I was getting ready to go out to a New Year's Eve party with some of my closest friends, and it was to be costume party, which I was excited for, but didn't have a clue as to what I would dress up in.
But, as we sat around the table, having some wine, wonderful Michelle, my good friend Pete's beautiful wife, suggested I try something "off the hook" as she put it, and threw out an idea that later that night would change my whole perspective on myself.
Now, Michelle had some dirt on me, you could say; dirt that not even Pete, or any of my other friends knew about.
A FEW MONTHS BACK: Around Halloween, after I had broken up with my girlfriend Carol after disagreeing the stupidest shit that we just couldn't put up with each other anymore. Long story short, she moved out of my place, but left a bunch of her things; her dresses, skirts, nylons, lingerie, some heels and make-up.
Ironically, Carol and I were of similar size and build; both 5'7, around 150 lbs., practically the same shoe size, as I had rather small feet for a man, and so -- I got a little curious.
I got drunk one night, and after about an hour I found myself walking around my place in her gartered stockings and heels. She had a corset that clasped on the front and cinched my waist. I was wearing her lacy black thong and halter style brassiere that matched that thong and the garter belt and the black stockings.
I surprised myself that I could walk in the tall heels that she had left behind. The buckled around the ankle with a tiny little strap and they black and shiny and when I strolled through my place, I felt my hips adjust and find their fluidity and soon a strutted like a natural.
I was having this cathartic moment, and I was loving it.
I could feel my cock stretching out her panties, and I was just in this sexy mood, really giving myself to this new high I felt, so profoundly lost, that I didn't even hear the front door of my place open.
"Oh... my... God...," I heard the woman's voice breathe each word as if in slow motion.
I stopped, caught like a mouse gets caught by the cat. I peered over my shoulder, and saw Michelle, my best friend Pete's girlfriend, standing in the archway that led into the living with a bottle of wine with a bow on it, just staring at me, dumbfounded, nonplussed, her face a cock of, "What the fuck am I looking at, and who the hell is this?"
"Michelle!" I hollered, feeling now so utterly exposed, trying to hide myself, but that didn't help at all, if anything it only advanced the caught girl look I presently exuded.
I wanted to run, but where? I was already home, and plus I didn't think I would get that far in these heels.
But then Michelle gave me this strange yet understanding smirk. She set the bottle of wine down on a side table, and before she left, she turned back to me and said, "You look really sexy, James. I mean it. Really sexy. Didn't know you had such... feminine qualities."
And then she left.
What she didn't leave with was the knowledge that this wasn't the first, nor the last time that I had begun to experiment a little here, and there...
NOW: back to the beginning of the story.
Michelle had this dirt on me, yes, but she never weaponized it, but I know if she wanted to, she could have. And I knew she never told any of our friends about it, because knowing them they would have brought it up by now.
So, when around the table the question of what costume I should wear arose, I knew where Michelle was going to go with it.
"Maybe," Michelle said. "You just fool everyone tonight, and dress like a woman. No one would ever know, and you got the body for it, James. And I could help." She smiled directly at me with knowing, conspiratorial eyes, and I felt my face beginning to flush red.
"Oh yeah!" Pete chimed in. "That'd be hilarious. You should totally do that. And Michelle, ya know, she works in the beauty department at Macy's. She could make you the belle of the ball," he laughed.
"I don't think I want to do that," I said, feeling Michelle eyeing me now. She knew I would give in a matter of minutes if she put the pressure on me. It felt like blackmail, but when she shrugged her shoulders and let it go, I was surprised.
"Okay," she said. "Just thought that might be a bit of fun to bring in the new year, but you're right. It's a little over the top." She smiled at me as she sipped her beer; I knew what she was up to. She hadn't dropped it at all.
"Shit, I'll do it," Pete said, all excited, uncorking another a bottle of wine.
"Pete," Michelle chuckled, cocking a motherly eye of "be serious" to her man
"What? I could pull it off, and the fact that it would be obvious I was a man would make it that more hilarious, right James?"
"Yeah, that's true. You should do it," I laughed. "That would be funny."
"Hey," Pete excited, a sudden burst of enlightenment. "Let's both do it," he said, as if this bright idea suddenly popped up in his head.
I smelt collusion.
"No, I don't think so," I said. "I have an old zoot suit costume from Halloween. I'll just wear that. That should be good enough to get drunk in."
But, a few glasses later that night I had myself convinced, and I told Michelle that I would indeed like it for her to dress me up like a woman.
Pete backed out, which I had a feeling he would, but that didn't bother me one bit at this point. It was I and only I that would be dressed as a woman that night.
I was beyond game. Shoot, I was excited, ecstatic, and thrilled.
In just an hour, Michelle had done my make-up, had me dressed in a classy emerald green satin dress that wasn't low cut, thank the Lord, paired with matching strappy heels, and black opera gloves. Real classy, I thought. And she accentuated the outfit with jewelry that were her own, and they adorned my wrists and my neckline, simple silver here, and there, plus little clip-on earrings which hung from lobes.
Michelle had done a marvelous job.
Lastly, and she had no need to fit a wig on. I had medium length hair as it was. She just gave it the little flair that it needed, some bangs, some curls, and rightly I looked like an old show girl, as if I slept with hot rollers in my hair all night long; she had the talent to make it so.
Then, she stood me up in front of a full-length mirror, knowing very well that I would have no difficulty balancing in the four-inch black satin pumps with little twinkling brooches on the toes, which she had chosen, also which just so happened to fit my feet more perfectly that of Carols.
Again, I smelt collusion.
But I liked it, embraced it, and felt grateful for it. Plus, I could tell that Michelle was having the time of her life dressing me up. She planned this, I thought; all that precision.
"Just like old times," Michelle whispered into my ear, grinning at me in the mirror.
I turned back in time to see her leaving the room, and I knew what she meant.
But still, I shrugged it off, and stood there by myself, gazing at the dark-haired beauty in the emerald dress in the mirror gazing right back at me, and I didn't see myself one bit.
I saw a woman, one that was gorgeous enough to be any man's date for any occasion, a beauty that tonight was ready to have her evening out on the town.
"Her?" Was I already in character?
As we drove to the party, which was a little further uptown than I'm used to going, I sat in the back and secretly enjoyed something that was hidden beneath my dress and up my bum...
SIDE BAR: Since Carol had left me, I had begun to explore another side of my sexuality that I believe had lied dormant throughout our years together. Something I didn't explore, but I knew existed. Throughout our time I had just resisted the temptation of it all because of the person I was with. And because I was no longer with that person, I didn't have to worry about any judgment whatsoever.
BACK TO STORY: So! Discreetly, when I was in the bathroom slipping into my lingerie, adjusting my brassiere, lining up the seams of my semi-nude toned stockings, making sure the garters were fastened to the welts efficiently, I did something...
I slid a plug, about the size of a large strawberry, up my bum, all the way up until the bejeweled stopper was snugly pinched between my cheeks, then I pulled up my matching lace thong, nice and tight, the straps over my hips, and the stepped out of the bathroom and sat in the chair where Michelle waited for me to begin my make-up.
Sneaky right!
SO: Now, presently, in the back of the car, as we cruised to the party, I was starting to feel myself engorging slightly in the dress, but the fabric of the dress was so thick and my panties were so tight that my cock didn't even really have a chance of showing. And I knew the party was going to be poorly lit, and therefore the shadows along my lap would not betray me.
At least, that's what I thought.
We arrive at the party, and Pete, who could not stop smiling, or making little quips about how glamourous I looked, held out his hand to help me up the steps to the home we were about to enter.
"M'lady," he joked, grinning at Michelle, who wasn't laughing. "What?" he asked, a tad aghast.
"Leave her alone," she giggled. "She's in character right now, Pete."
"Her", once again "her". I heard this, and thought what lavishing feeling to be considered female. It sort of, eh, warmed me, made me want to make sure that I didn't disappoint Michelle that night. I noted then, that she was looking out for me, or at least the work that she'd done on me; she didn't want to me remind myself that I wasn't a woman. She is clever that way, I thought as straightened my posture, real poise like, let my legs do the talking as I took each stride forward, one heel in front of the other, careful yet firm, all the way up the stairs to the party.
"Okay fine, I'll leave her alone," Pete moaned. "But you gotta admit. She looks amazing."
I smiled at Pete, planted a kiss on his cheek, too deep into character I realized, but Pete didn't recoil in anyway, which warmed me, and in the daintiest of inflections that my voice could muster, I said to Pete, "Thank you."
Pete and Michelle did a double take, like holy shit.
She is in character.
Pete's costume, I noticed made me giggle on the inside, as it was exactly what I had suggested that I should wear for the party.
He wore a zoot suit, in comical yellow, with wide, high waisted trousers, classic, and with exaggerated sports coat shoulder pads, and with clean wingtips on his feet, as if he was about to star in a Warren Beatty film.
And Michelle, boy oh boy, she went all out; a really convincing Lara Croft get up, with the barely-there tan shorts, the blue tank tucked into a utility belt, boots, which had spiked heels, folded socks, and of course the iconic braid. She looked sexy.
As for me; I was dressed as a woman. That was it; a conceivable woman.
And when we three entered the party, it didn't feel like I was a wearing a costume compared to everyone else that was there. It just felt like I, this woman, had somehow wandered off from some gala, or fancy dinner party, and stumbled into this motley crew of randomly dressed people.
I stood out, and people noticed.
All of the eyes that were on me told me what I felt was true. But I liked it.
No one knew that I wasn't a woman, and the little secret I was holding within me tickled and plunged and pressed deeper with every step I took in those tall, tall heels.
I could feel my ass jiggle as I walked, and even though the fabric of the dress was thick enough to conceal my true nature, I was starting to doubt if I could hold myself back enough to not give myself away.
But I carried on, thought it best to relax myself, and take a seat at the bar and order a martini, as I figured a woman dressed as I was would most likely order a martini, I supposed.