One of Us
by Vickie Tern
I.
It was all innocent enough. Probably. I thought so at the time,
anyhow. Pam's oldest and best friend Jenny returned exulting from two
weeks at the Club Caribe, an offshore, luxury, full-service vacation
resort in the Caribbean. She'd praised everything about it, and Pam
returned from her weekly lunch with Jenny convinced that Club Caribe
was where we had to go soon to escape our miserable northern winter,
above all to give me a two-weeks' respite from my work, from the
exhausting demands on mind, body, and spirit exacted by my fund
management activities. So that's where we decided to go.
As Pam described it, it would be glorious, a complete change. Two
weeks of baking in the sun and soaking in saunas and basking in warm,
moist tropical air, of swimming, boogie-board surfing in the ocean
and "body-surfing on each other" was how she put it. Could I say no
to that? Also snorkeling, maybe learning to scuba. Tennis lessons --
finally maybe I could develop a decent backhand. We'd try golf if we
felt lazy. We'd sail the wide bay in a lateen-rigged skiff, hauling
in the sheet, heeling over, leaning into steady trade winds. Dance
every evening. Meet new people. Do new things. Everything provided.
"Jenny went there to get laid, didn't she?" I asked. "They provide
that too?" Since her divorce from Carl her name hadn't been linked
with any of the obvious bachelors in town, nor any of the more
rampant studs either. But just to look at her, she was hot.
"Not necessarily," Pam replied. "She has friends here you don't need
to know about. She looks after herself. But the hotel does see that
their clientele enjoy at least one pleasure of the flesh. She says
she gorged herself on fabulous sea food at all-you-can-eat banquets.
Cary, you should have heard her. Two weeks of eating crunchy fried
rockfish and nibbling on stone crabs dipped in drawn butter! Two
weeks of eating way more than anyone should. If we went, I'd release
you from your diet. But only for those two weeks!"
That was a serious concession! For months and months I'd been on a
crash weight loss program, eating next to nothing and exercising
vigorously every morning, under orders behaving as if I were an
anorexic teenager girl. Because of years of bad eating habits, and
worse. Let me explain.
I may act alpha male because I have to, but it's a strain. I'm not
one. At heart I'm easygoing, live and let live, go with the flow,
let's see what happens. I always have been. High-tension, high-
pressure decision making isn't anything I enjoy. Yet I was committed
to it by my work.
Some guys love it, I know that. They thrive on the cut and thrust,
the competitiveness, on lunging at opportunities and when necessary
screwing the other guy. I don't. In fact I hate it, all that
aggressive assertiveness, the high pressure pitching of decisions to
be made and the gloating over those that went right, and the glib
rationalizing about those that went wrong. But I fell into it -- it
turned out by accident soon after I left college that I was good at
it. My first job was an internship doing commodities trading for a
private mutual fund. I looked at the figures, the fundamentals, and I
saw patterns, and I made killing after killing off other people who
flew by the seat of their pants and ended up bare-assed. So the firm
kept me on. And when I got married I started my own firm with a few
special clients, added a few more, and prospered.
Not me, the firm. I did what I had to do. I spent all day seated at
a desk making snap decisions about big sums of money. I found myself
a two-phones, six screens, two assistant financial consultant working
at high speed all day, seizing opportunities, consulting, racing to
close deals, unloading them before the markets turned, persuading
people to put their money where my mouth said, putting other people's
money out at risk and bringing it back for a profit. Doing it well
more often than not, and that's the secret of success when you play
in high finance.
It's a game, dangerous if you think about the consequences, so you
don't. It's short-order cooking during rush hour, out-thinking
everyone else. And that leaves no time for daydreaming, often not
even for a quick piss. Pam can close her office door and do an hour
of Yoga stretching, then seem to lounge through her work all
afternoon and still get things done, and I envy her that. Not me.
When I did get away from my desks and phones and computers and high-
speed calculations, it was only to dine in fancy restaurants with
clients, to relieve their fears and reassure them and hope I was
telling them the truth. Usually I was.
But when I got home from an average day at the office, more often
than not I was burnt out. I'd collapse and stare blankly at a blank
wall, unable to concentrate on anything, even on Pam as she shared
amusing anecdotes about her day. Sometimes I'd come home so edgy, so
strung out I couldn't sit still. Nothing seemed as it should be. Pam
would see me annoyedly re-setting chairs and tables an inch from
where they'd been and she'd go upstairs to avoid me, to avoid hearing
me snap at her on some pretext.
She understood well enough that my work was nerve wracking, better
in some ways than I did. She knew how it kept me chained to my desk
nibbling on anything available when I wasn't actually devouring some
kind of ordered-in take-out. How my hands and mouth were always full
of something edible. For 'consolation and reassurance,' they told me
when she sent me to an overeaters' clinic. That's why problem eaters
eat. They hate themselves.
Well, whatever. The overeater clinic's regimen didn't take. Fact is,
I ate unawares all day, whether junk at my desk or great cuisines in
the fancy restaurants where I took clients. All day. I never saw a
double cheeseburger I didn't like, nor a Canard a l'Orange Flamb?. I
ate while working the way others chain-smoke. Then I'd come home
bloated, unable to touch any of the healthy foods Pam tried to
provide me to compensate. She watched me get heavier and heavier, and
we both watched as my blood pressure climbed through the roof.
Of course eventually I got not just plump but obese. No, worse than
that, corpulent. Gross. And as my body got to be a bother to haul
around I moved less and gained even more. I didn't like it, but I
wasn't inclined to do anything about it. There I was, barking out
quotations and buy and sell orders into telephones all day while also
reading financial reports and keeping an eye on the screens, always
stressed out. Then getting home bone tired, often with a fierce
headache, the kind that presages a stroke. I didn't like girding up
for battle each morning. I hated it in fact. But I'd gotten
habituated, and I suppose I stayed with it as the course of least
resistance. It was easier to keep going than to decide not to.
Pam didn't think so. "Cary, quit!" she insisted, more than once. "I
mean it! This isn't what I married you for. You aren't being a
husband, and I don't want to be a widow."
"I guess not," I said, aroused for the moment from my mindless
staring at a chair across the room, not yet recovered from the day's
trading. Again more of my guesses had been right than not, and again
I'd accrued a considerable amount of money for my clients. For me
too. For us. "But you'll grant, it pays well."
"We don't need the money," Pam replied. "Now that my inheritance has
cleared probate, especially now, if you were never to go to the
office again we'd live as well now. Even if I were to quit work, and
my work is comparatively undemanding, nothing would change in our
lives. Except that we'd spend more time doing more things together
and we'd enjoy ourselves more and we'd live longer. You do your work
well, Cary, better than anyone, and I respect you for that. But it's
killing you! I want you to stop. Do something else. Anything. Do
nothing!"
I had no reply. She was right. I wanted to quit, part of me did, but
old habits are hard to break. So each day I'd gear up and go in yet
again to seize fortunes and evade catastrophes and eat my way through
the day's decisions. Then come home fed up and worn out. Exhausted.
Until last Fall, when Pam finally took charge. "You aren't just fat
any more, Cary," she said one evening. "You're disgusting! I don't
want to say it, but you ... well, in all honesty you aren't
physically attractive to me any longer. I do love you, but ... well,
you won't like this, but I've found myself looking around to see
where I can do better. And thinking about divorce. I mean it. Except
that Dr. Mueller tells me not to bother, it won't be necessary, she's
quite sure you'll be dead of heart disease or a stroke very soon. She
says she's told you to change your life radically, and she's told me
you don't listen."
I just stared at her. I'd heard most of this before. But never
before that she was thinking about leaving me. That was new and
disturbing.
"Are you finally willing to do something about it, or do I leave
you? I mean today, tonight. Jenny's offered me a place to stay until
you can get your stuff together and move out of the house. I'm packed
and my bag is in the car. Because ... because I can't stand to see
you like this one more day."
I was a shocked by her frankness, and now frightened too. I
swallowed once, then nodded. Finally I was awake. "I'll do whatever
you say," I said, half-choking. "Please!"
"First of all then, your weight. Afterward we'll deal with your work
-- I've been talking about this whole situation with Jenny, and we
think we know how to wean you away from it. But you have to promise
to do whatever I say! No hedging, no hesitation! We can discuss
whatever I propose for a reasonable time, but in the end I make the
final decision and you do what I say. Agreed?"
Shook up, I agreed.
And that was that. For most of the next year I worked my way back
toward becoming again the man she married, and as I managed it I felt
increasingly better about it.
First she put me on a strenuous diet, my food intake ruthlessly
calculated to the ounce. At work, instead of a bag of potato chips at
my elbow I kept a bottle of water, and the office staff were enlisted
as police, Pam's collaborators. It was hard at first. For a while I
thought it was impossible. But I couldn't bring myself to cheat, not
after that ultimatum, and pretty soon the weight began to fall off.
Slowly but steadily.
More important, she signed me into her Health Club. It was strictly
for women only, but it was conveniently nearby and en route to my
office, so there was no way I could ever drive past it forgetfully.
Pam had been a member for years, stopping there daily on her way to
work ever since I could remember. She wanted me to join it and work
out with her daily.
"You miss one session because you think you have urgent things to
do," she said, "and that day we're through. Don't bother to come
home. I'll know. Get your priorities straight and keep them there! I
am deadly serious." She was, too.
She talked to the Health Club board, and at first they abruptly told
her No. Then she talked to them some more, and they saw their way
toward making me a guest. Not good enough for Pam. More discussion
and finally they admitted me to full membership.
"What in the world did you tell them?" I asked Pam when she told me
I was now a member and would be starting there tomorrow, going there
with her every morning thereafter for a full hour, like it or not. We
were just getting ready for bed.
"I told them not to worry about you. That you're a sweetheart and a
pet and practically a woman anyhow in spirit, that all the other
women in my exercise group will love having you around. Because it's
true enough!" She came over and put her arms around my neck and
waited for my injured male ego to protest.
It did. I did. I felt indignant. Was she trying to humiliate me?
"What do you mean, practically a woman in spirit?"
"I mean inside, honey. You may be a tense hard driver at the office,
and you may try to be a son-of-a-bitch, but I know it's a strain. I
know it isn't your natural disposition. I know that in lots of ways
it runs contrary to your fundamental decency, and that's why it's a
strain. Some men love chopping up the opposition and moving in for
the kill, winning at any cost. You don't. You can out-think them, but
I know you get no pleasure from it. Because Cary, let's face it, you
are a nice man. Sympathetic, I'd even say soft. Compliant. Someone
who'd always rather relax and go with the flow. You're what the girls
in my dorm used to call a pussy." She moved toward me to kiss me.
"That's what you are, my sweet pussy."
There was just enough truth in what she was saying to spur an
instant, angry denial. "I'm a what? That's an outrageous ...!" I
backed away.
"Now don't get all assertive and macho with me, Cary, you know
perfectly well what I mean. You can't help it if you're a gentle man
in a lean, mean line of work. I had to exaggerate a little to get you
registered in the Club, but not a lot. You're basically sweet. I mean
look at you when you aren't skinning the market. Kind, considerate of
everyone around you, eager to help, not at all threatening, not
physically and not otherwise. You must know that's how come you get
on so well with all my women friends. Even with Jenny, and she's not
comfortable with any man since her divorce. Even Jenny likes you.
Women feel safe with you."
"Thanks a bunch."
"You're welcome. Honey, that's what I love about you! That's why I
married you. Especially when I saw how Jenny's marriage to that
arrogant bastard Carl was collapsing, what with him swaggering around
bullying everyone and complaining about everything and coming home
night after night pie-eyed drunk. Not you. You allow everyone all the
space they need. Even me, you never try to dominate me or commandeer
my comings and goings. That's why you're so lovable. You care about
the things I care about. You want what I want. We're the best of
friends as well as the most affectionate of lovers. We can talk to
each other about all sorts of things."
I didn't know if that was exactly a compliment either, but I took it
as one. "You mean you can talk me into all sorts of things," I said.
She smiled and took my hand and tugged gently. "That's true too. So
come to bed," she said. "I want to talk you into me."
"I'm listening," I said. I'd just put on my pajama top, but I bent
toward her and raised my arms so she could pull it off me. It was a
childish gesture, submissive I suppose, but she understood and she
did. And we went to bed. I licked her. We fucked. Then as so often
lately that wasn't quite enough for her, so she pushed me down to do
her quim and I began to lick her again. At first it had seemed
peculiar, even perverse, but now I no longer hesitated to suck my own
cum back out of her. In fact it excited her, it gave her an odd
erotic charge. With my first slurp she went rapturous, as much for
the idea of it as the sensations. She no longer swallowed my semen
but she loved it that I swallowed my own. The role reversal delighted
her as much as the sensation of my lips and tongue on her cunt.
"So good!" she'd murmur as I sucked and licked and poked her nether
lips. "So good. Oh Cary, more, more!"
So I lapped and tongued her all the more. It got to feel ... right,
almost as satisfying as plunging my penis inside her. It comforted
and reassured me, as I nursed on her sweet, salty pussy, to know that
even after her second orgasm she'd keep me there, that she'd want me
to fall asleep with my face plastered between her thighs and my lips
still pursed on her clit, sucking gently. "My baby," she'd murmur as
she drifted off. "Stay there forever!" She often told me that for
going down on a woman I was unparalleled, a master artist. Just
thinking about it would excite her enough to send us into the bedroom
for yet another session.
The next morning Pam introduced me to her exercise group, a
collection of young and middle-aged women intent on keeping their
bodies shapely and supple. They welcomed me and that was that -- I
was one of them. Each morning thereafter I'd attend group activities
and also a "body make over" session designed especially for me. Pam
and I both devoted a strenuous hour daily to burning off calories
before going to our separate offices. Not by lifting weights -- Pam
wasn't into bulging biceps and six-pack abs -- but by sweating over
the cycles and stair masters and Nautilus machines she and the other
women used to maintain their muscle tone and figures. And doing group
jazzercise and pilates and yoga stretches. It was incredibly
difficult at first, embarrassing that I couldn't keep up with Pam or
the other women, but gradually it got easier. As my swollen gut and
butt and shoulders began to shrink back down Pam bought me a series
of successively smaller leotards to work out in. They were a kind of
club uniform everyone wore, and convenient. I'd leave them in a bin
after each session, and the next day I'd find them in my locker
freshly laundered.
Whatever the exercises posted on the gym walls -- "buns of steel" to
tighten rear ends, "outstanding boobs" to build supportive muscles
behind breasts, "iron thighs" for squeezing, I did them. The trainer
didn't want to make an exception of me in any way. So we'd begin each
session doing the standard women's exercises, and we'd each work
toward our own personal best body shape, encouraging each other while
pulling, pushing, rolling, and jogging in place. Pam with her perfect
body was just doing maintenance, and Jenny too, but Babs wanted to
reduce a stretched-out belly after childbirth. Mika was building
stamina enough to dance all night, "even vertically if I have to."
Carolyn wanted a kind of fashion model figure, to become a skeleton
with outrigger hips and cheek bones to match. I told them my true
inner me needed liberation from my unacceptable body, and they nodded
as if they all already understood. So we all sweated side by side
together, encouraging each other and celebrating together when each
interim goal was met on schedule.
They did envy me my slim figure as it re-emerged. "You really should
wear a mini, Cary," Jenny said, maybe partly seriously. "The world
needs to see and appreciate those thighs -- they're gorgeous! You'll
drive the boys crazy! Don't you think so?"
I looked in the mirror, and could see something of what she meant.
The leotard emphasized their curves. "Hmmmph!" is all I replied, not
wanting to disagree.
The other girls picked up on that kind of teasing -- it amused them
and didn't offend me. "Just look at those slim hips," said Marnie,
who was a medical resident in endocrinology. "My God, I'd kill for
them! A few pills to develop you up top and you could model the
clingiest Versace gowns. You'd devastate anyone just by walking
toward them. Let me prescribe you some!"
That's how they signaled they'd accepted me. I'd joke back that I
wasn't a Versace type, more like Liz Claiborne. That was a name I
knew, a brand of clothes my wife liked, pert and smart, sporty yet
classic.
So of course for my birthday the girls all chipped in and bought me
a beautiful Liz Claiborne blouse -- "For a pretty good guy who'd be a
pretty bad girl if she'd let herself," was what the card read. An
affectionate gesture and I appreciated it, so I sustained the joke
and told them I loved the blouse already. It was pale yellow, with
small flowers and a deep plunging neckline, rather pretty. They
insisted that after we showered, me as usual in the men's alcove used
by some of the instructors, I should put it on and return to the
women's locker room and show them. I did just that and they screamed
their delight when they saw me. Then before letting me go they
insisted on completing the picture by tousling my hair and decorating
my face with lipstick. It was embarrassing, but I let them. I didn't
look too bad as an imitation woman, I had to admit to myself. Though
it was a job scrubbing the lipstick off before I headed out to the
parking lot to drive to work.
Pam stood by watching, amused, letting them have their fun. Later
that evening, when we were alone at home, she asked if I'd enjoyed
the extravaganza, and I had to confess I had. "It was so thoughtful
of them," I said. I then ceremoniously presented the blouse to her --
I assumed that had been everyone's actual intention for it. Pam
accepted it, but added "Awww, Cary, you shouldn't. It's yours! I tell
you what -- I'll consider it yours and only on loan to me. It really
is lovely! Really, it's you!"
Very amusing. I heard the same genial teasing tone in her voice as
in the other women's, no offense intended, so I replied, "Thank you"
gratefully, and gave her a partial curtsy. "It is pretty, Pam. I'll
love seeing you in it."
But Pam had now raised an issue I was curious about.
"You know," I said seriously as we were preparing for bed. "The
girls, they like to joke with me about being a girl, practically one
of them. All the time. I don't mind, but sometimes it seems a little
excessive."
"Because you are one of us," she said. "Or anyhow, they think you
are."
Not credible. Did she mean 'in spirit,' as she'd said earlier? I
stared at her.
"To get you into the Club I had to tell the Board that you're a
partially transgendered woman, that you're trying to decide whether
to go all the way and become a woman in fact. You know, hormones,
boobs, dresses, your very own pussy, the lot. They in turn asked the
girls in our group if there was any objection to you joining them
'transitionally' as they put it. There was none. In fact the girls
thought it kind of cute, even flattering that a guy should want to
become a girl. They also thought it truly loving of me that I didn't
mind. That's really why the Club admitted you despite their strict
'Women Only' rule. That's why I've had you wearing a woman's leotard
when you exercise -- you didn't know that's what it is? So as your
body thinned down and took shape you'd blend in better. That's why
you do those tits and ass exercises, and that's why I haven't
insisted you cut your hair. That's also why none of the women ever
try to come on to you when I'm not there -- I wanted that for my own
peace of mind, honey."
But I'd been stopped by the earlier part of her revelation. "You
told them I'm ... I'm a what?"
"I told you the first day! 'Practically a woman' is what I said to
the board. Remember? It really is sweet that the girls are all trying
to help! Look how they've been encouraging you to make yourself more
attractive! You've been at it for months and now you've mostly done
it and everyone admires you for it. So feel proud!"
While I was wrestling with this revelation Pam made a further
suggestion. "Oh yes, the Club staff has been wondering why you don't
try to behave a little bit more ... womanly. The way women do. Would
you? Only when you're at the Club, and only now and then. For show.
But when you can, try to subdue your masculinity and go a little more
... how can I put it ... girly? No one'll think the less of you. In
fact the more like the rest of us you seem the more comfortable we'll
all feel. I bet you'll enjoy it too once you get into it."
"How do I do that?" I asked, though I was afraid I already knew the
answer.
"Sort of put yourself into a deliciously feminine mood now and then,
you know, flounce and gush sometimes, be flirty and catty all at
once. Feel free to be more impulsively expressive, or more
whimsically silly. More playful or emotional. Appealingly self-
indulgent. The way we all do. Watch us and move the way we move.
Don't worry about how I may feel about it, sweetheart. I'll know the
whole time that you're all the man you need to be where it matters!"
It took me a few days to deal with Pam's suggestion, but I guess I
did feel proud of my new, lean body, and I did owe it in part to all
the supportive encouragement I was getting. So I did go swish now and
then when I was among the girls, if only to make good Pam's little
fib, but also as a kind of courtesy to them. I watched and imitated
them. I studied the way they moved their hips and their shoulders,
little twists and wiggles when denying something, their ways of
tossing their heads when astonished, how they turned a little
sideways when urging something. The way they always face each other
openly when talking, unlike men, who stand side-by-side and stare at
something else, as if eye contact were a challenge, a clash of
swords. The way they lower their eyelids demurely when talking to a
man, then raise them to look him straight in the eyes for emphasis.
All things I now realized I'd always found enormously attractive,
cute, even sexually provocative, because so distinctly feminine.
Yet doing them myself turned out, surprisingly, to be comforting, a
kind of relief from the tough male stoicism I was raised in. My
masculine self-control relaxed, and my sympathies, certain delicious
new feelings grew stronger as I talked enthusiastically with the
girls in our group about this or that, sharing my little excitements.
They themselves seemed more relaxed whenever I drooped my wrist, or
marveled aloud at their choice gossip, or put a lilt in my voice, or
expressed an opinion of some woman's hairdo or some other woman's
morals all the while we were laboring together on the treadmills. One
day I mistook Pam's cologne for my after-shave and splashed it on,
and when I arrived for my workout two of the women actually came over
and hugged me. So I used her cologne thereafter, and Pam bought me my
own bottle. They all grew warmer toward me as they accepted me as one
of their own, sort of. I realized that their teasing about my
supposed effeminacy had been their way of urging me to get on with it.
The main result was altogether satisfactory. "You do love it, all
this girl talk, don't you," Pam observed one day when she'd overheard
me chatting with Chelsea about a pretty new dress she'd gotten for a
date with a new boyfriend, how cute it had looked on her, and then
after it had done its job, off her. We were standing in the parking
lot, about to separate for the day.
"It's relaxing. It encourages me," I replied.
Pam looked carefully at me when I said that. I meant to exercise
harder and lose more weight, no more than that. But Pam thought
perhaps I meant something else.. "You mean it encourages you to be
more feminine? More like us? To let yourself go even more girly?"
"That too, I suppose. I can't say I dislike it. It's a kind of game
for me now, this role-playing. It's pleasantly distracting to begin
the day talking about make-up and boyfriends and the strange customs
of husbands and sharing family worries before I have to gear up to go
to the office and wrestle all day with high-performance fund managers
and invested escrows and so on."
Pam nodded. "They all think that since you want to be a woman you
should just get on with it. Jenny and I were watching you with
Chelsea -- she thought it was so cute, the way you were bobbing your
head and tossing your hands around while talking to her. So dainty.
Neither of us would have thought you were a man, seen from any
distance. You even give yourself a high pony tail like ours these
days when you come out on the floor for pilates."
"When I bind my hair low in back, male style, it gets sweaty. That's
all. High up is out of the way."
"And pinned up in a bun or a French twist? Like now?"
"You know yourself! So it won't fly up and down when I do my warmup
squats and leaps."
Her face remained inexpressive as she said, "No complaint -- now
that it's long of course pin it if you wish. You can do many more
things with it, too. Maybe you should keep it pinned up? In fact Beth
asked me the other day why you don't just move on and get it properly
styled and start using make-up. Why you don't just cross over and
live as a woman, period, if that's what you are. Have other women
asked you that?"
"Good God, Pam, no! They know I live and work as a man. I suppose
they think I'll get to it in good time"
"All right," Pam said. "That's good. I know you're under pressure at
the office -- I wouldn't want you to feel pressured here too. Here
you should just feel free to be yourself." She picked up her purse.
"So you go, girl! Enjoy being yourself! See you tonight!"
"Tata!" I said, waggling my fingers at her. She grinned.
After six or eight months of this regimen I was in better shape than
I'd ever been. My weight and waistline were down to what they'd been
in my scrawny mid-teens, though exercises targeted toward feminine
shapeliness did kept my pectorals and glutens a bit larger than that.
I had curves, some, not disproportionate. One of the women urged me
to get that Versace gown as soon as possible, "so your willowy new
body can begin to find out what it's for," as she said.
I decided to tease back for once. "What makes you think it doesn't
already know?" I asked, my eyebrows raised high and my eyes wide
open, as women tend to make them when asking such questions. She
looked surprised, then beamed. She was right though. I weighed very
little more than Pam weighed, and since I was slightly taller I
looked even thinner, "more svelte" as they said, even with my
somewhat larger pectoral muscles and noticeably rounded 'buns of
steel'.
Not that we were otherwise comparable. I was relatively lean, while
Pam was round and generously proportioned. I had a bulge below where
she lacked one, and of course no bulges above where hers were
wonderfully abundant. True, I was nicely curved in my legs and butt
after all that curve-creating exercise, but Pam was curved everywhere.
In fact, Pam was drop-dead gorgeous. Her figure like her face was as
beautiful as ever, unchanged since college, still very much what I'd
yearned toward the moment I first saw her. I'd set myself to win her
admiration and love and I'd done it, and her face and body too. I had
no problem worshiping both. I absolutely adored both. It was months
before she'd allowed me to enter her -- she had to be sure about me,
she'd say. "After some of the guys I've dated, you're almost too good
to be true," she told me once.
But she did let me eat her pussy almost from our first date, and she
loved it. Encouraged it. Soon, whenever she looked at me with a
certain facial expression, that was all it took for me to drop me to
my knees and thrust my face into her crotch. Then we could both be
ecstatic for hours. I never tired of kissing and sucking and
smooching her slit and her clit, enjoying the intimacy and the subtle
aromas, the taste of her when she was wet, making her wriggle and
hearing her moan, bringing her up and up to near shrieking. Neither
did she. Her orgasmic spasms got so intense that sometimes the
fucking that followed almost seemed an afterthought, an accommodation
to my need to get off. Almost. But when afterward I'd eat her again,
and myself inside her, she was content.
Not that Pam wasn't a proper girl, always concerned to maintain
respectability. She was. Yet, when we were first engaged she'd
raffishly test my mouth's dedication to her pussy in strange places --
movie theaters, taxis, the bathrooms of friends' apartments during
dinner parties. I once went down on her under a tablecloth in a
darkened night club, and while I was there some man named Ray she
knew from work came over and sat down to chat. What could I do? Stay
there. She greeted him, and as they talked she casually reached under
the table and pulled my face into her twat -- after all, that was why
I was down there. I licked her delicately, just enough to make her
squirm, just enough to keep her reminded of me. Meanwhile I listened
to him come on to her full force -- he was a man with enormous charm
and persistence. She tried not to encourage him, but obviously what I
was doing to her kept her face flushed and her body tense, and she
occasionally wriggled as if in heat. He could see it, and thought he
was having that effect on her, so he kept at it!
Finally he gave up and left. "See you tomorrow," he said in a voice
ripe with implication.
"Yes," Pam replied with a deeper, richer moan than I'd ever heard
come from her throat. At that moment I swiped my whole tongue over
her clit. "Oh, yes," she squealed. I grinned to myself. When he left,
he must have been convinced that tomorrow was the day!
When I came out from under, Pam and I just looked at each other and
then silently paid our bill and left. Neither of us could wait to get
home and into bed and wrapped around each other and into each other,
to turn each other's brains into butter and jelly. Which we did. When
I asked her the next evening how her wannabe office stud had behaved,
she smiled replied only "You heard how persistent he is. God, some
men!" Then she took a deep breath, stood up, said "Come!" and led me
directly to our bed. She loved feeling desirable, obviously. She was
juicy long before I got into her!
That's how Pam was and how she still is. She wants her pleasures,
and whatever she wants she gets. I could refuse her nothing. So when
she proposed that despite the pressures of my work we take a two week
midwinter break at this Club Caribe, as Jenny urged, that settled it.
It wasn't easy. It took me over a month to clear the two weeks. Life
at the office became a series of twelve or fifteen hour days and
endless conferences while I tied off all sorts of negotiations,
delegated work elsewhere, trained my assistants to perform my
routines on their own, and put everything else on hold. Pam
appreciated my efforts and never complained when for days on end I'd
keep at it till late at night, arriving home after she was already
asleep. I even had to pull a few all nighters at the office to deal
directly with the Tokyo and Hong Kong exchanges.
In my absence she read, watched TV, spent evenings with Jenny and
other friends, stuff like that. I felt guilty about neglecting her,
but what could I do? It was all so we could have two full weeks
together uninterrupted, something we'd never managed to do before. So
well worth it.
I finished my last task late the last night before our scheduled
departure, and when I arrived home finally fully liberated Pam was
asleep. As usual. So I didn't dare turn on a light in order to pack
for our early morning departure. Instead, the next morning I simply
dumped my whole last summer's wardrobe into a single large valise --
shirts, shorts, trunks, trousers, everything, and that was that, and
off we went. No harm, I figured. Whatever I needed would be there,
somewhere -- I'd sort it all out after we arrived at the resort. And
whatever was lacking I could buy there.
Then when we arrived and unpacked in our hotel room I saw what I'd
done. Disaster! How dumb can you get?
I'd lost so much weight that nothing from last summer fit me.
Nothing! My short-sleeved shirts hung on my slender arms like bed
sheets. The shoulders of my blazer jacket slouched halfway to my
elbows, my hands lost somewhere in the sleeves. My pants and shorts
ballooned over my legs like tents, and when I buttoned them they fell
straight to my ankles. I tried tight-belting a pair, re-distributing
the extra fabric around my waistline, doubling it all onto my belly
and bunching it against each hip. I looked like an unmade bed, and
tried and failed to persuade myself that it would do.
"Those are your tailored shorts?" Pam asked, looking at me in the
mirror where she sat fixing her face so we could go to dinner. "They
look like one of Mika's bargain-basement miniskirts." She glanced
again. "That's what you expect to wear to tonight's welcoming
banquet?"
"I better go downtown right now and buy some clothes that fit," I
said morosely as I stripped down and then went through my valise,
contemplating one item after another. Everything was equally
unsuitable. "I wonder if there's time."
"No, there isn't," she replied as she stared into the mirror and
applied her lipstick. "The shops on this island are inland, miles
away, Cary. And it's already past six, and dinner is scheduled for
seven. And it's Saturday night -- most stores are closed by now
anyhow." She turned to me. "And tomorrow's Sunday. Nothing's open
here on Sunday. What are you going to do?" She sounded disappointed.
Our fabulous vacation was already off to a bad start.
I only half-heard her. Should I wear the heavy wool suit I'd worn on
the plane, I was thinking? No, not an option. This afternoon on
arrival Pam had sent it out to be cleaned and pressed while I was
blissfully napping, still exhausted from my last minute scurrying
around.
"Be prompt for the special banquets or miss out, that's what the
concierge reminded us," she added. "Jenny warned me that they mean
it. At tonight's welcoming feast the hors d'oeuvres alone include
oysters, crab cakes, and lobster salad, I noticed in the lobby. Your
favorites and mine. They'll go fast. Be there on time or eat
leftovers!"
"I should have tried on these clothes before we left," I said,
declaring the obvious in order to foreclose any temptation on her
part to lecture me on the obvious. "I just didn't have the time."
"No, you didn't, did you," she said sympathetically. She turned to
look at me. "You poor dear," she added.
But she was nevertheless concentrating -- a problem is a problem and
needs to be solved. She stared at me, obviously thinking hard. Then
stood up and rummaged in a drawer and tossed me something in blue
velour. A pair of her own dress shorts. "Here, these are almost
unisex, and they ought to fit you. You told me a few days ago that
your waistline is nearly down to mine, didn't you? Well, I can't wear
this kind anyhow -- coming from the airport I saw that the women down
here are wearing only Bermudas and Capris. This year, anyhow."
"Oh? You want me to wear something that's last year?" I asked, in my
best 'girlish indignation' manner. She just looked at me. She
approved my jesting with women at the Club as if I were one of them,
it amused her, but all my jokes about the volatility of women's
fashions had long ago worn thin.
I looked over the garment she'd thrown in my direction. They were
last year's style all right, hot pants, really short shorts, tight in
the crotch, with their legs flared out dramatically wide to emphasize
hip curves and de-emphasize the thickness of a woman's thighs.
Cuffed. Pull-up, elastic in back, with a little decorative bow in
front.
"There's no fly," I observed.
"Pull them down if you have to pee while we're downstairs," she
advised dryly. "Some of us do that all the time. It works."
I hesitated.
"Try them on, Cary. No, not over those boxers for God's sake. Better
with no underwear at all than that!"
I stripped naked and pulled them over my loins. The waistline was
fine, but now a new problem emerged. Literally. My cock and balls
hung into the open left leg and peered out from below the angled
cuff. There was no crotch room for them. Pam saw, amused.
"Playing peek-a-boo? If it isn't one thing it's another, isn't it?
Or in this case it's all three of them. Have they no modesty? Well
then, here," she said. She tossed me something else, small and pink
and satiny and elastic.
I caught it and stared at it, bewildered. It looked too teeny to be
a garment.
"A hi-leg control panty. Spandex to provide support where needed.
Tuck those dangling things back between your legs, then cover then
with this," she said, holding up a sanitary napkin. "Then pull up
your panty. Everything will stay put, guaranteed. I've never lost a
Kotex yet." She paused and smiled a broad smile. She was enjoying
this. "Maybe your privates will feel a little mashed, but at least
they'll stay private."
My eyes drifted involuntarily to the shorts she was wearing. Long,
smooth khakis that ended just above her knees. "Can't I wear a pair
of those?" I asked her, pointing at them, a faint pleading note in my
voice.
"If you wish," she said. "But look!" She stood up. Appearances had
deceived. They weren't close-tailored to fit her thighs, not at all.
In fact their over-wide legs draped to form the impression of a
flirty skirt. "They're really a kind of skort. If you wore my other
pair of these you'd have to go all the way and also wear one of the
blouses I brought down to go with them. And fix your hair more
suitably. Maybe add a dash of lipstick and mascara, or else appear in
public ill-dressed and disgraceful. Are you ready for that? The girls
back home would love to hear it I'm sure. They'd throw you a
wonderful coming out party. But if you couldn't make yourself 100%
persuasively feminine, what would people here think?"
She looked at me, amused by the idea. Then her face turned serious.
"What indeed?" she said to herself. "Why not?" And she thought some
more. "You've been there before, in most of the ways," she said to me
cryptically. "You can do it easily. It isn't that big a leap from
where you've been. You even liked it. It's long since time!" And
stopped again. Then, "I tell you what," she said finally. "Do as I
say and put that panty on, and maybe that'll solve the problem. Then
maybe the rest of it won't be necessary."
I pulled her highly elasticized panty onto my crotch as instructed --
like most things pertaining to women it was tougher than it looked,
flexible to a point, then unyielding. As instructed I pushed my
genitals between my legs and covered them with her maxipad, then
pulled the whole unit up tight. Everything stayed where I'd put them
all right. But when I took a step, ouch! My balls were squeezed! I
winced and took a second step. Ooof! It settled into a dull ache.
She saw, but merely smiled slightly, not very sympathetically.
"These are the times that try men's souls," she said. "If that's
where you keep yours. You could get rid of them -- that's what the
girls back home think you mean to do sooner or later. But until then
you'll just have to exercise some of that manly stoicism you're
always urging on me whenever my ankles hurt from the high heels you
always want me to wear. Get used to it. Pretend you're having your
monthlies, and consider yourself lucky you aren't also bleeding."
"Not funny, Pam," I said. I took an experimental step or two. Ouch.
But endurable.
"Now try the shorts on top."
I pulled them on over the panty. They fit neatly, no problem, a
little larger than needed in the hips but comfortable in the waist.
Very snug in the crotch. I saw they were designed with no fly so
they'd hug my groin to form a perfect V that curved down between my
legs. I had a woman's mound, and the leg creases placed it on
exhibition. Obvious to everyone -- look, ma, no nothing! If I were a
woman, I'd look great -- there'd be no doubt whatever about my sex or
my willingness to flaunt it. But as a man I looked altogether
unmanned. Castrated.
I said so.
"No," Pam said. She was now obviously enjoying my discomfiture. "You
look womanned. Female, that's all. Those shorts are designed to show
one of the things that makes a woman unique and desirable, and they
fit as intended. Women aren't castrated. We're just more modest than
men, that's all. Less boastful. We don't fill our crotches with cocks
and balls bunched up front and forward, the way men do. Where they
get in the way of everything, including walking. We keep our genitals
hidden until the proper time. Then, as you know, we can show we have
what it takes."
"Maybe you keep your lower parts hidden," I said defensively. "But
you keep your upper parts up front and forward for all the world to
admire." I glanced at the top she'd put on. A glittery black knit
scoop neck designer Tee, her breasts protruding prominently and even
showing a bit of cleft. Gorgeous! Her figure was on parade! She was
as proud of her breasts as I was -- often she didn't even wear a bra.
And this, I could see, was one of those times -- under the thin
fabric each breast pushed way out, tipped with a nipple. An erogenous
sensitive nipple, I had reason to know. I felt a certain turgidity
begin down below, then quickly intensify into a steady-state dull
ache. Can I get through dinner looking at those boobs but clamped in
like this? Well, I'll find out soon enough, I told myself. When I had
to sit down especially. I wasn't anxious to try.
"You've never complained before," she said. "You love my breasts.
It's as if you wanted a pair of your own. The girls all think you do.
Marnie has never understood why you weren't already growing them."
"Because I already have breasts of my own," I replied, pulling a way-
oversized sport short out of my valise and staring at it. "Yours!"
Could this shirt cover my female-style crotch and re-establish my
respectability? No, not this one, way too wide and too short. Would a
T-shirt serve instead? No, and anyhow an ordinary T-shirt isn't quite
dressy enough for this special dinner. The management didn't insist
on jackets and ties, but I knew I had to wear something with a collar.
"Mine are available on loan, that's true," she replied. "When I
don't need them for my own purposes. But only when you're on your
good behavior."
"Mmmmm," I said. The ache in my balls was still distracting me.
"Speaking of chest areas, you aren't going to wear that thing you
have in your hand I hope!" Her voice was firm as she stared at yet
another oversized sport shirt I was now holding. "No, you're not, no
way! You don't have anything that looks less like we'd both slept
together inside it for a week?"
"No. I was just wondering whether I can get away with wearing my
windbreaker."
"Tacky. They're for out of doors, not for a hotel dining room.
That's the summer equivalent of eating with your overcoat on. And
informal as the dining may be here, this is not a diner and tonight
is a banquet night. No!"
Pam again worrying about respectability, at least the show of it.
She'd cut corners or violate propriety when it pleased her, or when
she wanted me to please her. Even so, I'd always admired her
determination always to be seen wearing and doing the right thing, an
art every woman cultivates, and the considerable ingenuity that
sometimes requires.
"No need to worry about propriety," I said, partly just for the sake
of argument. "Gossip about unconventional behavior down here on this
island will never reach people back home to disgrace us."
"That's true. Yes. What happens at Club Caribe stays at Club Caribe,
I'm sure. But even though the dress code here is informal, it isn't
arbitrary. Out of respect for the other guests you do need to wear
something appropriate." She hesitated, staring at me with her
eyebrows raised. "Or something that seems appropriate."
"I don't have anything appropriate," I said simply, staring now at
the bottom of my valise. "Nothing!"
She kept staring at me, then seemed to reach a decision.
ii.
"All right, if that's how it has to be. Why not?" she said half to
herself. "You just said it -- no one back home need ever know. Though
the girls in our exercise group would be delighted to know." A lively
smile flashed across her face, quickly suppressed. "It can be fun!"
Then to me, "You've practiced it long enough, God knows. It'll work!
And you did bring this on yourself after all, Cary!"
"Why not what? Practiced what? Brought what on myself? After all
what?"
"This!" She reached into her closet and pulled out one of her summer
jackets. Pink, or anyhow, salmon colored, long thin sleeves, with
narrow lapels, single-breasted, pinched in at the waist and flared
just below. Adorable, very feminine. I loved seeing her in it. Her
breasts always seemed twice their size the way they pushed it out in
front. "This will certify your new way of life, at least until the
stores open on Monday. Here you go." "No way," I said. "With these
shorts? They already shout out 'Pussy inside, handle with care'? Add
that jacket and I'll be the belle of the ball. People will think I'm
a woman! I'll need a club to beat off the men who crowd around." I
thought I was joking, following up on what had to be her joke.
"Don't flatter yourself, doll," she said. "Your face is pretty in a
way, I think so and I love it, I've certainly told you that often
enough. You're lovely, or you could be if you did yourself up
properly. But you're no raving beauty. True, you now know all of the
femme moves that men find attractive, all of the weaving of rear ends
and touching of hairdos and wriggling of shoulders that drive them
bonkers. I've seen the girls having fun coaching you in them,
teaching Flirtation 101, and I've seen you practice the moves on the
exercise machines. You've been a woman-in-training for months and
months. The girls at the Health Club all accept you as one of them. I
think everyone here will too if we do this job right."
Her eyebrows raised as she studied me, and behind them I could see
her mind whirring, solving fix-me-up problems one after another --
yes, it was easy, she seemed to be telling herself. "Yes," she
concluded. "That jacket will cover you yet flaunt your boobs the way
a girl should, you were just saying so yourself. You'll need to wear
a blouse under it for modesty's sake, but I've got the very thing,
your own. And you'll need a bra under that."
"A bra? What are you talking about!?"
"I'm talking about you dressed decently in public, so you don't
attract attention."
"By appearing in public in a woman's jacket and these women's
shorts?" I said. "And a blouse and a bra? And that won't attract
attention? No!" And that was that. "No!"
"You can't just wear the jacket alone. That would leave your tits
exposed shamelessly. Or your lack of tits. Here!" she said. With her
other hand she pulled out a familiar-looking flowered blouse with a
small embroidered collar. "Remember this? Your Liz Claiborne?"
"I remember," I said unhappily. "Your Liz Claiborne."
"On loan, that's true. The girls at the Health Club will love
knowing that you wore it to a gala dinner," she added, as if
attempting to encourage me with that argument. "And you'll need a bra
to give yourself the right shape if you should need to remove your
jacket for some reason. I bet we can get away without padding --
those breast development exercises gave you marvelously full
pectorals, and lately you've been showing ... ahh, I guess we can
call it residual or maybe excess body fat under your chest skin.
Enough to gather up and cup I bet. Then too, a bra will hide the dark
areas around your nipples -- we aren't showing our areolas this year
I'm afraid. You don't want to look like a slut, do you?"
"No," I said again. "No matter what the women at the Health Club
think, I know what I am. I'd be a laughingstock!"
"You can't possibly wear any of my other tops -- they're too clingy,
the kind you like. Too form-fitting, and your form isn't fit. Nearly,
not yet. So you decide. This jacket and the blouse with a bra?" She
lifted them each in turn. "Or ...."
I stared at her. Was she serious? She was serious. "Pam ...," I
started to say.
She lifted an eyebrow. "Or your alternative, which I regret to say
is to stay here and eat room service. The kitchen's gone all out for
the welcoming banquet, remember, they told us that at the front desk.
Which may be why the featured room service specials tonight are" --
she leaned over a menu on our desk -- "plain hamburgers or grilled
cheese sandwiches. Also what they call here 'Twice-baked Pizza' --
that's got to be yesterday's pizza reheated, have they no shame?
Here's the menu, see for yourself. Your choice. I intend to eat
lobster and crab for openers, and then move on to more scrumptious
main courses. Very soon, too."
I was silent. Pam was sympathetic. She knew that after my month
after month of dieting I'd been looking forward to this two week pig
out.
So she tried to encourage me. "Don't be ashamed, sweetheart," she
said. "I can fix you up so no one will know. I'm sure I can bring out
your inner woman, and then she can bring out her inner pleasure in
dining well. You'll look cute."
More silence.
"I did hope we'd be enjoying all that delicious food together. But I
won't mind going down to the banquet alone. All the more opportunity
for me to check out those good looking guys we saw all over the lobby
when we arrived. Who are they, do you know? What was it the concierge
told us, there's some kind of golf tournament going on this week? Or
was it a body builders' convention? I'll ask around and find out."
"Golf this week," I said unhappily. "Body builders next week."
"Mmmmm," Pam replied. "I wonder which I'd prefer. Lean, tan, and
sinewed or hard bodied, bulky, and well-cut. I'm starved for sex --
we haven't made love for nearly a month now, you know, you've been so
busy clearing your desk for this vacation. Maybe I'll just go wild
and take on all comers. No favorites! Become an equal opportunity man
hunter!"
I know I looked grieved. I felt grieved.
"Mmmmmmmm," she said sexily. Then "Mmmmmmaaaahhhhgh!" and "Ahhhhhgh"
she added, still watching me closely. Those were the guttural,
yearning sounds that emerge from her throat after I've licked her
cunt half-way to orgasm, when I'm crawling up to sink my prick into
her. When she's anticipating how that'll feel.
"All right, all right, I'll be a girl. Let's see the blouse and the
jacket."
"The blouse fits, we know that. First try the jacket." She handed it
to me.
I took it and carefully slid my arms into it. The sleeves were
tighter than any man's jacket I'd ever worn, but my shoulders and
arms fit. Just barely, but not uncomfortably. I buttoned it. The
waistline fit too.
"We wear jackets like that open," Pam said. "That's another reason
you'll need the blouse."
"We?"
"We. We women, Cary. That's what you are now. You'll have to think
'we' until Monday at the earliest. Ooooh, I love the idea! My darling
sweetheart transformed into my darling girlfriend for two whole days!
Isn't that what they call a 'paradigmatic shift'? Can you manage it?
I'm shifting you this very moment, in my mind! There! Magic! Now
you're a girl!"
"I'm not that imaginative," I said glumly.
"Oh yes you are. I've heard you gossiping away with the girls, and
seen your facial expressions and flounces in their company. You
certainly are. As for the jacket, the fit is fine. You look darling.
This may work." She looked at me with an enigmatic expression. "Look
at yourself in the mirror, honey," she said. "And tell me what you
see."
I did. "I see a slim-hipped man wearing ... all right, I see a pale-
faced woman with shortish hair in a cute jacket and provocative pair
of shorts, with pretty good legs if I do say so. Put me in a pair of
high-heeled shoes and I'm all set for a night of streetwalking. Are
you serious?"
"I am serious, Cary. It's you who didn't pack properly for this
trip. I understand why -- you didn't realize you need a whole new
summer wardrobe, and if you had you were too busy to buy one, and you
didn't want to wake me last night, and I do appreciate all that. But
have you any alternatives? What you're now wearing will work, trust
me. With a little make-up you'll be perfect! Adorable! As for
streetwalking, high heels won't work with that outfit, but I can lend
you a pair of sandals that'll go perfectly. Tomorrow maybe we'll get
our hair done and then tomorrow evening we'll can both try something
with heels and long dresses perhaps, if you're that eager to attract
men. Then we can visit the casino and mingle with the gamblers. See
who gets lucky. Wouldn't you love that?"
No response from me.
She inspected me impersonally, faintly frowning. "Ok, off with the
jacket. Let's fit you into your bra. But first, all that chest hair
between your breasts must go. It ruins the view."
"What are you talking about, Pam? What breasts?"
"You don't see them? That jacket's tailored to anticipate and
provide plenty of room for any girl's endowments. Look how sweetly it
bulges just where it should. It isn't your fault you don't fill the
space provided, but no one'll know that until they try to grope you.
A bra will help. What's unbecoming is the hair on your chest. That's
one place on a woman's body where there's never any hair. It has to
go."
"The blouse and the jacket will cover it. No one will know."
"I'll know. You'll know. When your bra flexes and tugs on those
hairs, you'll surely know. Anyhow, girlhood isn't just surface
appearances, it's how you know you look and feel underneath. A girl
likes knowing her lingerie is sexy and her skin is smooth and soft
and inviting. For her own sake. It helps her self-confidence. It
helps her decide whether to act properly feminine or improperly
feminine. So go shave your body and we'll fix up the rest of you when
you return. Shave your face again too, and your arms. Thoroughly.
Hurry now, time is getting short!"
I turned and started toward the bathroom, dazed. As I began walking,
the pressure from my thighs registered again as a dull ache in my
balls. To ease it I tried walking with a slight rolling gait. That
worked, but I realized immediately that I was putting exaggerated
English on my hips. Really swaying to avoid squeezing myself.
"Very provocative," Pam's voice declared behind me. "I'm glad you're
getting into the spirit of this thing. But I wouldn't try that
downstairs, honey, they don't allow soliciting inside the hotel." I
turned and saw her grinning broadly. I still couldn't tell if she was
serious.
When my electric razor sent the last of my chest hair into the
washbasin, and a safety razor had cleared the stubble from
everywhere, Pam poked in to hand me her skin lotion. "Stroke this
into both of your breasts especially, girly. You know how we're
supposed to feel when guys finally get their hands on us. And how
we're supposed to smell when they nuzzle us -- it has a lovely scent."
"No guys," I said, trying to keep this whole bizarre episode light-
hearted, a game. "I'm off guys!"
"You yourself said it," she replied. "How are you going to beat them
away?"
I couldn't think how to save myself this further embarrassment. We
were improvising rapidly, or rather Pam was. No matter. Do what she
says. No one back home will see or know. Eventually the hair'll grow
back. She was enjoying this, my pretending to be female. But was she
also serious? She was. I guess she felt she had to be.
When I came back out, hairless and soft and scented like flowers, I
asked her directly. She replied, "You haven't figured it out yet?
Honey, face it, we have to be serious! You need to go all the way!
Either look like a girl for the next couple of days or look like a
weird transvestite freak, a ridiculous mockery. An absurdity. You
know perfectly well that people feel uneasy when gender and sex
signals are mixed, that they assume that all effeminate men are gay
and all gay men effeminate. It never occurs to them that men who
prefer other men sexually may well do so because masculinity turns
them on -- they like the look of a man. So if anyone recognizes that
you're really a man, the word will spread quickly that you're gay and
strange, and for the rest of our time here you'll be 'Oh, yes, that
weirdo.' And apart from the embarrassment I'd feel for you, I'll be
that weirdo's wife, which wouldn't please me much either. So make up
your mind and say it right now. What are you? A girl or a weirdo?"
"Ok," I said grudgingly.
"No, I mean it. Say it! I want to hear sparkle and commitment!
Sincere pleasure in what we're doing!"
"I'm a girl!" I tried to squeal it enthusiastically.
"Not like at the Health Club but really. And you'll do whatever you
need to do to maintain that impression. Otherwise we might just as
well go home now."
"Oh yes!" I added. "Anything!"
She smiled. "I almost believe you. Try to believe it yourself,
sweetheart, and then everyone else will too. Here's your bra. Don't
leave home without one. It really is yours. I'll tell you a secret.
The girls back home bought it for you along with the blouse when they
heard you were taking hormones and growing breasts, that you'd soon
need it. I hid it. I didn't think you'd appreciate getting a bra for
your birthday.
This was puzzling. "Why did they think I was on hormones?"
"Baby, they knew that transsexuals take hormones to become more
womanly. And that's what they think you are, so that's what they
thought you were doing. They want to help. Marnie was ready to give
you injections -- 'They work faster' and with less stress to the
system' is what she said -- but she settled by donating your first
six month's supply of pills."
"Great," was all I could say to that.
"It is! It was! Very generous. Anyhow, Carrie, look at your chest
and see for yourself. Even without your pills you'd have needed
support by now, between your accumulated fatty tissue and your bust
development exercises. You haven't noticed? You droop the way I do
when you lean over forward. You hang down. And when you're wearing
your leotard and doing straddle leaps, you bobble. You really do need
a bra, missy. I've held back from saying so because I thought it
would freak you out. But now it's necessary and appropriate, and this
one's yours. Happy birthday, precious!"
I wasn't sure how she meant that -- my birthday of a few months ago?
The birthday today of a new female me? I took up the delicate, lacy
concoction of elastic and satin and hesitated just a moment. This was
heavy juju, this thing. Magic. When I put it on, would it actually
turn me into a girl? I slipped my arms into the straps and
straightened out the elastic band while Pam clipped me into it
behind. Then she reached into each cup -- gently -- to pull my slack
muscles and chest skin up and into it. And my God, I actually did
have small boobs!
"Very nice," Pam said, examining my new lace-frothed chest mounds.
"Already more than I had when my first boyfriend first got up enough
nerve to cop a feel."
"I guess I really have retained body fat from last year, even apart
from the pectoral muscle workouts," I said. "I'd never have guessed I
could fill a bra this well." I looked down at my two swellings, a
little embarrassed. But also, oddly, a little proud. In for as penny,
in for a pound. If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well. I can
do this, I was thinking! This much of me is authentic, anyhow!
"That's a 'B' cup, honey, and you do fill it. A little more growth
there and we can borrow each other's bras. Have your nipples gotten
as sensitive as mine yet?" With a sly grin she reached forward to cup
my little breasts, each now securely held up and shaped to protrude
forward. She lifted them slightly, then stroked each nipple lightly
with her thumbs. Both at once.
"Oooohhh!" Lightning! An intense erogenous jolt, and my whole body
stiffened as pure joy coursed through it. "Oh!" I said again,
startled, pulling back. "I ...! That was ...!"
"My my," Pam said, grinning broadly. "Marnie was right. They are
sensitized! My nipples get me going too, as you well know. How
lovely! We're sisters under the skin that way too! Watch out for
guys, baby, that's the first thing they'll try on you. As if by
accident, to put you in the mood. You remember how you touched my
nipple tips while helping me on with my coat on our second date?
Accidentally on purpose? I remember! Now sit down here and let's find
out what your inner girl looks like."
She placed me down firmly at her make-up table, ignored my
occasional feeble protests, and then rapidly covered my face with
foundation, powder, blush, mascara, eye shadow, eyeliner, and
lipstick, gazing intently at each of my features in turn as she
embellished first one, then the next.
"Marnie was right about what?" I asked as Pam worked. Some of what
she'd said sounded as if she knew something I didn't.
"That there'd be a net gain. That girls love having sensitive
breasts. Hold still."
The way she was talking raised a suspicion. She'd wondered if mine
were as sensitive as hers 'yet.' An odd word to use. "Where are the
pills Marnie donated?" I asked as casually as I could. "Do you still
have them?"
"Some of them. Let me do my job. Most important are the eyes. I'm
emphasizing them for a babydoll look, to make them really large. For
the whole rest of the evening, honey, whenever you look at anyone,
even at me, stare wi