It's my first story yay!! Features mlm goodness, hypnosis, and a trans guy. All characters are over 18.
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I am shy by nature, maybe that's why he lasered in on me so quickly. It was obvious from my first glance over, and then my second, and fifth, and tenth. He was staring, unabashed staring and he clearly wasn't going to stop. His tall, thin frame was capped by a splash of dark brown hair, and dark brown eyes to match. Eyes that you could fall right into. And it was clear he wasn't going to stop, so decided to stare right back. As I did I could feel the party falling away from me, and everyone else in the room seemed to disappear. He strutted across the room and said, "I like guys with a little fight in them".
Knowing what I know now, it's hard to say if I would have run into his arms, or torn out of the door. Maybe that's why I keep going back.
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Life for me wasn't going great. It wasn't going poorly but it also wasn't exactly the life I had imagined for myself as a spunky little girl. I dreamed of the husband, the white picket fence, the animals tucked in every corner of the house. Puberty changed all that for me. Suddenly I was seeing a monster in the mirror instead of myself. Who was this person I thought I was? Who am I?
Transitioning suddenly lifted so much of the weight I carried around as a teenager, but it did nothing for my shy streak. It seemed as by the virtue of moving through the world as a trans man, I would also hold most people at arm's length. People are smart, but crowds are stupid, and there aren't many bigger crowds than ones that hate things they don't understand. I had become used to being the quiet one in the room, and used to being the one pinning after men and women rather than the one going after them. My short stature, muscular frame, and red hair didn't give me much to hide behind, but it wasn't for lack of trying. At 22 I was figuring out how to settle into adulthood. He changed all that.
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"Come look at the moon with me."
Really, I thought The Moon, is this some terrible rom-com? Though I played it ultra cool with a simple "Sure."