Max looks up at her ceiling in her bedroom. It’s been several weeks, since she was caught by her mother, wearing her sister's new string bikini. Her older sister knew she enjoyed wearing girl clothes and such. Now, that her mother knew her secret, she didn’t have to hide how she felt anymore.

Her mother accepted her decision and was allowing her to dress full time as a girl. She also came out to her friends and her sisters’ friends as well. Most of them didn’t care and accepted her. Especially, her best friend, Greg. They have been best friends since elementary school and always had each other’s back.

Max looks at her alarm clock and notices it was eight in the morning. She didn’t want to get out of bed. But she promised Greg, she would come over and help him with Mr. Hiller’s yard today.

She gets up out of bed and starts putting her panties and Bra on. She’s been wearing the breast forms every day. She felt naked without them.
Since she was going to be working outside today. She puts on a pair of shorts to show off her long legs and her old pair of tennis shoes. She didn’t want to wear the new ones she just bought.

She puts her hair into a ponytail and grabs her favorite baseball cap and her new pair sunglasses. She looks at her reflection in the mirror mounted on the back of her dresser drawer. She debates if she wants to wear her new earrings. Her mother didn’t know she had gotten her ears pierce a long time ago.

Max looks at her new collection of earrings and settles on a pair of emerald studs. She liked how they looked on her. A smile appears on her face.

“Finally, no more hiding who you truly are.” Max turns around and heads downstairs to the kitchen.

Her big sister has already left the house to go to work. Her mother had left as well. She leaves a note informing her mother, that she was with Greg and would be helping him do yard work. Once Max writes the note, she eats some breakfast. After eating breakfast, Max grabs her satchel and head to the garage to get her mountain bike.

Max opens the garage door with the remote she carries in her satchel. She glances over towards the moped she was rebuilding. She found it at a yard sale and knew how much it was worth. She had seen one just like it on American Pickers.

She was pretty good at rebuilding things. It was something she had in common with her Uncle Alcander on her mother’s side. Most of her aunts and uncles were surprised when her mother told them about her wanting to be a girl. Some were confused and others just accepted her decision.

Max walks out of the garage and watches as it closes behind her. She mounts her mountain bike and rides over to Greg’s house. She notices people that knew who she was, looked at her as she rode by. She smiles at them as she continued to peddle over to Greg’s house.

When Max finally arrives at Greg’s house. She notices Greg and his father were loading his pickup truck up with yard tools and such. She rolls up next to the truck.

“Morning Mr. Collins.” Max dismounts her mountain bike.

Mr. Collins turns his head to look at Max. He was shocked when Greg told him his best friend was a girl now. Mr. Collins has known Max since he was little and never noticed anything about Max wanting to be a girl. He knew Greg and Max were close to each other. They were like brothers to one another.

“Hey, Max. You look nice today.” Mr. Collins had to admit that Max looked nice as a girl.

“Thanks. So, how bad is the yard we have to do?”

This wasn’t the first time Max has done work for Mr. Collins. Greg and she has done several jobs with Mr. Collins. Some of them were easy and some took them several days to do.

“Bad. You should have worn long pants today.”

“Oh, well. I’ll just have to adapt.” Max puts her mountain bike in the garage.

Once all the gear is loaded onto Mr. Collins truck. Max climbs in first on the passenger side and her best friend Greg climbs in next to her. Greg just looks at his best friend.

“What?” Max had noticed her best friend looking at her.

“It’s you, you’re so different now.”

“Greg, the only thing that has changed about me, is that I’m allowed to express how I feel on the inside now. I’m still me, the same person you have known since we were in elementary school.” Max knew it was going to take time for her friends to accept her.

Mr. Collins just glances towards Max. His wife and himself had talked to Max’s mother about Max wanting to start dressing full time as a girl. They were confused about Max’s decision because he always seemed so normal. They knew Greg would be confused as well, about his best
friend all of sudden wanting to be a girl.

When Greg was told the news, he didn’t believe it. That was until today when Max showed up at their house this morning. He hopes that Max and Greg can come to some understanding. After thirty minutes of driving, they arrived at the job site.

Max leaves her leather satchel in the truck. She keeps her sunglasses on and looks at the yard. Mr. Collins was right that she should have worn long pants instead of shorts. The place looked like it hasn’t been mowed in a long time.

“Greg, Max you two scout the yard and pick up any debris, stick, or tree limbs, please.” Mr. Collins looks at both teenagers before him.

“Yes, sir.” Max grabs a trash bag and a pair of gloves from the back of the truck.

Max takes one end of the yard, while Greg takes another section of the yard. Max notices occasionally, Greg would look at her. She just smiles and continues picking up trash, fallen limbs, and broken branches. After a few hours, she starts getting hot, even with her wide brim hat providing a slight shade for her.

She looks for Greg and spots him at the far end of the property. He was cutting up a medium-size tree limb that had fallen. Max grabs cold bottle water out of the cooler and walks over to Greg.

“You must be thirsty.” She hands one of the cold bottles of water to Greg.

“Thanks.” Greg accepts the bottle of water from Max.

He takes a couple of swigs from it. Afterward, he looks at Max “why?”

“Why what?” Max had taken a sip from her bottle.

“Why are you doing this? Why are you dressing like a girl after sixteen years?” Greg takes another sip of water.

“Because I’m tired of hiding my true self. Plus, I’ve always known I was born into the wrong body.” Max takes another sip of water.

Greg just looks at his best friend as she stood a few feet in front of him. He still didn’t know what to make of Max’s decision to be a girl, but he’ll stand by his friend.

“It’s going to take me a while to adjust to you being a girl, but I’ll continue to be your friend.”

A smile appears on Max’s face “I knew I could count on you.”

Max wanted to hug his best friend but didn’t. She turns around and goes back to doing yard work. Around two in the afternoon Mr. Collins treats Max and Greg to lunch at Jimmy John’s sub shop.

After lunch, they head back and finish cleaning up the yard they have been working on, all morning.