Cynthia's Story
I send Simon a text the day after the disaster in the cinema. It's nearly an hour before he replies. Why all that time? I send another text, asking if he can go somewhere and phone me. I get back that he is busy. I write a long text explaining, I know he had to go and sit with his new friends in the cinema, and it was nice of him to walk a girl home. I think about it, and add are you seeing her? I delete it, and then add it again, and I send it.
I wait anxiously for a few minutes. I can't stand it anymore I send, I moved up here to be near you, I'm not complaining that you have friends, but we are together, aren't we? I look at what I've sent, I wish I had worded it differently, or not sent it. I don't want him thinking I'm being clingy, but I've up rooted and moved a few hundred miles to be with him. I send a quick request, about meeting him to explain. I get back it is not a good time.
I stir my tea and throw the spoon in the sink. I call him.
"Si, I'm not good at texting we need to meet and talk."
"I can't," he replies quietly.
"Well I didn't mean now in an hour or so, that café in the square. I'll be there at 11."
"Cynthia I can't as in....well I'm busy. Look she's coming back I have to go."
"Who, that little tart? Did you stay the night with her? Simon please meet up with me?"
The phone goes dead.
I text again, I didn't mean to call her a tart. I'M SORRY, BUT PLEASE TELL ME YOU DIDN'T STAY WITH HER?
I don't get an answer, perhaps writing it in capitals was a bad idea.
Monday morning I've skipped work, and I'm sat in my car outside the school. I've written Simon a note which I want to slip in his hand somehow. I see him and go to open my car door. A girl rushes up to him and they hug. He kisses her cheek, she puts her arm through his, and they walk into school together, both of them, smiling.
Over the next few days I send Simon texts, but I don't hear back. Once again I can't believe how stupid I've been. The more I think about it the more I realise following him up here to Leeds was beyond crazy. I've read true stories and seen programs on TV about how an obsession can take over your life. I never thought I'd be one of those stupid people. It is time I stopped all this silliness and got myself in order.
June's Story
Doctor Rose Trent walks in looking at me, and instructs the nurse to start removing my bandages.
My voice squeaks as I go to ask her something. She gets me a drink of water. I take a sip and then my voice squeaks again.
"W....what have, you do...done?" I ask in panic.
"Get out," she hisses at the nurse, who is looking shocked at my reaction.
"June, I told you I had a few changes I wanted to try. We'll start with the obvious. I have altered your voice box to make you sound more feminine. I know we didn't exactly say that would be happening right now, but I managed to convince the doctor now was the time.
"But I sound like," I clear my throat, hoping to find some part of my old voice, "I sound like some bimbo."
"It'll calm down after a few months."
"Mum and dad will go ape when they hear me talk," I say listening to the words which come out of my mouth, but sound nothing like me.
"Really, I think you're being a little paranoid, after all you wanted me to change you as far as I could. Now let me finish taking the bandages off you breasts."
I watch her unrolling the bandages, and then I sit up looking in the mirror. As the last covering comes off I'm even more shocked.
"Holy fuck," my new voice says, "what's happened to my tits and nip........"
I touch them and feel a tingle in my breasts. I look up at her as she stands there with the usual straight and unconcerned expression on her face.
Doctor Trent's Story
"Your nipples have been enlarged, and I've added some gel to them so they stick out like your aunt's, only a little more. Don't worry you'll get used to them, if you're that bothered about it you can always stick them down with tape, but like you said, you wanted your appearance modelled on your aunt, but better."
"Are you telling me they will always stick out? They are the size of thimbles!"
"Yes but they have to match the size of your breasts. You're quite near to Dolly Parton's size now."
"Who the hell is she?"
"Oh yes, before your time. Now I didn't use implants, there is a hormone spurt injection which is new on the market, which I have developed here at the clinic with the doctor. Like your nipples your breasts will always be that size. You're actually bigger than your aunt now."
"Mum and Dad..."
Here she goes worrying about her stupid parents and what they'll think.
"Look, you told me you wanted to look like sex on legs, like your aunt. Once you parents realise they will have no choice but to accept you as you are, they'll get over it, eventually. Hopefully they won't see this is a about a boy wanting to be girl for sexual reasons, but the usual girl being trapped in a boy's body."
She gulps like it is something we haven't talked about, and then she nods.
"You told me you wanted to be like your aunt in everyway. What I've done for you is given you the best possible start. You're going to attract males like she does, and when I told you I could help you do that you went red and said, yes I want that, didn't you?"
She nods again, and this time I smile.
"June, I told you I could help, and that's what I've done. If my work isn't to your satisfaction then I'm sorry, but there are hundreds of thousands of boys like you once were, who would give anything to look like you look now. It'll take time to get used to it, but in the end I know I'm right. Your mind will grow quickly into your body, and one day you'll realise putting yourself in the hands of Doctor Rose Trent, was the best decision of your life. Now get some rest, in two days we'll unveil what changes you have between your legs."
I walk out of the room and into the office opposite. I look on the monitor and June is smiling, if a little tentatively.
"I'm not happy with that Trent, you've gone too far with her, you're a butcher, and what is all this about it being sexual?"
I lift my eyes heavenwards, and then I turn and face him.
"I've told you Doctor, June is the one who is going to make you wealthy, the before and after photos will have men flocking here to be turned into a woman like June."
"All because of your new wonder drug and you still haven't shown me the test results like I asked for."
"The test results are lying in that bed," I say pointing at the screen, "don't look like that it worked, didn't it?"
He fidgets gets up, and walks to window. I watch him rubbing his hand nervously across the back of his neck. He spins round facing me.
"Doctor Trent, tell me, how can we show paper copies of the test, when we don't have any? The medical council will strike me off. I might even end up in prison because of you!"
I open my bag and pull out a folder, and drop the one hundred page document on his desk. I slap my hand on it.
"There are your tests. I spent a few days writing it up."
I watch him flick through a few of the pages. Then he looks up.
"You've credited me with some of the work, on the hormone spurt drug, but I never carried out tests."
"I carried out a few, but I knew it would work. I've got friends in high places that have put their names to it. Okay I back dated a few experiments so it looks like it has been developed over the last two years. The truth is it took me less than six months from start to the finish, the proof of which is sat in one of your hospital beds. I'm not sitting around waiting for those idiots to ponder things for a couple of years, and carry out their own investigation. Look at the back page."
He looks up after reading the names.
"They passed it?" he asks in disbelief, an almost falls into his chair.
I put both my hands on his desk and lean forward.
"Yes of course they passed it. They got paid, and then there were those who wanted certain things about their private life to be kept in the cupboard."
"It'll come back and bite you Rose."
"I don't think so, but if it ever does those on the back page will be going down too."
Sylvia's Story
I've got on with things and put what happened with Nathan and his stupid mates behind me. I'm out in the garden trying to cut my grass. Curtains are twitching as I struggle with the cord on the strimmer. Just how long do I have to stand here in my tight denim shorts and white vest top before Cliff, my neighbour, comes to my rescue? Okay he likes to leer at me, but this is getting bloody annoying now.
Once again I flick the switch, and the cord comes off the spool. I've clipped it in where it says, and even tried tying the thing, but it just unravels. I've thrown it down in frustration now, and Cliff still hasn't come out. Any other day he'll be leaning on the fence, which separates our two gardens, on the pretence of chatting to me. He'd be drooling over me, and no doubt fiddling with his cock behind the wooden fence. Well I can't stand this anymore; I really want to get the grass cut.
I knock on my neighbour's door. I hear feet on the stairs, then silence, and then the door opens.
"Oh Jason, can you ask your dad if he'll pop round for a few minutes. I'm trying to cut my grass, and the stupid strimmer thing won't work."
"Dad isn't here. He went shopping."
"Oh but I thought....."
My mind is back to the twitching curtain in Cliff's bedroom. Maybe it was the breeze, no I saw a figure.
"I can have a look, if you like?"