The Male Debutantes' Pageant

by Annabel Naismith

 

Chapter Nine

 

"Oh shit!" exclaimed Kirsty as she heard the door open and looked up from underneath the edge of Danni's wig.

"Kirsty! Danni! What are you doing?" Amy entered Mandy's room behind Mandy but was first to react.

Danni rolled off Kirsty, dragging the quilt with her and exposing Kirsty's naked top half. Kirsty pulled up the lower half of the quilt, covering her breasts but exposing her naked right leg and hip, which she quickly pulled the bottom of the quilt over.

"This isn't how it looks," began Kirsty, "Danni and I were chatting for a long time and we both got a bit upset about Jess and Danni's sister, so we started cuddling and, you know," she tailed off. "Tell her Danni."

"That's right," agreed Danni. "We didn't really do anything."

"But didn't you have any protection or anything?" asked Amy.

"What do you mean?" asked Danni. Kirsty knew what Amy meant.

"You know," whispered Amy, "rubbers, condoms."

"Well, erm, not really but we weren't really doing anything," replied Kirsty.

"You can't not really have any condoms," said Mandy decisively. "Either you did or you didn't."

"Well, we didn't. Satisfied?" snapped Kirsty.

"But you could get pregnant." Amy was horrified.

"I don't think so," said Kirsty. "We'd only just started."

"Mandy," said Danni urgently. "Could you get me a tissue. I'm making a bit of a mess."

Amy quickly passed the box from Mandy's desk and grabbed Mandy by the arm. "I think they need a minute or two to sort themselves out," she said.

Amy and Mandy went onto the landing and shut the door while Kirsty and Danni got themselves tidied up. They heard someone sobbing and then heard Kirsty's voice saying. "It's all right baby, mummy's here. Mummy's not cross. Sshh, you're a good baby. Mummy loves you. It's OK."

Amy gestured to Mandy to follow her downstairs.

"How long should we give them?" whispered Mandy as they reached the no-man's land of the hall. They did not want to go into the living room because then they would need to explain what Kirsty and Danni were doing in Mandy's room which prevented them from being there.

"I don't know, a couple of minutes, maybe."

Deirdre chose that moment to go to the downstairs bathroom.

"Hello," she said, as she saw the two girls. "What are you two skulking there for?"

"We came downstairs to look for something," improvised Mandy desperately.

"What were you looking for?"

"I can't remember."

"Goodness me, you must the attention span of a goldfish. Don't you remember, Amy?"

"Remember what?"

"You as well, eh? It must be contagious." Deirdre chuckled to herself as she went into the bathroom.

Amy looked quizzically at Mandy. She had been too preoccupied with Kirsty's condition to concentrate on the conversation between Mandy and Deirdre.

"Come on Mandy, we'd better go back upstairs."

Amy and Mandy went upstairs again and Mandy knocked on the door to her room. "Are you decent?" she called, unnecessarily loudly.

"Ssshh," hissed Amy, anxiously, but her bright blue eyes sparkled and she had a wide smile.

Kirsty opened the door. She had found her underwear and a T. Danni was still in her underwear.

"Come in," said Kirsty. "Sorry about that. Danni got a bit emotional, but she's OK now."

Amy sat next to Danni on Mandy's bed and gave her a friendly hug.

"Come on Danni," she said brightly. "We need to re-do your make-up and it will be time to go to youth club."

"Do we actually know that it's going to be OK for me and Danni to go to youth club like this?" asked Mandy.

"Of course it is," replied Amy. "Why wouldn't it be?"

"It's just that, well, Karen was going to ask if it would be OK but I haven't heard what the answer was. Will Chris and Dave be there to help us out if people start being nasty?"

"You'd better go and check with Karen," said Kirsty. "Otherwise we'll have to take Danni's make-up off - and her nail varnish as well, come to that."

Mandy left the room to confirm the arrangements with Karen. Meanwhile Amy had something on her mind she wanted to talk to Kirsty and Danni about.

"Why do you call each other Mummy and Baby?"

Both Kirsty and Danny looked sheepish and smiled coyly at each other, then Kirsty replied. "It's just a pet name. Danni's so little, she's like my dolly. I like to take care of her and cuddle her. Plus her real mummy was never very affectionate. It makes us happy. Please don't tell anyone, it's a bit embarrassing."

"Aww, that is so-o sweet! Of course I won't tell anyone. I used to love playing with dolls up when I was little. It must be fun to have a real live one you can go shopping with. You and Danni must come with me and Mandy next time we go."

Mandy came back. "Chris and Dave will be there tonight so there won't be any trouble. Karen did say she doesn't know if Jess will be going or not."

"You could ring her," said Amy to Kirsty.

"I don't want to talk to her after what she did to my poor baby." Kirsty stroked Danni's cheek, while Danni looked embarrassed.

"Kirsty," she remonstrated, "Mandy's back."

"Don't worry, I heard you before."

"Come on baby, put on some pretty clothes for Mummy and then we can go out."

"OK, you don't need to overdo it." grumbled Danni.

All the girls repaired their make-up and Danni and Mandy each wore a mini-skirt and T with girls' tennis shoes. It was getting cooler as the sun was starting to go down, so they all put girls fleecy sweatshirts round their shoulders.

Ten minutes later the four youngsters arrived at youth club in the hall, adjacent to the village church. Abigail and Alison were the first to recognise Mandy and Danni.

"Hi Mandy, Hi Danni," greeted Abigail. "It's good to see two new girls at youth club."

Abigail and Alison were soon up to speed with the developments of the afternoon, including to Kirsty and Danni's embarrassment, the bedroom incident.

"You're a dark horse Danni," said Abigail with a grin, "you won't forget this weekend in a hurry."

"That's right," agreed Alison, "from boy, to girl, to expectant father, all in the space of a weekend. That has to be some kind of a record."

"Ali! Don't be horrible," said Amy.

"Ali's got a point though, Kirsty," said Abigail. "If Danni was that close that he needed a tissue, some of his, you know, could have got out early and got on your, erm."

"Ohmigod!"

"Did his thing actually penetrate your, you know?" asked Alison. Danni, Mandy and Amy were avidly listening to this urgently whispered conversation.

"Yes, I think so. But not for very long. Just a couple of thrusts and anyway it wasn't very big, it didn't go in very far."

If Danni had been embarrassed at the mall the previous day, this description of Dan's male equipment was just as excruciating.

Kirsty continued, "most of the time it was missing and it was just rubbing on the outside, between my legs. It just popped in for a couple of thrusts and that's when Mandy and Amy came in."

"It's just as well we did, by the sound of it."

"When is your period due?"

"First week of the month."

"And you're regular?"

"Usually."

"Oh well it's the 23rd today, so you shouldn't have too long to wait."

"You really think I might be pregnant?"

"I don't know," said Alison. "I should think it's unlikely, but it's not impossible."

"What am I going to do? My parents will kill me."

"There's a morning-after pill but I don't know how it works or how reliable it is," said Alison.

"Maybe Susie or Karen would know," wondered Amy.

"Don't tell Karen for goodness sake. She'll tell mum and mum'll go ape-shit."

"That's not a very lady-like way of putting it."

"Abi, this is serious."

"Sorry, Kirsty."

Amy went to ask her sister.

"Susie, I need to ask your advice but promise you won't tell anyone," she whispered.

"I promise. What is it?"

"Kirsty and Danni got a bit carried away this afternoon in Mandy's room. They were having a cuddle in Mandy's bed and they weren't wearing very much. Danni got a bit, you know... His, er, thing got a bit..."

"His willy let something out?"

"Yes."

"And some of it got onto Kirsty?"

"Yes."

"So you think there's a chance she might fall pregnant?"

"Yes. We don't think it's very likely but it's just possible. What do you think she should do?"

"She must go and ask the doctor as soon as possible. They're very good. Do you think I should talk to Kirsty myself?"

"Oh yes please. Thank you Susie." Amy gave her sister a hug.

Susie took Kirsty away from the group and Amy went with them.

"Kirsty, Amy told me about you and Danni messing about this afternoon. I'm not going to judge but if you think there is even a remote chance you might be pregnant, you must go to the doctor tomorrow. It's vital that you get seen as soon as possible. Don't leave it until you miss your period because you'll definitely be pregnant then. There is a morning after pill but I don't know much about it except that you have to get it from the doctor. Remember it's a big issue for you but it's just one of those things that happens every day for her. She won't mind and she will give you some advice if you and Danni are going to do this again. Is that OK?"

"Yes, thank you Susie. They won't tell my mum, will they?"

"I think the law is that they are supposed to if you're under 16. But in practice they don't because otherwise girls like you wouldn't go to see them when they need good advice most."

Kirsty was close to tears with relief. Susie put her arm around Kirsty's shoulders.

"Are you OK?"

Kirsty nodded tearfully. Amy put a comforting arm around her and they went back to Mandy and Danni.

Other girls joined the group fascinated by the appearance of the two new girls. All the girls were impressed at how convincing both Mandy and Danni were as girls and were keen to get precise details of their underwear, breast forms, Danni's wig and the new ear studs.

The story of Danni's humiliation at the mall and Jess's crude and painful attempt to pierce Danni's ears was repeated, to the universal horror of all the girls.

"We really must do something to show her we won't be intimidated by her," said Vicky, another friend of Abigail and Alison. "I think Danni and Mandy were really brave to go and get their ears pierced after everything that happened."

"Yeah," agreed Alison. "We had some time to wait before the bus came and she just said 'let's do it' and off she went. Mandy followed and got one piercing in each ear and we all thought they were so brave that we got an extra one and then Mandy went and got a second one. I really like the two studs. It's so cool."

"I think all the boys should get their ears pierced to show what they think of Jess," said Abigail.

"Abi, that is a brilliant idea," said Alison. "All we need to do is to convince Dave or Chris that it'd be cool and all the boys will follow. They're like sheep."

"Bless 'em," agreed Vicky.

"Are you sure you don't mean lemmings?" queried Abigail.

"What do we need to do to persuade them?" wondered Alison.

"Shall we ask one of the older girls? They know them better than we do." suggested Vicky.

Abigail, Alison and Vicky went and found Karen talking to Susie, along with and Kelly and Michelle. Kelly was pencilled in as master of ceremonies at the pageant and Michelle had elected to prepare Chris, along with Nikki.

"Karen, we've just had a great idea," began Abigail. "You know Mandy and Danni got their ears pierced because of Jess?" Karen nodded, the other older girls listened closely as Abigail carried on. "We thought it would be nice if all the boys got their ears pierced. That would show that they aren't going to let Jess pick on Danni and Mandy. We thought that if Chris or Dave could be persuaded, the other boys would follow their lead. What do you think?"

"Hmm, that's an interesting idea." Karen looked thoughtfully at the others.

"I think Chris should make a bit more effort," said Michelle, "I'll amend that, I think Chris should make some effort, however small. Yeah, we'll have to get him to do that. But how?" Michelle looked around.

"That's easy," said the business-like Kelly, "just dare him. Appeal to his macho self-image. Tell him that Danni and Mandy have the courage to get a piercing, a great big he-man like Chris, who plays rugby, must be a pathetic little cry-baby if he doesn't. And sulk if he doesn't agree. Has he asked you out, yet by the way?"

It was an open secret amongst the girls that Chris fancied Michelle but had not yet gathered the courage to ask Michelle on a date. Michelle was hoping that he would ask her for a date before she dressed him as a girl. Otherwise, she had decided to "wear the pants" and ask him for a date while he was dressed. Even though the girl he was intending to dress as was going to be called Norma Snockers.

"I wonder if he ever will," sighed Michelle.

"Oh, for goodness sake, just go and faint at his feet," said Kelly. "He'll pick you up and you can drape your arms round his neck and gaze lovingly up at him as you come to. Then just reach up, give him a big snog and say 'my hero'. If that doesn't work he's gay."

"And Mandy and Danni are in real danger!" added Abigail.

"But what if he doesn't want to go out with me?"

"You might get picked up by someone else," offered Alison.

"But I don't want to get picked up by just anyone."

"Right, I'll sort this out," said Kelly.

"You can't just go and tell him to ask me out." Michelle was confused.

"No, I mean I'll sort out the ear-piercing, silly." Kelly walked off to find Chris.

The girls chatted away while Kelly spoke to Chris.

At the far end of the hall, most of the boys, who were outnumbered two to one by girls, completely ignored Danni and Mandy. The exception was Sam. Sam was absolutely disgusted that his two best friends had become girls, so he had no-one to talk to. He tried to talk to Mandy and Danni but they were in the middle of a gaggle of girls and he was left on the outskirts of the group.

The fourteen and fifteen year-old girls, including Mandy and Danni, played a cd of dance music. The real girls showed the two new girls the steps for each dance. Danni was a quick learner at dancing but Mandy was slower to pick up the moves and kept stepping the wrong way. Dancing like this was something the girls regularly did but it was not socially acceptable for a boy to be seen dancing with the girls. Both Mandy and Danni enjoyed the feeling of their skirts twirling against their legs as they moved to and fro in time with the music. It was a new and sexy feeling for them. All the while Danni and Mandy were dancing with the girls, Sam sat on a chair by the wall, feeling bored. Eventually, he wandered up to the boys' end of the hall.

After a few minutes Kelly turned the music off for a minute and called for silence so she could make an announcement.

"Quiet please, everyone. I have an announcement to make. As I think everyone knows, this evening we are welcoming two new girls to the youth club. You may have noticed that there are also two boys not here. Andy and Dan have become Mandy and Danni and I am sure you will agree with me that they both look gorgeous. You've probably also noticed that they have had their ears pierced. There is a story behind the ear-piercing. To put it briefly, Dan was picked on by a bully and had his ears attacked with a needle in a botched attempt to pierce his ears. As a gesture of defiance to bullies, Andy and Dan both had their ears pierced and we challenge all the boys here to get their ears pierced to show that each and every one of you has the courage to stand up to bullies. I rang Tracey, you know, she has the hairdressers in the village, and she will open her shop late tomorrow evening. Any boys from the youth club can have their ears pierced for just the cost of the studs. Chris and Dave have both agreed that they will get their ears done. So girls, make sure that your boys are as brave as Andy and Dan and defy the bullies!

"One last thing. Seeing how Mandy and Danni look so gorgeous, it would be nice to see some more new girls next week. Maybe we can have an all girls week the week before the pageant. What do you think girls?"

Loud cheers greeted this suggestion from one end of the hall. From the other end of the hall there came some quiet rebellious grumbling.

The dancing resumed at one end of the hall while the boys resumed playing table tennis and darts at the other.

Unexpectedly, Jess arrived with Lucy and Gemma. Karen and Susie rallied the other committee members to be aware of any trouble. Chris and Dave remained on alert in the background.

There was a tension in the air but Jess and her friends did not seek a confrontation. They sat quietly talking among themselves on chairs by the wall, half way along the length of the hall. Occasionally they looked over at the big group of girls around Mandy and Danni. Jess pointed out Mandy and Danni to Lucy and Gemma; it was clear who they were because of the attention paid them by Amy and Kirsty.

It was several minutes before Mandy, Danni, Amy and Kirsty even realised that Jess had come to the youth club; they were enjoying dancing together so much.

Jess and her friends realized that they would not be able to create a confrontation in the youth club because they would be heavily outnumbered and, after twenty minutes or so, they quietly left.

As the evening drew on, the time came for Danni to remove her nail varnish. Kirsty sat down with her and helped her remove it.

Eventually the evening finished and Kirsty waited outside with Danni for Danni's dad to give them a lift home.

When Bill Smith arrived to collect Danni and Kirsty, Kirsty told him of the plan for the boys to have ear piercings.

"It was a brilliant idea. And the boys were really keen. You know Chris, the rugby player? He said he would get his done and he dared Dave, so of course Dave could hardly refuse. Then almost all the other boys said they would. It shows all the boys are with Danni and won't let them be bullied by Jess and her cronies."

"D'you know what Kirsty," said Bill. "If all them boys get studs in their ears, then I will. I'll be alright to go along with them tomorrow night, won't I?"

"Yeah, I'm sure that'll be OK."

"Thanks dad. Thanks for helping me."

"That's alright, son."

Sitting between Kirsty and her father in the front seat of the builder's van, Danni reached out and squeezed her dad's massive hand. Bill put his large hand on Danni's hand and gave it a gentle squeeze. Danni felt closer to her dad than she ever had before. It really had been some weekend.

It had been some weekend for Kirsty as well and she still had to get to the doctor without her mother knowing. She had decided to call the school office and let them know she had a doctor's appointment, then go to school as soon as she could after going to the doctor. Danni needed her protection.

 

In the meantime, some way away, Mandy and Amy were walking home with their arms linked. They were startled by a voice behind them.

"Hello girls," said the voice.

They looked round and there were Jess, Lucy and Gemma.

"Hello," said Amy nervously.

"You are very nice looking girls," sneered Jess. "Lipstick lesbians. What a shame one of you has something inconvenient stopping her being a proper girl. A proper lesbian, I should say. Perhaps she would like me to do a bit of surgery, a little bit of snipping with some scissors, perhaps, or a knife." Jess made snipping and slicing actions to show how she would do it, then continued. "I like trying surgery, it gets things done. Like that other lesbian's ears. You two must be so pleased you can wear those pretty, girly ear studs now and it's all thanks to me. I'm sure you're both really grateful to me that your secret's out now and everyone at school knows all about the lesbians you two really are."

"Come on, Amy. We'd best get home," whispered Mandy nervously.

"Oh, don't go so soon, I haven't finished talking to you," continued Jess. "It's very rude to walk off when someone is talking to you. I can't abide rudeness. Lucy and Gemma don't like rudeness either, do you?

"No we don't," agreed Gemma.

"We get very angry when people are rude to us," said Lucy. "And when we get angry, sometimes we lose control and start hitting people who make us angry."

"Now you wouldn't want that to happen, would you," said Jess. "There's another thing girls have to get used to, you know, Sissy Mandy. Periods. You get really painful stomach cramps every month. Let me show you what it's like, Sissy Mandy."

Jess pulled her arm back to punch Mandy in the stomach but before she could do so, Amy grabbed Mandy's arm.

"Run," she yelled and turned to sprint away from the three larger girls, pulling Mandy's arm as she went. Mandy turned and ran away after Amy. Mandy was impeded by her tight mini skirt initially but it soon rode up and she found running herself running more easily in the skirt than she ever would have in jeans. She was thankful they had chosen to wear tennis shoes not heels. Jess initially started to run after Amy and Mandy but soon realised that they were quicker.

"I'll see you tomorrow, sissy," she called to the two retreating backs. "You can run but you can't hide, forever," she added quietly to herself.

Having sprinted the first fifty yards away from Jess, Amy and Mandy settled into a brisk jog all the way to Amy's house at the far end of the lane. They only stopped running when they reached the front gate and walked up the garden path panting to get their breath back.

"She's a real, huh, cow," panted Amy.

"Yeah," agreed Mandy. "How are we, huh, going to avoid her to - huh - morrow?"

"We'll have to, huh, stick together."

"And look after Danni."

"Yeah, that cow's got it, huh, in for poor little Danni. Huh. D'you want to come in for, huh, coffee or something?"

"I'd love to but it's, huh, a late. Mum'll wonder where, huh, I've got to. Good-night Amy and thanks for a lovely weekend, huh - I really enjoyed it, being your girlfriend. Can I be your boyfriend as well?"

"I've had a fab weekend and I love having you as a girlfriend. I know you're really a boy and you're definitely my special boyfriend." Amy pulled Mandy close and gave her hug and a lingering kiss on the lips. Mandy pressed her tongue against Amy's mouth and she sucked it in. Then Amy flicked her tongue into Mandy's mouth, all the while they stroked each other's backs. After half a minute or so they stepped back.

"I've never been kissed like that before," said Amy. "That was wonderful. You're one sexy kisser, Mandy Jacobs." She looked earnestly at Mandy with her piercing blue eyes full of love, reflected in the hall light which shone through the small window of the front door.

"And I've never been kissed like that either. You're really sexy too, Amy." Mandy pulled Amy close and they kissed again and chatted for several minutes.

Susie came up the path, saw her sister passionately embracing her friend and cleared her throat loudly.

"Come on you two love-birds, or do you need a bucket of water thrown on you?"

Mandy and Amy disentangled themselves.

"Good-night Amy, love you."

"Bye, Mandy, love you too."

"Bye, Susie." Mandy ran back home quickly, in case Jess and her friends had followed her and Amy, and quickly reached the safety of her front door.

"Hi Mandy, where did you get to?" asked Karen. "I thought you'd be home before me."

"I walked Amy home and we said good-night," said Mandy, innocently.

"You snogged her! Your lipstick's all smudged, you scarlet woman! You'd better not do that when people can see you, you know. They'll think you two are lesbians. Oh yes, shall we tell mum about the ear-piercing, then Deirdre will have to get hers done. That'll be brilliant."

"Yeah, why not. After all, if I have to suffer, why should Deirdre get away with it?"

Karen led Mandy into the living room. "Hi mum, Hi Deirdre. Youth cub was fun. All the boys are going to get their ears pierced tomorrow to show support for Mandy and Danni and to show what they think of that Jess. I think Deirdre should get hers done as well. What do you think?"

"Ooh, I'm not sure that's really necessary," said Deirdre quickly.

Jane ignored Deirdre while she considered what Karen had said.

"What a good idea," said Jane approvingly. "Boys against bullies. It's like wearing a badge, a badge of courage. And Deirdre simply must go along too." Jane turned to face Deirdre. "Otherwise it'll look as though you're either a coward or you support bullies. And besides you can enjoy wearing some nice dangly earrings when you're not at work."

"Thanks very much, kids," said Deirdre resentfully. "How do I explain this to the chaps at work?"

"Oh, you can just tell them you're having the male menopause and you need to re-capture your youth," said Karen cheerfully. "I'm sure mum won't make you wear the dangly ones to work."

"I suppose that's a relief. It would take some explaining," said Deirdre thoughtfully. "But I'm not very happy about it. I don't mind helping Mandy out a bit and giving him, er, her, a bit of encouragement but I think it's a bit much that I have to mutilate myself for..."

"Oh stop moaning Deirdre," interrupted Jane. "If Mandy has the courage to get her ears pierced to support her friend, then you can. Don't be such a baby. Mutilation indeed! No-one is asking you to do anything they wouldn't expect a little girl to do. Now, I expect you to go along and do this tomorrow with the other boys. If you stop complaining you can go as Richard. But any more fussing and I shall make you go as Deirdre."

"Oh, all right." Deirdre was still not happy. She picked up the Sunday paper and rustled it crossly.

"Come on Mandy, school tomorrow," said Jane.

Mandy went up to bed. She had had some weekend and there was the prospect of an eventful week to come. At least it would be a short week because of the teacher training day on Friday and it was the last week before the week-long half-term holiday.

 

To be continued

  

  

  

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