Karen blinks a couple of times, wondering how much she was remembering was a dream and how much wasn't. Laying on her bed, she looked up at the ceiling, thinking about the Amulet of Zulo and how she dreamed that last night that she used it turn herself into a female with a penis and testicles.
"But it was a dream," she told herself as she reached down and touched the tiny, almost unseen lump in her pyjama, feeling what is clearly her penis and undropped testicles.
Groaning, she rolls over and looks at the amulet, lying on her night stand and still in the Ziploc bag, taking in the word written on its surface. Curious, she picked it up and thinking, "Can this really alter me? Can I use it to become fully female? Is such a thing possible?"
Dropping the amulet into the drawer, thinking, "Get real girl. You are a male-to-female transsexual and have been since you were five, when you still were known by your male name of Declan," she closed the drawer and reaching down, she pulled off her pyjama top, exposing her B cup sized breasts and what was turning slowly into an hourglass shaped body.
Stripping off her pyjama bottoms and underwear, Karen huffed in disappointment at her body was blemished by the one thing that reminded her at what she had been at one time. Placing a hand over her tiny penis and testicles - which hadn't developed since she had been about five, when she started taking her first pills to make her female, bidding farewell to her life as Declan - she thought, "Like this I look like a normal, thirteen year old girl," and uncovering her genitals, she moodily told herself, "Like this I am reminded of what I really am."
Turning away from the reflective object, Karen shifts her posture so that she can not see her genitals, grabbed a towel, her robe and headed for the shower.
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Declan awoke the sound of her mother telling her that it was time to get up and that she and Katie were leaving for summer camp in a couple of hours. Only, the strange thing was that her mother had called her Dulcina, not Declan.
Confused, she slid out of bed and rubbing her eyes, she grabbed her Angelina Ballerina plush, barely took in the fact that her room had been repainted a whitish pink while she had slept, but didn't smell of fresh paint, asked herself, "Ain't I grounded for doing something?" and unsure of the answer, she plodded across the room, and out the door.
In the hall she passed her older sister Karen heading for the shower and bidding the girl good morning, Dulcina started downstairs.
Only to be stopped by Denise, who upon grabbing her arm, told Dulcina, "I don't know how you did it Declan, nor do I fully know what you did, but I will find a way to prove that you are Declan, not Dulcina and that Karen isn't a male-to-female transsexual."
Still feeling sleepy, unsure what her oldest sister was talking about, confused because she had two sets of memories inside her head - but one set felt more like a dream - Dulcina hugged Angelina closer as she asked, "What is a tran, transe, tron sex all?" as she reached up and shifted her earrings, which still hurt, but not as much as they did when her ears had been pierced.
Stepping back, letting go of the girl's arm, listening as she stumbled over the word, Denise shook her head and as she watched Dulcina fidget, she hissed out, "I will prove that you did something that turned everything on reality on its head," and turning away from the five year old, she stormed upstairs.
Confused, wondering what it was Denise talking about, what she was calling Karen, Dulcina shrugged and continued downstairs, her mind on going to summer camp for the first time and that Katie, who had been away to camp two years already, would be with her.
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Upstairs, in her room, Denise wondered how Declan had done it, why everybody but her remembered Declan as Karen and not Dulcina and then her mind flashed to the amulet that Declan had used to turn himself into a five year old girl. Pacing back and forth, Denise thought, "It has to be that medallion that has caused all this," and turning, she exited her room.
Standing in the hallway, Denise listened as Karen moved about in the bathroom, dropped something, turned on the shower and then continued to move about.
Thinking, "She'll be in there for awhile," Denise crept down the hallway toward her sister's room, hating that somehow Declan had turned Karen into something she wasn't and never should have been, and in doing so had weaseled out of a punishment that had been fitting.
Standing in her sister's room, Denise looked about, wondering if Karen even still had the Amulet of Zulo. Stepping into the room, Denise looked around, telling herself, "If she did have it, I doubt she would leave it in such an easy to locate place," as she began to poke about the other girl's closet, thought about searching the vanity and nightstand, but quickly dumped the idea, thinking, "To simplistic," as she started to search under the bed.
Half an hour later, she realised that the shower wasn't running any more, and disappointed, she tip-toed out of the room, thinking, "I will undo whatever you have done, Declan," as she slipped back into her room, listening as the bathroom door opened and Karen moved toward her room.