September Gurl
Belladonna
[Author's Note: With Apologies to Big Star for the Title]
Davis Perry rubbed his fingers across his forehead before he looked down
at his son and said, "Are you sure you can handle it?"
"Mom's asking me to watch Susanna for a few days, not go to the moon,"
Peter retorted, shaking his head.
Susanna was four years younger than him and just entering high school.
Peter had graduated the June before, but he had decided to take a year
off before going to college.
Peter was also the middle child with a two-year-older sister who went
away to college. Peter often felt like the forgotten man in the family
as his mother and father doted on his older sister and spent long hours
scolding Susanna.
Susanna's behavioral issues were the main reason that Peter's parents
were reluctant to leave him in charge. She had been spoiled when she
was younger and began acting out more demonstratively and destructively
as she approached her teenage years.
It was Susanna's behavioral issues that prompted her parents to enroll
her at a private all girls' high school over her strenuous objections.
She wanted to go to public school with her friends, but her parents
believed that they had been a terrible influence on her.
"You know what a handful she can be," Davis replied to his son as he
paused to rehash his doubts about leaving his son alone with her.
Davis and his wife's, Vicki, plans to oversee Susanna's first days at
her new school were thrown into disarray by their oldest daughter. Her
hospitalization across the country after breaking her leg and briefly
falling into a comma, after she tripped while rolling a beer keg up the
street with a friend, had laid waste to their plans.
Both parents greatly wanted to be by her side until she was discharged
from the hospital and got acclimated back to living on her own. Still,
their doubts about Peter's ability to handle Susanna made them hold back
a little as each thought about leaving the other behind to stay home and
deal with their youngest child.
"Dad, it's no big deal. I mean she acted out the other day with me, and
I pinned her down. I got the edge there on you too because I'll put my
hands on her while you two won't."
Davis glared at his son for a moment before he retorted, "You think you
can keep an eye on her and figure out what she's doing, when you're
still trying to find yourself."
Peter could not miss the derision in his father's tone as he finished
his sentence. While Peter's mother was slightly supportive of his
decision to put off college for a year, Peter's father saw it as nothing
more than a waste of time.
Peter replied, "I've got it. Now, get going."
Davis shook his head at his son's cocky attitude before he replied, "If
she gives you any trouble, any trouble, pickup the phone immediately."
Peter nodded as Davis walked towards the bags he packed as his wife
finished warning her youngest daughter about what would happen if she
acted out while they were away. She came down the stairs when she
finished, sending Davis to Susanna's room to second her message and say
goodbye to her.
Vicki stared at her son as she clutched at her luggage.
"What's going on, Mom?" Peter asked feeling uncomfortable as Vicki
stared at him in silence.
"Do you know what you're getting yourself into?"
"I've lived with her for her whole life, Mom."
"It's not the same thing as trying to control her."
"I've kicked her ass for years too."
"Brothers and sisters fighting is not the same thing as parenting..."
"I'm not her parent!"
"True, but you're going to, essentially, be her guardian."
Peter shrugged as he said, "How hard can it really be, Mom?"
"You have no idea," she retorted as her husband started down the stairs.
"Are you almost ready?" Davis asked his wife.
Vicki nodded her head as she turned to Davis and asked, "Are you sure
about this?"
Despite the vagueness of her question, Peter was sure that it was about
leaving his sister in his care. Davis shook his head and said, "No, but
what are our options?"
Vicki nodded again before she turned to her son and said, "Don't screw
this up."
"That badly," his father added to try to break the tension a little.
"It'll be fine," Peter replied, trying to reassure them as they stepped
out of the door. Peter said goodbye to them before they made their way
to his father's car. Peter turned away from the door and moved into the
kitchen as they got into the car and started it.
As his parents pulled out of the driveway to make the trip to go and
tend to his older sister, his younger sister emerged from her bedroom.
She walked down the stairs and saw Peter standing in the kitchen.
Susanna walked towards Peter and smirked as she said, "What's up, little
bro?"
Peter glared at his younger sister, knowing how much she liked to mock
him for being three inches shorter than she was. There were tall and
short genes on both sides of the family. While Peter and his older
sister had gotten the short genes, his younger sister was not burdened
with them and not shy about reminding either one of her siblings about
it.
"What's up with you?" Peter retorted as he leaned onto the counter.
"Nothing much. I'm just heading out with my friends in a little bit."
"Okay," Peter replied, not caring too much about how his sister spent
her time.
"Just don't bother me," Peter added.
"Oh, heaven forbid. I know you've got so much going on with all that
nothing to take up your time," Susanna replied as she rolled her eyes.
"Well, nothing is going to beat what you're going to be doing tomorrow."
"We'll see about that."
"I don't think so. I was a freshman once. I know what you're in for,"
Peter said with a laugh.
"You were at a real school. I'm at an all girls school. It's going to
be nothing like you anything you experienced."
"There's going to be more lesbian action," Peter replied.
Susanna scrunched up her face as she shook her head and said, "That's
disgusting, you pervert."
"Two girls together is a beautiful thing, sis," Peter responded, knowing
how uncomfortable lesbians made her sister.
"Oh, so, suddenly, you're Mr. Tolerance, now."
"I'm a tolerant person."
"So, if I bring over Clarissa's gay brother and his boyfriend over, you
won't look away when they start making out? All that kissing and
fondling..."
"That's enough," Peter interjected trying to clear away the image that
Susanna had implanted in his mind.
"That's what I thought, you little freak."
"Just remember, I might be shorter than you, but I can still kick your
ass."
"Is that your proudest accomplishment? You can still kick your little
sister's ass. Grow up already."
"Oh, I should grow up already. How much did you bitch and moan when
they signed you up for Chilton?"
"That's totally different! They're taking me away from all my friends."
"They're a bad influence, honey. They're only taking you in the wrong
direction," Peter replied, mimicking his mother.
Susanna rolled her eyes and sneered as she said, "Well, I'm still going
out with them today."
"Just be back by curfew. You've got your big first day of school
tomorrow," Peter mocked.
"Thank you, Mother," Susanna retorted as she walked towards him. Peter
turned away from her before Susanna grabbed the ends of some Peter's
long strands of hair and yanked it.
"Ow," Peter yelped before he turned and slapped away her hand yelled,
"Bitch!"
Susanna smirked in response as she walked towards the front door and
took hold of her purse. Peter watched her hurry out the door before he
went into the living room.
Peter rested around the home throughout the day. As the evening sky
grew dim, Peter began to wonder where his sister was and called her to
ask if she wanted him to pickup dinner for her. He called her phone,
but he got no response, which was not unusual when he tried to call her.
After Peter left his home to get dinner for himself, he returned and ate
it at home while he waited for his sister to come through the front
door. As her curfew came and went, Peter picked up the phone and called
her again.
Susanna did not answer his call, prompting Peter to start to worry.
'What the hell is she doing', Peter wondered before he left the house
and got into his car.
Peter drove to Susanna's favorite places to hangout with her friends,
but he did not see her anywhere before he returned home, hoping she had
beat him back. Peter walked in the front door and called out to his
sister.
Silence met him before he locked the front door and headed up the steps
to check her bedroom. Peter prayed that she was ignoring him or had on
headphones while he turned the doorknob to her room.
Peter pushed open the door and saw that Susanna was nowhere to be found.
He peered inside at the teen heartthrob pictures that lined her walls
before he turned and walked out of the room.
Peter shook his head as he called her phone again. Susanna picked up
and shrieked, "God, what do you want from my life, Peter?"
"Where the hell are you?" Peter bellowed.
"What's it to you?" Susanna retorted.
"I'm supposed to be watching you!"
"And a hell of a job you're doing too," Susanna rejoined.
"Get your ass back here," Peter shouted.
"Why don't you ask nicely?"
"I'm not playing games, Susanna."
"I'm not either. I don't want any part of that fucking Chilton Academy
they're sending me to anyway. I'm going to get myself kicked out one
way or another. I may as well get it out of the way now. So, I'll be
back when I damn well feel like it!"
"You're coming back, now."
"Make me, little boy," Susanna retorted as she hung up the phone.
Peter screamed before he dialed Susanna's phone, but she refused to
pickup his call. Peter kept dialing Susanna's phone, but she just sent
his calls straight to voicemail each time. Peter beat his fist against
the wall as he thought about calling the police or his parents. Peter
remembered his father telling him to call him if his sister gave him any
trouble, but Peter did not want to admit that he was in over his head
already.
"She's fine. She's fine. She'll probably be back by morning," Peter
rationalized before he went back down the steps. Peter sat down upon
the couch and turned on the television and decided to wait for his
sister to come home. Peter worried more and more as the hours passed
before he found himself drifting to sleep.
Peter's eyes opened wide as he saw the morning sunlight shinning through
the window. Peter rubbed his eyes as he stumbled to his feet and
thought, 'Shit. I was only trying to rest my eyes for a minute.'
Peter tried to shake off his grogginess as he moved towards the
staircase. Peter slowly ascended the steps before he turned and walked
towards his sister's bedroom door.
Peter gave the vacant room a blank look as he noticed that the sheets
were undisturbed from the night before. Peter's heart started to race
as he realized that his sister had not come home.
"Susanna," Peter shouted out just to be sure.
"Oh, my God," Peter exclaimed as he tried to calm himself down. He
reached for his cell phone and called her.
Again, his call went straight to voice mail. "You bitch," Peter
bellowed as he clasped his head and stood in silence trying to figure
out what to do.
Peter walked into his sister's room and stared around it. His eyes
caught sight of her new school identification that was resting on the
top of her vanity.
"Son of a bitch," Peter exclaimed as he remembered that it was Susanna's
first day at her new school.
"They're going to call looking for her," Peter realized, knowing that
her absence would also be noted. He knew that there was no way he was
going to be able to hide it from his parents.
"Oh, God! I'm going to have to call them," Peter muttered as he clasped
his head and shook it from side to side. Peter knew that he was never
going to hear the end of it from his father. He had lost his teenage
sister in less than a day.
"They already don't trust me," Peter said to himself as he pulled his
hands away from his face and caught a glimpse of his reflection in the
mirror. Peter moved closer to it and thought about all the strangers
that had assumed that he and Susanna were twins giving their appearance.
They both strongly resembled their mother, while their older sister
looked strikingly like his father's mother. Peter stared down at the
picture and noticed the slight perceptible differences between their
appearances. His small nose was slightly larger. His long hair was
slightly lighter and did not contain the highlights his sister had put
in hers. The distinguishing differences were real, but the picture on
her identification was surprisingly dark. Peter knew that it would take
an extremely close inspection of the identification to differentiate him
from the girl in the picture before him.
The only thing that may gave someone doubt was the height discrepancy.
Peter shrugged as he reasoned, "I could claim I was wearing heels when
they took the measurement."
Peter caught himself as he muttered, "I can't be really thinking about
trying this."
'You can't be that stupid,' a voice inside his head answered.
Peter began to weigh the risks in his head before his phone rang. Peter
desperately hoped that it was his sister.
The sight of the words "Incoming Call - Mom" made his stomach drop as
all his hopes left his body. Peter nervously pressed the talk button
and said, "Hello."
"Hey, baby."
"Hi, Mom," Peter replied trying to feign cheerfulness.
"How are you holding up?"
"Pretty good," Peter lied.
"Is Susanna there? I can't get through to her."
"Umm...," Peter replied.
"Is she there or not," his mother pressed.
"Sure, she's here."
"Can I speak to her?"
"Can you? Um...oh, no. No, I'm sorry she's in the bathroom," Peter lied,
not wanting to admit the truth.
"You make sure that she gets to school. She can't be late. I don't
want her starting off on the wrong foot."
"I promise I'll get her there on time, Mom, one way or another," Peter
replied.
His mother thanked him before she asked if there was anything he needed.
Peter told her no before he got off the phone and stared back at his
reflection in the vanity.
"Well, you really screwed yourself good, Peter," Peter said to his
reflection before he saw the time on Susanna's alarm clock.
"Shit," Peter exclaimed as he hurried into the bathroom. Peter turned
on the shower and thought about the many mornings he spent getting ready
to go to high school.
"This again," Peter muttered shaking his head as he stepped into the
shower. As Peter scrubbed his legs, Peter realized that his leg hair
would not look good underneath Susanna's skirt.
"For the love of God," Peter mumbled under his breath as he caught a
glimpse of his sister's lady's razor.
"I can't really do this," Peter said while he picked up the razor. He
made one stroke on his legs and saw the long bald patch left in its
wake.
Peter shuddered at the sight of the matted hair on the blade before he
cleaned it off.
"There's no going back now," Peter muttered as he felt a queasy feeling
growing in his stomach as he shaved his legs.
Once Peter finished with his legs, he looked at the small amount of hair
on his arms and decided not to shave it before his eyes drifted to his
chest.
Peter's meager amount of chest hair was a source of embarrassment for
him among his friends as he did not have the muscle mass to pull off the
smooth skin look. Peter hated the idea of losing the small amount of
hair he had on his chest, but he figured that the season for being
shirtless had already passed as he lathered up his chest.
Peter chest did not take long to shave before he looked at his underarms
and thought, 'Do I really have to?'
As the realization that his sister had gym class hit, Peter knew that
the answer was yes. Peter shaved both armpits before he washed his hair
and stepped out of the shower.
Peter quickly dried himself off before he blow-dried his long, naturally
straight hair. Peter placed a towel around his waist and moved into his
sister's room. He opened her closet and stared at her uniforms.
The sight of the plaid jumpers and white blouses made his stomach churn
before he realized that he needed undergarments to pad out the
developing figure he was supposed to have as the 14-year-old girl he was
trying to pass himself off as being. Peter hesitated before he moved
towards Susanna's dresser. He felt like a pervert as he pulled open his
younger sister's underwear drawer and looked at her collection of
intimates.
"Jesus Christ," Peter exclaimed as he saw the selection that easily
dwarfed his entire collection of boxers and undershirts. Peter's hands
trembled as he pulled out a plain white bra from the drawer and flung it
onto her bed.
Peter rubbed the hand that had touched the bra against his towel a few
times before he managed to muster the resolve to pickup a pair of her
white panties. Peter dropped his robe and felt sick as he stepped into
her soft cotton panties.
Peter was alarmed by how soft and comfortable they felt as they were
brought up his freshly shaven legs. "This is so wrong," Peter muttered
as he felt his manhood enlarging as it was placed into its confines
within his panties.
Peter shuddered as he reached for the bra and put his arms through it.
He hooked it in front of his chest before he reached into her drawer and
pulled out several pairs of socks to stuff it with. Peter felt far more
comfortable handling the socks then the rest of her intimates that were
now on his body as he took hold of them.
Once Peter finished stuffing the bra, he thought about what he would
wear on his legs. Peter knew that his sister had bought a large
collection of colored tights to wear under them at her mother's
insistence. It was one of the only ways the girls were allowed to show
any individuality, however, even then, they were required to be a solid
color.
The idea of putting them on made Peter's head spin before he saw his
sister's handbook from the school. He turned the book to the required
uniform and was relieved to find that girls were allowed to wear socks
in any color.
Peter breathed a sigh of relief as he grabbed hold of a pair of plain
white socks and put them on his feet before he went towards Susanna's
closet. Peter picked up the plain white, cap sleeved blouse with a
Peter Pan collar that he knew made his sister sick to wear. Peter knew
how much she hated wearing it when her mother made her try it on, and he
never tired of teasing her for having to wear it for a whole school
year. The idea that he would ever find himself in it was too fanciful
for him even to imagine prior to that moment.
"Is this a Karmic revenge," Peter wondered aloud as he put the blouse on
and buttoned it up.
After putting on the blouse, Peter resigned himself to putting on the
jumper that the school made its freshmen wear before permitting them to
wear skirts in their remaining three years at the school. Peter put the
jumper on overhead before he worked his arms through the holes.
Peter shuddered as he saw his legs peaking out from beneath the skirt of
the jumper. Peter's eyes were drawn back to the mirror over Susanna's
vanity.
"I look like a little fucking girl," Peter's said in a defeated tone
that could not hide his despair.
Peter grinded his teeth while he went back to the vanity and saw the
array of cosmetics that his sister had left out. Peter was familiar
with some of the makeup as his two sisters had teamed up to make him
over when he was younger before he grew stronger than his older sister.
Most of the makeup was foreign to Peter though in terms of putting it
on. He resigned himself to only putting on his sister's eye shadow and
lip-gloss as they were the only things he figured he could do a
presentable job with given his unfamiliarity with makeup.
Peter took care to apply the cosmetics evenly on his face. Peter was
surprised by how feminine the black eye shadow and pink lip-gloss made
his eyes and lips look.
Peter shook his head at his reflection as he looked down at Susanna's
school identification again and thought that no one would be able to
distinguish him from the girl in the picture. Peter nodded to himself
as he went into Susanna's closet and pulled out one of her purses. He
put her school identification into it before he put her makeup in it as
well.
"What else would she need?" Peter wondered aloud as he looked around,
wanting to make sure that he appeared to be a 14-year-old girl and not
an 18-year-old boy pretending to be one.
Peter opened up his Susanna's drawers and pulled out a brush and put it
in the bag. He kept opening the drawers until he saw Susanna's Kotex.
Peter's stomach churned as he took out a pad and stuck it in his bag
just in case another girl looked inside of it.
Peter reached for the school bag that his mother had bought Susanna. He
put it on his back before he picked up his purse and grabbed the
school's handbook. He thumbed through it to look at the permitted shoes
as he wondered if any of his sister's would fit him.
After placing the handbook in his purse, Peter leaned over and took hold
of the black and white saddle shoes and the black Mary Jane's that
Susanna was permitted to wear. Peter thought that the saddle shoes
looked bigger, so he slipped his feet into them.
Peter breathed a sigh of relief as he found that his feet almost fit
into the shoes. Although his feet felt crushed by the size too small
shoes, Peter knew that he could persevere for a day in them.
Peter picked up the purse again and hurried down the steps. Peter
grabbed his keys before he remembered that 14-year-old girls were not
allowed to drive. Peter struggled regarding his correct course of
action before he saw the yellow bus coming down the street.
Peter had not ridden one during his entire senior year, and he felt that
it was beneath him to do it. Peter waited for the bus to pull away
before he grabbed his mother's keys and went into the garage.
Peter decided to take her car so that he could pull into and out of the
garage instead of having to walk to and from his car that was parked on
the street in full view of the neighbors. Peter got behind the wheel
and began to formulate a plan to park at the park and ride that was not
far from Susanna's school.
Peter made his way to the place before he parked his car and began the
fifteen-minute walk to the school. Peter felt sick as the school came
into his view and he saw the teenaged girls standing around front of it.
The idea that he was going to spend a day among them seemed absurd to
him, but the feeling of the warm, early autumn wind blowing up the skirt
of his jumper kept driving home the reality of his situation. Peter
kept his head low as he worried if he could pass himself off as a girl
once he was forced to interact with people.
As Peter walked past some of the older classmen, he felt largely
anonymous. Once he reached the door, he saw a security guard who asked
for his identification.
Peter reached into his purse and pulled out his sister's school
identification card. The guard looked it over before he let Peter in
without saying a word.
As Peter walked through the hallways, he saw some people looking at him
as he made his way towards the homeroom that Susanna had been assigned
to for the school year. Peter was surprised by how many of the girls
were bigger than him. While there had been a number of girls at his
school that were taller than he was, the Academy's school size was
similar to his public school. The almost doubled amount of girls
resulted in there being a seemingly doubled amount of girls who were
larger than he was.
His heart was racing as Peter walked into his sister's homeroom. He
gazed around at the seated girls before he spotted an empty desk. He
slid into the chair beneath the desk to wait for the bell to ring while
the girls around him chatted as if he was not there.
Once the bell rang, the homeroom instructor told them what was expected
of them. Peter was surprised by her stern tone. It was different from
what he was used to and was something that he felt he was beyond in his
life. Despite the feeling, Peter remembered his place. The feeling of
the hem of the jumper's skirt on his legs would not let him forget who
he was supposed to be.
Peter nodded along with the freshmen girls while the teacher continued
to talk before he was given a lock and assigned a locker. Peter took
his lock and went towards the locker across from the homeroom and put
his things away before he returned to the classroom with the other
girls.
Once homeroom ended, Peter reported to his sister's first class. It was
a routine that was similar to the one he had grown used to in the high
school days he thought he had left behind for good. Peter walked into
the class and sat down before the class began.
The teacher seated the students in alphabetical order shortly after the
bell rang. As the teacher explained the curriculum of the class, Peter
nodded along, already knowing the material from when he had been
subjected to it.
Once the class ended, Peter headed into the hallway towards his second
period class. As he turned a corner, he kept his head down, nervous
that eye contact would result in someone making a conclusion about his
true gender that had escaped everyone around him so far.
Peter picked up his speed as girl stepped away from her locker. The
girl took a sudden set back into Peter, sending him reeling to the
floor.
"Watch where you're going, pipsqueak," the girl taunted as Peter stared
up at her broad, 6 foot even frame. Peter nodded in silence,
intimidated by the girl. 'She could kick my ass', Peter thought with
some alarm while the girl went back to talking with her friends from the
school swim team.
Peter's hand trembled as he got to his feet and picked up his purse.
Peter could see some of the other girls laughing at him as his weakness
had been exposed to them.
He hurried towards his second period class as he heard the laughter that
he was sure that he was coming at his expense. Peter sat down in the
classroom and saw a few girls he had passed by staring at him and
laughing at him as they caught a glimpse of his reddened face.
He saw one girl do a pratfall while the group of girls she was with
laughed at his misfortune. 'Just great', Peter thought.
The second class went much like the first as the instructor told him
nothing that he had not heard before. Once the class ended, Peter
headed back into the hallway.
Peter quickly realized that he was still a source of amusement as he
exited the classroom. He kept his head down as he heard the whispering.
A few girls stepped in front of him to try to make him walk into them.
Peter shook his head as heard other girls talking about various things
that he did not understand. Peter realized that he was in a completely
alien territory. He had nothing in common with the girls. His failure
to be able to relate to them kept him alienated and unable to form
connections as he entered his third class.
As Peter sat down, he noticed that the cliques of girls were taking form
as they began to cling together as they grew more familiar with one
another. Peter shook his head wondering how anyone could deal with it.
While Peter had seen male bullying before, and had been on the receiving
end of some of it, Peter felt that the girls were just trying to
humiliate him and make him feel isolated because he lacked their social
skills. The more Peter thought about it, the crueler that girls seemed
to be towards one another than men were.
As the class ended, a group of girls from the class walked up to Peter
in the hallway and asked, "So what's your deal?"
"What deal?" Peter asked.
"Why aren't you saying anything to anyone?" One inquired.
"I didn't have anything to say," Peter replied.
One girl smiled at another before she said, "I don't doubt it with her
cock sucking lips."
Peter blushed furiously prompting another girl to reply, "That's it.
She's a total slut."
"I'm not a slut!"
"How many guys did you blow this summer," one asked.
Peter put his head down and tried to walk away from them as they
followed him down the hallway laughing with each other and pointing at
him. Peter felt that he was on the verge of tears as he entered the
classroom. He wanted to scream out that he was a heterosexual boy, but
he knew that would only make things far worse for himself.
Peter sat down at a desk and waited for the teacher to situate the kids
as she desired. Peter followed the instructions as he moved about in
the class and got another lecture on a subject he remembered as it was
described to him.
Once Peter exited the class, a group of girls got in front of him. They
walked in a slow straight line, forcing him to keep his head up to
prevent himself from walking into them. Peter could see them talking
and occasionally looking back at him. They never addressed him. They
just let him know that they considered him beneath them as they
controlled his pace and snickered to each other.
'This cannot be happening', Peter thought as he remembered some of the
girls from his school that were picked on for seemingly no reason.
'I'm the target girl', Peter thought as he made his way to his next
class.
Once Peter was seated in his next class, he realized that the girl
behind him was one of the girls that had been with the group that teased
him in the hallway. Peter shook his head before he felt the girl
deliberately push her desk against the back of his chair to catch
Peter's long hair between it.
Peter tried to move forward, prompting him to wince as he felt the
pulling on his hair. Peter wanted to scream before he was able to free
his hair while several classmates laughed at his expense yet again. The
instructor rolled her eyes at the whole thing, sure that it was no
different from any other girl-on-girl misbehavior she had seen.
The class went by very slowly for Peter as the instructor talked about
various mathematical theories that they were going to be learning.
'This sucked so much the first time around', Peter thought as he assured
himself that Susanna would find her way into his seat sooner rather than
later.
The class came to an end and Peter checked his sister's schedule and saw
that she had a lunch period. Peter got to his feet and dropped off the
books he had received from his morning classes in his locker. Peter
closed his locker and locked it before he walked towards the cafeteria.
Peter began to walk towards the lunchroom, thinking back to his high
school days. He knew to well that the cafeteria was practically a
playground for bullies.
Peter hoped that none of the girls that had said a word to him all day
would be there as he entered. As Peter entered, however, he quickly
realized that the room was filled with each and every freshmen in
Chilton Academy.
"Shit," Peter said under his breath as he saw the girls that were
bonding over the various humiliations they could foist upon him.
Peter got his lunch before he resigned himself to sitting at a table
alone. Peter remembered seeing others do it when he was in high school.
It was almost an invitation to further alienate the person.
'This is hell', Peter thought as he began to eat in silence before he
caught a glimpse of the door leading to the parking lot. He shook his
head and thought, 'I want break free from all this.'
The door was inviting, but Peter feared he could not make it off the
school's property without being caught. He shook his head at the
trapped feeling that was gnawing at him. His self pity was broken up
when Peter heard some jokes about the 'friendless loser' that he knew
was directed at him. While Peter had never been shy, all of his
confidence was stripped away from him by the panties, jumper and girls'
shoes he was stuck wearing.
The end of the lunch period felt like a great relief for Peter as he got
to his feet and collected his purse and backpack. Peter went to his
next class and sat through the science lecture before he was assigned
lab partners for his sister's every other day science lab period.
The girls he was paired up with did not seem to be too happy about it,
but they seemed to tolerate him as they tried to get to know each other
while they did their first lab assignment. Peter had difficulty talking
with the girls as he was not familiar with the various things they were
discussing. Peter was mostly silent as he did most of the work, but he
tried to interject where he could.
As the class ended, one of the girls smiled at Peter and said, "Do you
want to be friends?"
Feeling lonely, Peter replied, "Sure, why not?"
The girl smiled as her friends came over towards them before she
replied, "Oh, wait, that's right, I can't be friends with loser who
can't even put on her makeup without looking like a total freak. Later,
loser."
The girl's friends' laughter cut Peter as he slumped down and waited for
them to leave the room before he began to walk towards his next class
with his chin buried into his chest. As he made his way down the
hallway, he felt a shove followed by laughter.
Peter wanted to strike back at the girl, but had a mental block that
kept him from hitting a girl. Peter wanted kill someone by the time he
entered his next class, feeling about an inch tall.
"Look at her, she's probably a boy," one of the girls said to laughter
as Peter sat down. Peter suppressed every urge to confirm her mean-
spirited remark while he tried to focus on the instructor and pretend to
ignore them as the rest of the day went on.
Once the school day ended, Peter stopped by his sister's locker and
collected her books. Peter then rushed out the door and headed down the
sidewalk. He walked as fast as he could trying to get away from anyone
he recognized.
Peter took a few shortcuts as he made his way back to the park and ride.
Peter looked around and was sure that no one would see him before he got
behind the wheel of his mother's car and started it.
Peter drove back towards his home and put on the radio to try to calm
down as he thought about the events of the day. Peter pulled down his
street and pressed a button to open the garage door. Peter pulled the
car in and parked the car before he grabbed his purse and backpack and
headed into the home.
Peter closed the garage door before he stepped into the hallway.
"What the hell?" Peter heard his sister shriek as he saw her staring at
him. Peter's mouth dropped as his knees felt weak.
"What the fuck?" Susanna said before she started to laugh.
Peter stood, dumbfounded as his sister stared at him.
"Are you fucking serious," Susanna said after composing herself for a
minute.
"Where the hell were you?" Peter retorted.
"Where was I? Where were you?" Susanna rejoined as she looked over the
uniform her brother had teased her about having to wear while he sported
it in front of her.
Peter stared at her in silence before Susanna squealed, "You went to an
all girls' school! Oh, my God! That is hysterical!"
"Because you disappeared!"
"And your immediate thought was to put on a jumper and my makeup and go
to school," Susanna replied with a laugh.
"This isn't a laughing matter!"
"It is for the girl not in the jumper!"
"Damn it, Susanna. While the hell did you have to pull this shit?"
Peter bellowed.
"I told you I wasn't going."
"Oh, you're going," Peter replied dropping his sister's purse and
backpack to the ground.
Peter started towards her with a menacing gaze, prompting Susanna to
take a step back and pickup her camera phone. As Peter heard the click,
he jumped towards her. Susanna bolted to the right and kept pressing
buttons as Peter rushed to tackle her while Susanna took more pictures
of him en femme and emailed them to herself.
"What the hell is your problem?" Peter replied when he finally tackled
her and saw what she had done.
"My problem? You're the sissy in a dress."
"I'm not a sissy!"
"Your lip-gloss begs to differ," Susanna retorted before Peter started
to delete the pictures from her phone.
"Go ahead," Susanna started to mock her brother before pausing to add,
"I already emailed them out."
"To who?"
"To me."
"Why?"
"I wanted to prove to Mom, once and for all, that those ugly saddle
shoes and jumper look a lot better on a sissy than a girl."
"I'm not a sissy," Peter retorted while he stomped his foot into the
ground.
"No! That's so not a sissy throwing a tantrum."
"Stop calling me a sissy."
"Sissy, sissy, sissy. My little sissy."
"I'm going to kill you."
"Then you'd be impersonating me for the rest of your life right? That's
the plan, isn't it, you little faggot. You just want to be me."
"Shut up!" Peter exclaimed as he got off his sister.
"It's just like when we were kids and me and sis would take you down and
dress you up in her clothes and put on her makeup. Our little Tina
always looked so happy despite all your pretend struggling."
"I fucking hated it and you know it."
"That's what you told us, but look at you, now. You seemed to have
jumped at the first opportunity to shave your legs and put on a skirt."
"Shut up!"
"And don't be throwing my stuff around," Susanna exclaimed while she
reached for the pocketbook he threw to the ground.
Peter's jaw dropped as Susanna picked up the purse and opened it saw the
Kotex pad staring back at her.
"Are you fucking kidding me," Susanna said, nearly doubling over from
laughter.
"What?"
"You brought Kotex with you."
"Every girl carries it."
"So, you're girl, now?"
"That's what the other girls think!"
"Other girls? Do you hear yourself, sister! You're such a fag,"
Susanna replied with a laugh.
"Just keep laughing it up. You're going there tomorrow!"
"I am?"
"You bet your ass!"
"How are we going to explain that?"
"You're Susanna Perry!"
"I am? Is that what the other girls, as you call them, think?"
"What are you talking about?"
"What am I talking about? You introduced yourself as me to everyone at
school!"
"We look a lot alike," Peter replied, starting to sweat.
"We might look a little alike, but we can't pass for each other."
"No," Peter replied, sounding more than a little intransigent.
Susanna countered, "Even if we did, how would we explain three inches of
height growth overnight."
"It's not that noticeable."
"To who?" Susanna retorted with a laugh.
"It's just a few inches."
"So you think everyone's too stupid to see that our noses changed and
our height changed and we're not built exactly the same, you know,
overnight?"
"They could miss it," Peter replied, his desperation clear to Susanna
from his tone.
"There's no denying it," Susanna said with a laugh.
"I can deny it..."
"And I can email out those pictures to Mom, Dad and whichever one of
your friends' emails I can get my hands on."
"You're shitting me."
"Do you thinking I'm fucking with you? You know how much I hate that
shit hole?"
"You've never been there."
"I visited it once. It was more than enough."
"What do you want from me?"
"If you felt the need to go as me, I think you should keep on going."
"Not a chance."
"Again, those pictures go out when I want. How I want!"
"Kiss my ass."
"If that's how you feel, they're going out today."'
"You're screwing with me," Peter replied as he saw his sister head for
the stairs.
"Just watch me, Princess."
"Princess?"
"You didn't like sissy. I think it's just as good a word to describe
you."
"I'm not a princess."
"You're certainly prissy."
"Screw off."
"Not a chance."
"What do you really want from me?"
"I already told you. You're me for now, at least when it comes to
school."
"You have to be kidding?"
"Still, not a chance, Princess. Now, I'm going out with my friends.
When I come back, you better have completed 'my' homework."
"Are you crazy," Peter replied as Susanna began to move towards the
door.
"And you better still be wearing that uniform when I get back or those
pictures are going out the minute I come back for dinner."
Peter stared at Susanna with a slacked jaw as she walked past him and
out of the house.
"She can't be serious," Peter said aloud.
Peter shook his head as he moved towards the kitchen table and sat
beneath it. He clasped his head as he wondered if his sister was
serious.
The more he thought about it, the more certain he was that she was
serious with respect to her ultimatum. Peter cursed under his breath as
he got to his feet, grabbed her backpack and carried it back to the
table.
Peter pulled out her textbooks and began to do her homework at the
table. Remembering most of what she was doing from his own high school
years, Peter completed the homework with ease before he moved into the
kitchen and began to make dinner.
The feeling of the skirt of his jumper against his legs still felt
strange while he walked around the kitchen making dinner for himself and
Susanna. Shortly after he finished making the meal, Susanna walked
through the front door. She hurried into the kitchen and saw Peter
placing the dinner on the table, still dressed in her school uniform.
"Smells good, Sis," Susanna said with a smile.
Peter glared at his sister before she sat down at the table and began to
eat. Peter glowered at her as he sat down beside her.
After chewing his first bite, Peter turned to his sister and asked, "Can
we talk?"
"Unless your next words are to ask what you're wearing tomorrow, don't
bother."
Peter glared at his sister as she went back to eating, giving a smug
smile at his displeasure.
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Peter awoke the next morning to the sound of a beeping alarm clock. The
sound was different from the clock he had gotten used to over the years.
Peter rolled over and hit the alarm clock as he stared up at the
ceiling.
A momentary confusion overcame him as he stared around the strange room.
It took Peter a few seconds to remember that his little sister had
blackmailed him into staying the night in their older sister's room.
"She's taking this shit too far," Peter muttered as he stepped out of
the bed wearing a pink sleepshirt adorned with a Hello Kitty slightly
above its hem, which his little sister had outgrown the year before.
Peter shook his head as he felt the fabric of the nightgown moving
across his smooth legs and chest while he walked into the bathroom.
Peter then showered before he shaved his face.
After he finished up in the bathroom, Peter went down the stairs to have
breakfast. As he finished eating, Susanna walked into the kitchen.
"Morning, sissy," Susanna said with a smile.
"Shut it!"
Susanna grinned and shook her head, knowing that her words cut at her
thin-skinned brother once again. She moved towards him and asked, "Are
you ready to get dressed?"
"You're really going to make me go through with this?"
"No. I'm going to let you," Susanna replied with a smugness that struck
Peter as almost beyond self-righteous.
Peter sighed as he cleaned his bowl and followed his sister up to her
room. Susanna pulled out her undergarments before she took out a pair
of pink tights.
"Those tights can't be allowed," Peter replied, hoping against hope that
he was right.
"The rules are clear that we can wear any color we want, so long as its
solid," Susanna retorted before sticking out her tongue to mock her
brother further.
Peter rolled his eyes while Susanna stepped out of the room as she made
him dress in a matching bra and panty set before Peter stuffed the bra.
Once Peter finished putting it on, Susanna reentered her bedroom.
Susanna clapped her hands as she saw him and said, "That's too
precious."
"Shut up, Susanna," Peter rejoined as he covered his panties with his
hand.
"Don't get bitchy with me, Sis," Susanna said as she grabbed her tights
and rolled them down.
Susanna motioned for Peter to sit down on her bed before she put his
feet into the tights. Peter was surprised by how good they felt on his
smooth skin as Susanna began to work them up his legs.
Susanna smiled at Peter as she told him how to pull the tights up his
legs. Peter sighed as he followed Susanna's instructions, taking over
for her before he pulled them over his panties.
Peter felt sick to his stomach as he stared at his pink tights covered
legs while Susanna went into her closet and removed a blouse and jumper.
Peter shook his head as he put on the blouse and jumper as he had the
day before.
Susanna smiled as she looked him over before she handed the pair of
black, chunky heeled Mary Jane's that her mother had bought for her.
"Can't I wear the other ones," Peter replied, feeling that the saddle
shoes were less emasculating due to the presence of laces.
"Not a chance," Susanna replied with a grin.
Despite his disgust, Peter slipped his feet into the Mary Jane's before
he buckled the straps of both of his shoes. Peter hated how childish he
looked in the jumper, Mary Jane's and tights, but he knew that he had
backed himself into the corner he found himself in.
Once Peter finished putting on his shoes, Susanna began to apply
cosmetics to his face. Susanna smiled as she put on his lip-gloss and
said, "You did a nice job, yesterday, but you could have looked so much
sluttier."
"You know this is your reputation," Peter replied.
"I don't give a damn about it at Chilton," Susanna said with a smile
before she reached for her mascara.
Peter struggled to stay still as his sister applied mascara to his
eyelashes, as well as eye shadow to his eyelids and concealer. The
layers of cosmetics felt strange on his skin while Susanna began to
inspect his purse.
Susanna grinned at Peter as she saw the Kotex he had put in the bag the
day before again. She pulled it out and tossed it at him.
"What was that for?" Peter exclaimed as he threw the pad down on her
bed and stepped away from it.
"Since you were so eager to put one in your bag yesterday, I figure you
should put one on."
"What?"
"Your period starts today."
"I'm a guy. I can't have a period."
"Oh, you do. Period!"
"I'm not putting this on."
"Is this what you really want to get exposed about? You want everyone
to find out what a sissy you are just because you don't want to wear
some Kotex like a good little pansy."
"I'm not putting it on!"
"Oh, I think you will. It'll even help you in gym class."
"How?"
"Just cry that you're on the rag, and they'll probably let you out of
class."
"I don't think it works that way."
"It does if you work it the right way," Susanna countered.
"Susanna, please."
"You have to the count of five," Susanna replied as she picked up her
phone.
Peter stared blankly at her as she said, "One, two, three, four..."
Before she could get to five, Peter ripped open the bag containing the
maxi pad. He tried to figure how to open it before Susanna did it for
him. She told him how to put it on before she stepped out of the room
to give him some privacy.
Peter felt like a fool as he pulled down his tights and panties to put
on a maxi pad. As Peter secured it in place and pulled up his panties
and tights, Peter heard it scrunching beneath him.
Peter shuddered as he dropped the skirt of his jumper back down over his
crotch. Peter walked towards the door to see his sister and drew the
door open.
Susanna's smiling face greeted Peter as he opened the door.
"How does it feel, Sis?"
"It feels like a fucking diaper," Peter said, growing even surer he
heard the pad crunching as he moved.
"Well that checks out," Susanna said before she turned and said, "And if
you want to keep thinking that you're guy, don't think of it as a maxi
pad, think of it as a big sissy diaper."
Peter squirmed with discomfort as he blushed before Susanna asked, "Are
you almost ready to go? You know your bus will be here any minute."
"Bus? I'm 18, Susanna."
"No, you're 14, Susanna. You don't even have a learner's permit."
"I drove yesterday."
"You may have driven yesterday, but we can't risk having anybody from
the school seeing you driving en femme. There would be way too many
questions."
Peter shook his head despite knowing that his sister's reasoning was
correct. Susanna picked up his backpack and said, "Here you are, Sis."
"Thanks," Peter replied with evident sarcasm in his tone.
Susanna smiled while she responded, "Don't mention it."
Once Peter put on his sister's backpack, she handed him the purse and
said, "Don't worry, I stuffed your bag with a couple of extra pads just
in case you need them."
Peter shook his head at his sister's laughter while he took a hold of
the purse before he walked towards the front door. Peter stepped
outside and made his way towards the bus stop in front of his home.
Peter waited for a few minutes before he saw the large yellow bus
rumbling down the street. Peter shook his head at the sight of it as he
said to himself, "Oh, great, this again."
The bus stopped before him to let him on. Peter could not believe that
he was reduced to riding a school bus again as he got onto it.
Once Peter stepped aboard it, he noticed the faces of several girls he
recognized from the day before. Some of the older classmen gave him
dirty looks and whispered to each other before Peter found the seat
closest to the driver. Peter felt safest there, even though he knew
that the driver would provide him with little help.
The bus made its way through a few more stops before it pulled up in
front of the school. Peter got off and made his way inside the building
before he stopped at Susanna's locker. After putting a few books away,
Peter headed to his sister's homeroom.
The first few classes proceeded as the day before had. Peter was the
source of more than a few inside jokes as he went about the day
alienated from his sister's classmates. 'I bet she'd kick their asses',
Peter thought from time to time about what his sister would do if she
found herself being treated the way he was by the other girls.
After his science class, Peter had to report for his sister's first gym
class that alternated days with her science lab. Peter walked into the
class without any gym clothes and was relieved to find that they were
only being given lockers and advised of what was expected from them in
the class.
Peter breathed a sigh of relief that he would not have to give his
sister's period excuse to get out of having to change in front of the
girls just yet. Peter knew, however, that it was only a matter of time
before he would have to confront the situation, unless he extricated
himself from the school.
Once the girls were assigned lockers, they were given locks and told
them to put them on the lockers. Peter went with the girls into the
locker-room and was surprised by how similar it was to the boys' locker-
room at his old school.
'I guess you really can't do much with a locker-room', Peter thought as
only the colors of the walls and lockers seemed to differ. Peter walked
through the rows of lockers before he came to the one assigned to his
sister.
As Peter finished putting his lock on the locker, he turned and saw a
group of girls approaching him.
"What's up?" Peter asked, feeling nervous while he tried to move past
them.
"Where do you think you're going, Slut?" One girl replied as she shoved
him. Peter momentarily lost his balance and winced as the back of his
head struck the lockers behind him.
Three of the girls moved towards him and said, "You're such a total
freak, you know that?"
"Yes," Peter whimpered, hoping that their hands would stay away from his
privates.
One girl smiled as she slapped him and said, "That's for being a loser."
Peter rubbed his face, stunned to have been hit so hard by a girl. He
wanted to fight back, but the various times he was told to never hit a
girl came back to the forefront of his mind as he released his fist.
"Please," Peter whimpered as he tried to get past the girls.
"Oh, you're not going anywhere until you admit that you're a loser," one
girl said while several other girls laughed and the rest remained
silent.
"I admit it," Peter replied.
"No say it!"
"I'm a loser," Peter responded.
"Now, show us what losers do for pretty girls."
Peter gave her a blank look before the girl deliberately split some Diet
Coke on her shoe. Peter stared up at her before she said, "Well, clean
my shoe."
"I'll get a paper towel...," Peter began to reply.
The girl cut Peter off and said, "Clean it with your tongue just like
you clean a cock, bitch."
Peter stared at her with a slack jaw before he realized the girls were
serious. Peter tried to move past them again but was forced to his
knees. Peter began to cry a little as he stared at the girl's shoe.
"We can stand here all day," another girl said before she kicked Peter
in the ribs.
Feeling weaker and more vulnerable than he could ever image, Peter ran
his tongue across the girl's shoe and cleaned off every bit of the soda.
The girl smiled before her friends demanded that he kiss their shoes to
show everyone that they were better than him.
Peter's hesitance was met by another painful kick from the biggest girl
in the group. Whatever was left of Peter's pride and self-respect
evaporated as Peter pressed his lips to each of the girls' shoes,
leaving a little residue of his lipstick on each.
With that the girls seemed satisfied that they had degraded Peter
enough, they started to walk away from Peter before the larger girl
turned and kicked Peter in the stomach.
"Nobody said you could stand while we can still see you, Bitch," she
barked as Peter clutched his stomach and remained on his knees.
When he saw them head up the stairs to the gym, Peter managed to get to
his feet. He heard some girls snickering at him while he tried to avoid
eye contact with every person he saw as he tried to think about anything
other than the deepest feeling of humiliation he had ever experienced.
Peter felt violated as he walked out of the locker-room and went back to
the bleachers to find that his bags had been dumped out. Peter stared
at the various belongings for a second as the girls laughed about his
pads.
"Least we know why you've been such a bitch," one girl he had never said
a word to yelled over at him.
Peter shook his head and wanted to disappear as he collected his
sister's books and put them away before he put away the things that
belonged in her purse. Peter looked around and saw some girls that
seemed to feel sorry for him. They, however, kept their distance for
fear of falling prey to the other girls too.
Peter was happy to move onto his last classes that day, but he was
unable to shake the feelings of vulnerability and loneliness that were
overcoming him. As he sat through his classes, Peter's mind drifted
back to the incident in the locker-room. He could not believe what had
happened to him and silently prayed that he would never feel so
powerless again.
A sense of relief overcame Peter as the school day came to an end. He
put his books into his bag before he headed for the exit.
Peter boarded his bus as quickly as he could so that he could sit up
front by the bus driver. He came to a rest in his seat and watched the
other girls board the bus.
Most the girls ignored him, but a few shot him dirty looks and whispered
to each other. Their giggling while they looked at Peter unnerved him
and made him more than a little angry.
Once the bus pulled away from the curb, Peter opened his sister's
backpack and began to do some of his sister's homework. Peter kept
trying to ignore his surroundings while he focused on the homework.
As the bus turned onto his block, Peter's eyes tore away from the book
in front of him as he went to put it away in his sister's backpack.
Peter stared out the window as the driveway to his house came into view.
His eyes grew wide as he saw his father's car parked in the driveway
while he zipped the backpack closed.
"Oh, shit!" Peter exclaimed almost falling over as his hands started to
tremble before the bus came to a stop.
Peter put on his backpack before he picked up his purse and headed down
the steps as he got off the bus. The bus pulled away as Peter stood
frozen on the sidewalk.
"Ew," Peter exclaimed as he felt something spray upon him while the
girls remaining in the bus laughed.
Peter reached into his hair and felt the wet feeling. He smelt his
fingertips and recoiled.
As Peter's fingers fell away from his nose, his sense of dread reemerged
as he saw the presence of a car that told him that his parents were at
home waiting for him.
"How are they home so soon?" Peter mumbled while he began walking
towards the door, feeling as if a firing squad was awaiting him on the
other side.
Peter looked up at a window and saw his sister giving him a stone-faced
look before she scurried away from the window. "Oh, shit," Peter
muttered as his eyes shot back down to the walkway beneath his Mary
Jane's.
"I'm never going to hear the end of this," Peter said to himself while
he glanced down at the dirtied, pink tights poking out from beneath the
hemline of his jumper.
Peter reached for the doorknob and turned it before he walked into his
home. His mother was waiting for him as he entered.
Vicki shook her head as she put the palm of her right hand against her
forehead. Peter squirmed before her in silence for a few moment before
Vicki raised her head up and said, "Peter, come join us in the kitchen."
"Yes, Mom," Peter replied, putting his head down.
Peter walked into the kitchen and saw his sister sitting next to his
slack-jawed father. Peter blushed at his father's response and hoped
that his father could sense that he was not enjoying this or willingly
dressing en femme.
Vicki followed Peter to the table and ordered, "Sit down, Peter."
"Yes, Mom," Peter responded as he dropped his sister's backpack and
purse and sat down at the table across from his sister. His mother sat
at the other end of the table across from Peter's father.
They sat in silence for a few seconds before Vicki said, "Your sister
told us some things, Peter."
"What?"
"Some things that sort of jive with how your dressed."
"I didn't do this willingly."
"That's not what she said."
"She's lying."
"So, you weren't pretending to be her at school?"
"Well, that part's true."
Davis shook his head before he inquired, "Why are you pretending to be
your baby sister at her school, Peter?"
"Because she wouldn't go."
"That's your excuse?"
"It's not an excuse. She disappeared the day before school started. If
she didn't show up, I knew you guys would find out and blame me."
Davis and Vicki looked at each other as they began to understand their
foolish son's errant thought process. Peter filled the silence as he
asked, "How did you guys get back so soon?"
Vicki explained that his sister had been discharged before they reached
the hospital and was on her feet with crutches. They stayed and helped
her for the rest of the day, but she was able to get around and had the
help of her sorority sisters.
Peter nodded before saying that he was glad to hear she was all right.
Vicki shook her head while she replied, "I'm glad to hear that you're
happy about that because you can imagine what we must have felt when we
came home and found your little sister hanging around the house during
the middle of a school day."
Peter squirmed while Davis added, "And how we felt when she told why we
couldn't take her to school."
"I tried to get her to go today when she came back, but she wouldn't
go."
Davis and Vicki shook their heads at their son's defense before Vicki
replied, "And what do you think would happen if she showed up? You two,
kind of, look alike, but you're not identical. You can't pass for one
another in person!"
Peter sank down in his seat before Davis asked, "Why didn't you call us
like I told you to do?"
"I didn't want you to get angry with me."
"Well, mission accomplished, son. Heck of a job, boy. You certainly
knew how to handle the situation," Davis bellowed.
Vicki clasped her head as she added, "Davis, all of our kids are morons!
I have a JD, you have a PHD. How the hell did this happen?"
"It's the MTV," Davis answered.
Vicki shook her head as she looked at Peter and said, "You know what
this all means right?"
"What?"
"She can't go back to Chilton," Vicki responded.
"Then, send her to another school."
"The only school we can send her to, at this point, is the public school
we yanked her from in the first place," Vicki retorted.
"What about home schooling?"
"Neither of us has the time for that," Vicki replied.
"Get her a tutor for it."
"We can't afford one right now! Not after we spent so much money on
Chilton this year. We'll make those arrangements after the semester
ends. We can be refunded for the second semester, but we're already
locked in for the first half of the year."
"So, what's the plan?" Peter asked as he nervously clasped his hands.
"You're going to tutor her," Davis replied.
"Me?" Peter asked.
"Yes, you," Vicki answered.
"I don't know if I remember all of this stuff."
"That's good because you're going to get a refresher."
"What do you mean?"
"You're going to keep going to the academy. Then, you're going to come
home, teach it to your sister and help her do the homework."
"You can't be serious."
Davis replied, "Oh, we are, son. We didn't spend all that money on
those jumpers just to get no use out of them."
"This is crazy!" Peter shrieked.
"Try to think about it as a chance to find yourself by being someone
else for a little bit. It's very likely a more productive use of your
gap year anyway," Davis responded.
Peter shook his head at his father's mockery before he replied, "This is
child abuse."
"You're not a child anymore," Vicki retorted before Davis added, "But
you are to Chilton, so try not to forget yourself, little missy."
"I can't keep going back to that school. The other girls keep picking
on me," Peter replied out of desperation.
Peter's response made Susanna burst into laughter as Davis shook his
head. Vicki gave her son a dumbfounded look before she replied, "Not
our problem, Peter. You made your bed, so you can deal with it like a
big girl!"
Vicki then turned to her snickering daughter and said, "Don't think
you're getting away with your part in this."
"What did I do?"
"You ran away, you refused to go to school...," Vicki began to reply
before Peter interjected, "She also blackmailed me."
"You blackmailed your brother, but he, basically, had that coming,"
Vicki then added as she glared at Peter.
Peter shook his head at his mother's words before Susanna asked, "So,
what do I have to do, other than listen to his stupid lessons?"
"It's not what you have to do. It was what you won't be doing," Davis
replied.
"Like what?"
"Like leaving this house for instance," Davis answered.
"What? What about my friends?"
"It'll do you some good to be apart from them for a semester."
"You're going to keep me here like a prisoner?"
"We all have to do things we hate, dear. You're going to find that out
the hard way. The three of us are your world for the rest of the
semester," Vicki answered her daughter.
"This is so unfair!"
"Unfair? How will you feel if you do step out of this house while
you're punished?"
"What are you going to do to me then?" Susanna rejoined as she crossed
her arms and pouted.
Davis replied for his wife, "We're going to shave your head and send you
back to your public school so all your friends can see you in your
pretty new overalls and hiking boots and what you look like with no
makeup!"
Peter smiled as he saw his sister's astonished face. She clearly
believed that her parents would follow through with their threat that
was preying upon her vanity.
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