24 TV FICTION CLASSICS

SANDY THOMAS ADV. "Don't worry sweetheart, everything will be fine. We've been all through this, and besides, Sam and Evan are going through the same thing," she encouraged as she adjusted the thin shoulder straps so the camisole would hang evenly.

Without a pause, she had him hold his arms up again while she slipped the plain, yet very feminine pink silk shell over his head. Its loose short sleeves reached almost to his elbows, and the neckline was wide showing a little shoulder. She then stepped behind her son, pulled his long ponytail from beneath his blouse, and closed the pink button behind his neck.

Despite his mother's encouragement, Paul felt strange sensations rushing through his body. He was a 16 year old boy old enough to get a driver's license, and yet he was being dressed by his mother like a little child. Not just like a child, she was dressing him like a girl! Another shudder ran through him.

"Are you okay?" Emma asked, sensing that his mind was a thousand miles away.

Her words brought him back to the moment. "Uh, yeah. I'm okay," he answered as he pulled the girl's jeans into place at his waist. "It's just that these clothes are so weird. Mom, I can't go downtown shopping with you dressed like this!"

"Don't worry son, you already look very much like a girl, and we haven't even done your makeup. Anyway, you'll be going to school in dresses for the next few weeks, so you had better begin to psych' yourself into thinking and acting like a girl. Understand?"

"I guess so," he muttered with uncertainty filling his voice. "I just hope I don't get laughed out of school or something."

"Just wait and see! By Sunday you'll feel differently," she said with a motherly smile.

The jeans were on and they fit very snugly over his legs and hips, and he was fortunate that he was thin because these jeans had a nipped-in waist that required him to pull hard to button the front. The crotch also came up snugly between his legs pressing uncomfortably on his male equipment. The end effect was that his sister's jeans gave him a girlish front

BLONDE & BLONDER -25 that indeed implied that the plumbing was of the female variety.

Next came the shoes. "No, not heels?" Paul moaned. "I don't know how to walk in them!"

"Not much to learn," Emma smiled, "T.G.I.F. Toes Go In First!"

To Emma's pleasant surprise, although both pairs were a bit tight, they fit reasonably well. After slipping each pair onto his feet, she had him take a few steps. To no one's surprise, the higher heel on the open toe sandals definitely proved more challenging so she decided he should wear the white pumps. Anyway, their narrow rounded toes gave his feet a sufficiently feminine look. "Wonderful!" she exclaimed. "Now, over to my room so I can do your hair and makeup."

Walking slowly, Paul took his first steps dressed from head to toe as a young woman, and even without makeup, most observers would casually read "girl" upon seeing the young lad as he looked with his current clothes and long swinging ponytail.

Motioning him to take a seat at her vanity, Emma thought as she slid the elastic off his ponytail, "Now let me see." Taking a brush she began to stroke his hair from the roots to the ends. "I'm so glad that you've kept your hair long. There are dozens of things we can do with it, and I'm dying to see it done in long curls. Oh, for the big dance you could wear it up?"

Paul flinched then watched and listened in numb silence as his mother got more and more excited at his transformation. He was beginning to wonder if the original purpose of this ordeal had taken a back seat to some dark secret wish by his mother to make him into her second daughter. .especially since Wendy didn't like wearing frilly feminine clothes!

Meanwhile, at the Miller household, a despondent Sam was similarly sitting at his sister's vanity while his mother and sister worked on his feminine look. He was wearing a casual pair of his sister's white linen pants with a matching jacket over a soft navy blouse, and dark blue pumps with two inch heels adorned his feet.