Working for Mom
Belladonna
Valentina Valenti stared at her son's final report card. George had
just graduated high school with marks that filled her with
disappointment.
George had always been lazy when it came to school work. He received
C's throughout his academic career despite being sent to the best
private schools that money could get him into.
Valentina frequently scolded her underachieving son and tried to punish
him. However, all of her efforts to get him to work harder always
resulted in failure. Given his grades, George could only get into a
community college.
When Valentina brought the idea of going to a community college, George
rejected the idea. Instead, he told her that he wanted to join the
family business that she ran.
Valentina put her head down when she heard her son's words. She had
inherited the business from her father after his death and the untimely
death of her brother. The business was going strong, but she had not
started with it. She went to college after high school and began
working in a different industry before she began working for the family
business after her father began to slow down.
George had always intended to follow his mother into the family
business. That was the main reason he saw no need to put any effort
into his school work. George figured that his future was set.
Valentina walked away from her son and retreated to her bedroom. Over
the following days, she thought a great deal about her son's choices.
She did not want to reward him for taking the easy way out. She wanted
him to understand that he would have to overcome adversity at some
point and that someone was not always going to be around to bail him
out.
Valentina had always tried to set a good example for her son. She
figured that she had to because she did not want George to turn out
like his father.
George's father, Marshall Shrimpton, was the ne'er-do-well son of a
local dynasty. The Shrimpton family's wealth stretched back over two
hundred years. Marshall was never trusted with any of the family's
holdings, however, as the family knew his short coming too well.
Marshall was, instead, pushed into politics, serving in several
governors' administrations because he was simply not trustworthy enough
to be given any responsibility for the family companies. His family's
opinion of him was only further confirmed when he impregnated Valentina
before marriage.
Marshall's family disapproved of the relationship between the two of
them. Some disapproved of Valentina because of her last name alone,
while others in his family simply did not like the fact that her
family's wealth was lower than Marshall's and that Valentina was more
independently successful than Marshall could ever be.
Still, they pressured Marshall to marry Valentina for appearances.
Valentina was happy to marry him at the time, as Marshall was charming
and possessed more talents than his family gave him credit for.
However, not long after they married, Valentina realized that Marshall
was simply unwilling to do the work required to make use of his skills.
After George's second birthday, Valentina and Marshall divorced.
George's relationship with Marshall was distant after that. Marshall
was frequently away on trips and rarely saw his son until his death a
few years later in a plane crash.
Valentina saw a lot of Marshall in her son. George had his father's
sense of entitlement and slothful work ethic. These traits seemed as
inherited to Valentina as George's slight build and delicate features.
Valentina wanted to make sure that her son turned out to be nothing
like his father.
Valentina decided to give her son an ultimatum that she knew could only
end one of two ways. Either George would go along with her plans or he
would run away from home. The latter seemed unthinkable to her given
the fact that she had coddled him so much that she was sure he could
not live on his own for long.
George came home after hanging out with a group of his friends and
found his mother waiting for him in the kitchen. Valentina smiled at
her son and said, "How was your day, George?"
"Good, mom. Yours?" George replied as he took hold of a glass from the
cupboard.
"I've thinking about your request to come to work for me," Valentina
said.
George looked at Valentina strangely. He did not consider his earlier
statement to be a request. He assumed it was something that would
happen.
"Are you sure you want to do it?" Valentina asked.
"Of course, Mom."
"Well, you know you have to start from the bottom and work your way
up."
"Why?"
"I can't give you special treatment. It wouldn't be fair to those..."
"Life isn't fair mom. I've got dumb kids in my school going to Ivy
League schools because that's where everyone in their family goes.
That's life. You take care of your own and the hell with everyone
else."
"I've taken care of you, George. I think you can admit that."
"You've taken good care of me," George said as he poured himself a
glass of soda.
"Perhaps I've protected you too much."
"What are you talking about?"
"You don't seem to think you have to work for anything."
"You got your job from Grandpa. What did you ever do..."
Valentina cut of her son and glared at him as she replied, "I got into
a good school without any legacy points. I was the youngest executive
ever at the company I started with out of college. My father wouldn't
even give me a job out of college. I had to earn one. You think you can
just walk into his company and start as a higher up with no skills or
knowledge."
"My friend Henry's father is bringing him on. He's teaching him what he
needs to know."
"Henry? Well, at least I know I won't have to be worrying about that
company as a rival in the future."
"Oh, come on, Mom. No one can expect you to treat your kid like you
would anybody else."
"Maybe not, but I will."
George glared at his mother and asked, "Okay, for the sake of argument,
what's your starting position?"
"Our entry position for a non-college graduate is a junior secretary,
all though some of the girls call her the office girl or the junior
receptionist."
George stared at his mother in silence before he said, "You're joking."
"No, that's where you'll have to start if you don't want to go to
college."
"A fucking secretary."
"Don't use that kind of language with me," Valentina admonished her
son.
"You're kidding me?"
"No. You can't expect me to be running around for your employees. What
would they think of your son doing that?"
"They wouldn't know that, except for the ones that know you."
"So you're going to hide the fact that I'm your son."
"Well, I don't employ guys for those kinds of jobs, so yes; I'm going
to hide the fact that you're anyone's son."
George froze as he heard his mother's words. After a few seconds of
silence, he asked, "You seriously think I'm going to come to work for
you as a girl?"
"Well, no. You're not really a girl. You'll just be a guy who happens
to look and act like a girl."
"You've lost your mind," George replied as he threw up his hands.
"It's that or nothing."
"Well, then it's nothing."
"Then what are you going to do?"
"Whatever!"
"That's not a plan."
"I'll figure something out."
"You'd better. In fact, given the speed you generally move at, I better
give you a deadline. You've got three weeks. You don't want to go
school fine, well then you need to find a job. You've got three weeks
to find one. If you don't have one then, you either move out or come to
work for me where a person with your education and skill starts."
"This is a fucking joke, right?"
"No, and don't take that tone with me!"
"Fine! I'll go get a job. I don't care what I have to do, but I'm not
doing that. You need me, mom. I'm the only family you got. You need
someone to turn the business over to."
"I'm sure I can find plenty of capable people to run my business when
I'm gone. I love you, George, but you need me more than I need you. You
just have to trust me that this is for the best."
George threw up his hands and walked out of the room.
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George woke up and saw the alarm clock showing the time, 9:38 A.M. He
clenched his eyes before he pushed himself out of bed. He grabbed hold
of his head and tried not to think about what the day would be bring.
It was three weeks to the day from the day his mother gave him the
ultimatum. All hopes that she would forget it were dashed as she made
sure to give him daily reminders of it. George could only hope that her
threat was hollow.
George got to his feet and walked out of his bedroom in his wrinkled
pajama flannel bottoms and white t-shirt. He walked down the steps and
into the kitchen where he saw his mother reading the newspaper with a
cup of tea.
"So how did the job search go this week?" Valentina asked her son.
George put his head down and said, "Same as last week."
Valentina took a sip of her tea and asked, "You remember what I told
you?"
"Yes," George said as he buried his chin into his chest.
"So what's it going to be?"
"Oh, come on, Mom. You can't expect me to do this."
"I'm not going to do you any special favors. I've given you every
opportunity in life and, each time, you've wasted it. There are no more
golden opportunities coming from me."
"Can't I at least work as a man?"
"No. I don't want any of my girls' weirded out by some male secretary
invading their comfort zones. Girls are different with each other than
they are with men, well at least with straight men."
"Mom, there are plenty of male, not secretaries, what do they call them
now?"
"Administrative Assistants, which is just a nice way of saying
secretary when you're talking about a man doing the job."
"So, there are guys doing it? Why can't I?"
"Yes, but the men are largely, if not exclusively, gay. I have some
homophobic older employees that might not take well to a gay secretary.
Why Amanda's secretary, Evelyn, she's almost 72, and she hates gays."
"I'm not gay!"
"I know, sweetie, your grades and appearance clearly show that, but
you'd have to at least act the part to really integrate yourself with
the other members of my office's support staff."
"This is ridiculous!"
"My house, my company, my rules. If you don't like it, there's the
door," Valentina said pointing to the front door of the home.
Valentina smiled at her son. She had George right where she wanted him
and was going to keep pressing her advantage. She had not guided her
family's company to the top of a male dominated industry by sitting
back and being placid. Valentina knew full well that when she had an
opportunity, she had to seize it.
George's sulking face told her all she needed to know. Valentina had
watched her son underachieve his whole life. He never took his school
work seriously and hung around with a group of friends that she
considered delinquents and scum.
Several of George's male friends had been arrested for vandalism and
drug possession and two of his female friends had been as well. She
hated their lack of manners and the baggy clothing of the boys as well
as the slutty short plaid school girl skirts with ripped stockings and
Goth like combat boots his female friends tended to wear.
Valentina felt her son's friends were a collection of freaks and
deviants who were a bad influence on him. By the defeated look in her
son's eyes, Valentina knew that she was about to get the wedge she
needed to separate George from his friends.
George glanced up at his mother and said in a low voice, "I'll do it."
Valentina smirked as she looked at her son while he stared down at the
floor, unable to meet her gaze.
"Do what, dear?"
George sighed and said, "I'll work for you."
"I'm glad you finally came around."
"What do I have to do?" George asked as he nervously tugged on his
shirt.
"Well, you have to start getting ready for your new job. You're going
to start next Monday, but we have much to do to get you ready."
"Like what?" George asked.
"Well, we have to give you makeover and get you some new clothes for
work and around the house."
"Around the house?" George shrieked.
"Yes, you can't keep walking around here like that. You need to get
into Gia's mind and become her."
"Gia?"
"Yes, that's your name."
"I don't get to pick my name?"
"You didn't pick your name the last time around either so don't feel
too bad about it. Gia's the name I always saved for my daughter, but I
never had one."
"Don't you think that name will be confusing? Can't it be Georgia or
Georgina or something that's not that different from my name?"
"No, we need to reinforce that there's a clear distinction from George
and the girl you're going to be. I think Gia helps create the
separation you're going to need from your old life."
"Old life? I don't want to..."
"George, dear, you have to become the girl you're going to be in body
and mind. You have to be her. It's like method acting. You need to live
the part. You can't go home and be yourself; you have to stay in the
right frame of my mind. We can't afford any slipups at work. I don't
want anybody thinking that you're some tranny or a sissy boy. I want
them to look at you and say that Gia is just like any other girl."
George froze up as he heard his mother's words and realized what he had
agreed to. As much as he wanted to run, he knew he had no better
opportunities outside the front door of his mother's home. As a slight
man, standing only 5'7" and 140 pounds, George did not have much
strength to compete with the other people living on the streets. He
also knew he had been too coddled in life to make it on his own.
George felt like crying as he realized that he was trapped. He knew
that his mother could do whatever she wanted with him, and he would
have little ability to refuse to go along with it.
Valentina looked over her stunned son and said, "Well, let's get
started then."
"Now?" George asked, breaking his stupor.
"No time like the present, dear."
George nodded and said, "What do you want me to do?"
"Well, first go upstairs and get into the shower and get rid of all
that nasty boy hair beneath your head. When you're done, shave your
beard. You look so much better when you don't have that George Michael
stubble."
"Who's George Michael?"
"He's the singer you were named after. I had a thing for him in the
eighties before I realized that he was so..."
"Dad told me I was named after his father."
"Oh, that's what I told him so he would go along with the name. Now, go
get rid of all that ugly hair."
"Mom, I don't think it'll make a difference. No one is going to believe
that I'm a girl."
"You've got to have faith."
"Don't quote Limp Bizkit songs, they suck!"
"Wow, see that son."
"What?"
"You've only agreed to become Gia five minutes ago, and we've already
found something we can agree on for the first time in five years."
George smiled for a moment before he plodded up the stairs. He walked
into the bathroom and disrobed. He stepped into the shower and washed
his body before he picked up his mother's razor and shaving foam.
George lathered his legs up and began to removed his body hair.
Each time George placed the blades on his skin he felt more and more
emasculated about what he was doing. George cursed himself for putting
himself in the position he was in. He wanted to scream out how wrong he
felt at that moment, but he knew it would not do him any good.
George finished with his legs and removed the hair from his chest and
forearms next before moving onto his armpits. Once George was done
shaving his body, he shut off the water. He grabbed a towel and smelt
the strawberry scent of the shaving foam on his newly smooth body.
He groaned at the feminineness of his scent as he dried himself off
before he began to shave his face. George shaved off all of his facial
hair before he redressed in his pajamas and went to find his mother.
Valentina smiled as she saw her son's hairless forearms as he walked
towards her.
"Well, you look better already. You even smell better," Valentina said
with a smile.
George rolled his eyes and said, "Let's get the rest of this hell over
with."
"As you wish, dear. Come along."
George followed Valentina up to the master bathroom and saw the strips
laid out on her sink top. George knew what they were for and cringed at
the thought of having his eyebrows waxed.
Valentina told him to take a seat on the toilet as she prepared the wax
for him. She put the wax and strands over his eyes and pulled them
away.
George let out a yelp that prompted Valentina to smirk before she said,
"We're almost done. I just have to tweeze out the little leftovers."
George prepared for more pain, but he found the tweezing to be near
painless. Valentina finished and told George to get dressed in the
clothing she had left for him on her bed. George hesitantly walked over
to the clothing. George picked up the new pair of black panties and saw
the matching bra, one of his mother's around the house t-shirts, a pair
of her sweatpants and his Adidas sandals.
George looked at the collection of clothing on his mother's bed as
Valentina came out of the bathroom. She glared at George and said, "Go
get changed. What are you waiting for?"
"This isn't what I expected," George said.
"Good because you'll only be wearing those once, well, maybe twice.
Those clothes go with the back-story I came up with for you for the
girls at the shop. I told my stylist, Dominique, to tell everyone
you're my tomboy niece who's come to work for me."
"Does Dominique know how I really am?"
"Of course, but she's a born liar so she can keep a secret about who
you really are."
George nodded and carried the clothing into his mother's bathroom. He
disrobed and put each article of clothing on and came out for his
mother to inspect him.
Valentina smirked as she looked him over before she grabbed two pairs
of socks and stuffed one pair into each of his bra cups. Valentina
nodded as she took a step away from to take in his appearance. She then
smiled and said, "That will do just fine."
George put his head down before his mother said, "Now, let's just put
the finishing touches on you and we'll be ready to go."
George nodded as Valentina took his hand and brought him back into her
bathroom. Valentina sat George down again on the toilet bowl and began
applying eyeliner, lipstick and mascara to his face. George felt like a
fool as his mother gave him a makeover, but he felt as if he had no
other options.
Valentina then brushed his hair into the feminine hairstyle she could
come the closest to giving him. She smiled at the almost pageboy
haircut her son had, and she imagined how good he would look when his
hair had some semblance of order to it.
Valentina took a step away from George and said, "I think it needs one
more thing."
"What?" George asked as his mother rushed out of the bathroom.
Valentina came back in carrying a silver necklace and placed it around
George's neck. George stood up to take a look at himself in the mirror
and cringed at the girlish reflection staring back at him.
The padding had changed his boyish frame into a girlish one, while the
makeup gave him a feminine appearance. As George stared vacantly at
himself, Valentina slapped her head and said, "Oh, I don't want to
forget the earrings. I know how much you used to love wearing them. I
always hated how you wore so many in both ears during that silly punk
phase, but now, I'm glad I've got all those holes to work with. At
least, now, you won't look so silly wearing earrings. They'll just help
you look pretty."
George sighed as his mother put silver hoop earrings into both of his
ears. The small adjustment to his appearance served to amplify the
feminineness of his appearance. While the makeup had eliminated the
ambiguousness of his perceived sexuality, the earrings made him look
almost like one of the girly girls he frequently made fun of at school.
Valentina hugged her son and said, "I told you had to have a little
faith in your appearance. Look at you. You look more like a girl than
some of those girls on your school's basketball team and practically
none of them get questioned about if they're really girls."
George nodded in silence before Valentina tugged on his shoulder and
said, "We really have to get going. We don't want to be late."
George walked behind her in silence. He climbed into the passenger seat
and sat in silence as his mind raced about what was going on around
him. He felt as if he was powerless to stop anything, even then he knew
he could at any moment. George felt sick to his stomach that he was too
scared of the consequences to try to survive on his own.
Valentina pulled the car up in front of a strip-mall and said, "Come
on. Don't just sit there; we're a little late already."
George got out of the car and stared into the salon where he saw a
number of women getting their hair done. Valentina opened the door and
Dominique walked towards the door to greet them.
After saying hello to Dominique, Valentina said, "Let me introduce the
two of you. Gia, this is my stylist, Dominique. Dominique, this is my
niece Gia.
The stylist smiled as she shook George's hand before she said, "Oh,
it's good to finally meet you. I've heard a lot about you. I'm glad
that your Aunt finally got you in here."
"Well, my girls got to shed her tomboyish look if she wants to work for
me. I only employ girly girls in my support staff. I like to give our
clients something nice to look at."
"Don't worry, Valentina. When I'm done with her, she'll be the girliest
girl in your office."
Valentina smirked at her blushing son before she put her left arm
around him and hugged him. She whispered in his ear, "Remember, in here
you're a lady, and you have to act like one. You don't want to be out
yourself as a guy in here because a lot of these women have children
your age, and you know how quickly word spreads around town about this
sort of thing."
George nodded and walked towards Valentina as he thought about how the
news of another kid's accidental outing of himself as a homosexual
spread through the town like wildfire the year before. George was well
aware that given his feminized appearance, the rumors regarding him
would be even more salacious.
Dominique patted the seat at her station and told George to take a
seat. George sat down watched her pick up her scissors. She smiled at
George and whispered in his ear, "Don't worry, I'm not going to make
you look like Brittney Spears or something like that. You're hair isn't
long enough. I'm just going to take this mop of hair and give you a
cute pixie cut."
"Great," George replied, feigning enthusiasm.
Dominique smiled as she began cutting his hair. George listened to the
other clients making small talk with the stylists before Dominique
said, "So, Gia, are there any cute boys at your school?"
George blushed and said, "I'm not in school anymore."
"Oh, that's right. You just graduated. Do you have any guys you're
going out with?"
George closed his eyes as he replied, "No."
"Well, I don't see why. You're a pretty girl. The boys should notice
you more than they do, but sometimes it's all about presentation. I bet
when you walk out of here, plenty of guys will be coming on to you."
George blushed as he replied in a low voice, "Great, just great."
Dominique saw George's reddened cheeks. She knew how much heartache he
had given her best customer and decided to keep making him squirm.
"What's the matter, Gia? You don't like talking about boys?"
"No. It's not my thing."
"Not, your thing. All girls talk about boys, except those girls who are
you know."
George smiled briefly and a said, "Sure."
"Come on, I'm just trying to get you out of your shell. You're going
into a field where you're going to need to be outgoing. You need to be
a little peppier."
"I'll make do," George replied.
"Okay. Whatever, girlfriend, but you're going to be working with a
number of girls, and they're going to talk about cute boys and other
girls."
"They talk about other girls?"
"Wow, you've really only been hanging out with the boys, huh?"
"Mostly," George replied honestly.
"Yes, well, we talk about other girls, mostly about how big of a bitch
whichever girl we're talking about is," Dominique said as she continued
cutting George's hair.
'Can't be any bigger of a bitch than you', George thought.
After a few more minutes, Dominique finished cutting his hair. George
thought his time at the salon was done, but Valentina led him over to a
manicurist station. Dominique sat down and began to paint George's
nails the plain maroon color his mother suggested for him.
George sighed as his fingernails and toenails were painted in matching
colors. Dominique smirked at George's response as he looked at
Valentina. Valentina smiled down at George when Dominique finished.
Valentina paid for the salon's services and tipped Dominique before
they walked out of the door.
George kept staring at his painted fingertips as he walked towards the
car. George sat down in the car and could not take his eyes off them as
his mother drove down the road and pulled up in front of a main street
shop.
"What's going on?" George asked as he peered up at his mother.
"Oh, I'm taking you inside to get measured."
"For what?"
"Your personal shopper. She's going to get you a whole new wardrobe for
the girl you're going to be. I can't have any girl working for me going
around looking like that," Valentina said as she pointed to George's
clothes.
"These are your clothes," George responded.
"Yes, but they're just for when I'm in one of my moods."
George shook his head as his mother got out of the car and told him to
follow her. George walked into the small store front. A girl in her
early twenties came out to greet George and Valentina.
She said hello to both of them before she took down George's
measurements. George got nervous as the girl approached his groin.
The girl smiled up at George and then looked to Valentina and said,
"Does Gia know that I know her secret?"
"No," Valentina said with a grin.
"Well, Gia, don't worry. Your secret's safe with me. You can rest
assured that your mom has paid me enough money over the last three
years to keep my mouth shut for a lifetime."
George blushed and nodded before the girl continued, "Now, let just
finish up with these measurements so I can give you the style makeover
you so desperately need."
George shook his head and said, "You know these are my mother's
clothes."
The girl turned to Valentina who nodded and said, "I used to work out
in the house with them."
"Hopefully you workout in public in something different," the girl
responded with a smile.
Valentina nodded and the girl added, "Good, I don't want any of my
customer's going around looking like Gia here. It's not good for
business."
The girl finished taking George's measurements and asked Valentina what
she wanted her to buy for him. Valentina told the girl that George
needed work attire and around the house clothing as well as some casual
clothing to go out in. The girl nodded as she wrote down what George
needed before she asked Valentina, "What does she need right away?"
"Well, she starts work in a week. So that's a little pressing, but
you've got sometime. I want to start introducing her to her new life.
So if you could, if at all possible, get me some clothes to start her
with today. That would be most appreciated."
George cringed as he listened to his mother repeatedly refer to him as
if he was really a girl. The personal shopper then said, "I'll do my
best."
George and Valentina then said goodbye to her before they walked back
to the car. Valentina drove them home and made a salad for lunch.
Valentina put the bowl in front of George who gave her a confused look.
Valentina glared at him and said, "It's your lunch."
"Mom, I'm not big into..."
"I don't care what my son George was into, but Gia is going to watch
her weight like every other girl. It's part of who you are now. You eat
salad. You don't eat junk food. In fact..." Valentina said before she
stood up and stopped talking.
George watched as Valentina took every snack food in the house and
threw it in the trash. Valentina then sat down and smiled at George as
she said, "There, now, there's no more temptation."
"I don't have weight problems, Mom."
"Not now you don't, and I want to keep it that way. Presentation is a
big part of your job, Gia. You need to be in shape. You need to show
the customers that doing things rights is important."
"But I'm just a secretary," George replied before he cringed as he
realized what he had said.
"That's true, but even the most junior secretary reflects on the
company."
"So what does this mean?"
"It means that from now on, you're on my diet. That means a lot more
salad, fruit and a little less meat and a lot less starch and sweets."
George ate his salad with a disgusted look on his face. He daydreamed
about fishing one of the Twinkies out of the garbage, but he did not
want to see what his mother would do if she caught him. He figured that
she would find some further requirements to his feminization if she
did.
After George finished eating, Valentina got up and walked into the
living room with George. She placed several magazines down on the
coffee table before George. George looked down at the fashion magazines
and looked at his mother.
Valentina stared down at him and said, "That's your home work this
week. You're going to read every magazine there, front to back and give
me a summary of each article."
"Are you serious?"
"Yes, I am, Gia. This is the perfect exercise for you. You'll learn
about fashion and makeup while also practicing for reviewing
correspondence. You're going to need to pick out the meat of a letter
or email and give it to your bosses."
George put his head down and nodded. He hated to admit it to himself,
but his mother's explanation actually made sense to him.
Valentina then continued, "You need to get into Gia's mind. I've told
you this before, but you have to totally immerse yourself in Gia. You
have to become her."
"I'll try."
"Don't try, just do it."
George nodded as his mother walked away from the table as he picked up
a copy of Glamour and began reading it. He paused to get a piece of
paper so he could write down the important points of each article.
Midway through the magazine, George heard a stirring above him. He got
off the couch and walked up the stairs. He stared down the hallway as
his mother was carrying his clothes up to the attic.
"What are you doing?" George asked.
Valentina smiled and said, "I'm putting George's clothes in storage."
"Would you stop talking about me like I'm not here," George said.
Valentina shook her head and put down the box of clothes in her hands.
She grabbed George by the wrist and led him into the bathroom and said,
"Look in that mirror, Gia. Do you see George? I don't."
George shook his head as he felt a strange sense of despair.
Valentina nodded before George said, "Do you need any help, Mom?"
"Yes, I do, but I need to talk to you about one thing."
"What?"
"You can't be calling me Mom at work Gia. I only have one child. Most
of my employees know that so you'll have to call Miss Valenti like all
the other girls on my support staff."
George gave her dumbfounded look before he realized that she had a
point. Since he did not want to expose who he really was, he knew that
he would have to do as his mother said.
George walked out of the bathroom with his mother and took hold of one
of the boxes she had made up in his room and carried it into the attic.
They kept working until all of George's clothing was stored away in the
attic.
Valentina smiled at George as she looked at his empty dresser and
closet and said, "Don't worry we'll have these filled in no time."
"Thanks," George said, striving not to sound sarcastic.
George then walked back down stairs and began to read the magazine
again until he heard the doorbell ring. Valentina opened the door and
let the personal shopper in. She dropped four bags off and told
Valentina the amount that had been added to her account.
Valentina nodded and called out to George as the girl left their house.
George came over and saw the four bags on the floor.
Valentina smiled at her son and said, "Here's the start of your new
wardrobe. Grab two bags, would you, and follow me."
George picked up two bags and carried them up the stairs behind his
mother. George put the bags down in his room as his mother took a seat
on his bed and began going through them.
George opened the first bag and saw a bright fuchsia color in the bag.
He cringed as he pulled the blouse out of the bag. Valentina turned
towards her son as she caught the color of the blouse out of the corner
of her eye.
"That is a loud blouse," Valentina said with a small laugh as she
looked over the long sleeved, satin blouse with a scoop neckline in her
son's hands.
George nodded before Valentina added, "I'm sure it'll look pretty on
you."
"Thanks," George mumbled as Valentina opened the bag in her hands and
took out a pencil skirt with a m?lange of black and white yarns
creating a pattern on the skirt.
George hung up his blouse before he turned around saw the garment in
his mother's hands.
"What do you think, sweetie?" Valentina asked.
"It looks...lovely," George said with a forced smile.
Valentina smiled and put it on the bed as she took out the next
garment. George peered over at her as she pulled a cobalt blue, long
sleeved top with a cowl neckline out of the bag.
"I like this one," Valentina said as she put the top down on the bed
while George reached into the bag in his hands and took out a cream
colored, sheer silk blouse with a shirttail hem, banded cuffs and a
structured collar. George looked at his mother and asked, "How do I
wear this?"
"You would wear that with a camisole underneath."
"Did she get me one?"
"I don't know. Keep looking."
George reached into the bag and pulled out a cream colored camisole and
asked, "Is what you were talking about?"
Valentina nodded as she pulled out a black pencil skirt with a metallic
lace jacquard with rich silvery luster styles. George grimaced at its
attention drawing design before he took hold of a black, silk miniskirt
adorned with tiers of ruffled silk chiffon cut together with a raw
edged and feathery fringe.
Valentina smirked at the ultra feminine skirt in her son's hands and
said, "That's definitely for attracting the boys. Let me tell you, in
that skirt, you'll be inviting a lot of attention. It's super girly
girl."
George shuddered as he carried it to the closet, hoping his mother
would never make him wear it.
Valentina turned away from him and took out a red slim-lined skirt wool
skirt. George turned around and saw the coloring of the skirt and
thought to himself, 'Couldn't she have gotten me anything that isn't so
eye-catching?'
George took the skirt from his mother as she threw the empty bags on
the floor and picked up the two other bags. Valentina removed a grey,
drape front, jersey sheath dress with an asymmetrical gathered waist
from one of the bags.
Valentina smiled and said, "I can't wait to see you wear this to work.
A lot of the girls are going to be jealous of this one."
George blushed and assumed his mother was telling the truth as he took
the dress from her while she removed another dress from the bag. George
watched the knit dress with black and white horizontal stripes, a
fitted bodice, and a short drop-waist black skirt emerge from the bag.
Valentina smiled at George and said, "I want you to change into this
one. This is an around the home casual piece."
George carried the dress into the bathroom. George sighed and batted
away the tears that began to form in his eyes as he pulled off his
shirt. He took off his shoes and removed his sweatpants before he took
hold of the dress again.
He slipped the dress over his head and felt excited as he sensed the
soft feeling surrounding his upper body. He looked at the dress that
hugged his slender body and faux curves. George gazed at himself in the
bathroom mirror and groaned at the girly girl staring back at him. He
lusted after girls that looked like him even as he mocked them with his
friends. George was happy that none of them could see what had become
of him at that moment.
George walked back to his bedroom and saw his mother hanging up a black
skirt suit with an A-line skirt in his closet. She smiled at him and
said, "Are you ready to see the shoes she got you?"
George shrugged and said, "I suppose."
"Good, now, she also got you some underwear. Just some panties, bras
and tights, pantyhose and stockings I put away in the dresser and a
pair of pajamas I hung up in your closet. You know that sort of stuff.
I put it away for you because they're really quite plain, but the shoes
are something you're going to be showing off, so let's gush over them
together."
George stared at her blankly after glancing at the pink pajama set he
saw in the closet as Valentina removed the lid of the first box.
George's eyes peered down at the shoes.
Valentina reached into the box and picked up one of the shoes to show
George. George took the shoe from her and looked over the fuchsia
colored, jelly flats. George shook his head and thought, 'Black would
be so much better.'
As George looked over the shoe in his hand, Valentina took the shoes
out of the second box. George looked over the glossy patent leather,
black, peep-toe pumps with a chunky wrapped two inch heel and a large
bow at the vamp.
Valentina placed the shoes down and opened the last box. George stared
at the feathered and jeweled bouquet adorning the peep-toe of the
suede, chocolate pump perched with a thin wrapped four inch heel and
hidden platform.
George stared with horror at the last pair of shoes. Valentina read his
reaction and said, "Don't worry about the lack of variety. I've already
told her to triple your wardrobe and shoe collection by the middle of
the week."
George stared vacantly at the shoes in silence as he processed his
words before his mother put the three pairs of shoes in his closet.
With the clothing and shoes put away, Valentina decided to get George
started in his training. She ordered him to put on the two inch heeled
pair shoes.
After his mother left the room, George stared dejectedly at the knit
dress he was wearing and the heels his mother had told him to put on.
"I can't do this. What the fuck? I can leave. I can...," George said
before he realized how futile his words were. While he knew he was
free to leave, George knew there were no opportunities awaiting him if
he walked out his mother's door.
He sat down on the bed to put on his shoes. George felt the skirt of
his dress's hemline unevenly bunching beneath him. George sighed as he
stood up in heels for the first time.
George felt off balance and awkward as he walked towards the door.
George opened his door and saw his mother at the end of the hallway.
Valentina smiled at her son as he walked towards with ungainly steps.
He briefly lost his balance and had to press his body against the wall
to keep himself upright.
George felt embarrassed as he felt the strange comfortableness of the
dress. Every step made the soft fabric brush against his legs, which
prompted an arousal that surprised and humiliated him.
Valentina looked her son over and said, "You look lovely, Gia."
"Thanks," George muttered.
"No, that won't do at all, little girl. When you're complimented by a
lady, you have to take it with a smile and compliment her back."
George nodded.
"Good, then let's try again. Gia, you look so pretty in that dress."
"Thank you, you look nice as well."
"That's not really what we're going for, Gia, but it's a start. Rome
wasn't built in a day, and you won't become a girly girl in a few
hours."
George stared at her blankly trying to shake off her words. 'Don't let
her get to you', George repeated in his head as he walked behind her
down the stairs.
George walked gingerly down the steps and breathed a sigh of relief
when he reached the base of the steps.
Valentina smiled at her son as she began training him. She instructed
him on how to walk. George took the small steps she instructed him to
take and walked with the slight sway in his hips his mother commanded
him to walk with. George felt like a fool as he walked around his
mother's home in a dress in heels following his mother's every command
as he walked and stood.
An hour into the training, George's feet began to hurt. As his mother
went to answer the phone, George took a seat on a couch. He took of his
left shoe and began rubbing his feet and ankles.
Valentina hung up the phone and went looking for her son. She shook her
head as she saw him sitting on the couch and said, "You won't become a
girly girl sitting on your ass."
"I can't become a girly girl because I'm not a girl. I'm only a girly
boy," George protested before he groaned as he realized what he had
said.
Valentina smirked and said, "If I had raised a girly boy, I'm sure he'd
be on his way to college right now and wouldn't need a personal
shopper. Try not to think of yourself as what you used to be, Gia.
That boy, he's gone. He won't be coming back for a while. You need to
be your own woman."
George shook his head before he clutched it. His hands pulled off his
head, and he saw the painted fingernails that embarrassed him so.
Valentina glared at her son and said, "Well, if you want to sit down,
then you'll at least do so like a lady. Put that shoe back on and cross
your legs."
George put the shoe on and crossed his legs over the knees as his
mother requested. Valentina smiled at George and said, "Good, a girl
always either sits with her legs crossed at her knees or ankles or with
her legs together. It's a habit you need to get into if you're going to
wear a skirt or heels. We don't want any boys staring up your skirt,
now do we?"
George shuddered at the thought before his mother ordered him to his
feet. George began walking with his mother as she instructed him on how
to speak. George listened and tried to follow his mother's instructions
to speak with a smaller voice.
Valentina smiled at her son as he talked and said, "Thankfully, you've
already got the speaking with your hands part from my side of the
family."
George shrugged and continued trying to speak as his mother instructed
before they took a break to make dinner. George helped his mother
prepare dinner that night for the first time since he was 12. They ate
together and then he did the dishes, which his mother informed him was
now his new chore. George was unhappy about it, especially since they
had a dishwasher, so he considered washing anything besides the pots
and pans to be unnecessary.
Valentina made George practice his training for a few more hours before
she told him that he could get ready for bed. George felt relieved by
the fact that he would be able to take off his heels. Valentina smiled
as she saw him take them off and carry them up the stairs.
"Be sure to put on that pajama set," Valentina shouted up the stairs.
George nodded to himself and walked into his room to change into the
pajamas his mother wanted him to wear. George disrobed and hung his
dress up and placed his shoes in his closet before he took out the
pajamas. He placed on the pink, lightweight fleece, lounge pants
patterned with white hearts and tied with a satin drawstring at the
waist before he placed on the pink and white stripped Henley knit top
with deep V-neck. George stared at the extremely girly pajamas he was
wearing in the mirror for a moment before he went down stairs to see
his mother.
Valentina smiled at George and said, "That's a great outfit. It fits
you so well too."
George blushed at her compliments and said, "Thank you. That's a lovely
pair of boots you have on."
"Oh, these? I've had them for years. I love them, and I'm sure you've
seen them before, but you never said anything about them."
"Must have slipped my mind," George muttered.
Valentina grinned at her son and said, "Well, I think it's time for you
to go to bed."
George wanted to yell at his mother for telling him to go to be like a
child, but he was happy to get away from her watchful eyes.
George walked up the steps and went back into his room. He turned on
his computer and began to search for pornography as he did each night
before bed. His mind then wandered and he muttered, "Who the hell is
George Michael?"
George's mother's admission that he was named after an entertainer
stuck with him. He wondered if the singer was an old crooner and did a
Google search for the entertainer's name.
George clicked on a link and looked over some of the singer's hits.
George saw a title that seemed familiar. "Wake me up before you go-go,"
George said as he saw the title under a link referencing a musical act
called Wham. "He did the song from Family Guy," George said as he
clipped the link.
The video started and George's jaw dropped as he saw the high voiced,
dancing man he was named after.
"What a queer!" George said as he crossed his pink pajama covered legs.
George then stared down at the white hearts of the pajama pants he was
wearing and sighed. He gazed at the computer screen for a moment before
he shut it down and went to bed.
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George spent the rest of the week following his mother's instructions.
When she was not home, Valentina left her son written instructions and
required him to provide proof of his compliance.
George felt like a prisoner as he did each item on her list. He had no
control over his day to day activities, which made him feel despondent
at times.
George was restricted to eating oatmeal for breakfast and took pictures
of himself dressed in his pajamas and eating it every morning as his
mother required.
George would then get dressed in the outfit his mother instructed him
to wear and begin doing his chores. George's regular cleaning of the
house was checked each evening by his mother. She made sure there was a
never a dirty cup in the sink or dust on a table top.
Valentina also monitored her son's progress walking in heels. He was
required to wear them all day, and she checked how he walked to make
sure he was doing as he was instructed. George skipped wearing heels
the first day she went to work and his mother scolded him as she
realized that he had made no progress in getting more comfortable in
the shoes.
From then on, George was required to wear three inch heeled shoes or
higher, which he was not ready for. George stumbled around the home and
had to show marked improvement each day. George knew if he did not, his
mother could find a way to make his life much worse.
For lunch each day, George was restricted to eating a salad. He was
again required to photograph himself eating to prove that he was
complying with his mother's orders. The restrictive diet Valentina put
George on prompted him to lose five pounds in the week, dropping him
from 140 pounds to 135. Valentina shook her head when her son
complained about it and told him that she wished she could lose five
pounds so easily in a week.
After lunch, George was required to check in with his mother regarding
his progress that day. George got on his computer and did a video skype
with Valentia so she could listen to him talk in his high, small voice
and make sure that he was wearing his required makeup and clothing.
After their video conference ended, George was required to go into the
living room to read and summarize the articles in the fashion and
woman's magazines that his mother subscribed to and got for him.
Valentina reviewed each summary when she came home and discussed them
with George regarding what take away pointers he should have taken from
the articles.
George would start preparing dinner in the evening and would cook it
with his mother once she got home. As he did the dishes after each
dinner, his mother would go to his room to inspect it to ensure that he
had not brought any of his male clothing down from the attic.
Once she was sure there was no masculine contraband in George's room,
Valentina retired to the couch and made George watch her television
shows with her. George used that time to think of excuses for turning
down his friend's invitations to go out with them. Given his
fingernails and thin arched eyebrows, George knew that he could not go
out with them. His expressed reasons for not hanging out with them
became more difficult for his friends to believe as the week went on.
His training also affected his conversations as many of his friends
noted that something was wrong with his voice as George spoke in a
smaller voice and with more inflection as his mother required even
though he made sure to not use the higher tone his mother required him
to speak with.
In addition to trying to successfully driving George and his friends
apart, Valentina also tried to separate George from his old life in
other ways. In addition to changing his diet, wardrobe and appearance,
Valentina decided that he needed a clean break from his legal identity.
After work on Thursday, Valentina came home with the papers to legally
change George's name to Gia. George looked over the papers with
trepidation. He saw the name he had always written, George Shrimpton
and looked over the name his mother had given him Gia Gigliotti. His
father's last name had been swapped by his mother for his maternal
great-grandmother's with whom Valentina had a strong relationship.
George asked why he had to change his name. Valentina explained, "Many
of my employees know I've got a son named George Shrimpton. We can't
have any giveaways."
"Can't we just change my first name and pass off my last name as a
coincidence?"
"No, it will lead to too many inquiries, Gia," Valentina responded.
George saw her stern look and knew he had no choice, but to sign the
document. He placed his pen to the paper and handed it back to his
mother. George was upset about changing his name, but he figured he did
not have much choice in the matter and that it could all be rectified
in the end.
The Sunday before his first day of work came, and George felt sick to
his stomach regarding his feminization. He did not believe that he
could pull off what his mother expected of him. Valentina shook her
head at her son and decided to show him that he had nothing to worry
about.
Valentina made George dress in the stripped dress and his fuchsia jelly
flats. George felt uneasy as his mother ordered him out the door. They
walked to the car and George headed out for his day en femme since he
had gone to the salon.
Valentina drove him to a mall two hours away from their home to
minimize the likelihood that anyone George knew would see him. As
George walked beside his mother with his pocketbook on his shoulder, he
noticed that he was not receiving probing or scornful looks. He was
largely ignored except for a few women staring at his outfit and the
occasional guy giving him brief lustful stares. While the looks assured
him that he could convince others that he was a woman and not just a
boy in a skirt, the lusty stares of the men made him sick to his
stomach as he realized that he might have to deal with men hitting on
him.
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George woke up the next morning and tried not to think about what the
day would bring. He pushed himself out of bed and turned off his alarm.
George opened his bedroom door and went down the stairs to grab a quick
breakfast before he went into the bathroom. He stepped into the shower
and made sure his body was free of hair before he toweled off and did
his makeup.
After finishing applying his lip-gloss, George walked into his bedroom
to get dressed. He opened his closet doors and took out the outfit his
mother instructed him to wear. George placed the black skirt suit on
his bed before he went to his underwear drawer.
George took a pair of black panties from his drawer as well as a
matching black bra. George dropped his towel and put his underwear on
before he secured his breast forms in the cups of his bra.
After adjusting the straps of his bra, George walked back to his closet
and took out a cream colored blouse. George placed the blouse on and
buttoned it while he walked back to the bed. George tucked his member,
but he felt worried about securing it. He walked back over to his
dresser and took out another pair of black panties and drew them up his
legs. George then tucked himself once more before he strolled towards
his bed.
George then stepped into his skirt before he pulled up the rear zipper.
He slipped on the jacket of the skirt suit while he walked towards his
closet. George then took hold of a pair of black three inch heeled
pumps and a pair of black ballet flats. He placed the heels on his
dresser and then placed his feet into the flats. George then put his
heels into his pocketbook before he walked down the stairs.
Valentina smiled up at her son as he came to the top of the stairs
while she grabbed her keys and headed for the door. She waited for him
to reach the base of the steps. As he reached the bottom step,
Valentina grinned and asked, "Are you ready?"
"I guess I'm as ready as I'll ever be."
"Well, I'm glad to hear it."
George nodded before Valentina kissed him on the cheek and added, "I'll
see you there."
George nodded and put his head down as he grabbed his keys as Valentina
stepped out the door. George looked around before he opened the door
and headed to his Blue Mustang.
George felt as if the eyes of the neighborhood were upon despite no one
being outside. He started the car and pulled away from the curb.
As he drove down the streets, George felt a gnawing feeling in his
stomach. He got onto the highway and daydreamed about speeding off down
the road and driving past his exit. He wanted the freedom to do as he
wanted, but he knew he lacked the money to do so. The open road offered
him only an escape to nowhere.
As the exit neared, George thought about leaving and never coming back
once more. However, fears about his lack of money and feminized
appearance made the thought subside in his mind.
George pulled the car onto the exit ramp and continued down the road.
He felt scared as he pulled up in front of his mother's office
building.
After taking a few deep breaths, George swung his legs together out of
the car as his mother had taught him. He crossed his legs and swapped
his flats for his heels before he stepped out of the car.
George walked towards the door trying to give a vacant stare as he
walked into the office building. He walked through the lobby without
anyone noticing him. George got onto the elevator with a group of
strangers and hit the elevator button for his mother's floor.
No one he was on the elevator with gave George more than a passing
look, which filled him with a sense of ease about his appearance even
as what awaited him in the office filled him with dread.
The elevator doors opened for his mother's floor, and George stepped
off and headed for her office door. George walked through the doors and
saw a familiar face standing in the waiting area.
"You must be Gia," Amanda said as she reached out her hand.
George shook Amanda's hand. Amanda Bossy was the company's Vice
President and one of only two employees of his mother's he had met.
Amanda and Dorian Williams, the company's Chief Financial Officer, were
frequent guests of his mother's at their home.
George knew from the wink that Amanda gave him that she was well aware
who he really was. George was not bothered by the fact. He knew there
would be no way of hiding who he was from Amanda and Dorian, but he
hoped that no one else knew the truth.
Amanda walked him through the office and introduced George to various
employees until he met Tara, the office manager. Tara shook his hand
and introduced him to every girl he was going to be working with.
Tara explained George's responsibilities to him before he was seated
next to Rebecca, the company's other junior secretary. Rebecca shook
George's hand and told him about what she was going to teach him.
George listened as she told him how to use the phone system, the access
codes for the copier and how to operate the fax and postal machines.
George followed her instructions and felt that he would be able to do
the job without much trouble.
George was relieved as he listened to Rebecca. He realized that she did
not know he was really a guy, or if she did, she was not letting on to
it.
George sat at his desk and waited to answer calls when Rebecca was
unable to. As Rebecca talked on the phone with a client, the phone
rang. He answered the call with the company's customary greeting,
"Thank you for calling Valenti Enterprises, this is Gia. How may I help
you?"
The client told George who he wanted to speak with. George searched the
phone directory for the extension and transferred the client. Shortly
after George hung up, Tara called his phone. George listened to her
directions.
George went to a saleswoman's office and asked what she needed copied.
The woman gave George a stack of papers and told him to make three
copies of each. George nodded and carried the papers to the copier. He
put the stack in and watched the copier work as it made a mindless hum.
George tried not to think about the pain he was feeling in the heels of
his feet. He was used to the daily onset of pain that started with his
heels and spread to the balls of his feet and then to his ankles and
calves. While Valentina assured him that he would get used to it in
time, George hoped that his time in heels would be short enough that he
would not have to.
When the last copy was made, George collected the papers and sorted
them as the saleswoman requested. George carried the bundles back to
her and placed them on one of the saleswoman's guest chairs and exited
her office.
George then walked towards his desk and sat back down. He was relieved
to get off his feet for a minute. The phone rang again shortly
thereafter. George picked it up since Rebecca had excused herself to go
to the bathroom. George called the salesman the client was seeking and
told him who was calling. The salesman told George to take a message.
Tara walked over to Rebecca and started talking to her while George
took down the client's message. As he hung up, Tara asked, "Gia, can
you be dear and get me a cup of coffee?"
George glanced up at her to question her, but he realized that she was
serious. He took the cup from her hand and carried it into the kitchen.
George saw a basket containing k-cups and put one into the coffee
machine. George thought to himself, 'I can't believe my mother has me
making another secretary coffee.'
As the cup brewed, George called out to Tara, "How do you want it?"
"Creamer, no sugar," she replied.
George nodded as he turned back around and picked up the cup. He put
the creamer in the coffee and carried it to Tara.
Tara smiled and thanked him before she took a sip and said, "Oh, yum.
You put just the right amount in. Good going, girl. I think I'm going
to have make that exclusively you job."
George blushed before Tara added, "I'm just teasing girl."
Tara then said, "We order in from Luigi's every Monday. Can you take
everybody's orders down, Gia, and call in the order?"
George nodded and got to his feet with a pen and a pad of paper. George
walked from office to office taking down everybody's order. He
hesitated before entering Dorian's office and asking her.
Dorian smirked at George as she looked him over and said, "You look
like a fine young lady, Gia. I'm sure you'll do great here."
George nodded before he asked for her order. He took it down and
breathed a sigh of relief before he entered Amanda's office and took
her order down.
George walked to his mother's office last. He knocked on her closed
door and his mother said, "Come in."
George slowly opened the door and walked towards her and told her he
was taking down orders. Valentina nodded and said, "Well, I'll take the
large Greek salad. Oh, by the way so will you."
"I wanted the...," George began to reply before he saw his mother glaring
at him. George nodded and put down two Greek salads before his mother
asked, "How are you liking it here?"
George glared at her for a second before he thought better of
complaining and responded, "Everyone here is so nice. It's not that
bad."
"I knew you'd see that once you got here," Valentina replied before
George nodded and walked out of her office.
George walked back to his desk and phoned in the order to Luigi's.
After he was done, he started talking with Rebecca between their
handling of phone calls.
After thirty minutes, he saw that Tara was calling him. George picked
up the phone, and she asked him to come see her.
George got to his aching feet and strolled down to see her. Tara told
George to make copies of a stack of documents given to her by one of
the salesmen. George nodded and made the copies. He then carried them
to the salesman's office. He smiled and thanked George as he put the
papers down and walked out of his office.
George then walked back towards the front desk and heard Rebecca
flirting with a man as she signed for a package. George glanced at the
guy and saw him wink at Rebecca before he turned towards the door.
"Who was that?"
"The UPS guy. You couldn't tell by the brown uniform. Do you think
people go around looking like that by choice?"
George laughed as he took a seat next to her and said, "I guess not,
but how do you know each other."
"He comes in all the time."
"Do you guys date?"
"Oh, no. He's married."
"Then what was with the flirting?"
"I was just being nice," Rebecca replied.
"He called you pretty."
"And I appreciated that. I might be dating someone, but that doesn't
mean I'm dead to all other guys. Besides, it's just harmless flirting.
It helps keep a smile on people's faces."
"If it works for you..."
"Well, flirting is a big part of the job. I'm sure you'll do it."
"I don't really care much for flirting with guys."
"Well, you better get over that in a hurry," Rebecca replied.
"Why?"
"There are a lot of guys who come in here for deliveries. You know,
there's the mailmen, the Fed Ex guy, the UPS guy, the delivery supply
guys and all the food delivery boys that come in around lunch time."
"So? I don't need to flirt with them."
"You do if you want good service. Guys react to stimulus. If you're an
ice queen, they're not going to go out of their way to help you. A
little flirting gets the supply guys to put the heavy stuff in the
supply closet for you. You just bat your eye lashes, smile knowingly
and tell him how big and strong they are."
"That's not really me."
"You have to have a good rapport with them. We'll have to get you some
practice. The nice guy is all yours."
"I don't want to do..."
"You're going to have to get over it sometime. Oh, wait."
"What?"
"Here comes the delivery guy from Luigi's."
"I can't do this."
"Sure you can. We paid on the company credit card. All you've got to do
is write his tip on the receipt. Just remember, polite, smile, girls
out, play with your hair a little and above all make him feel
important," Rebecca said as she got to her feet and pushed George's
chair under the receptionist window.
"Hello, Miss. I've got a delivery."
"Oh, let's see what we've got here," George said as he stood up and
pushed his chest out, prompting the man to leer at his bust.
"Oh, it all smells so good," George said with a smile as he ran his
fingers through his hair.
"I'm sure it is."
"Let me just write your tip in. There we are."
"Thank you, miss."
"Oh, you are so welcome. Oh, wait?"
"Yes."
"Could you be a dear and carry into the conference r