Chapter 4
The Test
I spent most of the coming school year with Charlotte. She had bought the car because she would graduate in the spring and leave for a job in the big city. I was just finishing up my first year at the state university. I still worked at the car lot and went to class. My father's estate and my financial advisor had been keeping me well financed and I had no real money worries. I didn't have a lot of free cash or time to spend on myself, so I really didn't dress up or go out that much. Charlotte was good company, she moved in for the last half of the semester and learned more about being with a male.
She moved out and away from the University in the Spring. I still miss her sometimes when I lay awake at night. She gave me a lot to think about and I enjoyed here emensely.
I was comfortable being a girl but not yet adapted to being a lady. I needed a mentor, so I kept my eyes open for another transsexual who might be able to do that for me. I didn't have any trouble finding boys or dates but that wasn't what I wanted. I wanted another person to teach me how to be a lady. Charlotte had been young and fun, but she was not a lady.
One evening there was a bunch of us hanging around in the University Center just doing nothing. A couple of guys I didn't know came by and tried to get some of the boys to go with them to visit a brothel they knew about. I could hear some of the conversation but not everything. It seemed to be a hard sell because most of the guys didn't have much free cash. Finally, three of them decided to go and I decided I wanted to know more about this place. I asked to come along and got a big laugh. Not to be discouraged, I pressed my point and since I had a car they relented and let me drive them.
The place was in an old residential district and a very big house. There must have been 4 floors and a dozen bedrooms. We all went inside and I kind of hung back just wanting to see what happened. One of the boys had been there before and he introduced the others to the hostess. The hostess kind of checked everybody out and when she came to me, the tomboy, she asked me what I wanted? I told her I was looking for work. I kept my voice down so the others couldn't hear, and the hostess picked up on my effort to be discreet. She said to wait there, and someone would come to get me. She then took the three boys into another room where they could make their selections for the evening. I had never in my life been with a professional woman and I wondered what that would be like. Maybe I could learn something.
Invited to sit and have a drink by the hostess, I moved to a love seat by the fireplace and sat down to watch. She brought me a glass of wine and I sipped and watched the traffic. There were several men leaving, some adults but most of them seemed to be young men from the university. That surprised me. You would think young handsome guys would not have a problem getting dates with girls and even some sex along with it. I had been keeping guys at bay all semester and suddenly thought maybe that was the problem. Too many of us were not offering a helping hand to the boys around school. Maybe I should do something about that. I sipped my wine and watched for about 20 minutes, then the hostess came to me and asked me to follow her.
She led me to a large door, which opened into an office where a very stately woman stood in front of this enormous desk and smiled at me. She looked to be in her 40's with an hourglass shape, large breasts and even larger butt. She wore a beautiful gold form fitting long dress that accentuated everything feminine about her. Her hair was wrapped and stacked on her head exemplifying her long stately neck, her makeup was beautiful, and she had rings on her fingers and earrings loaded with sparkling stones you had to assume were diamonds.
She walked toward me and said, "My name is Madame Silver and I own this establishment."
Her voice was husky and absolutely thrilled me. It sent shivers down my spine. The tone and resonance were like church bells tolling. I felt like I was in the presence of a goddess. She directed me to a chair and walked to a large ornate cherry wood bar and poured a drink, she didn't ask, she just handed it to me and then poured one for herself before sitting directly across from me.
"What can I do for you young lady," she said.
I told her I wanted to find a mentor, a lady I could learn to emulate, and learn from. She cocked her head and looked me up and down.
"Why do you think you need a mentor?" she countered.
I told her, "I wanted to become a gracious lady, refined and able to associate with others that had better breeding than I did."
"Did you have a mother to teach you?"
"No, my mother is a prude, stuck in a low-class world that I want to leave."
"Why do you think you can find that here?" she asked.
"I don't know the answer to that, my friends were coming here. I knew that professional women worked here, and I hoped that maybe something would work for me."
"Do you want to become a prostitute?" she said.
"Not exactly, but if this kind of work teaches me to be graceful and beautiful like you then I want to try it."
She laughed out loud and thought that was a funny way to express how the brood of girls she tended to appear and worked. I looked at her and something registered in me that I had not seen before. She really was elegant to look at, but her eyes seemed to be telling me something her words were not. She turned all business on me for a minute and asked me some questions about what I was doing at the university, did I have a boyfriend, how often did I have sex now, how old was I, did I use birth control, and a few more I can't remember.