The Inheritance
Belladonna
"Are you ready, now?" a woman asked after knocking upon the door.
"Can I just get another moment?" Bryan replied.
The woman nodded as she closed the door and left Bryan with his
thoughts. Bryan stared around the room in silence with a feeling of
self disgust overcoming him as he thought about his impending
feminization.
"Is this really worth it?" Bryan muttered as he went through the same
cost benefit analysis in his head that he had run thousands of times
since his legal appeals had been exhausted.
"You must be laughing it up, Grandma," Bryan said aloud as he clutched
his head.
While his grandmother had always seemed offbeat, it was only when he
grew older that he realized how crazy she was. She was a shut-in, who
never left her home. Bryan rarely visited her while he was growing up,
since his father had no use for her except when he wanted money.
Bryan began to see his grandmother more often once his father was
prosecuted for stealing from her. After his father died in prison,
Bryan visited his grandmother for the last time to deliver the news in
person.
There was a coldness in her response to the news that did not strike
Bryan as oddly as it would if it had come from other women he had known
over the years. Bryan knew that his grandmother was a hardened woman
who dealt with her wealthy husband's numerous affairs and her entitled,
lecherous son, who had inherited all of her husband's worse traits.
Despite her disdain for her son, Bryan could sense a type of grief in
the woman when he told her the news, however, she was trained from a
young age to bottle up any emotion and put up a strong exterior front.
Bryan left her estate that day and never saw her again. It was less
than three months later when she passed. His grandmother's attorneys
called to give him the news that her long time home health aide had
found her body.
Out of a sense of family duty, Bryan planned her sparsely attended
funeral before she was laid to rest beside her long, predeceased
husband. As the dirt hit her casket, Bryan and his girlfriend, Alexis
Kingsford, sat in his grandmother's attorney's office as her will was
read.
After the standard legal language was done being spoken, the attorney
adjusted his spectacles and said, "And remember these are her words, not
mine."
The attorney's explanation prompted Bryan to give his girlfriend a
worried look before the man continued, "Bryan, I thank you for telling
me about my only child's death yourself, rather than letting me know
through a stranger, as I'm sure your father would have done if you had
died. I truly get the sense that there might be some hope for you yet.
I always feared that you would end up like your grandfather and father
before you, lewd, mean spirited, domineering, greedy, ill-tempered and
only interested in taking for yourself."
"Does it go on like this, Ed?" Bryan interrupted the attorney.
Ed nodded before he continued reading, "They were both cheaters with
cheating hearts and no respect for anyone but themselves, not even their
wives or mothers."
You are, now, the last of the family line and the only one who can
restore some sense of dignity to the family name. Ours was a family of
senators and congressmen, men of dignity, not those of men who beg their
mothers for more money or using their wealth solely to wallow in the
filth of whatever indulgence strikes their fancy."
"How much longer does she keep ripping men?" Bryan asked.
"However, long, it's not long enough," Alexis interjected with a smile
before she added, "Come on, baby, you know you're not like them."
"I like to think so," Bryan replied with a smile before Ed inquired,
"May I continue uninterrupted?"
Bryan nodded prompting Ed to return to reading the will, "Because your
father kept you away from me, I was never able to confirm for myself
whether you have the basic humility, manners and decency to be a
minimally valuable member of society.
Humility and respect for other are things that you must have in order to
be a decent person, and a decent person is the only type of person I
would have as my heir."
Bryan stared at Ed confused, wondering if he was fully cutout of his
grandmother's will before Ed continued, "You must understand what it is
like to not be the person with so much money that you do not have to
possess any empathy for those you may harm. You have been raised by a
leech of a man, and, as such, I doubt you have been endowed with the
traits that make a good man.
Accordingly, I will only leave my money to you if you undertake an
effort to learn the traits that make any man decent, compassion,
respect, empathy and understanding. These are all traits that your
grandfather and father called 'women's stuff.' If it takes you being a
woman to understand it, I say so be it."
"Well, that's nice, but I can't grow a pussy, Grandma!" Bryan
interjected while his girlfriend nodded her head.
"You don't have to," Ed responded before he returned to reading the will
as Bryan shook his head, "It's only because I hold out some hope for you
that I hereby condition your inheritance on your undertaking of the role
of a woman in society for one year."
"What?" Bryan shouted.
Ed ignored him while he continued reading, "Accordingly, I have made
arrangements to have your masculinity concealed for a year."
Bryan looked at the attorney with a slack jaw before he inquired, "So
what? Do I have to put on a dress for a year and take some pictures for
your amusement?"
"It's a little more than that. You have to live as a woman according to
the will," Ed explained.
"I can live, but I can't live as a woman. That's biologically
impossible, unless I missed some big medical announcement!"
"Well, as best you can approximate. That's what the arrangements she
made are for," Ed replied while he leaned back in his chair.
"What are they going to do to me?" Bryan bellowed.
"They're going to make you over into a passable woman. Not a woman as
lovely as Alexis for instance. They don't have that kind of canvass to
work on."
"This is insane!"
"This is her will. It's her money to dispose of how she wants."
"What if I refuse?"
"Then the money goes to the various charities she selected. She told me
that she wanted to use the money to help others if you weren't willing
to help yourself."
"I don't need help!"
"Again, it is her will."
"I can challenge the will, can't I?" Bryan inquired.
"If you want to, suit yourself. I get paid from the funds in the will
to thwart any challenge, so it would be in my monetary best interest for
you to do so. I must caution, however, that judges are loathe to strike
such conditions."
Bryan shook his head as he walked out of the office and contacted an
attorney to contest his grandmother's will. The suit made its way into
court. Bryan hung his head as the judge read her decision upholding the
will as she concluded that his mother was of sound mind and that the
conditions were not illegal or against public policy.
Bryan sought an appeal of the decision, but it was upheld by the
appellate courts. With his avenues for appeal exhausted, Bryan sat down
with his girlfriend to talk over their options.
"Do you think I should go through with it?"
"What choice do you really have?" Alexis replied.
"I have a choice. I can walk away right now and just live my own life."
"True, but you'll never see this much money again."
"I've got a decent job. I make a decent living. I would be able to get
by."
"You can get by or you can be rich. It's the choice between struggling
for a year and struggling for decades, if not to the day you die,"
Alexis counseled.
"So you think I should do it?"
Alexis nodded in reply.
Bryan sighed as he replied, "What will that mean for us?"
Alexis's eyes darted away from his before she answered, "Bryan, I'm not
a lesbian. I'm not entirely sure I would even be comfortable around you
if you were, you know."
"It would be really weird," Bryan noted.
"Beyond weird. I'm not sure I could handle seeing you in a dress."
Bryan nodded, understanding where Alexis was coming from with her
concerns.
"So is this the beginning of the end?" Bryan asked.
"I hope not. Maybe, it's just the start of see you later," Alexis
countered.
With the decision made, Bryan and Alexis returned to Ed's office to
discuss the terms of the will. Bryan figured that he might be able to
get away with only doing some part time cross-dressing, but Ed quickly
disabused him of such thoughts, explaining, "Your grandmother's
conditions are detailed at length. They were designed to separate you,
fully, from your male life. Suffice to say, if you choose to proceed,
you won't be leaving the toilet seat up for a year."
Bryan gave his girlfriend a worried look before Ed continued, "And
you'll be living at a new location with your live-in, female guide."
"He'll be living with another woman?" Alexis interjected.
"Don't worry. Your boyfriend won't have the tools to cheat on you with,
at least as he accustomed to."
"I think I'm going to be sick," Bryan murmured as Alexis put her arm
around him.
"Your female guide will be there to make sure that there are no male
influences or male contraband around. Your grandmother wanted to ensure
that you would not be trying to pass yourself off as a man, or trying to
live like one, while you were required to be a woman."
"If I'm a man, how could I try to pass myself off as one?" Bryan
inquired.
"Trust me; your transformation will be so complete that no one would
ever think that you were a man."
Ed's response made Bryan uneasy before he asked, "So am I going to be
hanging around my home all day like my grandmother?"
"On the weekends, if you want, but she made sure that you would have to
interact with others during the weekdays, whether you liked it or not."
"What do I have to do?"
"You have to get a job."
"Get a job? How am I going to get a job without any proof of who I am
that anyone would accept."
"She made arrangements for you to be hired by us."
"By you?" I would work for you?"
"Yes and no. You would work for my firm, but we have many branches.
You would be sent out to a smaller satellite office where the details of
our wills and estates division aren't really known."
"What would I be doing?"
"You would be working as an administrative assistant, five days a week
for a year, minus major holidays."
"A secretary? I have to work as a secretary? I have a master's
degree!"
"That doesn't do you much good in this field though."
"You'll also never earn as much with it, as you'll inherit," Alexis
interjected as she stroked Bryan's hand.
Ed nodded before Bryan looked up at him and asked, "What would you do?"
Ed threw up his hands and said, "I don't envy your situation, Bryan. I
really don't. I can't say what I would do because I've never been there
and never will be. I have no interest in this Bryan. Well, if you back
out, I get to administer the disposition of your grandmother's
belongings, so I'd make more money, but this isn't about me."
"I know that," Bryan retorted, shaking his head.
"I'm just being honest, Bryan. My position is, if you do it, I get a
secretary who's being paid from your grandmother's will or if you don't
go for it, I get a new boat with all the money I'm going to make on the
fees."
Almost out of spite, Bryan said, "I'll go for it."
Ed nodded with a knowing grin as he said, "I'm glad to hear it. Your
grandmother thought that you would, and she truly believed that you will
be better for going through with it."
With that decision made, Bryan wrapped up the loose ends of his male
life. His girlfriend gave him a teary goodbye when he departed for the
clinic that his grandmother had made arrangements with before her
passing.
Another knock on the door came. Bryan looked up at the woman as she
asked, "Are you ready?"
Bryan shook his head before he replied, "I'll never be ready. Let's
just get this over with."
The woman gave Bryan a sympathetic smile while she waved him towards
her. Bryan hesitated for a second before he got to his feet.
Bryan followed the woman to a room before he was stripped of his
clothing. The only modesty Bryan was permitted was a pair of blue
briefs as the clinic staff went about removing his body hair.
The staff coated his body with a foul smelling depilatory cream that
turned his nose. Bryan held his nostrils closed with one hand even as
the staff removed the hair from his arms.
Bryan waited for the staff to complete their work until he felt a
burning sensation from where they initially placed the depilatory cream.
Bryan shrieked, prompting the staff to begin to wash it off his body.
The sight of the hairs falling off his body made Bryan sick as he saw
the smooth, masculine body emerging from beneath them. As the water was
shut, Bryan peeled his eyes away from his hairless body and said with a
half smile, "Well, at least I almost look like a body builder. I could
probably use a little more work on my calves though."
The clinic worker smiled as she replied, "I wouldn't worry about it.
Your body is not going to look like that when you get out of here."
The response made Bryan's skin crawl as a fluttery feeling emerged in
his stomach. Bryan wanted to ask a question, but a female attendant
entered the room to lead Bryan to his next feminization station.
After putting on a hospital gown, Bryan was led to the next room. Bryan
entered it and noticed what appeared to be an examination table before
the short male technician.
The man grinned as he said, "Don't be scared. There's nothing we're
going to do to today that's remotely medical in nature."
Bryan nodded as he walked towards the table before the man advised him
to take a seat on the table. Bryan complied as the man looked over his
body before he said, "You're a little muscular, so we're going to have
to do something a little drastic to dress you up."
"What do you mean?"
"You can't be too muscular or you won't look like a regular woman."
"Well, what can you really do about that?" Bryan rejoined.
"We're going to cover it up with prosthetics to smooth your body out."
"How will that work?"
"It will make these masses look like fat deposits, instead of muscle."
"I'm not fat. I've never been fat."
"No one said you were. We're trying to cover up your muscles, is all."
"Is it? Isn't there another way?"
"Sure. We could put you on some pills and a diet and get your body
weight down, but that will take more time. I've been told that you're
here to fulfill some conditions on your inheritance. From what I've
been told, your time as a woman doesn't start to count until you leave
this place."
"Shit," Bryan exclaimed as he covered his face with hands.
"It won't be that bad. The prosthetics aren't the most comfortable
thing, but they'll move the process along a lot faster for you, unless
you want to go the weight loss route."
Bryan looked down at the muscular arms that he had spent years shaping.
He shook his head as he answered, "You're right. Prosthetics are the
least bad option."
The technician nodded before he called in an assistant to help make a
mold of Bryan's body. Bryan wondered what they could do with it while
they moved around him to form the various molds.
Once they finished, Bryan was brought into the facility's cafeteria for
lunch. He ate quickly before he was escorted back up stairs to have the
prosthetic work on his body completed.
As Bryan walked into the room, his mouth dropped as he stared at the
gelatinous looking mass lying on the table that was painted to match his
skin pigmentation. His eyes gazed at the large breasts with realistic
nipples.
"Is that what I'll be wearing?" Bryan asked.
"It's like a second skin," the technician replied, trying to put Bryan's
mind at ease.
"It looks like it'll be hot as hell!"
"No. It's very well ventilated. It lets your skin breath."
Bryan gave it a weary look before the technician motioned for the man
that escorted Bryan up the stairs for assistance.
"What we're going to do now, Bryan, is put it on."
"Put it on. Okay. I can do that," Bryan said aloud, trying to convince
himself.
"We're here to help you, Bryan. All you have to do is sit down and lift
up your arms. Try to think of it as just a heavy shirt."
Despite his best efforts, the pudgy belly and breasts made any thoughts
of thinking about it as a shirt seem absurd. Bryan thought about
backing out for a second, but the dollar signs he knew where at the end
of his ordeal made him lift up his arms.
The technician and the other clinic worker moved the top towards Bryan
and placed it over his head after they partially removed his gown.
Bryan moved his head about as the upper body prosthetic was lowered down
over his head and over his upper arms.
As Bryan poked his head through the prosthetic, his eyes immediately
darted to the large flopping breasts on his chest that were pulling him
forward. Sensing Bryan's unease, the technician advised Bryan to lie
down.
Bryan's heart and mind was racing as he complied with the instruction.
Bryan watched as the technician scurried around him and added the
prosthetics over his forearms that were seamlessly blended into the rest
of the prosthetics covering his upper arms.
Once he finished with Bryan's arms, the technician turned his attention
to his legs and moved to add prosthetics to smooth out the muscular
bulges in his calves. After finishing with them in quick order, he
noted, "Bryan, as you know your grandmother required that we make as
much of a woman out of you as possible without going an irreversible
route."
"My misfortune, the more I think about it. If she had just conditioned
my inheritance on getting a sex change, I would have been able to have
the will thrown out easy."
"Sometimes, what seems like a misfortune is for the best though," the
technician countered.
"Do you see the titanic tits on my chest? There's nothing turning out
for the best here."
"Bryan, if I could give you just a little advice..."
"What?"
"Try to enjoy the situation as much as you can. You don't have to love
it. In fact, I'm sure you'll hate more than a little of it. But you'll
drive yourself crazy if you spend a whole year wallowing in self-pity."
"How would you know?"
"Do you think I always looked like a middle aged man?"
"I would think you would have been young at some point."
"Try two months ago," the technician said as he took hold of another
prosthetic. The shape of it threw Bryan off before he said, "So you had
some work done here too?"
"Yes. It was a condition of my employment. We all try to understand
our customers and the bosses insist that sometimes we have to see what
it would be like to be someone else for a change."
"But you got to keep the same job, right?"
"These skilled hands would be wasted otherwise," the technician
admitted.
"So how long do you have to keep up the disguise?"
"Three months."
"Three months? That's it. I'd kill for only a three month sentence.
Do you know what its going to be like to not have a dick for a year?"
"Actually, I do," the technician said as he grabbed Bryan's member in
his hand.
Bryan squirmed as he felt his manhood and testicles being contorted as
they were concealed within the vagina prosthesis.
"Was it as unpleasant to lose it for you?" Bryan asked as the technician
applied adhesive to hold it in place.
"Well, I should say not."
"Then, I'll take it; the person working on you was a little better than
you are."
"Well, that gentleman is an artist at his craft, but I'm pretty good
too. My work stands up with his, but you're seeing his right, now.
What do you think?"
"It would be better if I saw a before shot," Bryan replied.
"Of course," the technician replied as he pulled out his cell phone and
showed Bryan a picture a smiling couple.
"Wow, that's some change. Who's the pretty girl?"
"That's me."
"Say what?" Bryan replied, as his mind started to race again.
"That pretty girl is me. I told you the other guy is a master."
"What does your boyfriend think about this?"
"My husband is the other guy in the picture."
"And he's not upset about his beautiful girlfriend looking like some
balding, middle aged man?"
"He understands the rules, that's why he's the one pushing the toilet
seat down, now. And let me tell you this, he complained far less about
me tucking him away than you."
"I'm sure he's used to you touching him, and if you look liked you, then
maybe I would have...well, maybe not."
"You wouldn't have been the first guy who was a little shy about me
tucking their little guy away into their new pussy."
"I would imagine," Bryan replied before the technician said, "Now, we're
going to move onto your face and neck."
Bryan nodded and watched as the technician went back to work. She
smiled at Bryan as she strapped a device onto his neck, which she
quickly covered with a prosthetic.
"That feels a little tight," Bryan noted before his eyes widened at the
high pitch of his voice.
"That's the point. It's supposed to constrain your voice box so you
can't get down into a baritone. We want you to sound more Betty White
than Barry White."
Bryan shook his head, shocked by the detail of his transformation. The
technician grinned again before she added nose and chin prosthetics to
his face before she took a step away and said, "That looks good. We
just have to touch up the seams and you should be good."
"Great," Bryan replied, unable to conceal his sarcasm.
The technician nodded in silence before applying a mixture to the seams
of his prosthetics and his skin to help conceal the dividing lines.
Once she finished, she painted the mixture to match his skin tone.
When the paint dried, the technician told Bryan he could sit up. Bryan
nodded before he struggled to do so.
Bryan groaned as he sat up and felt his breasts beginning to weigh him
down again. The technician smiled as she said, "I'll get you a strong
bra before any back pain starts to set in."
Bryan thanked her before she made the call. A few minutes later, a
female employee walked in carrying a bra and outfit for Bryan.
Reflexively Bryan covered his exposed privates, not realizing until he
clasped at nothing but the prosthetic flab that he had nothing of his
own to cover. The girl gave Bryan an amused look as she reached out and
handed Bryan the bra.
"I know this is going to be a stupid question," Bryan said as he held
out the bra.
"But how do you put it on?" The girl replied, completing Bryan's
sentence.
The girl grinned as she wrapped it around Bryan's chest before she told
instructed him on how to put it on. Bryan wanted to give up, but the
girl persisted on making him do it himself as she gently gave him
directions. Bryan breathed a sigh of relief once he finally hooked it
around his back and felt the straps digging into his back.
The technician and the girl gave Bryan approving nods before the girl
tossed Bryan a pair of panties. The idea of putting them on seemed to
be an affront to his masculinity, however, Bryan knew that there was
little left of it to defend.
As Bryan finished putting on his panties, the female attendant handed
Bryan clothes to put on. The large sizes on the tags of the clothing
made Bryan's eyes widen.
The girl shook her head as she said, "Don't be shy about putting them
on; they're the last pair pants you're going to be wearing for a while."
"Why? Girls wear pants all the time. They wear them more often than
they wear skirts and dresses for Christ's sake!"
"So true for real girls, but your grandmother wanted you to be a girls'
girl."
"Where in the will does it say I want Bryan to be a girls' girl for a
year?"
"It's in there. She left very detailed instructions. Didn't you read
them?"
"I glanced at them, but they kept making me sick."
"Well, I'd tell you to get a copy of the will, but what's the point at
this juncture."
Bryan shrugged, feeling a bit foolish for not getting over his disgust
about what the will provided he must do and reading it. Bryan reached
for the pants and drew them up his legs before he covered his chest with
the button up blouse.
Shaking his head, Bryan looked down his front and saw nothing that would
be out of the ordinary for an obese woman. Having looked down at the
body of a fit, muscular man only hours before, the image before his eyes
struck Bryan as almost unbelievable.
"Can I get a mirror?" Bryan asked.
"I'm sorry. We don't let our guests see themselves halfway."
"There's more?"
"Of course, we're going to take you to get your hair and nails done.
That's part of the reason why you're in pants."
"How does that follow?"
"Well, we don't want any of the other guests looking too strangely at
you as we make our way around the building to our in house beautician."
"That still doesn't follow. Everyone here knows what's going on.
They're going to see these huge tits on my chest and know that my man's
haircut isn't right, unless they think I'm a..."
"Lesbian? That's what we're going for at the moment. Just until we get
you to the beautician though."
"I'd take lesbian for the year. That would make things a little
easier."
"Sorry, but you know what your grandmother had to say about that."
"Well, I'm taking your word for it."
"Only have yourself to blame for that," the technician interjected.
Before Bryan could reply, the girl handed Bryan a pair of blue flip-
flops and told him to follow her. Bryan slid his feet into the flip-
flops and followed the girl out of the room.
As Bryan walked around the facility with the girl, he struggled to walk
straight as his center of gravity was thrown off by the dead weight on
his chest. The girl noticed and laughed as she said, "Keep your head up
and your back straight. It'll help keep you from tumbling over."
"I feel like I'm waddling around here," Bryan replied as he grabbed at
his large, faux stomach that was making him strain to move his body
around. The girl nodded as she said, "You'll get used to it."
They kept moving around the facility until they reached the beautician's
room. As they entered it, a pretty girl got out of the chair and was
escorted out by a male attendant.
"Another guest," Bryan asked his female attendant.
"Yes, but he's here willingly."
Bryan's eyes widened again before he shook his head and said, "This
place is one gigantic mind fuck."
The girl laughed as did the beautician before she waved him forward. As
Bryan sat down in her chair, the attendant left the room.
"So what are we doing today?" The beautician asked.
Bryan gave her a perplexed look before she said, "Oh, I'm just teasing,
love. You aren't anything I haven't seen before."
"I try to be unique."
As she lifted up a phone, the beautician responded, "People are all
unique, love. It's just the situations they find themselves in that are
similar."
Bryan nodded before the beautician requested an assistant. A short
while later, another women entered the room and began to help add
extensions to Bryan's hair. The process felt agonizingly slow to Bryan
while they attached each long strand of hair to the ends of his own.
"Is this what they mean when they say you have to suffer to be
beautiful?" Bryan asked after the first hour passed.
The beautician laughed as she replied, "No. That's for the hair
removal, dieting, exercising and overall primping that women go
through."
"So, I'm still looking forward to the suffering?"
"Well, at least you got the hair removal out of the way."
Bryan agreed while the woman continued to do her work. Once the
extensions were in place, she turned her attention to his fingers.
Bryan watched as acrylic extensions were placed on each of his
fingertips before they were delicately painted.
When she finished with his fingernails, the beautician began to paint
his toenails a matching pink color. Bryan cringed at the sight and
wondered what his father would think if he were in that room with him.
'Would he have gone through this?' Bryan wondered to himself.
As his fingernails and toenails dried, the beautician began to dye
Bryan's hair. The stench of the dye struck him as more pungent than the
smell of the nail polish as it was applied to the newly long strands of
his hair.
Before long, the beautician washed the dye out of his hair. She then
dried and styled his hair with a permanent wave before she let him get
up.
"Can I get a mirror now?" Bryan asked.
"Not quite yet."
"What else is left?"
"We've got to get you dressed for dinner."
"Aren't I dressed already?"
"No. We want to give you the whole picture at once."
Bryan rolled his eyes before the beautician made a call for a change of
clothes. Another female attendant entered the room shortly thereafter
with a pair of low heels and a black, jersey dress with pink floral
patterns and a boat neckline.
With some effort Bryan pulled off his pants and removed his blouse. He
took the three-quartered sleeve, above the knee dress from the girl and
inspected it for a moment.
"Do you think it's going to look like anything other than a dress if you
keep looking at it?" The attendant asked.
Bryan gave her a peeved look while he shook his head before he pulled it
over his head. Bryan let the dress come down over his body before he
stepped into the low pink D'Orsay pumps the girl had brought for him.
"So how do I look?" Bryan asked.
"Like a sophisticated lady," the female attendant replied.
"I doubt that," Bryan retorted.
"With good reason," the beautician replied before she motioned for Bryan
to follow her. Bryan walked towards her in awkward, mincing steps and
watched as she turned a mirror towards him.
Bryan froze as he looked at the woman in the mirror in silence.
"Dear God," Bryan said as he moved his large hand over his feminized
face.
"Do you think you're believable?" The beautician asked with a grin.
"This is unreal."
"It's so real that's unreal," the beautician replied as she moved
towards his face and added lipstick to his lips.
"That's better," she said as she let go of his face.
Bryan shook his head as he looked in the mirror at the woman that was
unmistakably feminine, despite her large size.
"Do you know how much time I put into my abs," Bryan asked the girls in
the room.
"Don't dwell on it. You won't be seeing them for a year," the
beautician replied.
"If they're still there," the female attendant added with a smile.
Bryan ignored the comment while he continued to gaze vacantly at the
mirror trying to digest how he could possibly be the woman looking back
at him. Bryan touched the double chin that had been created out of
prosthetics. The effect of all the prosthetics on his face had made it
unrecognizable to him. If the woman in the mirror was not mimicking his
movements, Bryan was sure that he would not have believed that she could
be him. Bryan's silent inspection of his reflection ceased when he was
pulled away from the image in the mirror and led down to the cafeteria
for dinner by the female attendant.
"Do you think I should get something light?" Bryan asked self-
consciously.
The girl laughed as she said, "You know you're not really fat beneath
that get up."
"Try explaining that to anyone outside of here."
"I wouldn't, unless you want them to look at you cross-eyed," she
retorted.
Bryan nodded before they entered the cafeteria. Bryan walked through it
without anyone giving him a second look before he got his dinner and ate
it. Once he finished eating, Bryan was escorted to his room.
He was surprised by the accommodations and turned on the television. He
found that all the sport networks were blocked in his room, and he
climbed under the covers of his bed after taking off his dress. It was
not long before he fell asleep.
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After breakfast the next morning, Bryan was introduced to the girl who
would be shadowing him and making sure that he avoided his masculine
traits for a year. Bryan shook the woman's hand before she said, "Are
you ready to get down to business?"
"Anything that gets me out of here quicker and starts the clock on my
year," Bryan answered.
Kate nodded as she replied, "More than understandable."
"How long do you think this will take?"
"A few days tops. I want to keep it short. I'm only here to teach you
enough mannerisms, talking patterns and behaviors to make you not come
across as too strange. You'll improve with your femininity as the year
goes on and you get to live fully in your role and interact with others
as a woman."
Bryan nodded, figuring that the woman was right and delighted that he
would not have to spend weeks learning feminine behaviors before his
year en femme commenced. As Kate began to setup for their first
training session, Bryan asked, "So how do you end up in this line of
work?"
"I just got out college and your grandmother helped me get a job here."
"How did she get you a job here? She never left the house."
"Well, she was a substantial contributor to this place."
"How substantial?"
"The money she set aside to put you through your paces here was just a
small part of her contribution. She wanted to make sure that we took
extra special care of you, if you decided to go through with it."
Bryan shook his head wondering how much money his grandmother gave to
the facility and bemoaned the fact that, likely, millions went to it
instead of him. As those thoughts crowded Bryan's mind, he suddenly had
another question.
"How did you know my grandmother? She never left her house!"
Kate grinned as she replied, "When I was working my way through college,
I got a job cleaning houses. One of those houses was your
grandmother's. We struck up a nice relationship. She was dear, sweet
lady."
"My opinion of her may differ," Bryan replied as he put his hands on
widened hips.
"She thought that this was for the best and for your own good. She
didn't want you turn out like your old man."
"I would have never turned out like that loser."
"Your grandmother felt that you were more like him than you wanted to
admit."
Bryan shook his head before he asked, "Is that why you were chosen to
watch over me?"
"I volunteered for the job out of loyalty to your grandmother. Plus, I
never could resist having total control over another adult," Kate
answered with a grin.
"It's not total," Bryan countered.
"Close enough," Kate replied before she began to put Bryan through his
paces. Kate started by giving him a pair of three inch heels to wear.
Bryan gave the three inch heeled, patent leather shoes a worried look,
prompting Kate to say, "Don't worry. You should get the hang of them in
no time. I won't bother you with higher heels while you're here anyway.
I figure you can work your way up to them as your year en femme
progress."
"Thanks," Bryan replied without emotion as he continued to stare at the
heels.
"You should be thankful. Some of the girls around here wouldn't be
satisfied with letting you out the door without being proficient in
four, or maybe even five, inch heels. I'm being reasonable as two and
three inch heels are practical for working."
"I'm not disagreeing," Bryan replied, sensing that his failure to thank
her enough was going to lead him into wearing higher heels.
"Then don't dawdle," Kate retorted. Bryan nodded as he put on the
pointed toe heels that matched the sleeveless, knee length, red, cowl
neck dress he was given that morning.
Once Bryan finished putting them on, Kate began to instruct him how to
walk around the room. The instructions she barked were committed to
memory as any mistake was prompted by immediate scolding and threats of
keeping him in the clinic longer.
Given his urge to get his time en femme over as quick as possible,
Kate's threats easily hit their mark while he moved around the room in
heels, incorporating whatever mannerism Kate insisted on him using. As
the first exercise ended, Kate said, "Good job, Sara."
"Sara?" Bryan replied.
"It's part of your official identity going forward, Miss Moseley."
"My official identity."
"Well, we can't bring you into the office en femme with a boy's name can
we?"
"I guess not."
"Then you understand why we had to come up with a new identity for you."
Bryan nodded before Kate began to instruct him how to sit in skirts.
The instructions to keep his knees together or his legs crossed were
easy enough to follow before Kate began to drill speaking patterns into
his head.
Bryan listened and repeated Kate's inflections, careful to change the
tone of his voice to make it more emotive. Satisfied with his progress,
Kate started to have Bryan incorporate hand movements into his
conversations with her.
They took a break to eat lunch. As they ate, Kate handed Bryan a bottle
of pills.
"What are these for?" Bryan asked.
"They're to reduce your sex drive."
Bryan gave the bottle a nervous look before he said, "Is that something
I'm going to want to do?"
"Did you have any thoughts yesterday that you're not able to act on
anymore or that may have made a little crushing feeling on your
manhood?"
Bryan cringed as he thought about how unpleasant the feeling of an
erection was underneath his prosthetics. Kate noted his visceral
response and said, "The pills are going to make you not being able to
have a release much more bearable."
Bryan nodded before he opened the bottle. He looked at the pill for a
few moments before he took it and washed it down with the water he had
been given.
After lunch, Kate provided Bryan with his feminized back-story. The
story was easy enough for Bryan to follow as it mirrored his own life.
Only the various details that gave away his masculinity were replaced.
Stories of football and baseball games turned to stories about field
hockey and softball. Bryan repeated them back to Kate using his
inflective speaking tone and hand gestures to her approving nods.
Once Bryan finished practicing for another few hours, he took a break to
eat dinner. After dinner, Bryan was given a series of DVDs to watch of
reality television shows and scripted dramas.
The titles and subject matters of the shows did little for Bryan, but
Kate advised that they were the types of things he was going to be
expected to talk about at work. Knowing that Kate might hold up his
departure if he did not put in enough effort learning the shows, Bryan
threw himself into the task.
As the last show finished airing, Kate instructed Bryan to write down
his day in a diary.
"Why?" Bryan asked.
"It's to help get you in the right frame of mind. Try writing like a
woman," she replied.
"Easier said than done," Bryan muttered in response before he wrote down
his days affairs in his diary. After finishing his diary entry, Bryan
turned in for the night.
After breakfast the next morning, Kate made Bryan bring his diary entry
down to their training session. She opened to the first page and began
to read it aloud.
"Day one: I woke up, ate breakfast and put on a dress. I met my female
trainer and she made me put on high heels. After prancing about for a
few hours, she made me talk like a girl. This is completely awful,
Sara."
"What's wrong with it?" Bryan asked as he read the angered look on
Kate's face.
"It's stilted and not real. I want you to think like a girl, not a boy
stuck in a girl's body."
Bryan shook his head before Kate countered, "Here's a better way for it
to read. Day one: After getting up and eating breakfast, I put on a
pretty dress with a sexy, slinky ruched side waist. It was nicer than
they had to give me, but they wanted to make feel pretty. Once I
finished dressing, I got to meet Kate, and she gave me a cute pair of
heels. She spent hours trying to help me learn to be a better and more
desirable girl. Better right?"
"If you say so," Bryan replied.
"I do say so. I do say so," Kate retorted with a glare.
"Are there any other problems?"
"Let's keep reading. Let's see. Where did I leave off? Oh, yes.
After dinner, Kate made me watch some television shows that showed a
lethargic sense of creativity."'
"Lethargic? Do you see the problem with that word, Sara?"
"No."
"That word is far too hoity-toity for an uneducated secretary like you!"
Bryan groaned before he asked, "How should it read then?"
Kate smiled as she replied, "I watched some reality shows and some great
dramas with some cute boys. Just keep it simple."
"You mean dumb it down," Bryan countered.
"However, you want to look at it," Kate replied.
Bryan rolled his eyes before Kate returned to reading the entry: "Then
Kate made me watch some gay vampire show. She noted the actor was cute.
I don't see it. That's how you ended the entry?"
"It's accurate."
"This exercise is to help get you into a girl's state of mind, not some
disinterested man."
"How should it read?"
"Hold on. I'll mark it up for you," Kate replied as she took out a red
pen and began to revise the ending of the entry for him. Kate finished
and handed it back to Bryan as she said, "There, now, read that aloud."
Bryan sighed before he read the marked-up entry, "After my training,
Kate and I watched True Blood. Eric Northman is so cute and he's
got...and it just ends like that."
"It's for you to end. Tell me what you like about him."'
"I don't like anything about him."
"Bryan doesn't like anything about him. A normal woman would have some
opinion on such a dreamy man."
"Like what?"
"You have to think for yourself," Kate countered.
"I can't compliment a man."
"Yes you can, Sara, and until you get over that hump, we can't get your
own clock ticking."
Bryan grumbled to himself before he finished the sentence because he's
got pretty eyes."
"Close, but a girl wouldn't call them pretty. She'd call them beautiful
eyes or strong eyes, depending on her sensibilities."
"Fine," Bryan replied as he changed the entry. Kate nodded at Bryan
before she began to put him through the same exercises as the day before
with small modifications to increase the level of the challenges, as
well as integrating some training with cosmetics and self-hairstyling.
As the end of the day came, Bryan wrote down the events of his day in
the diary.
The next morning, Kate read the entry aloud and noted the improvement
before she made a few changes to make it more girly. Bryan cringed a
bit as he read them, but he managed to hide most of his displeasure
behind a fake smile.
Bryan's efforts met with Kate's approval as she made him complete the
exercises she had selected for him. As the third day of training ended,
Kate smiled as she told him that he was good enough to pass himself off
as a woman. Bryan squealed in delight as he hugged and thanked Kate.
It was only as he let go of her that he realized how girlish his high
pitched squeal and reaction was. Bryan hung his head for a moment
before Kate placed her hand on his shoulder and said, "Remember to be
confident."
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Bryan thought he would feel relief as he exited the clinic for the first
time as a woman. Instead, he felt only more anxiety about what his year
in dresses would hold in store for him.
The looks he got from some people passing by did not help him either.
Bryan felt sick to his stomach as he saw a group of children mocking him
with each other and laughing about his size, as if he could not see
them.
Bryan wanted to shout that he was not the fat girl they thought he was,
but he knew it would not do any good. Bryan put his head down and
walked with Kate towards the car that was waiting to take them to their
new home.
The ride to the apartment took more than a half an hour before Bryan and
Kate were let out of the car. The driver wished them luck before Kate
motioned for Bryan to follow her.
Bryan walked behind her into the lobby before Kate handed Bryan a key
and said, "This is for the front door to the building."
Bryan nodded as he took the key and followed Kate up the three stories
of staircases that lead to their apartment door. The extensive climbing
of stairs seemed exhausting to Bryan as he struggled with the effects of
the weight of the prosthetics covering his body.
Kate held out another key in her hand before she turned it in the lock
and said "That's for the doorknob and this is for the dead bolt."
Bryan nodded as he watched Kate unlock the second lock before she handed
him the two additional keys. As she turned the doorknob, Bryan looked
at the three keys in his hand and asked, "Are we in the ghetto?"
"You really are a prissy, Nancy preppie girl, aren't you?"
"I'm not!" Bryan shrieked as his male pride swelled up before the sound
of his high girlish voice promptly made him blush.
"This isn't the ghetto, Sara. This is a respectable working class
neighborhood."
"Oh."
"Yes, it's where people who work for a living live," Kate said,
prompting Bryan to glare at her.
"It's not my fault I was born rich," Bryan countered.
"Who said there was any fault in it?"
"You kind of talked down to me," Bryan replied as Kate pushed the door
open.
"You asked a stupid question."
"Are there stupid questions?"
"Of course, they typically come from stupid people," Kate replied.
Bryan seethed for a moment as he closed the door behind him before he
looked at the well worn pink carpet beneath his feet. The beige walls
had clearly not been painted in years and the decorations on the wall
strongly indicated that only girls lived in the apartment.
Cheap pictures and painting prints decorated the walls. The couch's
floral designs, like the rest of the apartment, seemed designed to make
whatever thoughts Bryan had about holding onto his masculinity as absurd
as possible. Bryan groaned as he looked over the small kitchen and
bathroom before Kate showed him to his bedroom.
The twin bed left much to be desired for Bryan before he looked over the
white blanket and sheets. "That doesn't look like it was designed to be
slept in," Bryan said as he turned towards Kate.
"It'll be easier for you since you won't bleed in it."
The image that Kate left in his head made Bryan sick before he said,
"Are you going to be a bitch the whole year?"
"Just when you deserve it," Kate countered.
Bryan rolled his eyes before he asked, "So when do we get to leave this
box?"
"We have work first thing tomorrow."
"We're starting tomorrow?" Bryan asked with some alarm.
Kate grinned as she said, "We start the whole routine tomorrow."
"What routine?"
"You're new workday routine."
"Which is what exactly?" Bryan asked despite not wanting to know what it
involved.
"You're going to get up with me. We're going to get ready for work.
Catch our train."
"Train?"
"Well, subway, but, yes it's a train."
"Isn't that for poor people?"
"It's for those who can't pay a small fortune to park their car at the
office each day."
Bryan nodded sullenly before Kate continued, "Once we finish walking
from our stop, we'll work all day with the other girls. Then five
o'clock will come, and we will be rushing for exits. We'll get back on
the train and stop off at the gym."
"Gym? I'm going to be at a gym like this?"
"Fortunately, we've got memberships at an all girls gym. It's a far
less judgmental place."
'My ass', Bryan thought to himself as he nervously rubbed his hands
together.
"Then we come home, make dinner, and watch some girly shows or read some
girly books and go to bed."
As he processed her words, Bryan gave Kate a dumbfounded expression as
his mind began to race. 'I'm really not going to get a break from this
shit unless I'm a sleep', Bryan thought.
Kate smiled at the expression on Bryan's face as she thought, 'That's
right. You have no idea what you've gotten yourself into, sister.'
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The next morning, Bryan showered and ate breakfast before he got dressed
for the day ahead. Kate laid out his clothes on his bed for him after
she finished getting dressed herself.
Bryan cringed at the sight of the black, long sleeve top, orange skirt
and black tights.
"Is she trying to make my ass look like a pumpkin?" Bryan muttered to
himself before he sat down on the bed and rolled the tights down as he
had been trained at the clinic.
Bryan unrolled the tights up his legs before he stepped into the skirt.
As he bent down to step into it, he nearly double over from the still
unusual weight of the heavy breasts on his chest that were dragging him
down.
Kate laughed as she saw Bryan catch himself with his skirt at his
ankles.
"Put on the bra first. You can't be bending over with your big boobies
flapping everywhere."
Bryan cringed at her comment before he begrudgingly thanked her. Bryan
moved towards his dresser and removed a black bra.
After struggling to hook it behind his back for a few seconds, he
fastened it and went back to putting on his skirt. Once Bryan finished
pulling up the zipper, he pulled the black top over his head.
Bryan checked his appearance in the mirror in the room for a second
before he headed for the bathroom to put on his makeup. Bryan
remembered the lessons that Kate had drilled into him at the clinic as
he put on his lipstick and mascara. Bryan felt somewhat happy that his
face did not require much in the way of makeup given that his skin was
given an even tone at the clinic.
After brushing out his hair, Bryan walked out of the bathroom and went
into his bedroom to put on the shoes that he was pairing with the
outfit. Bryan slipped his feet in the black, suede platform pumps with
a chunky heel and a rounded toe before he turned and walked out of the
room.
Kate grinned as he emerged from his bedroom, fully dressed and carrying
a pocketbook.
"Now, that's the image of a lovely working girl that would have made
your grandmother proud."
"Are you ready?" Bryan asked, wanting to get his first day as a
feminized secretary over.
Kate nodded as she said, "Let's go."
Bryan took a deep breath as he followed Kate out of the apartment. They
carefully descended the steps as Kate reminded him to walk down the
stairs with his feet at angle to ensure that both the heel and toe of
his shoes hit each step they landed upon.
After exiting the apartment building, they walked down the street side
by side. Bryan could see some peeved people rushing by them, shaking
their heads. Bryan could swear that he heard one mutter the word "Cow,"
but Kate told him that he was hearing things.
They reached the steps to the subway entrance after walking a few
blocks. Bryan carefully descended the steps while men rushed by to the
side of him.
'How easy you pricks have it, and you don't even know it', Bryan thought
as he saw some of their sneakers and oxfords as he moved down the steps,
slowed by his heels.
After paying the fare to enter, Bryan and Kate walked towards the subway
platform to await their train. Bryan felt the sticky heat of the subway
broken up only by the occasional, slight breeze of a train speeding by
on an interior track.
Once their train came to a stop, they boarded it and sought out an empty
seat. Bryan saw one and took it, while Kate sat diagonally across from
him. Bryan could sense that man sitting next to him was not happy about
Bryan's apparent girth that was spilling over into his seat, but Bryan
tried to pay him no attention.
They rode the train for over a dozen stops before they exited at the
stop for their office building. Bryan and Kate hurried out of the train
with a mass of people, before another mass took their places. They then
made their way to an escalator and rode it up before they exited the
subway station and began walking towards the satellite office where they
had been assigned.
"Are you sure there's going to be no one there who knows my story,"
Bryan asked Kate as the numbers of the building came into view.
"I'm sure. They're a huge firm with six different offices in the city
alone. We're in a satellite office. None of these people worked on
your case or even care about it."
Kate's words gave Bryan a sense of relief as they pushed their way
trough the front door of the office building. They went over to the
security desk and checked in. The guard called up to their new employer
to confirm that they were the new employees.
After receiving confirmation, Bryan and Kate were taken to the side by
security to have their pictures taken for their security passes.
Shortly thereafter, they were each given a laminated card bearing their
employer name, likeness and their name.
Bryan cringed at the sight of his picture beneath the feminine name he
had been given. Kate peered over at his picture and said, "That's not a
bad picture of you."
"Oh, yes. It's just wonderful. Dad would be so proud," Bryan replied
shaking his head.
"Well, you being the kind of person your Dad would be proud of was sort
of your grandmother's biggest concern."
Bryan nodded, knowing that was why he was standing there in heels and
skirt that morning. They then headed for the elevator. They made their
way into it and got off on their floor with a few other people. They
looked at the directory on the walls before they headed towards the law
office they would be working at.
As they pushed their way through the office door, a woman named Lili
greeted them as she read their security cards. She brought them around
the office and introduced them to everyone. Bryan struggled to keep up
with the small talk the girls made as they were complimenting each
others outfits or bags. It was almost a relief for him to talk briefly
with the men in the office who had no use for discussing what he felt
were trivialities.
Once Kate and Bryan were finished being introduced to everyone, Bryan
was shown to his desk. Bryan got situated for a few minutes before one
of the attorneys called him into his office.
Bryan got to his feet and walked into the man's office before he told
Bryan to take a seat. Bryan sat down before the man explained to him
how to fill out form loan documents for a bank that was client of the
firms.
Bryan nodded as he listened to the man as he showed him how to complete
the documents. He emailed Bryan a link to some samples of the firm's
prior work before he gave Bryan a file to prepare the initial loan
documents for.
After taking hold of the file, Bryan walked back to his desk and sat
back down. Looking over at Kate, Bryan decided to make himself look
more feminine by crossing his legs before he began to start typing up
the documents.
Bryan spent his first two hours typing the information provided to him
on a sheet from the bank into the loan documents. While he typed, Bryan
heard the administrative assistants around him talking to each other.
They had a familiarity with each other that Bryan and Kate did not
share. While Kate, however, interjected from time to time, Bryan kept
largely silent. He tried to focus on his work and keep the feminine
discussions filling his ears out of his mind.
As Bryan continued to work, one of the attorneys called his phone.
Bryan picked up and talked with the man for a moment before he asked
Bryan to help him with a closing.
Bryan nodded as he got to his feet and greeted the people in the waiting
room. Bryan led them into the conference room and situated them as the
attorney instructed him to before he went to get the attorney.
Bryan followed the attorney back into the conference room and sat down
beside him as the attorney handed out documents to be signed. Bryan
watched as each document was signed before one of the documents was
improperly executed.
Bryan got up and took a clean copy of the document to the copy machine
and ran off new copies before he returned to the closing. As he sat
down, the attorney asked Bryan to find a document in the file for him.
After thumbing through the tabs of the folders, Bryan found the document
and handed it to the attorney. The attorney showed the document to the
borrower's attorney and the title closer before the closing continued.
Once the closing finished, Bryan said goodbye to everyone and was tasked
with cleaning up the conference room. After a little searching, Bryan
found the cleaning supplies and returned to the conference room.
With some effort, Bryan leaned over the table and began to wipe it down.
He braced himself with one arm as the weight on his chest kept pulling
him ever further down while he leaned over the table. 'This is what I
went to college for?' Bryan thought as he finished wiping the table
clean before he headed back to his desk.
As Bryan sat down, he realized that it was time for lunch. Kate looked
over to him and asked if he wanted to grab lunch with her.
Bryan wasted little time in agreeing before they stood up and left the
office together. They walked to a near by eatery that Kate was familiar
with.
After getting their food, they sat down at a small table and started to
talk. Bryan shook his head as he ate and said, "Filling out the loan
docs is so fucking boring."
"It's not enthralling for anyone," Kate countered.
"It's probably easier for you."
"I didn't work my way through college to work as secretary," Kate
rejoined.
"Then why are you doing it?"
"Because it's my assignment from my real job, and I did like your
grandmother a lot. I made her a promise, and I'm going to keep it."
Bryan nodded before Kate added, "And with that in mind, I wanted to
discuss something with you."
"What?" Bryan inquired.
"You need to interact with the girls more."
"Why?"
"That's why you're here. You're here to learn to be like a girl, and
girls talk."
"Can't I be a shy girl in peace?"
"No. You're going to be the outgoing type. Just like you'd be if you
were a man."
Bryan glared at her for a second since he had been an outgoing man. His
male confidence, however, was buried under the rolls of fake fat that
were concealing his toned body.
"You need to interact with the girls more. I want to hear you trying to
learn how to do it. Engage them."
Bryan nodded his head as he chewed. The subject of conversation then
turned to their work while they finished eating.
After lunch, Bryan and Kate headed back to the office. They settled
back in and started doing their work again.
Shortly after his return, one of the attorneys dropped off a marked-up
set of loan documents. Bryan inquired what he wanted he wanted him to
do with him.
The attorney explained that they were changes proposed by the corporate
borrower's attorneys that were acceptable to the bank. Bryan nodded
before he paused working on the new loan documents and began to make
revisions to the loan documents given to him.
As he typed up the changes, he listened to the girls start talking about
some piece of celebrity gossip. Bryan paused to Google the story before
he chimed in with his opinion.
"I didn't know you talked," Nora, another secretary replied with a
laugh.
"She's shy," Kate responded for Bryan.
"I'll say," Katina, the office manager, replied.
The girls kept talking about the subject until one of the girls started
to talk about her personal life. She complained about her husband while
the other girls noted what their boyfriends or husbands had done that
was similar. Bryan shook his head at the various levels of anger the
girls had about whatever little fault they could find with their
husbands or boyfriends.
"Can't you girls cut your men some slack," Bryan interjected, unable to
keep himself from defending his gender any longer.
The girls started to laugh at Bryan, prompting Bryan to laugh along as
if that was his goal all along. Bryan was uncomfortable with talking
with the girls given their response to his words as Kate gave him a
peeved look while the girls continued to talk about things that did not
hold his interest.
One of the attorneys then called over to Bryan and asked him to get a
cup of coffee for him. After confirming how the man wanted his coffee,
Bryan got to his feet.
Shortly after he got up, Kate got to her feet and headed for the
kitchen. Kate walked into it and closed the door behind her.
"What's up?" Bryan asked, with undisguised confusion.
"We need to talk," Kate replied.
"Okay. What's going on?"
"I get the feeling out there that you're not a girl."
"I wonder why that could be?" Bryan replied, rolling his eyes.
"That's what you're here to learn to be. You're not acting enough like
a girl!"
"So what?" Bryan retorted.
Kate glared at him as she replied, "If that's the attitude you want to
have we can go back to the clinic!"
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm in charge of you. If I don't think you can pass yourself off as a
regular woman, I can refer you back to the clinic for more training.
That starts the clock all over again."
Bryan started to sweat as he wondered if she was bluffing before he
replied, "But everyone here already knows me..."
"There are other braches, Sara, and there are other people you could be.
With some new prosthetics and little touchups on your skin you can be an
Asian woman, or a Hispanic or a Black woman, really any type of woman."
Bryan stared blankly at her, knowing that she was likely not bluffing
about the clinic's capabilities. A smile came across Kate's face as she
inquired, "So, are you willing to try a little harder?"
Bryan nodded before Kate said, "Good. Now, finish up grabbing that
coffee."
After Kate stepped out of the kitchen, Bryan brought the coffee over to
the attorney and returned to his desk. As he reached it, Katina
motioned for him to come over to her.
Bryan walked towards her, and she told him that she needed him to copy a
loan closing package. Bryan nodded before he was given the package
together with a list of how many full sets he would need plus the
additional copies of certain documents in addition to the sets.
After carrying the papers to the copier, Bryan began to run off copies.
He stood there staring at the machine as it ran off copies before
pausing to alert him that it needed more paper.
Bryan scurried to the supply closet and picked up a ream of paper before
he carried it back over to the copier. He filled the tray and clutched
his back as he stood back up. He wiped the sweat away from his brow as
he continued waiting for the complete sets to finish copying.
Once he clipped the copy sets together, Bryan took to sorting the
originals and pulling out the documents that he needed to make extra
copies of. As Bryan continued to work on the copy job, he caught sight
of the time on the copier and was surprised by how long the task was
taking him.
Bryan's kept pressing the buttons to change the amount of copies he was
making as he ran off the additional pages of various pages of the loan
documents. Once he finished, he grouped the loan documents by type and
clipped them together.
Pursuant to his instructions, Bryan then brought the documents to the
attorney handling the matter. He smiled as he thanked Bryan for the
documents before he reminded Bryan to make sure he updated the closing
checklist.
Bryan nodded before he returned to his desk. Bryan brought up the file
on the system and typed in what he had done on the closing checklist.
After he completed his task, Bryan went back to typing up loan documents
with the information provided from the bank. The repetitiveness of the
assembly line approach to the documents became draining on Bryan as he
finished his workday.
Bryan felt a fleeting sense of relief as the workday came to an end
before he realized just how many more days he would be spending toiling
away in the office. Bryan's despair was broken up as he caught sight of
Kate motioning for him to follow her out the door.
Kate led Bryan back out of the building and towards the subway. Bryan
descended the steps carefully again bef