Author notes and spoiler:
This is a littl short story that began as an Altered Fates draft.
I rewrote it into a sort of tale about a mad scientist's invention
instead and thought it came out better.
This story contains elements and ideas from other stories I've
written, most notably "The Ranger" where there is a certain type of
special doll that the characters can interact with.
The title of the story "His 'n Hers" is based partially on an
acronym I came up with by accident: H.I.S. meaning Holospectric
Interdimensional Storage (the original body storage tubes) but
you will find out about all that soon enough.
At the end of this unfinished tale is another earlier draft
entitled "Altered Fates: The Goody Little Two Shoes Club." They
could be seperate stories except for they hit on the same basic
theme and plotline. Therefor I consider them part of the same
overall work. "Two Shoes" will probably be abandoned as it went off
track from where I wanted to take this tale. I will probably merge
ideas from that draft into this one as I continue working on what I
hope to be my next completed novel. Thanks goes to Jennifer Adams
for letting other writers delve into her Altered Fates universe.
Though I started a medallion of Zulo draft, I went back to write a
non-medallion version instead and here it is (though both are here
included).
- Cleo Kraft
His 'n Hers
by Cleo Kraft
Chapter One
My neighbor Mr. Howard Charizi invited me over to his place for a
drink.
He occasionally did this and would share with me his ideas and show
me his inventions. He owned the biggest house on the block, an old
Victorian mansion with a large backyard. He owned a charitable
organization that he ran right from the comforts of home. I
couldn't remember the name of it but it was for helping the less
fortunate young girls in society like orphans and runaways. There
was an extensive staff of nannys and worker women here to help take
care of them, see to their busy little schedules and things like
that. The oldest girl in the place was sixteen, the youngest was
six.
Mr. Charizi was a cheerful fellow. He was middle aged, had curly
brown hair and silver rimmed glasses and he always seemed to have a
story to tell or a joke or riddle.
"Jake," he said to me from behind his desk and he took a long drag
from his fancy cigar and blew it out again. "I understand you've
took an early retirement from your accounting job and are doing
quite well. How's the dating scene going, by the way?"
"I can't complain," I replied. "I've got a girlfriend who I go out
with once in awhile. Why?"
"Oh, nothing. Just wondered," he said. "I'm a bit of a loner
myself. I know everyone's got their shady little secrets sometimes.
I was kind of considering sharing mine with you since I've known
you for, what, four years?"
"Five actually."
"Been that long huh? Boy how time flies," he said and took his
cigar from his mouth and started gesturing around with it as he
talked. "I'd say you probably consider yourself fairly well
experienced by now with the ladies then. What, with all your dating
and all."
"I think I'd have to agree. Why?"
"Well," he said flipping idly through the pages of a thick leather
bound book on his desk. "Of course we, you and I, can't know
EVERYTHING about women. What they're thinking, what makes them
tick, what pushes all their little buttons, you know - would have
to BE one to have that kind of knowledge."
He put a lot of emphasis on the word "be" and chuckled after he'd
said it.
"I agree with you completely. Why my Sophie confuses me so much
sometimes it's unbelievable."
"Ah, but what if you could?" he asked leaning forward on his desk
and gripping the sides of it with his cigar hanging from the side
of his mouth. He could become pretty animated at times when he was
onto an idea.
"Pardon?"
"What if you could be one?" he asked sitting back and folding his
hands up behind his head and resting his feet up on the table.
He had fancy leather shoes, black ones this time. He usually wore
brown. These looked brand new.
"M-me? W-what? You're asking ME what I'd think if I could be a
woman?" I asked looking the other way and laughing a bit. "Howard,
I think you've finally lost your mind. Are you serious?"
He leaned forward and slapped the palm of his hand flat against the
desk top. "Hindered percent. Whole kit, cat and kaboodle. Head to
toe - female. What's more, right now within the hour, no questions
asked. Perfectly painless, no surgery involved - your own female
body - and for keeps too if you want. Back to normal again anytime
you want."
"Howard, you're not joking with me are you? Because I can tell
whenever you're ready to tell me about one of your new secret
inventions and you're selling it to me now just like you did that
gizmo-wheel contraption that cleans dishes without any water."
His face turned sour at the reminder of that for a second. "Dish
washer? Naw, that's baby stuff compared to this. What I'm talking
about's a full body transformation," he said and tapped the side of
his head. "One where ya keep the mind and change the body. Whadda-
ya think of THAT? Easy as changin' shoes - hundred percent female,
head to toe, pussy'n all. Long as you want. Long as you want. Easy
peasy - within the hour. Yes or no, you'll do it. You'll do it
because you're curious and you want to. My little present."
His "p" in "present" sounded a little funny with that cigar in his
mouth.
"You've made a machine, haven't you? One that can do this. You've
made a sex change machine."
He leaned forward and pressed his little intercom button. "Miss
Bestin, send Melissa on in, would ya please?"
"Right away Mr. Charizi," a woman said over the speaker.
He leaned back in his chair again and said,"Gotta show ya
something. Wanna impress you first. Make a believer outa you."
We waited for awhile and then there came a light knock on the door.
"Come on IN!" Howard beckoned his little guest.
I turned around and watched as a little black haired girl in a
light blue dress, white socks and black flats came curiously,
cautiously walking in. Her curious wide eyes took in the office as
if for the first time in a long time or something.
She closed the door carefully behind her and stepped shyly forward
as she nervously toyed with the lower edges of her dress then
thought better of it and started wringing her hands about as she
bit her lower lip. As she approached his desk he gestured at her
with the back of his hand. "Turn around. Turn around so Mr. Tinson
can see you. That'a girl," Howard said. "Go on. Introduce yourself
politely and tell him how old you are."
She held her head down a little and looked up at me with shy little
brown eyes. "I-I'm Melissa Anne. I-I'm t-ten years old. S-so nice
to m-meet you."
She did a little curtsy for me afterwards.
"You're ten years old but tell him how long ya been a girl," Howard
prompted her. "Go on... tell him. I give you permission."
She bit her lower lip and looked back anxiously at Mr. Charizi who
nodded yes, that it was safe for her to tell me.
"I-I'm... that is, I-I've b-been a girl f-for four years n-now,"
she replied blushingly and covered up her face with both hands and
softly began crying.
"Ah, come on now, it ain't that bad," Howard said passing her a
tissue to wipe away her tears with. "Compose yourself. Get a grip
on it already. We're all friends here. Mr. Tinson's a neighbor.
Lives just down the street. He ain't gonna laugh at you,
sweetheart. Neither am I. We're not doing this to embarrass you, I
promise you that. No, Jake here wanted proof and now here it is. Ah
what's the use? You can go now. Go on and send in... a... what's
her name, Cathy? Yeah, dat's it. Send in Cathy please. Ya've been a
dear. Go wipe those tears away and send in Cathy."
She about ran to the door she was so embarrassed, afraid and upset.
"She's deathly afraid of you, isn't she?" I asked him and he
shrugged with a "who cares" expression. "Why's that? Care to share
with me your little secret? What's been going on around here
anyway?"
"Nothin," he said tapping his pointer finger straight down on the
desk. "And there ain't gonna be nothin' 'neither. She's just havin'
regrets 'cause she's on the long term plan. Tell you about it
later. Not important now. Dat one's been a girl too long. Gettin'
all wet and weepy eyed all over nothin. My fault for askin' her in
here. Should'a picked one of the happy ones instead."
Just then another light series of knocks came on the door.
"Enter PLEASE!" Howard hollered a little annoyed still at that
other girl.
The door opened and in walked a girl about the same age and height
as the other. This one was blonde though with her hair done up in a
ponytail. She wore a white skirt and matching short sleeved top and
had on white leather sandals. She marched confidently in and
pounded her little fist on the desk.
"How's it goin' boss?" she asked greeting him cheerily.
"Fine. Just fine," Howard replied and shooed her a little to make
her turn around. "Do dat little ting you do dare."
She turned around, bowed with a smile, curtsied at me pleasantly,
smiled again, stood straight up and sang,"Hi, I'm Catherine Anne
Presco and I'm a TEN year old little girl. Been one since I'z six,
thought I'd TAKE a little whirl. I had boy stuff growing in my
crotch, just for four years ago today. WELL I stepped into that
machine of his, and he TOOK it all away!"
She bowed and Mr. Charizi and I clapped, though my clapping was
slow and a little less empathetic as I was more or less agasp in
shock.
"Well done, girl, well done!" Howard said standing up to shake her
hand afterwards. She shook it just like a little pro and proudly
turned back to me with a heavy grin afterwards.
"Any questions?" Cathy asked me now walking up and boldly grabbing
hold of my long sleeved shirt sleeve and began feeling the material
with passing interest. Then she put her pointer finger up to her
lip, resting the remainder of it on her chin and raised a brow
thoughtfully. "Howard only ever makes me sing that song whenever a
NEW girl arrives. What age ya gonna pick?" she asked and turned
around to her boss. "Say, Howie, you letting her pick? If not, I
guess I'm getting a new kid sister today, right?"
"Mind your own business, you," Howard replied frowning and
chuckling so hard he nearly swallowed his cigar. "Shoo! Shoo now.
Go on. Get outa here. Get! Go play with your friends now or
something."
She hurried on out of the room and shut the door behind her.
"Okay," I said finally getting the picture pretty well. "Either you
trained them to say that stuff or else you really do have a sex
change machine. Well? Which is it then?"
"Boy, you sure are a tough one to convince," Howard said snuffing
out his cigar.
"What about this "what if I could be a woman" business? Those were
all children you showed me," I said.
"Yeah, well, gotta start somewhere," he replied. "Look, I don't run
no thrill fun house pleasure palace here. Yeah, fact is I COULD
turn ya into a full grown woman if I wanted to but then you'd only
run out and have sex to see what it's like, see what it's about, do
it again, try it some more, maybe lock yourself up in your room
afterwards an' play with yourself til' you turned into a vegetable
with drool comin' out your mouth. That's not what this machine is
for. Yeah I could do it, probably charge people for it and get
richer than ever but I DON'T do it 'cause then I'd have'ta go
public and get a license for it or somethin. Then the government
would step in, get all in my shoes, boss me around and maybe even
take it away from me. Then what would I have? Nothin'!
"My theory on it's this way. Turn 'em to six 'cause that takes the
sex drive from 'em. Then let 'em grow up all over again as a girl
and THEN they can become a woman, just like all women everywhere
else have to do. They have to grow up first, get to know the body,
have a nice female childhood to remember... I don't know how else I
could do it, Jake. I got, what, maybe ten or twelve girls like the
ones you saw living under this roof. I got at least TWICE that who
ain't ever been a guy. We keep it a secret, that's part of the big
plan, keep it secret so nobody knows who'll make a fuss about it,
nobody finds out, everybody's happy... well most everybody. Got a
few complainers around here but, yeah, most everone's all right
with it."
"First you tell me you can change me into a woman, now you're
telling me it'll be a little girl. Then you tell me I can change
back whenever I want, now it seems like that's not the usual option
you give them. So tell me, Howard, what are you offering me?"
"Naw, I think I'm starting to want to change my mind. No, you got a
girlfriend. You ain't into any of this. I'm sorry I told ya. I
should have never asked, not after finding out you had a
girlfriend. My mistake. Big mistake. Never shoulda told you this.
You don't wanna be a girl anyway. Nah! Forget it. Forget I
mentioned it. Throw away your girlfriend, house, retirement plan...
Nah! Too much at stake to lose," he said waving the whole thing off
in a hurry after his elaborate presentation.
"You're showing me that machine tonight, Howard. There's no way I'm
leaving here now until you show me that machine," I said determined
to at least get to see a demonstration, if not on myself then on
someone else.
"Hold that thought," he said and pressed a little red button on his
desk and the top portion of the wall panel behind him slid to one
side revealing thirteen little cylindrical metal cannisters all
about six inches tall and about two and a half to three inches
thick. Without looking at them, still facing me, he gestured his
arm widely back and upward at the display. "Know what these are?
Original male body patterns. All of 'em. Each one for one of the
special little girls in this house. Know why I keep 'em for?"
"In case one of them should want to change back to normal?" I
guessed.
He frowned and withdrew his head a little with a sourpuss
expression like I was WAY off on my guess. "Naw! Nothing like that
- well, except for a couple who are short terming it. No, what I
keep 'em for is... do you know what this IS?"
He stood up and picked up a walking stick and rapped on the glass a
few times. It was so clear and perfect and in the dim lighting of
the room I hadn't noticed there was actually glass over the display
shelf.
He saw I hadn't the answer and said,"This is my TROPHY case. When a
man, a grown man, gives up his gender and all his worldly
possessions, houses, yachts, campers, sports cars, girl friends,
wives, children - whatever, and lets himself be changed into a girl
- a helpless little girl, he gives up a LOT. Now THAT means
something to me because I'M the one that took all that stuff away
from 'em. They're TROPHIES, Jake. Trophies!"
He stood up on a little ladder there and worked the little
combination to the lock and pulled open the glass panel and tossed
one to me. I was taken by surprise and nearly dropped it.
He climbed back down and sat in his chair and said,"Go on. Take a
nice good look at it. Tell me what'cha think."
"Well," I said turning it around and around in my hands. "It's
fairly heavy and made of metal, though hollow for some reason on
this side... Inside's made of soft material, leather like but I
don't know what it is. Probably artificial."
He nodded yes with a fresh unlit cigar wedged between his grinning
teeth. "Dat's right. Now smell it."
I sniffed it once or twice. "Smells a little funny."
"Yeah? Know why?"
"No."
"Cause I put my DICK in it and shot a load!" he said laughing as I
quickly tossed the awful thing back to him. "Hahahaha! Got'cha that
time didn't I? Got'cha good."
He was always pulling jokes on me nearly every time I visited him.
He had a strange since of humor though and obviously a very dirty
mind.
"That's just disgusting," I said and he tossed me a box of alcohol
based wipes to clean off my hands now if I wanted, which I did in
all earnesty. "What on earth would you want to make a thing like
that for, Howard?"
"Did you know that there's so much data in one of these that it
would take half the moon full of modern day hard drives to store
what's in here?" he boasted tapping the side of the cannister and
lighting his cigar. "Why waste the imagination? Think of it. All
thirteen of these guys asked for me to make them into little girls
and gave up everything and most of all their male lives. Well?
Their male lives are in HERE, pal. Right smack dab in here where I
keep 'em as souvineers. Holospectric Interdimensional Storage.
H.I.S. Hahahaha! "His" get it? Like in "his 'n hers"?"
"Very funny, Howard."
But I wasn't laughing. I was too appalled that he had turned these
things into the disgusting things that they were.
"It IS funny," he agreed. "You don't get the joke, though, do you?
The clever thing about it is these ain't just body pattern storage
devices, they double as pocket pussies. Think about it. Every time
I fuck one'a deese I'm fucking what's already fucked, their old
male lives."
Now he beconned me closer because he wanted to show me another
little detail or another. I stood up and walked over there and he
shined a little flashlight down the opening. The far end looked
like it had been torn or cut out with a jagged knife and removed.
"See dat?" he asked pointing. "Dat one's ripped? Know why? Cause it
exposes the now unprotected chips and circuits. These things have
tiny watch batteries in 'em for some of the ram chips. Wanna know
what happens when you ejaculate onto this circuit board? Fries the
ram chips and a chain reaction happens that turns all that precious
male data into the consistency of baby food. Then it OOOOOozes out
through da hole and all over your cock and BOY does that ever feel
wonderful. Male life? Nope - pussy juice. Brilliant."
"That's just sick, Howard."
He examined the outside of the cannister and pointed to the
inscription. There was an inscription on either side. One in pink,
one in blue. "Catherine Anne Presco and... Jonathan Beekly. Yep,
lifer all right. Girl who just came in here and sang her little
song for ya. Yep, ripped ones are on the lifetime plan. The others,
who knows? Depends on the situation."
He pat his little toy proudly and climbed the ladder again and put
it back in it's place on the shelf. Then he closed the glass panel
up and spun the combination lock around a few times both ways and
climbed down again and pressed the red button on the desk.
The entire panel sealed up so snug and tightly you couldn't tell
the difference from any of the other panels around the room.
Now, finally, he offered his proposition. "Now I'm going to be very
clear with you on this, my friend. I don't just offer this to
anybody. Not even my relatives know about this sex change stuff.
You've always been a friend and you've always been a pal. We've had
drinks together out on the lake and gone fishing, we've gone
camping, hiking, golfing - whatever. Not important. Important thing
is I trust ya and because I trust ya I told you something I've been
wanting to tell ya about since we first clinked our first glass of
whiskey together.
"I treat those girls with kindness and respect like as if they were
my own flesh and blood daughters, and in a way, thanks to my
invention, I guess they are," he said. "I don't do lifetime plans
unless they ask me for it. Even then I make 'em think about it for
a week before I destroy their old life's data. I'm giving you the
same offer I gave 'em all. Four years minimum. You gotta stay a
girl for four years and then you decide from there if you want to
change back or not. You go one day past your tenth "birthday" as a
girl (ten being their biological age that is and not the time they
actually spent as one) and it's already implied that they've
decided on the lifetime plan. You can get in on that plan sooner of
course simply by asking but age ten - big decision. Change back
then or stuck. Plain and simple. Now I'm not messing around here.
Just like all the rest, I'm giving you the same offer as them the
same way I'm giving you yours right now. Either decide to be a
little girl for at LEAST four years right now or I'm withdrawing my
offer. I'll never offer it again. Now or never. Take it or leave
it."
So that was it then. I had to decide to either abandon my male life
immediately without any preparation or good byes to my friends or
family or he would never use his sex change machine on me at all -
ever.
"Why not let me think about it? Sell my house and stuff first. You
know let me at least break up with my girlfriend."
"Nope," he said waving his arm out wide. "Now or never. Either you
want to give up your male life right here and now or forget about
having this chance ever again. Now or never. Decide. I'm giving you
one minute starting... now!"
He started his little stopwatch and I heard it ticking away in the
quiet little room.
I thought about it and thought about it.
Howard looked on with eager interest in my decision. He loved it.
He was putting me on the spot and he absolutely loved it.
It seemed wasteful giving up all I had just to see what it was like
to be a girl for four years.
I knew a little bit about the organization that cared for the girls
here in this house. They would be cared for until they were twenty-
one. If they wanted to leave they could at age eighteen but if they
stayed longer then they would each be given a college education
free of charge.
I was thirty-eight years old now and didn't need to work anymore
thanks to my early retirement. Simply vanishing off the face of the
earth for four years seemed kind of harsh. I would probably be
declared dead after I'd gone missing for a certain period of time.
I would probably lose my pension plan.
Still, the thought of turning into a girl no matter what the age
was something interesting to consider. If it were truly possible
and this wasn't some sort of elaborate joke then I knew I should
probably go through with it.
"No joking right?" I asked.
"I ain't joking. You HAD your joke for the night," he said waving
towards the hidden panel behind and above him. "You got fifteen
seconds."
"Fine. I'll do it," I said and he stopped the stopwatch and tossed
it carelessly in his desk drawer.
He leaned forward and shook hands on it. "You got it, buddy," he
said and pulled out a stack of paperwork for me to sign and handed
me a black ink pen. "You can read it if ya want or I'll tell ya
about it as you sign it."
"Just tell me what it is," I said. "I'll sign it."
"Legal mumbo-jumbo," he explained. "General power of attorney so I
can sell all your stuff. Things like that. What? You thought I was
just gonna let your mortgage foreclose and let all that money go to
waste? Heck no. You think I'm stupid? I'll sell the house and car
and whatever else, liquidate all your accounts, put the money in a
Swiss bank account for awhile then transfer it to my little
organization here where it'll go to take care of you while you're a
girl until you turn twenty-one. Then you're on your own - if ya can
make it that long.
"Sign there," he said pointing to the bottom of a page. "Initial
there. Sign that one too... That one's the goodbye letter so the
cops don't think nothing fishy's going on. Just some mushy stuff
about going away on a sabbatical and giving everything away to a
friend. We'll make it look good and legitimate too. I've got a
buddy of mine who'll I'll send on a four year vacation around the
world to spend some of your cash with your credit cards and stuff.
Make it look like you're away on vacation like the letter says.
Leave just enough in your accounts to compensate for the vacation.
Whatever's left goes to my organization here for the girls. All
nice and neat and spiffy."
I signed and initialled the remainder of the pile and he locked it
up in a wall safe behind a painting of Alice in Wonderland.
He buzzed one of his servants on the intercom. "Miss Bestin?"
"Yes Mr. Charizi?" a woman replied over the speaker.
"I'm sendin' Mr. Tinson out to ya," he said. "Take him to the
basement. One for the works."
"Well that's WONDERFUL!" she replied happily. "I'll be waiting for
him at my desk."
He waved me out of there. "Go on. She knows how to work the
machine. I don't wanna watch. I'm too busy drinkin' and smokin'
right now to bother. Plus I don't wanna see you naked. You'll want
a little privacy in there. I'll have a talk with ya later maybe or
something."
I held up a hand in goodbye to him as I left his den. I closed the
door after me and walked across the hall to the secretary's desk
which was by the front door in the entryway.
Miss Beston was a tall, skinny blonde woman with not too much of a
chest. She wore a white nurse's outfit and pink sneakers. She stood
up and took me by the hand and put her other hand gently around my
back and led me down a narrow flight of stairs to the basement lab
below.
At the bottom of the stairs was a security door with a little
thumbprint scanning device. She pressed her thumb to it and punched
in the door code and the thick white metal door slowly swung
inward.
There sitting at an angle was a cylindrical glass fronted chamber
with a little pink padded bed inside. The outer portion of the
chamber was made of a shiny white painted metal and there was a
picture on the side. The picture was the outline of a man and
overlapping it was a full color cartoonish painting of a cute
little Alice in Wonderland in her famous light blue dress and white
bib apron. Alice was smiling and waving with one hand in the
picture and holding up the side of her dress a little with the
other.
Above her head was a big red arrow pointing downward to her and
three other ones, faded more and more until the top one was just a
dotted outline of an arrow. Above the arrows but still within the
outline of a man was painted the phrase "down you go now!"
Above everything else in silver letters was this: "FELIX-11 DANGER:
RADIATION!"
Miss Bestin handed me a pink hospital gown to wear and told me to
get undressed and changed into it. There was a little privacy
divider across the room where I could change clothes.
"While you change into your hospital gown I'll fire up old Felix,"
she said cheerily walking over to a bank of controls hidden away in
a thickly walled and windowed control booth nearby. "Felix just
LOVES making new little girls."
I heard the sounds of cooling fans firing up all over the room in
all the computers now.
There was a light crackling over the overhead speaker system and a
monotonic adult male voice said with a slight upper scale snobbish
British accent,"Good evening Miss Bestin."
"Good evening Felix," Miss Bestin replied walking out of the
control booth now. "We have another little visitor for you tonight,
Felix."
As I had just finished taking off my bluejeans I heard the computer
say,"I know. I can see him now."
I glanced upwards to see a camera pointed right at me. It swiveled
as I moved around. It was a little weird having a computer program
staring at me but I was pretty much unphased by it. There were
other cameras mounted in the walls and ceilings around the room too
so Felix could see exactly what was going on here at all times.
I peeked out and saw Miss Bestin walking back and forth from a
little closet and pink wooden dresser laying out some clothes on a
little stool by the control booth. They were girls clothes!
I pulled off my button down long sleeved black shirt and discarded
it on the floor. I'd already done away with my shoes, socks and
bluejeans. Now I was just down to my underwear.
I removed my white t-shirt and whitie-tightie underpants and added
them to the clothes pile. I put on the pink hospital gown and was
just walking out and about to ask where I should put my old clothes
when the computer anticipated my question.
"You may leave your clothes where they are, sir," Felix said and
added. "No need to tie the back strings of your hospital gown."
I walked and stood over beside the transformation chamber and
waited for further instructions.
Miss Beston was obviously a perfectionist when it came to laying
out clothes for she was now standing there evening out the clothes
pile and fiddling with it here and there. Finally she gave it a
couple of pats and walked over to where I was standing and said,"As
you no doubt signed the contract already you are legally bound to
go through with the procedure. The exit is locked and secure. If
you should try and resist me Felix will gas the room with knockout
gas and you will be transformed anyway."
"I'm going willingly," I assured her.
"Good. I wasn't trying to be rude or anything like that. I just
needed you to know that there's no turning back now," she said and
looked up to one of the cameras overhead. "Felix, dear, what name
have you selected?"
"Alexia Teresa Newton," he replied.
"Good. Very good. That's a nice name I think. Well then... Alexia,"
she said gesturing for me to get in the machine now. "Climb on in.
Careful not to bump your head, dear. Don't be nervous now. That's
it. Now let me do the straps. Hold your arms out close to your
sides. Legs together. Good, good. Now feet about three inches
apart. Good. Well I think all the straps are in place now. Have you
thought of any last words to say before we begin? Any last "boy"
words? Any last words you'll say as a boy?"
"Yeah," I said having second thoughts already. "Get me outa here!"
She chuckled at that. "They always kid, though, don't they Felix?"
"It is a strange phenomenon," Felix agreed.
Before I could say anything else Miss Bestin closed up the lid and
bolted it tight. Then she swung a long metal crossbeam across the
middle and bolted that too.
Some kind of strange children's music softly played over a speaker
now that I'd never heard before. Little girl voices were singing:
Tinker Bell... Tinker Bell...
Take me to the beach.
Tinker Bell... Turtle Shells...
Put me out of reach.
Bye-bye boy... Bye-bye boy...
I don't want to go.
Bye-bye boy... Bye-bye boy...
Needle, thread to sew.
Over the intercom I could hear Miss Bestin having a conversation
with Felix.
"Felix, darling? Double check on her hight pattern, would you
please? I don't think these figures look right."
"Forty-nine inches," Felix replied.
"No, Felix. Mr. Charazi said to make her little. This is the works,
now, remember? Little. Take it down to forty inches. I know that's
a little short for a six year old but we're only off by one inch
for the average range."
"Height numbers adjusted," Felix said.
The song continued:
Sleepy head... sleepy head...
Wanna be a girl.
Go to bed.... sleepy head...
Long pigtails their to twirl.
Not a man... not a man...
Not fo-or me today.
Gave it up... that's enough...
Throwing it a-way.
"Felix, dear, when we run this be sure to trim out the unnecessary
"adult" sexual knowledge, would you please? Sanitize out all that
useless filth. Oh, and don't forget to switch off her attraction to
girls. We don't want that. She'll have a fresh start and get to
decide her sexual attractions later when she's older."
"Already done, Miss Bestin," Felix replied.
All this news was setting me off into a panic and that song wasn't
helping much either. I really wanted out of here bad.
What had I done?
The song went on:
Kitty cats... kitty cats...
They are fun to me.
Bunny hats... princess caps...
Waiting there, we'll see.
I'm a girl... you're a girl...
Happy as can be.
Pretty little pink night gown.
Seems all right to me.
Suddenly it sounded like a generator or really big engine had fired
up with a loud "Dwwww-aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAR!" sound and the booth lit up
with pink lights all around it and some kind of ovular ringed ray
gun thing was being lowered down towards my head a little from a
panel that opened up above me.
I went into a panic and struggled in my bonds. "Oh-god-oh-god-oh-
god-no! Don't let this be happening to me! Oh-god-oh-god-oh-god-oh-
god-no! How do you stop this thing!"
The speakers crackled as Miss Bestin spoke. "We've started now,
sweetie. We've started the process. Just hang tight. It'll all be
over with before you know it. Just relax and let it happen. Relax
and let it happen. It's not going to hurt at all. You'll see."
As the booth was tilted at about a thirty degree angle with my feet
at the bottom I could actually feel myself sliding down along the
little pink padding beneath me as I shrank.
"Wha? Oh my god this can't be happening to me. It's actually
working! I'm shrinking!" I cried.
I wanted to pound on the glass but my restraints held me firmly in
place.
The song continued almost as if designed for what was happening to
me now:
Little toes... Little nose...
Tiny little feet.
When she grows... no one knows...
Girl bodies are so neat.
I like boys... I like boys...
Like 'em when they run.
They're so cute... Wanna root...
Boys are real-ly fun.
"Oh my word! What's with that SONG already?" I hollered but no one
could hear me except maybe Felix.
Suddenly though my head seemed to clear away fear, anger and
distress and the song became quite soothing and hypnotizing to me.
I could feel my cock and balls growing smaller and smaller, tighter
and tighter, littler and littler now as the rest of me shrank away
and changed. I could see already the hairs on my arms and legs had
fallen out and in their place tiny blonde, almost invisible hairs
of a girl.
I glanced at my hands now and saw fingers growing smaller, narrower
and more delicate. My skin everywhere was lightening up to a more
feminine shade of pale, milk white coloration. My fingertips took
on a pinkish glow and I kept shrinking.
My hospital gown was riding up my back as I shrank and gradually
slid more and more down the angled bed. Already it was bunched up
beneath my skinny little arms.
As this happened I could now clearly see my naked crotch and all
the amazing changes taking place. I could actually observe my cock
head slowly seal itself up to become what I presumed would be my
clitoris. It was all pointing straight down now and getting as
skinny almost as a pencil.
The music started to repeat itself all over now so at long last I
had finally been spared with new and crazy lyrics but it still
annoyed me all the same.
Now I could focus more on the transformation than that silly song
stuck in my head already.
I squirmed my feet and rolled my head back and forth side to side
as I went into a fit of absolute juvenile giggles. I was giggling
because my cock was now sliding and burying itself down in between
my new pussy lips and it tickled tremendously and when I say
tremendously I mean tremendously. Never in all my life had I ever
remembered laughing so hard as this.
"Oh! Tee-hee-hee-hee! Ha-ha-ha-ha! Tee-hee-hee-hee! Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
I was fit to tears I was so giggly.
I could see clearly long auburn hair bunched up on either side of
my face now and dangling over my skinny little shoulders.
I gazed up, craning my neck to see, and saw the top of the chamber
was at least three to four feet above me now. I'd shrank quite a
bit.
I felt my cock, now clitty, settle into place somewhere inside me
and my ball sack was in there too but it probably withered away
into nothingness by now.
The machine shut off with a loud clunk and then Miss Bestin spoke
over the speakers.
"We're all done, sweetie pie. Happy birthday, you're a girl!" she
said.
"Thank you for your deposit," Felix added afterwards and there was
a loud "clank!" that I could feel reverberating in the booth around
me.
The lid opened up now and Miss Bestin smiled down at me with her
hands on her knees, already treating me like she was getting ready
to talk to a little child.
"Awwww... You're cute, you know that?" she said complimenting me.
"You turned out great."
She reached into the side of the machine out of view and took out
something which came into view now. It was my little data
cannister. It had all my old male life body pattern stored on it.
She pet the side of it a few times and ran her hand down its smooth
sides a little and smiled at me and asked,"Do you know what THIS
is, sweetie? This is all that's left of your boy body. See how
small and tiny it is? Imagine that. You're whole entire boy body's
stored up in this silly little thing."
As she rotated it about in her hands I caught a glimpse of its
funny pink padded opening but somehow I could not even remember why
Howard had put that there. Maybe it was a pencil holder? I didn't
know.
She set it down on a nearby counter and straightened out my
hospital gown. "Now we can't have you going around with your
naughty places showing, can we? No. Come on, sweetie, I'll help you
get dressed."
I held my now way too oversized hospital gown up so I wouldn't trip
over the edges and followed her as she led me by the hand over to
the neat little pile she'd laid out for me.
Fancy that. There was even a little lollipop waiting for me right
on top. I instinctively reached out for it but she picked it up
before I could reach it.
"Now, now," she said wagging her finger down at me. "This is for
later, after you get dressed. Now lift up your legs, one at a time
now. Panties first."
I could admit it. I felt a little woozy from my transformation.
Things weren't firing off like they should in my little head.
Somehow my mind had been affected, I could just feel it and sense
it. It was just outside my grasp but I just knew they'd taken away
something from me. Something special, something practical.
Something was definitely missing but I couldn't pinpoint what it
was exactly.
I knew I'd been a man before. That much was clear. At least they
didn't wipe that knowledge away from me but there was something...
just something....
Then I got it! I remembered HOW I thought before. How, not what. I
remembered HOW I thought. My thinking was more structured and well
defined and clear. Now, however, my mind felt extremely limited and
dampened down, pushed into the mire and mush of a lower
intelligence.
I was extraordinarily restrained from the higher reasoning levels
of adulthood.
I WAS a little girl.
Not just in body but in mind itself. The teachings and trainings of
my former life lay without a thought of how to get them back. I
knew that they were gone. I sensed it and feeled it deeply but I
could not, could not within the limited senses of childhood
determine a way in which to reach them. My old grownup mind was
lost. I was still ME but I was a younger me. A me that hadn't gone
through all the years of life and education that I knew had
transpired before. I knew I was a grownup before. I knew it but I
was unable to grasp it somehow.
Every glance, every look, every idle thought and affection I'd had
towards women was now stricken away from me like a hot boiling
kettle of water, steaming it away, sterilizing it into non-
existence.
Chapter Two
I cried as my new little dress went over my head and fell into
place around my tiny new body. Miss Bestin zipped it up in back and
helped me into the rest of my new clothes.
Apart from the dress I wore a little pink girl's undershirt beneath
it and some matching light pink cotton panties. I had white tights
on and shiny black flats buckled neatly in place.
Miss Beston complimented me on how "smart" I looked in my new
pretty little clothes. Felix said I looked as adorable as a cute
little cupcake.
Miss Beston then stood me before a mirror and I saw an auburn
haired, shy blue eyed little girl gazing back at me with curiosity.
Despite having been a man before I sensed something different now.
Some little bits of skills and memory had been extracted from my
mind. Snipped and cut and pulled out with tweezers and discarded in
a teeny little ash tray to be thrown out later. Something seemed
taken away from my personality. Something cherished and possessed
that was no longer there.
"I look silly this way," I complained tugging at the edges of my
dress nervously. My girl voice sounded soft, feminine, shy and
bashful to my ears.
"Leave that be, honey buns, you look fine," Miss Bestin assured me
patting up my long auburn hair a little on my head.
"People are going to laugh at me," I whined rubbing my little hands
over each other nervously. My skin was so soft, smooth and delicate
now.
"No they're not," she said bending down to eye level with me and
looking me right in the eyes. She gently and lovingly ran the back
of her hand along my soft little cheek. "Don't be so fidgety. Why
do they always have to be so fidgety afterwards?"
Felix noticed it too. "Her mind is not yet adapted to the new
body," he suggested as the reason for it. "The male mind strangely
tends to reject its new circumstances for awhile even though the
body has been renewed to a more healthy state. Male to female
rejuvenation is not for everybody."
"Oh Felix, don't be so judgmental now," Miss Bestin said combing
her fingers slowly through my hair. "You'll give the poor dear girl
a complex and you're making her blush."
I looked down at my hands, so tiny and different. I sensed the
strangeness in my crotch. It felt like everything had been
compressed and turned inside out. Everything went inward now
instead of outward. Inward and bunched up neat and tight making me
feel all week in the knees and unsteady. My panties were pressed
snugly up against the new nearly flat curvature of my crotch. I
could feel the tiny elastic waistband riding strangely low beneath
my tiny flat tummy. My bottom felt ever so slightly larger than
before with my slightly wider hips though I knew in reality that
was all an illusion as I had shrunken down tremendously in size to
become this way. In perspective though I sensed the changes at
once.
Miss Bestin used a hair brush on me and put my hair up in a little
cute ponytail, holding it place with a bright pink rubber band.
I shyly gazed at my new reflection. Only three people including
myself knew that I had ever been a man before. Miss Bestin, Mr.
Charizi and I were the only ones. Then there was Felix but he
didn't count because he was only a computer.
"You should go over with her the rules," Felix suggested helpfully.
"Thank you, Felix," Miss Bestin said and gazed deeply into my
troubled little eyes. "Now sweetheart, this isn't going to be easy
for you but you've got to remember some rules. Do you think you can
do that for me honey?"
I nodded my head yes and she said,"First of all, and this is most
important, we don't talk about what happened and we don't tell
anyone we were ever a boy before, okay? If anybody asks us, we were
always a girl. Not a boy, sweetheart, but a girl. Okay? You can
only talk about it with Mr. Charizi if he grants you permission to
do so but to everybody else you were always a girl. Think you can
remember that and do that for me, sweetie pie?"
I slowly nodded my head yes but was nervous about it I started
toying with the edges of my dress again.
"Secondly," she said. "No, let's go back to the first part again.
You mustn't try to contact your old friends or relatives or anybody
you knew before. They must never find out. Nobody must ever know
what happened in here today. Nobody must ever learn who you really
were before. Got that, honey? You must always act like you're a
girl in every way. That's going to take a little effort on your
part but I'm sure you'll get the knack of it after awhile.
"Now for the next rule," she said. "Rule number two. You are not
allowed to play down here in the basement. Not that you could get
in here anyway but still... no going down the stairs and playing
with the door lock. If you do the alarm will go off and Mr. Charizi
will get upset with you. Rule number three. You must never go in
Mr. Charizi's office unless you've been invited there by him or
myself or one of the nice worker ladies who work here. Okay?"
I nodded yes and she continued. "Rule four. You must remain a girl
for four years, okay? After that you can decide if you want to
change back into a man again but until then you can't. Also, please
don't bother anyone about wanting to change back to normal. This is
your new normal now and this is how you'll stay until you get
bigger. You're six years old now, hunny bunny. When you turn ten
you'll get to decide if you should stay a girl. If you want to
decide to stay as one sooner, just come see me and we'll go and
have a talk with Mr. Charizi about it. He'll make you wait a week
to make sure you really want to be a girl and then he'll ask you
again and if you say yes, well, you should already know what
happens then, sweetheart. Oh, and I'll give you an "I'm a girl
forever" lollipop as a reward for being such a special, good little
girl."
"Okay," I said nodding yes.
She explained all the other rules to me then. I was to always obey
the grown ups, I was never to go outside by myself, I was never to
go outside without permission (unless it was in the backyard to
play with the other girls but even then - only if it was play
time), I would always have to try and do my best in school and not
cause trouble, I had to always listen and do what the big girls
older than me said (unless it broke the rules or something or would
get me in trouble - I'd just have to learn to use common sense on
that one) and I had to stay out of the big people rooms (this
included their bedrooms, the parlor with the drinking bar, the
adult entertainment room downstairs in the second basement, and
some other rooms too but she said them so fast I had already
forgotten their names).
While in the house, unless I was taking a bath or sitting at the
table or something, I would have to always carry around a little
baby doll with me wherever I went. I could stop somewhere and set
her down on the floor or something but when I left the room I would
have to take my doll with me. That was just for in the mansion.
Outside I could just leave my dolly by the front or back door on a
little shelf and get it later when I came back inside.
Once I turned ten I wouldn't have to worry about carrying around my
dolly anymore because big girls didn't have to always play with
them.
I was told some of the things I'd have to do now that I was a girl.
I would have to always sit down to do a tinkle and I must always
remember to wipe myself afterwards. I must always present myself
like a young lady and be polite and I must never use bad words.
Also I couldn't do grownup stuff like smoke pipes, cigarettes or
cigars or drink any alcohol.
I was told there were three types of boyfriends. The first kind was
just a friendly acquaintance whom which I could play with in the
school yard or in the park but no holding hands or kissing or any
of that. I could have that kind until I turned ten. Then I could
have the second kind of boyfriend. This was the puppy love kind,
Miss Bestin explained. Then it was okay to hold hands and kiss and
stuff but no sex. That kind I could have until I turned sixteen.
Then it was okay to have what Miss Bestin called a "real
boyfriend." That kind it was okay to go out on dates, go steady,
kiss, hold hands and everything I wanted. Sex was frowned upon
though but if I used protection and it was with a boy around my own
age then I guess that's all right but if Mr. Charizi or any of the
worker ladies here ever found out about it I'd probably get in a
lot of trouble.
There were other rules but there was already so many I had to learn
to keep that it was pretty hard for me to take it all in in just
one telling.
Miss Bestin led me by the hand back upstairs to the hallway. As we
walked I noticed she was holding my little data tube. I really
wanted it bad. I didn't want her to drop it and break it by
mistake. "Can I hold it?" I asked her.
She paused at the head of the staircase and looked down at it in
her left hand. "This?" she asked holding it up for me to see. "No
sweetie, I'm afraid that just isn't allowed. This is a special
little toy for Mr. Charizi to play with now. It's not for little
girls to play with. It's only for grownups now."
She realized she was holding it with a finger lightly resting
inside the pink hollow opening and chuckled a little, pulling her
finger out like she'd made a silly embarrassing mistake.
I didn't know what she meant by "toy." It didn't look like it would
be fun to play with at all. Maybe you could roll it around a bit on
the floor or send it rolling down a hill or slide but I thought it
strange that Mr. Charizi considered the thing a toy.
I guess you could put pencils in it or something. I remembered Mr.
Charizi telling me it stored original boy body patterns somehow but
I sure as anything don't remember him telling me that it was a toy.
I do seem to recall him saying he played with these data tubes
somehow but how? Why? What for? It was just a little container. How
come I couldn't have it? After all, it was my old body stored up in
there. I should get to keep it or at least put it on the shelf in
my new bedroom or something.
"Why?" I asked her.
"Sweetheart, maybe you'll learn why when you're older," she replied
tucking the thing away in her purse for safety now. She pat the
side of her purse protectively and smiled down at me and led me
around the corner and up another flight of stairs to the second
floor.
The stairs were so big and spacious now. I had a little trouble
navigating them in my tiny little legs. I had to take great big,
meaningful steps and be careful now not to trip or fall or
anything. Miss Bestin saw how I was having trouble and reached down
and started to pick me up, offering to carry me the rest of the way
to the top but I squirmed away in embarrassment.
"Please don't," I cried. "I can do it myself."
She reached the top before me and clapped her hands when I finally
made it and gave me a hug. "Good girl," she complimented me,
patting me on the back. "You did it all by yourself. What a good
little girl you are."
What I wanted to tell her was "Lady, stop treating me like a child.
I was a man three minutes ago. Give it a rest." But I knew I would
get in trouble for it because I'd been told to respect adults. What
I said instead was just a simple, forced "thank you" and nothing
else.
She stopped hugging me and stood up straight again and led me by
the hand down a long red carpeted hallway past a series of
bedrooms. Mine was the fourteenth one on the opposite end. It even
had the number fourteen hanging on the door with big plastic
numbers with little pink hearts around them.
She let me have the "privileged" (as she called it) of opening the
door first.
I had to stand up on tiptoe to even reach the big handle but I
managed somehow and we walked inside.
"Whadda-ya think, fourteen?" she asked calling me by my number now
for some reason.
I knew exactly what I thought when I saw all that pink painted
furniture sitting on that plush white carpet with little dollies
sitting on a shelf and a great big pink canopy bed off to the
right. I thought 'I think I'm gonna throw up', that's what I
thought.
Then I thought 'what have I gotten myself into here?' but by now it
was too late to complain. Especially since it was against the rules
to do complain about being a girl.
"Uh... um... it'll do... I guess," I said shrugging.
I split the word "guess" into two syllables as I said it and
squirmed at the innocent way it came out of my little girl mouth
and trailed softly off to nothing. "Geh-ess" - how awkward.
Miss Bestin smiled at my unwillingness to accept all this. This was
a girl's room. A room for a little girl and it made me squeamish to
even be standing here in it like this.
"Oh come now," she said walking over to the doll display and
picking out a cute baby doll for me to hold. "You've been sad and
moody and pouty ever since your transformation. This should be the
happiest day of your new life. You should be jumping up and down on
the bed with joy right now - but don't do that or I might have to
give you a spanking for it. Jumping on the bed's not allowed."
I walked over to the canopy bed and reached up and felt along the
large bed pole sticking up to the ceiling with the frilly canopy up
top way out of my reach. The mattress was so high off the floor
that it came even with my little girl shoulders.
"Everything's so... pink," I muttered frowning at my new
surroundings.
"Mr. Charizi picked everything out himself for you," Miss Bestin
explained cheerily and finally decided on what dolly to give me.
"This one should do, I think. Here ya go, cute stuff."
She handed the dolly out to me and I hesitated until she actually
put the creepy thing in my hands. I would have to carry around a
dolly now everywhere I went in this house. That was one of the
weird little rules I'd have to abide by now.
She was a red headed baby doll in a white dress and panties but no
shoes or socks. There was a little string and plastic hoop tied to
the end of it that I could pull. Miss Bestin gave it a pull before
I could do anything to stop her.
"Weeeee! I'ma BIG girl now," the dolly sang out in a childish
little girl voice.
"Look, lady," I said. "There is NO way you can expect me to have to
play with this stupid thing. We both know I'm supposed to be a man,
not a little girl. It's bad enough I foolishly agreed to let myself
be transformed like this but, come on now, give a guy a break,
would ya please?"
She swung her hand back to slap me but instead placed it there on
my shoulder and bent down to my level a bit. Her head was still
mockingly above mine as she looked me in the eye and said,"Now,
now. That is not the proper way for a little girl to behave
herself. You must remember the rules, sweetie. We don't talk about
who we were before and we certainly don't complain about what's
been kindly given to us. Mr. Charizi gave this new life to you as a
present and you should be grateful for it."
"But I don't want it," I said letting another complaint slip from
my mouth too soon before I was aware I'd even said it. I quickly
covered both hands over my mouth and said,"Oops! Sorry..."
"It doesn't matter if you don't want it," she said. "A present's a
present and that's that. It isn't nice to try and give back our
presents. We must be thankful and keep them. Now, please,
sweetheart, please try and remember that and be a good little girl
like your new sisters."
Sisters? I hadn't thought of that. I now had thirteen sisters, all
like myself who'd been formerly men. What an odd group we were.
Then there were the others, the natural born girls. I wondered just
how many of those there were.
She then pinned a little pink name tag on the left side of my dress
with the name "Alexia" written on it in fancy feminine handwriting.
"That's so the other girls will get to know your new name," she
explained. "And it helps us grownups know to tell you apart. You
see, your new girl body's part of one of the blueprints we use to
make little girls. There is one other girl who looks just like you.
Her name's Sharra. You'll get to meet her soon, I hope. She's a few
months older than you. She lives in room number eleven just down
the hall."
"I have a... a twin?" I asked appalled at the notion.
I supposed they'd dress us alike to make us look extra "cute."
As if on cue for that, Miss Reston said it. "It'll be lots and lots
of fun, you'll see. Every night before bed one of the nannys will
lay out your new outfits for the next morning to wear. I'm sure
your nanny will pick out some neat little matching outfits for you
and your sister. That's right, sweetheart, you have a twin sister
now. Mr. Bestin wanted it that way. You see, now you'll complete
the set. Every new girl must eventually have a twin."
Her voice lilted sweetly when she said I'd "complete the set." I
felt like I was going to throw up. I was surrounded by cuteness and
frilly pink girl things everywhere. Worse yet, though she knew I
was really a man inside this body she kept talking down to me in
that annoyingly cute voice she used for talking to a little girl.
She took both my hands in hers and lifted them up for a look. She
gave each one a kiss on the knuckles and said,"Oh, you are SO cute
now, mittens. Say, that's a cute nickname for you. Think I'm gonna
call you "Mittens" from now on 'cuz of your tiny cute little
fingers. Finger Mittens! You know what? I think you've got some
right here in your dresser. Let me go check."
She let go of my hands and dashed quickly to the dresser with a
giddy, mischievous evil look and dug around for awhile and produced
a pair of pink little girl mittens for me to wear.
Unable to do anything to stop her I watched in ever mounting horror
as she slipped them on my hands one by one.
"Adorable!" she exclaimed holding them up for a look. "Just
adorable. Will you wear them for me all the time around the house?"
The only clear answer I was expected to give the demented lady was
a yes. Helpless to get out of this mess on my own I bit my lower
lip a bit and slowly nodded yes.
"Wonderful!" she chimed patting the back of my hands one by one and
gave them little kisses goodbye. "Oh you look so cute with your
fuzzy little finger mittens on. I could just eat you up, cupcakes.
Such a cute sweetie you are. Oh, there's another thing you must
remember to do. I almost forgot. How silly of me. Now where's the
tape player? Here it is, over here on the nightstand where it
belongs. Okay now, hunny buns, now there's a special little tape in
there for you to play. You know what hypnosis is, right?"
Terrified I nodded slowly yes.
"Well," she said. "At bed time every night when the nanny tucks you
in, she'll put these headphones over your ears and kiss you good
night. Then she will press this button marked "play" over here and
then your special little tape will start playing. You must play it,
sweetheart. The nanny will come in and check on you from time to
time to see that you do. If not you will have to get a spanking for
being bad and then, well, let's not worry about what'll happen
then. That's only for bad little girls to find out."
"What will the tape do to me then?" I asked biting at my little
finger nails a bit.
"Nothing bad, pumpkins," she assured me scruffing up my hair
playfully a little. "It will help you to be a good little girl.
That's all. Don't worry. In a couple of months you won't have to
hear it anymore. This is just for new girls. New girls get it. It's
to help you and you DO want to be a good little girl, now, don't
you?"
I wanted to shake my head no but I found myself slowly nodding yes
instead to avoid a scolding.
"Good," she said letting go of my hands which I defensively brought
close to me as I crossed my arms across my chest and tucked my
mittened hands beneath my arm pits. I bit my lower lip a little and
nervously waited for whatever else she had to say. "I'm going to go
back downstairs now and get back to my work. Now you're free to
move about the house or go in the backyard but remember all your
rules. Hmmm... better yet, let's put you down for a nap and run
that tape for you. Yeah, I think that's a better idea since you
seem so fidgety and nervous. The tape will calm you down I think
and you do need to calm down you poor little thing."
She picked me up and sat me on the edge of the bed and removed my
shoes and set them on the floor there. Then she had me lie down
flat on my back over the covers with my head resting on a great big
pink pillow case.
She put the headphones on my ears and kissed me goodbye on the
cheek and said,"Now be good and listen to it all, now. I'll have a
nanny come check on you a little and see that you do. Now bye-bye
Finger Mittens. Sleep well."
She pressed "play" and walked out of the room and turned off all
the lights and shut the door.
The tape hissed and crackled as it ran through a little blank
portion of it but then I heard a loud and rather annoying high
pitched mechanical male voice. He sounded like one of those space
aliens in one of those cheesy black and white movies from the
forties and fifties.
"You-are-not-a-wake," he said. "You-are-not-a-wake. You-are-get-
ting-slee-pee-now..."
I heard several layers of warbly noises in the background above
what sounded to me like a large fish tank shooting up bubbles to
the surface.
Now, a deep voiced man, perhaps a doctor, was speaking to me in an
authoritative tone. "You will do as you are told."
As he said it the some of the sentence echoed a few times so I
heard "do as you are told" three times afterward in rapid
succession.
He continued,"You are a little girl. You will do as you are told."
A little girl voice broke in now and said sweetly,"I am a good
little girl. I will do as I am told."
I was feeling quite sleepy now. I wasn't tired before but the tape
was somehow having an effect on me. I wanted to tear off the
headphones but then I knew I'd get in trouble. The beginnings of
sleep froze my little arms in place though now and it was too much
of a bother to try and sit up or do anything. I was quite relaxed
and woozy with the sandman heaving great handfuls of sleepy-dust on
my face and all over my little body.
After a few minutes of this I became consciously aware that I WAS
paralyzed and unable to move a muscle. What's more I began
repeating some of the statements given to me.
"I am a good little girl. I will do as I am told," I softly said in
the dark.
The tape was definitely having an effect on me and I was powerless
to resist. It was strange because I'd tried hypnosis tapes in the
past to try and quit smoking but none of those ever seemed to help.
Maybe my six year old mind was more vulnerable to the effects of
hypnosis.
The door opened a crack and I opened my eyes to see a blonde woman
peering in on me for a moment. She walked quietly in and checked
the tape player to see that I hadn't turned it off or turned down
the volume or anything.
"You will remember who you were before. You will do as you are
told," the man said in the recording. "You will be a little girl...
and do what you are told."
Now the robotic alien voice chimed in with some confusing words
that didn't make any sense to me at all,"Corn-flux-re-main-ing.
Cooooooorn-flux. Cooooooooorn-flux."
Suddenly when he'd said corn-flux I felt the need to blurt out
something. There was just no holding it back. I said it like I
really meant it, like somebody had been arguing with me over
whether or not I was a girl or a boy and I'd become frustrated and
angry over it. I pounded my little fists on the mattress beside me
and kicked my legs a bit up and down and hollered,"I'm a GIRL you
nitwit! A GIRL! Why do you keep calling me a boy for? I'm a GIRL!"
My little girl voice sounded sincere and upset in my ears.
"Corn-flux-re-main-ing. Cooooooorn-flux. Coooooorn-flux."
The nanny smiled down at me and leaned down and gave me a little
kiss on the forehead and gently pat my shoulder before she left and
closed the door again.
I realized what the tape was trying to do to me. It was using every
clever trick of the imagination to reinforce my behavior to that of
a little girl. Through every fit and tantrum I went through over
that silly, stupid corn-flux thing, the tape was reinforcing
behavior through my negative, emotional reaction.
Now that the tape had given me the corn-flux trigger it safely
moved on to other things and when it was over I was commanded to
remember to forget, which confused me a bit, and then I was told to
go to sleep.
...which I did.
I was gently shaken awake sometime later by a blonde nanny in a
white nurses dress. "Wake up honey. Good morning. Time to rise and
shine," she said.
I hadn't realized I'd slept so long. The sun was beaming in through
the white curtains and getting in my eyes. I reached up and
shielded them with a hand.
Someone had taken the time to remove my headphones in my sleep. I
saw them sitting over on the nightstand by the tape player.
"Huh?" I asked hearing my girl voice and suddenly remembering what
had happened to me the night before.
I'd