Message-ID: <50826asstr$1112004602@assm.asstr-mirror.org> X-Mail-Format-Warning: No previous line for continuation: Wed Aug 14 16:30:23 2002Return-Path: <VickieTern@aol.com> X-Original-To: ckought69@hotmail.com Delivered-To: ckought69@hotmail.com From: VickieTern@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <158.4d8e5fff.2f78e80d@aol.com> X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:54:37 EST Subject: {ASSM} Empathy by Vickie Tern 2/3 TG femdom Lines: 2089 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:10:02 -0500 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail Approved: <assm@asstr-mirror.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2005/50826> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: dennyw, newsman Empathy by Vickie Tern 2/3 Third Week -- Sunday Sunday morning we met in the kitchen. Though she'd gotten to bed late, she looked fully rested. On the other hand I'd slept badly, unsure of myself as well as her, still certain that my world was coming apart. And I still had that boner I couldn't touch without permission. It wouldn't quit. "First a question or two," she said. "If you were me, at this point in our relationship, if I were to go looking for sex with another man for the evening, would my main purpose be to pleasure myself without you knowing, or without caring whether you knew, or would it be to humiliate you by telling you directly that that's what I've just done?" I thought about it. This was an agonizingly uncomfortable subject, and the answer could be either or both. "For your own pleasure primarily, though you don't need other men for that." "Why not just ask you to oblige?" "Because you don't want me to have the satisfaction -- you want me off balance and needy. Also because I've been an inadequate lover, you've made that clear." "Not inadequate but misguided as a lover. That's not necessarily forever. And love isn't sex. But tell me, why not to humiliate you by telling you?" "It isn't necessary. You don't need to demolish my pride in my manliness that way. I'm doing that very well by myself. And I already know I don't possess you." Darla nodded, satisfied. "Good. You are a marvel, Nick. I begin to see why I once wanted to marry you. You may be worth keeping! We'll see." "Thank you, Miss Darla," I said. I'd learned nothing. Unfaithful to me for her own pleasure or for my humiliating? For both or either or neither. "You're ready for a whole new use of your imagination, Nick. To discover and get in touch not just with my feelings but with your own equivalents. Or any girl's. I want you to relive a few incidents from my girlhood as if they were yours, as if the'd been your girlhood, and make them yours. Step by step I want you to invent an equivalent past for yourself until you've arrived where I am now. That's a long term project, but we'll skip you as a very little girl -- I scarcely remember me back then. This morning I want you to describe how you felt when you were a young adolescent girl dressing up for her first date with a boy." "Honey, ahhhhh Miss Darla, I'm not an adolescent girl, and I never had a sister," I said. "I can't guess how an adolescent girl feels when she's dressing for a date!" "When you dated an adolescent girl, you never imagined what she was going through while waiting for you to pick her up at her house?" "No. I was always busy wondering what she'd think of me, coping with my own nervousness." Darla frowned and looked away. "Maybe Karen's right," she muttered to herself, distinctly enough for me to make out the words. "It's time, learn by doing, total immersion. Well, not total. But how to get past this and move on?" She suddenly stood up and said, "Into your room, now, and get stark naked! Quick!" I knew by this time not to question such an order. Five minutes later I was sitting naked on my bed waiting for her. She came in with her arms loaded with items from her closet." "These will help I think," she said. "Not another word, Nick, save them all for your essay. I mean to go easy on you this time. You are now a bare naked teenage girl. You've worn grown-up clothes -- Junior style of course, the tight, revealing kind girls all wear -- for a couple of years now. So that much you're accustomed to. Just slip into this bra and these panties, they'll fit you well enough, and then one by one try on each of these outfits, dresses and skirt and blouse combinations, whatever you think your date will like. Some are too small to fit you, but you can hold them against you and try them on in your imagination. Choose one that's just right for a girl like you to wear on a date with a boy who's actually asked her to a movie and an ice cream afterward because he wants to be with her. Remember how each one looked and felt, and why you decided on the one you actually wore. Because it was the prettiest? The sexiest? Because it would tell him something you wanted him to know about how you felt about him? How do you feel about him? Then still wearing it, go to your study and write down everything before you forget." She turned and left. I stared at the pile of clothes on my bed. She wants me to dress like this fanciful girl? At first I felt annoyed. Also humiliated! But a certain rueful common sense intervened. Her intent wasn't to humiliate me, but sensitize and transform me, and I'd already told her I knew that. Besides, how could anything like this humiliate a man who's already pushed his nose and tongue into his wife's asshole and felt privileged to taste her shit? Also, what were my options? Cooperate or divorce. The panties were hers, I recognized them, very fancy pink lace, I'd once seen them waggling on her cute rear end as she came from her shower once when we were getting ready to go out. That was during our former life, I thought sadly as I found the waist elastic and pulled them up. This is now. They felt slippery, a little tight, but they stretched enough to enclose my rear, and were firm enough to pull my half-swollen prick closer to my belly. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw the pretty lace on the legs and a young girl's narrow hips. My waistline could do with a bit of shrinking, though -- I'd have only cottage cheese or yogurt at my desk for lunch from now on, like Michelle, I decided. And my body hair didn't look right. I'd decided my body had to look more girlish? Was I getting as weird as these assignments? Well, no, while enacting an assignment I had to look appropriate, that's all it meant. I hadn't seen the bra before. It was new, a lacy underwire that matched the underpants, a 38 D. No way Darla's, she was a 34 C, I'd found that out once when snooping in her drawer so I could buy her some really daring, low-scoop lingerie for her birthday. She'd been amused and flattered and had asked me if they were for her benefit or mine. Now she'd returned the favor and bought me this bra. Anticipating that I'd need one to do this assignment? For my benefit or hers? I figured out how to fit it around me and clip the hooks closed, and felt silly until I discovered that when all of my available pectoral muscles and body fat and skin were pulled into each huge cup, the underwire grasped and shaped them into credible breasts and held them out from my chest with only a little excess fabric. I was a D cup, in a way! How could Darla have guessed my size? Was this a standard Women's Center assignment? All over the city, this very evening, were other men fitting bras to themselves and checking out their figures in the mirror? That was an oddly consoling thought. I checked mine out and didn't think I looked at all silly. I had breasts. It was exciting! Not quite big enough to fill the whole bra, of course, and that was too bad, but I could feel proud that they were noticeable. And then I realized, that's how an adolescent girl must feel. One by one I inspected the dresses Darla'd left on my bed. Most were too small for anything other than holding them up in front of me and looking into my mirror, the way I'd seen Darla do countless times while out shopping with her, twisting her hips and torso here and there, trying to gauge the overall effect. I tried to imagine how a young girl would react to each, and gradually I got into a plausible way of thinking. One was too slinky, I wasn't slim enough to look attractive in it, and anyhow I certainly didn't intend to vamp the poor boy who'd asked me out, not on a first date! Another was too short, the hemline barely below my ass cheeks -- too difficult to sit in, too immodest, and it would certainly give any boy too easy access. Another was all ruffles and puffs and lace, too girly-girly, I wanted him to respect my personality and my mind. Puffed sleeves were too babyish -- I was way beyond that. One cotton dress, a pale plaid with wide straps, a sun-dress, actually did fit me, it might do with a sweater or shawl, I thought. But while I was adjusting it on my shoulders and straightening the waist I saw it had a teeny stain of some kind on the bodice. Off it came. Girls whose clothes aren't impeccable are thought to be sluts and treated accordingly. In the end I decided on a pleated blouse with fluttery short sleeves just off the shoulder, with a wide, round neckline that came down almost to my bra, clingy going around my curves and candy red. That's the kind of girl I am, I decided, feminine and not afraid to flaunt it, though I do also need a thin gold chain around my neck to suggest delicacy, fragility. To temper the blouse's bold statement I chose a long black skirt that fell nearly to my ankles -- it'd modest but shows off my figure, I was thinking, and a long skirt is a lot more grown up than that miniskirt. And I saw that despite my slightly thick waistline I didn't have a bad figure at all! Not at all, I realized as I swirled the skirt around my ankles. I loved it, this outfit! Darla left me a pair of backless sandals to wear with whatever I chose, so I put them on. I'd have preferred heels. I felt nice. Still wearing my newly-assembled outfit, I scurried back down to my study to start writing while these different fanciful impressions were still fresh. I tried to describe how everything had looked and felt, and what I'd anticipated the boy would think. I knew that men register the overall impressions girls make but have no sense whatever how, item by item, that impression is created, while women notice every detail and compliment each other on their special successes, and now I knew why. I stayed with that kind of woman's perspective. What the girl thought. What I thought, since I was the one dressed for this date. What the boy thought when he saw her I could only guess. My little breasts poked out coyly, draped in bright red pleats. He'd feel attracted enough I supposed. By the time I'd finished writing I'd gotten so accustomed to the look and feel of my bra and panties I was no longer aware I was wearing them. It was just as well, I got a few more ideas to write about from that very fact. How a girl doesn't know that her underclothes are pretty, she takes it for granted without thinking about them at all. Yet even so, how she wants to know they're sexy and seductive when she's on a date. That she's attractive from her skin on out, even when she knows her date's eyes will never see them. How it was soooooooo very racy to think that he just might be offered a glimpse. Erotically stimulating! I didn't mention that my steady-state partial erection was no longer half-cocked but had gone hard as a railroad spike. All in all, I wrote a pretty good essay I thought, easily matching the literary level of Darla's Harlequin novels. And that gave me an idea. I then wrote out a narrative of the whole date from the girl's point of view, from the moment the boy called for her at her house to the moment much later when she closed the door behind her and leaned back on it, still sorting our her thoughts. When I finished, I brought it in to Darla. And for the first time, Darla was really impressed! Especially by a section presenting the complexities of a young girl's feelings at the moment the boy calls for her and sees her for the first time -- exalted, terrified, unsure, hopeful, delighted, and as they leave her parents' house, excited and self-confident. "That's right!" Darla said enthusiastically. "That's just how I felt, too! Charlie, the boy's name was. And I chose a long skirt too, to seem more grown up, just the way you did, and I remember I wished I had a form-fitting blouse just like yours -- my breasts were just noticeable in those years, just taking shape. I was so proud of them! You too even now? I see you didn't want to take your bra off after it had served its purpose." I came fully aware that I was still wearing my date outfit, blouse, skirt, and everything underneath! And I still felt ashamed that I hadn't shaved my body hair as I'd intended. But not at all ashamed that on my chest, my breasts were bulging unmistakably. "I forgot to change," I said, my face growing warm. "I guess I didn't want to take the time to go back up and change." "I understand, honey," Darla said in a quiet voice. "No need for excuses. As I've just been saying, I was a young girl once too. You selected well, you look very pretty." Her expression turned inward for a moment. Was she thinking, or just remembering? Then suddenly another assignment. "Honey, I love where this is going. You're doing so well that I want you to try another essay or story this afternoon. Stay dressed as you are, it's rather sweet, and it does seem to inspire you. In fact it transforms you. So this time take the whole afternoon, and we'll discuss what you write tonight after dinner. Your subject, while you're in the mood, is this. You're now a year or two older and this time you're dressing for a first date with a new boy. At this very moment you find you're starting your period. You haven't had many, they're all terribly new. Tell me about it, and then describe how your date went. You're a young girl who's now entered womanhood, as your period reminds you -- tell me about that too. I'll bet they're different from this morning's feelings. I've set out your lunch. Eat whatever you want of it, but remember, a girl's got to watch her figure!" "I know, I mean to," I said, without realizing what I'd revealed. Darla smiled, but said nothing. I tried to become that girl, remembering how my waistline looked in my bra and panties and picking at my lunch and swallowing only a few mouthfuls, trying to find shy satisfaction in my burgeoning womanhood, about to go on a date with what I decided was a callow young man, but still, a young man good looking enough to be much whispered about by my friends, and old enough to borrow his father's car. As I wrote I felt more self-assured than timid this time, especially when I described how grown up I'd felt when I picked up my purse to visit the ladies' in the little Italian restaurant where we ate, because I had to change my sanitary napkins -- Kotex, I remembered the name from Darla's -- and also freshen my lipstick. He was still a boy, I'd decided, but I was a woman. So I wouldn't date him again. I worried a little about staining my skirt if I should bleed a little too much, but I took comfort that its color was black. Over dessert I considered how dating this popular boy had advanced my value in my friends' eyes, and I wished we could think up more important ways to measure a girl's prestige or accomplishments. I looked him over. He had a cute nose, and sort of wry eyes. He was nice. He talked about sports a lot, and I pretended to be interested as we all do with boys who talk about sports. Mainly, I felt nice that this good-looking boy liked me. In fact very nice. I did, too! When he brought me back home after a movie and we were just sitting in his car, talking about people we knew, he didn't seem to know how to say goodnight. So I'd kissed him, just a peck on the cheek, and I'd said a breathy 'Good night, Barry, thank you, I had a lovely time," hopped out, ducked inside, and told myself, "There! I did it all the right way." Then unexpectedly, I'd regretted that I hadn't kissed him properly -- I wasn't sure how, exactly, what was proper, but I knew it involved crushing our lips together and pushing our tongues into different places inside each other's mouths. I also regretted that he hadn't attempted to kiss me. What was wrong with him? Did he think something was wrong with me? I took most of the afternoon to fill in the details, especially to describe how my distinct feelings of superiority conflicted with my maidenly uncertainty. When I brought this essay to Darla, I was pleased to find she'd prepared a dinner for us much like the old ones she'd always made for us. Was this my reward for a hard working, creative day? Would there be other rewards later tonight? We dined in silence, then over dessert Darla began reading while I sat across from her watching. She finished, then said, "This is so splendid, Nick. Just wonderful. I'm impressed. It's exactly as if you were that girl, self-conscious about her period and unable to sort out her feelings. Do you mind if I ask you why you did some of the things you did?" "Not at all, Miss Darla," I replied modestly. "You use a sanitary pad, not a tampon, when you have a period? Why?" It was a delightful game. So I explained I was still a virgin, and I didn't want to damage my hymen. Her eyes narrowed but the corners of her mouth smiled. "It was really because you don't know how tampons work, wasn't it Nick," she said, looking at me steadily. "Your mother never showed you when your first period came." I couldn't lie. "No, she didn't," I replied. "I mean, yes." It was true, I didn't know how. She stood up. "Stay where you are," she said, and left. A minute later she was back. "Here's a tampon," she said. "Insert it!" "What?" I was astonished. "Use this KY jelly. You'll probably want to use it this first time, but afterward you won't need it. You've seen me use KY." "Where?" I was bewildered. "I don't have a vagina!" She just looked at me, and I understood her meaning well enough. I looked it over. A plastic tube with a wad of compact cotton inside, a string dangling out of one end, and another tube inside the first to serve as a plunger. I dropped my pants, squatted, squeezed a dab of jelly where I hoped it would do some good, placed the end of the tube inside my cheeks, and started trying to plunge. After a moment I found the place, and a full, dry turd seemed to enter my bowels and lodge there. I withdrew the tube with the plunger inside and stood up. I checked. A little string dangled from me. "Now now you're no longer quite the virgin you once were," she said, faintly amused. "Use this too," she added. She handed me a Kotex sanitary napkin she'd had with her the whole time. "You're too young to know how much protection you may need, and the first few days can be treacherous. Black skirt or not you can't take chances." I peeled back a strip of paper and placed the sticky side against the inside of my panties, pulled them up, and straightened my skirt. The pad felt bulky between my legs. "Feels a little different, doesn't it? You didn't know about these things, did you. But I'm going to help you. Starting now and all through next week you'll wear a tampon or a sanitary napkin day and night, even to work. This week you're having your period. Buy your own on Monday, though feel free to borrow mine whenever you must. Get used to it, get to know what every woman knows for a week out of every month of her life between puberty and menopause. You are now one with us, one with nature, changing and flowing the same way the moon pulls the ocean's tides, renewing yourself every 28 days. When you're bleeding you'll find it easier to continue to wear panties like the ones you have on now. So go out and buy a few more, they'll hold your bottom and your sanitary napkins more snug and secure, as your boxer shorts will not. See if you prefer napkins with wings -- they offer greater security if you're wearing panties. And plan to change pads and tampons two or three times each day and again at night, preferably more often during the first few days, like any other woman." "At the office? How?" "You can't tuck a few tampons in your purse? You don't feel it's proper to borrow a few from Michelle? Carry them in your briefcase then. You now know what it's like to be a young girl having a period and facing possible embarrassment. But you also need to be a girl who feels proud to be a woman whose body confirms the fact, who takes that pride for granted and performs this monthly ritual with a sense of special privilege. Men, after all, know nothing about any of these things." "All right," I said. I didn't know what else to say. The tampon in my butt still felt like a turd I should try to expel, but I had to think of it as ladylike or I'd lose concentration. It's a tampon in my cunt, I told myself. My cunt is having its monthly visit from Aunt Flo. My asshole has been drafted, it's now a cunt in uniform. "Make sure the panties you buy for yourself are fancy, really frou frou, sexy," she added with an amused grin. "You'll enjoy them more, you know that already. You're always aroused by the sight of me in my fancy undies, we both know that. See if it works for you too." Then she returned to my essay. "You 'freshened' your lipstick in the ladies' room, you say? Why?" "It needed it." "How do girls know? How do they do that? How would you know?" She stared at me silently. "All right," I said. I got her point. "May I borrow one of your lipsticks, Miss Darla?" I waited until she returned with a lipstick called "Revlon's Ripe Cherries" and a small hand mirror, and then I applied it as best I could. As I'd seen Darla do it, sort of. How did it feel? A little sticky, waxy maybe. Not 'fresh,' but coated. Words from lipstick ads came to mind. Sultry? Kissable? But it did look fresh in a way, like fresh paint. My lips were now a uniform red, their curves clearly marked out against my skin. "Kissable" came to mind again. "I was only asking," Darla commented after watching my performance in silence. "I'm delighted though that you want to see how it actually feels for a woman to wear lipstick and feel a need to 'refresh' it now and then. Lipstick is signifying, more than anything else it's what discriminates women from girls and women from men. Now that you're being a woman, leave it on, so when the coated feeling isn't quite the same you'll know you need to freshen it." "All right," I said. This was going further than I'd intended. "But just a little hint, honey, woman to woman? Next time begin with your upper lip and work from the center on out to each corner of your mouth, following the curve. Then just the edge of the lower lip, and then press your lips together to spread the color. After a few days you'll find you're doing it in a few quick, sure swipes. Sometimes a girl wants to get it over with fast, because putting on make-up is an intimate behind-the-scenes thing men find sexy if you allow them to watch. Remember that for when you do want a man to find you sexy, we sometimes do, you know. Evening wear calls for lip liner, but that isn't an issue for you yet." What was she really telling me? Not quite what I feared, but bad enough. "Honey, now that you've begun using lipstick, I want you to keep using it every weekend. And most occasions calling for lipstick also call for a foundation to even out your complexion. No blemishes allowed, we're under tremendous pressure, girls' faces need to seem perfect. And at least mascara, maybe a pencil eyeliner too." "I see," I said. "It'll do you no harm to wear a properly made-up face every weekend from now on while you're feeling your way into the ways I feel, imagining yourself a woman like me. On Monday when you buy your napkins and tampons buy yourself enough cosmetics so you won't need to borrow mine. Though you're always welcome." This sounded odd. Excessive, if understanding her was all that was at stake. "Miss Darla," I said, stressing her title, "Wear make-up? What next? Blouses and skirts like these, also all weekend?" I paused and let my sarcasm show. "Should I dress like a girl from now on? Buy my own dresses as well as tampons and make-up?" "Of course!" She was looking me straight in the eye, accepting my challenge and yielding not one inch. "What a good idea! Yes, buy yourself a few outfits. But first try on a few more of mine. You'll need to know what kind of look to work toward, what kind of a girl you really are, how you want to look in different moods and on different occasions. What clothes are you." I stared. Was she joking? I couldn't tell, but my defiance evaporated. "You look shocked. Don't be. This week we'll just concentrate on your period and your make-up. Next week clothes. Drug store cosmetics will do for now -- the designer shades and cremes cost far more, and only women who are quite sure of themselves or quite wealthy use them. When you buy it, ask a salesgirl for help if you can't decide which shades go best with which other shades and with your own skin tones. I'm sure they'll all be delighted to advise you." She waited for me to stop staring at her, which I did when I was finally convinced she wasn't joking. Then she grinned and leaned forward. "And sweetie, this you need to know. Once a girl begins using make-up there's no turning back. So get accustomed to checking your appearance in every mirror you pass from now on. 'If her make-up's messed, the girl's undressed.' We do not appear undressed in public. Get into the habit even at the office, even when you aren't wearing make-up. If there are no mirrors there, I'll lend you a compact you can use." "This is all so ... so I'll know what it's like?" I asked, trying to confirm that this was her intention. I wondered if I'd look like a clown. "What men think deprecatingly is 'female narcissism,' yes. It isn't narcissism, Women are held to very high standards in their appearance and are under intense pressure to maintain those standards, and the sanctions visited on a woman who isn't impeccable are severe -- you sensed that yourself when you decided not to wear your sun dress until you'd cleaned off that spot. It takes enormous self-discipline to look neat, it's part of our lives, though we manage its rigors so easily no man ever really guesses. I wear make-up almost without thinking about it, so you will too. Yes. Your masculine ego will benefit from emulating a feminine ego and maintainiung feminine disciplines. Better, you'll find you've acquired common understandings and anxieties all women instinctively share." "I see." I did, too. "In the end, make-up is the badge of our pride that we're women. So you'll feel that too." "I see," I said. But I must have looked uncomfortable, because I surely felt it. "But I'm not a woman," I said finally. Her answer was ready. "Then you'll look like one and act like one until you feel you are. Until wearing make-up becomes part of what you are, your self-image. Until you feel naked without it. So it becomes nothing at all for you, one more routine. Each evening this week when you change your pads or tampons, put on or refresh your make-up too. Then by next Friday you'll know what any woman knows when she changes her tampon or fixes her face routinely without much thinking about it, and then just drops her cosmetics back in her purse and clicks it shut. It'll become instinctive. It's rather special, that sense of self-assurance. Just lovely. You'll like it." "You're saying, every day next week when I get home I should put on make-up?" "Unless you want to put it on in the morning and wear it to the office along with your menstrual protection. Do you think that's a good idea?" That was a threat -- next she might insist on that too. I understood. I should feel as proud as any woman that I'm wearing "Ripe Cherries" or some other color on my lips. Also, it would please her. "I'll like seeing my pretty man make himself pretty so he can feel like a pretty woman," she added. And that was that. What could I say? I said nothing. My date as a girl who was menstruating was turning into steady evening and weekend female impersonations. Darla then resumed with my story. "So, Nickie, why did Barry only get a peck on the cheek when as you say you wanted more?" I tried to remember why only one kiss on the cheek. "I'm shy, I guess," I said a little plaintively. And then added truthfully, "What I thought was, Barry is the first boy I have ever kissed. It was only afterward that it occurred to me I could have gone a little further with him. When it was safe to think it, because really I no longer could." But in my imagination I did want it, I couldn't deny that, certainly not to myself. I did think it and write it down. What was wrong with me? Nothing, I decided. I was just being a girl. "Aunts kiss nephews on the cheek. But you're a girl having a first date with a new guy. You do want to know more about him, he's your available doorway into the great mystery, what guys and girls do with each other, and he's the one who's interested in you at the moment. So he's the one. Shouldn't you want to encourage him? Of course. So what should you have done?" "Oh, c'mon, Miss Darla. I'm certainly not going to give him privileges with me. On a first date?" "No, sweetie. But you do want him to ask you out again, because he's just inexperienced enough so you can practice on him safely. So what do you do?" "Kiss him on the mouth." "If you say so, honey. So do it now in your imagination. What do his lips feel like. Tell me." I think a moment. "He's a little startled, so I reach up and take hold of his head with both hands and pull him down to me. His hair feels a little stiff from the hair gel he used. Then his mouth is soft on my lips as I lift my face to his, and I'm holding his head so he can't lift it away. He purses his lips, and I open my mouth to cover them with mine, then I lightly lick them when we're lined up. His lips feel a little like...." "Like what, honey?" I tried desperately to say something else, because I couldn't say what I was thinking. She saw it in my face. "Say it anyhow," she said. "His lips feel a little like what a girl once told me the head of a boy's cock feels like. Soft and warm. A little rubbery." Now Darla was impressed. "VERY good, honey! You're imagining how the head of a cock feels in your mouth? Really, Nick? That's lovely! Do you think you also want to give your date a blow job?" "No!" The thought was disgusting! "You do know you'll have to, sooner or later. Maybe you'll even want to. Have any of your older girlfriends given guys blowjobs yet and told you about it? Think about this very carefully, honey. Remember who you are!" I'm a girl accustomed to periods who uses tampons, I tell myself. I use make-up every day, or anyhow I soon will. I tried to remember what girls did about the cocksucking imperative issue when I was on the cock side of the issue. I was always trying to get girls' mouths wrapped around my cock. "Well," I said brightly. "Two of my girlfriends told me they suck off their boyfriends every time, one of them because she loves him and feels very good when he feel good, and the other because it gives her a feeling of superiority and control when she can reduce a huge hulk of a boy to moaning jelly just by holding that part of him in her mouth." Girls actually had told me those things at different times. "So blow jobs can be different things? You need to know, because you may well be giving one to a boy too before long? Right?" "I suppose so," I said evasively, trying not to contradict her. "You suppose so? You know so! Especially a young girl as pretty as you, boys on all sides trying to get into your pants. You won't have much choice! For a young girl living in Hormone City it's your cunt or your mouth, or if not your cunt or mouth your ass. Cocks fit and feel good in all three, and every boy knows it. Lots of girls try all three on for size." I couldn't respomd. "Nick," she said. "Look me straight in the eye when you answer this next question. Have you ever wondered what an actual cock feels like in your mouth? Apart from the rubbery feel when your lips kiss the tip?" I couldn't deny it, not the way she was describing things. "Yes," I said. "I have wondered." I actually hadn't, until now. But the way she'd put it in my head, I did now. She sat back. "All in all, very good, honey! I think we're ready to move even further. Don't change out of that pretty outfit for the rest of the day, that blouse and skirt, nor the panties, but remember to change the tampon every so often. I'm sure of it now, you do have the right instincts. So here's another task for next week. I think you need more bras in different attractive styles. Buy some when you buy your panties. The make and size you're wearing seems fine, Bali I think that one is. Then each weekend you won't need to imagine it, you'll know how I feel wearing bras, how my breasts need to be supported, enclosed, uplifted, shaped, how any girl feels, or any woman wearing a bra. How your own breasts need to feel. The clothes I've given you are yours now -- they'll help put you in the right frame of mind for future assignments. When we have time I'll help you fill out your wardrobe." "What do you mean, Miss Darla?" I asked, though I was afraid I knew. "It's like this. This week you'll feel like a woman having her monthlies, and every evening and weekend from now on you'll feel the way women feel when they wear their proper clothes, different kinds, and make-up. From now on. You'll become utterly woman-identified, until it's second nature. You'll get used to how all these things feel, and you'll know yourself how women feel who've worn these things all their lives." I was about to protest that it was her feelings, Darla's, I should be discovering for myself, not all women's. It wasn't appropriate for a man to wear tampons and skirts and make-up. I was wary, though, because every one of my previous protests had ended with her demands redoubled. "Of course thus far you've been learning how women feel about men only in your imagination," she said as if it were an afterthought. "Not coping with the real thing as women actually do. Thus far." Yes, she sensed my protest and had just issued a warning. If I utter the faintest objection to anything, not only clothes but cocks will be added to the list of feminine experiences I need to try on for size. Then I'd really need to decide if saving my marriage is worth it. I clamped my mouth shut. As Darla rose from the dinner table to help me clear the dishes, I stared at the way she was dressed. The process had begun. Since I needed to wear different outfits, I needed to know how other women wear theirs. How they compose them. I tried to imagine myself wearing her various multi-layered blouses, vests, and denim skirts, her power suits and dickeys, all those that might fit. Would I need to learn how she matches colors and fabrics to fit the occasion? Why women are always calling each other up to ask, 'What do you plan to wear?' Their dress codes were complicated and subtle. In my mind I arrived home from work, went upstairs, changed my tampon or napkin, and chose an outfit. Then I put on my makeup for the evening, all before starting dinner. Darla seemed to sense that was happening. She smiled encouragement. "It'll fun, choosing your own outfits and playing with your make-up until you've achieved a look that's uniquely you," she said. "Every girl does. You'll see." As we loaded the dishwasher together, Darla began to offer me some helpful advice, girl to girl. "Nickie, now that you're exploring your own femininity, a few hints to help you do it right. Remember that first of all, whenever you're in a skirt or dress of any length in public, you must always sit with your knees together. Ankles may be crossed if you're being prim and formal, but you can splay them anywhere as long as your knees are still touching -- that looks really cute, even daring. It doesn't matter when you're here alone, but if you keep your knees together even when you're here alone, you'll never forget." Me? Wearing a skirt 'in public'? I decided Darla was just riffing, enjoying the idea that I'm a young girl she's advising in the proprieties of womanhood, since it had never occurred to the young girl's mother that she had a daughter, not a son. "Also, any girl learns early on to open her eyes wide when she looks at a boy. That's why eye make-up matters so much. Wide open eyes raise the brows to a high feminine arch, very fetching. They also give a girl a doll face that tells a boy she's innocent, naive, and may even admire him. Eye make-up confirms and exaggerates that supposed innocence. Boys fall all over girls with wide eyes." I certainly had. Darla always wears eye make-up that makes her eyes seem larger, I was thinking. And she'd always opened her eyes wide at me when speaking to me, right from when we first met. That's why I'd always thought she was innocent, until a few weeks ago. But I was the innocent! "I'll remember that," I said. "Thank you." "And as important, honey, as I've already told you, get accustomed to seeing yourself in the mirror. That way you'll learn to feel confident no matter who's looking at you. Then you can go anywhere without embarrassment. All women do." Be seen by others? Go anywhere? I felt alarmed again, but realized that she meant only what it would feel like to pretend that I'm out and being seen by others. In my imagination. I was feeling very edgy nevertheless. Things were moving too fast. Yet, Darla was now much less antagonistic, or wary, or whatever her problem had been. That evening, when we paused at her bedroom door, she turned and pulled my head down and kissed me on the lips. An actual good night kiss! "We're wearing the same shade of lipstick, sweetie!" she murmured. "That practically makes us sisters." Only sisters? I thought. Well what did I expect? That her lipstick would make me her husband again? I guess I had thought so. In fact I still did. "Good Night, dear," she said fondly as she closed her door. Fourth Week -- Monday The next morning was Monday, promising to be filled with a sense of novelty. I was feeling upbeat and energetic. On my way to work I stopped at the chain drugstore near my office and bought some tampons (Tampax, Super) and sanitary napkins (Kotex, Overnight) for my period, at the same time selecting a bottle of tinted face lotion (a beige that matched the back of my hand), a lipstick (rose, not too lively), and a black mascara and eyebrow pencil. A sales girl saw me staring at the wall of different brands of different cosmetics and asked whether I needed blusher too in a similar rose shade. I blushed and nodded yes. "Does she have enough of the right shades of eyeshadow?" she asked me, maybe to relieve my embarrassment. "We're having a sale this week, two for one." I didn't know, but that sounded like a good deal. So after determining that Darla was blonde, like me, her skin a faint beige like mine, with brown eyes like mine, we selected two compacts with eyeshadow and a little pad to spread it, three shades in each. I'd had no idea that so much calculation went into the preparation of a woman's face. I'd never wondered and scarcely noticed how women's eyelids were darkened and colored with different tones right up to their brows. I told the sales girl some of this while thanking her for her help. "Oh, we all keep all sorts of cosmetics on our dressing tables, and get used to reaching for the right shades for whatever the occasion and whatever we're wearing. It gets to be second nature. You just know what's called for, after a while. You'll see." She smiled at me and was gone before I could wonder if she thought I was buying all of these items for myself. As I was, but I'd almost persuaded myself they were all for Darla, and had almost believed it myself. It was too late to feel embarrassed. But now I wondered, can it also become second nature for a man to decorate himself like a woman? Won't he find after a while that that's what he feels he is? Is that how this is supposed to help me understand Darla better? By becoming Darla? Well, not Darla exactly, but a lot more like her? Like Nick as Darla? The cashier didn't seem to care that the items I was purchasing couldn't possibly be for me, and asked only if I had any reduced price coupons for the tampons. One more thing to report to Darla, that now I'd have to be watchful for such coupons, as I knew many women were. But why would I need more tampons than the week's supply I'd bought? Was I getting too far into this thing? I then prowled down the street to find a lingerie store with a few satiny or silky panties to wear with my sanitary gear. Hi-leg, I hoped, I loved the long leg line that style gave Darla. They had to be substantial enough to keep my napkins tucked where they belong and my turgid cock in line, but they also had to be delicate and pretty enough to put me in mind of how women feel about these things. Finding them in the third store I looked into was a triumph! They had exactly the panties I wanted, with teeny touches of lace trim and a little spandex to hold everything tight in place. I loved them! Then, marvelous, the same store was offering Bali bras on a special "Buy Two Get One Free" sale! Who could resist that? I found a "Flower Bali," a "Satin Tracings," and a "Lace Desire" Bali in my size, all underwires like the one I'd worn, one in deep plum and the others beige and white. And felt a twinge of exultation! I began to understand why women love to shop. Given the enormous range of items stores carry for them, and the limited choices each woman allows herself to achieve her "look," to find something just right and on sale is like finding buried treasure. The sales clerk asked me if I wanted the panties and bras gift wrapped, and I told her "No, thank you" without thinking. Then I wondered if I should have said "Yes" to turn off the implication that they were for me. Did she think they were? Finally I decided 'No' was the right answer -- I was buying these items for myself, as most women do. "No" felt right. More honest. Nothing here to be ashamed of. "I'm sure you'll enjoy wearing these," the saleswoman told me as she folded the bras and panties into tissue paper and tucked them into a pink shopping bag printed with the name of the store, "Intimates." Then she looked up embarrassed to see me looking even more embarrassed, and I realized she'd been trained to say that to her customers and had said it without thinking, nothing personal. So I smiled at her as I left, pleased by her reassurance. "I'm sure I will," I told her, as if I were joking. I felt conspicuous, carrying that shopping bag down the street and up to my office, but I had prepared an explanation if anyone should ask me for one. No one did. "My wife asked me to get these," I told Michelle too quickly as I passed her desk, when she noticed the bag and raised her eyebrows. "I'm sure she did," was all she replied. She sounded sincere. It was a nice feeling. I was a little apprehensive, fearful, when I slipped into a stall in the men's room to change into a pair of new panties and then insert a tampon, my very own for the very first time. I was simulating a period! I felt a private communion with half the human race not previously contacted, though I knew when I inserted that first tampon that I'd better buy KY Jelly before I attempt the next, and I knew almost as quickly that I should have bought more modest sizes to match the size of my maidenly anus. My virgin cunt. But the panties felt wonderful pressing against my partially engorged prick. When I tucked a sanitary pad in its crotch it looked almost as though I had almost no male genitals at all, just a woman's smooth mound. Then all week long, each time I changed my menstrual tampons and napkins, I felt that same peculiar affinity with all the other women in our office. Like them I was sharing their monthly discomfort and privilege. I felt myself secretly one of their sisterhood. It seemed improper that I was using the men's room to perform such a feminine ritual. I felt something of the same thing each evening at home when I put on my bra, a blouse, and a skirt, maybe slipped a dress over my head, and then tried to figure out how to use my eye make-up. I rarely got it right or even acceptable at first, and I began studying how each woman I met did herself up, Michelle and others at the office, Darla at home, even women I passed casually on the street. I bought a copy of "Cosmopolitan" and "Today's Woman" and rather ashamed of it, sneaked them into my study at home and looked closely at the ads each evening instead of at my tax notices -- the second evening I know Darla saw both magazines open on my desk, but she said nothing. Each day I picked up more tips. And my lipstick got so it needed no more than a few swipes, just as Darla'd said. Late in the week I bit the bullet and plucked my eyebrows a little. If a girl doesn't look neat, she's probably a slut. Michelle began to sense something different about me. She behaved more informal, even friendly, whenever I called her into my office to take dictation or to instruct her about a report that was due. She'd listen almost as if it were a social call and we'd gotten together to gossip. And when we'd done what we needed to do, she'd pause and disclose a personal item of news -- she was worried about her niece, who had fallen in with the wrong high school crowd, or -- as she informed me delightedly -- that Associate she'd been chatting up had in fact asked her out. She wanted to know what I thought of him, and seemed pleased when, looking for something to say, I said he was "cute." "I think so too, he's a darling!" she told me with a wide open smile of appreciation. "But you can't have him, he's mine!" I took that as a tribute to the cordiality of our relationship, nothing more. I was a little disturbed though when later I buzzed her and asked her to come in to pick up a draft deposition that needed typing, and she replied, "Of course honey, I'll be glad to, just leave it on my desk next time you pass by." As if I were asking her for a favor. A favor, woman to woman. It all seemed very friendly, but somehow not businesslike. Thursday was the last day of my "period." I used only pads, no tampons, and on Friday a "Lite-Day Liner" to be on the safe side. But Thursday afternoon as I walked down the hall and past Michelle's desk she looked up and commented brightly, "You know, Nick, there's been something different about your walk this week. You've been sort of springy, with a sexy wiggle, like a fashion model walking down the runway. The way girls sometimes walk during the first few days of their ... are you all right, Nick?" She looked concerned. "I'm fine," I replied. "You're sure, honey? Because if you're uncomfortable, I have ...." "I'm fine, Michelle, but thanks for your concern." "Don't mention it, I know how it is," she replied. I made a mental note that next month when I move around I should try to be less aware of the wadding between my legs and up my ass. Pretend it's not there. Then I caught myself. Next month? Was this exercise with Darla going to last that long? Longer? That night I wrote up the story of my five-day menstrual period and all my other experiences as a "woman." Darla was frankly delighted, especially when I took note how I could now slide tampons in and out of myself while scarcely aware of the mucky one being tossed and the fresh one replacing it. That act too had become 'second nature.' "Maybe next month we'll give you the whole thing," she said with a gleam in her eye. "Laxatives for a day or two beforehand to simulate cramps, then pads drizzled in syrup or something else gucky to give you a feel for the discomfort women actually endure. Maybe put a small balloon filled with red dye into your posterior pussy, so you'll know that at any moment it may give way and you'll overflow and ruin your clothing and embarrass yourself." I knew she was joking, or I hoped so, but I was not amused. Yet it worked! At that moment I felt quite close to her, moreso than in the whole six years of our marriage. Fourth Week -- Friday: That Friday I put on the nicest of my new bras as soon as I got home, eager to see how it felt. Just fine, and there once again were my little titties. I dressed myself in a plain white nylon blouse with a single button at the neck in back, and a wide beige skirt, and I did my face and eye make-up, brushing mascara and drawing lines and patting on foundation with a little sponge. Routine by now, or very nearly. I was learning, and for once it didn't look at all bad, I actually resembled a woman! To complete the picture I played with Darla's electric curler for a while until my hair was a tangled mass of curls, a kind of coronet that almost looked feminine. When Darla returned from her meeting, she saw immediately what I'd done and what more I'd attempted. She stared a moment and said, "Well! You really do care, don't you!" Then she sat down in her easy chair and I sat down at her feet, my legs curled gracefully under my skirt. She looked at me with a big smile. "You've been doing very well, Nick. You're way ahead of the other husbands, so far, though there's another who's a close second. Congratulations. The whole class agreed that you're ready to begin more extensive field trials. Learn-by-doing kinds of assignments. I think the first one's just brilliant. You will too." She looked at me with a private smile. "You'll love it!" I looked at her, surprised and embarrassed. "The entire class knows what we've been doing? What I've been imagining? Karen and Becky too? And their husbands?" "Of course Karen and Becky, but of course not their husbands! The various women's husbands are doing their own imagining and empathizing and improvising, and Jason is nowhere near as advanced as you are. And Karen's assisting the Instructor this year -- Roger is already optimal, as I hope you will be soon. Your secretary Michelle is one of us, working with several boy friends, did you know that? When I described what you've been doing, she told us something amusing, that each time you came out of the men's room this week after changing your tampon or your sanitary napkin, you'd waddle!" "No! Michelle!? Michelle knows I've been wearing tampons and panties and pads and ...everything?!" Embarrassed wasn't an adequate word for the way I felt! Horrified was more like it! My own secretary? "Of course she knows, hon! Everything. But don't worry about it, she likes you. She thinks it's good for you. In fact she wanted me to start you wearing panties the first week, to help ease you away from the strains of that male ego of yours and mellow you out right off. That's what she does with her men, especially with that Associate she dates, because he looks like husband material, she says. But I insisted that you had to come by it your own way in your own good time. Journeys of a thousand miles and so forth. You know. As you've been doing. She thinks you're a lot nicer to work for now that you have some personal experience of women's issues. She suggested that you should wear your new bras and little titties every day, to give your womanliness greater presence. And I must say, I agree. And everyone thinks that since you've come this far in your understanding of women, you deserve an award." She smiled secretly at some private joke in her head, then said, "So tomorrow morning a woman will masturbate you until you ejaculate, and if not then, immediately afterward you'll write about it." I looked amazed and baffled, both, I'm sure. "You'll jerk off, honey. Masturbate. Take hold of that beautiful penis and stroke it and pull on it way into the afternoon if that's what it takes, until you cum. Maybe even cum twice. As often as you wish. You still remember how?" Finally! Despite myself I felt a surge of hope and gratitude! Gratitude? For being allowed to jerk off? By my own wife? Then it occurred to me -- how was that being 'a woman'? "While you do it, I want you to be sinfully unfaithful to me, at least in your own mind." I thought I hadn't heard her. "You want me to imagine I'm making love to another women while I'm jerking off?" I asked. Darla had said that? My "Miss" Darla? This was worse than mysterious -- this was downright weird. "Not exactly. I want you to imagine that it's another woman who's jerking you off. Making love to you. I want your hand to seem to belong to that other woman." My mouth gaped. "Now that you're in touch with your own feminine feelings, finally, and you take pleasure in them, I want you to extend them. You need practice imagining how women really feel when they do actual sexual things with men. You really have no idea. So, back to basics. The first thing any young girl learns when she begins heavy dating is how to jerk boys off. You've always identified with your own cock, I'm sure, whenever you've masturbated or gotten some girl to do it for you. So now instead I want you to identify with your hand, that girl, and imagine that your cock is someone else's. Imagine you're doing it to another man's cock. That you're your own cock's date, that you're a pretty girl who wants to please that someone else, maybe because she likes him, maybe because she wants to be asked out again, maybe because she likes the feeling of power it gives her, you know all about those things. Maybe even because she feels intimidated by him and has to, she's kind of being raped." My mouth hung open. I tried to close it, but my jaw just hung there. "Notice everything there is to notice about giving a guy a handjob. How it feels to touch that funny warm, fleshy tube, smooth and lumpy at the same time, how it feels to slide your fingers along it. To rub that velvety head and feel the veins in the shank, and then to grasp it and squeeze it and hold the squeeze an extra excruciating few seconds. And so forth. A girl always feels privileged when she has a handful of cock and knows she has a man's complete attention, that she's in total charge. And when she manages to bring him off? The high that comes from knowing you've made a man you like into a helpless, willing, spurting fountain?" She leaned forward encouragingly. "You'll write all about how that feels. You'll do an essay about jerking your guy off and how you feel when you see how he responds. Not about how it feels to get jerked off. In this exercise, you're the woman. Don't fake it. Pay close attention. Make it seem as if it's the first time you've ever given anyone a hand job. It is, in a way. But use your hand's point of view, not your cock's. For that it'll certainly be a first time!" I didn't know whether to feel gratified or bewildered! At last I was going to get off! This weekend wouldn't be a total bust! But by my own hand? No, by a girl's hand. No, I would be the girl with the hand -- someone else was the lucky guy with the cock! But still, it would be my cock! I was getting dizzy. "Take your time at it. Go slow, honey, be loving, be good to your man, and pay close attention. Write down your sensations practically stroke by stroke. You can speculate how the cock feels, but remember, this is mainly to make you more aware how your hand feels, to make you into the person whose hand it is. Imagine you're someone like me. Like what I was once, what every woman was. Become one of us, in a way. Dream about it tonight, about your delicate hand caressing that man's cock over and over. The poor thing must be ready to explode -- it's been weeks and weeks now, hasn't it? Think how grateful it'll be!" "Yes. Yes." "But tonight you're still on your back! The big day's tomorrow." She started toward her room. "Don't stay up late, honey," she said as she disappeared down the hall. "If you really do get into it, you may need all the stamina you've got. Because I want to put that girl in complete charge of you and your cock, and who knows what other kinds of demands she'll make after that. You may luck out. Her hand may be insatiable!" She smiled a cute smile and paused at her door and looked back at me. "The way I am. I'm sure you've noticed. Or suspected." Then went in and closed it behind her. Was she telling me about something she'd done or something she was about to do? Assuming, as my own woman's point of view developed, that of course I'd understand? Fourth Week -- Saturday I woke up feeling keen anticipation, and then immediately I felt stupid. What's wrong with me? It's only a simple fist-fuck! But still...! I came down to breakfast in my pajamas, and Darla brought me back to reality. "You aren't dressed and made up decently this morning, Nick," she said a little coldly. "Don't you want to feel really close to the woman who'll be giving you your first orgasm in ... what, a month?" "I was so excited I forgot," I confessed. "I feel like a kid who's rushed down to see what's under the Christmas tree without first putting on his robe and slippers." "Well, girlie, go back and put something very nice on, with all the trimmings. You do want to impress this man you intend to jerk off, don't you? Make sure he's in the mood and stays there?" I did. I threw on a charming blue velour dress with a flare skirt and buttons up the front between my boobs, and made up my face quickly. And borrowed one of Darla's silver chokers. Darla was in a good mood when I returned. "Fine. Beautiful. Now, look here, there's a rather lovely girl in this mirror -- remember that this isn't for you, it's for her. She's you, a girl who's going to give a guy a hand job. Write down everything she feels. When you first touch him, and while you stroke him and he lies back eagerly, and when you first see that penis spurt cum, whether you're happy or disgusted or proud that it was by your hand! Use this mirror to watch your guy's face when he cums, though I grant you what you'll see mainly will be your own girly face watching his. See for yourself how it feels to make him feel that good." Then as I left the kitchen, she added an afterthought. "As for tasting his cum, that's up to you. Men like it when women want to. I hope for his sake you give it a try. We pretty much agree that it's an acquired taste -- some like it, some don't. Sooner or later you'll be trying it, so maybe the sooner the better. Maybe your guy'll ask you to lick his up, and maybe he won't. If you do taste it, be sure to tell me what persuaded you, and whether it tasted the way you imagined it would when you were a young girl who'd only just barely heard about such things, maybe even felt repelled by them." She looked at me conspiratorially. "But not altogether repelled. We never really are, are we? Curious too!" As I settled down at my desk, I was not at all happy with the idea that I should taste the stuff, though I had to admit that it made sense in a peculiar way. I was just pulling up my skirt and pulling aside one of the leg openings in my panties to haul out my cock, when Darla came into the room carrying a tray full of small bottles. "Here, sweetie," she said, setting them down. "You'll appreciate a little help with this one. You don't want to see a man's hand masturbating you, that would be gay sex, which would complicate your feelings, and I want to keep things simple for you. So I want to give you a manicure, to put some long tips and nail polish on your fingers to keep you reminded that it's a girl who's holding and stroking your penis each time you look down at her hand, not some gay guy. A girl beautifully aware of all her sensations while she jerks off her fella. Here, put your fingers in this bowl to soak for a moment -- we need to trim your cuticles. I don't know your masturbation techniques, so I guess we'd better do both hands." A half hour later Darla gathered her bottles and tools and left the room while I was still working her scented softening lotion into the skin of my fingers and palms, at her instruction rubbing it in well past my wrists and as high as my elbows. She'd denuded my arms of hair, and also the backs of my hands, and left me to soften them. It was odd, that hand lotion. It felt creamy and slick as I squirted it into my palms, but as I rubbed, it disappeared into my skin, which then felt moist, silky smooth, sort of plump. My skin took on the faint scent of lilacs. I liked it. "I've thought about it some more, Nickie," Darla'd said as she left, using my affectionate nickname. "I think you need to feel intensely curious about the taste of cum. That's the stuff that makes babies, after all, and can make you into a mother if you aren't careful, or if you want to be one. It's what makes men worth while despite everything. It's wonderful in its way! A magic potion! Keep all that in mind. You might want to take some into you so you'll know, personally, intimately, that a man's cum is now in a woman's body where it belongs, and it's your body." Each finger was now tipped by a gleaming, dark red, oval-shaped jewel. As I saw my hands (mine?) reach down again to pull my panties aside (MINE!) I could easily imagine they were a woman's hands, long delicate fingers reaching for that now-iron-hard cock (mine, no, his), her (no, MY) pretty finger tips caressing and toying with that purple cock head (WHOSE?), and -- I forced myself to conjure the illusion -- that mine (they WERE mine) were the gorgeous red fingernails trailing up and down the veins on his (HIS, yes, that other guy's) straining penis. It felt peculiar, that stiff cock, warm, satiny smooth. I squirted some cool, lilac scented skin cream onto its feverish surface, and then began slowly to work it in with the softened palm of my hand. Then with both palms. The skin felt plump. When I heard myself groan I smiled and said to myself, "No, not yet, lover," and I paused to start typing. I meant to tease myself as long as I could. I prolonged my cock's pleasure all the way into the afternoon. By near-dinner time my beautifully jeweled fingers had executed a series of elegant, graceful gestures, and repeatedly squeezed and caressed and fondled and cuddled and embraced that magisterial cock. It was such fun, denying him his last rites! Then at last it was time for a grand climax. Pearly fluid leaked from its royal tip as I stroked it and squeezed it, and then suddenly the cock ejaculated out of control, squirting high up to arch down onto my keyboard. I realized I'd have to clean up after it. So as tactfully as I could I wrapped its head in kleenex for the last few spurts. Then it resembled a pasha in a turban, a little doll I was playing with, sort of cute! No self-respect, these cocks, I thought, no dignity, they'll spurt anywhere, into or onto anything! Even so, I felt indulgent, pleased that it had enjoyed itself. After my long deprivation I felt so inspired that I licked cum from the fingers that had wiped it off the keyboard. Salty, and as slick as the lotion. But stickier. Sort of creamy too. Odd. Not too bad. Then an hour later we did it again! My fingertips were flying over the keyboard this time to record my own thoughts and sensations as I made that man's cum rise up from his deep groin into his cock and then finally seep, spill, spurt, spray out. I was exultant, experiencing the joy of a woman whose own gorgeous hands have brought off her man twice! When the second cumming exploded through that royal purple cock head, and its first spurt landed on my skirt, I quickly blocked off all the others with my palm. Then, genuinely curious about the taste, and wanting to please my man, and eager to show Darla I was a good girl, a little adventurous, I lapped it all up. All of it. My report loitered over the flavor of that puddled handful, its salty pungency yet its sweetness, a little like Gatorade but with a slippery feel. I was quite pleased, I confess. I liked it! I took my time working up a third climax, and when it came the tensions as that cock pumped out its pearls were simply glorious. It disappointed me that there was very little fluid left, but a girl can't be choosey. Darla was delighted. Miss Darla, I mean. By the time I'd printed up and brought her my report it was the cocktail hour. She'd set a plate of thin finger sandwiches on the dinette table for us to nibble on, and as the sounds of the printer announced completion of my day's work, she sat there waiting for me to appear. I proudly placed twenty or thirty pages of single-spaced text in front of her with a lovely flourish of my long, slender hands, then stood there attentively while she read, hands clasped loose wristed across my waist, my pretty nails a kind of decorated belt buckle. "You don't seem at all to be the same person who wrote that first assignment," she told me, looking as delighted as I felt. "I'm so pleased. This is lovely! It has such sensitivity, and fragility, yet a certain earthy good sense, even wry amusement about what it takes to satisfy a man. You're pleased because he's pleased. I agree with you, honey, men do like us to swallow their semen, God knows why, carelessness or ignorance about where it really belongs I suppose. Can they possibly think it's an act of submission to their male essence? That goop? They really are insecure, aren't they? Yet you've humored your man and tasted his cum now yourself, so you know. Twice, I see! Three, counting those pathetic last squirts. " Impulsively, without thinking, I said, "Oh, Miss Darla, I'm so glad you asked me to do this!" Then I realized I was still in character, the character I'd invented to go with my pretty hands, and she was a little over the top. I decided I'd better not carry this too far. "Thank you, ma'am," I said in my lower, more subdued voice. "If you're happy, I'm happy." "You see," she added, hearing from my voice that I'd reverted to my male self. "It isn't necessary for you to think only about yourself to enjoy sex. A girl can enjoy giving pleasure to others, and you can be that girl. You even changed your gender to give pleasure to a man, even while you were the man, that girl's beneficiary!" "That's true," I said, trying to marvel at the profundity of what she'd just said. I'd done it for Darla. Yet for brief moments I'd done it for the man. That man had been comfortably familiar to me. It was easy for me to identify with him. But now and then he hadn't been me. "Now, honey, this girl you became when you were enacting her, she needs her own name. I'd like to talk to her woman to woman about all sorts of things. I want her for a friend. You'll continue to keep a respectful distance from me, and call me 'Miss Darla' and so on, but this person you're becoming can be much closer, I think. The more you're her, the sooner you learn to become her, the more comfortable you feel being her, the closer we'll feel with each other. Because as women, we'll understand each other. Think about it -- just now you were a girl giving sexual pleasure to my former husband, and I wasn't the least bit jealous of you. I couldn't have tolerated that earlier. If it had been just Nick I still couldn't!" Oddly, it was sort of true. "Does she have a name, honey? When you were a girl with beautiful hands who was pulling on a man's penis, who were you?" I hadn't given it any thought. I was a well-manicured broad who was nice enough to take me in hand, I guess. "Apart from sort of being you stroking me?" I asked, stalling? I wish! It hadn't occurred to me. She knew, and her face disapproved, so I decided to get on with it. Who was the first girl I ever had a crush on? My first hand job, when I was sure I'd lucked out fabulously, what was her name? I remembered that one Spring evening in April we were in back of the school playing field and she'd reached into my .... "April," I said. "That's who I am." "Very pretty. All right, April, let's talk. I may be busy now and then, so I'll appreciate your looking after this man I'm trying to train. He's already subordinated himself to me in the hope that I won't leave him, and that's an excellent beginning. Stay by his side and keep him in his place, and teach him more about sensitivity to women, how we do things, how he should want to do them. Let him play at doing them so he'll see how it can be fun. That's what I'm doing with him. Eventually, I'd love it if he disappeared altogether into his own femininity. If he became you!" So that's it. She wants to turn me into a woman, and she's part way there, so she's enlisting my own assistance. That's how she means to escape from my patriarchal hegemony and all that? And she's succeeding! Look at me. Do I mind? Is it already too late? "Nick is rather proud of his progress so far, isn't he, April?" "Yes," I replied. I was. "He is." "I am too. April, his next assignment will occupy him all of tonight and maybe all of Sunday, but if he can finish it early enough tomorrow we can let him take the rest of the day off. If you like, take him shopping. Or you can invite someone over, or maybe ask them to invite both of you over to their place." "Roger's someone I haven't seen for some time," I said. "If I can clear the time I'll give him a call." I was really curious to see how he'd survived last year's ordeal. I could use his experience, ransack him for as many tips as possible for dealing with upcoming assignments. "No, not Roger," Darla said, looking closely at my face to see if I was being mischievous or merely direct, as if there were something I knew that I shouldn't know. She decided I didn't know, and said only, "Not any more. Karen and Roger only entertain together nowadays, and only invited guests, and only by previous arrangement. He's not the same." It occurred to me, given my bra and panties, blouse and skirt, neither was I. I could change out of them of course, and wipe off my make-up as I'd learned to do each night. But my nail polish? I looked at my hands. Those fingers had given me such pleasure, but no way would I let them be seen by any of my buddies! Good old Nick, sporting a woman's decorated fingertips? I'd never live it down. So I asked as if an afterthought, casually, "Miss Darla, my nails. How can I get them back to normal?" "Why should you want to, April?" "If I meet with some of the other guys tomorrow, I couldn't exactly explain them away. Also, I have to go to work on Monday." "I see. Are you ashamed of them, April?" She was playing evasive games with me. "Darl ... Miss Darla! Of course not!" Not at the moment. With only the two of us present I was proud of them. I was April. But in front of anyone else? I didn't want to confess that April's ways would embarrass Nick if they were known, so I just repeated "Of course not!" as if shocked. Darla's impassive expression told me she was unpersuaded. But she continued in a level voice, "Well, sweetheart, I'm afraid you're out of luck. There's a liquid you can soak them in if you think bare nails are normal and insist on them, but I'm all out of it. Drug stores don't carry solvent for this kind of nail lacquer, you'll have to buy it at the beauty parlor I go to or else have them remove the tips and the polish both. But you'll get nowhere today without an appointment. It's Saturday afternoon. By now every beauty parlor in town is busy getting women ready for the weekend -- they're all booked, with waiting lists. And they're all closed all day tomorrow." Bummer. "I think I'll just keep going with your assignments, then, not invite anyone," I told Darla, who was still watching me closely. "All right," she said. "That's commendable, Nick. You can leave April's nails on, tips and all, and wear them to work on Monday. They're long and beautifully manicured, but we can paint them a pale pearly pink, almost a natural shade, so they won't be too conspicuous. The April in you loves how women feel when their hands are beautifully adorned, I'm sure. But if Nicholas would be embarrassed, he can wear gloves, or he can keep those pretty hands in his pockets and make some excuse to leave them there. I think he might even find that exciting, a little wicked, hiding a secret like that but knowing it's there. The same feeling he reported when he wore his panties and tampons all last week. Having a secret self who's a girl. Nick, it's getting to be time for April to make her debut in the outer world, for you to share your body with her or step down. Not yet, but soon." "I guess," I said. "On your way home Monday evening you can stop at Lisa's, Lisa's Beauty Salon, where I go, it's on your way, and she'll remove your nails for you. Have Michelle set up an appointment." Darla paused, and then began choosing her words with great care. "Of course, Nick, when your hands aren't a woman's hands I won't allow you to touch yourself in a...womanly way any more, as you did this afternoon. Not at all. I'd not homophobic, but I can't stand the thought of the man I live with jerking another man off. And you do want to give April's desires every consideration. So if April can't wear her pretty nails all the time, she should have other of the advantages of being a woman. For example, I want you to caress her breasts every night from now on until they become your breasts and her hands. You'll love knowing at first hand how women feel when their nipples are being fondled." Was Darla tripping out? Kinky? But I had to admit, the idea was kind of exciting! My nipples had always been a little bit sensitive, erogenous. And when poked out a little in their bra and I'd brushed against something, they'd been fabulous. They'd felt directly hard-wired to my groin, and my rear pussy had spasmed each time against its tampon. Here was a whole new kind of sex life Darla was authorizing for me. "Come here a moment, honey." I did. Darla reached up and felt my small boobs, uplifted in their bra. "They're soft," she said. "Wouldn't you like a little more there?" I didn't know how to answer her. "Doesn't every girl?" I said, delaying a real answer. "Yes, I suppose so," Darla replied thoughtfully. There was a moment's silence. Then she recovered. "Now when you're at Lisa's on Monday, remember to make an appointment to have your nails put back on again Friday afternoon. It seems wasteful to me, but that's what you'll need to do until Nick can agree to let April out of the closet." She hesitated for a moment. "Maybe at the same time Lisa will attend to other things too. You're moving along so fast, you may be ready. I'll consult with her, and we'll see." Then she looked earnestly into my face. "Nick, from now on keep April close by and do whatever she urges." "Why?" I asked. It sounded odd to me. Though I didn't mind keeping an imaginary friend available, letting her solve these challenges Darla kept setting up for me. "Well," she said. "Let's just say that if we're to resume our marriage, I'm more likely to want to live with the person who wrote today's essay than the man who wrote the first week's. April is nicer than Nick. She already feels like a friend, and Nick never did. Also, I suspect the only sex you'll be getting for some time will be from April, except for servicing me in ways my dildo men can't. So you'll want to know her well. You'll yield to her whenever you have disagreements. She may put you into embarrassing situations now and then, but you'll survive them and she knows best what I want." Suddenly Darla looked delighted about something! "Something wrong, Mi....Miss Darla?" I asked "Nothing at all," she replied, now grinning broadly. Then she said, "Sweetheart, listen closely. As I've said, while you're April I really can't object to your groping your man whenever you wish." Darla paused. "Or him groping you anywhere either, if you want him to. I don't think you should be deprived just because you're that closely associated with a man. So next weekend maybe we'll...." She paused, obviously delighted by her next thought. I waited. She kept it to herself. Instead, she spoke rapidly, dismissively. "Well, all this week you'll learn from April as much as you can about women. Not just me but the woman in you. See everything through April's eyes. Use your imagination." Unaccountably, even though I'd just blown my wad three times, when she asked me to be April my prick announced itself again. Somehow my take-charge Darla was turning me on! Or was it my take-charge April? Those pretty fingernails? I thought about my schedule for the coming week. "I won't have time to talk to April at all during the week, Miss Darla," I said. "There are several cases coming up that need my complete attention. I'll be lucky to clear them by the weekend." "Can you be sure they'll be cleared then?" She paused. I saw the HMO administrator in her cross her face. "Even better," she muttered to herself. She paused. Then, "Nick, sit down." Suddenly I came aware that I'd been standing before her all this whole time, ever since I'd brought her my essay on masturbating myself. On April masturbating me. I'd been someone on trial standing at the bar, while she sat comfortably judging me. I sat. She spoke in earnest now. "Nick, I think we're getting somewhere at last. We need to go into high gear. This week I want you to clear your schedule for the whole of next month. Take some vacation time or something. Maybe personal time. it's surely that. A month away from the office won't be the end of the world, you've done it a few times before, and we'll both be better off for it, believe me. Think of the advantages. You'll get to know April very well in that time, how to enjoy her, how to enjoy being her. I'm hopeful that our marriage is salvageable after all, but we need to maintain the momentum. You're now where you need to be to work at it full time, beginning this coming Friday, until we've settled the matter one way or another. A month's time will tell. Can you do that, Nick? Give a whole month to pleasing me by being April full time?" She looked at me intently, solemnly, and waited. Could I? I sorted my mind through all the things I'd have to do to clear my schedule for the month, how to delay some things, which other things I could dump on other lawyers in my division. Issue by issue, case by case. Finally I could say it. "Yes, Miss Darla. I can do it. It'll be difficult, but ... yes. I will. For the sake of our marriage." Darla was transformed! She stood up and beamed! "Oh, Nick, you do feel the way I do about us after all, don't you! That's lovely! It'll be difficult, I know, but if it's any consolation, remember that April will be growing every day in her ability to help you." All right. Plainly, Darla wanted me to live as April for a month, so my April alter ego could teach me a decent respect for all females of the species, so we could feel closer to each other, and so on. For Nick to try masquerading as a woman was silly. But being a woman came naturally to April -- that's what she was. And there was no way back to what I'd once had with Darla. We had to move forward. It was just as well. April's essays pleased Darla, and at least while I was being April I didn't need to live perpetually hard up. Pink nails at the office on Monday? Better to risk embarrassment if someone should see them than to cope with a throbbing cock all day and sleep with aching balls all night. If April can provide me with the right things to say to Darla, I was thinking, and if she'll use her gracefully manicured hands to get me off when asked, I can live with her for a month. Hell, I can live as her for a month. Now that Darla was standing, short as she was, she seemed to tower over me. "All right Nick, back to work. Last week you expected you'd soon be giving your boyfriends blow jobs, didn't you?" I immediately felt wary. "Did I?" I asked, stalling. "Didn't he, April?" I tried to be April. "Maybe sort of, I guess," I answered her. "We talked about how oral sex is one way girls cope with the demands boys make when hand jobs are no longer enough. He did speculate about how lips on lips can feel rubbery, same as lips on a cock. The idea did come up." Darla got a wicked smile. "Can you do it as April, Nick? Give a man a blow job? Because that's your next assignment." I stared! Did she mean really? Blow me the way April had jerked me off? I couldn't blow myself, she knew that! She must mean imagine it's April who'll give head! "Nick could never," she continued. "He's so straight, so strapped in by so many inhibitions, so afraid to seem gay, even to himself. Men get like that. But April doesn't have that problem. So take the rest of today to get used to the idea, honey. Imagine every detail of it. Then see if April is actually willing to do it for you. Seduce her into it, stroke and fondle and caress her breasts, she'll love the attention. She'll adore feeling her breasts luxuriate under Nick's fingertips or even her own -- just so she gets to feel femmy, never mind how. I'm going to give her my best nightgown to wear, and she can wear her prettiest bra under it -- our nipples do feel so much lovelier when they're extended. Touch your own, April, with April's fingertips." I did. 'Fondle her nips and she'll follow you anywhere' came to mind. "Then Sunday April can dictate the story to you of her first blow job. She'll know how girls feel under that kind of pressure, how they feel obliged to use their mouths to avoid spreading their legs so they'll be asked out again. Maybe too because they like it, or because they feel affectionate or dominant, we talked about that too. You need to understand her, Nick, it's a stage in every girl's sexual development, and April can tell you about it. Write a definitive essay or story showing how girls feel when they want to keep their boy friends and their boy friends want blow jobs." "I guess," I said. I wasn't looking forward to this assignment. "You don't look happy, Nick," Darla said. "All right, forget April for the moment. Think about it yourself. Think about all those different guys' crotches, and imagine what they're like. Your own doesn't count, you'll be taking another man into your mouth, and anyway, for this exercise you won't have a cock, you'll have a cunt, so it won't be 'another' man. Think about lying alongside different guys, each time with their penises in your mouth. Or guys all lined up and you kneeling down in front of them, leaning between their legs, sucking up the best part of them? Think of all the varieties of shapes and sizes, and all for you, and all the things you can do with them. But this one's your first." "Miss Darla!" I began. Then realized that by calling her that I'd already given up the fight, and sat quiet again. "I'll want to know how you imagined it would be, and then I'll ask you, when you've done it, did the reality live up to your expectations? Since you aren't going anywhere tomorrow, plan to spend the whole day sucking cock! Different boys, different men, you're free to choose, you aren't going steady with anyone. Love doing it! Provide details! Describe everything vividly! I want to taste the cum in your mouth just by reading your words, and I want to feel it coating your throat. I want your tummy swollen to bursting with cum, so you can only lie there and groan. You do it, Nick, not April! Or else beg April to be you and do it for you! " She spoke with such passion! I tried to say something, but all that came out was splutter. Darla's mild eyes looked at me unwavering. It was as if everything we'd done thus far had been preliminary. She was perfectly sure of herself now. No apologetic angle to her head, no secret smiles or blinking and looking away. Her mouth curved in an encouraging half-smile. She sat down again, and stretched her legs under the table, and tilted her chair way back, and she clasped her hands behind her neck, still gazing steadily at me. Her wrists looked more delicate than ever as they poked out from the sleeves of an oversized shirt of mine she'd claimed as hers long ago. I felt odd, sitting there in my bra and panties and skirt and blouse, as if she were now the man of the family and I was the girl! Was she joking? I'd imagine it and then I'd describe an actual blow job? No, she'd said it carefully enough, at first in that same small, nursery school voice she always used to ask for things. I'd imagine anticipating it, then I'd imagine the reality. "Does Nick will take this cock into his mouth, or does April?" I asked cautiously. "Is there a difference? Should there be? If Nick feels attracted to another boy, shouldn't we know that about him right now? I mean, gay men are almost as much fun to go out with as girlfriends -- we all cruise for the same hunks. I can live with a gay man." Now the big question. "During this ... ah, exercise, will you want me to measure my imaginary cocksucking against a ... a real ...?" I asked in a small voice. I couldn't quite say it. She didn't move. Nor say anything. She leaned back with that half-smile with her hands clasped behind her neck and just looked at me. Then, "Will you want to?" I found my voice. "Darla, this is ...!" I realized I was too tense -- I'd better regain control fast -- I took a deep breath, then another, and then I changed the words and tried to say them more quietly. They still came out exasperated, a little. "Miss Darla, that's it? Tomorrow all day you want me to write out how a girl feels when she gives some guy a blow job?" "No, that's not what I said." Her eyes never left me. She seemed pleased that once again I'd controlled myself, that my manly pride had cracked and buckled under. "What I said was, you'll write out how it felt the first time YOU wanted to give a boy a blow job and then did it. Was it everything you'd hoped it would be? I want you to describe the entire act in great detail, every last thing you can imagine. Its sights, sounds, smells, tastes, everything. I want you to imagine details you can't even begin to imagine right now. I want you to really get into it. When I read whatever you write down I'll want to believe that it all happened. Use the first person. If you can't be Nick exulting that he's finally come out to himself, queer and here and loving it, then be April. April's comfortable with boys, she was once a boy herself remember. Whether this thing happened recently, since our marriage, or before we met, that can be your decision." That idea tickled her. "Maybe all these years when I've been dressed in my prettiest and waiting for you to come home to my delicious supper, you've been late because you had to stop first at the Athletic Club, you wanted to sit with the boys and hoist a few cocks into your mouth?" I was appalled. Silent. She continued relentlessly. "I'll want to know whether your lips enjoyed sliding up and down on him, how cum feels when it first spurts into your mouth, what it tastes like when it goes into your tummy. Is it true that it feels hot, or only warm? You now know something about the feel of it in your mouth. Use that! Then there's this. Does the man's cum inside you made you feel more affectionate toward him, more loving, more like a real woman who knows that all those sperms are now swimming around inside her looking for their egg?" Had she gone bonkers? No, she was trying to lead me where I'd never wish to go. April would need to do most of this. I'd given it little enough thought. I'd always been the one getting blown. "Again, if you find you have to be a guy to do this, you can't do it as a girl, if it's Nick, not April who takes that cock into her mouth, then that's good to know. And if it's Nick, then is he under duress or is he queer? If queer, shouldn't I let him go, give him his divorce, leave him free to find more suitable partners?" She nodded to herself, not yet ready to let go the subject. "You've already kissed a boy in your imagination. Maybe you felt shy, but from the way you described it, I'd say more than one boy. So what's the big deal? Nick, I've got to say it, it's hard to understand why you men get so frantic when you're asked to put a little piece of another man into your mouths to give him pleasure -- you never seem to mind sucking on women, after all. Sucking on a tit is good but sucking on a cock is bad? What about women who suck cocks, then?" I clamped my mouth tight shut. She knew her logic made no logical sense, and she knew I'd never be persuaded by it. She was just trying to accustom me to the idea. It was working, too. Sucking one body part did seem no more perverse than sucking on any other. "OK," was all I said, and I looked down. "I get it. Enough. I'll spend all day tomorrow sucking an imaginary cock. And then you really will bring in some real guy for me to measure it against?" I had to ask her again, because she could so easily do it! "So whatever I write sounds authentic?" She shot forward suddenly, chair straight, leaning toward me on the table, her gaze never wavering. "No, Nick," she said. "You aren't woman enough to deserve a real guy." Then when she saw my shocked expression and real relief in my face, she added slowly, "Not yet." Then she looked me up and down deliberately, derisively. I'd been put in my place for daring to mock her intentions. "You aren't April until you want to be, and then wake up delighted to find you are," she said. "Right now you're still only a man wearing a bra and panties and skirt." She looked away from me contemptuously, then added, "I tell you what, to test for authenticity, I'll compare whatever you imagine for yourself with my own cocksucking experiences." That really shocked me! Darla didn't suck cock! She'd never! Not with me, not even with me! Not even when she was in the throes of passion and couldn't cram enough of me into her! Never in high school, she'd told me that, though lots of high school girls do give head, it was true, how else can they stop boys from pushing stiff cocks into their warm, slippery pussies after hours of making out and fingering and sniffing them. In college she'd told me when we first dated that she was saving her mouth for the man she'd marry. That turned out to be me. Then after our wedding she told me she wanted her mouth to be hers alone, inviolable, fit for kissing but otherwise no part of the deal. I'd gone along with that too -- we were starting a life together, and my respecting her most intimate feelings mattered. What I knew about them, anyhow. I was finding out more now. "I don't understand," I said. "What cocksucking? You've never given head to anyone. Not to me, for sure. How am I different? Why do you expect me to imagine that I'm a cocksucker when what you've given me to understand until right now is that you're not, and the purpose of all this is to help me understand you better?" I was babbling. She'd gotten to me, and was pleased. "Nick, I was younger than you're imagining yourself when I began dating. I never told you I never sucked cock. Only that I didn't in high school. A girl does different things with different boys. If it's physical, then she does physical things. With a friend of like mind, she talks. And with a likely marriage partner, she's very careful. You and I were serious almost from the beginning. When a girl's setting up for the long haul she's watchful about precedents, about the boy's expectations, about letting them slide out of control. It's true, I've never sucked your cock." She hesitated a moment, then stopped talking. "You gave some guy head once, and then you wouldn't do it for me, even after we got engaged?" I was feeling hurt and angry. Jealous! Cheated! She took control, forcefully. "Nick, consider this. If I did suck on a prick before we got married, and I'm not saying I did or I didn't, why do you assume it was only once? And only one prick? And how do you know when? How do you know there haven't been any since we got engaged? Or married? How do you know my first time wasn't last week when I went out nicely dressed and left you watching the TV, and then came back horny with an unused cunt? Or that that wasn't the tenth time?" My mouth fell open. My painted mouth. My made-up eyes were wide open. The truth is, I didn't know. Not anything. A gleam came into her eye. "Yes, Karen told me she called right after I left the house and you took the message. So you felt safe, didn't you, sure that I wasn't out on a date with some man. But how do you know I didn't ask Karen to call so you'd think I was visiting her and never guess that I was in fact on my way somewhere else? With our marriage on hold, I can do anything I want, can't I? We're in a relationship now, not a marriage. We're testing out whether we have a future together. I don't owe you anything. Do I?" She looked at me intently. This was her HMO administrative manner at its most severe -- if a subordinate balks, show how he's between a rock and a hard place. I recognized the tactic, but it worked anyhow. She saw my resentful facial expression turn belly up, and she moved in for the coup de grace. "Shall we cancel this learning experience now? End this relationship? Is that what you want?" I was intimidated completely. I couldn't utter a word. "I thought not. So you'll do what you're told! You'll think about how to suck a boy's cock so he'll fall all over himself wanting to ask you out again! You'll think about how you'll dress up to look so attractive that he'd surely want you to take him into your mouth!" A gleam came into her eye. "You'll think about what color lipstick you'll wear to make your mouth more attractive! That rose shade you've got on is pretty, but wouldn't something brighter, more crimson, pull him into your face sooner and bring him off faster? So afterward, when he sees traces of bright red lipstick circling the base of his cock, he'll have especially romantic thoughts about you? Maybe send you flowers? Think right now about what kind of a vase you'll need to put them in, and what kinds of warm thoughts you'll have as you decide where to put them. How you'll explain them to me when I come home from the office. If you can't be April, will you lie to me, or will you confess that you saw this lovely cock and couldn't resist it? You need to be April! If you can't be, then walk out of here and go to the nearest gay bar and suck a dozen dicks and come back and tell me all about it, and maybe I'll take you back as my live-in gay boyfriend. Because I won't want you any other way!" And still stiff, still angry, she walked out of the room, her hips swishing and her skirt swinging. This was pure raw female power, I felt it in the way she walked away from me, flirtatious and furious at once! I clamped my mouth shut and followed her out with my eyes. But the fact was, I didn't know any of the answers any more. I resolved to do what I was told, whatever April wanted me to do. I sat there. Then I went back into my study and went to work, imagining oral sex scenes and situations for the first time in my life with greater intensity and in more detail than I could ever have imagined! Hours later, around midnight, Darla came in looking exactly as earlier, every hair in place, carrying another plate of finger sandwiches. I was still sitting there sketching drafts and making notes, my skirt up and my panties down, staring at April's red-tipped hand wrapped around my cock while trying to imagine it was a mouth. I was wondering how an imaginary girl like me might manage to persuade an imaginary boy to surrender his cock to my mouth. Why should he? Why should he trust that I wouldn't bite? "Here, doll. I thought you might be hungry," she said, her voice kindly. "I see you do take this assignment seriously. That's good -- it's the most transformative task I'll be giving you, except for some of the field exercises of course. But it's late. I think you've done enough for tonight." "Yes," I said. There wasn't much more I could say to her just yet. I felt way off balance. Did she or didn't she? Would I? Apart from my imagination, I mean. "You can do a mini-field-exercise now. One I think you'll like." She told me to fetch a half a glass of warm water from the bathroom. I did. She then told me to place it on the floor, take off my skirt, lower my panties, and crawl over it. I did that too. Then to my amazement she said, "All this is so stressful for you, I understand that. You deserve a reward. Ask April to masturbate you until you cum. But when you cum, be sure to cum under water. Dip your tip deep in the water when you feel yourself about to climax. I couldn't believe what she was telling me. But April's hand reached gracefully for my cock and began to pull and stroke it as I supported myself over the glass of warm water on the other hand and my knees. Weird, but incredibly pleasant, I felt joy rise up between my legs while my groin was in a doggy position and April's hand was reaching for it between my rear thighs. Darla watched it all. When my climax pushed past a point of no return, April stopped stroking and held me rigid as I humped down and pushed my penis as far under water as I could, and felt the pulsing but saw that the squirting remained invisible. The warm water felt nice. My pleasure, my relief, my elation from that climax was overwhelming. Darla enjoyed seeing it. "You liked that, didn't you, sweetheart," she observed. "Yes," I said, still a little breathless. "It wasn't humiliating that your former wife saw the whole thing?" "No, ma'am," I replied, though it was, a little, now that she mentioned it. "Good. Now ask April what you should do with that glass of warm diluted cum." I didn't need to ask. April spoke for me. I wanted to. "Drink it all down like a good little wanker," she said abruptly. Of course. It was a lovely preliminary act, a way to get accustomed to the undiluted cum that was still gagging my throat each time my mind tried to swallow it. So April's hand brought the glass to my lips and I quaffed, then swallowed down the watery, glutinous mess. I could hardly tell what it was -- warm water with slightly salty mucous? "You like it, honey?" Darla asked I nodded. I liked getting off, anyhow. My mouth now had an odd feel. "Your own sperm swimming in warm water can be a very comforting bed-time drink, Nick. Yummy in your tummy. Nourishing. I'm glad. April will provide a fresh glass for you whenever you ask her." She then paused, waiting for me to say something. Had it come to this? But finally I said it. "Thank you, Miss Darla. I appreciate it." "Good," Darla said. "You should. This re-education plan is working out so well for us! I don't want to keep you up, but just a little more talk girl to girl? I've laid out a pretty nightie for April to wear, so you can feel properly amorous when you snuggle up to her and reach for her breasts. Why don't you change into it? Oh yes, be sure that Michelle confirms both your appointments with Lisa. She'll love helping you begin your life as a woman." "My life? This isn't just for a month?" Darla smiled enigmatically, as charming as ever. "Even if for only a month, it's your life. You need to think of it as a lifetime, or you won't enter into the right frame of mind -- no girl is ever a girl for only a month. Have you decided yet how you'll spend your Monday at the office, in pink nails or gloves or pockets?" The pink nails were tempting, but my life as April had to be hidden from the office staff. How could I explain her? Though Michelle it seems already knew more about me than I did. She even knew the end-state where Darla was taking me, and I knew now that I didn't. "Gloves," I said. "I have a pair that'll do. These nails are too long to look like a man's anyhow. People would wonder." "They certainly would," Darla said, reaching for one of her thin sandwiches. "Here, have just a few of these fingerlings. We do need to pay serious attention to April's figure. She's attractive, but she could be moreso. In fact we could both do with a few pounds less in the waist." I looked at Darla's waistline and shook my head, and she dismissed my judgment yet accepted the compliment with a single pretty, intricate twist of her head, all wordlessly. I should learn to do things like that, I thought, gesture with my neck and head like that, since that's what women do and men would never dare. I tried, but all that came out was a shrug. I then reached out and took up a fingerling sandwich, and admiring the jewel-like brilliance of my fingertips, daintily began eating it. Darla observed all this but said nothing. We talked a bit about women's voices -- Darla wanted me to speak more in keeping with the way I looked and made suggestioons now and then. And we then watched a late late show on the tube together, as in the old days. Darla giggled at it now and then the way she always did, and I confess, I did too sometimes. I could almost imagine there'd been no change in our lives. She reached out to hold hands with me, playing absent-mindedly with my gleaming red-tipped fingers, glancing at them now and then with an almost proprietary air. Except for my nails, and my face, and my skirt and blouse, and my little boobs, it was just like the old days. She gently pressed one of my hands against her soft breast and held it there, then lifted and kissed it before setting it back down in my lap. I was trying. I could feel her genuine affection for me. When we went up to bed together, she turned in the doorway to our bedroom, hers now, and gave me a gentle kiss on the lips. "Go make love to April," she whispered. "Love being April, darling." I went to bed, and as I drifted away I found that April's hands had already begun to caress my nipples. Or were those my hands on hers. How did Darla know it would feel so excruciatingly delicious? Then April reached down and took hold of my cock again. With very little effort I imagined her leaning over it and sucking it. I imagined me leaning over and sucking hers, or Nick's. I knew how she was enjoying the feel of it in my mouth. I realized that with her help I could write a story about the first boy I ever gave head that would make Darla incredibly proud. Finally I exploded into April's hand, and she fed me the spillover from her palm, little by little, and it went down smoothly. And then I slept well. end 2/3 <1st attachment begin> <HTML removed pursuant to http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/erotica/assm/faq.html#policy> <1st attachment end> ----- ASSM Moderation System Notice------ Notice: This post has been modified from its original format. 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