Simon Blanquette went down the stairs quietly hoping to get out of the front door before his mother could confront him, but the woman was alert and had been half-expecting a sly escapade, and he didn't make it.
"Where are you going Simon?" she asked him in the hall.
Technically an adult he quivered like a child in front of her and offered a soft ingratiating smile. "I said I'd go and see Caroline this evening."
"Caroline!" the woman frothed, "You're going to see a GIRL?"
Simon squirmed slightly where he stood. He was blond with high, well-coloured cheekbones and the kind of dainty build that made him look cute. "I know she bullies me, but she is a sort of friend. And I am eighteen now so I should be allowed to see girls if I want too."
The woman's mouth curved down in a sulk, making the most of her pretence of being hurt. "But Simon this is not the right time to go visiting. Tonight is the last evening we will have together before you go to your next school and we may not see each other again for months. Don't you love your mummy enough to spend time with her?"
Her son gazed down at his shoes. She always demanded utter deference to her wishes and there was no escape. Despite being technically an adult his mother still dominated his life and constantly scolded him as if he were a child. Whenever she did that he could help feeling like a child. "I've given my word to Caroline." he responded meekly.
Brusquely the woman took hold of his sleeve and received no argument when she guided him into the sitting room and closed the door. The room was large and open-plan and generated an air of opulence. The air smelled of furniture polish, there were cream walls hung with abstract paintings, and modern rugs scattered on a shiny oak floor. Two red sofas dominated, flanked by black lacquered furniture, and a copy of 'Sussex Life' lay on a side table. "If you go out and leave me I won't be able to give you the lovely present I've bought for you."
Simon experienced a rather ominous sensation in the pit of his stomach. He couldn't help it. Every time she dragged him into the sitting room in that way his confidence ebbed, just as it used to as a child summoned before the headmistress. But it seemed he wasn't to be given all black marks that evening. "A present. You've got a present for me? What is it?"
With his blue eyes open wide Simon could be rated as alluring, and the woman's own eyes sparkled as she returned his sudden enthusiasm. "It's the sweetest little outfit ever. Such a snug bodice, and with a delicious flaring short skirt."
Simon felt his heart rise in his mouth and the funny turn in his stomach did a flip-flop as his mother opened the lid of the package she'd previously placed on one of the red sofas.
The young man blinked. "It - it looks like a school uniform. It looks like a girl's outfit."
"That's exactly what it is. I want you to wear it tomorrow, which means you'll have to play dress-up tonight."
Simon felt an odd sensation in his pants, just like he always did when she offered him a present such as this one. He took the dress from its packaging and held it up against himself, spreading out the hem so that the skirt flared. "I suppose I could call Caroline and tell her I've got toothache or something."
His mother nodded. It was important to make it absolutely clear that she was in charge and that he was expected to do just as she wished. Hers was a feudal ownership and her subjects had no right of appeal. "Do it upstairs. Take the clothes with you and put them on. I want to see how they fit."
Simon hesitated and blushed as was only proper at such a demand, but he quickly recovered and nursing a shy smile he draped the new clothing over his arm, turned, and made his way out to the stairs. When he had gone Mrs Blanquette sat down and thought things over, but was really quite sure in her mind that the plans she had made provided the best solution.
On attaining the age of twenty-one Simon was due to inherit a huge amount of money and complete control of his late father's estate, which at the moment she held in trust for him. Her most morbid fear was that he would one day develop a streak of independence and sideline her importance. The very fact that he had contemplated sneaking out to visit a girl that night was a dangerous sign and it had to be crushed. That was why she had enrolled him in that school. The woman there was adamant that following a year of tuition in her establishment he would be utterly emasculated and one hundred percent subservient to a mother's wishes.
The school was rather exclusive, and the criteria for acceptance was discriminatory. The height of a student had to be in the range 1.68m and 1.72m, and they had to be fair of face and as thin as a rake. Luckily Simon was five foot six and qualified easily in the other respects.
Feminising him shouldn't be a difficult job for someone with just a modicum of expertise, she thought. Simon was already a sissy in many ways; everyone knew it, even that Caroline girl. She was sure he only went to visit the strumpet because she allowed him to try on some of her clothes. Neither racing cars or aeroplanes had ever engaged her son's attention, in fact when walking out he liked nothing better than to linger at shop windows and moon over girls clothes, shoes, handbags, iridescent containers of eau-de-cologne, clear lavender water and luscious little bottles of 'Evening in Paris'.
When he reappeared Simon was dressed as she wished in a schoolgirl gymslip over a delicate white blouse. His mother's gaze, slightly mocking now, drifted over him with thoughtful appraisal and lingered like a caress. The bottom hem of the flaring little skirt covered the top two inches of his pale, slender thighs and little else, while beneath it she knew he would be wearing girlish panties and his lovely eighteen-year-old cockie would be fully erect inside them. A new frock always guaranteed to do the full trick for him.
"It seems to fit perfectly. Does it feel comfortable?"
She noticed the quickening of his breath and his reluctance to look her in the eye. He was slightly nervous, slightly excited. He stood by the door smiling coquettishly, the fingers of one hand covering his lips, his new outfit feeling surprisingly strange and light against his skin. "Yes -- yes, thank you." In his transformation his voice was light, immature, almost musical.