A TS Birthday                   by: Paul G Jutras

 

As Paul’s Sailor Moon alarm clock, he rolled under the covers and saw it was 7:15 on his birthday morning. Reaching for the remote, he turned on the television and checked the local channels and found nothing worth watching. "Might as well go back to bed," Paul thought to himself as he pulled the covers back up to his neck and snuggled in.

Listening to the sound his mother going in and out of the house, he decided to get up and started to go check his E-mail. To his surprise his father had sent him one already from Europe to wish him a Happy Birthday. He then went through his dresser draws. Putting on a pair of panties and cocoa nylons, he tried to decide what he wanted to wear that day.

"Did you see your presents," Mom said as she walked into the house after sitting with their nine year old cat on the front porch. Paul looked at the computer desk to see happy birthday balloons and packages. With a smile, Paul went and opened a some pinkish purple wrapping papers and ribbons to find a purple T-shirt and navy shorts, without a zipper. "I was hoping to catch you before you got dressed."

Getting into the clothes, Paul went into a large sack with balloon pictures and curved handles to find socks and pajamas inside it. "I hope the shirt shrinks a little and you seem to of lost more weight than I thought when it came to the shorts."

Paul just smiled and opened up a card with a picture on a cat on it. "I CAN’T GIVE YOU ALL MY LOVE ON YOUR BIRTHDAY BECAUSE YOU ALREADY HAVE IT, LOVE SALEM." "I picked that one out to be from the cat," Mrs. Jutras said. "The other one is from me."

A smile formed on Paul’s face as he pulled out the other card and found it pink with a picture of flowers in a vase on the cover. "YOU’RE SOMEONE VERY SPECIAL. PRECIOUS THINGS ALWAYS ARE HARDEST TO FIND. AND VALUED THINGS ALWAYS ARE FEW. TREASURED THNIGS OFTEN ARE NOW ONE OF A KIND- AND THAT’S WHY THERE’S ONLY ONE YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM."

"Thanks," Paul said as he gave his mother a hug. He then opened another package. Seeing the top of a house inside, he fumbled to try to get it out.

"Careful, it’s in two pieces." Mrs. Jutras said as she reached in and pulled out a box of fresh scent peach tea light candles. She then pulled out the house and the base. "I remember you saying how much you like it when we were window shopping. Paul looked at the sculptured and painted house seeing on a grass base and a pair of wind chimes handing from the room.

With the packages removed from the corner of the computer desk, Paul could see that the balloon was attached to a package of candies that sat in the room of a little house. The house looked like a fairy tale cottage and had a tiny bear wearing a pink dress sitting on the front porch.

"You finally trying to understand me," Paul thought as he opened a package containing the movie Fright Night and one of the Kevin Sobo Hercules videos guest starring Xena.

Noticing the time, Paul went and started to fix himself some eggs for breakfast. He had lost 19 pounds on his diet so far, but was going to go off it for one today to enjoy his birthday. After all the diet meals he had taken, he never had an egg that tasted quite so good.

As the door bell rang mom went to the door to find his nephew Philip had show up with his little brother from the Big Brother/ Big Sister foundation to hit the beach in our area. As Philip showed the kid Paul’s comic collection and posters which mostly consisted of the more feminine side of Japanese cartoons, Paul used this chance to finish off the film in his camera.

As they went to the beach, Paul dropped the film off at the drug store and head up to the book store to see what new Sailor moon posters had come in. Picking up the new preview book and the comics he had ordered, he wondered what his friend would think if he showed up at the club meeting on Friday with a new purse to buy himself.

After stopping for gas, he went to McDonalds for lunch and down to Dairy Queen for desert and a cake to put his 31 candles while noticing that even DQ was getting into girlish kid meal toys. When he got home his mother told him, she was heading for the beach. A shark had been reported in the area only 12 or so feet off shore. She was worried about her nephew and the kids swimming.

As she left, Paul started to watch his new videos, replace the waters he only had for weeks with a soda and start to type down what you’re reading right now. He was careful not to over do it since the diet returned the next day.

At 3pm it was blowing out the candles and having cake and ice cream with a DQ grape Blizzard and their new freezer. Though it was the chips and Pringles that Paul was really looking forward to that night before going to bed in a night shirt like the one his mother wore to bed. He specially notice that the cat seemed to spend more time with him that day as the two girls Salem and Paula shared their day together. Between her asking his opinion on dresses and heels and this birthday, he felt like his mother was ready to be talk to again about his plans to start transitioning.

 

THE END

 

 

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