The Legacy
By The Professor
The day all my dreams came crashing down, I didn't even know it - not
right away, anyhow. It was just one of those things that went from bad
to worse to...
Well, let's just say there was no way I could have ever guessed where
things would lead.
We were playing the Bellevue West Thunderbirds - we being the Westside
Warriors. Both teams were undefeated, and the Omaha World Herald had us
both listed in the top five teams in the state. Somebody had to win and
somebody had to lose. This was our Super Bowl, and as the starting
quarterback for the Warriors, it was my job to lead the team to victory.
Things went well for most of the game. At the end of the third quarter
we were up by a touchdown and driving for another score. It looked as if
all my dreams were coming true. With any luck, I'd be the touted as the
hottest high school quarterback in the state by the end of the year, and
that meant the Cornhusker scouts in the stands that night would be
singing my praises in Lincoln. A full-ride football scholarship appeared
to be most definitely in my future, after I completed this and the next
season.
But that's when the wheels came off.
It was a simple pattern. It was just a drop back pass to the right end.
The ball would sail fifteen yards in the air, and if the right end
caught it, he'd have just one man to beat to the end zone. The
Thunderbirds were all up on the line, anticipating a running play on
third and short - or so we thought.
Anticipating the snap count, the Thunderbirds blitzed, drilling two
holes right through our line, as nearly as I could tell. I still thought
I had time to get the pass off. The problem was that three - not two -
defenders had breached our line, and the third was right behind me. The
shock of impact threw me to the ground, and the ball trickled out of my
hand. In the ensuing melee, the pains in my back were suddenly replaced
by an even worse pain in my right hand as one of the defenders
accidentally stomped a cleated foot right on my throwing hand. That's
when I passed out.
To make a long story short, that was the end of my quarterbacking
career. We still managed to win the game, and I was one of the heroes of
the game, but I was out for the rest of the season with a broken hand. I
had to sit in civvies on the sidelines, while my teammates muddled
through the rest of the season with an untested quarterback. The team
rose to the challenge, though, and we finished the year undefeated.
As for me, I spent the off season in therapy trying to get my throwing
hand back in shape. No such luck, though. My hand remained stiff and my
passes both short and inaccurate. On top of that, after half a dozen
passes or so, I could barely stand the intense pain in my fingers. I
vowed to continue trying through the spring off-season, though, hoping
that my hand would be completely healed by the beginning of the next
season. All in all, my junior year was shaping up to be the crappiest
year of my life.
I supposed the best thing to come out of that school year was that in
the spring of my junior year I lost my virginity. I didn't even have to
work at it very hard. An eighteen year old senior from Papillion La
Vista High School (the school where they filmed the movie Election, by
the way) latched on to me at a party. After teasing me all evening, she
dragged me off to an empty bedroom at midnight and had her wanton way
with me, as they say in the old novels. She told me afterwards she was
celebrating her birthday right at midnight, to start the special day out
with a bang, so to speak.
Anyhow, being initiated to sex with an attractive girl, certainly perked
up my weekend. To be honest, having sex with an unattractive girl would
have perked up my weekend, but not quite as much. Liz Allison, the girl
I bonked, was certainly attractive too, in a blonde sort of way. I
always had a thing for redheads - or at least brunettes with a reddish
cast to their hair.
Don't get me wrong; I wasn't complaining. It's just that Liz wasn't
exactly my perfect girl. Liz's hair was light blonde and her skin so
fair it looked as if she never went outdoors. That Nordic look had never
done much for me. I preferred the blue-eyed brunette, with fair but not
alabaster skin, a few well-placed freckles, and a sort of innocent look.
Liz was none of those things - including innocent.
Of course she did have a very nice body - particularly when she stripped
off all her clothes for me. Nice full breasts, long, slim legs, and a
very curvy body were points in her favor I certainly didn't complain
about what I saw.
I had hoped to see more of her over the summer, so imagine my
disappointment when one of her classmates told me that she and her
family had moved back to California, where they had lived for all of
Liz's life before coming to Nebraska for a couple of years. It was
probably for the best, I realized. She had just been a one-night stand
for me, or considering that having sex had been her idea, I suppose I
was a one-night stand for her.
Whatever.
I started spring football practice that Monday, and from the high of
losing my virginity to the low of losing my football position - and all
hopes of a scholarship at NU - all happened within forty-eight hours.
"I'm sorry, Ryan," the coach told me after practice. "Your hand's just
not healing right."
I had been expecting him to say just that. In spite of therapy all
winter the injury to my hand had left me with less fine motor skills in
the fingers. I had hoped the coach would give me the summer to recover,
but no such luck. Besides, my passes had been all over the place at that
afternoon practice.
"I just need to get back into rhythm," I told the coach, but he didn't
believe me. Come to think of it, I really didn't believe it myself.
Whatever had been done to my hand would affect my passing from there on.
I stayed on the team as a safety and did pretty well - but not well
enough to don the red and white of the Nebraska Cornhuskers after high
school. Arch "The Archer" Corbin, my backup quarterback, came into his
own senior year and got the opportunity to move on to NU.
As for me?
At least I got a football scholarship, but it was playing NCAA Division
II ball for the Nebraska State University Plainsmen instead of Division
I at NU. I wasn't a quarterback, of course - I was just a defensive
back. Quarterbacks who wash out often become defensive backs, since they
have a deep understanding of the passing game - even if they can't throw
well. And instead of living in Lincoln, I was in the small community of
River Falls, Nebraska, where Nebraska State was located.
Bummer.
On the other hand, it wasn't all bad. I knew my grandmother had gone to
NSU when she was my age. According to my mother, that where she met my
grandfather. They had many pleasant memories of the school, or so they
always told me. Maybe I'd have a good time there too, I told myself.
Maybe I'd even meet a wonderful girl just like when my grandfather met
my grandmother.
Of course it didn't turn out quite like that...
"O'Meara!"
I groaned.
One of the other pledges looked up at me and grinned. I supposed it took
his mind off the task all of us pledges were involved in - scrubbing the
sidewalk in front of the fraternity house with toothbrushes and concrete
cleaner. "Sounds like somebody's in deep shit," he commented, obviously
glad it was me and not him.
"Shut up and scrub that walk, Packard!" the active - I think his name
was Randy - barked at my fellow pledge. "Come on, O'Meara. On your
feet."
I got stiffly to my feet. Football practice on that Saturday morning,
followed by a Spic-n-Span session as the actives called them, back at
the Theta house had taken its toll on me. At least whatever Randy wanted
would keep me from irritating my right hand. All that scrubbing with a
toothbrush had caused it to start aching again.
I towered over Randy - it was my six-three to his five-ten. "What do you
want?"
Randy frowned. "What do you want, SIR! Got that, pledge?"
"What do you want, SIR?" I asked calmly. All this pledge shit was a
waste of time, but since a good number of the campus jocks were members
of Theta Zeta Xi, it was the natural place for me to be. I had to keep
reminding myself that getting asked to pledge TZX was a honor, if a
dubious one.
At least classes would start Monday, and between that and football
practice the brothers wouldn't have much of a chance to harass me. But
unfortunately for the rest of the weekend, my ass was theirs.
As Randy walked me to the Pledge Trainer's room, I knew whatever they
had cooked up for me wouldn't be pleasant. But as I saw Spike Norris and
Don Morton braced at attention outside Sam's door, I felt a little
relief that whatever crap they had in mind for me would be shared by two
of my pledge brothers. Misery really does crave company.
"Get in here!" Sam Dietrich, our Pledge Trainer, demanded. The three of
us piled into his room where we relaxed. As in most fraternities, the
Pledge Trainer was the one active we could act normal around.
"What's up, Sam?" Spike asked as Sam closed the door. Spike was
president of the pledge class. Like me, he was on the football team, and
with his rugged good looks, lineman's physique, and closely-cropped
blonde hair, he looked like a Nazi recruiting poster. Don was a jock,
too, although basketball was his sport, so he was tall and wiry. All
three of us towered over Sam, who at six feet was not exactly a dwarf
himself. I had heard some of the other actives chuckling that Sam was a
little sensitive about his less than jock physique.
"I got a special duty for you three," he said nonchalantly.
We three pledges looked at each other with resignation. Whenever an
active talked about "special duty", we knew it meant shit detail.
Sam ignored our discomfort. "I want all three of you to report to the
Omicron Pi house this afternoon to help them with some heavy lifting."
That was both good news and bad news. Omicron Pi was a sorority that had
some of the hottest girls on campus. That, of course, was the good news.
The bad news was that they had the reputation of being pretty stand-
offish when it came to having anything to do with most of the
fraternities. There were even campus rumors that they were all lesbians,
although in the few days I had been around campus, I knew that some guys
grumbled about that only because they hadn't been able to make any
headway with any of the sisters.
"How long's this gonna take, Sam?" Spike wanted to know.
"Why?" Sam asked drolly. "You got a big date tonight?"
Spike grinned. "The biggest. I'm gonna be screwing Misty Capshaw
tonight."
"Cool, man!" Don commented.
I just rolled my eyes. Cindy Capshaw was a sophomore cheerleader who had
a thing for screwing football players. Everybody on the team knew it,
and it was becoming something of a tradition for her to make her way
through the whole squad. I had gone to high school with her, where she
had a similar proclivity. I had passed on doing her in high school.
And to answer the question before it's asked, yes, I had the opportunity
to screw her too, but I had passed. I considered myself a red-blooded
American boy who liked girls just fine, but Cindy just wasn't my type.
Vacuous blondes who spent most of their dates on their backs just didn't
do it for me. Besides, knowing the background of some of my teammates
who had screwed her, I had decided to pass, knowing where that snatch
had been. And as I've already said, I sort of liked the "girl next door"
types. I had too much respect for girls to waste my time with the sluts.
"Don't worry," Sam assured Spike. "It won't be a problem."
And it wasn't either, but not the way any of us thought just then.
"This won't be so bad," Don thought out loud. "I wonder if that little
bitch Sandra Holland will be there."
"She's not interested in you, man!" Spike laughed. "I bet she only likes
girls. She's a muff diver if I ever saw one."
Don replied laconically, "That's all gonna change when she meets Big
Don." Just in case we missed his point, he pretended to squeeze his
package.
Sam wasn't impressed. "Don't even think about that," he cautioned.
"You're going over there to work. Believe me, you don't want to piss
them off."
I looked closely at Sam. The way he'd said that was downright ominous.
From the serious look on his face he meant it that way too. I didn't
question him about it, and I doubt if he would have told me the truth
then. I guess I'll never know, though.
We started out for the Opie house (as everyone called the Omicron Pi's
on campus) in Spike's "Babemobile" - a two year old Chevy Malibu which
he claimed had a big enough back seat to accommodate his sexual
gymnastics. I was surprised he didn't have notches on the upholstery to
commemorate his conquests.
Don wasn't such a bad guy, but Spike was an asshole. The only reason he
got to be president of our pledge class was that he was the only one who
really wanted it. He'd often tell us that the reason he wanted it was
because his dad had been president of the TZX pledge class when he was
at NSU. I had checked though, and found out that was the last office he
ever held in the house. I guess he was as big an asshole as Spike.
Actually that was probably the main reason an asshole like him had been
pledged - he was a "legacy", which in fraternity parlance meant the
house had to pledge him because a close relative had been in the
fraternity.
I supposed I'm not being entirely fair. Spike would have been pledged
even if he hadn't been a legacy, since the TZX house was a jock house.
No matter what I thought about Spike personally, I knew he had been one
hell of a football player in high school. He'd probably be first string
by his sophomore year, I thought.
"Hey. Let's have a little contest," Spike said suddenly as we pulled
into the Opie parking lot.
"What kind of a contest?" I asked warily.
"We each chip in twenty bucks," Spike proposed confidently. "Then the
first one of us who screws one of these Opies gets all the money."
"I'm in," Don called out enthusiastically from the back seat.
"How about you, O'Meara?" Spike pressed.
"Guys, we're just here to help the girls move some heavy crap," I
reminded them. "I don't think the actives will be very happy if we piss
these girls off. Sam even warned us."
"Jeez, O'Meara," Spike muttered. "You're such a pussy."
"Then it's just you and me," Don said.
Spike scowled at me. "Right. We'll let Pussy Boy here take care of
moving crap for the girls, while we take care of the 'heavy lifting'."
If it had just been Spike and me, I might have hauled off and let him
have it. He had size on me, but I knew from football practice that I was
considerable faster than he was. I bet to myself that I could lay him
out before he knew what hit him. But it wasn't just Spike and me. It was
the three of us, and we were there to help the girls and get right back
to the TZX house. But there'd be another time, I thought darkly to
myself, when it would be just Spike and me.
"Hey, babe!" Spike threw out to the first girl he saw in the lobby of
the Opie house. "Who's in charge around here?"
The girl he was addressing was obviously pissed at being called a babe,
but she held her emotions in well. She really was a babe, with her long
blonde hair and flashing brown eyes. She folded her arms over her ample
breasts, causing her Omicron Pi t-shirt to ride up just a little,
leaving a small gap of skin between the shirt and her jean shorts. "You
must be the guys from TZX."
"That's right, babe," Spike confirmed with a smug grin.
"Follow me and I'll take you to our chapter room." She turned without
waiting to see if we were following and started toward the down
staircase.
As we followed our guide, Don, Spike and I were practically speechless
watching the girls working throughout the house. They were mostly
attired like our guide - t-shirts and shorts - and several of them had
been working hard enough that they were sweaty with those same t-shirts
damp and clinging tightly to their skin. It was sort of like watching
something late at night on Cinemax. I could feel myself getting slightly
hard and noticed that Spike and Don were walking a little funny, as if
they too were getting hard.
The fantasy was interrupted when we reached the chapter room. There
three girls were busy repainting the walls. One of them turned and
addressed out guide. "Are these the three, Felicia?" she asked.
Our guide - Felicia - nodded. "Yeah."
The girl gave us a long, hard look. She would have been attractive with
her dark blonde hair and curvaceous body wrapped in spandex shorts and a
sports bra, if her eyes hadn't betrayed her complete disdain for the
three of us. I was surprised. Usually Spike had to open his mouth before
people took a disliking to him, but apparently there was something about
all three of us she just didn't like. I started to wonder if the campus
rumor about the Opies being man-hating lesbians didn't have some
credence.
"Okay, get them moving those boxes upstairs down to the basement storage
room," she ordered, addressing Felicia as if we weren't even there. "And
make sure they're done by five. No men will be allowed upstairs after
that."
Good, that meant we'd be done in plenty of time for me to mosey over to
College Town just off campus and scrounge up a date for the evening, I
thought.
The work wasn't too hard for three big guys like us. Mostly we just had
to gather up empty suitcases and packing boxes the girls had finished
with after moving in. I was surprised they hadn't just used their
houseboy. All of the sororities had some guy from school on the payroll
to take care of the heavy lifting. Having the three of us toting luggage
and a few packing boxes was really overkill.
Don and Spike were doing their best to make time with some of the girls,
but for the most part they were getting blown off. Again I began to
wonder about the girls' sexual orientation. To make matters tougher for
the guys, we seemed to have "minders" - a girl assigned to each of us to
see that we kept working instead of fooling around with the girls.
My minder was apparently Felicia, but her job was a little easier than
the jobs for the other two girls. I pretty much kept working without
stopping to impress the girls. It wasn't that there weren't some very
attractive girls in the Opie house, but I got the idea everyone had been
warned to stay away from us from the minute we entered the house.
Of course I did try to warm up my minder. Felicia was, frankly, probably
the most attractive girl in the Omicron Pi house. Although as cold to us
as the rest of the girls, she seemed to be looking at me a little
curiously. It was time for the direct approach.
"Is something wrong?" I asked her calmly when we were alone in the
storage room where I had just stored two oversized suitcases.
She was startled by my question. "No... uh, what makes you say that?"
I leaned up against a stack of packing boxes. "I don't know. It's just
that all of you girls have been looking at us as if we were something
you found stuck to the bottom of your shoes. Is there something about us
you don't like?"
She looked toward the door to make sure no one overheard her. "I guess
maybe you're okay," she allowed. "But those other two... they're
animals."
It was an apt description of Don and Spike - especially Spike.
"So you think I may be human?"
She shrugged. "Maybe. But maybe you're just a little smoother than they
are," she added with a note of suspicion.
"I like to think so," I laughed. "I'm Ryan O'Meara, by the way." I
offered my hand but she didn't take it.
"Felicia," she said at last. "Felicia Kennedy."
I smiled. "Nice to meet you."
She seemed about to say something, but we were suddenly interrupted by
the girl who had given us our assignments. By keeping my ears open, I
had learned that her name was Andrea something-or-other and she was the
chapter president. She gave us a pointed look of disapproval, then said,
"We're ready in the chapter room, Felicia."
Felicia faced the other girl and began, "Andrea, I think we need to talk
first..."
Andrea looked at me as if I was the reason for Felicia's little
rebellion. Maybe I was, I thought, because Felicia was looking pensively
at me. "There's no time now, Felicia."
"But - "
"Everyone else is waiting," Andrea hissed.
I of course had no idea what this was all about. If I had, I would
probably have run out of the room and up the stairs to freedom as fast
as I could. But I probably wouldn't have made it that far, in
retrospect. There were probably guards at all the exits just in case we
decided to bolt.
None of us had even worked up a sweat, I noticed, as we were led into
the chapter room. Still we flopped down on the couches placed around the
sides of the room and gratefully accepted glasses of lemonade. Then
about half a dozen girls grouped around Andrea just outside the door of
the chapter room and began to whisper among themselves, taking
occasional glances at the three of us sitting on the couch with our
drinks.
"Shame we didn't bring along something to put in the lemonade," Don
groused in a low tone, taking another gulp.
"Yeah!" Spike agreed, also barely above a whisper, so as not to be heard
by the girls. "We could really party then. I think that babe who's
president - what's her name? - oh yeah, Andrea. I think Andrea's hot for
me. I think I'll see if she's free tonight."
"I thought you had a date tonight with Misty Capshaw," I pointed out,
taking a drink of my lemonade. It was pretty good, but a little tart for
my taste.
"Misty Capshaw!" Spike snorted. "She's a skank. I can blow her off
tonight and she'll still be hot for me tomorrow - maybe hotter!"
"Yeah," Don agreed, "but speaking of blowing, she gives fantastic blow
jobs. That's what it's all about."
"Yeah," Spike countered, "but her tits are too small."
"Guys," I cautioned, nodding toward the girls who were hopefully not
overhearing our conversation. "Maybe we ought to tone that down a
little. Remember Sam told us not to piss these girls off, and talk like
that could do just that."
To be honest, I wasn't very comfortable with that kind of talk anyhow. I
had been brought up to respect women, but these two guys acted as if
women were there just for them to have something, crassly, to stick
their dicks into. Of course I didn't come right out and say I was
offended by their remarks; that would have labeled me as a real pussy.
Besides I had been around football locker rooms for enough years to have
heard it all before without getting too upset. But there was something
about Spike and Don that was just, to put it mildly, over the top.
"What could piss us off?" a voice came from the doorway. I turned to see
Andrea and Felicia standing there, inside the room now. I wondered how
long they had been standing there and hoped that they had only heard my
remarks. Mine might have been of some concern, but Spike and Don's
comments would have been damning.
Of course leave it to Spike to fuck things up.
"We were just talking about tits," Spike mouthed off, watching the girls
for their reaction.
To their credit, neither girl batted an eyelash. "And what about them?"
Andrea asked calmly, but I could detect a coldness in her tone.
"Well," Spike continued to get himself in deeper, "Don here thinks that
skills are more important than size, if you know what I mean." The girls
said nothing, but I could see that they got the idea. "But I think big
tits are more important, don't you? After all, a girl with big tits can
learn to do better blow jobs, but a great BJ artist can't just grow
bigger tits, can she?"
Sam was going to kill us, I thought bleakly, wishing I could just
disappear rather than be associated with an idiot like Spike. Of course
Don, with his stupid grin, wasn't acting very smart either. At least Don
had the sense to keep his mouth shut - not that it was going to do him
any good.
To my surprise Andrea played along. "Oh yes, Spike, I agree. When it
comes to breasts, the bigger the better, right?" Then she smiled a very
predatory smile, completely unfazed by Spike's gross behavior.
"Yeah...right," Spike returned slowly. At first I thought he was just
speaking slowly because he was surprised at Andrea's answer, but then I
noticed he was squeezing his eyes open and shut, as if trying to stay
awake.
Come to think of it, I realized I was a little tired myself. I tried to
lift my hand to rub my own eyes, but it just didn't want to obey my
commands. Slowly I turned my head just in time to see Don slide off the
couch and lie still on the carpeted floor.
"What's...wr...wr...wrong?" Spike stammered before he joined Don on the
floor.
"You...drugged...us..." I managed before I too fell to the floor.
The last thing I heard before passing out completely was Andrea saying,
"Get the rest of the council. They're ready..."
I still shudder when my fragmented memories of the next few hours rise
to the surface of my mind. Fortunately those memories rarely come now,
and when they do, they are almost dreamlike, almost as if they were
happening to someone else.
The first incident I remember from that time, I was lying on... what? I
couldn't feel the floor or anything else behind me, but I was lying in a
prone position, my arms and legs stretched out away from my body. It was
as if I was floating in the air, and perhaps I was. It was not really
uncomfortable - at first.
There were voices all around me, chanting something unintelligible. I
tried to turn my head to see who it was, but there was little light in
the room, and what there was cast a deep bluish glow which barely
illuminated my surroundings. I could make out another human shape to my
right, and although I couldn't turn my head back to the left, I heard a
deep groan, as if there was another body lying prone there. Around us
were several shapes walking about. I couldn't tell how many there were.
It was as if they were dancing some graceful but arcane step which only
they understood. They were gesturing with their hands in seemingly-
meaningless patterns.
Then their voices rose as one. I felt a shudder up and down my back -not
unpleasant at first, but as their voices rose, the shivering sensation
turned suddenly to pain. I heard screams from either side of me, but
they were soon drowned out my own shrieks of pain. My backbone felt as
if it were being compressed, and the feeling quickly spread all
throughout my body. Not a nerve in my body seemed to be unaffected, and
as my frightened screams reached an hysterical crescendo, I passed out.
Even out cold, I was not completely relieved of the pain. My chest hurt,
as if my upper torso was being pulled away from my ribcage, and I
thought I felt my hipbones crack and push outward. Inside my guts were
on fire, shooting shards of pain from my back to my groin. Even my hands
and feet hurt, as if they were being compressed. I whimpered, although
I'm not certain if it was just in my dream or real. I don't know how
long all of this went on, but it seemed as if it would never stop.
When I finally awoke again, I still felt pain, but not as intensely or
as pervasively as before. The dull pain seemed centered on my chest and
between my legs, where the worst of the pain had come from, while the
rest of my body tingled as if the sensation of a limb being asleep had
spread throughout my body. I groaned... no, it wasn't a groan; rather,
it was a whimper, and it sounded somehow... wrong - higher in pitch
perhaps.
The chanting continued, but its tempo had changed. Before it had been
intense and demanding, but now it was hypnotically slow and subdued. I
tried to move, but it was if I had been immersed in glue. I shook my
head from side to side, causing a tickling about my ears and around my
forehead. I tried to take a deep breath, but it felt as if something
heavy was resting on my chest.
I fought to stay awake, but I couldn't keep my eyes open for more than a
few moments, and when I did, all I could see was those damned dark
shapes moving in the deep blue light, as if they were some sort of
marine life drifting about in a dark, mysterious sea. My eyelids
fluttered and began to close. The last thought I had before the darkness
reclaimed me was: "Why are my eyelashes brushing against my eyelids?"
I awoke once more disoriented and confused. I felt no pain at all this
time, but what I did feel was almost as disturbing. I felt...wrong. I
suspect that most people aren't exactly aware of their bodies.
Particularly when they awaken from a stupor. However, if someone were to
awaken and find, say, his arms missing, he would probably be aware of
that on some level. That was what happened to me. No, I don't mean my
arms were missing, but something certainly was.
My legs were still spread apart, but earlier I had been very aware of my
male equipment that hung between them. At first, before the pain
started, the tug of gravity gently pulled my testicles downward, while
my penis had hung limply over them. Then the intense pain had engulfed
them, making them feel as if they were being burned away in a white-hot
fire. Now though...
Now there seemed to be nothing there at all.
I tried to speak, to tell one of the chanting shapes in the bluish light
that there was something terribly, terribly wrong, but I was unable to
move my lips - or anything else for that matter. My muddled mind tried
to calm me, to tell me that there was really nothing wrong, that my body
was whole and I was just imagining things. Maybe the pain I had felt
earlier between my legs had dulled my feeling there. Maybe it was like
awakening to find my arm asleep, unfeeling, as if it had been removed
during the night.
Yes, that must be it, my mind insisted. There's nothing really wrong, I
tried to assure myself in my stupor, as I floated back into a troubled
sleep.
I dreamed then. But the dreams were unlike any I had ever experienced in
my life. I dreamed of my family, of growing up. The dreams were memories
of my childhood, but they were memories subtly altered in ways I
couldn't quite grasp.
I remember seeing my grandparents, before they had died tragically in a
car crash two years ago. In the dream my grandmother was smiling at me,
and I could sense that we were sitting together on the big, comfortable
couch in their home, right in front of the TV. I remembered doing just
that many times in the years before their deaths. The strange thing
though, was that my grandmother was talking to me about knitting. Why
would she talk to me about knitting?
As if to answer my question, I seemed to hear her say, "It calms the
mind, dear, and organizes it. You'll see... here, try it..."
The dream faded out, to be replaced by other fleeting images: playing
with our old dog, Laddie, before he was put down, going on vacation with
my parents to Disney World, elementary school, then junior high and high
school. My old friends from school paraded past me in my mind, saying
the oddest things that I couldn't quite comprehend. They were treating
me... differently, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly how.
I don't know how long I dreamed. It may have been only a few minutes or
several hours. I might have continued dreaming - if it hadn't been for
the scream.
The sound was muffled, seeming to come from another room, but it was
piercing - high in tone and frantic in inflexion. Even given the wall,
it was loud enough to bring me up out of my deep sleep. In fact I sat up
so quickly it took me just a moment to realize that something had swept
about my shoulders and another something bounced uncomfortably up and
down on my chest. Come to think of it, nothing felt right at all.
"What the hell...?" I yelled as I looked down my chest at two incredibly
large and perfect breasts. Reflexively I grabbed at them, assuming
someone had played a practical joke on me by cementing two falsies to my
chest. That forlorn hope faded quickly as I yanked on the breasts,
pinching the nipples as I was rewarded with a sharp pain.
"Ouch!"
I hadn't noticed the first time I spoke, but this time I realized my
voice was substantially higher. Like a...
"Oh shit!" There was that high voice again, almost drowned out by
another scream next door. I threw off the sheet that covered me and
looked with shock and fear below the two perfect breasts at my crotch.
The only hair I still seemed to have on my lower body was gathered at
the junction of my legs. My stomach and legs were as hairless as a
newborn baby. Even the pubic hair that remained was lighter in shade and
appeared softer and trimmed into an even vee.
Maybe it's just hiding, I tried to convince myself, but I knew better
even before I dropped a slender hand into the thatch, finding only an
unpretentious slit. My hand jerked back in panic, as if I had expected
it to be trapped between the delicate folds of skin I had encountered.
Instead of a protrusion that should be there, there was an entrance to
my body - an entrance that led to... what? Were there fallopian tubes
and ovaries crammed up there? Is that what had happened to my balls? Had
they migrated inside and reformed into things only a woman should have?
Was I a woman?
This wasn't possible. Things like this just didn't happen. Sure, I had
heard of sex change surgery, but it didn't take an expert on the subject
to realize that no one had operated on me during the night, or even over
several successive nights since I had no idea how long I had been
asleep. There were no incision marks, no signs that any medical
procedure had been performed on me, and the breasts I had yanked on
moments before certainly seemed soft and natural with no telltale signs
of implants.
No, this was impossible, but that didn't mean it hadn't happened.
So what exactly had happened? I asked myself as calmly as I could. Maybe
this was just hypnosis; maybe someone had hypnotized me into thinking I
was a girl. Was that possible? Could a top-notch hypnotist do such a
thing? I thought of the stories of hypnotists who deluded unwary
volunteers into scratching around the stage, flapping nonexistent wings
as they buck-buck-bucked in a poor imitation of a chicken. Maybe that
was what had happened. Maybe I was only imagining that I had long hair,
breasts, and... and...
Or maybe, I thought fearfully, I had always been a girl and had just
dreamed I was a guy. I tried to imagine that I was really a girl and
always had been, but that didn't seem right either. I remembered my male
life very well, thank you, and I had no memories of being a girl - at
least not yet.
The screams next door had turned to sobs, and I could hear two voices -
female voices - talking frantically back and forth. Hmmm, two frantic
females. There had been three of us guys at the Opie house, and I
distinctly remembered passing out in the chapter room. Spike and Don had
been there, too, and I remembered them starting to pass out as well. It
didn't take a team of detectives to come to the conclusion that what had
happened to me had probably happened to them as well, and from the
frightened screams and mournful sobbing next door, it didn't take much
to figure out who was on the other side of that wall.
There was a pink terrycloth robe lying on a nearby chair. Why did it
have to be pink? I thought to myself. But it was the only clothing in
sight. I managed to get up out of the bed I had found myself in and,
with a little effort, found my balance. After all my body was configured
very differently now with its wide hips, narrow waist, and substantial
breasts. I slipped into the robe, muttering as I had to stop to get all
my long hair out from under the collar. To make matters worse, I had
longer fingernails as well, and they seemed to get snagged in the long
tresses. Finally I gave up and opened the door to face the world as a
girl.
I looked both ways in the hallway before venturing out of the room. I
suddenly realized I was staring out into the hallway of one the
university's dormitories. I didn't know which one, but it had to be one
of the girls' dorms. I ducked back into the room, half expecting coeds
to start popping out of their rooms, laughing and pointing at the new
girl. Eventually I realized I would probably have to be less concerned
about anyone seeing me, but for the moment, I wanted to slip over to the
next door room without being noticed.
I quickly ran to the next door, trying unsuccessfully to ignore the
strange feeling of my breasts bouncing and my hips swaying as I did so.
The door was locked, so I rapped on it, trying to be noticed over the
morose whimpering inside the room. I looked around to see if anyone else
had heard the knocking and looked out to see where it was coming from,
but the hallway remained deserted except for me.
After a moment I heard a high, sweet voice call out nervously, "Who is
it?"
If the voice didn't belong to Spike or Don, I was going to have some
explaining to do, but I was pretty sure they were the residents of the
room. "It's Ryan!" I called back, suddenly taken aback by the sweet
sound of my own voice.
"R...Ryan?" The door cracked open. Peering out at me was someone out of
a porn flick. She was blonde with a pair of breasts that would have
stopped traffic if bared in public. Those spectacular breasts were
partially hidden by a short pink robe that appeared to be several sizes
too small and way too short to hide anything except the top of her legs.
At least it sort of covered the more provocative attributes. Her hair
was bottle blonde - so light that it was unlikely to have appeared in
nature. As for the rest of her body, she was perfection itself - if your
idea of perfection pole danced for a living. But the most unsettling
thing about her was her eyes. They were dazzlingly blue, but the whites
were red, and was that mascara running from the edges and down her
cheeks?
"Who are you?" I asked her. "Are you Spike or Don?"
Her face turned brilliant red. "I... I'm Spike."
"Are you going to let me in?"
She said nothing, but the door slowly opened. Timidly she stepped back,
so as not to be seen from the hallway.
The room I entered looked like something out of a masculine nightmare.
Everything in the room seemed to be either white, pink, frilly or some
combination of them. Little furry white rugs were cast over the
institutional gray carpet, and on the eggshell walls posters of sexy men
were everywhere.
Once Spike stepped back, I saw the other occupant of the room, sitting
naked on one of the beds sobbing softly, her deep brown eyes glistening
with tears. Her dark Latin skin and coal black hair were in deep
contrast with the pink satin bedspread, but it didn't take much
imagination to picture her spread out on the bed with her long dark hair
fanned out behind her. She sat as modestly as she could, long smooth
legs pushed tightly together to protect what had to lie between her
thighs.
"Don?" I asked, already knowing the answer.
The Latino girl nodded, wiping away a tear with a feminine hand tipped
with long fingernails that had been painted a deep red. "Ryan?"
I nodded, wondering what I looked like after seeing these two voluptuous
women who only a short time before had been my pledge brothers. Then I
noticed a full-length mirror on the side wall. Well, I had to know what
I had become sometime, I thought grimly and made my way to stand in
front of the mirror.
I had expected to find myself looking like a slightly different version
of Spike or Don. The only thing I knew about myself already was that I
was female and had a very large pair of breasts. Given that my skin was
fair, I suspected I was probably a sexy redhead with sparkling green
eyes and a permanent come-hither expression. I steeled myself as my eyes
focused on the image in the mirror.
What I saw wasn't quite what I expected. Oh, I was attractive enough,
that was certain. But I was attractive in a more subtle way than my two
pledge brothers. My hair was mostly brown, with auburn highlights that
seemed to be natural rather than dyed. I had a cute, girl next door sort
of face, sort of like Jewel Staite. My eyes were blue, framed by long
lashes, and my figure, I saw as I opened the robe, was sexy and
feminine, but not as exaggerated as either Spike's or Don's. To my
relief, I reassessed my breasts and found them not quite as large as I
had first expected. I guess when you look down for the first time and
see breasts on your chest, they appear to be larger than they really
are. Still I'd probably be a strong finisher in a wet t-shirt contest -
not that I had any plans to enter one - but I doubted if I was endowed
sufficiently to win.
"Wh...what happened to us?" Don asked, and for the first time, I noticed
he - she - had a faint Hispanic accent.
"We're fucking girls!" Spike muttered, sitting down on her own frilly
bedspread and pounding her tiny fists fruitlessly into the satiny
material.
"But how?" Don whimpered, tears starting to flow once again.
The answer to her question was as obvious as it was outlandish. Still I
was the one who said it.
"Magic," I answered simply.
Both girls looked at me as if I had just said something in Chinese.
Finally Spike said, "What are you talking about? There's no such thing
as magic."
I motioned to my own body. "Then explain this. Explain what's happened
to all of us."
Spike frowned. "Well, there's surgery... you know, they can make a guy
look like a girl."
"Yeah," I agreed, "but that would take months to do, and we wouldn't
look like this if we had been operated on. How tall were we? You and I,
Spike, we were each about six-three. Don there was maybe six-four.
Haven't you noticed we're a lot lower to the ground now? If I had to
guess, there isn't a one of us who would top five-seven. And we were all
pretty well-muscled. Where did all that weight go?"
"But there's no such thing as magic," Spike repeated lamely, but the
look she was giving her own substantial breasts said differently.
"Yesterday I would have agreed with you," I said softly. "But not now."
"What are we going to do?" Don wailed plaintively.
"I'll tell you what we're gonna do," Spike told her. "Okay, so let's say
it's magic. Those bitches over at the Opie house did this to us. That's
the only explanation. We're going to go over there and demand that they
turn us back."
I had watched Spike on the football practice field. He had a penchant
for charging into the strength of the opposition and pushing them back
as far as he could. It was an admirable trait for a tackle like Spike,
but his plan sounded futile and downright dangerous. Besides all of us
had been large enough and strong enough to be intimidating to almost
everyone we met. There was nothing intimidating about us now, and I had
to make Spike realize it.
"Wait, Spike," I cautioned. "If they're able to change us into girls so
easily, we might be walking into something worse if we go barging into
their house demanding to be changed back."
"Worse?" Her exclamation was meant to sound menacing, but it came out as
a feminine shriek. "What the hell could be worse than having tits and a
cunt? Look at these!" She thrust out her chest, hands propping up each
breast. "If you had melons like these, you'd be leading the charge on
those bitches!"
I pointed at my own breasts. "Oh yeah? And what do you call these?"
Taken aback just a little, she said, "Yeah...but they're not as big as
mine." She sounded almost as if she was pouting. Oddly there was even a
thread of misplaced pride in her response. I guess given the type of
girls Spike seemed to go after, her large breasts were something of a
point of pride. I certainly didn't envy her endowments, though.
"Then what should we do?" Don asked timidly.
Okay, what should we do? I looked around, spotting a white purse on one
of the desks. "I think they've changed more than just our appearance," I
told them, thinking about how feminine the room was. "Let's see if there
are any ID's in that purse. They may tell us how complete these changes
are."
"So you think they've set us up with girl lives and everything?" Spike
asked, grabbing the purse. She pulled out a white women's wallet and
rifled through the cards it contained. After a moment, she nodded.
"You're right. Look at this."
She handed me about a half dozen cards - driver's license, student ID,
and some credit cards. All were made out to a Stacey Norris - female,
eighteen, and a couple of them had Spike's new feminine visage imprinted
on them.
Don had found a black purse and produced a similar display, identifying
her as Donna Maria Morton. "I must be adopted," she guessed. "I'm too...
Latin to be my parents' daughter."
I had to agree. With her dark coloring and noticeable accent, she looked
nothing like the fair-skinned, light-haired guy I had known.
"So who are you now?" Spike demanded.
"I'll tell you later," I promised, realizing there was undoubtedly a
purse waiting for me back in my room. "Right now we have to figure out
what to do. I say we don't go over to the Opie house; that's too
dangerous. But we can call that president of theirs - Andrea something-
or-other - and try to negotiate with her before showing up on their
doorstep. Maybe we can get her to listen to reason."
Both of the other girls nodded slowly. I breathed a little sigh of
relief. Maybe I could talk some sense into Andrea and convince her to
change us back. At least I thought I could be more diplomatic about it
than the other two new girls. Don - or Donna now - would probably get
hysterical on the phone, and Spike would probably threaten her futilely.
Neither result would be good.
The "girls" followed me into my room so I could get my cell phone. Sure,
I could have used one of theirs, but I think all of us just wanted to
get out of that room and its lacy pink-ness. My room was feminine too, I
suppose, but at least it didn't look like Reese Witherspoon's room in
Legally Blonde. I had been in girls' rooms before which were far more
feminine than mine had become.
Waiting for someone to pick up the phone at the Opie house seemed like
the longest wait of my life. There was no doubt in any of our minds that
the Opies were behind all of this, and I don't think any of us had any
illusions about how eager they would be to change us back. Still we had
to try.
I had decided to take my father's advice with Andrea. He had always told
me that when a woman is mad at you, just say that you're sorry, even if
you have no idea what you're apologizing for. I had planned to do
exactly that.
"Hi there," a sexy girl's voice answered, and I realized they must have
caller ID and realized who was calling. I could almost imagine the
girl's devilish grin. She knew exactly who I was and what had been done
to me. That meant she also knew why I was calling, but she wasn't about
to make it easy on me. She must have been waiting for my call.
"Could you put Andrea on, please?" I asked nervously, trying to keep my
already-feminine voice from going still higher.
"Which Andrea would that be?" she asked innocently.
I sighed, thankful once more that I had made the call instead of Spike
or Don. I doubt if they would have been able to stay cool. As it was, it
was damned hard for me.
"I'd like to speak with your president," I rephrased. "That Andrea."
"Just a moment," came the singsong reply.
I was pretty sure Andrea was already there, probably giggling with the
girl who had answered the phone. They were determined to make me sweat -
and they were succeeding. Let's face it - if they decided to leave us
like this, there wasn't a whole lot we could do - especially if, as I
suspected, the new ID's were a foretaste of something even more all-
encompassing. Unless I missed my guess, they had changed reality around
us, and to the world, we were exactly who our new ID's declared us to be
as far as anyone knew.
Could I live my life as a girl if I had to? Yeah, I realized half the
world did just fine being female, but I didn't know the first thing
about being a girl. And I wasn't particularly anxious to learn, either.
If there was any chance at all of changing back, I'd do just about
anything to have it.
Suddenly I was off hold, and a familiar voice greeted me. "Hello, Ryan.
Or I guess it's Rebecca now." Well, at least I knew what name was on my
IDs. "I think I'll call you Becky though, since that's the name everyone
knows you by."
Then I was right. When I saw the girls' ID's, I suspected that what had
been done to us had somehow manifested itself in the world around us.
Apparently, I was correct. "Look, Andrea," I began, trying to keep the
anger I felt out of my tone, "whatever it is we did to offend you, we're
sorry. What do we need to do to get our lives back to normal? Just say
it and we'll do it."
To my despair, she laughed. "But your lives are normal. You're all
normal girls. Everyone knows that - your friends, your families..."
"Please, Andrea," I begged. "There must be something we can do to make
up for... for..."
"For years of boorish behavior?" she shot back. "For all the things you
did to wrong the young women in your lives? Well, you're doing all of
that right now. All those girls you and your friends wronged have a new
chance now, since they never met the crappy guys you once were.
Reality's changed. None of the girls you used even remember the guys you
used to be."
What girls? What was she talking about? I couldn't speak for Spike or
Don, but what had I done to deserve this? I had only had one steady
girlfriend in my life, and she had moved away to Chicago just before our
junior year. We had parted friends.
"Andrea, can we at least come by and talk about this?"
"Is that what you told your victims?" she growled. "Did you just tell
them you wanted to 'talk about this' before you... you..."
What the hell was she talking about?
"Andrea..."
"Listen to me, Becky..." There was pure hatred in her voice when she
spoke my new name. "You and your friends are who you will be for the
rest of your lives. Don't even think of coming by our house, or we'll
think of something even worse for you."
She didn't say what she meant by worse, but it still sent a chill up my
spine. At least I had been right to not go barging into the lions' den -
or rather the lionesses' den.
"Just get used to what you are," she continued. "At least we've given
you a chance - which is more than you three have given to other girls."
With that she slammed down the phone.
As I turned off my phone, Don - or I guessed now it would always be
Donna - looked at me with false hope. "Well?"
"She said no, didn't she?" Stacey asked.
I nodded.
"Well, I'm going over there and show that bitch what's what," she
growled, starting for the door.
I grabbed her arm. "Don't," I cautioned, and explained the gist of our
short conversation.
"Then... then we're stuck like this?" Donna whimpered, tears forming in
her pretty brown eyes as she dropped down to sit on the edge of my bed.
Stacey slowly sat next to her, saying nothing, but her face a portrait
of hopelessness.
I knew how she felt. Until Andrea had hung up on me, I had thought there
was a small chance that we could say or do something to get her to
change us back. And what did she mean by implying that we had all
mistreated women in the past? I couldn't speak for my pledge brothers,
but I could think of nothing I had ever done to deserve the punishment.
The full impact of what had been done to me hit me just then. I was a
girl. I had all the girl parts: Breasts, smooth legs, a vagina... And
not just a vagina. Inside my body were ovaries, filled with eggs that
would cause me to bleed on a monthly timetable. My God, I could even get
pregnant.
The thought of anything male being shoved into my slit seemed absolutely
repulsive, and I was sure I would never allow it to happen voluntarily.
But that didn't mean it couldn't happen without my consent. As a young
athletic man, very few people could overpower me, but now, as a young
woman, I would be vulnerable and would have to be on guard, or face
potentially frightening consequences. I even got the idea that if
something like that happened, Andrea would be just fine with it. I
shuddered involuntarily.
At last Stacey rose with a deep sigh and headed for the door.
"Wh...where are you going?" Donna asked fearfully.
"Back to our room," she murmured. "If I'm stuck like this, I want to
find something a little more appropriate to wear. I can't take another
minute of this... this pink!"
"Wait for me!" Donna called, padding along behind her, her own skimpy
robe flapping provocatively.
Suddenly I was alone. I was actually a little relieved, to be honest.
Stacey's bottled-up aggressiveness and Donna's whining were getting to
me. I wanted some me time to try to come to grips with all of this, and
I didn't want distracting company.
The first step was to take a look in my own purse, a brown one with a
shoulder strap, and find out everything I could about my new self. My
full name, it turned out, was Rebecca Lynn O'Meara. Not a bad name as
girl's names went, I reasoned. I could have been named Hortense or
Esmeralda or something equally unappealing. I supposed I would take to
calling myself Becky when it came down to it, since others remembered it
as my nickname.
I wasn't very tall - only about five-five, but I supposed that was not
too far off an average height for a girl of my build. It was certainly a
comedown, though - almost a full foot. Once more I couldn't help but
think that the world appeared more menacing from my diminished height.
There was a picture of me - the new me - with my parents. I remembered
when the picture had been taken, right after my high school graduation,
but I certainly didn't remember wearing a periwinkle dress and matching
heels at the time. Since it was just a photo of me and my parents, I
assumed I was still an only child. I felt sorry for my father at that
moment. He had always seen me as a son who could follow in his footsteps
- playing football, watching sports, and fathering a family. Now I was
probably his "little princess" or something equally depressing. Instead
of bonding with him by going to University of Nebraska football games,
my parents probably remembered me bonding instead with my mother on
shopping excursions to Westroads Mall.
The IDs didn't tell me a whole lot more. About the only other factoid I
derived from them was that my birthday was the same as before - I was
still seventeen, turning eighteen a week from Monday.
I methodically went through everything else I could find that might tell
me anything about myself. There wasn't a lot to see, though. My class
schedule still showed me in the same classes as before, so I was still
listed as "undeclared" for a major. Of course all of the paperwork
pertaining to football was gone. That also meant my athletic scholarship
was gone as well. I hoped my parents didn't gulp when they saw the
tuition bill.
All my fraternity paperwork was gone too, naturally. I couldn't exactly
pass the Theta Zeta Xi physical now - except for the honorary Theta Girl
club, which meant I'd have to be pinned to a Theta. No chance of that,
though. I would never be some guy's girlfriend.
Or so I thought at the time.
I wished I had never heard of the Thetas. If I hadn't pledged the house,
I never would have been sent over to the Opie house on a work detail and
none of this would have ever happened to me.
Wait a minute; hold that thought.
Our Pledge Trainer, Sam Dietrich, had sent me over to the Opies along
with Spike and Don. He had called for the three of us specifically. It
wasn't as if he had walked through the house looking over all of the
pledges and picking three at random to send to the Opies. He had been in
his room and called for the three of us specifically.
Why? Did Sam know what was going to happen to us? He had warned us not
to piss off any of the Opies. Did that mean he thought something even
worse might be done to us if we did?
If Angela wouldn't answer any of our questions, maybe Sam would. I
picked up my phone and prepared to call Sam, but before I entered the
last digit of the number, I clicked off. Angela had not been very
forthcoming, and I had a hunch that if I called Sam, he wouldn't be
either, probably denying that he knew anything at all. If I was going to
confront him, it would have to be in person. Then he wouldn't be able to
weasel out on me so easily.
But that meant leaving my room and walking across campus to the Theta
house - as a girl. I was not exactly enamored with that prospect. It
took me ten minutes of intense pacing back and forth, looking out the
window, and re-examining my new female body in the mirror before I came
to the conclusion that as distasteful as displaying myself in public
would be, I had no other choice. Besides the next day would mean the
start of classes, and I would have to get used to being seen as a female
by then.
I vowed to dress as nondescriptly as I could. I had it all planned out -
a bulky sweatshirt to hide my new breasts, loose jeans to keep my
wiggling derriere from attracting attention, and sneakers with athletic
socks for the long walk. I had it all planned out. I even dragged all
the aforementioned items out and arranged them on the spare bed, since I
didn't seem to have a roommate (thank God!).
I dressed quickly, my mind thinking about how I was going to approach
Sam. But I made a few course corrections in my outfit along the way, as
each of the planned items proved to be bad choices for my mission. So I
supposed there was a method to my madness as I dressed, but somehow, I
didn't realize exactly what the effect would be until I had finished and
turned to see the results in the mirror. Then I gasped at my image,
almost as alarmed as I had been to see myself as a female to begin with.
I was dressed in what I would later learn was known by the awkward name
of a crochet-trim sweater top with a scoop neck. It was white and showed
off everything from my neck down to the beginning of my cleavage, the
little dusting of freckles I had been given drawing the eye to my new
breasts.
I was also wearing a denim skirt that seemed scandalously short, and for
the first time I realized that while my breasts were very watchable, it
would be my legs that attracted the most attention, especially when I
was wearing the denim slide sandals that so closely matched my skirt and
raised my heels up to display my smooth, hairless legs to their greatest
advantage.
I was even wearing earrings and bracelets - all in thin gold circles,
and my long, silky hair had been pulled back into a ponytail which, as
the old song went, swayed with a wiggle when I walked.
Oh Jesus, I was a babe!
But how had I gotten dressed like this? It took me a few minutes to
piece my thoughts together, but I finally had the answers.
First of all, when I had donned the sweatshirt, it felt scratchy and
uncomfortable. Of course being new to all of this girl stuff, I had
thought that I could get by without the embarrassment of wearing a bra.
Silly me. The sweatshirt was especially uncomfortable on my nipples, and
I realized for the first time how truly sensitive a woman's nipples
could be. No wonder even the flat-chested ones wore bras most of the
time.
So I peeled off the sweatshirt and stared into the mirror at my newly-
acquired breasts. They were large, but not as large as Stacey's or
Donna's - for which I was very grateful. Then I thought to myself that
those unwanted breasts could actually work to my advantage. Unless Sam
was in the public areas of the fraternity, someone would have to go find
him. Which was he more likely to come down to see - a ratty girl in
jeans and a sweatshirt, who looked vaguely dyke, or a chick looking her
feminine best? Besides, if Sam had had anything to do with our
transformations, he would never expect me to give in to my feminine side
so quickly. Rather than avoiding me, he'd be curious about the looker
who was looking for him.
Maybe that was nothing but rationalization, and maybe it was good
reasoning; I'll never be certain - but Rebecca Lynn was about to make
her appearance either way.
Besides, getting dressed as a girl wasn't too difficult, once I realized
that my arms and hands were flexible enough to fasten a bra properly. It
took me only a few minutes to select the right outfit - suitably sexy
without being slutty. The top and denim skirt had a simple "country
girl" look - especially with the slide sandals. I had thought about
pantyhose, but decided this outfit looked better with bare legs -
especially since my bare legs were pretty nice, even if I do say so
myself. Even selecting the right accessories didn't seem too difficult.
I was beginning to wonder smugly why girls seemed to have so much
trouble deciding what to wear.
But the makeup was another matter - until I realized I had been
transformed with something that could best be called body memory.
Remembering how fastening the bra and selecting the right outfit had all
seemed strangely natural, I willed myself to apply the makeup in the
same way - with determination and confidence in my ability to manage.
The results were mixed. It wasn't that I did a bad job; it was just that
it was very disconcerting to see how good the results look, and how
feminine I now appeared. My deft handiwork had created the look of sweet
innocence. I knew what I had applied and where, but the results appeared
very natural and competent. I knew I was wearing eyeliner, eye shadow,
and lipstick, but only another (another?) woman would realize how much
and where. To any male, I would appear to be a natural beauty, not
needing much in the way of cosmetics to accentuate my features. Whatever
had been done to me to give me such skills was downright scary.
Unfortunately the body memory didn't seem to extend to any other
memories. I still remembered growing up as Ryan. I was intellectually
still as male as I had been before the Opies had changed me. I suspected
that this was all a part of their plan. After all they wanted me to act
like a girl - hence the body memory - but to be embarrassed about it.
They wanted the three of us to be men trapped in women's bodies.
Unfortunately I thought to myself as I looked at myself in the mirror,
they had succeeded.
I tapped on Stacey and Donna's door to see if they wanted to go with me.
Frankly I hoped they didn't. I hadn't particularly liked either Spike or
Don as guys, and I had a sneaky hunch I wasn't going to like them as
girls, either. Spike - or rather Stacey now, I reminded myself - was
still too impulsive, and Donna was a nervous wreck. Besides I thought
I'd get further with Sam if I saw him alone.
Luckily there was no response to my knock. Apparently they too had
decided to venture out in their new bodies. I hoped they too hadn't
decided to go to our fraternity house, but somehow I doubted if either
would have thought of it just yet. So with no little relief, I started
out for the house on my own.
I hadn't walked a quarter of the distance across campus to the TZX house
though, when I began to regret going alone and dressed so sexily. With
my purse slung over my shoulder, the sway in my walk seemed even more
pronounced, probably because I was a little off balance and wearing a
heel. I did fine when I didn't think about it - body memory again - but
faltered a little when I gave conscious thought to the fact that I was
prancing across campus in high heels. That sway seemed to be attracting
a lot of male eyes, and there was nothing subtle about the fantasies
percolating behind those eyes: they wanted me for lunch.
Maybe it would have been better to have Stacey and Donna with me, I
realized. All girls seemed to feel "in numbers there is strength." Only
the bravest of guys would try to cut a girl out of the pack. And after
all, both of the other new girls had bigger chests than I did, and
similarly dressed, I would have been the ugly duckling of the three.
But who was I fooling? I sighed to myself. Yeah, Stacey and Donna might
have looked more enticing than I did, but I still looked damned good.
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