Declan had wanted to be a female, there was no doubt about that. He spent hours dressing up as one, acting feminine in front of a mirror and even fantasizing about making out with males as a female. But this? This was something beyond what he fantasized about.
Now as Katie, his younger sister, he was learning that there was more to being a girl then just prancing about in woman's clothing.
There was the issue he now had of going to the bathroom. Before, it was simple and easy for him. He just stood in front of the toilet and peed. Now he had to sit down to pee. And then after that, there was the issue of wiping so that an infection didn't form and no droplets of urine would up in her underwear.
There was the age difference. Dylan had gone from being about fifteen to being six years and on top of that had switched sex and genders to boot. Now he, as Katie, had new things to learn. There was also the way a little girl viewed the world around her.
It was the same as a boy. A boy wanted to rough house and tumble about, climbing and exploring. Suddenly Declan found that he wanted to play house, dress-up, pretend tea-party and be mommy to a very large collection of dolls and stuffed animals. Declan now wanted to sit and watch Barney, something he'd avoided when had been this age. She wanted watch Hello Kitty and Angelina Ballerina. Strawberry Shortcake and Rainbow Bright replaced the shows he remembered watching when he was this age.
And there was the room. At first, Declan was horrified that he had to sleep in Katie's room; even if he was now her. Before, when he was still male, he'd liked pink to a certain point. But on seeing the bright colours and the pink all over Katie's room, he thought he'd just about die. But then a strange thing began to happen.
As the week progressed and he spent more and more time in Katie's young body, subject to her memories, thoughts, chemicals and the occasional burst of hormones, Declan found this stuff to be less bothersome.
"I wanted to be a girl," Declan, now Katie, was thinking to herself about week after the incident with the amulet, "but I didn't think it would be at all like this."
Setting down her plastic tea cup, she looked at the Angelina plush and two other dollies and said, "Excuse me ladies."
Getting up, she adjusted her pink dress and skipped to the bathroom. Inside she pulled down her pink tights and white panties and sat down on the toilet to do her business. Swinging her legs gently, she thought to herself, "I've tried to be a girl, and what's disturbing is that I enjoy it like I thought. But I think it's time I got the amulet back and returned to being male."
Finishing up, she hiked her tights and underwear up and washed her hands. After drying them, she headed for her older brothers room. Seeing he wasn't there, Katie entered anyway and proceeded to look for the Amulet of Zulo. When she couldn't find it, she silently cried to herself and headed back to her room.
When her brother did return, she confronted him and demanded the medallion back. Looking at her, he said, "I don't have it. I lost it somewhere. Besides, you wanted to be me so badly, you might as well remain like that." and promptly shoved her out of his room.
Wanting to cry, Katie returned to her room. Sticking her thumb in her mouth, she hugged a doll and crawled onto her bed. Thinking her brother was a lier, wanting the amulet, wondering how to get it back, Katie silently cried herself asleep. When she was awoken an hour later by her mother, who complemented her on taking a nap without being told, she still had no idea on how to reclaim the amulet.