Geez, Logan thought. How many years has Aunt Kate been putting up with this crap? "I insist" she replied.
A few minutes later, Logan contemplated her new cut in the mirror, then cast a disdainful glance at the lengths of red hair now decorating the barbershop floor. After paying the barber, she sent a picture of her new cut to Allison, with the message "You Like?"
A minute later she got the reply: RAVISH ME
Logan grinned. For the first time since the change, she felt life was good.
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"I know" said Kira "Until further notice, your name is Dumbass White Bitch. Not to teachers or authority figures or your parents--they can still call you Dana. But for people our age, if they ask you your name you tell them it's Dumbass White Bitch, and you only answer to that name. You got that, Dumbass White Bitch?"
"Thank you, Queen-bitch Kira!"
"Now go tell Mandy your new name." Dumbass White Bitch scampered off enthusiastically.
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"Elizabeth, don't embarass yourself this way." said Robbie, pulling back. "Maybe you think I'm just a dumb bimbo, but I know the difference between someone who wants me and someone who wants to make me feel wanted."
"No Robbie, I don't think you're a dumb bimbo! I love you!"
"And I love you too, Elizabeth, and I love Billie and I want us to stay together as a family, but god, I felt so good last night, being wanted by people who never knew me as a man. And I just don't feel that from you."
"You want us to stay together? You're not going to leave me?"
"You know that wouldn't be right. Billie needs both her mothers now."
Elizabeth felt reassured, knowing that the responsible, honorable man she loved was still somewhere under the exterior of the hot lesbian slut.
"I just want everything to go back to how it was. The woman I met today was right--this is a curse."
Robbie gave her wife a gentle, non-sexual hug. "There, there, it's going to be OK. Its going to be OK." Neither one of them felt much confidence in that statement. "I'm sorry about last night, but I can't guarantee it or something like it won't happen again."
Just then Elizabeth's phone rang. It was Mary.
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"Let me show you how hot Logan is" said Allison, raising her phone and showing the picture Logan had sent her after her haircut. "That hot."
Some of the girls, including Sarah, saw what Allison meant, although others thought that the new Logan wasn't really their type. Still, they could appreciate the look on an aesthetic level.
"You go for the butch girls, huh?" asked Sarah's friend Danielle.
"I do" said Allison "and I'm very happy about it."
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A few hours later, Sarah was ready to admit that in the new era the slumber party thing might have to be rethought. Not because of Allison--after the initial awkwardness, she fit in as well as if she had been a born-girl herself. She even gave a moderately expurgated version of her night with Logan. But spin-the-bottle was leading not to fun flirting but to protracted embraces. Danielle and Suzi had retreated to the corner and had been making out intensely for the last half-hour, and it looked like their tops were coming off. And the hetero romantic movies the girls had loved before the Great Change weren't doing it for them anymore. About an half an hour into Titanic, someone remembered that an alert Syfy programer had bumped the regular Friday night programming for a Xena marathon, and everyone wanted to switch to that, including Sarah herself.
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"I don't know" Aziz said to Regina after switching back to his male body (both of them had picked up the trick James had shown them with little difficulty) "it's like I may want to go back to being a man at some point, but right now I want to give being female a fair shake. If I just spent a couple of days as a woman and switch right back, what's the point? What will I have learned from the experience? And frankly, I was still a virgin as a woman. I mean, I have to try that, right? Even if I don't go so far as to try giving birth." Aziz switched back to her female self. "Still, nice to have choices."
Regina switched back immediately after Aziz. "This is a new life for me. It makes sense to live it in a new gender. But maybe in the future. . ."
James said "May I show you lovely women some of the things we have outside the library?"
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Juliana and Millie were going to celebrate Principal Negrotti's seeing the light with a quiet evening at Juliana's place, lounging in their pajamas, watching TV and having pizza delivered. (Chicken, mushroom and pepper--the only bad thing about being in love, Millie thought, was that you couldn't order onion or garlic, two of her favorites.) The odd thing was that there was a little box inside the pizza box, a little box with a ring in it. She looked at Juliana who was grinning from ear to ear.
"Yes, yes, yes!" shouted Millie.
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Despite Martha's deep misgivings, she, Kayla and Jo were on the road to Schenectady, where the last reference they could find on the internet to Dr. Von Hauser had placed her. Unknowingly, they passed Greta and Jean on their way across the country to California.