in the wedding party,
which confused the heck out of me. Why come to his mom's wedding and
not be in the party?
Finally the wedding party arrived and there she was; my dream girl! She
was even prettier up close than when I saw her in church; long red
hair, fantastic body, and a smile that could turn me on from miles
away. I hurried over to talk to her but she smiled and said that she
had to mingle first.
"See ya later on!" She called out in a sweet sounding voice as she
turned and walked away. All I could think was that she looked just as
good from the back!
I spend some time looking for Harry again. I checked with his mom who
smiled and said, "Oh I'm sure that he's around here somewhere." before
her new husband whisked her off to meet some people. No matter how hard
I looked though there was no sign of Harry anywhere.
"Lose someone?" A voice asked from behind me.
I turned and there she was, the girl who had stolen my heart. Finding
Harry didn't seem so important then, I didn't want any competition when
I set out to land this hot looking chick!
"Yeah, an old friend of mine was supposed to be here tonight, I haven't
seen him in a couple of years."
"That's sweet," She said as she flashed that smile again. "Do you miss
him?"
"Yeah, we had a lot of fun together. Can't figure out why he didn't
come though, but that's his loss." I shrugged.
As we sat and talked I fell further in love. Holly, my new friend, was
everything a guy could hope for in a girl; funny, pretty, and she
seemed to enjoy hearing stories about Harry and me. I was about to ask
for her phone number when they announced that special dance for the
bridal party. Holly seemed very interested in watching so I kept quiet
hoping to earn a few brownie points for manners. After all, a guy can
never score too many brownie points when he's trying to impress a girl,
right?
I sat quietly and watched as Holly clapped and cheered when the new Mr.
and Mrs. Binkler were introduced, then the Best Man and Matron of
Honor, the son of Mr. Binkler, one of the Groomsmen, and his partner.
My calm was shattered though when they announced the next couple - the
Binkler children, Robert and Holly Lynn!
I sat there dumbfounded as Holly smiled and walked to the dance floor,
her cute little butt swaying back and forth in a hypnotic manner. I'd
spent the last hour talking and falling in love with a girl that must
be Harry's new stepsister and she never bothered to mention that little
piece of information.
Holly moved gracefully, matching her partner's move perfectly as though
she'd been dancing since birth. She laughed and smiled as they talked
and danced, occasionally looking back towards me. Whenever she smiled
at me I felt totally relaxed and happy; there was just something about
Holly that made me feel better than I ever did before.
"Why didn't you tell me that you were Harry's step-sister?" I asked
when she came back.
"It didn't seem that important." She said with a grin as she pulled me
to the dance floor. "Come on, let's dance!"
If watching Holly dance was good, holding her in my arms while I danced
with her was Heaven on Earth! She looked fabulous in her gown; it fit
her like a glove and was cut low enough to show off enough of her
breasts to get me all worked up. It must have been obvious that we were
meant for each other since every time I looked around; our families
were looking at us and smiling. I couldn't help but smile back, it just
felt right.
We danced every song the band played; the slow songs, the fast ones,
the Chicken Dance, the Hokey-Pokey, you name it and we danced to it. I
would never have though about doing something as dumb as the Hokey-
Pokey before but it was worth it to see Holly stick her sexy looking
legs out from under her gown. Anything was worth doing if Holly was
there doing it with me!
At the end of the night I asked Holly for her phone number. She smiled,
kissed me on the cheek and said that it would be long distance but that
she'd write if I liked. She said she'd get my address from Harry when
she saw him and was gone before I could get hers. It would be tough
waiting for the first letter from the girl I planned to marry. Wonder
what Harry will think of being my Brother-in-Law?
I waited for weeks yet no letter from Holly ever came. We seemed so
right for each other at the wedding, what could have gone wrong, I
wondered?
I decided that she must be busy or something but would eventually
write, she seemed as interested in me as I was in her. Meanwhile I'd
keep busy playing a few pranks. Since I met Holly I'd been slacking
off, now it was time to have a little fun.
I broke into the school one evening, set off a smoke bomb in the
Chemistry lab, and then sealed the doors with Super Glue. I couldn't
wait for the town's inept volunteer firemen to try to figure out how
they'd get in to put out the fire and it would be hilarious when they
found that it was only a little smoke bomb.
Things didn't go exactly as planned though; the smoke bomb caught some
papers on fire, the papers caught a lab table on fire, and soon the
entire Chemistry lab was on fire. They had to break the doors with axes
to get in and put it out.
I tried to sneak away but I heard someone shout. "He did it, I saw him
come out oft the school!" Before I could push through the crowd the
cops grabbed me, put handcuffs on me, and threw me in to the back of
the patrol car. I knew this was going to be a tough one to get away
with but if I could, it would be my last.
My parents weren't about to intercede for me, "You've pulled your last
stunt boy!" My dad vowed. "I hope they throw the book at you!"
The judge wasn't taken in by my promise to reform, it seems my smoke
bomb ended up causing over $50,000 in damages and he intended to make
me pay.
"Looking at your record, I see that your parents have been unsuccessful
in making you a productive member of this community," He glared at me
as he spoke. "Left to your own devices you're likely going to seriously
hurt yourself or someone else in the near future and even though the
prospect of your getting hurt may warm the hearts of many members of
this community, I can't let that happen. After discussing this with the
school officials, the police, and your parents, I'm sending you to the
Great Indian River Learning Center for the next two years. I have a
feeling that you'll be a different person after spending a few years
there."
The judge and my family must have thought I'd break down and beg for
mercy, didn't they realize that my best friend Harry was also at Great
Indian River? If they didn't, I wasn't about to say anything. I just
nodded and acted as though I was sentenced to a horrid punishment.
"This isn't going to be fun for you," Dad said as we drove to Great
Indian River. "Mom and I weren't happy about this but it had to be
done. It's going to be a huge change but it's supposed to be one
hundred percent effective in settling down troublemaking boys like
you."
We were taken directly to the office where the Principal, Mrs.
Williams, explained that I would be required to wear a school uniform
while attending regular classes, but could dress in casual clothes
while taking behavior modification classes unless otherwise required.
Any offenses would be dealt with harshly and could result in my being
dismissed from Great River and sent to a juvenile detention center
until I was eighteen.
"Trust me," She said in a voice that sent a shiver through me. "You
don't even want to know what they'd do to a boy like you in one of
those places. Let's just say that you wouldn't be much of a boy for
long. At least here, you'll have a choice."
"A choice? What the heck was she talking about", I wondered. Before I
could ask though my mom kissed me and dad hugged me. "Good luck," Dad
told me as he and mom walked out. "Mrs. Williams will show you around,
mom and I will be in touch after you've had time to settle in."
Mrs. Williams walked me to my new room where dad had already left a
suitcase on the bed. "Behave yourself, and don't try to run away." She
cautioned. "You'll hate the penalty. Start getting unpacked, when your
roommate gets here she'll help you change after which I want you back
in my office."
She certainly wasn't the friendliest person in the world, I thought as
she turned and brusquely walked out of the room. Must be some sort of a
liberal school though since she said my roommate was a she."
The room was pretty big and had two of everything; beds desks, tables,
and walk -in closets. There must have been two girls in the room at one
time since both closets were filled with girl's clothes, making me
wonder why one of them had left everything behind? I looked around the
room and noticed several pictures on a desk. When I got close enough to
look at them my heart started to pound. The pictures were all of Holly,
Harry's stepsister, the hot babe from the wedding! Now she was going to
be my roommate? I had to have died and went to heaven.
No wonder she didn't want to give me her address, I guess she was
embarrassed to be here. Still, something about the pictures confused
me; there were several pictures of Holly with her dad, brother, and
stepmother together but there were no pictures of her and Harry or with
just her dad or brother. If she grew up with her dad and brother, why
didn't she have any pictures of them? She looked so familiar in the
pictures with her and Harry's mom yet not quite the girl I met at the
wedding. What really threw me though was a picture of Harry and me, a
picture his mom loved and that had always been on the mantle in his
mom's house. Did she think I was that special that she talked her step
mom out of the picture she loved?
"I thought I warned you about getting sent her Bozo," A cheery voice
called out from behind me. "You never were all that bright, the wedding
certainly proved that!"
I wheeled around to see Holly standing there in a short denim skirt and
a yellow tee with "Boy Toy" written across it. "Long time no see, huh?"
She asked with a big grin.
"Now I know I've gone to Heaven." I smiled as I checked her out. "That
judge must have been nuts, sending me here as punishment and I get a
gorgeous girl as a roomie!"
"Trust me," Holly smiled and shook her pretty head. "He wasn't nuts,
you are being punished, but thanks for the compliment anyhow Bozo."
"Bozo, there was that name again. I thought to myself; it was Harry's
favorite name for me when we hung out together as kids.
"Did your brother tell you to call me that?" I hoped so, it sounded so
much better coming from her.
"My brother never met you before the wedding so I kind of doubt it."
She had this silly look on her face that I knew I'd seen before.
"Your brother and I grew up together. We were almost brothers
ourselves."
"Nope, sorry Bozo, you and I grew up together, remember? I doubt we'd
be considered brothers anymore though!" She laughed and plopped down on
the bed.
There was that maddening grin again.
"Not likely sweetie." I shot right back with a grin of my own. "Unless
this is the twilight zone, we only met when your dad married Harry's
mom."
"We met at the Crafton Heights Pre-School and my dad died when I was
eleven."
Now I was getting totally ticked off. "Cut the crap will you Holly,
it's just not funny."
"Still don't get it, do you?" She laughed and pointed to a bottle in
the shower. "Tell you what I'll explain while you're getting changed,
Mrs. Williams doesn't like to be kept waiting. Get undressed and get in
the shower, lose any leg hair by using the hair removal cream on them
and use the razor on your underarm hair. Yell if you need help, I'll
pick out something nice for you to wear."
"No!" I said as forcefully as possible. "Nothing is making any sense.
I'm stuck in the goofiest reform school with a girl for a roommate who
keeps telling me things that I know aren't true and now I'm supposed to
shower and get rid of the hair on my legs and my underarms. I'm not
doing another thing until someone tells me what's going on around
here."
Holly shook her head and started to pull clothes out of drawers. "You
were always stubborn Frank, it would have been so much better if you
had listened to what I said in my letters but no, you had to find out
for yourself."
"Will you cut that out?" I screamed. "You never wrote me any letters,
we never met before Harry's mother's wedding, and I never went to pre-
school with you either!"
Holly sighed; she put down the clothes she'd been picking out and began
rattling off details of my life that blew me completely away. She knew
everything about how Harry and I met, what we'd done, the girls we'd
liked, everything!
"You must have a fantastic memory and you can tell Harry that it was a
nice try but I'm not dumb enough to fall for it." I said smugly.
"You can't be that stupid Frank, nobody can!" She reached into a drawer
and threw a stack of letters in my lap. "Don't you get it? I'm Harry!"
She shouted. "These are all of the letters you wrote to me, to Harry!"
I was getting very ticked off; this chick was getting to be a huge pain
in my butt! "Yeah, sure you are. How's this sound, Harry gave you the
letters and I'm really Bill Gates?" I was feeling very confused but
then I looked at her cute, upturned nose and knew I had her. "How
stupid do you think I am? Even if Harry were goofy enough to dress up
like a fag, he'd still have a big, busted up nose, and you don't."
"Don't ever call me a fag!" She said threateningly. "I'm a girl, not
some guy pretending to be one, and you better never forget that!"
"Hey, if you want to be a girl, go right ahead, don't let me stop you."
Yep, I could hear the Twilight Zone theme song starting up. I couldn't
even start to figure out what kind of weird game she was playing but he
sure got pissed so I'd just ease off.
"The nose job was compliments of my new dad," Holly relaxed and smiled.
"He arranged for me to get it fixed, he said he wanted everyone to see
how pretty his little girl really was. He's a real sweetie and I love
him to bits!"
I stared at her carefully, trying to imagine what she'd look like with
Harry's nose. After a couple of minutes of trying I gave up; she almost
would've looked a little like Harry but I couldn't picture her as
Harry, no way, no how.
"You don't get it, do you?" She laughed as she handed me a photo album.
"You really are dumb, do you know that? Your best friend Harry gets
sent to this school. He told you that something terrible was going to
happen to him and to make sure that you never got sent here. You kept
looking for him at the wedding but found some girl named Holly who just
happened to have the same parents as Harry. Now that same girl can tell
you everything about you and Harry that even you have to admit, no one
else could know. Here's one last chance to show you're smarter than I
think; have you seen a single boy anywhere since you were brought to
this school?"
I thought for a bit and then shrugged. "No, but what's that got to do
with anything?"
"For God's sake, open the damned album and see for yourself!" She
screamed.
She seemed really pissed so I opened the album and there was Harry,
busted up nose and all, smiling at me. I turned the page and there he
was, smiling again, but this time he had blue eye makeup on. As I
turned the pages Harry was wearing more and more makeup, his nose
looked just like Holly's and his hair was curled, like a girl's. Next
came pictures of Harry with makeup, his hair long, wearing girl's
clothes; a school uniform, skirts and dresses. It was so spooky; each
picture was a little different than the one before it and each one
showed Harry looking more and more like Holly. Then I saw it, a picture
of Holly in the gown she wore to the wedding. Her hair wasn't fixed
like Holly's was that night and she had less makeup on but it was
definitely Holly but at the same time it was really obvious that it was
also Harry, or at least had been Harry. I turned back to the first
picture of Harry, then back to the picture of Holly and felt very, very
sick; I had the hots for another guy; my best friend.
"Harry?" I asked, afraid of the answer I sort of knew I was going to
get.
Holly smiled and shook her pretty head. "In the flesh!"
"What's going on, how come you look like that? Do the other guys here
know that you're pretending to be a girl?" Talk about problems; I
started with a dream girl for a roomie and she turned out to be my best
buddy. Why did they stick me with him for a roommate, if the other guys
knew about him they'd think I was queer or something?
"You really are that stupid," She muttered as she opened the closet on
what must be my side of the room displaying nothing but girl's
clothing. "This isn't a co-ed reform school you jerk, there aren't any
guys here to care if I dress this way. Remember how I said the students
joke about the school name? Think about it, Great Indian River Learning
Center's initials spell GIRL Center! That's why there aren't any guys
here, they send guys here and then they make girls out of them! Can you
guess who will be wearing all of these pretty outfits?"
I was getting a little sick as I stared at the closet wondering if he,
I mean she, or whatever, was completely nuts. I didn't know why he was
getting such a kick out of pretending to be a girl but I knew for
certain that I didn't have any desire to join in his sick little game.
She gestured towards the bathroom. "Now, you have thirty minutes to
shower and be in the principal's office before she comes looking for
you. If you don't want her to give you a shower, you'd better get busy.
"
I was still confused and didn't care for the thoughts going through my
mind but I cared a lot less for the idea of the principal giving me a
shower.
"Toss out the clothes you're wearing, you can have them back when you
leave." Holly called as I closed the door behind me. "Smear some of the
stuff in that pink bottle on your legs, and then rinse your legs off
last."
Behind the locked door I removed my pants, shirt, socks, and underwear
and with a shaking hand passed them out to Holly. I smeared the goop on
my legs then fifteen minutes later, minus the little bit of leg hair I
had, and wrapped in a fluffy pink robe, I sat scared stiff as Holly
applied pink nail polish to my fingernails and toenails.
"No, please, not this." I begged as Holly handed me a pair of nylon
panties. "I'll do anything, just not this."
"You ran out of options when you set the Chemistry lab on fire, now get
them on while I show you how to fasten a bra. Unless of course you'd
rather have Mrs. Williams help you?"
The last person I wanted help from was Mrs. Williams, that woman scared
me! I nodded meekly, pulled on the panties and let Holly give me a
lesson in bras. After that came the pantyhose, slip, dress, and a pair
of flats.
"You're kind of cute, do you know that?" Holly teased as she brushed my
hair into sort of a girl's style. "You're going to be a real
heartbreaker!"
"You're all nuts, do you know that?" I hissed to Holly as we walked the
corridors to Mrs. Williams' office. "I look like a guy, I'll always
look like a guy and I'll always be a guy."
"Keep telling yourself that." She whispered as we entered the office.
"God knows I did."
She must have felt me tighten up at her little joke. "No one will hurt
you, I'll be there to help, and you're going to be okay." She whispered
as she squeezed my hand.
What I wouldn't have given for a time machine as Holly opened the door
to the office. I'd go back and be the best person imaginable; I'd do
well in school, I'd be polite, no one would ever know I was there,
anything to get out of the trouble I was in.
"Please have seats ladies." Mrs. Williams gestured towards two chairs
in front of her desk. "You look very nice for your first time Faith;
this is your first time in girl's clothes isn't it?"
I glanced around to see whom she was talking to.
"Please look at me when I'm speaking to you Faith, it's a sign of
respect." She admonished to whomever it was she was talking to. Since
Holly and I were the only other ones in the room I had a horrible
feeling that I was the Faith she kept referring to. A nudge from Holly
confirmed it.
I quickly turned my attention to Mrs. Williams. Jeez, that woman scared
the crap out of me!
"Thank you, that's much better Faith." She smiled.
Smiling didn't help; even her smiles made my blood run cold.
"Well, is this the first time you've dressed in girl's clothing?"
"Uh, yeah, of course."
She raised an eyebrow and gave me a stare that made me want to crawl
under my chair. "Please try to use proper grammar young lady."
"Yes, it is." I said as nicely as possible, trying desperately not to
offend.
"How do you feel about wearing them now?"
"Stupid!" I blurted out without thinking. Crap, now she's going to
knock me off my chair!
Instead of glaring, Mrs. Williams smiled. "I expect you do Faith, but
that's not important. Soon you'll be so used to dressing this way that
it will be second nature to you. You'll also begin to act and think
like the young woman you'll appear to be, it can't be helped."
I couldn't help myself, it was bad enough sitting here dressed like a
girl and then she had to call me by a girl's name, but the thought of
pretty much changing into a girl tore me up. I couldn't stop the tears
welling in my eyes from rolling down my cheeks.
"No, please don't do this to me; I don't want to be a girl. I'll
behave; I'll do anything, just send me home." I sobbed.
"That's entirely out of the question Faith dear." Mrs. Williams shook
her head. She glanced at a folder on the desk in front of her. "Your
being here is entirely your choice. Your record shows that you've had
many chances to change your ways but you always seemed to laugh them
off and get into even more trouble. If you didn't want to come here why
didn't you do something to help yourself?"
"I meant to change, really I did." I swore. "If I could just have
another chance..."
"No." Mrs. Williams said sternly. "There will be no second chances
until you finish the program here. After that, you may decide to leave
or continue your education here. I'm sure you'll find that we at Great
Indian River have an excellent academic program that will leave you
extremely well prepared for post-secondary education. Many of our girls
have been accepted into the fines schools in the country."
"You can't make a girl out of me, it ain't right!" I screamed as more
tears ran down my cheeks.
"The courts have decreed that it is indeed right. In the past twenty
years hundreds of hard case boys just like you have temporarily become
refined young women while at Great Indian River. Every last one of them
also swore that it wasn't right; many are now well-adjusted husbands
and fathers, a few have risen to executive positions within major
firms, none regret the time they spent here."
"Why?" I choked. "Why do I have to be a girl?"
"Simply because studies of unruly young men like you have shown that
they all feel a need to control their lives, to be dominant. Your
behavior is a manifestation of a need to control so we take away that
need; you become a young lady who is treated deferentially, you learn
to give, not take, to use your intelligence to affect your life, not
your strength. It's amusing in a way to see a crude boy who was out of
control switch to a sweet young lady in a manner of weeks."
"The rougher the boy, the faster he switches." She continued. "Oddly
enough, it seems that the boys who do the most swaggering, get into the
most trouble, have a very strictly defined concept of what girls should
be like; all sugar and spice and everything nice. Once they are forced
to become girls, that mental image takes over and the former gang
leader becomes a beauty queen. Some of my prettiest, sweetest girls
have been former gang members."
"What if I don't break?" I asked looking for a possible out. "Are you
going to brainwash me or something?"
"You've read too many spy novels Faith dear." She laughed for the first
time since I met her but she still seemed cold. "We could get into
quite a bit of trouble if we even thought of doing something as silly
as that. No, after a few weeks you'll find that being a girl comes
quite easily to you. Now, let me explain the schedule of classes and
activities available."
I sat there for nearly an hour listening to the classes I'd take;
Algebra, History, English, along with classes in personal grooming and
poise. The last two it was explained were because all students at Great
Indian River were expected to present themselves at their best in
public.
"Public?" I asked in dread. "I'm not really going to have to leave this
place in a dress am I?"
"Not if you don't want to." Mrs. Williams countered. "And you certainly
will not be permitted to for the first month. After that, if you wish
and feel confident enough, there is a shuttle into and out of town
every evening and several times each day on the weekends"
"You'll get so lonely sitting in your room, and it's so nice in town,
there's a mall with lots of great places to shop, a food court,
multiplex theatre, and there are dances for the kids every weekend
too." Holly explained enthusiastically.
"Every girl is assigned a big sister when she arrives." Mrs. Williams
continued. "Holly requested that she be yours. She will help you adjust
and answer any questions you may have. If you feel that you have any
problems that she cannot help with, please feel free to ask me for
help. You have the rest of the weekend to get settled in, classes begin
Monday at eight."
I was handed a schedule listing all of my classes and suddenly it was
over. As far as anyone cared, I was just another new girl in the
school. But I knew that this was one time Great Indian River would
fail; I would never give in, I'd have to wear the silly clothes but I'd
always be a boy and they would never change that!
Back in our room I tried to get Holly to help me plan an escape. "I
know I can do it, you can come with me and get away from this zoo!"
"No, I'm not going anywhere." She said firmly. "I'm better off than I
was three years ago. I'm happy, I've got tons of friends, and I've
pretty much locked up a scholarship for State University when I
graduate."
"Come on, admit it. You're afraid of what that old hag Williams would
do if she caught you but this time she won't! Your mom would never send
you back; we can talk her into getting us out of this mess."
"I know what Mrs. Williams would do remember, she caught me once
before. I don't want to lose my privileges and go through that torture
again. Besides, mom and daddy know that I love it here!"
I wondered what had happened to my buddy Harry. He had always been
willing to try a new adventure and I couldn't think of a single thing
that scared him. Now, he was just a scared little girl, afraid to take
a chance.
"You know you don't love it here so quit saying that." I insisted. "Are
you sure they don't brainwash you here? That's what happened wasn't it?
They caught you trying to escape and brainwashed you into thinking
you're a girl."
Holly shook her head and sighed deeply. "I haven't been brainwashed, I
really do love this place, and as a matter of fact I am a girl!"
With that she took off her top and skirt. "Look at these," She said
proudly as she thrust out her chest. "Do boys have breasts like these?
I wear a size thirty two B bra and there's not a bit of padding in it!"
Placing her hands on her panty clad butt she thrust out her hip and
asked. "How may boys have curves like this? Do you know any fifteen
year old boys with a figure like mine?"
If it weren't for the slight bulge in the front of her panties I would
have sworn that I was looking at a girl. What had they done to my
buddy?
"What happened, you said that they wouldn't try to change me
physically? Do your parents know about this? They could sue this place
for what they did to you!"
"How stupid can you be Faith Jordan?" She asked exasperatedly. "This
was all my idea! I decided to become a girl two years ago when I was
thirteen. Mom took me to a shrink and we talked it over with Mrs.
Williams who agreed to let me stay once my sentence was over. I started
taking hormones and once I graduate I'll have the final operation."
"No, you can't do that!" I screamed. "You're my best friend Harry, a
boy; they're just making you think this way to control you!"
"My name is Holly and although I have dated a few boys that's about as
close as I come to being one!" She giggled as she put her skirt and top
back on. "You didn't seem to think that I was a boy the last time we
met." She said coyly.
I was beaten, my best friend had turned into a girl and I couldn't
bring him back. I started to remember the pretty girl at the wedding,
how good she looked in her dress, how pretty she was, how nice it felt
to hold her in my arms when we danced, and how badly I wanted to kiss
her. Suddenly I noticed that I was getting excited. The bulge in my
pants was growing and I couldn't stop it.
"Pesky little devils." Holly giggled as she noticed my erection. "You
wouldn't happen to be thinking about the wedding?"
I was too embarrassed to answer. I mean, how do you tell your best
friend that you wanted to take him someplace quiet and suck face?
Holly smiled and kissed my cheek. "Thank you, it means a lot to know
that you thought that way about me." She said softly.
I was alone, my buddy was gone and I had to get out of this nut house
before they could do the same things to me that they did to Harry. I'd
pretend to give in for now until I could think of some way to escape. I
wished I could bring Harry with me but he was gone and I knew that
Holly would never go.
Too bad, I found myself thinking. She's a real fox; we could have a lot
of...
What's wrong with me? Holly may look like a fox but she's still as much
a guy as I am. Still, those breasts and that figure didn't look like
anything a guy would have.
I decided to get my suitcase unpacked as a way to get my mind off
Holly. I threw open the latches and nearly died when I saw what had
been packed. My suitcase was filled with panties, slips, bras,
pantyhose, and makeup. A pink envelope rested on top, I opened it and
saw my dad's handwriting.
"Dear Faith," It read. "Mom and I felt that this was the last hope to
settle you down. We gave this a great deal of thought and although it
anguished us both, we felt that there was other way. By now I imagine
that you've been told all of the rules and are smart enough to realize
that there is no way out. Please, for once just listen to what you're
told and don't try to buck the system. Mom and I are looking forward to
seeing you soon and hope there will be a positive change in your
attitude. Give our best to Holly; she's putting her reputation on the
line to help you."
It was signed "Good luck sweetheart, Mother and Daddy"
"Mother and Daddy?" Whatever happened to mom and dad? Only a total
swish would call his father "Daddy".
"It sucks to realize that your parents knew what was going to happen to
you." Holly said offhandedly. "It takes a little while to adjust but
you'll manage, every girl does."
"Why do you keep talking about girls?" I asked testily. "You admitted
that all of the students here are boys."
"We think of ourselves as girls." She shrugged as if it was perfectly
normal for boys to think of themselves as girls. "You'll get used to
it."
I shook my head and started putting away the lingerie my folks had
packed. "You think they could've thrown in a couple of pairs of briefs
at least."
"I know, that's the same thing I said on my first day. It's really easy
to get used to wearing panties and stuff; they're much nicer than
briefs."
Did she have any idea how annoying it was to hear that she went through
the same things, felt the same feelings, said the same things, which I
was going through? Who gave a hoot? It didn't get me out of the stupid
get up that I was wearing and it didn't replace the silky underwear in
my suitcase with good cotton briefs.
"Did anyone ever tell you just how incredibly annoying you are?" I
pointed out. "I don't care how you felt, I don't care what you thought,
just shut up and leave me alone!"
She crossed her sexy legs and stared at me for a bit before opening up
on me.
"You stupid jerk! You inconsiderate moron! I'm the only Sophomore girl
that's a Big Sister, I begged and pleaded to be your big sister, I
should have let them assign you to one of the senior girls, you'd
probably be wearing some frilly baby doll nightgown, a garter belt and
fishnet stockings, a push up bra complete with fake boobs, drenched in
perfume, and trying your best to retain your balance in a pair of six
inch, "FM" heels!"
"Don't get your panties all twisted sweetheart." I joked, reveling in
my perceived gift for comedy.
"Don't worry, I won't!" She shouted. "You will though since I'm going
straight to Mrs. Williams and tell her to get you a new big sister. I
just hope that you'll enjoy being all dolled up and paraded through the
halls!"
I'd never seen Harry get that mad before, could it be a girl thing?
"I don't scare easily Harry, you know that." I purposely used and
emphasized her male name. She looked like she was going to choke me or
something but suddenly she calmed down and started to smile.
"Let me show you my first days." Her voice was dripping with sweetness
as she walked to her desk and removed something.
She smoothed her skirt as she sat next to me on the bed and opened a
photo album. "A gift from my big sister." She said with a smile that
was making me horny.
My excitement and erection vanished in a second as I looked at pictures
of my best friend Harry being given a makeover. The look of horror on
his face was clear as his skin was covered with makeup and blush; blue
eye shadow was applied to his lids, and dark red lipstick to his lips.
The next couple of shots showed his boy's clothes being removed and him
being dressed in a pink bra, garter belt, and panties with black
fishnet stockings.
On the next page were pictures of Harry with his lingerie covered by a
pink baby doll style nightgown that barely covered the ruffles on the
back of the panties he wore. He was walking down a hall lined with what
must have been other students and it was clear that he was utterly
humiliated.
Other pictures in the album showed Harry in skirts so short you could
see his panties peeking out, his makeup and chest padding done to make
him look like a cheap whore. There was page after page of pictures of
Harry in various outfits, each more humiliating than the last.
"I dressed like that every day for two weeks, in and out of class."
Holly explained. "It was horrible and it's something that I swore I'd
put an end to but I guess there will have to be one more poor guy that
goes through it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to speak with Mrs.
Williams."
I grabbed her arm as she reached for the doorknob. "I guess I goofed."
I mumbled softly.
"Excuse me miss, what did you say?" Harry always knew when he had me
cornered but I could tell that Holly was going to push in a way that
Harry never had, in a way that only a girl could.
"I uh, I said I guess I goofed."
"I'm sorry young lady." She pressed her advantage. "You're very
difficult to understand. Would you be a good girl and repeat yourself,
please?"
"Knock it off Harry!" I shot back angrily. It was bad enough to have to
say that I was wrong but I was being taken advantage of and I wanted it
to stop!
"Harry" She said in that soft, sweet voice. "Mrs. Williams has a strict
policy about when boys are allowed on campus. I'd better hurry and tell
her that you've spotted one."
I caught her again as she reached for the doorknob. "C'mon," I begged.
"Cut me a break, will ya?"
"I'm cutting you a break you don't deserve." She said with a nasty
gleam in her eye. "Now, you either apologize or ask me nicely to be
your big sister or I'm out of here!"
"Okay, I'm sorry, please be my big sister." I sighed.
"Say it nicely."
"Pretty please would you be my big sister?"
"Do you promise to be a good girl and do everything I tell you?"
There was no stopping this girl; I swear she'd have me on my knees any
second now.
"I guess that depends..." I started to say but by then she had the door
open and it was all I could do to get it shut and get her to sit down.
"Okay, you win anything you say." I was defeated and she knew it.
"Do you have to do that?" I pleaded as she jumped up and hugged me.
"You didn't mind holding me when we danced at the wedding." She said
demurely
"I didn't know you were a guy then."
She gave me a funny look, wrapped her arms around my neck and slapped a
lip lock on me that made my knees buckle. Before I could react she had
forced her tongue past my lips and was making me feel things that
embarrassed me.
"Do you still think I'm a guy?" She asked in a voice no teenage girl
should ever be allowed to use.
"Don't ever do that again!" I insisted when I finally got my breath
back.
"I'm sorry," She teased as she ran a finger slowly up my chest and
kissed my cheek. "Did I do something wrong?"
How could I stop her from causing me untold embarrassment? If she knew
what was happening under the skirt I had on I would have died.
"You haven't answered my question yet," She cooed. "Do you still think
I'm a guy?"
"Of course you are." I tried to insist as she moved closer, her hips
swaying sexily with every step. By then it was too late to hide my
growing excitement; the front of my skirt had a telltale bulge in it.
"Mr. Happy thinks I'm a girl." She giggled while pointing to the bulge.
"I think he likes me." I was about to mount some sort of defense when
once again she threw her arms around my neck and pulled me close to
her. When our lips met my resistance failed; I put my arms around her
neck and met her tongue with mine.
We held our kiss for an eternity. I was in heaven, holding a beautiful
girl in my arms and giving her the most passionate kisses a guy my age
could manage. We finally broke off our embrace but it was too late for
me, a wet spot was growing on the front of my skirt.
"I've wanted to do that to you for two years now," she said with a
smile. "Ever since I decided to become a girl I've wanted to have you
hold me and kiss me"
She ran a brush through her gorgeous hair then turned and smiled. "Of
course, if you ever try to kiss me again I'll have to hurt you."
Any doubts that Harry had turned into a girl were instantly erased.
"You're a girl, there's no doubt about that." I groaned. "Harry would
never pull such a sneaky trick."
"I'm really sorry but I just had to know." She apologized. "I've had
this fantasy about you since I started taking hormones. Like I said, I
had to know if you were the guy for me."
"What makes you think I'd be interested? No offense, but I prefer real
girls."
"I was real enough at the wedding and it looks like you think I'm real
enough now." She giggled as she stared at the spot on my skirt. "You'd
better get cleaned up; you've got a hair appointment in half an hour."
She handed me a pink denim skirt and another pair of panties then
shooed me into the bathroom.
"Why a hair appointment?" I called as I unzipped my skirt. "I don't
want to look any more like a girl than I have to."
"You have to!" she called back cheerfully. "It's all in the rule book
Mrs. Williams gave you earlier. All students are required to make use
of the beauty shop for hair, nails, and grooming, and are required to
dress appropriately at all times. That means our uniforms for school,
slacks or jeans for loafing, and dress clothes for anything special."
"If I can wear jeans, why the skirts?" I asked hoping to get into a
pair of pants, any pants, just out of dresses.
"After your probationary period, you can wear anything you like. That's
a month from now, until then, you're stuck wearing skirts or dresses."
I changed panties, stepped into the skirt and wondered why there were
no stockings.
"That was just to show off your pretty legs to Mrs. Williams." Holly
laughed. "No one ever wears stockings with denim skirts; it's a fashion
faux pas!"
I smelled a rat. "Who gets to decide what I wear during that month, you
or me?"
"You don't trust me!" She exclaimed, pretending to be highly offended.
"You pick the clothes you'll be wearing. I may make suggestions now and
then but you get the final say so on your clothes, your hair, and
makeup."
"Feel better now?" She chided. "You really thought that I would pick
out your clothes and make you wear something silly, didn't you?"
I ran my hands along my new skirt. "You already have."
"You're going to take a lot of work," she laughed. "Pay attention cause
I don't want to have to keep telling you this stuff. You were sent here
to experience life as a girl; to leave your stupid macho ideas behind
and see that they aren't necessary, that it is possible to be a kind,
caring, thoughtful person. All of the silly male expectations societies
had for you are gone. For the next two years you can cry if you want
to, you can giggle if you want to, you don't have to worry about people
thinking you're weak; you don't have to act like a male dog; constantly
trying to pee further up the tree than the last male dog. You'll learn
to relax and then you'll find that there's a whole different world than
what you were used to. If you pay attention and work hard the top
colleges will come looking for you and they won't care about how you're
dressed. Yes, you'll do all of that while living as a girl since you
couldn't seem to grasp those ideas as a boy. After your time is up you
can leave and no one will ever know that this happened."
I had to know. "Why didn't you?"
She smiled and shrugged. "I guess I got used to being a girl and found
that I enjoy being feminine and pretty. No one forced it on me; I gave
it a lot of thought and decided that being a girl was right for me. I
knew you wouldn't understand, that's why I signed my letters as "H". I
talked it over with my folks, got my nose fixed, started hormones and
the rest is history."
She tossed me a pair of slip on shoes. "Come on, you've got to get your
hair done."
I put on the shoes but stumbled because of the slight heel. "Do they
have to have such high heels?"
"You're a girl now; they're girl's shoes which typically have heels.
Since you are a girl let's get your cute little butt to the beauty
shop!"
"But I don't want to get my hair done." I was starting to sound like I
was whining. A couple of hours in panties and I was whining like a
girl!
"Did you see any cross dressed boys when you came here?"
"No."
"Do you want anyone to see a cross dressed boy?"
I figured out that she must have meant me. "No."
"Then you'll have to look like a girl, right?
"Lead the way." I whimpered.
"You'll have to act like a girl too!" She laughed as she ran into the
hall. "I can't wait to see you swishing down the street in town!"
I tried to run after her but couldn't get the hang of the shoes. "No
fair, you're used to heels!" I yelled.
She stopped, laughed at me and told me to put one foot in front of the
other and swing my butt. I hated to admit it but as long as I took her
advice I could walk with ease.
Everything had been pre-arranged at the beauty shop; I was given a
light blue plastic smock and leaned backwards over a sink to be
shampooed. The shampooing felt great and I quickly fell asleep. I woke
up feeling someone yanking on my brows and was sickened to see a girl
with shoulder length, light brown hair and highly arched eyebrows
staring at me.
"What did you do to me?" I screamed as I realized that I was looking
into a mirror.
"Hush up, don't be a sissy." The woman doing my hair ordered. "Once you
get used to looking like this you'll be back all the time. You're
really very pretty, did you know that?"
"I can honestly say that I've never been told that by anyone."
"Get used to hearing it; you're going to hear it a lot from now on."
She said simply. I was starting to feel very sick.
Two hours after walking in I had long brown hair, plucked eyebrows,
curled eyelashes that had been lengthened with mascara, a light brown
eye shadow on my lids, pale pink blush on my cheeks and a darker pink
on my lips. My nails stuck out an inch past my fingertips and perfectly
matched the shade of lipstick that I wore. The sick feeling was hard to
stop when I realized that I had been made into quite a fox!
"One last thing," the woman smiled as she took a container out of a
microwave. "Step out of your skirt please."
I looked at Holly who nodded. "What now?"
"Leg waxing," she beamed as I sat back down.
If sitting on a cold seat in nothing but flimsy nylon panties wasn't
bad enough, the hot wax added to my woes, and I could have screamed
when she removed it.
"There you go; soft, silky, and hairless for another two weeks." The
woman said proudly. "You're going to have it made, you're pretty,
you're small, and you have great legs."
"I'm jealous," Holly teased. "It took two years of hormones for my legs
to look that good."
"I'm sick," I muttered. "Let's go back to our room please."
Once in our room I took off my skirt and top and tossed them into a
heap in the corner. "Look at what they've done to me!" I wailed. "That
goofy broad made me look like a..."
"Can you say Major League Babe?" Holly teased. "'Cause you are."
"That's just friggin' wonderful. I have to dress like a chick, act like
a chick, and now I look like one too. I hate to think what the guys
back home would think if they saw me now."
"Let see," Holly's smile went from ear to ear. "Barry would stand there
and stammer, he never was good around pretty girls. Jake would get that
goofy look on his face as he wondered what you'd look like naked, Tom
would definitely ask you out, he knows what he likes and believe me,
you're it. Anyone else you're wondering about?"
"It was a rhetorical question you jerk." I spat.
"Me a jerk?" She laughed. "You're the hot looking honey who's wondering
what boys will think of her. How dumb can that be?"
"I'm not a hot looking honey, I'm a guy for heaven's sake." Why did she
have to be so dumb? Did taking female hormones somehow affect her
brain? I was about to reach over and choke her when there was a
commotion in the hallway.
Holly slipped out of my reach and threw open the door. A small group of
girls, I guess that's what to call them, were staring into the room.
"We heard there was a new girl starting, is this her?" One of them
asked.
"Someone said they saw you guys coming from the beauty shop and that
she was cute." Another chimed in.
"Whoa, is she ever!" A third girl added, as she looked me over.
I suddenly realized that I was sprawled across my bed wearing nothing
but a bra and panties. I made a desperate grab for my blankets to
preserve my modesty.
"We're all girls here." A girl called out. "Relax, we don't bite."
How do you fight a small group of girls determined to check you out?
You don't, I found out as they all streamed into the room calling out
their names. Becky, Susan, Mary, Kathy, Kara, how was I supposed to
remember who was who?
"What were you sent here for?" I was asked. "How do you like it? Did
you know you were pretty before?" Question after question was fired at
me until I finally broke down and started to answer them. Next thing I
knew I was surrounded by a bunch of girls and telling them about Harry
and me and then the Chemistry lab.
They all thought it was so cool that Holly and I had been friends since
we were kids.
"Is this the guy from the wedding?" One asked.
"Didn't Holly warn you about this place?" Asked another.
"Are you going to date?" A third wanted to know.
"Yeah, I'm the guy from the wedding; at least I think I am." I laughed
and looked at the bra and panties I was wearing. "Yeah, she warned me,
but she never said I'd end up looking like this and where could I find
a girl who would date a guy in a dress?"
"Not girls, guys. Are you going to date guys?" My interrogator
explained.
"No way," I said, shaking my head. "I like girls."
"You are a girl, remember?" Someone felt a need to remind me. "And guys
are gonna go nuts over you."
"Let her go, if she doesn't want to date guys that leaves more for the
rest of us!" Someone from the group laughed. "Having her running loose
could dry up the supply of guys."
"You date other guys?" I asked incredulously.
"Our boyfriends don't think of us as guys. It feels so nice when a guy
holds you tight and tells you that you're pretty. I have to be a girl
anyways so I might as well enjoy it."
I shook my head, was this real?
"You're serious, guys don't mind dating you?"
"It's a very liberal town," Holly tried to explain. "Over the years a
lot of families moved here to be close to their new daughters and a lot
of girls came back here after college so it's no big deal if a brother
or son wants to date a girl from here. As long as we present ourselves
as girls we're completely accepted as girls. Some of us work in town,
just about every girl here shops in town, most of us date and many of
us have steady boyfriends."
"Once you get used to it, being a girl is a blast!" A girl next to me
exclaimed excitedly. "Guys will do almost anything for a pretty girl,
all we have to do is look nice, treat them with respect, and let them
take care of us; they enjoy feeling all strong and protective. You
faced embarrassment every time you asked a girl for a date, right? That
won't happen when you're the girl; now you're in charge, you decide if
the guys cute enough to go out with! If you do decide to go out with
him he'll do everything possible to win your approval, all you have to
do is smile and he'll do the rest."
"Of course there is the matter of payment for his time." A girl behind
me snickered. "Kisses on the cheek or letting him slip you a little
tongue if he's really cute and you had a really good time."
The thought of another guy sticking his tongue in my mouth made me ill
but when I looked over at Holly she smiled knowingly. Hadn't I already
let another guy stick his tongue in my mouth? Hadn't I already pushed
my tongue past the lips of another guy? I tried to ignore the memories
of sucking face with Holly in our room earlier.
"In one of your letters you said that you had a girlfriend, but that
doesn't make sense."
"I have lots of girlfriends here, they listened to me when I was upset,
they taught me how to fix my own hair and stuff, and they got me
through some rough times." Holly said softly as she gazed at the girls
in the room. "That's what I meant but I knew you wouldn't understand
and besides, we're not allowed to tell anyone else that we're girls."
"I promise I won't tell." I laughed and crossed my heart. "It's not
exactly something I want to brag about."
"Are you really her big sister Holly?" The girl named Jenny asked.
"That is so cool!"
"Yep, I had to promise Mrs. Williams a lot but I didn't want Faith to
go through the crap some of the older girls would have put her
through." Holly said proudly.
"That's a pretty name," another girl whom Holly called Mary told me.
"Mary's so plain; I wish my parents had given me a pretty name like
yours."
"You can have mine if you get me out of here." I joked.
"Don't even think about trying that," she said very seriously. "You
don't want to know what will happen when you're caught."
"If, not when." I insisted.
"When, not if!" The girls all said in unison. And Holly claimed that
there was no brainwashing.
They could try to scare me but my mind was made up; the first chance I
got; I would be out of here. I'd beg and plead until my parents gave
in. They could change Harry into Holly and even make him think it was
his idea but I'd be long gone before they got to me.
It was pretty late when the girls finally left, after making me promise
to behave and to read the student handbook Mrs. Williams had given me.
They made me promise to have breakfast with their group so we could
talk some more.
Holly showed me how to take off my makeup and then handed me a pair of
silky
PJ's to wear. "I didn't know if you were ready for a nightgown yet."
The PJ's were light pink, trimmed with a wide band of white lace around
their short sheer sleeves and the legs.
"Good thinking, it's probably best to stick to something less frilly
like these." I mocked as I pulled on the bottoms. "God knows no one
would ever mistake me for a girl in these."
Holly was up to the task of handling my sarcasm. "I see your point."
She nodded in agreement. "I could lend you this adorable baby doll
nightgown I have if you're worried about being mistaken for a boy,
Faith."
"Thanks ever so much," I teased and fluffed my hair. "But I've been
going through this tomboy stage lately so it's not a problem if someone
thinks I'm a boy."
"Don't fret," she shot back as she slid into her bed. "In a couple of
weeks no one will ever think of you as a boy, yourself included."
I was sure she was just teasing me but her casual remark kept me from
getting to sleep for quite a while that night. I tossed and turned
trying to sleep but I kept dreaming that I was back in my old school
yet everyone called me Faith. I'd get up in the morning, shower and
throw on a Tee shirt and jeans but when I looked in a mirror I was
wearing a plaid uniform skirt and white blouse. Mom, dad, all of my
friends, my teachers, everyone I ran into called me Faith and treated
me like a girl. I was walking through the hall at school and had to use
the restroom. I walked right up to the boy's bathroom but as soon as I
touched the door the sign changed to "Girls". I quickly turned and
reached for the other door, which also read "Girls". No matter which
door I chose I would be in the girl's bathroom. I hoped for the best,
pushed a door and went inside.
Large mirrors, shelves above the sink, and no urinals, greeted me. I
rushed into a stall, locked the door, pulled up my skirt and pushed
down my panties as if I'd done it all my life.
"At least my plumbing is still all there." I thought to myself as I sat
down. I stared down at a pair of pink lace panties that had somehow
come to replace the white briefs I remembered putting on after my
shower. I knew I'd put on briefs, jeans, and a Tee shirt yet here I was
in a plaid skirt, white blouse, lace panties, a white slip, and judging
from the tight feeling on my chest, a bra.
"This just isn't right." I thought as I hefted my backpack onto the
counter after finishing in the stall. "I'm a boy, I know I'm a boy,
I've always been a boy, so how did I end up in girl's clothes?"
Worse yet, when I looked in the mirror as I washed my hands I saw a
pretty girl with long, light brown hair instead of the boy with short,
dark brown hair. When I reached for my backpack I found that it had
been replaced by one of those baby backpacks that girls carried for
purses.
If things weren't bad enough the door suddenly swung open and a group
of girls walked in. I was about to offer some type of explanation for
being in the girl's restroom when they smiled and walked past me. "Hi
Faith," they all called as they headed for stalls.
I woke up several times that night but every time I went back to sleep
it was as if I'd put the dream on pause and started it up again. I went
from the restroom to walking down the hall, my skirt swishing about my
legs, then into a classroom where I smoothed my skirt, set down my
purse, and smiled at the cute guy sitting across from me. Throughout
the entire school day people called me Faith and I answered with a
smile. Guys flirted with me and I flirted right back, sick to my
stomach that I'd do such a thing yet feeling a secret thrill that guys
thought I was cute.
I was a wreck the next morning but I refused to say anything to Holly
about it. I would have probably told Harry; I always felt that I could
trust him, but I didn't feel the same way at all about Holly. I was
sure that if I told her that I dreamed about being changed into a girl
she'd jump up and down and tell all of her friends that I wanted to be
a girl for real!
"Let's go sleepyhead," she called as I took my time getting out of bed.
"We've got to shower, do our hair and makeup, get dressed, and be at
breakfast in ninety minutes."
"But it's Sunday, a day of rest." I reminded my overly motivated
roommate.
"Later, but first we have to go to breakfast, didn't you read your
handbook?"
"I got a little distracted last night." I muttered as I made my way
into the bathroom. "Somehow a swarm of giggling girls got into our
room."
"Make a point to read it after breakfast." Holly insisted as she walked
in to the bathroom behind me.
"Hey, a little privacy would be nice you know." I couldn't believe
she'd just walk right in like that.
"Why, I know what you've got. The same as me, remember?"
"Almost." I added for effect. "You're a girl, remember?"
"Uh huh, and so are you now."
"Not quite, nor do I ever plan to be." I might as well have been
talking to the wall; without hesitating she stepped out of her
nightgown and panties and began to shower.
"You're welcome to join me," She called out as if asking if I wanted a
soft drink. "It'll be faster and we can do each other's backs."
"No thanks, I'll wait."
I knew that if I got into that shower with her looking the way she did
I'd be very embarrassed. How was I ever going to get used to seeing my
former best friend with curves and boobs?
"Suit yourself; you might want to pick out something pretty to wear. We
always dress up for Sunday breakfast and you wouldn't want to upset
Mrs. Williams."
No, of course I wouldn't want to upset dear Mrs. Williams; lord knows I
might end up in stocks! I wouldn't put anything past a woman who
insisted on turning boys into pretty girls as a means of punishment.
"Something pretty," I asked, trying not to look at her boobs. "Don't
suppose you could give your little sister a hint, huh sis?"
"Think of something you'd enjoy seeing a girl wear." She advised over
the shower noise. Did she know that she was at that very moment wearing
what I'd most like to see a girl wear?
I went to my closet and stared. How was I supposed to pick something
pretty when I hadn't a clue as to what pretty was? Should I wear a
dress or maybe a skirt and top? What color? I heard that girls matched
their shoes to their outfits; that just complicated matters.
"Don't be a big baby," Holly said from behind me. "I'm here to help,
not be your wardrobe consultant. Grab that blue dress; it'll go nicely
with your eyes. I'll let you decide on what you wear under it."
I set the dress on my bed and picked out some plain lingerie to wear
with it; white cotton panties, bra, and a half-slip along with tan
pantyhose. I might have to dress in girl's stuff but it wasn't going to
be the frilly colored stuff mom had picked out. Yeah, I'd probably have
to wash my underwear every three days since I only had two pairs of
cotton panties but it would be worth it.
After my shower I had to sit patiently while Holly did my hair. "Pay
attention Faith, you've got to look nice and I'm not going to have time
to do your hair every morning."
Jeez, I hated being treated like a little kid; a girl kid at that. I
couldn't afford to wait too long before getting out of this place,
otherwise I'd end up worrying about how pretty I looked and if my dress
and shoes matched. I really hoped