until she stopped at her favorite, a bouffant creation of frills, bows and lace in "hot pink". "How's this for a starter?” she asked.

"It's as pretty as you are darling" "or almost so, anyway," he replied. Opening the shoe section, she asked if he'd like to choose the shoes, and he selected, wisely, a perfect matching pair of pink pumps. The heels were a full 3" high and ideal for him, they fit exactly.

He felt six inches taller as he tried them on for size and looking down on her, he said "These things really get you up in the world, I ought to wear them all the time. It might help my inferiority complex".

She laughed at his joking, and said cattily "You might see someone that you'd like better than me if you were any higher up.'

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He laughed good naturedly and clumsily maneuvered himself around the bedroom in the pumps to try to get the hang of walking in them. While she fixed another drink, he continued to walk and turn, twist and strut, and adjust himself to the very high heels. When she came back into the bedroom, where he was looking in the mirror at his feet, sans socks, in the high heels, she giggled and whistled lowly. He clomped noisely over to where she stood and took a sip kissing her even as he swallowed the last drops. "I'l bet you had just as hard a time walking as I have had, the first time you ever put on heels too," he remarked, and she agreed that she had.

As he sat down beside her on the bed, he began to remove the shoes and she asked if he'd like to try on the rest of the outfit with the high heels. "You mean, from head to foot right here in front of you now, "He asked?

"Sure", she said, “after all, Wednesday night you'll be there in front of hundreds of people". "Yes, he countered, but they won't know who I am, and you do". A little coaxing and he agreed to become a girl for her eyes alone. The decision made, she began to pull lingerie and all sorts of things from every here. It was something she had wanted to do for a long time, to a boy, but she had always been afraid of embarrassing her dates. This was the perfect occasion to do what she had long wanted to do and she

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