"Oh, Amber, you wonderful girl," Jackson said. She practically ran to a
table staffed by two men of southeast Asian descent, shook their hands
while introducing herself, and laid out on the table. Lola seemed
equally appreciative as she introduced herself to her own masseurs. Zoe
and Amber found their own spots as well.
Tyler put his hands in the stain pockets of his robe, glancing around
the room to make absolutely sure that every spa employee was, in fact, a
man. Dejectedly, he clambered onto the table nearest the door without so
much as acknowledging the masseurs who would be attending to him.
He'd only rarely had men touch him since his transformation into a
woman. Most of those experiences had been extremely uncomfortable if not
outright revolting, like all the times he'd been groped during lounge
events, while attired in a French maid outfit or cheerleader uniform.
This would be different... much, much different. The intent wouldn't be
sleazy, but the male hands of the masseurs would be on Tyler's body for
a much longer time than the copped feels he'd endured in the 5th-floor
lounge.
"I can take your robe," said one of Tyler's tall, burly masseurs. Tyler
hesitated for a moment - was he going to be allowed to stay clothed for
more than ten seconds at a time today? The rest of his party had already
shed their robes, though... including Paul, whose inhibitions had suddenly
become much less present. Maybe that hour in the pod had loosened him up
a bit. Tyler, not wanting to seem prude or afraid, disrobed and handed
the garment to the masseur, keeping his back turned as he did so.
"Face down, if you would," Tyler's other masseur said. Tyler complied,
resting his face inside a ring-shaped pillow at the top of the table. He
rested his arms, legs, and torso on the table. Maybe this wouldn't be so
bad, he thought. He felt much more relaxed after his session in sensory
deprivation bath... and his nerves calmed even more once a masseur placed
a fluffy white towel over his behind.
Then the masseurs got down to business, working on Tyler's body with
four hands at once, starting with the neck and feet simultaneously.
Tyler felt completely at ease again in a matter of seconds. The other
girls in the room began humming and moaning pleasurably as their own
masseurs attended to their flesh. Tyler luxuriated in the feeling of
being rubbed and kneaded by two strong pairs of hands at the same time
as they moved over his body, from the neck and feet, to shoulders and
ankles, to the calves and upper ribs, until every inch of the back of
Tyler's body had been thoroughly handled. It took a good thirty minutes,
and Tyler was long past caring about the genders of the people who had
done the work.
The masseurs asked him to flip over. Tyler eagerly complied, and the
towel was placed over Tyler from his groin to the tops of his cleavage.
Then the masseurs got to work again, although this part of the massage
only lasted a few minutes. Nevertheless, the front-body treatment felt
fantastic, and Tyler thanked his attendants profusely as they exited the
room.
Kelly entered as her employees left, holding a couple large plates full
of sliced fruit, crackers and cheese. It was well past lunchtime, she
explained, and the lovely bride needed to keep her strength up. She
encouraged Amber and her bridesmaids to take as long as they needed to
eat and gather themselves, then left the room again.
"Amber," Jackson said, in the nicest tone of voice Tyler had ever heard
from her, "you are the best. This is unreal."
"I figured you'd be into it," Amber said. "Everyone else feelin' good?"
"Mm-hm," Lola said, and the other girls agreed.
Amber raised her voice. "May? Little miss Young? You all good down
there?"
"I'm great," said Paul, in his tiny voice. "Much better than I thought
I'd be."
Zoe sat up on her table. "You like having dudes' hands all over you,
huh?"
"It's not the worst thing in the world."
"Definitely not," Tyler added. Jackson and Paul tilted their heads to
look at him.
"Well, fancy that," Lola chimed in. "Violet the dyke liked it too."
"Lola, be nice," Amber said. The room went completely silent again as
everyone stared at the ceiling, happily recovering from the massages.
Eventually they all slid off of their respective tables, wrapped their
robes around their bodies, ate a small portion of the available food,
and went back out into the hallway. Kelly guided them to their next
destination.
Kelly opened the door into another room, this one lined with jade-
colored tile from floor to ceiling. "This is our second-to-last room,
ladies," she said, ushering her patrons inside. Several more padded
surfaces lay low near the floor. The air was warm and heavy with
humidity. Twelve more of Kelly's employees stood with hands folded over
their starched white aprons - they were all females, this time, but
Tyler barely felt any relief at all upon seeing them. The men in the
last room had done such a great job that Tyler wouldn't have been
disappointed in the least if even more men were assigned here.
Amber and her bridesmaids were once again asked to remove their robes,
making Tyler wonder why they had been given robes at all. Didn't Kelly
say that Amber's bachelorette party was the only group of clients in the
spa right now? What was the point of maintaining your modesty if there
was nobody to be modest for? Tyler sighed and hung his robe on a hook
and sat down on one of the low beds, which was covered by a thin white
sheet. Tyler lay down with his knees held together and arms on his
sides. When the rest of the party had positioned themselves on their own
beds, the attendants placed sheets over top of their clients, covering
their bodies from shoulders to upper thigh. Their heads and legs
remained exposed.
"Everyone comfortable, ladies?" Kelly asked the group, who answered in
the affirmative. "Good. You will be receiving several treatments
simultaneously here, starting with a mud wrap. I'll leave you in the
capable hands of my staff."
Kelly exited as Tyler wondered what the hell a "mud wrap" was. He didn't
have to wonder long, as the two attendants assigned to him produced two
wide wooden bowls, each filled with a thick, greenish-brown substance
that gave off a tiny bit of steam. One attendant asked Tyler to dangle
his lower legs over the foot of the bed while the other attendant
gathered his long auburn locks into a high ponytail. Then the two women
scooped handfuls of their mud into their hands and began applying it to
Tyler's ankles, moving upward to the calves, covering every exposed inch
of skin as they went. They explained that the mixture contained seaweed,
cinnamon, mineral-enriched peat, and honey. Tyler took them at their
word on the list of ingredients. All he could tell was that it felt warm
and gritty, and that it gave off an odd but soothing scent... and that it
felt wonderful on his skin.
Soon they had covered both of Tyler's legs, front and back, apart from
his feet. The attendants pulled the sheet up Tyler's body, exposing his
hips and groin. Tyler shyly spread his legs as the attendants slathered
the mud all over, even dabbing some of it lightly around his lower lips.
Then the sheet was removed entirely from Tyler's body, leaving his
breasts and upper body completely exposed. Still relaxed from his
sensory deprivation bath and the incredible four-handed massage that
followed, Tyler felt no unease as his tummy, mammaries, and upper chest
were slathered. His shoulders and arms followed, though the attendants
didn't rub any mud onto his hands.
He was asked to roll over onto his right side so one of the attendants
could get at his buttock and back, then he rolled to his left so the
procedure could be repeated on his other side. His neck was the last
part of his body to receive a coating. Finally, Tyler was completely
covered in the mud wrap, save for his head, hands, and feet. The rich,
greenish-brown layer of mud made his body look strange, though he no
longer felt nude. It was as though he was enclosed in a second skin - a
warm, damp one that he could feel acutely. It was an amazing sensation
and Tyler enjoyed it thoroughly. Judging by the contented humming of the
other bridesmaids, he wasn't the only one who loved it.
The attendants left the bed for a moment and returned with four basins
made of pounded bronze, each of which contained soapy, scented water.
Tyler knew what was coming - preparatory soaking for a manicure and
pedicure. He remembered an identical treatment during his first date
with Connie, when they went to the salon for full makeovers and hair
styling. He eagerly placed his hands into the basins at the sides of the
bed. The attendants took his feet and gently lowered them into a pair of
basins as well.
All twelve of the attendants left the room to get their next batch of
supplies. The bridal party lay on their beds, staring up at the green
tiled ceiling, arms and legs splayed, hands and feet submerged in soapy
water, entirely nude except for their mud wraps. Amber, true to form,
was the first one to break the silence.
"Everyone doin' okay?" she asked.
"God, yes," Lola said. "Can we just live here for a few years? I'm not
all that compelled to head back to your house any time soon."
Everyone else agreed - except for Jackson, who jokingly wondered aloud
if Lola was interested in keeping her job. The attendants returned with
nail-care kits in one hand and an orange jar in the other. One of
Tyler's attendants explained to him that she would be giving him a
pumpkin facial. Tyler sniggered at this - cinnamon, pumpkin... maybe Kelly
was planning on serving up Amber's bridal party for Thanksgiving dinner.
The attendant got to work painting Tyler's face with the contents of the
orange jar, which smelled exactly as Tyler had expected. He was
instructed to keep his eyes closed for what came next - thick strawberry
slices, coated in coconut oil, which were placed over his eyelids.
"Strawberries?" Tyler said, after the fruit was in position atop his
closed eyes.
"Yes," the attendant said. "Better for you than cucumber."
Tyler didn't know enough about facials to argue. He held his body and
head steady as the attendants extracted his hands from their basins and
got to work - drying his finger, rubbing a softening cream on his hands,
removing the current coat of polish from his nails, and addressing his
cuticles. Tyler then smelled the unmistakable odor of the clear base
polish as the attendants brushed it along all ten of his nails in turn.
They rested his hands on a pair of tiny padded shelves as his nails
dried, then applied another coat to them and let them rest again.
"In case anyone's wonderin' about this," Amber said, "I've already
picked out the color and design that everyone's wearin' on their nails.
I think you'll like it."
Nobody protested. Tyler heard his pair of attendants stand up and move
to his feet, where the procedure was repeated, as Tyler lay prone on his
back with his body covered in mud and a fruit salad all over his face.
He took a moment to visualize how ridiculous he must have looked right
now - wearing a shabby ponytail high on his head, face covered with
orange pumpkin goop, eyes topped with strawberry slices, entire body
turned brown by an all-encasing layer of mud, hands propped up on a pair
of shelves, with two women working over his feet with emery boards and
polish. He almost wished someone would come in a take pictures of him
and the other bridesmaids so they could all laugh about it later.
Despite the ridiculousness of it all, however, he was definitely
enjoying himself. He hadn't even been pampered this thoroughly during
his salon date with Connie Giordano.
A moment later his feet were placed atop their own little shelves at the
foot of the bed, and the attendants came back up to finish his
fingernails. This part felt strange, and Tyler wished he could get a
look at what they were doing, but the strawberry slices prevented that.
He wasn't sure what tools they were using or what the end result was.
All he could do was lay here, eyes closed, and wait for it to be over.
But the process was a long, meticulous one... Tyler estimated the
attendants took five minutes per nail, with extra time for the thumb.
And then they moved down to his feet again, repeating the long, detailed
process they'd done on his hands. He was dying to know what was going
on, fully expecting it to be something really phenomenal.
Finally, after nearly an hour of laying still in his mud wrap and facial
while he received his mani-pedi, all twelve attendants walk to the far
side of the room. Tyler heard the sound of sinks being turned on; of the
pounded bronze basins being emptied, washed, and refilled. The
attendants soon returned to their stations and the strawberry slices
were removed from everyone's eyes, after which a steamed towel was used
to dab away at the pumpkin facial.
It took Tyler a minute to get used to the light again. While blinking
his eyes forcefully, he felt his calves being patted down with those
same warm, damp towels. The attendants were cleaning off the mud. They
occasionally instructed him to lift a leg, roll to the side, or move his
arm as they removed the gritty wrap from his body. Eventually they told
him to sit up so they could clear off his back... and once he sat up, he
could finally see his nails.
"Oooh, so fancy!" Amber intoned, curling her fingers in front of her
face and giving them a deep examination. "You ladies are artists! Would
ya look at those water lilies? Wow!"
The other bridesmaids followed Amber's lead. Tyler's nails had been
colored a vibrant purple. Atop the polish were impressive white flower
designs, two on each fingernail and three on each thumb, detailed down
to individual petals - Tyler wasn't well-versed on different types of
flowers, but he assumed they were water lilies after what Amber had
exclaimed. And in the center of each lily was something rounded and
sparkly.
"Are those... diamonds?" Zoe asked.
"Yup!" Amber answered. "Pretty cool, huh? 'Course, diamonds aren't all
that rare and expensive anymore, not after they found that huge deposit
on one of Jupiter's moons a few years ago. It still looks great, though.
Right?"
"Jesus," Tyler whispered to himself, looking at the diamonds inlaid on
his fingernails. He looked down at his toes - the same treatment had
been done down there, purple polish, water lilies, diamonds and all. For
a moment, he forgot that he was completely nude atop the bed he sat on,
and just admired his nails. Amber was right - these attendants were true
artists. As the twelve of them bowed out of the room, Tyler hoped the
work they had done wouldn't just last through the wedding weekend, but
also through the week after and the fundraising event Ben Rosenthal was
hosting...
Reality snuck up on Tyler and reminded him that he still needed to
decide whether or not to accept that event-planning job offer of Ben's.
He put the thought out of his mind as best he could. He wasn't going to
let real life intrude on his enjoyment of the spa day.
The bridal party stood up from their low beds and looked down at their
bare bodies, enjoying the clean, refreshed sensation they felt all over
their skin. Tyler ran his hands over his thighs, buttocks, tummy, and
breasts, amazed at how immaculate he looked. The other ladies, and Paul,
looked equally stunning. Tyler tried not to stare at anyone for too
long, especially Jackson. He and Paul shared a quick, knowing glance
after they looked eachother up and down, appreciating what they saw.
Everyone put on their robes again. Kelly appeared a few minutes later,
then guided them to the last treatment of the day. As they walked
through the hall once more, Tyler got a glimpse of everyone else's nails
- their second coats had all been done in a different color. Amber's
were pink, Jackson's were forest green, Lola's were a lustrous gunmetal
gray, and Zoe's were a bright red intended to match her hair. Paul's
were blue... presumably as little joke, since blue was a color typically
associated with boys. Tyler understood why Amber had chosen purple for
his own nails: after all, he was Violet.
The last room was... different. Much different from all the others. It
almost looked like a garage, with concrete walls and lots of strange
machinery lined up in one corner. And the attendants here weren't the
same attendants that had been helping with the other treatments. There
were only three of them, wearing one-piece coveralls that would have
been more appropriate for a microprocessor plant. One of these people
was positioning a plastic room divider in front of the corner with all
the machinery. It seemed strange... but Tyler wasn't too concerned, since
the rest of the day at the spa had gone so well. Every treatment he'd
experienced thus far had been amazing. He had no reservations about
whatever this was.
"Per Amber's request," Kelly said, motioning toward the plastic divider
and the machinery behind it. "Enjoy."
She left the room without further explanation. One of the men in
coveralls came out from behind the divider and asked who wanted to be
first.
"First for what?" Lola asked in her usual bitchy voice. All eyes turned
to Amber.
"One last skin treatment," Amber said. "To keep us all lookin' good on
the beach. I'll go first."
She walked behind the divider as her bridesmaids looked on... not that
they could see anything through the thick plastic. Tyler heard the sound
of something being sprayed, and heard the people behind the divider
telling Amber to lift her arms, spread her legs, turn around, or hold
still. They sprayed and directed their client as Jackson, Paul, and Lola
traded quizzical glances with each other. The process lasted a few
minutes before Amber emerged from the other end of the divider, loosely
tying up her robe.
"And that's that," she said, looking quite proud of herself. She looked
at the rest of the bridal party. "Well, don't be shy. Someone else get
on in there."
Zoe shrugged. "You're the boss," she said, as she went behind the
divider. Then Lola went in, followed by Jackson. All of them came out
the other side looking more confused than when they went in.
Tyler decided to go in before Paul, in case Paul was nervous about being
the first previously-male bridesmaid behind the divider. Once inside,
Tyler saw one coverall-wearing man holding a pressurized spray nozzle,
one manning a bulky computer terminal, and one looking intently at a
handheld tablet. All three of them were wearing surgical masks.
"Um..." Tyler said apprehensively. "Is this safe?"
"Oh yeah," the guy with the tablet said, behind his mask. "It's just not
a good idea to let it get into your lungs. Put this on," he ordered,
holding another surgical mask out for Tyler to take. "Lose the robe. And
close your eyes."
Tyler did as he was told - if four girls had gone before him without
issue, he wasn't about to be a spoil-sport. He stood near the divider,
eyes closed, completely nude except for the surgical mask he wore, being
stared at by the three men in coveralls. Soon he heard the spraying
start, and felt a fine mist over his tummy, groin, and the extreme upper
part of his legs. The sprayer was then moved up his chest until every
inch of his exposed breasts had been misted.
"Arms up," the man with the tablet said. Tyler obeyed as the sprayer
treated his shoulders, neck, and the sides of his rib cage. Then he was
told to turn around, and the sprayer took care of the back of his neck
and his upper back... and then above and all over his ass, which made
Tyler flinch a little. Lastly, after Tyler was asked to spread his legs,
he was sprayed on his taint with a tiny burst of mist, which caused him
to gasp through his surgical mask.
"And... freeze for a second. No moving," the man at the computer terminal
said. Tyler remained stationary with his arms held out and his legs
spread, still wondering what the hell this treatment was all about. And
why hadn't they sprayed his arms or lower legs?
Whatever, Tyler thought. Women and their spa days! Who knew what any of
this was supposed to accomplish? The stuff they had sprayed on him
certainly wasn't any weirder than the mud he'd been encased in for the
previous hour.
Thirty seconds passed before the man at the terminal told Tyler that he
could relax. Tyler took off his mask, dropped it into a nearby trash
can, and took a look at his body... which looked no different at all from
how it was before. His skin was still flawlessly clean from the mud
treatment. He covered up in his robe and joined the rest of the group.
Paul went behind the divider for his treatment, emerging a few minutes
later.
"That was weird," Paul said in his cute little voice. Nobody had time to
agree with him before Kelly came back into the room to usher everyone
back to their lockers.
"Now," Kelly said, as they walked through the hallway to the locker
room, "I must insist on one last thing from you ladies. You need to stay
in loose clothing for the next couple of hours because of the skin
treatments you've received today. There's a good chance of undoing all
the work we've done if you put on anything tight." She halted and turned
around. "Including your underthings."
Jackson gave Kelly a stern look. "You can't be serious," she groaned.
"I can," said Kelly. "No panties, no bras. And, per the bride's orders,
I took it upon myself to bag up the underwear you brought in with you.
I'll hand it off to Amber once you're ready to leave."
Amber giggled and the other bridesmaids sighed dramatically. Paul rolled
his eyes, and Tyler merely shrugged. It wasn't the worst thing in the
world, and it would only be a couple hours... and if it helped keep his
skin looking as amazing as it did now, it'd be worth the minor mental
discomfort of walking around without anything shielding his private
parts.
As they all took off their robes for the last time, everyone thanked
Amber profusely for treating them all to an amazing, refreshing day...
despite whatever misgivings they may have had about going commando for
the next few hours. Paul readily admitted that he had a great time, and
was considering doing it again before he headed back to Saturn Beta to
resume his life as a man. Zoe smiled at this.
Once back in their matching sundresses, everyone returned to the front
of the mansion and thanked Kelly and her assembled staffmembers. They
walked out into the warm Este Golfo afternoon, squinting from the sudden
influx of natural light.
"Y'all hang tight," Amber said, from the front door. "I need to pay
those people off. These things ain't free, sadly. Back in a flash."
She retreated back into the spa. The bridesmaids spent a few idle
minutes chatting while Lola summoned the sparkling white limo on her
phone. After a few minutes, curiosity got the best of Tyler and he
climbed the porch steps and went up to the front door. He peeked in
through a bisected window to see what was taking Amber so long.
Inside, Amber was walking away from the front desk, toward the door. She
held both her purse and a brown shopping bag in her left hand - the bag
with everyone's underwear, Tyler surmised. Behind Amber was Kelly, a few
of her female employees... and all three of the coverall-wearing men from
the final skin treatment. As she approached the door, Amber looked over
her shoulder and said goodbye loudly while slipping a tablet computer
into her purse. Tyler took a step away from the door as Amber turned the
handle on the other side.
"Oops," Amber said as she came outside. "Almost got ya with the door,
there."
"No problem," Tyler said. He looked back at the spa employees for a
second as the door closed behind Amber. Then he looked at her purse, and
tried to remember if she even owned a tablet computer in the first
place. She'd returned her Ringed Amusements one before leaving the
station, hadn't she?
*****
Lola directed the limo back to Amber's house, per her request. Many of
the bridesmaids were surprised that the bachelorette party was ending so
soon, before the sun had even set. Amber waved this off and claimed the
party wasn't over just yet. "We're just takin' a little break, is all,"
she explained as the limo rolled down her street. "And then we'll have
ourselves a little cookout on the deck. Should be a good time."
"A cookout," Lola said dismissively. "Man, Amber, this is the tamest
bachelorette party in the history of the world."
"Still fun as hell, though," Zoe said. She stretched her arms and
groaned. "That spa day was really, really good. Wouldn't trade it for
anything."
"Well, good," said Amber. "And not to be a party pooper or nothin', but
I think I might grab a nap before suppertime. Y'all are welcome to do
what sounds good to ya. Take the limo into town, mess around on the
beach, whatever. We have a couple hours to burn before we need to start
cookin' the food. Just promise me somethin'... don't get wet. Don't take a
shower or jump into the ocean. And definitely don't try puttin' on your
bras 'n' panties. I spent too damn much on those skin treatments to have
'em ruined an hour later."
"I might just lay back," Paul said. "I'm not really in the mood to
move."
"Seconding that," Jackson said. Her eyes were closed as she spoke. "What
is it about laying around at the spa all afternoon that causes you to
get so... lazy?"
"Beats me," Tyler said. He noticed his dress's skirt had ridden up his
thigh during the limo ride, and he was too apathetic from the spa day to
pull it down again. He did have the presence of mind to lock his knees
tightly together, though. He wasn't keen on flashing anyone, especially
while he wasn't wearing any panties.
The limo soon dropped everyone off in Amber's driveway. The bridesmaids
went inside, dumped their purses by the door, and flopped down on the
various sofas and easy chairs in Amber's living room, while the bride
herself headed upstairs for her nap. Tyler watched her as she climbed
the staircase, noticing that she still had her purse slung over her
shoulder.
Some of the other bridesmaids went up to their own rooms for a nap as
well. Jackson went for another walk. Tyler held his GammaNow QX7 in his
manicured hands, reading the news, checking baseball scores, looking at
the weather forecast for the wedding tomorrow - 83 degrees and clear. He
made a couple phone calls to a couple of vendors, just to verify that
there would be no surprises during the wedding or the reception.
Then his thumb hovered over his messaging app. He wondered if it would
be a good idea to touch base with Ben Rosenthal, who had requested
Tyler's services for all of next week, planning a cocktail-attire
fundraiser in Miami. Tyler thought it might be better to ask all the
pertinent questions now, rather than waiting until the reception
tomorrow to...
Tyler's eye twitched. The reception. The reception at Amber's wedding...
during which Tyler had planned on acquiring Ben's phone again, pulling
his data once more, and then leaving Este Golfo to deliver the puller to
Dennis before the data clusters timescrambled themselves.
Tyler had to choose: To either steal Ben's data during the reception,
haul ass to Miami that very night, and have Dennis parse it and sell it
on the black market... or to take Ben up on his job offer, and his
proposal to pay off the rest of Tyler's outstanding debt to Jackson.
Doing both wouldn't be possible, because once Ben's data hit the market
and started being used by professional extortionists and money-
funnelers, red flags would go up in his accounts. Ben and his family's
company would have to deal with the fallout. Lawyers would be involved,
and lawyers could take up a hell of a lot of one's time. Ben would be
too overwhelmed with trying to rescue his money (and his identity) to
even think about dealing with a fundraiser. He would have to cancel his
offer to Tyler before the job even started.
And besides... why would Tyler even want to take Ben's job offer in the
first place? Was he even entertaining the idea of planning a stupid
fundraiser while staying at Ben's home for an entire week? It was too
ridiculous to even consider...
Only it wasn't. Tyler did not want to go back to Saturn Beta. He didn't
want to work any more of Jackson's stupid events, wearing skimpy,
demeaning outfits while getting ogled and groped every ten seconds by
the slimiest men the solar system had to offer. He wanted to finish up
this phase of his life as quickly as possible. And Ben's job offer was,
easily, the quickest method available.
Tyler was still deep in thought when he heard Amber coming back down the
stairs a couple hours later. By now, Zoe and Lola were in the breakfast
nook with a glass of wine, while Pierre was giving Paul some tips on how
he could do his hair tomorrow. Jackson had just returned from her walk.
Amber, for some reason, was wearing a shiny blue bikini that covered her
nipples without giving much support to the breasts attached to them. The
bottoms of her bikini were held up with thin straps, with an equally
thin strap bisecting her well-tanned buttcheeks. She looked weirdly
proud of herself as she crossed into the kitchen on bare feet.
"Well," she said, opening the fridge door, "I s'pose we should start
gettin' everything set up outside. Someone wanna give me a hand with
this potato salad?"
"I can," Tyler said, glad for a distraction from the Ben Rosenthal
dilemma. He stood up from the sofa he'd been laying on, smoothed his
dress, and joined Amber in the kitchen.
"Nice suit, Amber," Lola said from the breakfast nook. "Really shows off
your... assets."
Amber moved away from the fridge and struck a sultry pose next to the
countertop. "Well, I'm glad you like it. I have good taste in swimwear,
if I do say so myself. Such good taste, in fact, that I took it upon
myself to get suits for the rest of you."
"Oh god," Paul said. Pierre almost laughed, but thought better of it.
Tyler wasn't nearly as worried as Paul was - after all, Tyler had worn a
bikini out on the beach nearly every night since he and Amber had come
to Este Golfo, and it had become a routine. This wouldn't be a new
experience for him. Paul looked like he needed a pep talk, though... and
a few drinks. Tyler felt oddly superior as Paul squirmed at the thought
of wearing a bikini.
"Where are they?" Jackson asked as she moved closer to the kitchen. "Did
you put them in our rooms?"
"I'll show ya where they are. Oh... before I forget... hey, Pierre? Wanna do
me a favor? There's a bunch of tiki torches out in the shed. Can you go
grab 'em for us?"
Pierre rolled his eyes and got out of his easy chair. "Making the man do
all the heavy lifting. Typical."
Everyone watched Pierre leave the house. Amber only spoke up again once
she'd heard the front door shut.
"Okay," she said. "Now I can show y'all where your bathin' suits are."
The bridesmaids gave Amber uncertain, confused looks. She was acting
very strange all of a sudden, like a good girl who had recently learned
how fun it was to be bad on occasion. Before anyone could ask her what
was going on, her lips parted and she uttered a single word.
"Strip."
Paul turned his head, like he hadn't heard her properly. "What?"
"Y'all wanna see your suits? Take your clothes off and look at 'em."
"Have you been drinking?" Jackson asked, sounding like a disappointed
mother.
"Or taking drugs, maybe," Lola suggested. "Jesus, Amber. The day before
your wedding..."
Amber folded her arms under her low-hanging breasts. "I'm fine. Clean
and sober. But this is my bachelorette party, and I want y'all to get
into your bathin' suits. So hurry up and..."
"What the FUCK?" Zoe said loudly. Everyone turned to her. Zoe had the
stretchy top of her fuchsia sundress pulled outward and was staring at
her chest. Tyler came over for a peek, and saw that Zoe was wearing a
dark green bikini top under her dress.
"You weren't supposed to put on any underwear, Zoe," Paul said. For some
reason, Amber started clapping.
"I didn't!" Zoe protested. "I..."
"Neat, huh?" Amber said. She turned to Tyler and lowered her voice a
bit. "Hey, Violet? Remember when you 'n' me were out sunbathin' and I
said that we'd all go to a nude beach someday? No better day than today,
dontcha think?"
Tyler started figuring things out. Amber's secrecy about the
bachelorette party, and the devious attitude she had any time she talked
about it... her swapping out everyone's daytime clothes for loose-fitting
sundresses... the weird spray-on skin treatment everyone had endured at
the end of the spa day... Kelly's insistence that nobody was allowed to
put on their underwear for a couple hours... and Amber sneaking that
tablet computer into her purse, then taking it upstairs while she took a
"nap"...
It all made sense now. Tyler pulled out the collar of his own sundress
and looked down at his breasts to see that they'd been encased in a
thin, leopard-print bikini top.
Except Tyler knew it wasn't a bikini top. He leaned against the
refrigerator, folded his arms, and stared at Amber with an impressed
look on his face.
"Hologramatic paint," he said.
"You betcha," Amber replied, striking another pose in her non-existent
bikini. "The party ain't so tame now, huh?"
*****
Amber took a few minutes to give everyone a demonstration on her
borrowed tablet computer, showing her bridesmaids how she'd applied pre-
designed patterns to the hologramatic bathing suits they were all
wearing. She changed her own bikini from blue, to pink, to white, to
completely missing, then back to blue again with a few swipes of her
fingers. The coveralls-wearing men back at the spa had spent the last
few weeks figuring out how to create a dynamic, movement-responsive,
customizable swimwear algorithm for their paint jobs - painted skin was
nothing new, but Amber's job was a bit trickier than what the
hologramatic industry was used to.
"And before anyone gets nervous," Amber said, while changing her bikini
from yellow to black to orange, "it's all completely harmless, not all
all like the stuff they put on cars. The whole mess'll come right off
with soap 'n' water. It's been tested on human skin, with no side
effects. So long as it doesn't get into your eyes and mouth."
"Well, great," Jackson said sarcastically, looking down the collar of
her own sundress. "All my fears have been thoroughly relieved."
Amber changed her suit to blue again and locked the screen on her
tablet. "Lose the dresses, ladies, and get your pale asses out on the
deck. Let's get dinner goin' before we starve."
They obeyed, some enthusiastically and some grudgingly. Tyler was
somewhere in the middle. I'm on vacation, I'm on vacation, I'm on
vacation - that was the phrase he repeated to himself as he stood on
Amber's deck wearing absolutely nothing. To the unknowing eye, he was
wearing a leopard-print bikini, one with upper straps that went behind
his neck, and bottoms that framed his shapely ass perfectly. Amber and
the rest of her bridesmaids knew better, however. They could all feel
the breeze from the gulf as it coursed across their nipples and through
the gaps between their thighs. The bikinis were a trick of projection,
an illusion. Tyler was, technically speaking, completely nude. There was
nothing separating his fantastic body from the world, other than a thin
layer of muted light.
Pierre had been the litmus test, when he'd walked onto the deck with his
arms full of tiki torches. He didn't notice anything out of the ordinary
about the six gorgeous women in his presence - they were all wearing
swimwear now, rather than sundresses, but that wasn't anything
unexpected. He paid them no special attention and made no disconcerting
comments about what they were wearing... or weren't wearing. After setting
up the torches in the sand beyond Amber's deck, he went back inside to
change into a pair of swim trunks.
Zoe and Lola had more or less embraced their new clothing, or lack
thereof. Lola's hologramatic paint job had her in a metallic gold bikini
while Zoe's was forest green. Jackson's was rainbow-colored with a fish
scale pattern. Paul's was a virginal white, which looked fantastic
against his light-brown Korean skin. He and Tyler took it upon
themselves to empty the fridge of all the food for the cookout.
"Doing okay?" Tyler asked, as they passed eachother in the kitchen.
Paul reached into the fridge for bottles of ketchup and mustard. "I
suppose. I mean... well, you know how I said you should do as much crazy
stuff as you can while you're still female?"
"Yeah," Tyler said, nodding knowingly. "Then you find yourself doing
crazier stuff than you'd originally planned, and it freaks you out a
little bit, huh?"
"A little bit." He motioned toward the exterior deck. "A lot of the
girls out there have done much crazier shit than walking around the
beach in a fake computer-generated bikini. Lola, Zoe, Amber... this is
probably no big deal for them. Jackson seems a little bothered."
"Well, good," Tyler laughed. "She's usually completely in control of
everything around her. It's fun to see her brought down a couple pegs."
Paul smiled and slid the back door open. "Very true," he said, as he
backed out onto the deck. He brought his cargo to a table next to the
grill, next to which Jackson was standing with her arms folded under her
breasts.
"This is all of it," said Tyler, placing two six-packs of bottled beer
inside a large cooler next to the door.
"That can't be all of it," Zoe said.
Tyler looked at the kitchen, then back at Zoe. "What do you mean?
There's nothing else in the fridge."
"Well. That still can't be all of it. Where's the meat?"
"We'll have it in a few minutes," Amber said, from the bottom of the
staircase leading to the beach. She was tapping something into her phone
with one hand and nursing a margarita with the other. "Yup. Pullin' up
right now..."
Over the mild rolling sound of the tide, Tyler could hear a car
crunching along the gravel in Amber's driveway. Everyone turned to see
what was coming - the sparkly white limo that Lola had rented for the
week.
Amber took a sip of her margarita. "I figured we shouldn't have to cook
for ourselves. Grillin' meat isn't a woman's job, far as I'm concerned."
The limo halted halfway to the house, and the passenger door opened. Out
stepped a young Hispanic man with frosted hair, wearing a thin muscle
shirt and a pair of Hawaiian-styled shorts. In his hands were several
bulging plastic grocery bags.
Pierre, who had been carefully laying beach towels in regular intervals
along the sand, turned to see what had just rolled up. His eyebrows
curved with interest at the sight of the young man who had just gotten
out of the limo. "Now we're talking," he said, lowering his voice enough
to not be heard from the driveway. Amber and her bridesmaids heard him
just fine, though, and Amber chuckled mischievously.
Jackson took notice as another young man followed from the limo - white
skin, blond hair. "Amber," she said, "who are these people?"
"The groomsmen," she said. "Plus my future husband. Plus maybe a special
guest."
Amber looked over her shoulder at Tyler, smirking. Tyler knew that look.
He knew exactly what she meant by that look.
"God dammit, Amber..." he moaned under his breath, even though he wasn't
all that upset... or even all that surprised. Of course manipulating all
her bridesmaids into wearing hologramatic bikinis wasn't the end of the
bachelorette party surprises. She had to take it one step beyond that,
for full effect, just to make her wedding weekend as unconventionally
memorable as possible. She and her attendants weren't just going to be
walking around the beach pseudo-nude for the next few hours - they were
going to be doing it in the presence of men.
And Tyler knew, before the third groomsman got out of the limo, who this
'special guest' was. His skin shivered as Ben Rosenthal emerged, wearing
a tight red t-shirt and blue swim trunks, carrying a towel in one hand
and a vacuum-sealed twelve-pack of bratwurst in the other.
"Meat's here," Pierre said, practically licking his lips.
*****
Ben tried to play it cool on the deck, shaking hands and introducing
himself to everyone he didn't know - Pierre, Zoe, and lastly Paul. Paul,
who somehow hadn't become tremendously uncomfortable at the arrival of
several large, virile members of the currently-opposite sex. He held his
composure well, all things considered. Tyler made a point to keep pace
with him. Getting flustered was not an option here, no matter how much
Amber had tried to ruffle everyone's feathers and catch them off guard.
Smoke filled the air on the deck as the grill sparked to life. Isaac and
one of his groomsmen armed themselves with cooking utensils and got to
work. The other groomsmen had taken to chatting up whichever bridesmaid
they fancied the most - Zoe had one guy interested in her, Lola had one...
and Paul had the Hispanic groomsman in the process of fixing up a
margarita for him. Even Pierre had somehow identified and cornered
Isaac's gay cousin, and the two of them were hitting it off on the other
end of the deck.
Tyler was down on the beach pretending to straighten all the towels
Pierre had laid out. As Tyler bent over, he hoped Ben would take notice
and come out so they could speak privately. He also hoped desperately
that the hologramatic paint job was keeping his lower privates hidden
from direct view. He couldn't help feel like he was flashing the goods
to everyone... and he was, even if more than half of the present company
didn't know it. His nerves were entirely on edge as Ben finally
extracted himself from the groomsmen and bridesmaids, joining Tyler on
the beach.
"Well," Ben said, offering a bottle to Tyler. "Nice night for a beach
party, huh? The weather couldn't be better. Still nice and warm out
here."
"Yeah," Tyler said, taking the beer. "So how'd you get roped into
cooking for us?"
"Isaac invited me. His bachelor party is starting right after we're done
here... he invited me along for that, too. Good guy. Really fun to talk
to, once you get him going. Amber's lucky."
Tyler smiled and took a swig from his bottle, feeling slightly less nude
than he currently was. "We should probably talk."
"Probably. You look great, by the way. Leopard print. Very... predatory. I
like it."
"Yeah," Tyler said, looking down at the ephemeral, non-existent bikini
bottoms hiding his womanhood from view. "It's interesting, that's for
sure."
"There's something wrong, though," Ben said, leaning forward a bit.
Tyler stepped away reflexively, thinking that Ben had figured out the
big secret behind all the girls' swimwear. "What is it?"
"Your breasts."
"What about them? What's wrong?" Tyler asked, looking down at his tits,
playing dumb. Oh, god, this was so embarrassing...
Ben put on a smug expression. "There's only two of them."
Tyler rolled his eyes, relieved. "Har har," Tyler said, glad that Ben
was just making a joke.
Ben flashed a sideways smile as he sat down on the nearest towel. Tyler
took the next towel over, hoping that none of the thousands of tiny
hologram projectors on his ass would rub off.
"So," Tyler said, sitting with his legs firmly together, "we should
probably talk about this job you have for me."
"Yup. Can you make it happen?"
"I need details."
Ben cleared his throat. "Thirty people, tops. We need a hotel conference
room, some catering..."
"That's not the kind of details I meant. I'm talking about the other
aspect of the job." Tyler turned his eyes away from Ben's. "You want me
to stay with you."
"I do. I really do."
"Ben, you need to understand something," Tyler said, trying not to
stammer. "And actually, I think you already understand it... I don't do
that side of the business. I told you that when we were still on the
station, the night Amber got engaged."
Ben nodded. "I know."
"I can do all the fundraiser planning you need me to do. But that's it.
That's as far as it goes."
"Works for me," Ben said, shrugging. "That's all I wanted to book you
for."
"Then how come you want me to move in with you for a week? You know I'm
not a... freelancer."
"Sure, I know that. It doesn't change the fact that I really, really
like you. I asked you to come back to Earth with me, remember? If you'd
said yes to that, you'd be living with me. But, well... you said no. So
that's off the table now. But I'd still like to experience it, even if
it's just for a few days. Having you around more. Seeing you every night
when I get home from work. Eating breakfast with you in the morning.
Just... being together. I want that. And if it's not something you'll do
for free, then I'm more than willing to pay for it."
Tyler's heart thrummed. He wasn't sure whether to smile at Ben or laugh
at him. He wasn't sure if he was sitting next to an incredibly sweet,
sentimental man... or just a really pathetic one. Tyler was leaning
heavily towards the former. There was a sincerity in Ben's eyes that
Tyler hadn't expected, and the words he spoke didn't sound fake,
rehearsed, or hiding some other agenda. And Tyler was admittedly
somewhat keen on the idea of spending more time with Ben. He was a good
conversationalist, after all, and good company in general. Kind,
generous, funny, gentlemanly...
A thought struck Tyler - this conversation, in this setting, in this
moment, between a handsome young man and a ravishing young woman, would
have been very romantic if it wasn't so undeniably weird. And that
thought made him smile.
Ben leaned in to get a better look at Tyler's teeth. "Is that a yes?"
"Okay, okay," Tyler said, trying hard to wrangle his mouth into
something more neutral. "I'm not completely opposed to the idea. Let's
leave it at that for now."
"Fair enough," said Ben. "I don't need an answer until Sunday. Take your
time."
"Thanks," Tyler said. He looked over his shoulder at the crowd of
shorts-wearing men and technically-nude women on the deck, all of them
chatting and having a good time. Even Jackson had forced herself away
from the wall and was talking with Isaac, as the first round of meat
cooked under his watchful eyes. "I suppose we should go be social."
"Up to you," Ben said. "I'm more than happy to just sit on the beach
with you all night."
Tyler laughed through his nose. "I'm sure you are."
He and Ben stood, and Tyler looked down at his body to make sure his
hologramatic bikini was still intact. The two of them walked shoulder to
shoulder as they returned to the deck. People had begun lining up for
buns and side dishes while Isaac served up bratwursts and burgers, fresh
from the grill. Ben insisted that Tyler line up ahead of him, and Tyler
was in too ladylike a mood to refuse.
That conversation had gone well. Tyler felt sufficiently confident that
he could take on Ben's job offer without dealing with the obvious
potential risks that pop up when a man and a woman live in the same home
together under the pretenses of being "just friends." Ben hadn't taken
advantage of Tyler when Tyler had been at his most vulnerable, back on
the station, that night in Connie's luxury suite after he'd gotten drunk
out of his mind. If Ben hadn't acted like a frat boy then, the odds of
him doing it when Tyler was fully on-guard were even slimmer. Tyler
turned around to look up at Ben, who was smiling down on him.
Something was happening in Tyler's mind and his gut... and places lower
than that. He'd felt like this before, with Connie. A tingling of
nerves, an emotional storm of anticipation, emptiness, inner warmth,
fear, curiosity, and a vague disquiet that coursed through his whole
body... he knew what this was: a need for sex. Whether it was the fact
that he'd spent most of the day wearing no clothing whatsoever, or the
current display of his feminine body with only illusory lights covering
up his most erogenous assets, or the rush of sexual tension that can
only be caused by an approaching wedding, or the surprise appearance of
the only man Tyler had ever, ever, even remotely considered having sex
with... whatever it was, Tyler suddenly found himself hornier than he had
been in months. He quickly turned around and grabbed a plastic plate off
a nearby table and plopped a scoop of potato salad on it.
He ignored Ben after that. Once he had his cheeseburger and fork, Tyler
left the deck and looked around for a good place to eat. Most of the
girls and guys had found their way to the beach, where they sat on
towels and ate their food, chatting away. Tyler joined them, sitting on
a towel with Pierre on his right and Paul on his left. This was a safe
place to be. Maybe his hormones would calm down a bit as he ate. He put
a tiny bit of potato salad into his mouth and chewed.
After a minute, Tyler noticed how Paul, who was slowly sipping a
margarita, was much quieter that usual. On Paul's left was Isaac's
groomsman, the Hispanic one who had been hanging close to Paul ever
since he'd arrived. The groomsman reached over Paul to shake Tyler's
hand and introduce himself as Esteban, Isaac's college roommate.
"Apparently, Violet," Esteban said, "I'm escorting you during the
recessional."
"Ah," Tyler said. "Well, nice to meet you."
"Likewise." He leaned down, near Paul's shoulder. "Do you know who's
escorting you, May?"
"Uh," Paul said, with a nervous tint in his voice. "Huh-uh. I'm not
sure."
"Well, he's a lucky man, whoever he is."
Paul smiled weakly and took a swig of margarita. Something was up with
him, obviously, but Tyler wasn't about to pry while in mixed company
like this. He sat in silence and ate, listening to Pierre flirt
shamelessly with Isaac's gay groomsman. The two of them were sharing the
same towel.
*****
Hours later, as the sun set over the Gulf, the men all got up to leave
for their bachelor party. Pierre accepted a last-minute invite from the
young man he'd been flirting with throughout dinner. Isaac promised
Amber that he wouldn't get up to too much trouble, though he couldn't
say the same for the rest of the guys. Esteban looked pretty bummed out
to be leaving the side of cute little May Young, though he swore to find
her during the reception to pick up where they left off.
"Great. Yeah. See you then," Paul said unconvincingly.
Tyler, who had scarcely made eye contact with Ben since everyone had
started eating, decided to walk with Ben to the car. Lola gave Tyler a
glare, as she was wont to do any time Tyler and Ben were within fifty
miles of eachother.
"So, you'll think about it, right?" Ben asked. "Like I said, I really
could use your help, and I'd really like to have you around for a week."
Tyler put his hands behind his backside, as his unsupported breasts
wobbled with every step he took. "I'll think about it. I won't keep you
waiting until Sunday, though. I'll let you know tomorrow."
"I'd appreciate it. The more time I have to get this thing planned, the
better."
Ben put a hand on the small of Tyler's back as they approached the limo,
causing Tyler to flinch in surprise. Ben's touch ended as soon as it
started, though, and he gave Tyler a friendly wave as he clambered
through the door and sat down. A shiver persisted along Tyler's spine as
the other groomsmen loaded into the car and drove off into the evening.
Amber and her bridesmaids tidied up on the deck for the next few
minutes. Tyler kept a close eye on Paul, who was clearly struggling to
be his normal extroverted self. Once everything was clean enough for
Amber's standards, everyone went back down to the beach and laid out on
their towels as the moon rose overhead. Everyone except Paul had a drink
in their hands.
"Oh, by the way," Amber said suddenly. "So, uh... me 'n' Isaac are gonna
need the house to ourselves tomorrow night, for obvious reasons. We're
startin' the honeymoon here. Not like I don't like havin' all you girls
around... but y'all are gonna need to pack up and get the hell out
tomorrow mornin'. There's seven or eight hotel rooms that Isaac booked
for his out-of-towners that nobody ended up claimin'... so y'all are
free to use those tomorrow night. Our treat."
"Works for me," Zoe said. Tyler and the other bridesmaids agreed. Paul
nodded silently.
"Also," Jackson said, looking right and left toward the faces of her
employees, "I'd like to make something clear about tomorrow. You are all
off the clock. You are not expected to work tomorrow... nor are you
allowed to."
"Uh, yeah," Amber said with cocked eyebrows. "Please don't be handin'
out business cards at my weddin', if it's not to much to ask."
Jackson held up a finger, and Amber shut up. "That said," Jackson
continued, "should any of you ladies find yourself enamored with one of
the groomsmen - or any other fellows present - you are more than welcome
to... accompany them after the reception is over."
Lola rolled her eyes. "Gee, thanks, mom."
"No need to be snide. I just want to make sure we're all on the same
wavelength."
The beach went silent, apart from the rolling waves, as everyone looked
out onto the gulf while mulling over what Jackson had just said. Tyler
wondered how long it had been since Zoe or Lola had been intimate with
someone without money involved. Hell, even Tyler himself had been
compensated for the times he had sex with Connie, even though he didn't
know that until after the acts had been performed.
Thinking about Connie made Tyler's earlier horniness come back with full
force. He squirmed around on his beach towel as the cool night air
wafted over his bare nipples and pussy, waiting for a good time to
excuse himself so he could administer some relief to his female flesh.
Paul suddenly rose from his own towel and hugged himself tightly below
his breasts. "I'm getting kind of cold," he said. "I think I'll go in
and grab a shower."
"Aw, you go right ahead, May," Amber said. "Thanks for bein' such a good
sport today. That all musta been real weird for you."
Paul pulled away to catch his breath. "Yeah. It was weird, but it was...
well, I had a good time. G'night, everyone."
He skipped into the house and slid the deck door shut behind him. Tyler
felt obligated to go have a chat with Paul to see what had been
bothering him for the last hours, and so he excused himself under the
pretense of needing to use the bathroom.
He went inside, climbed the staircase, and put his ear to Paul's bedroom
door before knocking lightly.
"Yeah?" Paul said from inside.
"May? It's... Violet. Can I come in for a sec?"
Tyler heard footsteps on the other side of the door. It opened, and
there stood Paul, diminutive in stature and still wearing his little
white hologramatic bikini. The light in Paul's ensuite bathroom was on.
"Hey," Paul said in his small, cute voice. "Everything okay?"
"I'm fine," Tyler said. He came into Paul's room, closed the door behind
him, and sat on the bed. The comforter felt cool against his bare ass.
"You seemed... out of sorts back there. Are you alright?"
Paul sighed and joined Tyler on the bed, his legs dangling over the
side. "I guess so. It's just... okay, this is kind of embarrassing, but I
guess I can talk to you about it. You of all people."
"Sure," Tyler said. "I'm all ears."
"Out there, on the deck, and on the beach. I started getting... I don't
know what the word is. Excited. Kind of tingly. Ever since we were at
the bridal boutique, I've been thinking about tonight. And I've been
planning on..." He paused, trying to get the courage to say the word
aloud. "Masturbating."
Tyler smiled comfortingly. "Good. Good for you, Paul. The female orgasm
is pretty great, I'll admit. You should definitely..."
"Yeah, but," Paul interrupted, "when we were out on the beach, in just
our bikinis, basically naked, with all the groomsmen around... with
Esteban, and how he's obviously... interested in me... it just made me more
excited." He looked up at Tyler with concerned eyes. "Has that ever
happened to you?"
Tyler sighed, knowing there was no reason not to tell the truth. "Yeah.
I've been there. More than once. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious
about... y'know... doing it. With another..."
"Exactly," said Paul. "I'm just... confused. And kind of frustrated. And...
like I said, it's embarrassing, but I'm really... I'm just..."
Paul looked away from Tyler, folded his hands in his lap, staring
blankly at the bedroom wall. Paul looked strangely attractive in this
moment. Tyler thought the May Young body was extremely cute, perfectly
proportioned, and undeniably attractive... but there was more to it now.
Paul looked unsure and virginal, flustered but still adorable,
anticipatory of something he had never experienced. And excited. Very,
very excited.
Tyler found himself getting excited, too. He sensed something coming
over him, possibly inspired by the leopard-print hologramatic bikini he
wore. He felt catlike, on the prowl. His horniness hadn't subsided
during the conversation with Paul; and, in fact, it was now starting to
focus itself upon the lovely little Korean woman sitting next to him on
the bed.
An idea formed in Tyler's head. A crazy idea... but then again, Paul had
always stressed the importance of embracing the crazy. The more Tyler
thought about it, the better and less crazy it sounded, and after many
long seconds of silence he finally decided to act upon it. He readied
his most sultry voice, put an arm around Paul's bare waist, and leaned
into his ear.
"You're horny, Paul," Tyler breathed, saying Paul's male name for the
first time since the spaceport.
Paul swallowed. "Oh," he said, pretending to be surprised.
Tyler placed a finger on Paul's chin, turning his face until the two met
eye to eye. "Should we do something about it?"
Paul cracked a thin smile. He kept his hands folded in his lap and
waited while Tyler stood up, walked barefoot across the carpet, and
locked the bedroom door.
Tyler wordlessly returned to Paul, bent over at the waist, and gave Paul
a soft, warm, lingering kiss on the lips. No tongue and no forceful
movement - just enough of a kiss to test the waters and ensure that Paul
truly wanted what Tyler had in mind. When Paul brought a hand up and
rested it against Tyler's cheek, Tyler knew. He pulled slowly away from
Paul's lips, looked deep into his eyes, took his hand, and goaded him
off the bed. They tiptoed into the bathroom together, fingers lightly
entwined.
*****
The shower stall wouldn't have comfortably occupied both of them, if
Tyler and Paul had still been men. With their current smaller, shorter
bodies, however, there was room to spare. They each brought a washcloth
in with them, shut the frosted glass door, and turned on the water. It
was cold at first, but soon warmed up to a pleasant heat that filled the
stall with steam.
Tyler soaped up his washcloth and began gently rubbing it over Paul's
body, starting with his shoulders. Tyler could tell that Paul still had
some reservations about this, despite his obvious, silent enthusiasm.
The tender washing continued down Paul's arms, over his tummy, down his
legs, and all over his back. The hologramatic paint came off with a
minimum of scrubbing. Soap and water did the trick, just like Amber had
said.
Soon, the bright white bikini was all gone save for the portions
covering Paul's breasts, pussy, and ass. Tyler didn't want to touch any
of Paul's unique female anatomy just yet. Not until Paul was ready for
it.
Tyler held the washcloth behind his back with both hands. "My turn," he
said to Paul, who seemed part disappointed and part relieved that his
privates were still covered in the soft hologramatic light.
Paul nervously brought his own soapy washcloth up to Tyler's shoulders
and began working away at the leopard-print paint job. The lather and
hot water felt great on Tyler's body, and Paul had a very sensual way of
working the washcloth. He'd probably done this kind of thing with other
lovers in the past. Tyler smiled and hummed contentedly as Paul rubbed
away. After a few minutes, the thin straps of Tyler's bikini top and
bottoms were gone, leaving his privates covered just as Paul's were.
Paul backed away from his subject and stood still, as if awaiting
instructions.
Tyler cocked his head and looked at Paul's eyes through the steam. "Keep
going, Paul," he said.
Hesitating, Paul eventually took half a step forward, bringing his
washcloth up to Tyler's left breast. He lowered it gently on the top of
the leopard-print triangle covering Tyler's nipple and began lightly
scrubbing, clearly a little unnerved at what he had been asked to do.
"Don't call me that," he said in his tiny voice. "It's May, all right?"
"May," Tyler said as Paul's washcloth reached the nipple. "Very pretty
name."
Paul look at Tyler sternly. "Not as pretty as Violet."
Tyler snickered. This was a fun bit of back-and-forth, he had to admit.
They were jabbing at eachother playfully, but still a bit competitively,
as if trying to figure out which one of them was the girliest... and which
one of them was giving in to their female body, hormones, and urges the
easiest. But Tyler felt something in the tension between them, and he
knew they weren't competing over who could better retain their
masculinity - rather, they were competing over who could face the world
with the least amount of discomfort and unease, who could embrace their
feminine side the most.
Paul finished with Tyler's breast, then tentatively moved the washcloth
down, down, down to Tyler's painted pussy. Paul hesitated again as Tyler
spread his long, statuesque legs apart, allowing access between his
thighs. Paul scrubbed carefully over the lower lips, eliciting
pleasurable sighs from Tyler's mouth. Soon Paul had cleaned all the
hologramatic paint from Tyler's lower body, and Tyler was once again
nude to the world, not just to himself.
When it was Tyler's turn to finish cleaning Paul's bikini off, he did
things in a different order and a different level of intimacy. He
started by scrubbing Paul's backside and taint, as slowly and teasingly
as he could; then the breasts, deliberately ignoring Paul's nipples and
areolae while cleaning everything surrounding them. While the
centerpieces of Paul's tits were still painted the virginal white of his
bikini, Tyler moved in closer until their hips were only a couple inches
apart. He touched Paul's labia with the cloth and began to stroke it
gently, maintaining eye contact as he worked. Paul gasped with surprised
pleasure as Tyler continued his ministrations on his cunt.
Soon the paint on Paul's labia was all gone, and all that remained was
his areolae and nipples. Tyler took Paul's washcloth out of his hand,
lathered both washcloths with fresh soap, and handed them to Paul.
"I'll let you finish up top," Tyler said, moving another inch closer to
the cute little Korean woman before him. "Both at once."
Paul obeyed, bringing both washcloths up to his nipples, which had
hardened over the course of the shower. He began slowly rubbing around
them in circles as his breathing became louder. When Paul was
sufficiently enthralled with his nipple play, Tyler reached his hand
toward Paul's pussy once again. Paul let out a tiny gasp as Tyler began
gently tracing the length of Paul's split with his fingers. Tyler tried
to judge how aroused Paul was, and how close he was to climax. Only a
few minutes at most, Tyler decided. All this foreplay had really done a
number on him.
A minute later, Paul dropped the washcloths on the shower floor and
began rolling, pinching, and twisting his nipples with his bare hands as
Tyler's fingers continued probing. Tyler slipped a single finger through
the outer folds and into Paul's damp vagina, causing Paul to gasp more,
and louder. Tyler began to massage Paul's engorged clit with his thumb
while Paul drew closer and closer to his first female orgasm. At last
the damn burst and Paul shuddered mightily as the sensations of climax
coursed through his entire body. He used one hand to steady himself
against the shower's back wall, and the other to cover his mouth,
muffling his excited moans. Tyler withdrew his fingers from Paul's pussy
and watched the proceedings with a smug, accomplished grin on his face.
Seconds later, Paul fell to his knees, now c