The Cherry Queen

by Cheri Reed

 

Unfortunately, for the boys, it had all started five years ago. The annual event in the small town of Cherry Tree is the Cherry Blossom Festival. For it, a queen and her court of princesses is picked from the co-eds at our high school. As a gag the boys had nominated a fellow male student and because they outnumbered the girls, the boy was actually voted "Miss Cherry Blossom." This dismayed not only the girls but the townsfolk as well. And the boys didn't know when to stop; for the next year they did it again, and although a boy was not picked as the queen, three out of the six princesses ended up being boys. It was a disaster and everyone was furious. It was then that special meeting of the PTA and faculty was held.

The next week all the students were gathered in the auditorium for an important announcement. Mrs. Hammond the principal took the podium and announced, "The boys of Cherry Tree seem so fascinated with entering candidates in the Miss Cherry Blossom pageant that we have decided to create one just for them. A Miss Cherry Tree pageant which will crown a queen and her court of twelve princesses. This is how it will work.

At the end of the spring semester the four boys with the worst grades will become automatic candidates, then the four boys who have the worst discipline problems will also be candidates, plus another four boys. These four will be picked by the girls of the school and they will be the ones the girls decide have been the most disrespectful and ill-mannered boys in school. Three girl volunteers will be assigned to each candidate to teach them how to act like young ladies. The candidates will want to pay close attention to the girls as naturally they will represent the town and the school at all public, school and social functions. Her announcement drew indignant outbursts from all the boys and giggling and laughter from the girls.

"Oh yes boys, if you are picked as a candidate you WILL participate. If you refuse you will not graduate from school or to the next grade. And you will want to try VERY HARD to be named Miss Cherry Tree or at least be named the first or second runner- up because those that aren't WILL go to school the following YEAR dressed as girls. All boys selected as candidates will of course spend the ENTIRE summer in dresses." This brought gasps of disbelief, this time from the boys and outright GLEE from the girls.

"Naturally as in any pageant, the winner will be picked from an evening gown competition (with the candidates making their own gowns), a swimsuit competition, and a talent competition to be limited to singing, dancing, or a musical instrument."

Over the years the Miss Cherry Tree pageant has become not only more refined, but a tradition and a means of dealing with our boys in their most difficult years.

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It was in his junior year that Jim, to his utter dismay, became a candidate, although he had been given plenty of notice. You see there had been many refinements and one of them was a monthly "warning list" of boys who were at the bottom of all three areas. The warning list was posted every month up to two months before the pageant, and he had plenty of time to have taken himself off the list.

The Miss Cherry Tree pageant was held the sixth of June and so it was that on the sixth of April that his name was announced as one of the candidates. Instead of one month to get ready the girls had asked for two. It was just too much to ask, they said, to turn a boy into a decent looking girl in just one month. (Actually, the girls were thoroughly ENJOYING the process of feminizing, and training their helpless victims, and they just couldn't wait to get the poor, desperate boys under their humiliating control!) Of course the faculty and PTA was only too happy to oblige them.

Jim went MEEKLY to meet his three tutors without a word of protest. For among the new rules his tutors were allowed to add any number of days past the next spring semester they wished if the boy gave the slightest hint of trouble. They knew how serious the girls were when one "princess" was made to wear dresses and was treated like a girl for four additional months.

It was late that Saturday night that Jim returned, escorted by the girls, one of which included his girlfriend Diane who had obviously been enjoying herself. He came in wearing a VERY short red pleated skirt. The white blouse had short puffy sleeves with a high collar supporting a large floppy red bow. Nylons were on his smooth shaven legs and his feet were strapped into a pair of red open toed three and a half inch heels, with each toe decorated with a little stand-up bow. His medium long hair had been permed and combed into a very girlish style. He had been tightly corseted and was wearing a very prominent padded bra. His nails were painted bright red, his eyebrows had been plucked into very thin arches and makeup had been skillfully applied to his now very girlish face. He didn't look at all out of place standing meekly among the girls.

The girls had decided, two years ago, that ALL of each candidate's male clothes would be confiscated, to further emphasize his utter loss of control over the situation, thus insuring his COMPLETE obedience. Of course, all the mothers were perfectly willing to enforce this decision, and in many cases a boy was unfortunate enough to have one or more sisters who were all too happy to keep their hopelessly, feminized brother under close observation.

The next two months were indeed very difficult ones for the boy. They had renamed him 'Jamie'. (They had decided that each boy's feminine name would be preceded by the title, 'Sissy'.) From this point on, everyone in the town of Cherry Tree (including his mother), would refer to him as 'sissy Jamie'. The girls were not only merciless in their criticism but quite dictatorial in their demands and treatment of Jamie.

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It obviously did wonders for the girl's confidence, and was giving them real experience in dealing with males on a more than equal footing. Seeing this, the mothers did absolutely nothing to stop the humiliation and teasing the boys were always receiving. Just the opposite in fact. The mothers had always asked the girls for their comments at the end of each pageant and gradually turned the running of it over to them until now it was COMPLETELY in their hands.

Their first edicts were some of those already mentioned, but one of the more interesting and obviously HUMILIATING demands was that each boy was to regularly submit to a body inspection. Each boy was made to strip nude and stand at attention in the midst of his tutors during his inspection, which was quite thorough. Not a hair could be out of place, makeup had to be perfect, nails polished and filed, and they had to be well perfumed. Then each boy was made to spread his legs while being checked for the slightest hint of stubble and then they had to raise their arms for the same reason. Then they were given ten minutes to get dressed in one of their prettiest outfits (to be chosen by his tutors at the last minute). Their shoes were inspected for scuff marks, nylons for runs, and their dress was checked for wrinkles, spots and loose buttons. Jamie quickly learned how to iron even the most delicate of items and he was always checking his shoes for scuff marks, his nylons for runs and his makeup & nail polish for the slightest of imperfections.

For each imperfection found, a day was added to be served in girls' clothes at the end of their reign. Jamie also learned the consequences of not sitting, standing, walking or bending in the proper girlish fashion. For at the end of just the first week he had come home sobbing, having just learned from the girls that he would be in girls' clothes for twenty nine extra days, and that was just for the first week.

Besides being crowned Miss Cherry Tree, the girls had gradually added several other categories of judging, mostly just for their amusement and to further torment the boys. There were awards which included wardrobes, cash and summer jobs to the winners of the Best Gown, the Talent Contest, Best Looking Girl, the Swimsuit Competition, Best Legs, Best Hair Style, and even a Miss Congeniality. The mothers thought that the summer jobs awarded were just perfect to keep their boys out of trouble and to teach them a little humility. Among them were summer waitress jobs, manicurist in a beauty salon, several sales girl positions in women's dress shops or shoe stores, Domestic Maid positions, and even two as seamstresses.

To be picked Miss Congeniality, the candidates were sorely tested by the devilish girls. Each Sunday they had to attend a tea with only girls present. Each boy had to be dressed in his most feminine attire, with stylish hair do and makeup. They had to act as perfect young ladies at ALL times, and be as feminine, dainty, and gay as they possibly could.

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They were drawn into girl talk about such things as fashion & hair style and to this end they had a list of magazines that each boy was required to read such as Seventeen, Glamour, Vogue and Cosmopolitan. As a final requirement during the actual judging, each candidate had to appear in front of a panel of ten judges for a fifteen minute interview which was quite humiliating, and many boys left in tears.

There was one other new award which they recently started. It was an award for the best essay. The title of which was to be 'Why I want to be Miss Cherry Tree.' It was judged on content, style (meaning the more girlish it sounded the more points awarded), and delivery which had to be as feminine & prissy as possible. A $250 shopping spree (for girls clothes, naturally) was awarded the winner as well as a summer job as a typist.

During the judging, Jamie appeared perfectly lovely in his long, soft pink, chiffon evening gown. It fell nearly to ankle length, just short enough to show off his ankles and the four and a half inch heels that he had been forced to wear at the last minute. The bodice was tight to highlight his extra tightly corseted girlish figure. The sleeves were long, puffy clouds of soft, sheer pink gathered at each wrist with a bright pink ribbon tied in a pretty little bow. His makeup was perfect and his hair style, which he had to create himself, quite elaborate and sophisticated.

Try as he did, and he tried VERY hard, he was not named Miss Cherry Tree, or even one of the two runners up, and he left the stage in tears for, of course, it meant a full year dressed as a girl. Called back on stage, he learned that he had won the prize for Best Figure, and no wonder, for the three girls had been almost cruel in their efforts, twice changing his corset to smaller ones and allowing it only to be loosened a little when he went to bed. The award garnered him $100 and a summer job as a French Maid. He wasn't exactly overjoyed with either, especially when he learned that he was to work ALL summer as a French Maid in his girlfriend's house!

The experience of the pageant and subsequent time Jamie spent dressed as a girl had a very beneficial effect on both his total respect and complete obedience toward ALL women (including every girl in the town of Cherry Tree, with NO exceptions.)

The girls had also devised a secret contest that the boys were forced to enter. The award was called, 'Miss Pussy Lick' for which each candidate had to practice nightly with his tutors, and it went on throughout the year until the next pageant with an additional award going to the 'Most Improved.' It was judged by rotating the boys weekly to the different sets of tutors.

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