Dance, Dance, Dance
Full Moon
Chapter Seven - Once Upon A Time
Will Denise learn the truth about her mother?
Chapter Seven - Once Upon A Time
[Friday Day Six of the Enchantment]
It was the wee hours of the morning and I was hurting so bad, I awoke out of a troubled sleep. I looked over at the recliner and saw Momma was awaken by my stirring and was coming over to my bedside.
"Kiddo, how are you holding up?"
"Momma, I hurt all over and I'm really hot."
Momma used the infrared thermometer on me and reacted alarmed at what she read. She had medicine laid out on the table beside my bed. She took out a dose of pain and fever reducing medicine and offered it to me in a pill cup with a cup of water to wash it down,
"Kiddo you are burning up, take these pills for me."
I swallowed the pills and drank the water . I knew that relief would be coming but in the mean time I would not be able to go back to sleep.
"Thank you Momma for taking such good care of me. Could you tell me a story like you used to do when I was small? It will help pass the time until the medicine takes effect."
"I'll be glad to do that, Kiddo. Let's see if you can remember this one and can help me tell it. It begins once upon a time."
"Once upon a time, Momma? I think I remember that one."
"Realy, my girl? You can start then, Kiddo."
"Momma, I love the way that you start this story! please tell it again for me."
"Once upon a time there was two brothers of choice who both went to Agape Duro University and became fraternity brothers. Their fraternity made a deal with a sorority to put on a charity performance of Romeo and Juliet. The production had a full cast and the two brothers fed the cast lines from opposite sides of the stage. The sorority provided all the actresses and the fraternity provided all the actors. Then their Romeo and Juliet fell in love for real and eloped going on a round the world honeymoon."
"Momma, I remember. Patrick Jones and Jeffery were the two fraternity brothers that were prompters. The fraternity did not have anyone who knew the part so they asked Jeffery to take the groom's place in playing Romeo. The Sorority did not have anyone who could play Juliet so they asked Patrick to take the bride's place and play Juliet."
"Patrick did not want to play Juliet and look like a boy in a dress. The Sorority asked him if they could fix it so that Patrick would look like a normal woman, would Patrick play the part. Patrick agreed. They told them that the Sorority were wiccans and they knew a spell to change a boy into a girl for a lunar month."
"Momma, Is this story real? Is your sorority the sorority in the story, Momma? Is Jeffery's last name Russell?"
"Kiddo the story is real and Jeffery's last name is Russel and he is your father. My sorority is the one in the story. Kiddo I think you are old enough to both understand and believe when I tell you the rest of the story."
"I believe you Momma. This story is why you knew so much about the Majick and why you got so much help for me ,isn't it?"
"Yes, Kiddo. Patrick, like you entered the center of a circle at midnight of the full moon. Like you Patrick was changed into a female. By using the feminine skills she had been given, Pat confirmed that she was now an actress and was able to play Juliet. In this case no one who was absent from the circle or within it knew Pat's former identity including Jeffery. Jeffery was told that Patrick had to go home for a family emergency. Jeffery was kept so busy with the play that he never checked up on Patrick. Pat became part of the Sorority and lived in the home with the rest of the women. "
"Momma, with Pat and Jeffery spending so much time together preparing for and pitting on the play, did they become close?"
"Yes, Kiddo. Even thought Pat had once been Patrick, She fell in love with Jeffery. They loved each other so much that It became natural that Pat wanted to express her love in a physical way. First Pat confided her love to her sorority sisters. They warned her that should Pat express her love to Jeffery in that way that a child would come and as a result she would not turn back to Patrick at the full moon due to her pregnancy.. Even though Patrick was not a transwoman and the feminine skills she possessed gave her a female's wants and needs. The sorority explained that if Pat were to become female it would be as if Patrick had never lived at all and she would be born and live her entire life as Pat. The only thing she would take with her is her love for Jeffery and her love for her baby.."
"Did Pat give up everything for the love of her husband and child?"
"Yes, Kiddo, That's the story how I became your Mother Patricia. I gave up everything to become your mother and your father's wife."
"Goodness Momma. I can't believe everything you gave up to be my mother. I guess that is why I was born in Agape Duro University Hospital. Thank you for my life, Momma."
"My pleasure, Kiddo. Now under the covers, daughter of mine. You need your rest to recover from your illness. If you are good and get your rest now then this evening I'll allow you visitors."
"Momma, I'll go to sleep. Thank you for my story."
"Kiddo, sleep well."
Momma returned to her recliner and I went to sleep.
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Some time later, I awoke. This time I no longer hurt all over and I was no longer burning up. Momma smiled at me from her recliner and came over to my bedside.
"Kiddo, how are you feeling. I'll check your temperature to see if your fever has broken."
Momma aimed the Infrared thermometer at my forehead and took my temperature. She smiled at me so I knew it was good news.
"Kiddo your fever is broken. Your temperature is normal. How do you feel?"
"I feel good. I don't hurt anymore. I don't feel warm anymore."
"What happened to you was what made you so worried about me when I became a girl, Momma?"
"Kiddo you are right. At least I didn't have to worry about anyone wishing me harm like you do. "
"Momma even in your situation where the spell is gated to do no harm to the innocent baby, while taking away the identity of the mother so as to preserve the child's life and make sure that the baby has a mother to take care of them."
"Kiddo, In even a "do no harm" spell there are choices that were made and choices reap consequences. While I did not know that I would fall in love with your father and want so much to make a baby with him, I chose to become female to help and I knew at that time what would be required of me should I choose to become pregnant."
"Momma, Even though the club did not let me know the rules of changing to female, Rebecca told me what to expect. I know the rules just like you did. As long as I don't get pregnant, I should come out the other side without breaking any rules and having another life to consider."
"Kiddo, what if you discover that you are a transwoman? You will come out the other side losing your identity just the same."
"Momma it is true that with the workings of the spell that making me completely female from birth overrides preserving my identity where I have had a life expressing male gender. It is a choice where the harm comes from wiping out my life as though a life outside their idea of perfection is not a life worth living. If I'm not a transwoman then that part of the spell won't take effect."
"Kiddo, at least when I became a new person, I took with me my love for your father and for you. What will you take with you if you become a whole new person when this is over?"
"Momma, my love for you and for my team will survive. You'll have a daughter from birth and I won't have to ever deal with being a transwoman. It's the best to be made out of a bad situation."
"Kiddo, this spell takes doing no harm to an extreme and places no value in the life of a transwoman. It would be better it did not sacrifice the good to bring to existence its definition of perfect. Some how this spell needs to end and another, better spell take it's place. For the time being, we know that someone from the club is out to get you, so we need to make sure you don't get pregnant against your will. Anyway, I'll be right back with some soup for you."
Momma left to go to the kitchen and came back with a lunch tray with soup, crackers, a grilled cheese sandwich, an orange and a glass of milk. She set my food on the hospital style tray and positioned it over my lap so I could eat.
"Eat up, Kiddo. After you are finished eating, you should take a nap and get some more rest."
We made small talk while I ate. Soon I had finished everything on my tray so Momma took it away. I got back under the covers and went to sleep.
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When I woke it was almost supper time. I felt refreshed and free from symptoms of my illness. Momma got up from her recliner to chat with me by my bedside.
"Kiddo, how do you feel?"
"I feel good, Momma. I can't feel any symptoms. I was wondering, while you were part of the circle did they ever use the spell to turn a girl into a boy?"
"No, but I learned the rules for a girl turned boy. They are sexist. Even if one fathered a child, it did not interfere with turning back. I guess that the "do no harm" spell does not value a father in a baby's life.."
"That's awful Momma. That spell seriously needs a rules rewrite. I guess there were always willing men around the sorority so you all never had to use the spell the other way."
"That's right, Kiddo. Right now I am more worried about what the evil will do to get you to stay a girl. With their first attempt blocked for now,as we know, even though the evil thinks that it may well succeed in time. When will the evil give up and attack you some other way even though for now you both are giving this a good show?"
"Momma I am hoping that we are good enough actors that we can throw the evil off until the competition and shortly after when the training wheels come off from my getting help acting like a girl. "
"Kiddo, I hope that by that time we have some way of breaking the club off from the big evil. Too we will need some way of vanquishing the big evil."
"Momma, I have faith that the ladies from Rebecca's circle will come through with an answer. Dr Ariel's group has taken an interest in me so maybe they might help out too."
"Daughter of mine, We still have the necklaces that Jennifer Sanders and her son Richard brought. They should break the hold that the evil has on the club. We still have to find out which one the evil is directly controlling and find a way to breaking that link and dealing with the evil once and for all."
"Momma, there is so much to do. May I get well first at least?"
"Of course, Kiddo. Would you like some supper?"
"Yes, Momma!"
Momma brought one of my favorite meals on a tray and placed the tray back over my lap so I could eat in bed again. Momma and Alicia swapped out so that Alicia took the recliner and Momma finally went to bed after she decided that I was through with the worst of my illness. After I finished my supper, Alicia took the tray away and I settled in for another nap.
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Some time later Alicia woke me. I was refreshed and was ready to be up for a while.
"Denise, there are some girls from your school, who would like to visit with you. Shall I send them in?"
"Sure, Alicia. I feel up to visiting. Please send them in."
Alicia went down to bring the girls upstairs. Coming back with her was Hailey, Chelsea and Brittany Dooley, Star Lacon, and Kendra Neslie. They had brought up chairs from the dining room so they all had a place to sit around my bed.
Chelsea started,"You'll never guess the news. Brittany is the new Amy and now I'm a regular cheerleader on the squad."
I replied,"Chelsea, does that mean that you all won't need me as a cheerleader any more."
"Oh No ,Denise, We'll need you more than ever. With an extra person we can add all kinds of stunts to our routine and still stay in our same catagory in the competition, Besides you are both our choreographer and best dancer."
Hailey added,"That's right, Denise. We have Alicia, Patricia and Mrs. Lacon to sign off on this. I know we only have a seek to put the extra stunts in but they may put us over the top to win the competition. "
"Alright Chelsea and Hailey, You have me convinced. As one Amy to another, welcome to the Squad, Brittany!"
Brittany replied,"Thank you, Denise. I know all the moves from doing them with Chelsea. Now I just have to do them inside the suit."
"Brittany, I'm sure you will do fine, Girls, how did your day go today?"
Kendra answered, "Alicia picked us all up in the van and took us to a ballroom dancing class. They had some amazing instructors and I learned a lot."
Star added, "It was fortunate that we had this lesson today with the Dance being tomorrow"
Chelsea asked,"Denise, are you going to be able to go to the Dance tomorrow?"
Alicia answered,"Denise will be able to go to the dance tomorrow if she does not participate in any strenuous activity."
Brittany repiled, "That's good. Denise you are invited to go to the Salon to get the works along with the rest of the team. It's my treat."
"Thank you Brittany. I'm looking forward to it. My date is going to be Richard Sanders. Who all will be your dates?"
Chelsea answered,"My date is going to be Ralph Tull, the running back."
Hailey added,"My date is going to be Joey Dorn, the quarterback."
Star said,"My date is going to be Ted Rice, the tight end."
Kendra told us,"My date is going to be Ron Green, the wide receiver."
Brittany replied,"I don't have a date but I'll be there as one of the chaperones."
"It looks like we all have great guys as dates. I know that Francine and Julie are going since the freshman class is sponsoring the dance."
Kendra answered, "I hear that Francine's date is Wally Regan, the defensive back and Julie's date is Jim Black the left fielder."
"Thank you, Kendra. It looks like we will have quite a turnout for the dance. I am glad I get to go."
"Girls, Is there anything else? I know you need to get home before your curfew.", Alicia questioned.
"Alicia, just this. Denise I picked up your homework. Here it is.", Chelsea explained.
Chelsea handed me my homework and I laid it in bed beside me.
"Goodbye girls. Thanks for coming."
The girls said their goodbyes and followed Alicia down the stairs and out of the house. Alicia came back to my bedroom.
"Denise, you can work on your homework then it will be time for you to go to sleep."
I worked on my homework getting it done quickly. At last I laid back down and went to sleep, hoping to dream of the dance tomorrow."
