CHAPTER 2
Fuck the universe
She went into the clothes men's store with the most poker face she could muster with her now stalwart middle and shoulders in her cat's pyjamas still a little tight. She rummaged through outfits, undertaking the task of finding herself men's clothes.
After going through several aisles, she stopped with a start realizing she didn't even know her size in this appearance.
Quickly going to some wall mirror she looked at her body with keen observation. She didn't have much point comparison to determine her size, and not that much time neither. She didn't have time to try countless numbers of clothes on. The only idea she could come with, was to compare her new form to Ren's body. Because she knew his proportions so well.
She started with the height. She was clearly smaller even in this man's body. But she was still a lot taller she used to be as a woman.
But to which point?
She had been one metre and seventy centimetres before. She was having a hard time determining where she exactly used to be but Ren's, could do. She glimpsed at the base of the mirror effectively confirming it was standing on the floor before raising her hand to where she was certain he should reach and spreading her fingers so her pinky would reach it while her thumb would touch the top of her head.
She stared at her hand.
Ten centimetres.
She had grown at least ten centimetres. She felt like a giant all of sudden, even knowing perfectly well, it wasn't the case.
She brushed it aside to not freak out and nodded to herself. Okay. One parameter done.
She did the same for every measurement, noting the difference of height was mostly in the legs. Ren had monster legs after all. Then proceeding the same with bust size which was still muscular all things considerate but thinner by a fair amount of centimetres too. Same went for arms and feet.
Once she was done, she had a correct idea of her sizes but really she thought as she rummaged again in the aislesand noticing none of the clothes would have fit him. You're so gigantic… All is elongated in you… How the hell do you put clothes on you?
Kyoko settled on a laid-back style and chose some jeans, a plain light polo and converses shoes before stopping in shock when she noted she still missed something. Undergarments.
She picked some boxers and went to try all of this on. She had chosen a few outfits, careful as she didn't know when she would be able to reverse this. She slipped them all, checking and oh-sweet-miracle, it fit. Her morning was saved.
Thanks God.
She did it ignoring purposefully the piece dangling between her thighs and not daring to look even once. She still refused to imagine what she will have to do once she would have to go to the washroom.
She brought everything to the cashier, showing she had some clothes of them on so that they would not forget to count them, paid and left under the perplexed slightly bemused smile of the person of the store. Nowadays, there was only one person by shop max as AI* would take care of putting clothes on rails and you could even pay without the cashier in most cases but seeing how she had barged in, she had thought safer to pay to the person.
Putting her backpack with her new purchases and her rumpled pyjamas, she drove to the audition with new nerves.
It was a sunny day, though not very hot, and when she arrived she instantly saw the audition spot as they were apparently registering everything outside. The hand cams** staffs were there recording everything. Sombre average pliable metal building rooms stuck together were from each side of the stage set up sheltering makeup, clothes rooms, cafeteria, participants' rooms and dressing rooms, as per usual.
Kyoko rushed to the cafeteria area to grab some caffeine, whatever how they would have it today. Coffee wasn't always possible contrary to the past but when they didn't have it, they usually managed to have some dark tea, which would still work for her.
She heard the director shouting as she passed by and sighed internally. It was an audition for a clothes brand and as Kyoko hadn't worked much in modelling she wanted to expand her horizons. But it appeared she should have made more research on the type of clothes brand it was. Because if what she just heard was right she would have to promote baby making.
"I want people to think making a baby is the coolest thing in the world. To think, "I can't live without having this sort of happiness," he had shouted.
Okay, so she knew the world needed more babies, every population needed it. Even as of today, most countries cruelly needed more children. And one way to expand population was to give people the desire to have sex or to procreate as much as possible, she got that. But still, was this not pushing it a bit?
She opened the door of the cafeteria when she heard again: "We will switch to desire and sex later, for now, let's focus on cool and happiness. Every person, whatever the gender, whether man or woman, whether shifter or not have to feel it reachable."
She snorted in despair. She was so busted. Whatever the area. Pick something, sex or babies, she didn't have much experience and was even glad it was the case for the second one. And on top of it, she was completely out of the comfort zone as a man now.
She had absolutely no idea to do this. Honestly, she had more urgent matters at hand, and she wanted nothing more to drop it but her professional soul didn't allow her to do it.
She was sipping her third cup of over-infused dark tea when she spotted something or someone. And suddenly, her morning got from bad to worse.
She cursed under her breath.
Ren was there. As a man.
Of course as a man, idiot.
But if he was there, she had even fewer chances. Because for the first time there was a risk they would be competing for the same spot. She didn't exactly know how many people they were looking for but still, it couldn't be too much. She didn't even know how to behave as a man in reality. Even less for babies and sex. And here was an expert in sex, and with how glorious his family was about the new generations he certainly had a fair grasp of what the director wanted the viewers to see. Even without baby experience. She knew his family had taken care of educating him and giving him course in that area.
She thought about turning tail before hitting her foot down with stubbornness. No, she had said she would do it and she would do it.
But there was another issue. She was now a man. She didn't know if he would recognize her but there was a fair chance he would. And she didn't know how he would react.
She blushed as she imagined possible reactions.
It's so damn embarrassing…
She wasn't sure she wanted him to know. She would feel humiliated somehow. Even if she didn't know from where this sensation came.
But on the other side, it was maybe the only one that could help her without selling her out right away. If she indeed were not able to come back on her own or took too long, she would have to resign herself. But she wanted to hope she still had a chance to escape this and from what she knew you usually had a few days before having to declare yourself to civility.
She didn't have much of a choice, it seemed.
New people were called and she fell into men's line to make up and dressing with a sigh.
Loud whispers could be heard in the line as the men were chatting and Kyoko dragged an ear out, maybe it could help her know how to act as a man, any detail would do at this point.
She got a glimpse of Ren just at that moment but he was far away in the front and didn't seem to speak to anyone. In fact, the only loquacious ones were the closest to her. They seemed to know each other because they were talking quite closely.
"Did you see the girls' line?" asked one of the three.
"Yeah… I did. It's full of hot chicks. What a feast," Said a second one.
"Especially their asses" added the third and they all chuckled at that.***
Kyoko contained a face palm but barely. Seriously? It couldn't be only about that? Some more refined men would certainly want to chat something else up? No?
She was screwed even more if that was the case.
She tried to eavesdrop a bit more but the loudness of those three were stiffening the more discreet whispers of farther in front, and even behind her.
An hour had passed and it was nearly her turn to go to makeup when the director's voice resonated once more.
"The auditions for part one, children bliss, is now closed. We have found everyone for this part. We'll start second part, Desire, after a short break. Thank you."
Kyoko cringed, the titled sucked. But she had escaped baby time so she couldn't really argue. And then it hit her and she wanted earth to swallow her. Baby time would have been better finally.
She would have to express desire, sex, as a man. How did you even do that? Hell she would have to seduce or be seduced by someone, a woman, to touch another being whether she would like it or not. Irk.
The second she would walk on stage, people would start to feel awkward.
Fuck the fucking universe!
I so do not want to be here!
Wait.
Walking.
Gait.
She knew very well one masculine gait. It was even seen as one of the most elegant glamorous ones.
She thought it over. It wouldn't be too difficult to imitate it. It wouldn't be perfect if she couldn't train a bit but it would do the trick enough so that she wouldn't be thrown out the very second.
She laughed inwardly. She had now a way to not be kicked out of an audition right away that she didn't even want in this condition but felt great about it. What a madness.
She still needed to perform something.
Most likely it would be an act along someone else in some mysterious manly sexual way.
Or so she guessed.
The break ended and the director came back. She had makeup for the usual cams and some sexy luxurious clothes from the brand. Vegan false white leather pants for bottom and a dark trendy cotton long-sleeves-t-shirt on top. Kyoko felt like she had borrowed some famous person's clothes.
More time passed and when her turn came, more than half of the participants were gone. She walked on stage in what she hoped was not too far away from manly and looked at the jury where the director stood.
She stopped in front of them.
"Hi, greeted the director, you are?"
Shit … a name, quick.
"Ky." She stammered, not able to think about anything more original.
"Hi Ky, nice to meet you," said the director before adding the usual greeting, "I hope you will have a life full of longevity and children."
She grimaced but thanked him and wished him the same.
"I don't know if you know," started back the director, "but we just finished the first part of the second audition."
She shook her head.
"It was the part for Desire with mix genders and more precisely humans so what you're about to audition for is for shifters that can sometimes feel bad to be stuck in a gender when they have a partner." Explained the director and Kyoko felt a bit confused.
"We want to share the message that's it's okay to be of same gender of your partner, that homosexuality is great and that shifters shouldn't feel bad when they are stuck or to have gay practices at those times and that they would ever decide to stay in that shape they are other solutions to procreate. But most of all we want to share the desire a man for another one is something great, normal. That sex between same gender is a good thing," Finished the director and Kyoko nodded, getting it this time. It was actually easier for her, she was attracted to this side. If she had had to seduce or be seduced by a woman, it would have been a lot less natural for her.
"If you are still okay with that," started back the director, "then turned around and sit in the lap of the man sitting in the armchair. We have already selected him as one of the leads for the future ad"
Kyoko turned around to see what the director was talking about and sweated. Very comfy lengthy legs sitting in an old armchair, were waiting for her. Said legs owned by non-other than him.
Paled, she walked to Ren praying to the god he wouldn't recognize her and that he would recognize altogether.
The universe must hate me…
*AI: Artificial intelligence (robot)
**Hand-cams: Elaborated micro cameras. So small it can fit in the fist of someone.
***I apologize if my description of men talking together does upset someone, I asked some advice and the only answer was rude or lewd things so I went on with it. But, of course, if I have the occasion, I will try to make some variation of that because really I can't imagine dudes only talking of that all the time. LOL.
PS: So I hope you will like this second chapter. I'm having much fun writing this. I'm sorry for the lack of new chapter for ETREO. I wasn't really inspired on it so I took a break and well my health put some bad tricks on me so I couldn't do much before.
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