Sometime in the night I managed to drag myself up to my room. When I really woke up, the candle was beside me, about half used and snuffed out. I was still wearing the lingerie and my clothes were on the table. I was covered in cum. I was quite literally covered in cum as I had rubbed it all over my body. It had dried on my face and neck. I felt it on my chest and abs as I sat up and even felt it on my hips and legs. I had never been so grateful that the sun had woken me up before anyone in the house had a chance to see me. I was equally grateful for the water and washrag I kept in my room. I stripped off the lingerie and rinsed myself off. I took a moment to clean the necklace I still wore as well. I put the lacy things in the water and put on ordinary underwear, only to have the boxer briefs tear beyond any meaningful use.
"Damnit," I said before tossing them in a corner. I put on a pair of shorts commando and washed the lingerie in the bowl. I washed my face, and hoped I got all the dried cum off.
"Phoenix!" Mom called from below my room. "Baby, are you up?"
"Yeah mom!" I called back scrubbing the stains as best as I could while hoping I didn't tear the fabric at the same time. "I'll be down in a minute."
"Everything ok?"
"Just tore another pair of underwear."
"Ok, I'll see if I can find any of yours in the clean laundry."
I breathed a sigh of relief as the cum stains came out of the lingerie. I rang them dry as Mom had shown me and lay them out to dry in a corner of the room where no one, hopefully, would notice.
I threw on a shirt and went downstairs for breakfast. I didn't particularly like my clothes and I didn't particularly like my body so I didn't really pay attention to what I wearing until Paris wolf whistled at me from the kitchen.
"What?" I asked.
"Are you serious? Did you not look at yourself this morning?"
"No. When do I ever?" I walked past her to get some eggs and bacon but she grabbed me by the arm and took me to the bathroom we no longer used because it had no running water. "Seriously?"
The bathroom was upstairs next to her room, and it looked like all she used it for these days was shaving her legs and looking in the mirror.
"Look at yourself Baby Bro," she said to me. "I mean seriously."
I looked in the mirror and froze. "The fuck?"
"Yeah," she said.
My first thought was that I hadn't washed the cum off and that was made me seem ... different, but that wasn't the case. My face was just simply, softer. I couldn't explain it any better than that. My t-shirt was thin and threadbare enough that you could make out the shape of my nipples through them. They seemed oddly large and puffy. The necklace over my shirt was there, but somehow dodged attention. It made me seem more feminine and didn't attract notice because it looked like it belonged. The shirt hung on me loosely enough that there was no clearly defined shape to me aside from 'slim' and it stopped just below the waist of my jean shorts but the flare of my hips, while always noticeable, was now obvious. My shorts, which were falling apart and ratty and a bit too small for me, looked extra small on me that day. My legs looked like they went on for miles below the leg which was barely below the seam.
"Why the fuck are my shorts so fucking short!" I screamed.
Paris slapped my ass. "That's why." She turned me to the side and sure enough I had an ass that was closer to my Mom's or Paris than it was the one I was expecting to see.
"For fuck's shit! When did this happen?"
Paris giggled. "For fuck's shit?"
"Paris!"
"Ok, ok." She took a breath and calmed herself down. "But still, you look hot. You could've turned so many heads with this look."
"You're my sister," I said, "You shouldn't call your little brother hot, especially when he looks like a girl." I looked in the mirror and sighed. I loved the look at the same time that I hated it. I looked like I couldn't make up my mind about who or what I wanted to be. "Fuck it. At least I don't have to be embarrassed about going out of the house, or meeting someone in public."
Paris laughed. "True enough." She threw an arm around me and pulled me out of the bathroom and back to the kitchen. "Let's get some breakfast."
As we walked together I was very much aware of her closeness. The feel of her heat against me was enough to set my cock on the way to hardening and I tried to think of something else, anything else. No way my cock could hide in my newly short shorts. We heard Dad complaining once again that there was no coffee and I was grateful that I had never really gotten into it before the fallout.
Mom was telling him that there was that and plenty more we'd have to learn to live without as time passed by so quit complaining.
"I know it isn't the look you'd pick for yourself," Paris said quietly just to me, "but you do look good."
I shrugged. "Like a birthday, does it even matter anymore?"
"Yeah," She said quietly. "I think it does." She kissed me on the cheek, but it was a soft, lingering kiss. I never knew that a kiss on my cheek could be so amazing.
Mentally I shook myself. What the hell was wrong with me that a kiss on the cheek was getting my blood up? As much as I loved my sister, and I mean I really loved her no matter what I said, a peck on the cheek shouldn't have the same impact on me as when she pressed her braless tits into me. Now my cock was scant centimeters from popping out to say hello.
I thought about ice, coldness. I thought about pigs in the mud. I thought about the fallout and all the people who hadn't made it and all the people who were suffering right now.
That did it. My hard-on went away like smoke in a hurricane and we entered the kitchen for breakfast. Either the change that Paris and I had noticed had been gradual and caught us both by surprise, or else Mom and Dad were too caught up in their own things to notice it. Mom looked at me as I sat down and helped myself to some eggs and bacon. Farm life has its benefits after all.
"Bad news, Phee." There was a slight pause and hitch in her voice that I almost missed. I hid the shiver of pleasure that it gave me. When was the last time she had called me 'Phee' outside of my fantasies?
Of course my thrill at her use of the nickname was tampered by what bad news could mean. "What is it Mama?"
I hadn't meant to use my baby name for her. Like Mommy, I hadn't called her Mama in years. She shook some water off her hands. "None of your underwear survived the last washing."
I breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh shit Mom. You scared me there. I thought Zombies had infested the south fields or something."
We laughed at that. Even Dad choked on his breakfast.
"Whatever," I said, "no big deal. I can go commando."
"What about all the extra clothes downstairs?" Paris asked. "There was plenty of underwear down there."
Mom hesitated. I jumped in.
"It's all women's underwear." I said.
"So?" Paris asked. She looked at me meaningfully and I knew what she was leaving unsaid. You have a woman's ass now don't you? You halfway look the part already don't you? Why not add some nice underthings to the ensemble? What she actually said was "It's not like you're going to run into someone who will bully you about it."
I pretended to think about it and shook my head. "Even if they fit, which we don't know they will, I looked at them when we first went down there. It's all lace and frilly stuff. I can't work around the farm or go hunting in that stuff." I couldn't tell them my secret. I didn't know why it mattered. Here we were at the end of the world and I didn't want my family, the only living people I saw or was likely to see, to know that I liked to wear women's clothes. So stupid.
"Tell you what," Paris said. "after dinner we'll take them all up to your room. That way if you change or mind or want to give it a try, no big deal, ok?"