Chapter 7 ~ Sleep Over

We got up early and checked on Aunt Emma.  She was well rested and back to her ordinary self. 

"Good Morning Aunt Emma!  How are you?"

"I feel great, Gail.  How are you and Phoebe doing?"

"I feel wonderful, Miss Sands.  I'd rather this not be long term, since we are planning to get me back to being Kevin.  However this life is enjoyable and more so now that I'm accepted as being Phoebe."

"Aunt Emma, would you like to go with us to check on Barry?"

"Of course, Gail."

All of us went over to check on Barry.  I brought him out of stasis so that we could observe his reaction. 

"It is strange to be around, Barry.  It's obvious to me that these gender swaps are all about mating."  I observed that Aunt Emma was drawn to Barry since we used the physiological response in linking to change Aunt Emma back to female.

"It appears that Barry is drawn to you in the same way, Aunt Emma."

"It's not so great that it becomes a compulsion if we keep our distance.  It is manageable."   

Having learned the rules, Aunt Emma was very careful to stay outside of the zone where her pheromones acted on Barry and Barry's pheromones acted on her.

"I'm glad that I'm not attracted to Barry.  At least I'm not attracted in the way that I was before.  I guess that since Silurians have such a biologic imperative to mate that most attractions are opposite sex ones.  Even with males that I know are not Silurian, I am attracted to them somewhat."

"What you have said seems to follow from what we know about the Silurians biology so far, Phoebe." I observed that Phoebe did not react to Barry at all out of the ordinary.  I agreed that she was mildly attracted to him since she was attracted to males now.

"I guess that means that I am stuck being attracted to Barry as a mate until the next time that Barry links with someone to produce the transgender effect."

"I agree, Aunt Emma, that the enhanced attraction is eliminated once one of the pair links with another person."

It appeared to be all we could learn at this time about the process so I sent Barry back into stasis again. 

"While we are here, Aunt Emma, let me get the cloaking band for you.  I can show you how to use it."

"I don't want there to be any accidental magic to be cleaned up after.  I've been willing myself not to use it.  First because of the message I thought was from God and later understanding that uncontrolled magic could be bad for all of us."

"Phoebe, I don't mind following you girls around school.  It will be fun.  It certainly will be a unique way of collecting research material.  It will make its way into one of my books, one way or another."

"Here is the cloaking band, Aunt Emma." I put it on her and showed her how to use it. 

"I understand it, Gail and thanks.  Now you see me." Then Aunt Emma turned on the cloaking band.  "And now you don't! This is fun!" Aunt Emma turned it off and reappeared again.

"Barry will be fine in stasis.  I'll take my pager which will alert me if anything is amiss."

"That's good Gail.  I believe that I will go up and start Breakfast.  Why don't you girls go up to Gail's room and get ready for school?"

"Thank you, Aunt Emma!"

The three of us left the pod cabinet and up the stairs.  Aunt Emma went to the kitchen to fix breakfast for us.  Phoebe and I went back to my room for us to get ready for school.

We took turns in the shower and both of us got dressed and took turns at the vanity to make ourselves up. 

"Phoebe, you are doing a remarkable job getting ready!"

"Thank you, Gail.  Do you see anything I missed that needs correcting?

"There's not anything that I would change, Phoebe.  We are going to be two of the hottest girls in the freshman class."

"Girls, Breakfast is ready!"

"Coming, Aunt Emma!"  "Me as well, Miss Sands!"

"You are in for a treat.  Aunt Emma cooks the very best breakfast!"

We went to the kitchen for to breakfast where Aunt Emma had prepared hotcakes, sausage, eggs, grits, bacon and toast.

"Phoebe, you could teach Gail a thing or two about manners.  You eat very ladylike.  I'm very proud of the progress you are making."

"Thank you, Miss Sands.  This is quite an adventure for me and I would like to do my best."

We continued eating until everything was eaten.  Phoebe and I cleaned up the dishes.  We both took turns in the bathroom, giving ourselves the final once over. 

"Aunt Emma, we are ready to go!"

"Alright girls, you'll see me later. Good luck in school today!"

Aunt Emma activated the cloak and we knew she intended to follow us out the door to school.  We walked to school, because it was only 10 blocks away. 

"Hey, Gail.  Is that the sign up sheet for cheerleading?"

She had found the sign up sheet for cheerleading tryouts outside the office.

"Yes, Phoebe.  Let's sign up quick since they will be taking this down any second." 

We signed up just before the cheerleader coach took it in the office to start setting up times for each girl to have her tryout. A notice that was left in place of the sign up sheet said that each girl would be summoned by the office when it was her time to try out. 

"I guess we'll just have to wait till we get called to the office, Phoebe."

"I hope that since we signed up together, that we will be called out of class together for our try out, Gail." 

We arrived in home room and everyone greeted Phoebe as if it was nothing new that she was there. In fact it was turning out to be a pretty dull day.

"Gail, I am glad that today isn't exciting.  It's so much better to just be one of the girls."

"You are right, Phoebe.  As far as they know here you've always been just one of the girls and we hope to keep it that way."

Phoebe did just what she should to fit in and she was no different from any of the girls at school.  We went thru going to the girl's restroom with out any problem.  Even the girl's locker room, changing for PE and showering afterward lacked anything out of the ordinary. 

The bright spot was that we were both summoned by the office down to the faculty lounge, together.  The faculty lounge had been usurped as a cheerleader dressing room instead of going to our last period class. 

A couple of parents of senior cheerleaders waited with a rack of cheerleader uniforms. 

"Welcome, Girls! I'm Mrs. Johnson and this is Mrs. Roth.  Which one of you is Phoebe?"

"I am Mrs. Johnson." she replied.

"Phoebe, go with Mrs. Roth.  She is going to take your measurements so we can get you a cheerleader uniform that will fit."

"Thank you, Mrs. Johnson."  Phoebe went with Mrs. Roth into a screened off area for a few minutes and came out with a piece of paper that she handed to Mrs. Johnson. 

"Alright, Gail. You can go in with Mrs. Roth now."

Mrs. Johnson handed Phoebe a uniform and pointed her to another screened off area to change.  Mrs. Roth was very nice to me and took all of my measurements and wrote them on a piece of paper that I brought to Mrs. Johnson.  She selected a cheerleader uniform and handed it to me. 

I looked over to the screened off area and saw Phoebe coming out from behind it.  Her uniform fit snug but very attractively.  She was very striking.

"How do I look, Gail?"

"You look wonderful, Phoebe.  I guess it's my turn!"  I took my uniform and went behind the screens to change into it.

"You look marvelous, Gail!" I heard from Phoebe as I emerged from the screen.

"Thank you Phoebe.  What's next Mrs. Johnson?"

"Go to the tumbling room and you girls will get further instructions there for your tryouts."

"Thank you, Ladies!" We chorused and left the lounge and walked to the tumbling room.

We entered the tumbling room and a tryout was already in progress.  We watched a junior girl do her tryout from beginning to end while we waited for our turn. 

We saw that doing the tryout was easy since the cheerleader coach prompted on what she wanted done.  Any special cheer that was not part of the handout she wanted memorized was on cue cards.  There was a number of tumbling routines as well as dance routines that she talked the person trying out thru. 

I took my turn first and since it was already too late to return to class.   I was allowed to wait on Phoebe to tryout before going back to the faculty lounge to change out of the cheerleader outfit.

 From what I saw, we both did rather well and the cheerleader coach smiled big at both of us when we finished.  She told us she would be going thru the tryouts which were videoed.  She would be posting the name of the girls who she wanted to come back.  They would work with the entire squad before she cut the squad down to its final size. 

We changed clothes and then walked back to my house so we could get a report on the day from Aunt Emma's perspective.  Once inside the door, she appeared beside us.

"Hi Aunt Emma, how did you like school today?"

"You girls did great.  I did not have to intervene at all.  I honestly believe that first time with you Phoebe was a combination of surprise and love which made you change Linda to a real girl.  Now that you know about your power, you are mature enough to withhold it from occurring unconsciously. You know enough about potential problems to not use it all unless asked to do so.  I'm proud of you Phoebe!"

"Thank you Miss Sands."

"Phoebe I hope you will call me Aunt Emma too."

"Thank you Aunt Emma.  What's our next move?"

"Next I believe I should take you home Phoebe and talk to your mother and take her into our confidence.  According to Leo there is one more Silurian that can be made using that device.  If Phoebe's Mother agrees, I believe we should make her the last one.  For one thing, she's another adult and that should help free me to watch Barry.  Even if you don't need supervision, Phoebe, It would be best to keep you out of as much temptation as we can.  Second, it's likely that Phoebe's mother will have the gender intensity to change Phoebe back to being Kevin again."

"Good plan Aunt Emma!  Let's go!"  

The three of us got in Aunt Emma's car and rode over to Phoebe's house.  Phoebe rang the doorbell since she had both of us with her and her mother answered the door.

"I'm glad to see you girls and Miss Sands. Please come in."

We came in and took our places in the living room.  Aunt Emma started out telling our story and making our request.  Sometimes I would fill in with something and other times Phoebe tried to help tell it. In the end, Mrs. Rogers was very well disposed to us and she only had a couple of questions.

"I want to help Phoebe or Kevin which ever way she turns out after we finish with what we can do.  I understand what kind of burden this would be for a young person or any person really and I am glad I am trusted with this too.  How will I know how to do this inhibiting magic thing?"

"For me, I just had to think about my concern that they might get in trouble over using magic.  The doing was transparent to me."

"How are Kevin and I to get over this residual attraction if things work out alright?  It would look weird if a mother and son were keeping their distance."

"My guess is that the familial connection would counter that so it does not happen.  The whole biology of this is for mating and it's not good for mating if relatives mate.  If there is not a natural way of doing so, we will use the resources of the medical bay to find a scientific way of countering it."

"It seems like we have this covered then.  I'm going to need a cover to be out and away from home for 10 hours."

"I would suggest that I hire you as my lawyer.  I could have an urgent legal need that you would have to go thru my unorganized mess in order to figure out."

"That sounds good too.  I will make the proper notifications to Fred and my office and then I will be all yours."

Mrs. Rogers made the contacts that she needed to make.  She also made arrangements that Linda was to go sleep over at her friend Kathryn's house overnight.  When she called her husband, She told him that both girls were going to be at sleepovers with friends and that she planned a late night and she had been invited to sleep over at my Aunt Emma's herself following burning the midnight oil.   

"Ladies, I am all yours!" Mrs. Rogers finally announced.

"Let's go!" announced Aunt Emma.  We all piled into the car and drove back to Aunt Emma's house.  I led everyone downstairs into the basement and thru to what looked like a supply closet and I opened the door to the pod cabinet.  As Aunt Emma, Phoebe and Mrs. Rogers saw the interior, they all were flabbergasted.  "It's bigger on the inside than the outside!" said one and the others reacted, "What she said!"

Although both Aunt Emma and Phoebe had been inside the pod cabinet before, this was the first time they had seen how small the outside of the pod cabinet was.  I led them all to the medical bay and had Mrs. Rogers get on the biobed.  Finally I retrieved the book with the name Transformations on the cover and gave it to Mrs. Rogers. 

"When you are ready Mrs. Rogers, push that stud in.  That will start the transformation.  You'll be enclosed in a rainbow of colors like a cocoon and be unconscious until the transformation is complete. The biobed will monitor your vitals and alert us if any medical assistance is called for.  In the three other transformations, everything went smoothly and I expect the same for your transformation."

She smiled at all of us and collected a hug from Phoebe.

"I'm ready!" She said and pressed the stud that began the light show enclosing her in a cocoon for 10 hours.  I looked at the monitors on the biobed and everything was going normally.

"She's fine! In 10 hours she'll be one of us!  Hopefully shortly after that I'll get my boyfriend back!" I stated as I smiled at Phoebe. 

"Girls, if you want to do some more practicing for just in case, go right ahead.  If not enjoy yourselves.  You deserve some down time."

We left Aunt Emma in the basement getting her legal documents in order to show Mrs. Rogers when she recovered.

Phoebe made it up to my bedroom where we had a more typical sleep over.  We watched a couple of chick flicks from DVD.  We did each other's nails and gave each other a make over.  We snacked on some comfort foods.  Finally we got ready for bed and we whispered and told secrets deep into the night.  Sometime in the night we both fell asleep.