Part 2

Mirya sighed,"Where should I start?"

Sora thought for a moment,"Well, how about telling me how you managed to fool everyone into thinking you were a girl?"

"That's easy," she said,"Because I am one."

"No games," Sora said,"The truth."

"I am telling the truth Sora," Mirya said,"You were watching me change in the locker room, you didn't see any male parts sticking out, did you?"

Sora's eyes widened. "Oh my gosh!" she said. Just to make sure, Sora touched that area. "Um,"Mirya said,"Would you please not do that?"

"Sorry," Sora said, amazed,"You really are a girl. What about those?"

"Oh," Mirya asked, looking at her breasts,"Implants."

"So," Sora said,"You're really a girl, you're really a girl. I don't believe this."

"So," she said, mentioning to her with her hands,"How did this, um, this come about?"

"Well, it started a long time ago. I really don't remember it too well."

"Remember what?" Sora asked.

She sighed and closed her eyes,"The beginning. As I said, I really don't remember it too well, but from what my parents told me, they found me one day, walking around in my mother's clothes. I had to be about, five or six."

"They told me that it was wrong and that I shouldn't do it anymore. So, whenever they weren't around, I would sneak into my mother's room and dress in her clothes before my parents came back. This continued for a while, until Kari became old enough that she wasn't wearing baby clothes anymore. I started wearing her clothes, then."

"It was at that time that my parents started taking me to see a psychiatrist. They knew something was very wrong with me. So, they brought me to her office, and we'd sit and talk. This was the first time anyone had ever called me a 'cross dresser.' After a couple of months with the psychiatrist, she wanted more money, so that's when we stopped going there, however, I continued to cross dress."

"After a couple of years, just wearing female clothes wasn't enough, soon, I was painting my nails, going to the bathroom sitting down all the time, playing with Kari's Barbie dolls, all in secret. I had discovered that I didn't want to be something pretending to be a girl, I wanted to actually be a girl. When I told my parents, they told me to stop thinking those thoughts. That they didn't want a freak as a son. That was right around the time we fell into the Digiworld. I thought that maybe here I could get a fresh start, that I could, try to become normal."

"It didn't help, however. Just a few nights after we landed, Mimi caught me trying on her dress. She had gone down to a lake for a bath. I had snuck down there, just waiting for her to get undressed. After she had gone into the water, I ran down there, shredding my clothes, and grabbed her's. I put it all on, underwear, bra, everything."

"While I was admiring myself, she came back to get dressed. That's when she saw me."

"Was she embarrassed?" Sora asked.

"She was more angry than embarrassed," Mirya said with a chuckle," She told me that if I wanted to borrow her clothes so badly, all I had to do was ask. So, every night, after everyone else had gone to sleep, Mimi would let me wear her dress, she would fix up my hair, and let me wear some of her makeup."

"Anyway, after we came back from the Digiworld, my parents told me that they were sorry for the way they had acted before and told me that no matter what, they would love me. They told me that they would love me just the way I was. I told them that I really wanted to be a girl. They told me that they had a way."

"They had a fund going for me since I was a baby. It was just enough to pay for a sex-change operation, but it would have to wait until after my father got transferred. So, after we moved, I....changed. That's when I e-mailed Matt and told him I was gay, because, well, a girl loves a guy, right? Then my father had to transfer back here, so, that brings us to here."

"Wow," Sora said,"That's some story. So, you're a girl now, then?"

Mirya nodded, smiling,"and I have all the accessories."



"Well," Sora said,"I'm having a party on Friday. Its a swimming party, do you want to come?"

"Sure!" Mirya said,"I can try out my new bikini."

"Tai," Sora said,"Why did you hide your new self from us?"

"Because, I didn't want to be made fun off. You don't know how hard it is. If anyone should find out, like they did back in the school I was at, they'll chase me away so fast."

"What happens?" Sora asked.

"Well, this was before I had the operation, I was living as Mirya, when I got invited to a party. While there, I got drunk and...kind of..spilled everything about me. I even showed them," Mirya said, slightly embarrsed,"After that, I was getting beaten up, nasty words were painting on my locker, just because I'm different."

"But we're you're friends," Sora said,"We don't care! You're still the same person on the inside, and that's what counts."

"Thanks Sora," Mirya said, hugging her,"That means a lot to me."

NEXT: AT THE PARTY, MIRYA TELLS EVERYONE WHO SHE REALLY IS.