The Service

by Jane Hudson

  

At the service of the Becky Williams a young lady walked in her smart black dress to the front of the church. She was Becky best and maybe only friend maybe because in some ways they were the same but only in some ways. She went to the pulpit to tell people about her friend. Soon she would speak for someone dear to her who was never given a chance to speak in life herself.

Julie was just 16 years old but she knew what to say .But some there would not like what she had to say. " Hello most of you know me from school as Julie Harris a good friend of Becky or as she would of liked to be known as Bobby, I am like her a transsexual Male to female but there is one important difference" .She Paused to gather herself. " I always wanted to be Julie since I was so small I can't remember my great family has supported all the way. My great Mum My ace Dad You know them Mary is our local community nurse David my dad a great Mechanic. Then there is my 3 year older sister Paula who has just joined the Army. Well she has just always been a great help and sister , looking after me at school from the bullies and teaching me to look after myself as some of the bullies have found out." Julie paused again to gain breath. " But who did Becky have no one Her mum and sister with the connivance of the school councillor and the framing by Christy yes I know girl what you did, of that trumped rape charge, which was used forced him into so called therapy . Then he was forced into becoming what he never wanted to be ,and yes I have proof of what I say. My god you Christy and you two have this service for poor Becky crying so called sad tears, and your the ones who drove her to it hypocrites ." At this point the church was in uproar Becky Mum Doris and sister Dawn was shouting and going mad. Christy the school cheerleader was calling Julie a queer guy freak and a lot worse.

Doris rushed to the front of the church to say it was not true. When not music but the sound of Becky /Bobby came over the speakers very loud Becky was telling all of how she was abused and forced to be a girl. How his sister love to beat him up in front of her friends and made Becky lick her shoes in front of them and other degrading acts. How he could no longer going on and that why he was taking his life .That he knew that the letters and tape left would be destroyed by his family but he had sent by mail copies to his only friend Julie.

At this point Becky family ran from the church Christy stood there opened mouthed and shocked looking, then ran out of the building. Becky voice faded and Julie said. "Not only was this tape sent but other stuff Becky or as he want me to call him Booby had left a tape machine in hiding in the front room and got on tape his mother sister and Ms Peter our school councillor plans for him to be nothing more that a sissy servant how a mother could treat a child so I can never know" She paused again. " I never knew she was going to take his own life. I thought of her as him as well for they was both and yet nether. I tried to make her see she could have a good life as a woman they had ruined him as a man that much we both knew. I told her to go to the police but she did not think she would be believed. Maybe I should of done but she promised me not to Once she had left school to hell with them make your own way I told her. I said I would help, but she had been busted up and broken down too much" .At this point Julie burst in to tears but just had to say her final piece. " To want to become a woman is one thing to be forced to be one and to be treated as a sissy and near on slave at home to suffer humiliation and beating's is just well I can't say it in church that all. I just say rest in peace my friend the peace you never had in life. God bless you" Then she fell to her knees sobbing her dad and mum came up to help her sis was away in the Army at the time but she would have help her too .

The newspapers and TV got hold of this and Becky mum and sister moved away Ms Peter left the school .Christy was a non person at school no longer a cheerleader and no boy would go near her she soon left and went to another town. The police looked at this case but the case was based on the tape's and it was not a sure thing in court so it never went to court. Julie family was threaten with court action by Becky family but the tapes may not be able to swing a police case but in a civil case well they thought better on it After all the press was still really ripping in to Becky family they just dropped of the radar. Julie still visits Becky /Bobby grave every week with flowers and a little pray, and a few tears.

  

  

  

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