The Wishing Well
By Deane Christopher
"Come on, Kathy." Dennis Sojourner grimaced upon hearing herself
sensually implore with a come-hither voice, a voice that could make a
good portion of the male population cream in their jeans. "Please!
I'm begging you! Stop snickering. This isn't funny."
"It may not be funny for you, but I think it's hilarious." Dennis'
wife, snickered, owing to the fact that she was thoroughly enjoying her
husband's predicament. Though it took a considerable effort on her
part, Kathy Sojourner somehow managed to stifle her amusement and
respond in a tone of voice more appropriate to seriousness that the
current situation warranted. "Look, Denise. Nobody here knows what
happened to you out in the parking lot. As far as they're concerned,
you're the woman you appear to be. No one knows that less than an hour
ago you were a man, and that you were magically changed into a woman
because of some stupid wish I inadvertently made. So, do us both a
favor. For the here and now of it, just try to go with the flow.
Remember dear, we're supposed to be celebrating our wedding anniversary
tonight. So, how 'bout the two of us try to have a nice evening in
spite of what's happened. I promise, Denise. As soon as we're
finished eating, we'll head back out to the parking lot and I'll have
another go at trying to undo what that lame wish of mine did to you.
With any luck, we'll have you back to your old self in no time."
Flummoxed as she was, Dennis lost it for a moment and so, irately
snapped. "Kathy! Would you please stop calling me Denise? I'm your
husband, Dennis!" The blonde bombshell, who had been Dennis Sojourner
at the outset of the evening, took umbrage with his wife's blatant
attempts at the feminization of his name. "And what makes you think
you'll have any better luck later? I mean, we've already dumped a
whole roll of quarters into that wishing well. And as you can plainly
see: I'm still a frickin' woman!"
"Denise." Though she was well aware of how much it rankled her husband,
Kathy persisted in using the feminized version of Dennis' name.
"Simmer down, dear. Don't go getting hysterical on me. The last thing
we need right now is for you to make a scene. So, do us both a favor.
Restrain yourself. And please, try and keep a lid on it. Remember
dear! No one here knows that you're not really a woman."
Reluctantly, Dennis realized that his wife's logic was right on target.
Kathy really did have the strawberry blonde's best interest at heart.
The last thing that either of them needed was for Dennis to make a
scene. Were that to happen, the restaurant's manger might call the
police and should that happen, Dennis could end up being carted off to
the nearest loony bin for a psyche evaluation. "Okay," Dennis replied
grudgingly. "What can I say? When you're right you're right." With
that said, the well-endowed blonde reluctantly added, "As much as it
gulls me hearing you addressing as Denise, I guess it's probably for
the best for you to continue doing so. I mean, I sure as hell don't
look like a Dennis anymore, now do I?"
"No dear, you most certainly don't," Kathy concurred. "There's no
getting around the fact that you're a woman now, an absolute gorgeous
woman at that, with a body that's to die for. I'll grant you that the
jury's still out when it comes to that sex-crazed mind of yours, but
physical speaking, there's no getting around the fact that you're
definitely a woman.
"Yeah..." Denise dolefully quipped. "From the lewd looks that are
being directed my way, I more or less gathered as much. I've got to
tell you, Kath; the way some of these guys are undressing me with their
eyes, it's starting to really creep me out. I can tell you one thing.
This being a piece of eye-candy is for the birds..."
+
Earlier that evening, Dennis Sojourner had arrived home from work and
was delighted to find that his wife was dressed for an evening out on
the town. "Damn, woman! You look good enough to eat!" he beamed,
knowing fully well that he had spoken the truth. Kathy looked
terrific, dressed to the nines as she was in a dark brown skirt, a
bronze hued satin blouse, coffee brown pantyhose and a pair of
metallic-bronze stiletto heels that seductively shaped her calves,
making those long and sexy legs of hers look absolutely fantastic.
"Good!" Kathy smiled pleasantly. "And I'm going to hold you to that
good enough to eat remark. But before I let you have your way with me,
I expect to be wined, dined and pampered. So, oh husband of mine, what
do you have planned for us this evening?"
"Dinner, and afterwards, how 'bout we take in a movie to round out the
evening?" Dennis quizzically replied. "If that's alright with you?"
"I assume that restaurant you're planning on taking me to is the
Wishing Well?" Kathy sought conformation as she collected her purse.
"Where else would I be taking you?" Dennis smirked. "I mean, not only
is it our favorite restaurant. It's where we ate on the night I
proposed to you. Added to that, it's where I've taken you for every
single one of our anniversaries..."
+
Twenty-three minute after backing out of their driveway, Dennis pulled
into the Wishing Well Inn's parking lot.
"A quarter, if you please, dear." Kathy requested, as the two of them
approached the decorative wishing well that stood just outside the
restaurant's main entrance. Dennis, having anticipated his wife's
request, placed a quarter in the palm of Kathy's upturned hand. Upon
receiving the quarter from Dennis, Kathy mental formulated a wish and
nonchalantly tossed the coin into the inviting maw of the wishing well.
There was no flash. No boom. No nothing. There was nothing to
signify that something stupendous had occurred. There was just the
ker-plunk of Kathy's quarter entering the pool of rainwater that had
collected in the well, followed almost immediately by a high-pitched
and blood curdling shriek.
Even as the sound of Kathy's quarter hitting the water reached his
ears, Dennis' equilibrium went haywire, as he become cognizant of a
fleshy weight distending from his chest, his hips splaying, his torso
compressing and last but not least, his legs lengthening. Added into
disquieting mix that was assailing his psyche, Dennis' equilibrium went
all haywire on him. He felt as if his loafers' heels had miraculously
become slender stilts and he began to teeter precariously. That in
turn, forced him to hastily execute a stutter-step in an all out effort
on his part to regain his footing and without a conscious thoughts as
to what he was doing, Dennis punctuated his reactionary maneuver with a
startled, "What the fuck!"
The girlish shriek, sounding as if the woman who just shrieked was
standing right next to her, coupled with her husband's apparent
clumsiness, got Kathy's attention. She reflexively turned her head and
upper torso to better appraise herself of what in the world was going
on. As she did so, Kathy beheld a woman, a beautiful woman, but a
woman nonetheless, standing where her husband had been standing but a
moment before. Gingerly, and hoping that the absurd conclusion she had
hastily drawn was groundless, Kathy tentatively inquired, "Dennis, is
that you?"
Though noticeable befuddled, Dennis tersely responded with a voice that
while distraught, was as feminine as feminine could be, "Of course it's
me! Who'd ya' think it was?"
Unsure as how to proceed, Kathy, aware that she was somehow culpable
for what had just occurred, squeamishly replied, "Den, I don't know how
to tell you this, but you're not a man anymore. You're a woman. And
the worst part of it is: I kind of think I responsible."
"That's crazy! There's no way I'm woman!" Dennis poo-pooed her wife's
assertion out of hand. But even as she did so, Dennis feeling eerily
discombobulated began to take stock of herself. "Oh, my God, Kathy!"
Dennis, having run her emasculated and well-manicured hand up under the
hem of the black leather mini-skirt that had replaced the slacks she
had been wearing but a moment before, shrieked. "You're right! I am a
girl! My dicks gone! And while I can't be absolute sure about this,
you know, because of these damn pantyhose that I find myself trussed up
in, the ridges I seem to now have down there, sure have a very familiar
feel to 'em."
"Oh, Den..." Kathy, keenly aware that her husband condition was her
fault, was closed to tears. "I'm sorry! I'm so, so sorry! I had no
idea that stupid wish of mine would have this effect on you..."
"And well you should be sorry!" Though Dennis was livid, she still
held out the hope that Kathy could set things aright with another wish.
"Look, Kath! I haven't a clue as to why you would wish that I was a
woman, and I can't wait to hear your explanation. But that'll have to
wait. Right now, how 'bout you wishing me back into being a man
again?"
"I'd be happy to, Den. But just so you know, Dennis, I never wished
for you to become a woman. I happen to like you just the way you are -
or were, you know, before I made that foolish wish."
Bewildered by her wife's admission, Dennis curiosity got the best of
her. "So, if you didn't wish for me to be changed into a woman, what
the hell did you wish for?"
Kathy, hoping that her husband would be both receptive and forgiving,
sheepishly replied, "Well, don't take this the wrong way, Den. But,
here lately, I been feeling that our sex-life has been lacking. I
mean, I still enjoy it when we make love, but you know as well as I do
that it's not what it used to be. The spontaneity is gone. We've
gotten into a rut. You know, as in we do the same thing all the time.
So anyhow, to make a long story short, I wished for was for our sex-
life to be spiced-up." Then, after a brief pause, Kathy said, "Oh!
I'm afraid I'm going to need another quarter."
"Oh, right! That would help, wouldn't it?" Dennis said, as she began
to pant down the skirt she was wearing in an effort to locate a pocket.
"Damn! No pockets!"
"Try your purse," Kathy offered. "You might find a quarter in there."
Her wife's suggestion threw Dennis for a loop, "Purse? Oh, right! I'm
a woman. And women carry purses. How stupid of me." Dennis,
realizing that she did possess a pocketbook, slid the handbag's strap
off her shoulder, opened the bag, and after shifting its contents
about, located a quarter. "Here you go. Let's not dilly-dally. Go
ahead. Wish me back to being a man again..."
+
"You seem to be handling things a lot better then you were, dear,"
Kathy, having just finished cutting up her steak, dryly commented.
"Ya' think?" Denise replied, the sarcasm in her voice was not lost on
Kathy. "This being a woman really sucks. However, I appreciate the
fact that you are aware that I am trying to make the best out of a bad
situation. What I can tell you is that I had no idea that a bra could
be this uncomfortable. I just hope the hell we have better luck when
we leave here then we did earlier."
"You mean, with the wishing well?"
"Yeah..." Denise gloomily replied. "I mean, the prospect of spending
the rest of my life as a woman isn't something I'm all that happy
about." Lost for a moment in thought, Denise sought conformation on a
subject that the two of them had touch upon earlier. "Hey Kath,
getting back to that wish you made, you know the one in which you
wished for our sex-life to be spiced-up, are you sure you didn't eluded
to the notion of me being changed into your lesbian lover?"
"No!" Kathy defensive bristled. "I did no such thing."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes! I'm sure!" Kathy, speaking louder than was prudent, raged
defiantly. Then, realizing that she had inadvertently drawn the
attention of several people seated at nearby tables, Kathy lowered her
voice and continued on to say, "However, I think I know why you're a
woman now. Remember Denise, I told you just the other day that I've
been having these really weird dreams here lately. What I neglected to
tell you about the dreams was that they were sexually in nature, as
well as extremely kinky, if not down right perverted."
"Go on," Denise, thinking that the other shoe was about to drop,
squeamishly prompted.
"Well, the dreams always start with the two of us in bed, making love."
"Okay..." Denise supplied. "So, we're making love. How does that tie
in with me and my being a woman now?"
Though it pained her to do so, Kathy proceeded on with her explanation.
"Well, in these dreams I've been having, there we are, making love, and
all of a sudden you up and turn into a woman, who, I sorry to have to
say, looked to be a dead-ringer of the you that you are now. So,
anyhow, to make a long story short, in these dreams, after you up and
change into a woman, the two of us eagerly engage in what I can only
describe as a lesbian tete-a-tete."
"Do we now?" Denise, her curiosity peeked, smirked.
"Though I'm embarrassed to admit this, in these dreams of mine, we both
appear to thoroughly enjoyed ourselves."
"So, I guess that leads me to ask: are you telling me that you prefer
women over men and that's why I'm a woman now?"
"No..." the doubt conveyed in Kathy's reply was not lost on Denise. "I
mean, I didn't, but I think I do now. I starting to get the impression
that while that wish of mine changed you into woman, it did a number on
me as well. While my wish changed you physically, I think that it
might have messed with my mind, or my libido, or my whatever. Look! I
know how crazy this is going to sound, Denise, but I'm so horny right
now I could spit. And the only reason I can think of is because you're
a woman now. And as much as you might not like hearing me say this,
you're really turning me on."
Despite all the ignominy she was dealing with, Denise was nevertheless
intrigued by her wife's admission. "You're shitting me, right?"
"No, Denise! I'm not, as you say, shitting you." Kathy earnestly
responded. "I might not have been a lesbian before tonight, but
there's no getting around the fact that I believe that I'm well on the
way to becoming one. All I can tell you as I can't wait to kiss you,
to make love to you, to make you squeal and squirm; you know, much the
way you make me squeal and squirm when we make love. I know how crazy
this is going to sound. But I want to teach you what it's like to be a
woman so bad it hurts."
"Kath!" Denise, afraid that her wife was getting carried away with
herself and there by running the risk of becoming little to boisterous,
cautioned. "You might want to tone it down a bit. It's like you told
me before; we need to avoid making a scene. But just so you know,
regardless of the fact that I'm not the least little bit happy about
being a woman, I'm intrigued by what you just said. That being case,
if it turns out that we can't undo what's been done, I'm don't think
I'd be averse to let you giving me a hands on demonstration of how
these new erogenous zones of mine work..."
+
While they were waiting for their waitress to bring them their dessert
selections, Kathy mused, "I know this is beside the point. But we have
learned something that's rather interesting tonight."
"That you want to jump my bones?"
"Well... there is that," Kathy giggled. "But I was thinking of
something else, something that's fairly significant, you know as in
it's rather earth shattering."
"And what might that be, Kath?"
"Magic's real. It does exist. You are living proof of that it does."
"True. There's no getting around it. I wouldn't be a woman right now
if it weren't for magic. But that begs the questions: why did the
wishing well grant you the wish you made tonight when it seems to have
ignored all the others that you've made over the years?"
"Beats me!" Kathy supplied. "I mean, it could be very selective on the
kind of wishes it grants. And if that's the case, it could also be
selective on the means by which it grants a wish."
"Yeah... I guess," Denise conceded that her wife's explanation was as
good as any. "Are you suggesting that the wishing well somehow read
your mind, learned about these lesbian dreams you been having and
that's why I a woman now?"
"That would explain things..."
+
Kathy had just used the edge of her fork to slice off the tip portion
of her piece of cheesecake when she heard Denise dismally blurt, "Oh,
crap!"
Kathy, hearing the alarm in Denise voice, queried, "What's wrong?"
"It's the Snyders! Al and Helen! You know, that nice couple that
lived across the court from us when we lived in Tall Oaks! You know,
the couple that we used to play double-deck pinochle with every now and
a again. Well, they must have recognized you, and it appears that
they're on they way over here to chat us up."
Kathy, empathetically sensing the fear and dread that was welling up in
the ultra feminized rendition of her husband, endeavored to dispel it
before it reached critical mass. "There's no need for you to panic,
Denise! Remember! No one knows who you really are and while
confession is good for soul, I think it for the best if we let sleeping
dogs lie in this particular instance. So, do yourself a favor and let
me handle it. It's probably for the best if I do all the talking. For
all the Snyders know, we're just two old college coeds, enjoying a
girls night out together."
Regardless of Kathy's reassurances, Denise was plagued with the onset
of hysteria. However, though she was, she somehow managed to hide it
well enough to greet Al and Helen Snyder with a most becoming smile.
"Kathy! Denise!" Helen Snyder began brightly. "It's been awhile. Al
and I have missed you guys. The four of us really need to get together
soon and play some pinochle..."
The conversation with the Snyders was both pleasant and brief and Helen
did most of the talking. "...Neither Al nor I were sure it was you at
first, Denise," Helen Snyder offered. "Both Al and I thought you
looked different somehow. Tell me. Have you been working out, or are
you doing something different with your hair..."
+
Having secured a promise for the four of them to get together in the
near future, the Snyders bid Denise and Kathy a goodnight and promptly
took their leave of the couple.
"Well, that was awkward," Denise offered, as soon as the Snyders were
well out of earshot.
"Not anywhere near as awkward as it could have been," Kathy countered.
"Uncanny, wasn't it? You know, the way that the two of them just
accepted the fact that you're a woman."
"Yeah... It was kind of odd at that. Odd and funny, and to a degree
alarming," Denise readily agreed.
"Denise, do me a favor. Open your pocketbook and let me have a look at
your wallet."
Even as she was in the process of complying, Denise raised the
question, "Why?"
"Because I want to see something."
"Oh, gee!" Denise sarcastically quipped, as she passed Kathy the wallet
she had found in her purse. "I kind of sort of figured that one out on
my own. I mean, I maybe a blonde now. But, I'm no dummy."
Kathy could not resist the urge to capitalize on the opening that
Denise had just afforded her. "For my money, I would say that's
something we have yet to determine. I mean, maybe you are, and then
again, maybe you aren't."
"Kathy!" Denise took umbrage with her wife's lame at a jape.
"Simmer down, girl," Kathy instructed, as she opened Denise's wallet
and began checking out the various forms of identification that it
contained. "Wow! Well, I'll be! That wishing well's magic is sure
thorough, if nothing else. According to your driver's license, you, my
dear, are now Ms. Denise Sojourner and from what I can see, all the
other pertinent information, you know, such as your height, weight,
hair and eye color, as well as race seems to apply to the new you as
well."
"That interesting, if not a bit unsettling," Denise replied drolly.
"At least if I'm pulled over by a cop, my license will support the fact
of who I am and not who I was." A thought struck Denise. "You know,
now that you've checked that my IDs are up to snuff, it might be a good
idea for to check your own IDs. There's a good chance that you aren't
Mrs. Sojourner anymore. Since same sex marriages aren't legal in this
state, the wishing well may have given you back your maiden name."
Handing Denise back her wallet, Kathy quickly made a check of her own
IDs. "What can I say, Denise? When you're right, you're right. You,
my dear, are anything but a dumb blonde. As much as I hate to have to
say this, I am not Mrs. Kathleen Sojourner anymore. I'm afraid that
I'm back to being Ms. Kathleen Anna Evans."
"That just peachy!" Denise chaffed. "Just my luck. I'm out both a
pecker and a wife."
Kathy was quick to take umbrage with that remark. "Bullshit!" she
indignantly napped. "We may not be man and wife in the eyes of the
law, but as far as I'm concerned, regardless of the fact that we're
both women, don't you go thinking that we're not still married.
Because, as far as I'm concerned, we still are. You and I took vows,
kiddo. And, I for one am dead set on keeping up my part of the
bargain. Oh, and if you think you're going to welch out on the deal
and go your merry way, you can forget it. You're mine! I'm yours!
And, that's the be all and end all of it..."
+
Though they had paid their waitress for their meals, as well as leaving
her a nice tip, on their way out of the restaurant, Denise and Kathy
stopped by the register and asked the hostess if they could get change
for a five-dollar bill in quarters. Once outside, the two women took
turns making wishes and tossing one quarter after another into the
wishing well. To both their dismays, there was still no joy after they
had both made six attempts to undo the damage. Denise was still very
much the gorgeous young woman she had become earlier in the evening.
"Hey, Kath! As much as I hate to say this: there's no sense beating a
dead horse. Tell you what, why don't you make just one more wish and
we'll call it a night?"
"Are you sure that's what you want?" Kathy, who was dealing with
another onslaught of the guilts, inquired. "You're not giving up, are
you? You still want to be a man again, don't you?"
"Of course I do!" Denise was adamant. "Looks aside, I'm not
comfortable like this. But it's apparent that this confounded well has
no intentions of turning me back into a man again, at least for the
time being. Look, Kath! I know you would be willing to stay out here
all night if you thought it would help. But, I have another
suggestion. Since we're not getting anywhere, how 'bout we call it
quits for now and if it's all right with you, can we skip the movie and
just head on home? Tomorrow morning, if you're agreeable, what say we
drive back over here and have another go at getting my old body back,
unless of course I have a change of heart and decided that I'd like to
remain a woman."
"You think that's possible?"
"No..." Denise humorously quipped. "But as crazy as it sounds, I'm
kind of looking forward to having you try to convince me that my being
a woman has an upside."
"You're on, sweetums!" Kathy beamed, as she reached over and enfolded
Denise's ever so dainty hand in her own. "I am so looking forward to
making you squeal and squirm."
"Sounds like a plan to me. But I have another favor to ask of you."
"Be gentle?" Kathy teased.
"Well, there is that. But I was thinking of something else entirely."
"And what might that be?"
"I was wondering if you could drive?"
"Sure, I'd be happy to. But how come? You hate the way I drive."
"Hate's a strong word. But you're right. Under normal circumstances I
do prefer my driving to yours. But these aren't what you call 'normal
circumstances'. For one thing, I never driven in high heels before and
while I know I could always take them off, there's the other thing."
"And what - pray tell - is the other thing?"
Denise was reluctant to admit what was bothering her. Kathy, sensing
Denise's reluctance, gently prodded. "Come on, Den! I'm your wife.
You can tell me. So, out with it!"
"Okay!" Denise defensively blurted. "If you must know, I'm horny! The
true is: I think I'm hornier then I've ever been in my life."
"Good! I'm happy to hear you say that. Horny's good. It makes what I
have in mind for you all the easier..."
+
As soon as they got in the door, Kathy enfolded Denise in her arms and
kissed her with a raw and eager passion. Denise, urged on by that male
ego of hers, endeavored to return the favor by taking the initiative
and French Kissing her wife. Kathy was having none of it. "Oh, no!
We're having none of that, young lady. Tonight, the shoe, or rather,
the high heel is on the other foot. Tonight you're not in the driver's
seat. I am. For the here and now of it your job is to sit back and
enjoy the ride, because I plan to turn you every which way but
loose..."
Kathy proved true to her word. Within five minutes of arriving home,
Kathy had playfully guided her built like a brick shithouse husband
into their bedroom, where she set about the playful task of seductively
relieving Denise of hers clothes.
"Kathy!" Denise's apprehension had gotten the best of her. "Should we
really be doing this?" she lamely stammered. "You know, given that
we're both women now?"
Lifting her lips up and off of Denise's elegant and aristocratic neck,
Kathy impishly offered, "I don't see why not. Unless of course you'd
rather we don't. In other words, you say the word stop, and I'll stop.
No harm! No foul! So, since the ball's in your court, what's it going
to be lover? Stop? Or would like me to proceed ravaging you up one
side and down the other?"
With the fires of her ardor already a raging inferno, an impassioned
Denise wantonly murmured, "Since this is virgin territory for me, all I
ask is for you to be gentle."
"That's the plan," Kathy smirked, as she tenderly drew Denise down on
the bed beside her.
+
Kathy took it slow, starting with a bouquet of kisses; she gradually
racketed up her seduction. Employing her hands, mouth and ever so
talented tongue, while targeting the various erogenous zones that
populated a woman's body, Kathy skillful worked Denise into a sexual
frenzy so intense that it bordered on the excruciating.
For her part, Denise bucked; she squirmed; she rived; obediently
spreading her legs at the appropriate moment so as to allow Kathy to
reposition herself within their splay, thereby granting her lesbian
lover's mouth access to the crucible of her newly acquired womanhood.
As Kathy's saliva slick tongue initially came in contact with the
elusive nub of her clitoris, Denise began to moan, to groan, to whimper
and whine. Urgently, she began to cry out to the Lord; repeatedly
beseeching Him to grant her the blessed succor she so desperately
sought. "Oh, my God, Kathy!" she frantically and repeated exclaimed.
"Do you have any idea what you're doing to me?"
Keenly aware that it was a rhetorical question and knowing that the
last thing Denise would want her to do was to stop what she was doing
in order to offer a reply, Kathy decided that the best course of action
was to answer Denise's question in her own mind. 'Given the fact that
you've gone down on me countless times, I know exactly what I'm doing.
I just didn't know that I would relish making you squeal and squirm as
much as I do.' Then another thought struck her. 'Funny! Here I am
with my tongue in another woman's pussy, and I'm not phased by it at
all. The true is, I'm have a blast right now!'
Kathy's tongue, swirling and twirling about the nub of her clit, drove
Denise wild, delivering her to the brink of carnal delight in a matter
of moments. In the next second, Denise achieved sexual Nirvana as the
floodgates of her passions burst asunder, allowing torrents of orgasms
to gush and surge within her.
+
Nestled in Kathy's loving embrace, an euphoric, albeit physically spent
Denise savored the warm-fuzzes of post-orgasms bliss. For her part,
though curious to learn of her former husband's impressions of what had
just transpired, Kathy guarded her tongue. Though she was dying to
debrief Denise, the last thing Kathy wanted to do was to intrude on her
lover-girl's introspective reverie.
"Oh, my God, Kath!" Denise dreamily murmured. "That was fantastic. I
mean, I knew that women had it good. But, I never knew that they had
it that good. So, that's what it's like to be multi-orgasmic. All I
can say is - wow! That was a real eye-opening experience."
Though she knew it to be a stupid question, a question that need not be
asked, Kathy felt compelled to ask it anyway. "So, I take it that you
enjoyed it?"
"Enjoyed it?" Denise purred. "I loved it! I may not like the fact
that I'm a woman now. But when push comes to shove, I have to admit
that being a woman does have a silver lining. And that silver lining
is nestled snugly up inside this new little you-know-what of mine."
"I'm glade to hear you say, Den. Because, if we can't get that wishing
well to change you back, you may have to reconcile yourself to spending
the rest of your life as a female."
"I know, Kath. I know." Denise grumbled. "But, should that be the
case, at least I get to enjoy the sexual side of being a woman. That
is, if you think you can handled making love to another woman on a
regular bases."
"You needn't worry about that, lover. That wishing well may have
turned you into a woman, but there's no getting around the fact that it
seems to have turned me into a sex-crazed lesbian as well. If eating
you out is going make being a woman bearable for you, I'd be more happy
to go down on you anytime you feel the need..."
Somewhat later in their conversation, Kathy heard herself ask, "So, as
a lover, how would you rate me?"
"Top notch! I mean, you were wonderful."
"Get out of here!" Kathy, feeling that the accolades were misplaced,
discounted Denise's assertions out of hand.
"No!" Denise protested. "I mean it. You were great, Kath."
"Okay..." Kathy was not about to argue the point. "For a novice, I
guess I wasn't to shabby. But, as times goes on, I promise: I'll get
better."
"If you do, I'm not sure that I'll be able to handle it. I mean, you
really did a number on me."
Kathy, recalling the way Denise had bucked and squirmed, giggled. "I
did now, didn't I?"
"Yeah... You sure as hell did."
"So, other than getting eaten out, what else did you like?"
"Everything!"
"I want specifics."
"Okay! Specifics it is. Well..." Denise took a protracted moment to
mull the matter over. "I really like it when you suckled on these new
tits of mine. I mean, I can't believe how sensitive they are now that
I'm a woman. Funny, but I now know exactly what they mean when they
say: "as useless as tits on a bull hog."
"Go on," Kathy prompted. "What else did you like?"
"I really liked it when you used your hands to caress my inner thighs.
I've got to tell you. That really got my juices flowing. Oh! And I
also liked it when you were kissing my neck. That was really nice."
"So, I take it that you like all those new erogenous zones of yours?"
"Oh, yeah! They're great! I mean, I still can't get over how much I
enjoyed it when you were kissing the underside of wrist. I had no idea
that it would affect me like it did. Oh, and just so you know, I also
liked it when you sucked my fingers. Crazy, but that really turned me
on..."
+
Still later in their conversation...
"Hey Kath," Denise coquettishly intoned. "Do you think I could
persuade you to make love to me again?"
"It would be my pleasure. However, there's something you need to do
for me first."
"And what, may I ask, is that."
"Well, since your wife's still horny and could use some TLC of my own,
how 'bout you attend to my needs first? I mean, fair's fair and once
you attended to my needs, I'd be more than to happy to return the
favor. You see, Den, as long as you and I are the same sex, its going
to be tit for tat from here on out. You do me and I'll do you and vice
versa."
"That's perfectly fine by me, Kath...
+
Well into the wee hours of the following morning Kathy and Denise
engaged in a reciprocating game of seesaw sex, as they eagerly and took
turns satisfying one another carnal needs. As it worked out, Denise
came out on top, owing to the fact that she enjoyed four orgasmic
interludes to Kathy's miserly three.
Tuckered out from their endeavors, somewhere around three, the two fell
asleep entwined in one another's arms. Shortly after nine that
Saturday morning, Denise woke first, and wishing to reprise their
activities of the night before, gentle roused Kathy from her slumbers.
Though groggy, and wishing to God that she could have gotten another
hour or two of shuteye, Kathy turn to and began to tenderly kiss and
caress Denise into a state a sexual arousal.
In like fashion, once she had sufficiently recuperate from the daisy
chain of orgasms that Kathy' deft hand and talented tongue
ministrations had engender, Denise was more than happy to return the
favor.
"Damn, Den!" Kathy quipped. "And here I thought I was a screamer.
But, guess what! I'm nowhere near the screamer you are. It's a good
thing is that we no longer live in a townhouse. Your screaming would
have driver our neighbors bonkers. Given the way you carry on, they
probably would have called the cops, who in turn might have sighted the
two of us for disturbing the peace." Then, changing the subject, Kathy
continued on to say, "I don't know about you, but I'm famished. So,
what say we shower, get dressed and go out and get breakfast?"
The idea of venturing out in public as a woman did not sit well with
Denise. "I'm all for getting something to eat, but do we really have
to go out?"
"'Fraid so, Den. If you recall, we had the last of the eggs for
breakfast yesterday."
"I don't know about you, but I can always eat cereal."
"Sorry! There's no milk. We used the last of it up yesterday as well,
along with the bacon and those mircowaveable sausages you seem to like
so well."
"Shit! I guess that means that we have to go grocery shopping today."
"Yes, ma'am! That we do. So, since we have to go out anyway, we might
just as well stop at a restaurant for breakfast first." Then, keenly
aware that Denise was not happy about the prospect of venturing out of
the house as a member of the opposite sex, Kathy endeavored to bolster
her husband's sagging spirits. "Just remember, Den, no one's going to
be the wiser. Only two people know that you were a man and those two
people are you and me. It's our little secret. And you can rest
assured that your secret is safe with me. There's no need for you to
get into a tizzy over this. Trust me. Everyone is going to accept you
as the woman you are and not as the man you used to be, you know, much
the way Al and Helen did last night..."
+
While the two of them were in the bathroom showering together, Denise
had been thinking ahead. "I guess I'm going have to wear the clothes
that the wishing well provide me with last night when it saw fit to
shove a massive dose of femininity up this well hung derriere of mine.
I just hope that they're not all rumpled."
"Oh, I don't know," Kathy countered. "We're about the same size, so
you can probably wear some of my things for the time being. However,
since your boobs are definitely bigger than mine, it's probably for
best if you use the bra you had on last night, you know, until we can
pick you up a few. So, tell you what. Since you're going to need a
few bras, after we eat, we'll run over to the mall."
"Why the mall? Can't we just go Walmart?"
"The mall has a Victoria's Secret."
"Oh, right!" Denise dejectedly scoffed. "Lucky me! Now that I'm a
girl, I get to shop at Victoria's Secret. Talk about humiliating..."
While Denise was still in the process of toweling-off, Kathy returned
to their bedroom and strode into their wall-in closet in order to
select an outfit for herself. "Whoa!" she excitedly exclaimed. "Hey,
Den! Guess what! It looks as if we won't have to clothes shopping for
you anytime soon."
"Huh!" Denise quizzically replied, as she joined her wife in their
wall-in closet. "Sorry Kath! I didn't quite catch what you just said
just now."
"Take a good look and tell me what you see," Kathy directed. Then,
realizing that Denise was examining the wrong rack, Kathy chided, "Not
my clothes, dummy. Turn around and check out your side of the closet."
"Holy shit!" a startled Denise exclaimed, having suddenly realized that
every stitch of her male clothing had been magically altered into
attire that was without a doubt tailored for a woman. "You're right!
It looks if I'm not going to need to buy anything for quite a while.
"Hmm..." Kathy chuckled a moment later. "I sure hope you're going to
like wearing heels."
"Why's that?"
"Well, except for a pair of suede moccasins and a pair of sneakers, all
your other shoes appear to have heels. There are a few three inchers
among 'em. But from what I can see, most of them are four inch
stilettos or better."
"Get out of here!"
"If you don't believe me, have a look-see for yourself."
Scrunching down beside her wife, an agitated Denise irately groused,
"Damn it all to hell and back! Both my hiking boots and my engineer
boots are gone. They've been replaced by women's spiked heel fashion
boots. Damn! I really loved those boots, especially those hiking
boots of mine. I mean, they were the boots I wore when I hiked the
Appalachian Trail the summer before I met you. Geeish! I'm sure going
to miss 'em. You know, as in they had a certain sentimental value for
me..." Denise's voice trailed off into brooding silence at that point.
"I know, dear," Kathy empathized. "Those boots held a special place in
your heart."
"Yeah... They sure as hell did. I know it sounds crazy, but I was
even thinking about getting them bronzed one of these days."
"Den, I don't mean to be insensitive, but maybe you ought to check out
your chest of drawers."
Denise did as Kathy suggested, only too discover upon opening the top
drawer that a run to Victoria's Secret was unnecessary. Denise had
bras, panties and pantyhose aplenty, as well as a smattering of other
hosiery.
Stepping up to get a closer look at Denise's treasure trove of
shimmering and sexy undergarments, Kathy chortled, "Oh, my! What do we
have here? There's satin and nylon and more than a few lycra spandex
sets, but not one lacy bra and panty set in the bunch. That wishing
well sure has you pegged..."
"Come on, Kath!" Denise groused. "Cut me some slack here, will ya'?
While it's true that I'm a woman now, please understand that I not
comfortable about having to dress like one. So, I'd really appreciate
it if you stop teasing me about it."
"All right! I promise to behave myself."
"Thank you. Now, since you're bound and determine to get me out of the
house today, how 'bout giving me a hand picking out something that this
fragile male ego of mine can handle."
Kathy did as Denise asked, selecting a pair of jeans and a lightweight
long-sleeved mock-turtleneck sweater. For her part, Denise rooted
through her underwear drawer and after a good bit of indecision, opted
for a shimmering, electric blue, nylon/spandex bra and panty set.
Then, with Kathy supervising, Denise got dressed.
A few minutes later, Denise positioned herself in front of Kathy's
Cheval Floor Mirror. "Damn! I know I looked good, but I had no idea
that I looked this good. Hell! With a body like this I could be in
Playboy."
"Told you so," Kathy scoffed. "Oh! And as far as posing for Playboy
goes, I'd say: you ought to go for it."
"You really mean that?"
"Sure... Why not? I mean, you've got a great body, Den, so why not
flaunt it?"
"This isn't good," Denise said, as she turned this away and that away
in ordered to better appraise her new hourglass figure.
"What isn't good?"
"Looking the way I do now. I mean, I've become a friggin' piece of
eye-candy. Guys are going to be gawking at me all over place and I'm
not sure I'm going to be able to handle it. And, then there's the
other thing."
"What other thing?" Kathy felt compelled to ask.
"I might be a girl on the outside, but on the inside I'm still a guy,
which means that I'm turning myself on."
"Hmmm... So you're a narcissist as well as lesbian and a nymphomaniac
now. I can live with that."
"Maybe you can, but I'm not sure that I can."
Just then the phone rang. Kathy, who was the closer of the two,
checked the Call ID and declared, "It's your mother."
"Shit!" Denise, not ready to divulge what had happened to her, was all
in a dither. "I can't talk to her like this! Please, Kathy! You talk
to her? Tell her that I'm not home. Say that I had to run down to 7-
Eleven or something."
Kathy keyed the handset's 'Talk Button', "Hello, Anna!" Then, a moment
later, "I'm afraid Den's not available at the moment." Another brief
pause was followed by, "No, we haven't forgotten. What time do you
want us to come over tomorrow..."
'Shit!' Denise thought. 'Damn! I plum forgot all about that.
Tomorrow's my mother's birthday and we're supposed to have dinner
there. What the hell am I going to do? I mean, I can't face my
parents looking like this...'
A few minutes later, Kathy hung up the phone and turned to face her
husband, "You heard?"
"Yeah!" Denise groused. "I heard. But we ain't going, not with me and
my being a girl now."
"That's not going to be a problem. You're mom already knows and we're
going."
"What the hell did you tell her?" Denise bristled.
"I didn't tell her anything. You should know that, seeing as how you
heard everything I said to your mother."
"But you just said that she knew."
"That's right. I did. I don't know how she knew, but she knew."
"You mean, that I'm a girl?"
"Yes, that you're a girl."
"How's that possible?"
"Beats the shit out of me, Den. But she knew and she didn't seem
phased by it at all."
"So, what did she say that leads you to believe that she knows I'm a
woman now?"
"Well, for one thing your mom called you Denise, not Dennis. And for
another, she said that she had seen a few blouses that she thought you
might like while she was shopping the other day and she ended up
picking them up for you."
"Oh, crap! That confounded wishing well has this friggn' sexual
reassignment thing-a-ma-bob of mine rigged six ways from Sunday."
"Yeah..." Kathy concurred. "I agree. It sure seems too at that..."
+
Denise, thinking that she would be on her feet a good portion of the
day, given that the two of them were planning on going grocery shopping
after getting something to eat, initially opted for the suede moccasins
she had found in her closet. However, before joining Kathy in the
living room, Denise experienced an unexpected change of heart. She
decided to be daring and whimsically switch out the moccasins out for a
pair of 4-inch, pointy-toed stilettos in basic black kidskin.
As she entered the living room, Denise noticed that Kathy was holding a
picture frames in hands. "I think I know why your mother knows about
you and your being a woman now."
"You do?"
"Yes, Den, I do and as soon as you take a look at this photograph, you
will too."
"Isn't that one of wedding pictures?" Denise asked, as she crossed the
living room in order to examine the photo Kathy was holding.
"Yes. It was. And I guess it still is. But there's been a change; a
rather significant one to my way of thinking."
Denise took possession of the proffered picture only to exclaim, "Oh!
I see what you mean. I'm not the groom anymore, am I? I'm a bride,
just like you."
"Yup! You sure are. And, what do you know! We're wearing matching
gowns."
"Have you checked any of our other pictures?" Denise inquired,
"No, not yet! But my guess is that you're a girl in all of them."
"That wishing well really had it in for me, didn't it?" Then, before
Kathy could respond, Denise added, "I want to check out something. So,
you wait here and I'll be right back." And with that said, Denise made
tracks for their study. A protracted moment later, she returned to the
living room, cradling a large, leather-bound book in her arms.
"What'ya got there, Den?"
"One of my high school yearbooks, senior year I believe."
"Oh! I understand. You went to an all boys high school, didn't you?"
"I sure as hell did. St. Bartholomew's! Any bets as to what we're
going to find?"
Denise hefted the yearbook and began flipping through the pages.
Slowing as she reached the section where the sports teams were located,
Denise stopped flipping pages when she got to the varsity soccer team.
"Well, now that's interesting, if not highly amusing" Kathy smirked.
"It seems that St. Barts had at least one female who graduated from
their school, and that woman was none other than you. I have to say
that you look awful cute in your soccer uniform. As I recall, you said
that you were on the baseball team as well."
"Yep! That I did. I played second base."
"Well, what are you waiting for, sweet cheeks? I want to see how you
looked in your baseball uniform."
Dutifully, Denise complied with her wife's directive.
Once the two of them had scooped out all the pictures of Denise that
were contained in the yearbook, Kathy mused, "I wonder how they're ever
going to be able to explain why you, a girl, attended St. Barts, an all
boys Catholic high school."
"Beats the shit out of me!" Denise quipped. "It's a - Oh, what's the
word? - conundrum! It's a conundrum alright."
"Yeah... It sure is. But I'm afraid that it behooves us to come up
with an explanation, you know, should any of your old classmates ever
start making inquires."
"Yeah..." Denise concurred with Kathy assertion. "But I know one
thing. I sure as hell aren't going to be attending any class reunions
looking like I do now."
"Oh! I don't see why not," Kathy teased. "It'd be a hoot watching the
reaction of some of your classmates."
"Yeah... It could be at that. But we're still not going and that's
final."
"Well, we'll see about that. I'm not going to quibble about it now.
Who knows? You might experience a change of heart one of these days,
you know, much like you did with those heels you're wearing."
"Fat chance of that ever happening..."
+
On the way out to car, Kathy assumed that her new lesbian lover-girl
would want her to drive, much as she had the prior evening. That
however was not the case. No sooner had Kathy begun to make her way
around to the driver's side of her husband's car, Denise took umbrage.
"Oh, no you don't! I'm driving."
"But I thought..."
Denise abruptly interjected, "Well, you thought wrong, didn't you? I
might be a woman, but I'm still the man of the house. I'll drive."
"You think you'll be okay to drive in heels?"
"Well, since I don't seem to be having any trouble getting around in
'em, I think I'll manage just fine. If not, I'll just take 'em off."
Kathy, who was not fond of wearing high heels herself, had to admit
that Denise was not having a bit of trouble maneuvering around in
stilettos. Truth was, Denise had taken to wearing heels the way a duck
takes to water. The dexterity she evidenced would make one think that
Denise had worn such treacherous footwear for years. In fact, Kathy
was quick to realize; Denise evidenced no manly affectations
whatsoever. All her mannerism were as feminine as feminine could be.
Noon had come and gone, so when Denise, who still accorded herself as
the gentleman she no longer was, inquired as to where her wife wanted
to eat, Kathy suggested Denny's, quickly pointing out the fact that the
establishment served breakfast 24 hours a day.
While they were waiting for their waitress to bring them their meals,
Denise, out of the blue, suddenly exclaimed, "Shit!"
"What's wrong now?"
"I'm afraid we're going to have to stop at the mall after all."
"And we're doing that because?"
"We need to pick-up something for my mom. Remember, tomorrow's her
birthday."
"Right!" Kathy replied before adding, "Any ideas as to what we should
get her?"
"No... But I'm open for suggestions...
+
Kathy was in process of polishing off the last dregs of her second cup
of coffee when she heard Denise complain, "I hate the way that guy at
the far table keeps leering at me. It's like he's undressing me with
his eyes and it's really creeping me out."
"I'm afraid it more or less goes with the territory, Den. You're a
beautiful young lady now, with a body that won't quit, so my best
advise to you is: get used to it."
"That easier said than done."
Kathy, a very attractive woman in her own right, flippantly replied,
"Tell me about it..."
+
Upon leaving Denny's, Denise drove them to the mall. There, from one
of the kiosks located on the mall's lower level, they purchased a
necklace and a matching pair of earrings as a birthday present for
Denise's mom. Encouraged by Kathy to do so, Denise also selected
several sets of inexpensive earrings for herself, along with a couple
of necklaces. Then, even as the salesgirl became to tally up the bill,
Kathy drew Denise's attention to yet another pair of earrings contained
with the revolving, tri-sided display case that stood up the counter.
"Look, Den! Little wishing wells!" Then, having drawn Denise
attention to the earrings, Kathy addressed the salesgirl, "Excuse me,
miss. We'll take these sterling silver wishing well earrings as well."
In a tone of voice set just above that of a whisper, Denise groused,
"Thanks for nothing! Do you get your kicks by rubbing salt in my
wounds? I mean, it's not like I'm ever going to wear 'em."
Kathy ignored Denise's gibe and asked the salesgirl if she had a
wishing well charm that matched the earrings. The girl replied that
she did, prompting Kathy to have her add it, along with a charm
bracelet to round out their purchases.
+
After the mall, Denise made for the grocery store. There, they had
another chance encounter with a couple they associated with socially on
a semi-regular bases. Much as it had been with Snyders on the previous
evening, the couple accepted Denise as having always been the woman
that Kathy's wish had turned her into. To be fair though, the couple
evidence an extremely fleeting moment of indecision, lasting no more
than half a second when they first caught sight of Kathy and Denise
half way down one of the aisles. Though it was doubtful that either
Denise or Kathy took note of it, the wishing well's magic was still
very much in play, retrofitting memories to the new reality of Denise's
magically imposed sexual reassignment.
"You know something, Kath?" Denise said once they were alone. "This is
getting weirder and weirder. Everybody seems to know me for woman I am
now, and not man I was. They seem to think that I always been a girl."
"Yeah... They sure do. But that's a good thing, isn't it? I mean,
your life isn't in shambles because of what's happen. Added to that,
you can go into work on Monday and no one will be the wiser."
"Work!" the dread conveyed in Denise's voice was poignant. "I plum
forgot all about work! I can't go into work looking this!
Everybody'll know."
"No they won't, Den! If your mother, the Snyders and now Tom and Betty
accept the fact that you're a woman now, so it stands to reason that
everybody you work with will as well. Trust me! It'll be fine.
You'll see. Nobody's going to bat an eye. Okay! I'll grant you that
some of those god's-gift-to-women creeps that you work with might end
up freaking you out, you know, by giving you the old hairy-eyeball.
But that's about the be-all and end-all of it. Given the way the
well's magic has worked so far, the fix is in and nobody is going to
know that weren't always a woman."
Though Kathy's logic was sound, Denise, a staunch adherent to Murphy's
Law, was anything but convinced. If something could go wrong, Denise
figured that it probably would, and that it would probably go wrong at
the worst possible moment. Denise therefore was not looking forward to
the ordeal she assumed she'd be facing come Monday morning.
+
Once the grocery shopping was finished, by mutual accord the two women
decided it was time to make a run for the barn. Once home, they turned
to and stowed their groceries. With that chore accomplished, Kathy,
eager to have a return engagement with her new lesbian lover, suggested
that they relocate to their bedroom and once there, engage in some
reciprocating tongue in grove work. Given that Denise was filling
frisky and more than a little horny herself, Kathy's suggestion suited
her just fine. Moments later, Kathy and Denise were in their bedroom,
sans their clothing, supine on the bed and going at it hot and heavy.
Several hours later, having seesawed back and forth several times,
Kathy ask what she thought to be a relevant question and followed it up
with a dogmatic statement. "Hey, Den! Are you by any chance getting
hungry? I know that I sure am. Look, since I'm in no mood to cook and
I bet you aren't either, what say we order a pizza?" Then, realizing
that she had promised Denise earlier that they would have another crack
at the wishing well, Kathy quickly apologized for her oversight, even
as she began drawing her panties back on. "Oh! I'm sorry, Denise. I
up and forgot. Correct me if I'm wrong. But weren't we were supposed
to run back over to the Wishing Well Inn and have another go at trying
to get your manhood back? So, since I'm not about to drive over there
all by my lonesome, I guess you better put your clothes back on too."
"You're right, Kath! We did agree to give the wishing well another go
this evening. But I've had a slight change of heart. So, if it's all
right with you, what say we hold off until tomorrow, you know, because
we're both tired from our lack of sleep last night, coupled with all
the running you and I did today. And honestly, what I'd really like to
do is to spend a quiet evening alone with you."
"Don't you mean an initiate evening rather than a quiet one?"
"Yeah... What can I say? You know me so well. But then again, when
you're right, you're right. I'd much prefer spending an initiate
evening with you to a quiet one. Besides, since it isn't much out of
our way, we can stop by the Wishing Well on the way home from my
parents. Oh! And just so you know, pizza washed down with that bottle
of Chianti we picked up the other day sound just fine by me..."
+
Famished as they were, Denise and Kathy quickly devoured the large
pepperoni and sausage pizza they had ordered and were soon back in bed,
servicing one another's carnal needs. Much as they had on the previous
evening, they took turns, seesawing back and forth in a you do me then
I'll do you fashion that worked out to be mutually satisfying.
Somewhere around eleven thirty, during a recuperative lull in their
love making, Denise's curiosity got the best of her, "So, what'ya
think, Kath? Has my sex change fulfilled your wish? Has it spiced up
our love life?"
"Indubitably!" Kathy sensually purred, as she began to trace lazy
swirls and whorls along the run of Denise's inner thigh. "I really
could get used to this."
"To tell you the truth, Kath, so could I."
"You really mean that, Den?"
"Yes..." Denise gasped as the fires of her ardor were rekindled. "I
never knew sex could be this good. However, I don't want you getting
the wrong impression, Kath. You probably aren't going to like hearing
me say this, but I'm still not all that happy over the fact that I'm a
woman now. Given my druthers, I'd still rather be a man."
"I know, Den. I know that you still rather be a man. But what if
worst should happen? What if we can't get the Wishing Well to undo
what it's done to you? I mean, there's a good chance you're going to
be stuck like this for the rest of your life. Are you going to be able
to handle living as a woman?"
"Honestly, Kath, I haven't a clue, you know, as in the jury is still
out on that one. But what I can tell you is that while it's little
more than the icing on the cake, there's no getting around the fact
that I'm sold on the sexually aspects of being a woman. In fact, it's
something I will sorely miss if I ever do get back to being a man
again. I mean, I absolutely love all these new erogenous zones of
mine. Plus, as sick and perverted as it sounds, all I have to do to
turn myself on is to look at myself in the mirror."
"Oh! So, it's like I said this morning. You're a narcissist as well
as a lesbian?"
"That I am, Kath! That I am..."
+
"Kath," the dread and hesitancy in Denise's voice conveyed volumes.
"I've changed my mind. I'm not going."
"Oh, yes you are, even if I have to drag you kicking and screaming,"
Kathy was adamant. "Look! It's your mother's birthday. So, like it
or not, you're going. So, how 'bout you finished getting dressed, so
we can be on our way. We're going to be late as it is..."
+
With a sense of trepidation mounting exponentially, a reluctant Denise
opened the front door of her parents' house and stepped into the living
room. "Ellen!" Denise's father drew aside the sports section of the
Sunday paper that he had been perusing and sarcastically bellowed.
"You can stop your fretting. Kathy and that other daughter of ours
have finally seen fit to put in an appearance!" Then, in a much more
cordial tone of voice, Harvey Sojourner, who, like his wife, had always
accorded Kathy as a member of their family, said, "Your mother's in the
kitchen, fussing over diner. So, why don't you two girls head and back
keep her company..."
Half expecting Kathy to hit her with an admonishing 'I told you so,'
Denise was overjoyed to learn that contrary to her worst fears, the
wishing well's magic had altered her parents' memories so that their
recollections dovetailed with the new reality imposed on her by the
wishing well. Though still squeamish about what she could and could
not divulge, all things considered, Denise handled things fairly well.
What both shocked and surprised Denise was the fact that as prudish as
her mom and dad tended to be about such things, they both accepted her
and Kathy's lesbian relationship without batting an eye. The only
sticking point was Denise's mom. Ellen Sojourner wanted grandkids and
she did not miss a single opportunity to make sure that both Kathy and
Denise were well aware of that fact.
The four of them sat down to eat at three on the dot. Once dinner was
finished, Denise's father pushed back from the table and said, "I trust
you two girls will give your mom a hand cleaning up. As for me, I'm to
back out to the living room and take a nap."
Once in the kitchen, Denise suggested that her mom take a load off her
feet, saying that she would rinse off the dishes and Kathy would stack
them in the dishwasher. It was while they were busy attending to the
dishes that Denise did something that took Kathy by complete surprise.
Not one to keep secrets from her mother, Denise felt compelled to come
clean and tell her mom what had happened.
"Mom," Denise began apprehensively. "I not sure how to go about
telling you this. And I seriously doubt that you're going to believe a
word of what I'm about to tell you."
"Den!" Kathy, thinking it was neither the time nor place to get into
something as mind boggling as what she suspected Denise wished to
impart, vigorously injected. "Are you sure this is a good idea? I
mean, it might be best were you to let sleeping dogs lie."
"No, Kath! I'm not sure if this is a good idea at all. But I've never
kept anything important from my mom and I'm not about to start now."
"All right, Den," Kathy reluctantly deferred. "It's your funeral."
"Denise," her mother, curious to know what was on her daughter's mind,
sought enlightenment. "Are sick or something?"
"No, mom. I'm not sick and neither is Kathy. We're both just fine.
So you needn't concern yourself about that."
"Mom!" Denise began anew. "The thing is: while I know you think I'm
your daughter, I'm not your daughter. I'm your son, Dennis, or at
least I was up until two days ago."
The startled expression that blossomed on Ellen Sojourner's face said
it all. It was like a veil had suddenly been lifted, or the floodgates
opened and the truth revealed. Though taken aback by her daughter's
revelation, Ellen Sojourner -- her former memories restored -- knew
without a shadow of a doubt that Denise was telling the truth. "Oh my
God, Dennis! It really is you, isn't it?"
"Yes, mom," Denise replied. "It's me. I am - make that was - your
son, Dennis."
"How's that possible?" the incredulity in Helen's voice was not lost on
either Kathy or Denise. "I talked to you on the phone -- Was it
Tuesday evening? Or was it Wednesday evening? -- and you were still a
man, weren't you?"
"Yes, mom. I was."
"So, how did this happen? Did you by any chance have one of those sex
change operations or something?"
"No... I didn't have an operation. As ludicrous as this is going to
sound. I'm a girl now because a wishing well played fast and loose with
a wish that Kathy made the other night."
"You really expect me to believe that you're a girl now because of a
wish?" though she knew what she was hearing to be true, Denise mom was
having a hard time reconciling the matter in her own mind.
"Believe what you will, mom. But you could say that I'm living proof
that magic exists. It's real. But don't you go blaming Kathy, mom.
She's not to blame. She didn't do this to me. The wishing well did.
It took great liberties fulfilling the wish that Kathy made. I mean,
it not only turned me into a woman, it also went and turned Kathy into
a lesbian, where she wasn't one before..."
Denise took great pains explaining exactly what had happen, while
repeatedly emphasizing the fact that Kathy was blameless. While it was
true that it had been Kathy's wish for a spiced up love life that had
given the wishing well the impetus to do what it had done, the well had
misconstrued the intent of Kathy's desires.
For her part, Denise's mom took a lot of convincing. However, Denise
eventually managed to convince her mother that Kathy was not to blame.
"Well..." Denise's mom, trying to look on the bright side of things,
thoughtfully sighed. "I always wanted a daughter and now it seems I
have one. Maybe, if I play my cards right, one of these days in the
not to distant future, she'll give me grandchild or two."
"Whoa, mom!" unhinged by what she had heard her mother just say, a
badly frazzled Denise raised an objection. "Let's not get ahead of
ourselves. Remember, even though I'm a woman now, I'm as much of a
lesbian as Kathy is."
"That may be..." Helen countered. "But there's nothing that says that
lesbians can't have babies, you know, as in you can always have
yourself artificially inseminated."
"Mother!" Denise vigorously registered a complaint. "How 'bout we
cross that bridge when we come to it?"
"I was just saying..." Helen innocently replied. "But just remember,
dear. You're a woman now and your biological clock is ticking. Added
to that, I would really like a grandchild while I'm still young enough
to enjoy one..."
Somewhat later in their conversation, Denise's mom thought to inquire,
"So, do you want to tell your father about all of this?"
"No!" Denise reflexively shivered at the thought of her dad learning
her secret. "And I don't want you telling anyone else either. Not
even your sister! I shudder to think what would happen if Aunt Shirley
ever gets wind of this. She can't keep a secret worth shit. Promise
me, mom! You won't tell another living soul about what's happened to
me. Maybe, in time, I'll be able to see my way clear into filling dad
in on what happen. But for the time being, I don't want anyone else
knowing that I haven't always been a girl. It's like they say mom.
Ignorance is bliss and the more people who don't know about me,