You see, Craigy, that’s what mates do, help each other out, now are you in or out?”

“Look this would only need to be a couple of times?” I asked.

“Sure.”

“Okay I’ll do it”

By Karin Roberts

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I awoke next morning after what had been a rather restless night. The closing events of last night were weighing heavily on my mind. There was just no way I was doing this. I went downstairs for breakfast. My mother was busy in the kitchen. “Morning, Craig, you want something to eat?”

“It’s okay. Just fruit juice will do for me,” I replied as I opened the fridge to pour myself a glass.

“You going out today?” she asked.

“Yeah, a little later,” I said. Leaving the kitchen I went through to the lounge and flicked on the television, settling back on the settee I tried to watch while flicking through the sports’ pages of the morning newspaper.

About a half hour later I heard the telephone ring, “Craig, darling, it’s Gordon for you,” my mother called.

“Shit,” I silently whispered, rising to take the call. “Craig, darling,” he mocked.

“Leave it out, Gordy,” I replied.

“Just calling to ask if you had thought any more about last night,” he enquired.

“I can’t do this, Gordy.”

“Sure you can; Lesley’s confident she can make you passable, and it’s not as if we are asking you to do anything with him, just get him in the right place at the right time and we will do the rest. Look Lesley and Dave are coming over later. Come round, I may have a little incentive to change your mind.”

“It will need to be more than a little incentive to make me do this, I’ll see you later.”

Later that day I walked round to Gordy’s. “How you doing,Craigy? Made up your mind yet?”

“I still don’t think I can do this” I said.

“Well I’ve been thinking, Craigy. It seems that being part of this gang is maybe second on your list of priorities. I got to thinking today about all the thing’s we’ve been involved in. It seems to me you’ve always been on the edge looking in, sure you were involved in the fights, and took and gave a few blows, but you were never really in the mix, were you? Then the stealing, always the lookout, never the stealer.”

“You know I would do anything for you guys,” I replied.

“So what’s your problem then?”

“You don’t see this as a bit to far?” I asked.

“No I don’t and it will get you the undying respect from the others and me. Look follow me I’ve got something which might help you make up your mind.”

Gordy led me to the shed in his back garden and opened the door. “Lift the sheet at the back there and see what’s underneath.” Below the sheet was a very expensive Hi-Fi system. “About  £500 quid’s worth there,” he announced. “You remember Eric that left last year to work in the Electronics factory? Well, he had a little trouble with two of his workmates; asked me to help him out, so I did. He repaid me with that, it’s yours if you pull this off. You see, Craigy, that’s what mates do, help each other out, now are you in or out?”

“Look this would only need to be a couple of times?” I asked.

“Sure.”

“Okay I’ll do it”

“Looks like we’ve got ourselves a volunteer,” he announced to Lesley when we walked back to the house.

“I knew you’d come through,” she yelled and threw her arms around me and planted a kiss on my cheek. “Be at my place by noon tomorrow for a practice.” The rest of the afternoon we spent discussing the plan and having a few beers in the back garden. I trotted off home slightly the worse for wear and very apprehensive about what lay ahead.

The next day I arrived at Lesley’s just after noon.

“My parents are out so let’s get started. Margo’s here to help,” she said as she passed me a pair of white silky panties and a roll of tape. “Get undressed in the bathroom tape your dick up that will give you a more female outline, and then slip these on. There’s a dressing gown in there; when you’re finished come into the bedroom.”

I went into the bathroom and did as she asked, she was right about the tape as it certainly gave me a more female outline, slipping on the dressing gown I returned to the bedroom as ordered.

“Take a seat at the dresser, me and Margo can start your make up.” For the next 45 minutes they worked with creams, brushes, tweezers–the works. “There, finished now. We’ll do your hair and then let you have a look.”

Another half hour with cold and heated rollers and hair gel and the transformation was complete. “Right, then first stage of Project Nikki complete. Go have a look at yourself.”

I walked over to the mirror and my jaw dropped. “Jesus how did you manage that?” looking back from the mirror was a really attractive 17 year old. My hair had been curled in at the back and sides and parted on top leaving a shot fringe to just above my eyes. The eyes had been shaded in two colours of blue, opening them out and making them look bigger. Mascara had been used to lengthen and thicken the lashes and the eyes had been lined with dark blue eyeliner. Finally the lips had been painted with a raspberry red lipstick not too bright or slutty.

“Well I am studying to be a beautician” Lesley replied

“I think you just passed” I joked.

“Now let’s get you dressed.”

Lesley tossed me a pair of black opaque tights. “Slip them on and I’ll get you a bra to match the panties.” Opening the drawer she pulled out a white silky bra and brought it over. “We’ll need to pad it with something” she said.

“Ah well, that’s where I come in,” said Margo. She picked up a bag from the floor and dropped two silicone breast forms onto the bed. “These were my aunt’s before she passed away from breast cancer. I was really flat chested when I was younger, so I liberated them for my own use.”

“You diamond, Margo. Here, put your arms through the straps and fasten the catch at the back.” As I fastened the catch, Margo slipped them into the cups.” They’re a bit big; look, they’re, bulging out of the cups. They’re even bigger than mine. I’ll need to keep an eye on Gordy when you’re around, Nikki,” she joked.

Next, Margo appeared with a white mini corset. “You’re quite slim, but if we slip this on and just tighten it a bit it will give you a much better shape,” she said. She fastened it around my waist, pulling the laces in just a bit. The outfit was completed with a straight black knee length skirt and a white tee shirt with “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” printed on the front. Finally she handed me a pair of two and half inch black Cuban heels. “We’ll start you off on something a bit smaller in the heel but in no time you will be up to 4- and 5-inch heels just like us,” she announced. Margo handed me a small handbag inside were my cigarettes, a gold lighter and a small purse. “Put the lipstick I used on you in your bag and take that bottle of perfume on the dresser give yourself a spray and we’ll be off.”

“Be off?” I asked.

“Yeah, you need to get used to being outside, the guys are picking us up in 15 minutes.”

“Do I have to go out just yet?”

“Well, you don’t have to, but if you stay here you’ll need to keep my parents company ’cause there just coming up the drive.”

Sure enough as we stepped downstairs, Lesley’s mother and father were just opening the front door. Her mother looked up and said, “Hi, girls,” as she made her way through to the kitchen with bags of groceries; her dad stood at the bottom of the stairs as we descended. “Where are you off to, girls?” he asked.

“We’re off to the amusement park with a couple of friends, Mr Kerr,” Margo piped up.

I was aware of his gaze switching towards me. “And who’s this?” he asked.

“Nikki,” I mumbled.

“Glad to meet you, Nikki, I’ve not seen you with the girls before have I?”

Lesley interrupted; “No you’ve not; she’s Margo’s cousin from Hamilton and stop being an old perv and looking at her chest,” she said, opening the door to let us out into the garden.

We stepped out, me aware of her dad’s gaze still on my chest, and then my legs as I followed them out. As we got to the end of the street I saw Andy’s car approach and slow up to pick us up. Andy and Gordy were in the front, so me and Margo and Lesley got into the back. Both guy’s turning to check me out. “Jesus, babe, you’ve done a first class job I would never have recognised him. This is going to be easy, I doubt if Professor Prick has ever had a girl look at him, far less a fox like that take a close interest in him,” Gordy said.

“Look, let’s just get tonight over with. I’m nervous enough as it is,” I replied.

We drove more or less in silence to the amusement park Andy parked up and we got out. Mingling with the crowds I felt a bit self-conscious at first, but as the night went on and I was introduced to several people, including a few people from my own school none of whom seemed to notice, or have an idea that they were really speaking to Craig. Margo and me split off, and went to the diner to get a coffee. “How are you feeling?” she asked.

“Okay. It was rather strange at first but I’m settling down now.”

“You look great, you’ll pull this off no problem,” she added. Once in the diner we sat at one of the booths and Margo went to order two coffees. I took my cigarettes out of the bag and lit one, blowing a cloud of smoke in the air. I noticed two guy’s in one of the booths further down but paid no particular attention to them. Margo returned with our drinks and sat down. A couple of minutes later the two guys got up from the booth and moved towards us.

As they approached I recognised one of them as Ross, a guy who had left our school a couple of years before. They stopped at our booth, the other one–who I did not know–asked, “Mind if we join you, ladies?” Now I knew that Margo had harboured a secret crush on Ross, so she eagerly agreed and they sat down. The four of us chatted away before Margo got up and announced that she needed to go to the ladies leaving me and Ross and his friend alone.

With Margo gone, Ross asked, “So, where do you come from Nikki? I’ve not seen you with Margo before.”

“I’m her cousin from Hamilton,” I replied.

You going out with anyone?” he asked nervously. I slid another cigarette out of the packet and lit it.

“Y-y-yes,” I stammered.

“Pity. Look we need to go, but take this and give me a call if you break up,” he said as he handed me a card as they got up. “It’s been nice meeting you,” he added as they both walked away and left the diner.

A minute or so later Margo came back. “Heh where’d they go?” she asked.

“They just left a couple of minutes ago. Ross was asking if I was seeing anyone then handed me this,” I said as I handed her the card.

She looked at the card. “This is his business card,” she said. “You bitch! I’ve been trying to get into his knickers for ages and five minutes with you and he’s giving you his number.”

“Keep it,” I said, “I don’t think I’ll be using it.” With that we left the diner and went to join the others.

For the remainder of the evening we messed around in the arcade. By the end of the night I was pretty tired walking up and down in my heels. As we drove home the others questioned me on how I had thought the evening had gone, and was I more comfortable now? While I was not any happier with the situation, I was now feeling more comfortable that I would be able to pull this off. Margo even had to tell the group about my earlier encounter with Ross and how he had left me his number. Gordy found this particularly funny and commented that if I had fooled Ross then I would have no problem with impressing the Professor on Friday.

“Friday?” I said.

“Yeah, he goes to the Chess group at school on Friday evening, so I think we’ll deliver our little surprise then.”

When we got back to Lesley’s she sneaked me into the house and upstairs to change back. Once I was changed, we agreed on one more practice session for Wednesday at Margo’s before Nikki was introduced to the Professor on Friday. At that I headed home deep in thought about what had gone on tonight, but also quite pleased with how I had coped with my first outing.

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To Be Continued...