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Memories Revisited: Closing Up Shop?
By Heather St. Claire
Most people like to think they live well-ordered lives, that they are
the masters of their destiny, rather than victims of random fate.
Try telling that to Alexis and Charles Boyd?not that they would have any
idea of what you were talking about.
On the surface, they look to be a perfectly ordinary young couple; as
far as they know, that's exactly what they are. Two young teachers at
the same high school who fell in love and got married. But their destiny
was altered forever when a young bride named Charla Boyd visited a
scrapbooking store called Memories Revisited at the Twin Pines Mall.
Memories Revisited is, for the most part, a perfectly ordinary
scrapbooking store. They sell papers, embellishments and scrapbooks;
they offer classes; and for a fee, they will put together books for
people who don't have the time or skill to do own.
But for a few customers, the owner of the store, Diane McMaster, can
offer something extra. Diane has access to magical materials that can
change the sex of the principal subject of a scrapbook.
The supplies appeared in a compartment in the store's backroom Diane
stumbled upon one day. The most amazing thing about the discovery was
that it was accompanied by a handwritten note from Diane's brother
Danny.
That might not have been so remarkable, except for the fact that Danny
had committed suicide a year earlier. He had swallowed an overdose of
pills in his apartment while dressed in a wig, makeup and satin
lingerie. He left behind a note explaining that the pain of living a lie
for more than four decades had become too great to endure any longer.
The loss shook Diane to her foundations. She had a strong faith in God,
and prayed that if she ever encountered anyone else like Danny, she
would be able to help them.
The magical supplies were the apparent answer.
So far, each of the transformations she had orchestrated worked
beautifully. The first was Jessica Stone, a happy teenage girl who now
worked in the store part time and had begun life as a lonely boy named
Jessie; Erica Madsen, a schoolteacher who found both her proper gender
and her dreams of a family finally fulfilled; and a dying young girl
named Laura Waters who had told her that she had been born with "boy
parts" because "God made a mistake." Diane's book allowed the boy born
as Loren to live out his last months as the girl he had always meant to
be?Laura.
Diane took special delight in the personal growth of Jessica. Not only
had her naturally outgoing personality made her a hit with customers,
she had also show a real knack for tracking details of inventory and
orders. And she also displayed a real creative flair. Diane started
farming out some of the simpler scrapbook projects to her (and paying
her a bonus for each one.)
The scrapbook of the wedding of Charla and Alex Boyd was one of her
assignments. It would have been a perfectly ordinary project except for
a totally random chain of events. Jessica was just settling down in the
back room to get to work on the book when a phone call sent Diane
abruptly running out of the store. Her husband David was a contractor,
and a scaffold had collapsed at a job site, sending him plunging to the
ground from the second-floor exterior of a new house. Fortunately, he
didn't seem to be seriously hurt, but an ambulance was taking him to the
local hospital to be checked over.
This meant Jessica had to run the store until closing time a couple of
hours later; and she would have to stay late to finish the Boyds' album,
because it had been promised to them for the next day.
Before settling down to work, Jessica walked over to the nearby coffee
stand for a moccachino. Diane had a strict rule about not having any
food or beverages near a project, but Jessica was tired, she needed the
pick-me-up, and she promised herself she would be careful.
Of course, she wasn't careful enough.
She had carefully laid everything out?the album and pages she was going
to use, the photos, announcement, invitation, reception napkin and so
on. She was reaching for a cutting tool when she knocked the coffee
drink onto the blank pages. She cried "Oh no!" leapt to her feet and
grabbed a handful of paper towels, but the damage had been done, the
blank pages were ruined.
Of course the supply of wedding-themed paper in the store had been
exhausted?it was late June, after all. Jessica searched the store room,
but of course there was nothing on those shelves either. She was about
to give up when she spotted the hidden panel containing Denise's magical
store. She slid the panel open and, much to her surprise, found a
generous supply of wedding paper atop the pile (this wouldn't have been
a shock to Denise?she had already learned the supplies were self-
replenishing).
Jessica went to work on the book. She didn't notice that the wedding
announcement for Alex Stevens and Charla Boyd was now inviting people to
the marriage of Alexis Stevens and Charles Boyd. The preliminary photos,
showing the decorating of the reception hall, the tying of tin cans to
the bumper of their car, the ring bearer and flower girl, didn't provide
her with a clue as to what was happening.
But when she saw a picture of a tall, willowy brunette in her wedding
gown?Alexis?and her broad-shouldered, blonde, handsome groom?Charles?she
began to wonder what was going on.
There were all the standard wedding pictures?the first kiss, cutting the
wedding cake, the first dance together, Charles removing Alexis' garter,
Alexis tossing her wedding bouquet to the crowd?but it made absolutely
no sense to her. Nevertheless, Jessica pressed on and finished the book.
After all, it was a job she was expected to finish, and she would finish
it.
Once the book was done, she tried to plunge into her homework, but found
she couldn't concentrate. She was worried about Mr. McMasters?she still
hadn't heard from her boss about how he was doing?and she was totally
baffled by what had happened with the scrapbook she had just assembled.
Finally, the phone rang. She was relieved to hear from Diane that Mr.
McMasters had a mild concussion and would have to stay home for a few
days, but was not seriously hurt. Diane asked Jessica if she had
finished the book for the Boyds.
"Well, yes, but?"
"But what?"
"I...I can't explain it. I have to show you. Is there any way you can
get back here?"
"I'm just getting ready to take David home. Once I get him settled in
bed, I can come back if you really think it's necessary."
"Believe me, I think it's necessary."
Diane hung up the phone in puzzlement. She dismissed the only thought
that came to mind....but later realized she shouldn't have been so
hasty. Forty minutes later she was at her store, and Jessica was telling
her what had happened. "Oh no...you didn't...you didn't...." She picked
up the book and leafed through the pages with haste. Then she went
through it again, more slowly. "You did," she said quietly. "You did."
By now Jessica was agitated and on the verge of tears. "What did I do,
Mrs. McMasters? Please tell me what I did!"
"Isn't it obvious, honey? You changed their sexes."
"But how is something like that possible?"
Diane sighed deeply. "Oh, this is going to be a long story. I hope your
mother isn't expecting you home very soon." She paused. "Jessica, I
doubt you're going to believe this, but you were born a boy."
"A boy?" she laughed. "That's ridiculous. I'm a girl. I've always been a
girl."
"No, no you weren't honey. Not until your mother asked me to put
together your birthday scrapbook for you." Diane went on to explain the
suicide of her brother Danny, who had longed to be female; her prayers
to be able to help others in the same situation; the appearance of the
magical supplies.
"Your mother came to see me one day. She wanted a special book for your
sixteenth birthday. She told me how you had always been a shy child, but
had become more withdrawn after the death of your father. She told me
how much she loved you and your older brothers, though the one sorrow in
her life was that she had never had a girl...she also told me how you
blurted out one day that you had always wished you had been born a
girl."
Jessica started at Diane for a long moment before asking: "So why don't
I remember any of this?"
Diane said: "It seems like when the book rewrites your present and your
past, it erases the memories of your former life. That's what happened
with the second book I did, too...but not the third, for sweet little
Laura. Maybe the difference was she and her mother were aware the change
was happening."
Jessica was still processing the stunning news that she had actually
been born male. "I was a boy. I can't believe I was a boy." Then, she
seemed to snap out of a trance, and said, "Oh, those poor people! What
have I done to them?"
Diane put her hand atop Jessica's. "You couldn't have known, dear. You
couldn't have possibly known. This is my fault, not yours." Jessica had
started to cry; Diane gave her a tissue.
"What do we do now?" Jessica asked.
Diane said, "Maybe we should destroy the book. Maybe that will undo the
changes."
Jessica shot back: "But what if it doesn't? Not only will things still
be as they are, but Alexis and Charles will be very unhappy about what
happened to their pictures and things. And what if it does? It kind of
scares me, the thought that if my book was destroyed, I would change
back to a boy. There is NO WAY I ever want to be a boy!"
Diane's head was beginning to throb. She closed her eyes and massaged
her forehead with her fingers. "I don't know. I just don't know. But I
do know one thing. I'm destroying the rest of this stock. It's evil."
"No!" Jessica said sharply. "You can't do that! You've been entrusted
with a special gift! I don't remember anything about my life as Jessie,
but from what you've told me, he sounds like a very unhappy boy. I can
tell you one thing....I am a very happy girl." She said the last three
words with exaggerated emphasis, wanting to make sure her message got
across.
By this point, Diane's friend Gwen Moore, owner of the plus-size women's
shop in the mall (and a gender changer herself, thanks to the SRU
wizard) had arrived at the store. She had walked in carrying a box of
Krispy Kreme donuts and offered to share with the women. ("Can you
believe they opened one of these right across from the mall?" she
sighed. "It's like the whole world wants to keep me big.") Diane and
Jessica took a few minutes to bring Gwen up to date on the amazing tale.
Gwen almost forgot about her box of donuts?almost. Jessica reemphasized
her happiness as a female.
"But you wanted this, Jessica," Diane said. "You wanted it. Alex and
Charla didn't. And now look what's happened. Their entire lives have
been turned upside down. Not only their lives, but the lives of their
family members, their friends, everyone has ever know have been
rewritten. Alex and Charla have been wiped from the face of the earth."
"Yes," Gwen agreed. "But Alexis and Charles are here now. And how do we
know that they aren't happy. We don't know what's been locked inside
their hearts. Maybe they were drawn to each other because of a shared
longing to change gender."
"That seems like kind of a stretch," Diane said.
"I've got an idea," Gwen said, opening Diane's laptop. "Let's take a
look at Charles' Facebook page. Hmmm....not finding Charles Boyd...maybe
Charlie...oh, here he is! Chuck Boyd!" For a couple of minutes, Gwen was
silent, except for an occasional "hmmm...uh, huh."
Finally, Diane couldn't stand the suspense. "So? What are you seeing?"
"Well, it seems that not only is Mr. Boyd a very popular gym teacher,
he's also still quite the jock in the local adult sports leagues...not
to mention being the ultimate college and pro sports superfan. He seems
to have a very full and happy life. How about Alexis?" she asked. "You
often seem to be able to access knowledge of one of your customers'
changed lives."
Diane closed her eyes and concentrated for a moment. "Interesting. I
never met Charla before she came into the store the other day, but it
turns out I know Alexis quite well. She's been a customer of this store
long before I bought it. She shows up for just about every crop and
project class. She's really got an artistic eye and a skilled hand.
Hmm...it also seems I attend a book group that she leads. We started out
with the complete works of Jane Austen?the movie was our inspiration?and
kept going from there. And from what I gather, she's a pretty popular
English and literature teacher."
Gwen looked at her and smiled. "That doesn't exactly sound like an
unhappy person."
The next day, Diane had the opportunity to evaluate the transformed
twosome in person, when they came into the shop to pick up the book.
They came in holding hands and seemed reluctant to let go of each other,
even when Alexis had to reach into her purse to extract a credit card.
After closing that evening, Diane joined Gwen for tea. "They seemed very
happy, I'll give you that, but I still don't feel right about it at all.
At all. But I'll tell you what. I'm almost more concerned about Jessica
right now."
"Jessica? Why?" Gwen asked as she reached for a plate of cookies.
"I don't know how to put it, except...she seems to have become super
girly lately. Do you ever see her in anything other than a dress lately?
And those four inch heels....and I swear her voice has become softer,
more breathy. It's almost like she's turning into an exaggerated parody
of femininity."
Gwen looked thoughtful. "I guess I have noticed some of this. I was in
Tania's salon the other day and saw Jessica getting a set of acrylic
nails. She was talking about how she just couldn't grow out her own
nails, and she just had to have long nails. But think about it. If you
just found out you really hadn't spent most of your life as a woman,
that you had really been born male and only changed recently, wouldn't
that unsettle you a bit? My bet is this is just a phase that will pass."
Diane sighed deeply. "I hope so. I hope so."
Over the next few weeks, Jessica did tone done the ultra-femininity a
bit, and Alexis seemed to be gloriously happy. Diane began to persuade
herself that everything was working out for the best. That sense of
peace would soon be shattered.
Alexis came into the shop one day about half an hour before closing
time. One look at her face told Diane that something was seriously
wrong. Before Diane could say anything, Alexis asked: "Can we talk?
Someplace in private?" Diane asked Jessica to take over helping a
customer, and led Alexis into the break room. No sooner had they sat
down together on the couch, Alexis burst into tears. "Oh, Diane, I'm
sorry to be dumping on you like this, but I didn't know who else to turn
to. I can't tell my Chuck yet...or my mother." Diane held her and rocked
her; Alexis was too overcome by whatever was troubling her to be able to
continue.
Finally, Diane asked quietly: "What is wrong, honey? What can I do about
it?"
"There's nothing you can do, I'm afraid. I just got told by yet another
gynecologist that I will never be able to conceive. He said he was
sorry, but my reproductive system was so 'messed up' that there was no
way to straighten things out. I suppose I shouldn't be so upset. I know
there are plenty of children in the world needing loving parents to
adopt them....but I had so looked forward to carrying a life inside of
me, experiencing birth, feeling my newborn against my breast. Now none
of that will ever happen. I feel like so much less of a woman."
"There there," Gwen said, stroking Alexis's' hair. "You are still going
to be a wonderful mother to a very lucky child."
Diane had to find Gwen as soon as she made sure Alexis was calmed down
and would be O-K driving home. "This is it," she said.
"Now look, how do you know Charla wasn't unable to conceive as well?
Maybe Alexis will be able to cope better than Charla would have."
Diane shook her head. "Gwen, you can rationalize all you want, but the
fact is, two people's lives have been totally turned upside down because
of my carelessness. Well, it ends here."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm closing the store."
"You can't do that!"
"I can't? Just watch me!"
Gwen knew her friend well enough to know that it was useless to continue
the argument at this point. Her mind was made up. But Gwen silently
hoped that in time her friend would realize she shouldn't walk away from
her special gift.
The End?
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