Synopsis
Whoever said that it's better to travel hopefully than to arrive had
never travelled by air, as Peter Blake was to find out to his cost. But
just who did the large suitcase belong to, and exactly what was the
connection with the woman who awoke in the strange house, considerably
the worse for wear?
This is a longer length story, so set aside some time, sit back and
enjoy.
TRAVELLING HOPEFULLY
By Charlotte Dickles
1 INTRODUCING PETER
They say that troubles come in threes. They're lying! Either that or the
counter which was supposed to record my threesome had got permanently
stuck.
OK, as problems go, the first wasn't really a very big one. My business
colleague, Frank, and myself, Peter Blake, were on the thirteen hour
flight from Singapore to London Heathrow, returning to England for a
month's break after a long period of working abroad. The flight itself
had been perfect, the very best that British Airways could give, except
for the announcement half an hour before our scheduled landing time, at
nine pm on Friday evening.
'Ladies and Gentleman. This is your Captain, again. I'm sorry to have to
tell you that, due to a security alert at London Heathrow, the airport
has been closed. We have been diverted to Norton International Airport,
where we'll get coaches to meet you and take you on to Heathrow. British
Airways apologise for the delay and the inconvenience caused.'
Hardly an unusual event, and it didn't disturb me too much. To be
honest, I'd never heard of Norton International Airport, but then I'd
been out of the country almost continuously for eight years, and if
Heathrow was closed, they'd be looking for spare capacity over most of
central and southern England.
Nor was time particularly critical that evening; I was on my way to my
son, Nick's wedding in Cheltenham, at four pm the next day. Tonight,
Frank and I had rooms booked at one of the Heathrow Airport hotels. He'd
got a car-hire arranged for the morning and would take me to the
wedding, before going on to the Cotswolds. There, he would meet up with
his recently estranged wife on the neutral ground of a rented holiday
cottage, and see if he could talk her into going back to live with him.
The change of airports would mean we'd arrive at our hotel a bit later,
but that wasn't really a problem, since we'd both had plenty of sleep on
the flight. In fact, I went back to sleep until we were on the point of
touchdown.
You notice that there are two ways in which people disembark from
planes: There's the type who immediately get up as soon as the seat-belt
warning sign goes off, and then stand waiting, with their heads bent at
an awkward angle under the luggage bins, or caught in the crush in the
middle of putting on a coat, and stuck with one arm in the sleeve, and
the other trapped behind their backs. This wait can be for five minutes
or fifteen, depending upon how long it takes them to get the steps in
position outside, or move the disembarkation equipment against the doors
and open them.
I am definitely of the other type. Realising that it would take ages for
the baggage to get to the baggage-halls, and that no one was going
anywhere until the coaches arrived to transport us back to London
Heathrow, I sat back in my seat and allowed myself to properly awaken
whilst the crush subsided, and I could get off the plane in a civilised
way.
It was fortunate that Frank had been sitting in the aisle seat, since he
was unquestionably one of the former. In fact, he already had his coat
on and his hand baggage under the seat before we landed, so he was able
to make a fantastic dash towards the door before everyone else stood up.
But he was still caught for the whole of the fifteen minutes it took to
get the door open. Then he disappeared from view. I shook my head and
sighed. I'd catch up with him in the baggage-hall.
***
When I got to the baggage-hall, the bags were already in full flow
around the carousel. I searched the hall, looking for Frank, hoping he'd
had the nous to get two baggage trolleys for the extra-large suitcases
we both had with us, and I was a bit surprised to see that he'd already
left the baggage-hall. I sighed again. Presumably, he'd gone out to
secure a place on one of the transfer coaches which, the announcement
said, had now arrived at the airport.
Problem Number Two; my suitcase didn?t arrive on the carousel. Again,
hardly a unique event if you frequently travel by air, but this time it
could be bloody inconvenient. My suit for the wedding was inside. If the
suitcase didn't catch me up within the next few hours, I'd have to find
a place where I could hire a replacement, which was going to disrupt the
whole of the next day. I found an official who made me fill in lots of
forms in triplicate, requesting my contact details for the next two
weeks. It took ages, but at least I knew that Frank would be holding the
coach outside ? preventing it from driving off without me.
***
Bastard! Bastard! Bastard! You can probably guess Problem Number Three.
It was totally deserted outside the terminal building. In spite of its
title, Norton International was obviously one of those small, provincial
airports which normally close at nine every evening. Tonight, they'd
obviously held it open especially for our flight. It would have been
difficult to hide a shopping trolley on the deserted tarmac around the
terminal; certainly, there were no fifty-seater coaches!
I went back inside the terminal, and after walking around the empty
building for ages, finally found a manager, who firstly told me all the
British Airways staff had left on the coaches and he couldn't do
anything, and then, reluctantly, got on the phone to their Customer
Service.
They were superb. Whilst I was on the phone, they booked me a room at
the Norton Airport Hotel, and proposed that a car would pick me up
tomorrow morning and take me to Heathrow.
I did some quick mental calculations, and made an alternative offer: a
three day self-drive car would be cheaper for them, and more convenient
for me. They instantly agreed, booked it, and promised it would be at
the hotel for eight am, next day.
***
I'd seen the neon signs illuminating the Norton Airport Hotel when I'd
gone outside before, so I knew it was only about a quarter-mile away. I
would have taken a taxi and charged it to BA, but there was no sign of
one outside, so I set out to walk across the car-park towards the three-
storey building.
It didn't help that, after living in Singapore for so long, I wasn't
acclimatised to cold and clammy British weather, or that it started to
slightly drizzle when I was half-way across the car-park. But what
really didn't help was the ten-foot high security fence at the edge of
the car-park, which prevented me walking the last fifty yards to the
hotel!
To my right, I could see some construction work in progress to extend
the car-park. I traipsed over there, climbed the temporary barriers and
trudged over the uneven surface, stumbling in the pitch darkness after
the glare of the flood-lighting. It only took a couple of minutes, and a
couple of bruised shins, to reach the point where the security fence
ended, and then I was only separated from the hotel by a four-foot high
wall. Without any baggage, it was a simple matter to put both hands flat
on the top of the wall, leap up and twist at the same time, so that I
was sitting on the top of the wall, then swivel first one leg, then the
other, over the wall and leap down.
***
In the instant after I should have hit the ground and didn't, I realised
that Problem Number Four had arrived. Had the drainage ditch not been
full of mud, I might have broken an ankle or something more serious. As
it was, I landed face down in the mud which was several feet deep. I
floundered, gulping air and mud at the same time and choking, and
struggling to free my feet from a tree-root, which was trying to hold me
down.
Eventually, I crawled up the sloping side of the ditch, and sat for a
moment to get my breath, covered in horrible slime. I sat there for
quite a bit longer than I needed, staring through the plate-glass of the
entrance foyer of the hotel ? at the deep pile carpets and smart pot
plants, realising I was going to have to walk in there dripping slimy
mud, or stay outside all night!
The Assistant Manager was outstanding. Don't worry about the mud. The
important thing was that I was safe. BA had made the booking, so I could
go straight up to my room and grab a shower. There would be a dressing-
gown in the room, so I could put all my clothes in a laundry bag, and
he'd get Housekeeping to immediately wash them and get them dried, ready
for 7 am tomorrow morning. Oh, and did I want to register a credit card
to pay for any extras, such as telephone calls?
I reached for the bum bag I kept at my waist, which contained my wallet
and travel documents. It was at that moment I lost count of the number
of problems I'd experienced so far, as I remembered something caught
around my legs when I was in the ditch, which I'd kicked free.
No problem, the Assistant Manager said; he would personally go out there
with a flash-lamp and search for the missing bag. He would telephone me
in my room as soon as he returned.
His call came just after I'd finished my shower, and had taken my
mobile-phone to bits and was washing the mud from each bit in the wash-
basin. He'd found the spot where I'd fallen in, but there was absolutely
no sign of the missing bag. First thing tomorrow morning, he would get
Maintenance to try dredging for it.
He couldn't have done any more. I thanked him, and after drying and
assembling my mobile-phone and finding it still didn't work, went to
bed.
2 INTRODUCING CHARLOTTE
When she woke up in the middle of the night, Charlotte was sitting fully
dressed in an armchair. She wasn't certain exactly where she was, how
she'd got there or even who she was, but she was absolutely certain of
one thing: she had to find a toilet desperately.
Fortunately, a table-lamp had been left on, and she was able to stagger
(since her legs appeared to be incapable of taking her in a straight
line) to the bottom of the stairs, and then she pulled herself, arm over
arm, up the banister rail until she reached the landing. There were only
two doors leading off the landing, and since the door to the bedroom was
standing open, it was pretty clear she had to dive through the other
pretty smartish, if she was not to urinate over the carpet.
Even when she was in the small bathroom, it was a pretty close call,
since her panties were underneath her suspenders rather than on top, and
in her befuddled state she couldn't pull them down without getting them
tied up in suspenders and stockings. In the end, she simply put a hand
on the gusset and pulled them as far down her legs as she could, as she
thankfully sank down onto the seat and let her waters flow.
After emptying her bladder, Charlotte staggered through into the
bedroom, pulled back the quilt and dropped onto the mattress. She barely
had time to pull the quilt over her body before falling again into a
deep sleep, bordering upon unconsciousness.
***
It was ten am next morning before Charlotte vaguely started to wonder
what the hell she was doing there? She had got up several times
overnight, in response to the calls of nature; sometimes to empty her
bladder; and sometimes to cure her raging thirst by drinking gallons of
water from the tooth mug in the bathroom.
But this time, after her long piss, she remained conscious long enough
to register that, at some time during the night, she had shed all of her
clothes ? she could see the remnants spread over the floors of the upper
rooms ? and that she was now totally naked in a small house, empty of
any other occupants. She was still very much the worse from something,
and she couldn't even walk in a straight line over to the bathroom
window. She released the blind over the window and looked out, at a
countryside of wooded hillsides and empty meadows.
She smiled, suddenly aware that, unusually for a bathroom, it was not
fitted with obscured glass, and she could have opened the blind onto a
busy city street, revealing every part of her upper anatomy to the
crowds, below. Fortunately, there was no one in sight to take notice of
the naked woman at the window.
She lurched through to the bedroom and, this time more cautiously,
repeated the operation, revealing an almost identical view, apart from
the lane which passed in front of the cottage, with a car parked
directly outside the door.
She hadn't got a clue what she was doing there, where exactly she was,
or even which day it was. She appeared to have the place to herself.
Perhaps she was a guest of a new lover? But a trawl through the empty
wardrobes and bare drawers proved she was wrong ? instead, she appeared
to be in some kind of rented holiday accommodation. More importantly, it
placed her right in front of the mirror over the dressing-table, and she
was brought face to face ? with herself!
It wasn't as if she didn't recognise herself (which she did) or remember
her own name. It was simply that she didn't know herself. She might just
as well have been looking at a photograph of a well-known model in a
magazine ? recognising her features, but totally oblivious to her real
life.
Even her own reaction to her ignorance was strange. Most people in
similar circumstances would have started to panic ? perhaps tried to
telephone for a doctor or an ambulance. She simply shrugged as though
she couldn't be bothered, then staggered downstairs, and lifted the
blinds down there.
It was her stomach which drew her to the kitchen, where she opened the
fridge and found a pot of yoghurt to cure the stabs of hunger in her
stomach. But she had barely finished the pot, before she had to race to
the toilet, and vomit it all up. Afterwards, she went back to bed and
slept.
3 WORSE FOR PETER
With the difference in time zones, I woke up at some stupidly early hour
on Saturday morning, and lay in bed, contemplating my position. Firstly,
there was the strange fact that my friend, Frank, had abandoned me at
the airport.
Frank and I had worked in Singapore for many years, doing virtually the
same jobs as Overseas Buyers, but for competing British electrical
retail companies. Whatever electrical product you may have recently
bought in the UK ? kettles, radios, CD players ? if it was made in
Singapore, Frank or I may well have arranged its purchase. We were
actually quite similar in many ways, but since we were direct
competitors, we'd never been particularly friendly. Perhaps if we
happened to bump into each other, we'd have a drink together, but that
would be all.
But just over a month ago, my wife, Susan, had left me, to live with my
boss ? the head of our Singapore office. For me, a bad situation was
made much worse because it appeared that, for well over a year,
virtually everyone in the company, apart from me, had known the two had
been having a steamy affair. As a result, I became very disillusioned
with my former colleagues, especially my so-called friends.
A few days after Susan's departure, Frank's wife, Charlotte, left him
and returned to England. To be honest, I don't think anyone was
surprised by that. Even from across a ballroom, the flighty glances she
gave to every male in sight were as obvious an invitation as I had ever
seen. Had I not been one of those people who believe in being faithful
to one's partner (unlike my shitty wife), I'd probably have been
crowding around her myself. So, to most of us, the surprise was that
their marriage lasted so long; and if that sounds just a little like
having the same attitude as I'd found so obnoxious in my closest
friends, perhaps you'll understand why I went out of my way to make
contact with him and talk through his problems.
As you might expect, we'd since become the closest of pals, and we met
up several times a week to eat, get drunk, and moan about the bitchiness
of women. But while I never wanted to see Susan again, he desperately
wanted Charlotte to come back to him. After I'd told Frank I was
returning to England for Nick's wedding, it had seemed quite natural
that he should book the same flight, to try to obtain a reconciliation.
So, with our recent close friendship, and our shared itinerary for the
onward journey, you can imagine why I was so surprised that Frank hadn't
held the coach for me.
But as I lay in bed reflecting, I thought that maybe I was being
unreasonable. There would probably be a dozen coaches waiting outside to
take all the passengers from a Jumbo. It was dark; people would be
dashing from coach to coach to find seats or places for their luggage,
or their friends and relatives. Frank may have saved me a seat to start
with, but how could he be certain I hadn't got on another coach? It
would have been chaos, and Frank would not have stood a chance.
Presumably, he'd tried to call me on my mobile, but I hadn't switched it
on before I fell in the ditch, and it hadn't been working since. So, I
concluded, Frank should receive a full pardon.
Unfortunately, the question of Frank's loyalty was only a minor part of
my problems. Apart from the hotel dressing-gown, I had absolutely
nothing to wear, and no money or credit cards with which to buy
anything. In theory, my clothes should be laundered and arrive by seven
am, my breakfast at seven-thirty, the hire car at eight, and there would
be sufficient time for me to drive to the home of Nick's future in-laws
(where he was staying until the wedding), borrow some cash, hire a suit,
and get to the church on time. But there were a hell of a lot of things
which could go wrong ? and knowing my recent luck, they probably would.
They did!
Seven am came and went, and no clothes appeared. I tried ringing
Housekeeping. The phone rang unanswered, until it diverted to an
answering machine. I left an urgent message.
Ten minutes later, they hadn't responded, so I rang again, and when the
same thing happened, rang Reception. There was a different Assistant
Manager on duty, who was far too busy to speak to me personally, but,
the woman told me, Reception couldn't do anything anyway, since
Housekeeping were a law unto themselves.
I continued to ring Housekeeping at ten minute intervals, and at seven-
thirty, telephoned Reception again. Line busy!
So it went on. My breakfast was late, and when I rang the restaurant,
was told it was on its way ? but in the kind of voice which indicates
they'd never seen my original order.
Eight o'clock, my breakfast finally arrived, and after explaining my
plight to the waitress, she assured me she would go down to Housekeeping
and get them to call. They didn't, and even worse, by eight-fifteen, the
promised car hadn't arrived, either.
I tried to make a call to BA, but my telephone was not authorised to
make outside calls. 'Please contact Reception to set up an account.'
Reception was permanently engaged!
I rang the Restaurant to enquire whether the waitress had discovered
anything about my clothes, and was told it was not their job to sort out
Housekeeping; if I had a complaint, I should see the Manager.
And then, just before nine, the airport baggage-office telephoned to
tell me they had found my suitcase, and would send it straight around.
It was fortunate that call came just before the next, since it was
Housekeeping, to tell me they'd been unable to do anything with my
clothes in the hotel, so they'd sent them to their laundry service, and
would be back at the hotel on Wednesday! I didn't even explode, simply
gave them the forwarding address, expecting never to see my clothes
again.
To complete the series of calls, the local car-hire firm telephoned.
'Sorry we haven't delivered a car to you yet, Mr Blake. The truth is we
weren't expecting that flight from Singapore last night and it's totally
cleared out our stock. Our driver is collecting a car at the moment, and
he'll be passing your hotel quite soon. Obviously, we'd normally bring
it back here for full servicing, but we understand you want it quite
urgently. If you're happy to accept the car as it is?'
'Send him straight here,' I ordered. 'I can empty the ashtrays myself.'
At last, I thought, things were starting to look hopeful. Little did I
know!
***
My suitcase arrived at ten. I hadn't got the key for it, of course, but
I used a knife from my breakfast tray to slip the inadequate locks and
threw the lid open, already to leap into tee-shirt and jeans. The silk
dress lying on top was pure white, with a plunging cleavage, and made of
such light material, it must surely be translucent.
The problem was that I hadn't packed a white, silk dress in my suitcase.
Even if the dress had belonged to Susan, her treachery had made me so
wild, I'd have shredded it, rather than keeping it in perfect condition
until I could return it to her.
There was, however, a very obvious solution which sprang to mind. A week
ago, I'd showed Frank the case I'd bought to carry all the junk I was
going to bring back to England. It was huge, and more resembled a ship's
trunk than a suitcase. Frank wanted to get into Charlotte's good books
by taking her all the clothes she'd left behind in Singapore, so
realising that he needed one just as big, he went to the same store and
bought an identical trunk.
In the baggage-hall, Frank must have seen mine as it came along the
carousel and grabbed it, thinking it was his. Meanwhile, his own
suitcase had gone astray, and now it had been found and returned to me.
No doubt, he'd been frantically trying to call me all morning,
desperately hoping that I had his suitcase.
If I hadn't been so anxious to regain my wedding suit, I'd have let the
bugger sweat as a punishment for abandoning me in the airport. But in
the meantime, I didn't have any conscience about borrowing a few of his
clothes from his suitcase.
Just to be certain it really was his suitcase, I pulled out the thick
document envelope stuffed down the side of the suitcase, and tipped the
contents over my bed. There were all kinds of credit cards and documents
belonging to Charlotte ? more importantly, there was ?500 in notes!
Naturally, I wouldn't steal Frank's money, since I would eventually
return it to him in full, but the money would certainly help me out of
my current cash crisis. Since it didn't look as though I'd recover my
suit before the wedding, at least I now had the cash to hire a suit, as
well as buy myself a lunch.
The phone rang again ? it was the car delivery driver. 'Just leave the
keys at Reception,' I told him. 'That will be fine.'
'Sorry,' he said, 'I can't do that. I need to fill in your licence
details.'
Shit! My licence was at the bottom of a muddy creek. I tried explaining
nicely, why I couldn't give them to him, and then tried to bully him,
but he was immoveable.
'You wouldn't be covered by insurance unless I have your licence
details. I'm sorry sir; I simply can't let you have the car.'
A flash of inspiration. 'Hang on,' I told him, then riffled through
Charlotte's documents lying on my bed: birth certificate, marriage
licence, credit cards, passport AND?
A driving licence!
'My friend will drive,' I told him. 'If you come up to my room, you can
see her licence.'
OK, I know that was rather naughty. Driving without insurance is a
highly irresponsible crime, but I reasoned that I was not going to have
an accident, and that even if I did, I could surely bluff my company
into making a claim from their company-wide motor insurance.
With Charlotte's licence details duly entered on the driver's forms, he
handed over the keys, and departed, while I started to flick through the
contents of the suitcase, looking for Frank's jeans and shirts.
Then I went through it again, more carefully. Finally, I removed every
item from the suitcase and painstakingly laid everything out on the bed,
looking for the items I had missed. The problem was, I hadn't missed any
items. Every article of clothing in the suitcase not only patently
belonged to Charlotte, but it also appeared that she didn't own a single
pair of jeans or trousers!
4 BETTER FOR CHARLOTTE
'I was wondering if you were alright?'
The words jerked her out of her half-sleep, and she sat bolt upright,
looking at the man who was in her bedroom, who appeared transfixed by
something on her chest. After a few seconds, she stared down to see what
had attracted his attention, and realised she was naked from the waist
up, her huge boobs jutting out with quite commendable firmness. It took
her another few seconds before she realised that modesty dictated that
perhaps she ought to cover herself, and she belatedly pulled the quilt
up to her neck.
Victor Walters, the owner of the holiday cottage, was in totally
uncharted territory. It was obvious that the girl had not been well when
she'd arrived last night ? brought in by a couple who'd told him they
had found her unconscious at the wheel of a car, about half a mile down
the lane away, and totally blocking it. He had spent the morning
vacillating between calling the police, the ambulance, going in to see
her, and doing nothing.
All morning, he had continued to let indecision take the lead, and
perhaps if she hadn't started moving about, followed by her vomiting, he
might have continued to procrastinate for ever. But it was obvious she
needed some help, and since she was his client, he could hardly go to
the police. For once, he had to take action himself.
When she had so quickly sat up, revealing those fantastic tits and
clearly totally unaware that she was doing so, he had been at a complete
loss about what to do. Was it polite, under such circumstances, to point
out to a lady that her tits were on show, or would that merely cause her
embarrassment? More importantly, if he simply kept quiet, would she
carry on exposing them for the whole of their conversation, and could he
think of sufficient topics to keep the conversation going, for ever?
His eyes ultimately let him down, as he knew they would. If only he was
able to discretely look at a woman's tits, as other men appeared able to
do so, without his eyeballs bulging out of their sockets.
After pulling the quilt around her torso, Charlotte thought she ought to
respond to her questioner. 'I'm not really certain. I feel very?
strange.' She gave him a little, hesitant smile, and asked, 'Who are
you?'
Victor could have made all kinds of witty retorts, or diversionary
responses, which might have led to a more interesting scenario, but that
was totally beyond him. Instead, he said, 'I'm Victor Walters, the
landlord.'
Aware that his first response was less than adequate, he sought to
clarify. 'I could see you weren't very well, when they brought you here
last night. I've been looking out for you, and then I saw you ? I mean
heard you er? throwing up, so I thought I'd better come round.'
As Charlotte stared back at him, he could feel his cheeks starting to
glow redder and redder. God, how he hated the way he blushed whenever he
lied. Any moment now, Charlotte was going to see through him and force
him to come out with the truth. When he did so, she'd tell him he was a
revolting little man and he should piss off back to the hole he crawled
out of.
And Charlotte may have been feeling like shit warmed up two minutes ago,
but for some reason, she was now feeling incredibly randy. Already, the
blood was shooting through her body, making her tingle all over. She
didn't know what the hell had been wrong with her, but she was pretty
certain what was likely to cure it.
She gave him her cutest smile. 'Oh, Vic. Thank you so much for caring
about me enough to check that I'm alright. In truth, I've been feeling
absolutely dreadful, as though I wasn't here at all, but somewhere else.
I don't know what's wrong with me, or when I shall get better.'
'Do you want me to ring for a doctor, or?'
'No!'
Charlotte couldn't, for the life of her, understand why she had so
hastily rejected Victor's kind offer. But she did know it was a subject
that, for the time being, she did not want to go down. In the meantime,
she had to find out much more about what she was doing there, and also
attend to the pressing needs of her body.
'Sorry Vic, I didn't mean to snap at you. It's just that I'm not at my
best. I can't even remember when I went down with my sickness. Can you
help?'
'Well, not really. A couple found you along the lane, last night. You'd
stopped your car in the middle of the road, and weren't fit to drive.
They thought you were drunk or? something. Presumably, you must have
told them you were trying to get here, so they brought you along.'
'That was good of them.' She unexpectedly felt quite overwhelmed by
events; she didn't know what she was doing here, or even who she really
was. She felt her eyes pricking, and then a tear rolled down her cheek.
'I'm sorry.' She brushed the tear away. 'You must find it a real pain,
me being here, and you having to come in and check me out, but I feel
awfully vulnerable, at the moment.'
Without warning, the single tear turned into a dozen, and Charlotte
flung her arms around his neck and started crying into the side of his
head. Victor couldn't help noticing that this had meant she'd released
the quilt, which had slipped down, again exposing those fabulous tits.
'There, there,' he comforted, using the same words his mother had, years
ago. 'It's alright. I'm here and I'll look after you.'
Christ, Victor thought, I'm out of my depth here. He lifted a hand,
desperately wanting to squeeze that magnificent tit, but discretion made
him move it around her side, and hesitantly pat her shoulder blade.
He'd expected her to immediately scream louder, and call him a pervert
for touching her, as the woman in the lift in Debenhams had once done.
In fact, his touch had the opposite effect; Charlotte's sobs became more
controlled, and she moved her body closer to him, so her tit was
nuzzling against his chest. Through his thin tee-shirt, he could feel
her hard, protruding nipple rubbing against his chest.
His abrupt erection could not have come at a worse time ? it was so very
uncomfortable, and needed urgent adjustment, but both his arms were
wrapped around her, and even if he released his right arm, he'd have to
perform the adjustment right under her eyes.
He tried a little wriggle, which seemed to make his situation worse.
God, he had to do something! He gave a bigger wriggle.
'Oh dear! What have I done to you?' She was staring with tear-filled
eyes, down at the bulge in his trousers.
Here we go, he thought. She's about to utter a scream to wake the dead.
'Oh, I'm so sorry,' she said. 'I've put you in a terrible position. Your
wife or girl-friend would kill me if she knew how stupid I'd been.'
'But I don't have a wife or a girl-friend!'
'You don't? Heavens, someone has missed a good catch.' A slight pause.
'In that case, I wonder if you'd do something for me?'
He nodded, 'Of course, anything?'
'I'm feeling so strange, and it's so nice of you to give me a bit of a
cuddle, but... well, do you think you could? this is a terrible
imposition, but would you mind? well... it must be a maternal urge, or
something, but it just feels so very nice, and? relaxing, and?
comforting, if you'd... suck on my nipples.' She saw his eyes widen in
surprise, and sought his reassurance. 'You wouldn't mind, would you?
Please.'
If he'd thought he was out of his depth before, he was drowning now.
Beautiful women with fantastic tits didn't permit blokes like him to
even glance at their tits, never mind? He gulped, and thought he might
choke on his Adam's apple.
'No, no that's fine. I'll er...' He lowered his mouth towards her
breast, and at the last moment hesitated, as he wondered if he'd dreamt
her words, and that she would start screaming as soon as his lips...
She clutched him behind the head and forced his mouth against her, and
breathed a deep sigh of contentment as he took his first tentative suck.
'Mmmm. That's wonderful. Oh, yes! Do you want to try the other one now,
and perhaps you could suck just a little bit harder.'
She fed her left breast towards his mouth, and gasped as he sucked it
hard inside his mouth. 'Oh, my God, that's nice. Here, let me...' The
latter in response to another uncomfortable wriggle. She undid the belt
on his trousers and unzipped him.
'Oh hell! What an enormous cock.' In fact, Charlotte was exaggerating
slightly, here, but it was well worth it because it grew even stiffer in
her hand. 'Would you mind if I...'
Well aware that she was probably about to deflower a male virgin who
must be almost thirty, she'd been about to suggest that she should sit
astride his lap. That way, she could initiate the action, control the
pace and even make certain his cock went in the right hole (not that she
was averse to a little anal action, but she felt that, the first time
round, he should do it the conventional way).
But before she could do so, his fingers had traced a path down her tummy
and through her pubic hair, and very lightly, he'd touched her in a very
special place, and the fireworks started exploding inside her head.
'J-e-e-e-e-e-z!'
He moved his fingers slightly, and the fireworks multiplied in intensity
a thousand times, until her head was inside the fireworks, and it was
her head exploding with orgasmic pleasure. Every tiny movement of his
fingers sent her into deeper and deeper ecstasy, until she was losing
consciousness with each orgasm.
Finally, after a lifetime in seventh heaven, he was bringing her down
off the clouds, and she was returning to reality. Her body was covered
in sweat, her breath coming in short gasps, and she knew she had been
well and truly finger-fucked!
'Oh thank you, Vic. Thank you so much! That was absolutely wonderful.
Where did you learn to do that?'
Well that was a rather embarrassing question, but fortunately, he
correctly assessed it was meant rhetorically. In fact, as a twenty-eight
year old male virgin, he'd had a sudden panic attack when she'd grabbed
his cock and was about to tell him to shove it inside her. Suppose he
did it all wrong, shot his load before he'd got it in, or even put it
into the wrong hole?
It was certainly a failing of his video camera, hidden inside the smoke-
detector above the bed, that it was usually almost impossible to see the
point at which the male guest penetrated the woman. Oh, he frequently
saw a male bum, as it thrust down upon the woman, or the woman's torso,
if she was on top, but it needed hand-held cameras within inches of the
penetration, to get the kind of shots which would have given Victor the
confidence he needed.
Fortunately, the same problem did not arise with female masturbation.
The more common type of visitor to his holiday cottage would be the
unaccompanied woman. With a woman lying on her back on the bed or in the
Jacuzzi, the smoke-detector cameras, with their fantastic zoom facility,
would be pointing directly at the woman's vagina, as she used her hand,
or a vibrator, to bring herself off. Victor had seen dozens of different
variations on the same theme, and hundreds of different vaginas. He knew
exactly where women should be touched to produce results, and he had to
say, he was more than a little pleased with his achievements with
Charlotte. He lay back on the bed for a brief instant, well aware that
he urgently needed to go to the toilet and have an enormous wank.
But Charlotte would not let debts go unpaid. Before he could even think
about moving, she was swinging a leg over his, and sitting on his
thighs, her breasts hovering an inch above his glistening cock. She was
no lightweight. Even if he wanted to get out of this situation, he
wouldn?t be able to do so, but at that moment, sexual need was easily
overriding fear.
She read his thoughts. 'Lie back, and think of England.' And then she
wriggled forward until her cunt was directly above his prick. Slowly,
the two became one.
***
After three hours of almost non-stop fucking, Charlotte felt decidedly
better. OK, she was still extremely confused about who she was and what
she was doing in the cottage, but her body was no longer feeling so
dreadful. She still staggered a bit when she walked, but that was
probably because she was walking with her legs wide apart, to ease the
soreness inside her. At least she'd had the sense to take the birth-pill
from the pack she'd found in her handbag.
They came to a natural halt from their romping, both of them in that
wonderful post-coital bliss.
'So Vic, you're telling me that I booked the cottage for four weeks?'
'Well, not you personally, of course. The booking came via email, after
you saw an advert in "The Lady".'
He always kept a copy of the weekly magazine in the cottage, handy if
guests complained he'd wrongly advertised it, and he got out of bed to
fetch it. He flicked through the pages until he came to his ad, which he
then passed across to Charlotte.
"Spoil yourself with a luxurious cottage break, set in the secluded
heart of the beautiful Cotswolds, with an abundance of art galleries,
antique shops, hairdressers/ beauty salons, and delightful restaurants,
eminently suitable for the single female diner, or a couple wanting to
share discrete moments together. Single bedroom with Queen-sized bed,
en-suite with Jacuzzi, comfortable lounge and well equipped kitchen.
Lady(ies) or couples only. Contact Virginia Walters, Tel..."
'Isn't Virginia Walters your wife?'
'It's my mother, actually, and er... she's dead, but I er... always
think her name sounded better and more ladylike, than mine.'
'Well, yes. Victor doesn't sound at all ladylike. Do you only advertise
in "The Lady"? Have you thought of any other magazines?'
'It brings in a much nicer type of client.'
In fact, it frequently brought in women on their own, desiring a little
solitude from the world ? and they often spent a lot of time in simply
finding themselves. Unfortunately, it sometimes also attracted couples
who wanted a discrete place to fuck. Whilst it made for entertaining
television, the problem was, it often left him feeling unhappy that he
was missing out on such activity. He far preferred unaccompanied women,
who might spend their time alone in discovering, and pleasuring, their
own bodies.
Charlotte nodded sagely at his response. 'That must be what attracted
me,' she said, wondering why on earth she had really chosen to come
here.
5 PETER DISCOVERS THAT EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING
There was not one item which was remotely suitable for me to wear
without looking totally stupid. Almost all the tops and dresses were
brightly coloured with revealing cleavages, and there wasn't a single
pair of shorts or trousers. It appeared that Frank had packed in his
hand-baggage all the clothes he'd needed for the duration of his four
week stay in the UK!
It was seeing Charlotte's wig which started to make me think. Although
I'd never met Charlotte close up, I knew about the nasty scars to both
sides of her face ? I think as a result of being caught in a fire during
her childhood.
She had always done her best to hide the impact, partly by focusing
men's eyes on much more interesting parts of her ? which is why she
always displayed her revealing cleavages ? but also with her thick,
dark-brown, shoulder-length hair which half fell across her eyes, hid
most of her cheeks, and then curled at the front under her chin, so that
little could really be seen of the majority of her face. It didn't
surprise me very much to learn this was a wig. I pulled it out of the
wig-box and twirled it in my hands, ideas spinning through my mind, and
then, as quickly, being dismissed.
It would never work. I had more than a day' stubble on my chin, and even
if I was to remove every hair on my body with the wax in her beauty kit,
I'd still be a long way short of filling the front of the low cut
blouses and dresses. I needed something else to help me there, and I
vaguely wondered whether Charlotte had any padded bras, which I could
stuff with cotton wool.
I spent a few minutes looking through her bras, all of which were
definitely non-padded, before I turned my attention to the large
cardboard tube, with the picture of the beautiful woman on the side.
'Singapore Girl,' the banner said, with underneath, 'You can have the
sexiest body in town.' I pulled the end cap off the tube, and removed
the flesh-coloured garment from inside.
It turned out to be two garments actually. The first was a leotard, with
long sleeves, and a high collar, fitting right up the neck and under the
chin. I couldn't identify what the leotard was made from, but it was a
very thin, stretchy material and smooth to the touch, almost like skin.
In fact, combined with the flesh-colour, it felt and looked exactly like
real skin.
I'd thought the garment was wrapped around something soft and bulky when
I'd first pulled it out of the tube, but as I spread it out before me, I
realised that the bulkiness was due to the heavy padding on the breasts,
forming huge tits the size of honeydew melons.
'So all along,' I thought, 'the superb tits that Charlotte had been
displaying to the world were totally false, and we were all taken in.
'And if Charlotte could do it,' I speculated, 'why not me?'
But it was the second garment which really fascinated me. It was in the
same flesh-coloured material, and was like a pair of footless tights,
except that there was thick padding all around the buttocks, hips and
outer thighs.
It was strange; I'd always thought women were trying to minimise the
size of their hips and bums ? not make them much bigger, but that's
certainly what this garment would do.
The instructions enclosed with the bodysuit were written in several
languages, including poor English, and it took me a few seconds to find
the start of the English.
"Male to Female Bodysuit." I did a re-take, and then read on to check my
assumption: sure enough, the bodysuit was designed to make a male look
like a shapely woman. So what was it doing in Charlotte's suitcase?
Except of course, the bodysuit was in Frank's suitcase ? not
Charlotte's.
***
It didn't take long to work out the solution. I knew that Frank had felt
terribly shamed by Charlotte's departure, and desperately wanted her
back. Clearly, he'd misled me when he told me she'd agreed to see him.
Instead, he'd intended to spend the time recreating Charlotte for
himself. And why not?
I was going to have to tread extremely carefully when it came to
returning the suitcase to Frank, revealing that I knew his secret. Not
that I had any problem with his pastimes; especially as it now appeared
I was going to get acquainted with them myself. Needs must!
According to the blurb, the bodysuit provided the ultimate dream for any
male wishing to temporarily become a beautiful female. It provided a:
"realistic, sensitive vagina, allowing full male penetration" and
breasts that were: "so responsive, the user could reach orgasm with oral
sex". Yeah! And pigs might fly!
The secret, we were told, was the touch-sensitive artificial skin
connected to a micro-chip, which would digitally amplify the minute
signals, and transmit them to the appropriate parts of the wearer's own
skin. It all sounded good, but on the other hand, as a buyer of
electrical goods from the Far East, I had seen lots of fantastic
promises and learnt to be always sceptical until I'd witnessed the
results for myself.
The important question was, could I don this bodysuit, get dressed and
look realistic enough to step outside my room? To some extent, the
answer was irrelevant ? I had to go out, and I must look better than I
would do simply wearing Charlotte's clothes on my unmodified body. The
question was a no-brainer.
***
The most intricate part of putting on the bodysuit was getting my
genitals inside the false cunt, which was an exceptionally uncomfortable
operation. I had to pull the leggings over my feet and up the legs as
far as my groin, then fumble around inside, feeding my balls and prick
into a "filament bag", shaped to fit and made of a stretchy-material
almost like a sheer stocking. When I'd finally got my goolies packed
inside the bag, it clung tightly to my skin, and the constriction
especially around the hilt of my shaft served to give me a massive
erection. "An erection should be encouraged," the poorly written
instructions said, "but do not masturbate or permit ejaculation, as this
may damage the filament bag. When fully erect, use the spray compound to
completely cover the genitals.
The compound made my prick swell even more, and I could now see the bag
was made of a fine diamond mesh, through which everything bulged, a bit
like a woman's thigh bulging in tiny diamond patterns through fishnet-
tights which were too tight.
I read the next step of the instructions: "Take one of the pills to
progress to the next stage of your conversion. The pill will not only
eliminate any chance of an erection for the rest of the day, but also
slowly release helium into your throat so that your voice will rise in
pitch, and sound like a perfect female voice."
I wasn't too keen on taking strange pills, but I had to not only get rid
of the massive erection, which showed absolutely no sign of subsiding on
its own, but also ensure it did not return at an inopportune moment.
Hopefully, I wouldn't need my voice converting, since I hoped not to
speak to anyone except Nick, but it might come in handy for the odd
word, here and there. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I decided to
take a pill.
The pills were in a bubble pack which looked just like a pack of birth-
pills, and the instructions said that I would have to take one every day
that I remained in the bodysuit.
I swallowed one with a glass of water, and for a few seconds nothing
happened. Then, my hard-on disappeared with the speed of a bursting
balloon, and for a few more seconds, my balls seemed to be competing
with my prick as to which could nestle up closest to my torso, by
occupying the smallest space possible. My balls won, as with quite
considerable discomfort, first the right ball and then the left
disappeared inside my body, leaving the empty sacs shrivelled up and
wrinkled. My prick had reduced to about two centimetres in length and
one in width.
I desperately read the instructions to check whether that was supposed
to happen; it was. "When the balls have disappeared inside the body,
push the ball sacs after them, where the adhesive component of the spray
compound will ensure they are kept safely tucked out of the way." They
were right; the compound was sticky and as soon as I'd pushed the sacs
up inside my body, they stayed there. Finally, I had to pull the
leggings up to my waist, and locate my minute cock into the tube in the
false vagina through which I would piss. Again, the adhesive kept it
nicely in place.
The leggings had a zip fastener at the rear, from anus to waist. It was
a bit difficult to do up, but when I'd done so, it pulled in my tummy
wonderfully, and with my newly enhanced wide hips and round bum, gave me
the lower half of a perfect hourglass figure. The leotard went over my
head and down my body, and then the gusset had to be drawn firmly
between my legs and fastened at the rear. There was even a pubic wig to
give added realism.
I read on: "You now have a fully functional female body. You will be
able to feel every touch to your vagina, by means of the minute
filaments glued to your genitals, which apply small electrical
discharges to the skin."
I know! I know! One should always fully read the instructions before
commencing any operation. I certainly didn't like the sound of having
electrical filaments glued to my testicles, but it was too late to go
back, and in any case, what else could I have done? I guessed that as
long as I didn't start playing around with my new pussy, I wouldn't get
my balls blown off by a faulty circuit.
However, when it was all in place, I actually felt very comfortable.
With my huge hips and bum, I looked like a woman, and if I showed a nice
cleavage, no one was going to look at my face too keenly. It had taken
me some time, but having done everything according to the instructions,
at least I could be certain I wouldn't be risking the chance of an
embarrassing erection pushing through my dress at a crucial moment ?
provided, of course, the pill worked as it was supposed to, which in
itself was a huge assumption.
Only the final pieces of disguise were left: a painful waxing process to
remove my facial hair; the stick-on scars, which went onto the sides of
my cheeks; and then I spent a few minutes sticking on false nails, which
gave me reasonably attractive hands for when I handed back the hotel
key. Finally, the wig slipped onto my head, and I secured it in place
with adhesive from a tube.
As I critically stared at myself in the mirror, I was more than
impressed with the reality of my transformation. If I didn't know
better, I would be well and truly taken in by the naked girl before me,
marred only by the scars on the side of her face.
But I didn't have time to stand and stare at the beautiful girl. I had
to get dressed and on my way. I discarded the white silk dress in favour
of a cream, shirt-waister dress, with a large, bright floral pattern. It
was a suitable length since it would fall below the knee, but it could
be unbuttoned at both top and bottom to the wearer's taste. I guessed
Charlotte would have chosen it for just the same qualities which I
particularly wanted; to draw attention away from the face and onto the
body, whilst preserving a little decency, which the white silk dress
certainly would not.
Having selected my dress, I chose a white platform bra, and matching
white panties, suspender-belt and stockings, and shoes with two-inch
heels. I slipped them all on, but just in time remembered from my
earlier days with Susan, that knickers go over the suspender belt and
stockings, and not underneath, otherwise they all have to be undone,
simply in order to have a piss.
Then I put on the dress and buttoned it fully at the bottom, but left as
many top buttons undone as I could without my bra showing. I had a
cleavage which would draw the lustful attention of every male, and the
jealous attention of every female. Anyone glancing at my face might see
the scars, but I was convinced that absolutely no one would consider for
one moment that I was a man.
I kept out the lovely white handbag which I thought would match my
outfit quite nicely, slipped my mobile-phone and the money inside and
put all Charlotte's other things ? sorry, I meant MY things (the
instructions had given strict directions about thinking myself into the
role) ? back into the suitcase, and shut it up. Strictly speaking, I
should have sorted out my driving licence from the other papers, and put
that in my handbag, but it had taken me so long to get ready, I thought
I ought to get on the road as soon as I could.
As I was about to leave the room, I had one of those nasty little
nagging doubts that I'd overlooked something very important, so I took
another look around the room and en-suite. There, on the washbasin, was
the pack of voice-changing pills. Although I definitely wasn't going to
need them again, it looked so similar to a pack of birth-pills I thought
someone might take the wrong thing by mistake! I slipped the pack into
my handbag, took a deep breath, opened the door and went out into the
hotel corridor.
***
I released that breath as I took the first few steps along the corridor
("Lead with the hips forward," the instructions had said, "and pull your
shoulders back and down"). I was on my way. Fortunately, I had no bill
to pay, so I'd be able to simply hand in my room-key, find my hire-car,
drive to Cheltenham, and borrow some of Nick's clothes to go out and
find a hire-suit ? all without speaking to anyone except Nick.
'That's a huge suitcase. Can I help you with it?'
The guy had been approaching from the direction of the lifts, and for
some reason, instead of merely moving to one side of the corridor to
allow me to wheel the case past, he stood in the centre of it, so I had
to come to a halt before him. I wondered if he was drunk and perhaps
trying to start a fight. I was about to draw myself up to my full height
and tell him to get out of my way, before realisation came with a rush.
'I'm fine, thank you,' I whispered in my softest voice. Surprisingly, it
sounded OK. The helium pills must have worked.
Unfortunately, the guy wouldn't take no for an answer. 'It's no
problem.'
He reached past me to take the suitcase from my hand, accidentally
brushing against my body as he did so. I guess I could have punched him
in the stomach, or kneed him in the balls, or just told him to go and
get fucked, but that's not what we women do.
'There's no need, really, but... Oh, thank you!'
I even managed to give him a smile. After all, he could pull the bloody
thing around the car park until I'd found the rental car left for me,
and since I only knew the registration number and make ? a BMW ? it
might take ages.
He called the lift, allowed me to go in first, but then, as the doors
started to close, had to rush to get himself and the suitcase inside,
which meant he had to squash up against me again. With a sudden rush of
excitement, it occurred to me that, far from being terrified of meeting
anyone on my journey, I was so thrilled by the thought that I could feel
my nipples tingling.
I'd hardly had chance to reason that my nipples were inanimate bits of
plastic, and there was no way they could tingle, when we arrived at the
ground floor and the doors opened.
It had been deserted in the lobby when I arrived yesterday evening, and
I'd been assuming it would be much the same now. Was I wrong? There must
have been at least five coach parties who were either just arriving or
just leaving, including a group of fifteen year old schoolboys who took
one look at me and then started making comments like: 'Look at the tits
on that!' or 'You don't get many of those to the pound!'
The more mature males in the foyer didn't make any remarks, but I could
feel their eyes drilling through my clothes, as I walked over to the
Reception counter (remember, hips forward ? shoulders back), and posted
my key through the slot in the surface. I rejoined my volunteer porter,
and we went outside searching for my car.
I almost walked past it, as I was looking for a conventional saloon. It
was a Z4 Roadster; the kind of sports car that looks as though it's
designed for Le Mans; the kind of sports car that neither Frank nor I
would normally have hired, but Charlotte certainly would. It suited me,
with my cream-coloured dress, casually unbuttoned and exposing my superb
breasts to the world.
My volunteer porter almost wet himself with excitement, and I got him to
lift the suitcase into the boot ? which I think practically gave him a
hernia ? whilst I got into the driver's seat. I started the engine,
gunned the accelerator, put it into gear and gave him a nice wave as I
took off with a squeal of tyres.
***
The next problem came almost immediately: no petrol in the tank! If the
car had been properly serviced, the tank would have been full, but as it
was, the warning light was flashing. If I hadn't had my confidence
boosted by the willing services of my volunteer porter, the thought of
going to a petrol station would have given me a big problem. As it was,
I decided I could undo a few buttons on the lower part of my dress to
provide plenty of distraction as I got out of the low-slung roadster.
The art of concealment, I was learning, was to make oneself more
conspicuous.
There must have been at least three guys who clocked me getting out of
the car. As I drove onto the forecourt, they were all simply standing
next to their cars, minding their own business as they filled their
tanks. Suddenly, as one, they all spun to follow the progress of my car
as I drove it to the furthest set of pumps. Two of them had to change
the way they were standing ? turning round so their backs were towards
the cars they were filling, to keep me naturally in their view.
All three must have seen the glimpse of suspender belt after I opened
the car door, swivelled in my seat, and stretched one leg to the ground.
All three must have stared down my cleavage, as I bent forwards to stand
up. But I was absolutely certain that none of them looked at any other
aspect of me.
Me, I was just an unsuspecting woman, totally unaware of the attention I
was getting as I bent over to put the petrol nozzle into my filler cap,
and stayed in that position whilst the tank filled. It was only as it
was almost full and I glanced sideways towards the shop, that I saw
myself reflected in the plate-glass window.
I hadn?t really noticed, when I put on the dress, that there was a long
slit up the rear of the dress. However, from the view I could see, of
stocking-tops and lacy white suspenders, I was pretty certain that all
the men on the forecourt had discovered that fact well before me.
I stood up and returned the nozzle to the pump, giving a friendly, but
innocent smile at one of the blokes goggling at me. He guiltily smiled
back, then turned back to return his own nozzle to the petrol pump. As I
moved towards the garage shop I noticed that, coincidentally, all the
men appeared to have finished filling their tanks at exactly the same
time, as they all came rushing over to the shop doorway, and then
courteously stood back to permit me to enter first. And they say that
gallantry is dead!
With my soft voice, paying for the petrol with Charlotte's cash was no
problem, and I returned to my car, and moved it away from the pumps into
a parking spot, so I could study the map from the car-rental pack.
Fantastic! Norton was in rural Oxfordshire, far closer to Cheltenham
than I could have hoped, and probably only about an hour's drive, taking
me right through the Cotswolds ? one of the most beautiful areas of
countryside in England.
The sun came out from under its cloud and shone down on me. In a fit of
bravado, I flicked the switch to take down the top, and then set off
with a squeal of tyres, my hair blowing in the breeze.
***
The journey was as easy ? and pretty ? as I had hoped, and it was only
eleven-thirty when the road-sign indicated I was a mere twelve miles
from Cheltenham. Until then, I'd been enjoying the drive; even the town
centres, crowded with Saturday shoppers had been easy to negotiate,
since so many drivers seemed happy to give way to the pretty girl in the
open-top roadster.
But the closeness of my destination suddenly concentrated the mind, and
I realised it would be absolute madness to drive to Nick's in-laws'
house. Susan and her lover would be there by now, and only a few hours
later, there'd be at least three wedding speeches being made. It was a
dead cert that at least two of them would feature the groom's father
arriving at the bride's house in drag.
The pub had a large sign outside: 'FOOD SERVED ALL DAY.' I abruptly
turned in and parked. Apart from anything else, my body clock, still set
to Singapore time, was telling me that I was hours late for lunch. I
would eat, whilst I considered the best option.
At that hour, there were few customers and plenty of empty tables, so I
chose one in a secluded corner, hoping as most woman would on their own,
not to attract the attention of every male in the place. I should have
known better.
When I returned to my table after placing my order at the bar, there
were a couple of blokes sitting at the next table. Surprisingly though
(perhaps even disappointingly), they didn't even look at me as I walked
past carrying my large glass of Chardonnay ? a luxury, I know, but I
reckoned I'd deserved it for what I'd done so far, and anyway, I wasn't
intending to drive much further.
By the time my food arrived, I'd decided exactly what I was going to do.
My experiences this morning had given me sufficient confidence for me to
drive into Cheltenham town centre, park, and then walk into Marks and
Spencer and purchase a man's tracksuit and track shoes. I'd have to find
a unisex toilet somewhere ? perhaps a disabled one ? and remove my
bodysuit and put on the tracksuit. Then it would be a simple matter to
leave as a male, and find a shop to hire myself a suit and everything to
go with it.
That resolved, I got on with my meal. The food was excellent, and the
mystery of why the two blokes never looked at me was explained by
surreptitiously listening to their conversation: they were gays. The
larger of the two was called Gerald, and he was rather dishy looking,
but it was the smaller man, Lesley, who spoke in the affected voice,
with every other word being 'Darling' or 'Sweetie'. I gave a mental sigh
of relief; I'd thought I'd lost my power of attraction to heterosexual
men! Then I grinned for thinking myself into my part so thoroughly.
Gerald caught my eye as I grinned, and smiled back at me; he really was
rather dishy, I thought, and if I was woman...
'Don't even imagine it, girl,' I told myself, but added self-
congratulations for so completely thinking myself into my role.
But that tiny interaction between myself and Gerald did give me pause
for thought about how I'd so naturally fallen into character. Certainly,
if I was not to be publicly exposed, I had been compelled to think
myself into the part. But how far did that take me towards sitting in a
pub and making eyes at an obviously gay male, something that would have
been absolutely unthinkable yesterday?
Yet as a pretty woman, I felt such action was reasonably safe. Lesley
appeared so intent upon flickering his eyelashes at Gerald, he didn't
notice any potential competition from me.
'Would I,' I pondered, 'risk making eyes at a heterosexual,
unaccompanied male?'
'Not at this moment ? I had a wedding to attend,' was my instantaneous
response.
The answer shocked me all the more so because it was an instinctive
reaction ? rather than a reasoned one. But as I thought about it some
more, my answer did not even appear that unreasonable. After all,
yesterday I had been a male who enjoyed heterosexual intercourse ? the
erect penis plunging inside a pussy, and moving about in an extremely
pleasant manner, to the benefit of both parties, until semen squirted
deep inside the vagina. Now I was a female, I could contribute a
different piece of my anatomy to the action, but there was absolutely no
reason at all why my love of heterosexual intercourse should be changed.
I slightly surprised myself at such a rationale, but I did recall how
sexually excited I'd been all morning. Not that sexual excitement in
itself was a particularly unusual event for me; in fact, I guess like
most men, I was continually sexually excited throughout my normal day. A
pretty girl with a short skirt would get into the lift with me, and I'd
be imagining lifting the skirt and sticking my erect penis into her
pussy; the buxom personal manager at work would pop into my office to
discuss some staffing issue, and whilst she was talking about National
Insurance and pension contributions, I'd be thinking of shoving my prick
between her tits and jerking off.
On a typical day, I'd probably think about having sex with some random
woman on ten or fifteen separate occasions. It's what we men did. Except
that even now I was a woman, I was still thinking about having sex with
random men on numerous occasions. And women didn't normally do that. Did
they?
I glanced over towards the bar, which by now was reasonably full.
Several men had obviously been gazing at me, and they hurriedly averted
their eyes, but I knew what they'd all been thinking. A shot of
adrenaline flushed through my body as I realised that, right at that
moment, I could walk up to any one of the unaccompanied blokes and ask
if they wanted to fuck me, and almost every one of them would take up my
offer.
I couldn't help wondering what it would feel like. The pain as a large
prick was shoved into a small opening; the power of the man working like
a steam-hammer towards his own orgasm; the exquisite stroke of his cock
against the wal