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.
Mrs Blanquette beckoned him further into the room and had him stand in the centre of the floor. Simon was not heavily built and would probably always need someone strong to look after him. By good fortune she was rather strong herself. She stood up and moved towards him as she admired his waif-like beauty. He was willowy, doe-eyed and skittish, his golden hair combed into a line that fringed his brow. He may have been a bogus girl when he dressed-up, but he could be a convincing one.
"Yes, it really does the job, doesn't it? But you do look pretty," she said in a soft lilt. "You're beautiful, you're feminine, and you're sweet. You're going to please a lot of people when I allow you the freedom."
His arms remained limp at his sides, and of course she had known from the start he wouldn't resist. She moved closer, put her hands on his shoulders and felt the delicate bones beneath the tunic, saw the flinching pulse in his throat. Suddenly she gave a laugh that came from deep within her throat so it sounded like a chuckle, and a perfect flash of a smile drew him in. His fingers fumbled awkwardly with the folds of his skirt, but at least he remembered to close his mouth and return her smile, even though he felt mildly uncomfortable under her bold, almost menacing stare.
Her hands moved up and down his sides to assess the fit of the main garment, appreciating the shape of the body it contained. He didn't struggle even then, and as she raised his head to appreciate the soap-scrubbed freshness of his skin something passed between them - a look, a flinch of acquiescence. Placing a hand on his head she curled her fingers thorough his hair before taking a firm grip, then with her other hand she caressed his cheek, sliding a finger beneath his chin to tilt it up.
"Tomorrow we'll embellish things with a lacy garter belt. You'll wear sheer black nylons, not passion-killer panty-hose. You have beautiful smooth thighs and you do like to wear stockings, don't you?"
"Well I..."
"You do look good in them. Definitely dark stockings though. Black will make a gorgeous contrast with your creamy skin." She suddenly tutted. "Some of the buttons on the tunic will have to be moved over. Do you remember how to sew on buttons?"
When he silently nodded she began to unfasten things. "Let's get it off." she said reaching forward, pulling the gymslip from his shoulders and helping him to step out of it. "We have a long way to go tomorrow and we must start off early. You won't have time to sew buttons in the morning, you must do it now."
Simon frowned slightly. "I don't know if I want to go to another school, mummy. Not a residential place. I've never been away from home before."
"Don't be childish Simon; you'll make new friends as quick as winking, see if you don't."
He was wearing very little beneath the schoolgirl outfit, the skin of his body was very pale but with a pinkish hue to it. Gorgeous, the woman thought, he smelled like lavender only sweeter, like a sugar bun just out of the oven. Simon was an angel fallen to earth whose little pantied bottom would be a favourite with men for many years to come.
She continued to smile as his nipples peeped at her, pink and displaying hardly any aureole. She loved that. She loved everything about his girlishness. The tightness of his hips and the way his legs moved, and she loved to observe the shifting shapes in his cotton panties. While they stood together she reached down and smoothed her fingers over the contours of the delicate package inside.