Jason's Story

by Kristine Roland

Chapters 11 - 15. The continuing story of Jason, a young boy that is coming to terms with his transgender nature, and his mostly supportive family.

“I was in the shoe store yesterday.” Julie told him.

Chapter 11

When they got home, Jason carried the bags into his room, and his mother said, “Ok Kelly, you need to try everything on and see how well we did with your measurements.”

Jason got undressed down to his underwear, and opened up the first packet of panties. Kristine turned her eyes as he replaced the stolen pair with his first pair of panties that was actually purchased for him. They fit quite well, much better than the pair that he had acquired from his mother’s drawer. Then he took one of the new bras and put that on. Kristine stopped him from grabbing a pair of socks and told him to get the box with the gel pads. He opened it and placed the first one in his left bra cup, and the second in the right cup.

Jason could not believe how good they felt. Although they were a little cold at first, he could feel them starting to warm up almost immediately, and they quickly felt like they were almost attached to his skin. Jason knew then and there that he would not be using socks ever again if he could help it.

Kristine looked at Jason, seeing the look on his face, knew that Jason was never going to give up Kelly. She thought to herself, “Dear God, I hope that I am doing the right thing.” She kept this to herself though, and said to Jason, “Well, when I picked up the pads, I should have thought about the fact that they would not fill out the cups to the same size as your socks did. That bra will be too loose, and won’t hold them in place. I should have gotten a smaller cup size. Maybe you should put in the socks.”

Jason’s face fell.

“Oh dear, I’m sorry honey…”

“It’s ok Mom, its just that they feel so much better, almost like a part of me, so different from the socks.”

“Alright, well keep them on for now, lets see how much trouble you have with them. Eventually, I guess I will have to look into full size forms for you, but I think they are rather expensive. These pads are designed to add a cup size, but they do make larger ones. They were originally developed to help women that lost their breasts from cancer, to feel better about themselves. Ok, we have to get moving, because we still need to get dinner together.”

Jason, next tried on the leggings and the tee, both fit fine. Then he tried the capris, and that also fit without a problem. The peasant shirt was perhaps a little loose in the bust area, but looked good, particularly when he switched to the denim skirt. Jason could not help himself; he had to twirl with the skirt on.

Lastly he tried on the navy dress, and he was very disappointed, because it was too tight. His mother said, “that is obviously too tight, it is cut small for its size, and you are going to have to go up a size. I’m sure though that will be fine. I’ll return this tomorrow and pick up the next size higher. That is another thing for you to learn. Unfortunately women’s clothing in particular is difficult to judge by size, because different brands and styles fit vary so much that it really is tough to know how something will fit until you try it on.”

Jason put the peasant blouse and the denim skirt back on. His mother told him he needed to wear hose with the skirt. He opened a package of panty hose and started to try to put them on. His mother quickly stopped him and said, “You have to roll up the leg so that you put your foot into the bottom and then pull it up,” as she showed him how to do so, “Here now you try.”

He quickly did as she had showed him, and soon he had them on. Then he got out his flats and he was dressed for the evening. He put all his new clothes away, except for the navy dress, which his mom took along with the receipt so that she could exchange it the next morning.

Then they went out into the kitchen and started to get dinner together.

“Your father will be home shortly, so we are going to have to do something simple. I picked up hamburgers and salad fixings. Go ahead and set the table, then take the big salad bowl and toss the salad for me. I’ll go get the grill going.”

Jason went and set the dining room table for the three of them, then taking the big salad bowl he took the romaine and washed and drained it, tearing it up he added it to the bowl. Then he chopped some carrots, onions, tomatoes and some baby bella mushrooms. All of these were added into the bowl. Then he added some shredded cheddar cheese. He then took the big salad spoons and tossed the salad ingredients well, and put the bowl out on the dining room table. He grabbed all of the salad dressings in the refrigerator and brought them out to the dining room table as well.

His mother was back inside, and had grabbed a paper grocery bag and was shucking corn. He sat down next to her and grabbed another ear, and started peeling as well. In a few minutes they had them all done. His mother grabbed a big pot and filled it with water, washed the corn and set it to boil.

After looking in at the table, Kristine said, “Kelly, nice job on the salad. Your father will appreciate the cheese; I always forget that he likes that. So, while we have a few minutes, tell me about Julie.”

“Not much to tell really. She’s nice enough, but I don’t really know her. I’ve seen her around school, and she is in a couple of my classes, but we had never really talked before. I was kind of surprised she stopped and said hello today.”

“Hmm… that is interesting. Well of course you were sitting where she was supposed to wait for her mother, so it could be that she was just being friendly, but there were other seats, she did not have to come over and sit by you.”

“No, she didn’t. As I said she has always been nice, she is not one of the ‘snooty’ girls, if you know what I mean.”

“Yes, I know exactly what you mean. Does she have a boyfriend?”

“How should I know?”

“I suppose that is true. Probably not, but it won’t be too long, and I’m sure she is already starting to think about it. How about you, is there anyone that you are interested in?”

“I don’t know. Sure there are definitely some girls I think are really pretty, including Julie, and for that matter Kathy and Sue too. And I like to think about them, but it gets confusing. When I look at a pretty girl, part of me wants to, well you know, and the other part of me is looking at what she is wearing, and getting all jealous because I can’t be dressed that way, and even if I could will never look that good. So it is really confusing.”

“Hum, what about boys? How do you feel about them?”

“What do you mean?”

“When you look at a boy, do you get at all confused about your feelings?”

“No. Its just a boy. Someone I can go play catch with, or whatever, but I’m not interested in what he looks like, or what he is wearing. If it’s a friend, then I’m thinking about what we can do, if not then I pretty much ignore him.”

They heard the garage door opening, so Kristine said, “Kelly, please go wait in your room. I want to make a proper introduction of you to your father.”

Jason quickly went to his room. A few moments later, his mother came in and asked him to come with her. They walked to the living room, and his mother said to his father, “Richard, may I present your daughter, Kelly.”
Jason’s father came over to Jason, gave him a hug and said, “Kelly, I love you my dear.” He then hugged Jason even harder.

“Oh, I love you too Dad, and you too Mom.”

After a long, hard group hug, they headed into the kitchen. The burgers were quickly cooked, and they sat down to dinner. Dinner was just like every other night, talk about the day, just like nothing had changed. Jason thought to himself that he had to be the luckiest kid in the world.

After dinner, Jason had to work on his homework and then it was time for bed. When he changed into his nightgown, he left his bra on with the gel pads. He had a very hard time getting to sleep that night.

Chapter 12

The next day at school, Jason was sitting with his friends during lunch, when Julie came over and asked him, “Hi Jason. Do you have a minute; I need to talk to you about something.” His friends John and Steve looked at him in astonishment. Julie may not have been the snobby kind of girl, but she was very pretty, and John and Steve could not believe she would be coming to their friend.

Jason said, “oh… sure Julie, no problem.”

Jason followed Julie out of the lunch room and onto the field where the other kids that were done eating were gathering. They found a spot that was quiet, where they could talk, and sat on the grass.

“Jason, I have a confession to make.” Julie started.

Jason wasn’t sure what Julie could possibly be trying to tell him.

“I was in the shoe store yesterday.” She told him.

Warning bells started going off in Jason’s head, as he started to think of what to say.

“Oh… don’t worry Jason; your secret is safe with me. But I heard your mom telling you about footies, and then saw you try on those flats and the pumps. And I’m sure that all of those clothes were not for your cousin.”

Jason’s heart was beating a mile a minute as he was thinking to himself that he was absolutely dead.

“Jason, I’m serious, please don’t worry, I am not going to tell anyone! Even Kathy and Sue don’t know, because they were not with me. They were in the accessories store next door, and they had both picked up some things, and the line was long, and my Mom was due any moment, and I wanted some sandals, so I went into the shoe store by myself. I saw you, and was going to say hi, when I heard your Mom. And then I felt so bad because I was not trying to eavesdrop, but I couldn’t help it. Can you forgive me?” Julie was either the best actress that Jason had ever seen or she was truly upset.

Jason answered, “It’s not your fault, it’s my mother and mine, we were not careful enough. This was the first time we ever went shopping for me like that.”

“Jason, answer me one question. Are you doing this because you want to, or is it being forced on you by your mother?”

“It’s me, Julie. It is something I need to do.”

“Good. I would want to help you either way, but I liked your mother last night, and I would hate to think that I was that wrong. Am I correct that you are actually Kelly?”

“Yes. I don’t have a cousin Kelly. That is the name I chose for myself when I dress.”

“Do you want to be a girl?”

“I don’t know. Sometimes I think so, but sometimes being a boy isn’t so bad.”

“So you are trying out being Kelly sometimes for now?”

“Yes, that’s probably a good way to put it.”

“Well, one thing about girls is that they really need a girlfriend to share with. I would really like to be Kelly’s girlfriend, if you will let me. I have always thought that you were a nice guy Jason, and now we can share this, if you will have me.”

“I think that I would like that, but I promised my parents that Kelly would only exist at home for now. I have done enough lying about this to them, I won’t do any more.”

“Fair enough, if this is going to happen, your mom needs to know anyway. Mine, can’t know. She would never, ever accept this, and she would forbid me to see you.”

“Well, I will have to tell Mom about it. She is going to want to talk to you herself. I could ask her if we can invite you to dinner tonight. I did not have any other plans tonight, so we were just going to have a family movie night. We were probably going to pick up the sequel to National Treasure.”

“I’d like that. I loved the first one, and I’ve only seen the sequel once in the theatre. Actually it would be perfect, because my brother is having friends over tonight, and Kathy is going with her family to her grandparents for the weekend, and Sue has to spend this weekend with her father. Her parents are divorced. So I was going to be closing myself in my room to keep away from the boys anyway. I’m sure my mom won’t object.”

Julie wrote her number down on a piece of paper she had in her purse. “If your mom says it is ok, give me a call. Mom will want to speak to your mom to make sure it is all ok.”

The rest of the afternoon went slowly, but finally school ended. On his way home he took some good natured ribbing from John and Steve about being pulled away and spending his lunch recess with Julie. Jason took it with good grace, as he knew if the situation was reversed he would be doing the same to them.

When he got home, he told his mother that they needed to talk. He told her about the conversation that he had had with Julie, and his mother was horrified. “Jason, I am so sorry, I just did not think. We should have gone to a mall further away. I put you at so much risk! And now Julie knows, and lord knows what she is thinking.”

Jason replied, “Mom, we got off lucky. I believe Julie; like I said she has always been one of the nice girls. I really don’t think she is playing a game, I think she really feels bad about over hearing us, and I don’t know why but I think she really wants to be my friend. Can we have her over tonight for dinner, then you can feel her out yourself and see if you trust her.”

“That is probably the best idea. We can’t put the genie back in the bottle, so let’s see what happens now. Go ahead and call her, then I will speak to her mom. You said that Julie said that she can’t tell her mom about this.”

“That is what she said.”

“Ok, so I won’t need to answer any of those questions.”

Jason went to the phone and called Julie’s house. Julie’s brother answered and Jason asked, “Um… Hi is Julie there?” He could hear her brother calling, “Julie, some guy is on the phone for you.”

Julie, picked up the phone and shouted down to her brother to hang up now. “Hello?”

“Hi Julie, its Jason. I spoke to my mom, and she said it would be alright to invite you for dinner, would you like to come over, have dinner and maybe watch a movie?”

“Sure… I’ll have to clear it with my mother though. Wait.” Jason could hear her asking her mother. Julie came back and said, “My mom would like to speak to your mom to make sure it’s ok.”

“Mom, Julie’s mom wants to speak to you.”

“Ok Jason. Hello, hi Shelly, yes this is Kristine, we met last night… Yeah, its fine, Jason said that Julie was going to be stuck hiding out in her room tonight because her brother was having a few of his friends over, so he thought she might like to have dinner here, and watch the video with us… I’d be happy to come pick her up, and drop her off later after the movie… Really, it is not a problem at all. Ok, what is the address? Alright, I will be there about 5:30, ok? Great, see you then.” Kristine handed the phone back to Jason.

“Julie?”

“Jason, I’ll see you in a little while then. Thanks for calling.”

Chapter 13

Jason and his mother rang the doorbell at Julie’s house, right at 5:30. Julie’s brother answered the door, and said, “Oh, you’re not Bill. Julie, your ‘date’ is here.”

Mrs. Sanders came to the front hall and said, “Brian! Be nice. Hi Kristine; hello Jason. Julie will be down in a moment. It was nice of you to invite Julie tonight, she really did not want to hang around with the boys being here tonight, and her girlfriends are all out of town. I hope she did not invite herself over?”

Jason replied, “Oh no Mrs. Sanders it was my idea. I did not know about that until after I asked her. She had said that she liked National Treasure, and we were going to be watching the sequel tonight, so I thought she might like to see it too. I knew it was kind of last moment, but I figured it could not hurt to ask, and it seems like it worked out well for her too.”

“It really is not a problem; we usually rent movies on Friday nights. Sometimes Jason has a friend or two over, sometimes not, but it’s a family event, so Jason’s father and I will be watching too.”

“Sounds like fun, let me see if I can get Julie to hurry up.” Mrs. Sanders went up the stairs, and shortly came down with Julie. When Jason saw Julie, he took a sharp breath, as Julie was quite beautiful. Jason’s pulse rate went up, and Kelly’s jealousy peeked as well. He struggled to get both under control, and said, “Hi Julie.” Julie was wearing a denim skirt, and a shell and sweater set.

Kristine said, “Hello Julie. My don’t you look nice tonight. Are you ready?”

Julie looked at her and said, “Thank you Mrs. Anderson. Yes, I’m ready, and Jason, thank you for inviting me.”

“Shelly, I should have her home by 10. I will call if we are running a little late, I’m not sure how long the movie runs, and Jason’s father sometimes gets stuck in traffic, and we wait for him. Is that Ok?”

“That’s fine, since she will be with you.”

Julie kissed her mother, and they all went to the Anderson’s car. After they pulled out of the driveway, Kristine spoke up, “Julie, first off, I want to thank you for being discrete about what you saw yesterday. I’m sure you know that if word got around school about that, Jason would have quite a bit of trouble with some of your classmates.”

“Mrs. Anderson, I understand. Believe me, no-one will ever find out about Kelly from me.”

“I hope that you mean that, Julie. When we get to the house, I’d like to discuss your intentions a little bit more, and Jason, I think that it would be best if you give us some privacy for that. Is that ok with both of you?”

Jason and Julie both told her that it was fine.

When they got to the house, Jason went to his room, and Kristine led Julie into the family room. After offering her something to drink, she said to Julie, “Jason mentioned that you want to be Kelly’s friend. I have to ask you, why? You already have Kathy and Sue, and you told him they don’t know, so how do you think this will work? You know that if you start hanging around with Jason a lot, people are going to assume you are a couple. You are a little young yet, but in the next couple of years that will possibly be a problem for you.”

“Mrs. Anderson, you seem to be a really good Mom. There is something I want to tell you that I could never, ever tell my Mom. But knowing how you are handling Jason’s needs, I feel like I can trust you, and trust has to start somewhere.”

“Go on.”

“Mrs. Anderson, I don’t like boys the way that Kathy and Sue and the other girls do. Most boys are just so… I don’t know, but when I try to think of them the way that my girl friends do, I just don’t see the attraction. So I’ve tried to think about girls that way, thinking I might be gay, and while I think girls could be a little bit more interesting, when I start to thinking of another girls well, you know, it’s like ‘gross.’ So to be honest I was beginning to think I just was just not interested in either gender. But last night, the thought of a boy that is also kind of a girl, well I have never felt like that before.”

“Julie, you and Jason are too young…”

“Mrs. Anderson, I know that. I don’t know if Jason and I will ever be more then friends, but I realized last night that I wanted to be friends with Kelly. To help her anyway I can, and if we become more then that when we are older, then great, but if not, then at least I will have another good friend. One I can tell my secrets too, and who can tell me hers. I am not worried if everyone assumes we are dating. Maybe we will someday… I suspect that I would be happy if that happened, and I think that it might just make Jason happy too.”

“What if Jason decides someday that he wants to go all the way and become a girl? Although he says now that he has no interest in boys, you never know what will happen down the road as he frees himself to explore this.”

“Then I will either have another good friend that is a girl, or I may have grown to where that is ok with me too. I can’t see that far down the line, and neither can you, Mrs. Anderson. I won’t hurt Jason or Kelly, if I can help it. I won’t out him that I can guarantee.”

“And your family?”

“They are really conservative. They will never accept any of this, so I will just have to keep it from them. I wish my parents were as cool as you are, because I really would like to not have to hide my own feelings, but I’m going to have to until I am old enough to live on my own.”

“Ok Julie, that’s enough third degree. I am going to allow it. I think Kelly can use a friend, and to be honest, you have just answered one of my biggest concerns for Jason. He says he is interested in girls, and he is definitely interested in you, I think he almost had heart failure when you walked down the stairs tonight. Your really are quite beautiful you know.” Kristine smiled at Julie, and went on, “But I could not imagine that he would ever be able to find a girl that would be interested in a boy that dresses like a girl. Well, that did not take too long did it? That gives me hope for him. I know that it won’t all be this easy for him; there are a lot of pitfalls coming that much is certain. I put him at significant risk yesterday, because I was careless, but got off lucky, because it was you and not a gossip that caught us. Thank you for being a caring person.”

Kristine gave Julie a hug, and then grabbed some tissues to wipe their eyes. “Let’s go see if we can find Kelly, and bring her out to introduce you.”

Chapter 14

“Ok, Kelly and Julie, listen up. I have agreed to allow this. Kelly after speaking with Julie, I agree with you that she can be trusted.” She gave Julie a look that said that she better be trustworthy. “But there are going to have to be some ground rules, and you both have to agree to them. Kelly is still a boy, where it counts.” Looking at Jason, she said, “at least for now. Kelly, I am doing my best to treat you like a girl, as that is how you want to be treated, but in this instance I have to do what is right for both of you. And that means that you and Julie have to be properly chaperoned. I am pushing it by letting Julie keep this part of your relationship a secret from her parents. I am willing to do so, because it would put Kelly at risk otherwise, and because in my book Julie is old enough to make this decision. You have told me that your parents would absolutely disapprove, which puts me in a tricky spot of course, but my conscience is clear on this. But it won’t be if you two abuse it, and end up in trouble. And you are both old enough to know what I mean by trouble.” She looked at them with a stern face.

“So that means that you two are not to be alone in a room with a closed door. Julie, you are not to be here when there is no adult present. No getting changed together, etc. I know that those are all ‘normal’ things for girl friends to do, but you two are going to have to deal with the normal boy/girl restrictions. Is that clear?”

“Yes Mom.”

“Yes, Mrs. Anderson.”

“Ok. Kelly you need to get changed. Julie you can go in and help Kelly pick out her outfit for tonight, but leave the door open. Kelly, get changed in the bathroom.”

“Thanks, Mrs. Anderson. Come on Kelly; let’s go get you ready for dinner.” The two of them went into Jason’s room, making sure to leave the door wide open.

“Kelly, I wore my denim skirt because I knew that you had one. So let’s start with that. Do you have anything other than the things I saw last night?”

“No, not yet. I wore the skirt last night. It was the first night at home as Kelly and that’s the only skirt I have.”

“Did you hang it up?” Jason nodded his head yes. “Then it should be ok. Normally, I wouldn’t wear the same skirt two nights in a row, but you don’t have much to choose from yet, so I would not worry about it for now. Which top did you wear? Oh, wait I know, you had to have worn the peasant blouse.”

Jason looked surprised and said, “How did you know?”

“It was the prettiest of what you got. You would have either worn that outfit or the dress.”

“The dress did not fit, and it is supposed to be for Saturday and Sunday dinner.”

“Oh… I love getting dressed up to go out for dinner.”

Jason shook his head, and said, “I’m not ready for that, and may never be. But we try to have a family dinner on the weekends.”

“That sounds nice. My family rarely eats together, unless we go out for some occasion. Anyway go with the pink tee. How about makeup and jewelry?”

“I don’t have any.” Jason replied, with a sad look on his face.

Kelly smiled, “Well that is something I can help you with. Go get changed, and then come back here. Is there another chair that we can use at your desk?”

“We could use one of the kitchen chairs.”

“Ok, I’ll get it while you get changed.” Julie went to the kitchen, and Jason went into the bathroom to get changed.

“Oh… I like that, and that looks nice on you, Kelly. And you even have some boobs, nice.” Julie said when Jason came back into his room.

“Kelly, I brought practically everything I have, because I thought we might get to do this, and I figured it was unlikely you had any yet. I don’t know if the colors I have will really work for you. I wish Kathy could meet you, because she is really good at makeovers, but that is not going to happen. So we will just have to make do. Sit down right here.” She pointed to the chair at his desk. She pulled the makeup out her purse. “I brought my largest bag tonight, so that I could bring as much as possible, Mom thought it was silly but I told her I was bringing some CD’s. Why don’t you put something on the CD player while we do this?”

Jason took one of Julie’s CD’s and popped it in.

“Now sit still. I’m not going to try and teach this to you tonight. I need to play a bit to see what works, and as I said, Kathy is better at this then I am, so just let me play with it. If it doesn’t work, I promise we will take it off. Ok?”

As she started to work on Jason’s face, Kristine came by to check on them, raised an eyebrow but did not object. She did tell Julie, “Don’t do anything permanent, like shaping her eyebrows.”

“I was not going to Mrs. Anderson. Though I think a little cleanup would not hurt her, but I’ll leave them alone for now.”

“Ok. Have fun.”

Julie continued to work on Jason’s face. She tried different things, wiping some off, and than trying a different combination. Jason was getting a little fidgety. “Kelly, hold still. I can’t do this if you are moving around. Do you want to quit?”

“No, I’m ok. Just nervous I guess. My father has been great, but I am worried what he will think of this. I know I look silly enough in the clothes, and don’t want it to be any worse for him.”

“Kelly, I promise you, you can trust me. I am going to do my best to make you look as nice as you can. If it does not work, I will not let you leave the room. Ok? Please trust me. I really want to be your friend, and to help you to figure out where this is going to go for you.”

“I believe you Julie. I don’t really understand why you are doing this, but I believe you. I have to be honest though. As Kelly, I am so happy to have you as a friend. I’m jealous of you though, because you are so pretty, and you are everything I have always wished I could be. Then on top of that, I don’t know if I can keep Jason from wanting a different kind of friendship with you. But I can understand that for that you are going to want a ‘masculine’ guy, not a guy that wears dresses, and is also your friend Kelly.”

“Jason, look at me.” Jason looked Julie in the eyes.

“Jason, I don’t see any difference between you and Kelly. You are the same person whether you are in boy’s clothing or girls clothes. I like you, and always have. Since we are being honest, I’m attracted to you. Before last night, I would have said you were handsome, but I was not attracted the way you mean, not because of anything to do with you, but because I have never been attracted to a boy, or for that matter a girl before. I love the fact that you have some of both, and now this guy that I always thought was nice, turns out to be more than I ever thought about, and I realized fairly quickly last night that I liked it. So that is my big secret. I am glad that your Jason side finds me attractive, maybe after you have had time to explore being Kelly too, she may find she also likes me. She may not, she may find that despite what she thinks now that she actually does like boys, but right now it does not matter. We both have so much growing up to do before we can really let that go anywhere. Your mom is right about that. So let’s just see how it goes. But Jason, I would be honored if you were to ask me to be your girlfriend, and I don’t mind if the whole world knows it.”

By the time she finished, both she and Jason were crying. Julie could not help it; she reached out and gave Jason a hug.

“Now, stop crying, you are going to ruin all the work I have done.” She smiled as she pulled away. She showed him how to dab his eyes to avoid smearing the mascara, by drying her own eyes.

“Julie, I… don’t know what to say. This has been such an incredible couple of days for me. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, but I can’t tell you how happy I am that you saw me and Mom at the shoe store yesterday.”

“Me too, Kelly, me too. Now that is the best I can do with your makeup. I think it looks ok, I know that it can be better, but I’m just not good enough at it. Do you have a mirror in here?” Jason shook his head no.

“No… well, I know what to get Kelly for her birthday. No mirror.” Julie shakes her head in disbelief. “Alright, lets go into the bathroom so you can check out my handiwork before your father gets home.”

They went into the bathroom; again making sure the door was wide open. Jason looked into the mirror. While he was still obviously a boy, the makeup changes were subtle. They brought out his eyes more, and added color to his cheeks. He decided he liked it, but would wait to see how his mother felt about it before subjecting his father to it. Julie then said, “now what we need to do is to see what we can do with your hair. Thank god you don’t have a buzz cut. I think we can do something with it, without having to cut anything. Your mom would kill me if I cut your hair. Come on back in the other room, and let me see what I can do. Bring your brush. Do you have a hair dryer?”

Jason shook his head no again.

Julie shook her head and said, “boys! Ok, your mom has to have one, let me ask her. Go back and sit down.”

Julie went and found Jason’s mother. “Mrs. Anderson, can I borrow your hair dryer? Don’t worry; I’m not cutting her hair.” She added at Kristine’s startled expression. “But I want to see if I can do something by brushing it back. It really isn’t long enough to do much with, but its worth a try. Of course with that length I could do more with a curling iron, but I’m assuming you would prefer I not do that.”

Kristine replied, “I think that would be best for now, although anything that will wash right out should be ok. But that would take a lot of time, and Kelly’s father will be home soon, and dinner will be ready. Come with me, and I’ll get you the hair dryer. So how did the makeup session go?”

“I think that it can be better then I managed, but that would take someone more skilled then me, and probably with a wider selection to chose from. I think it looks ok, but Kelly wants you to approve it before her father sees it.”

“I’m sure it looks fine. I’m going to have to work with Kelly’s aunt to get hold of someone that is transgender friendly to help with this sort of thing. I know from her, that they can really do a lot.”

“I did not know that Kelly had an aunt that was so knowledgeable about this sort of thing.”

“One of his aunts has quite a few friends with ‘alternative lifestyles.’ She is actually quite conventional herself, but she is a very warm person that is not quick to judge. She has a young daughter named Emily. Unfortunately, Emily’s father died a couple of years ago in a car accident. So she is a single Mom now.”

“I’m sorry to hear that. It must be so hard on them both.”

“It is at times, but we do what we can to help. Emily spends a lot of time here. And Sally has lots of friends. So she does ok for herself and for Emily.”

While they were talking they had retrieved the hair dryer and returned to Jason’s room. When they got there, Kristine asked Jason to come over to the light. “That is very nice work Julie. I doubt I could have done much better. Kelly, that will be fine. Your dad will probably not even notice it. He tends to be oblivious to this sort of thing.”

Julie told him to go into the bathroom and get his hair damp. When he came back, she had him sit down again. This time she stood behind him, and started working with his hair. She combed it back, and used the hair dryer to try to put some lift into it. When she was done, she said, “Kelly, I’m sorry, there just is not enough to really do much with, at least not without cutting some things, particularly the sideburns. We will just have to let that go for tonight.”

“It’s ok, Julie, I appreciate the effort.”

Julie put the hairdryer back where she and Kristine had gotten it from.

Soon after, Jason’s father got home, and came in to introduce himself. “Hi Kelly, and this must be Julie. Hi, I’m Richard, Kelly’s father.”

Julie stood up and said, “Hello Mr. Anderson, it is a pleasure to meet you.”

“The pleasure is mine, I assure you. It is nice to know that Kelly has a friend like you, and that she will not have to go through this by herself. Anyway, Kelly, your Mom says dinner is almost ready and asked if you and Julie would come help her set the table.”

“Sure Dad, I should have been helping her anyway, sorry.”

“Don’t worry about it, your mother would have asked for it if she needed it, she knew you and Julie needed some time together.”

They sat down to dinner.

“Kelly, I got a call today from your new baseball coach. You are going to be on the Mets. Your first practice is going to be next Thursday.” Jason’s mother told him.

“That’s great Mom. Julie do you play any sports?”

“Yes, I’ll be playing softball. Too bad we can’t be on the same team,” she replied.

“Kelly, you are going to need some new cleats, your old ones are not going to fit you, so we need to head to the mall tomorrow.”

“That sounds good to me.” Jason answered. He saw Julie looking like she wanted to say something. “Mom, would it be ok if Julie came with us? She probably needs to pick up new cleats too.”

Julie’s face lit up, but she waited to hear Jason’s mother’s response.

“If she would like to go, and if it is ok with her mother,” Kristine answered.

Julie said, “I would love to go. I don’t think Mom would have a problem, but I can call her after we finish dinner and ask.”

After dinner, Julie called her mother and asked if she could go with Jason and his mother to the mall the next day. She told her that they were going to pick up new cleats for baseball, and she could get her new softball cleats at the same time. Once again, Julie’s mom wanted to speak to Kristine to be sure that Julie was not imposing. Jason and Julie listened to Kristine as she spoke to Julie’s mom.

“No, it is no trouble at all. I have to take Jason for his; it is certainly easy enough to take Julie along…. They seem to be having fun. My husband Richard was a little late. They helped me with the table, but mostly they were listening to some CD’s and talking.” Kristine winked at Julie. “Well they are at that age when the opposite sex stops having cooties. Yes, this is the first time for me as well, but it’s just a sign they are growing up. I know you really don’t know Jason yet, and for that matter, I have just met Julie. She seems to be a pretty smart and sensible young lady to me, and I know that Jason thinks so. Well, yes, he also thinks she is very pretty, as he should since she is. I’ll tell you what, since it appears these two are going to want to spend more time together, why don’t we plan on having a picnic at our house next weekend, that way we will all get to know each other better. They will probably both have practices on Saturday, so how about Sunday, around 2ish? Great… Don’t worry about it; we’ll just do some hotdogs and hamburgers… If you insist, just bring something for desert. Oh of course Julie’s brother is welcome… absolutely. Ok… We are going to go start the movie in a few minutes, the movie is just over 2 hours, so we will probably not finish until just about 10, so is it ok if she is home by 10:30? Ok… We will drop her off by 10:30, thanks.”

“Ok, Julie you can come with us tomorrow. And so it begins, your mother is already concerned about you dating so young. Are you both ok with knowing that everyone is going to think of you as a couple?”

“Mrs. Anderson, Jason and I spoke about this… Sorry Kelly, but I think this is about your Jason side. We don’t see any reason I can’t be Kelly’s friend who is a girl, and Jason’s girlfriend. So when Mom asks, I won’t be lying when I tell her that Jason has asked me to be his girlfriend. He has, and I have told him that I would be. I am also going to be Kelly’s friend, and I’m going to help her to decide on just how much of a girl she wants to be. That part I won’t be telling Mom about, she doesn’t need to know.”

“Ok. Well, next Sunday your family will be joining us for a picnic, so we will all get to meet. Well all of us except for Kelly that is. As you say, she is going to have to stay away for the evening.”

“That sounds good to me, Mrs. Anderson. Once my parents get to know you and Mr. Anderson, this will be easier, because they won’t worry so much when I’m here. They will know that we will be what is that word… you mentioned it earlier… oh yeah chaperoned.”

“Julie, that makes them good parents. They just want to make sure you are ok.”

“Mrs. Anderson, they are good parents. They love Brian and me, and they do take good care of us, I don’t want you to think that they neglect us, because they don’t. They are busy with work though, and so we don’t spend as much time as a family as you all obviously do. I am not saying it is bad, just different. I kinda like the closeness that I see in your family though. I wish that I could believe that my mom would be able to handle Kelly, but she does not like things to be out of the ordinary. So we don’t subject her to it, and we don’t put Kelly at risk, it is simply not worth it.”

They all went to the family room and watched National Treasure, Book of Secrets.

When the movie was over, Jason went and got changed so that he could go with his Mom and Julie to take her home. He carefully washed off the makeup, and had Julie and his mother check to make sure he had gotten it all. When they got to Julie’s house, he walked her to the door, said goodnight, and waited while she opened the door and went inside, before turning around and getting back to the car.

When they had pulled out of the driveway on the way home, Jason thanked his mom for allowing Julie to come over.

“Jason, it was my pleasure. I like her. I think you got extremely lucky yesterday, and we are going to have to do better about it in the future, but things happen for a reason. Anyway, I think you have made a good friend.”

“I do too Mom. I do too.”

Chapter 15

Jason woke the next morning and laid in bed thinking about the last week. He had to put the gel pads back into his bra, as they were not held by the cups that were meant for a larger size. He ran his hand over his stomach and up his chest, feeling the material of his sleep shirt; he lingered over the small bumps from the pads. He could feel that pressing on his own skin, and thought about how much he would love for them to be real. Then he thought about Julie, and how much he would like to be touching her breasts, and then he thought about how much he would like her to be touching his breasts, and he almost had an orgasm on the spot.

At her own home, Julie woke up and was thinking about Jason. She thought about how he looked last night in his denim skirt, and pink tee. With the little padded boobs. She thought to herself that she would have loved to have played with them, and had Jason playing with hers. Knowing that what he had in his skirt was not ‘gross’ like the other girls, she found herself truly aroused for the first time in her life. She started to knead her own breasts, thinking about them being Jason’s. As she started to lose herself in her passion, a knock came on her door. She quickly got herself under control and said, “Come in.”

Her mother came in and said, “Good Morning, honey. Sleep well?”

“Good morning, Mom. Yes, I did. Just woke up a few minutes ago actually.”

“So, did you have a good time last night? We did not get much time to talk when you got home, since it was kind of late and I had to get the boys to settle down.”

“Yeah, it was nice. I enjoyed that movie when we saw it at the theatre, and Jason is a nice guy. His parents seem to be really nice too.”

“Jason and his mother did seem to be nice when we met at the mall the other night. I have to ask, are you thinking of Jason as a friend that is a boy, or as a boy friend?”

“Mom, I like him, he is handsome, and he is nice. I want him to be my boyfriend.”

“Well, I assume that since he asked you to come over, that he would like you to be his girlfriend as well. At least we know he has good tastes!” Julie’s mother teased her.

“Yes, he does.” Julie teased her mother back.

“I know that you already know about the birds and the bees, we had that conversation right before you first started your period, and I am sure that Jason is a nice boy, but I think we need to talk about ground rules if you are going to start dating. Ok.”

“Sure Mom. I understand. For what its worth, Mrs. Anderson made some rules pretty clear last night as well. Like no closed doors, we cannot be together without an adult present, etc. Most of the evening we were with Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, but before dinner, we listened to some CD’s in Jason’s room, which is on the same floor as the kitchen, with the door wide open. Mrs. Anderson came by and checked on us several times.”

“Well, I’m glad to hear that, and those are pretty much the rules that I was going to put into place as well. But I also just want to make sure that you realize that first crushes seldom last for long. I don’t want you to get too hurt if things don’t work out. You are a very pretty girl, and will have lots of boys wanting to date you over the next few years. Enjoy yourself, but be careful.”

“Thanks Mom, I will. I love you.”

“I love you too, Julie. What time are they picking you up to go to the mall?”

“Mrs. Anderson said she had some things she had to do this morning, so it was going to be around noon.”

“Well, you better get ready, you slept in, its already quarter of 11.”

“I need to get moving then.”

Julie was just about ready when the doorbell rang, and Jason and his mother were at the door. She could hear her mother answer the door, and inviting them into the living room. Her mother yelled up the stairs to hurry up, that the Andersons were here. Julie grabbed her bag, and headed down the stairs. As she came into the living room, she heard her mother saying, “It’s ok with me, as long as Julie doesn’t mind.”

“Mind what, Mom?” Julie replied.

Kristine said, “Oh, hello Julie. I was just asking your mother if it would be ok if you stayed with us after the mall. I have a couple of other errands to run, and I have to stop at Jason’s Aunt Sally’s house to get some things. Your mother was saying that she did not mind, as long as it was ok with you. If you had other plans, I can drop you back here before Jason and I run the other errands we have to do this afternoon.”

Julie said, “I don’t have anything else going on. Kathy and Sue are both still out of town. I don’t mind going with you all. Besides I’d like to meet Jason’s aunt, and will her daughter Emily be there?”

“Yes, I’m sure she will be. I was telling Julie about Sally last night. Sally is Richard’s sister. Her husband was killed in a car accident a couple of years ago, so we often have Emily spend time with us, to help Sally out when she needs.”

“Oh my, it is hard enough to be a parent with both of us, I’m sorry she has had to do so on her own. How old is Emily?”

“She is just seven, and that is why we do our best to lend a hand, it is good that they live fairly close by.”

“That must have been so hard to lose her father when she was only five; it is heartbreaking, when things like that happen.”

“It was, but Emily is really great, and they both helped each other through it. Well, Julie, are you ready?”

Julie’s mom said, “Wait, you are picking up cleats for softball. Here is some money for them. I expect change, young lady; don’t go spending it on anything else.”

“Thanks Mom, I won’t.”

“Have fun.”