Lisa Replaced My Vitamins with Hormones… and Now I’m Becoming Her ( Crossdressing Stories #mtf)

Today I will tell you a crossdressing story that began with something so innocent, I almost didn’t notice I was changing.

I guess you could say Lisa was the nurturing type.
She always wanted to do little things for me — fold my laundry, cook me dinner, even organize my closet. At first, I thought it was just her way of showing love. But then came… the vitamins.

Every morning, she’d leave a small plastic tray beside my coffee. Three soft-gel capsules and a round tablet.
“Just your daily stuff,” she’d say, kissing my temple with that warm, earthy smile of hers.
I never questioned it. Why would I? It felt nice having someone care that much.

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Funny thing is — she never took them herself.
“That brand doesn’t sit well with my stomach,” she shrugged one morning. That was that.

The first few weeks, nothing seemed off. Maybe I was sleeping better. I definitely felt… calmer.
Like, weirdly calm. I stopped snapping at people. Work stress just bounced off me.
Lisa would grin and say, “See? Taking care of yourself finally works.”

But something about how she said it… felt like she was talking about more than just health.

I remember the first strange moment clearly.
I was folding laundry — her laundry, actually — when I picked up a pair of her satin boyshorts. Pale pink. Tiny bows on the waistband.
And for some reason… my fingers lingered.

The fabric was so soft, like water on skin.
I rubbed it between my thumb and forefinger — just for a second.
And then, without meaning to, I lifted it up… and held it against my waist.

I don’t even know why I did it.

That’s when I heard her voice behind me.

“Looks like someone’s curious…”

My heart stopped.
I spun around. Lisa was in the doorway, arms crossed, smirking — not angry. Not mocking.
Just… watching.

“Don’t worry,” she added, picking up a pair of socks. “They’re comfortable, right?”

I didn’t say anything. I just folded faster, my ears burning.

From that day on, I started noticing changes. Subtle things.

My chest tingled when I jogged. I started to cry — actually cry — at a YouTube video about lost dogs.
I wasn’t sad. I just… felt everything more.

Lisa would comment on it gently.

“I love how soft you’re becoming,” she said once, brushing a finger across my cheek.

I laughed it off. “You mean emotionally?”

“Sure,” she smiled. “Let’s go with that.”

But it wasn’t just emotional.
One morning, while shaving, I noticed my skin didn’t need lotion anymore. It was already smooth.
My legs? Barely any hair.

I asked Lisa, jokingly, if she was sneaking conditioner into my body wash.

She just kissed my shoulder and said,

“You’re evolving beautifully, babe. Don’t fight it.”

That word stayed with me all day: evolving.
Why not changing? Or just improving?
No — she said evolving.

And then… she said something I’ll never forget.

We were curled up on the couch. She had her legs draped over mine, and we were watching some old French movie.

Out of nowhere, she said:

“You know… I used to dream of dating someone who wasn’t afraid of softness. Someone I could take care of. Mold, maybe.”

I looked at her.

“What do you mean, mold?”

She looked down, brushing popcorn off her lap.

“Just… someone open enough to change. In ways that matter.”

I didn’t know what she meant then.
But I would soon.

Because that next morning, she handed me the same vitamin tray —
Except this time, the round white pill…
was pink. It didn’t hit me all at once. It was little things.
Like the way I started double-checking the mirror before I left the house. Not for my hair or my clothes — but my face. The softness of it. The smoothness. Like someone had gently blurred the rough edges of who I used to be.

Lisa noticed too.
She’d tilt her head, squint, then smile in that curious way of hers.

“You’re glowing lately,” she said, handing me my coffee. “Have you been using my serum?”

I hadn’t. But I lied and said yes, just to move past it.

I don’t know when the dreams started.

But the first one that stuck with me — it was strange.

I was standing in front of a mirror, in a white slip dress.
It hugged my body so delicately I could feel every whisper of fabric sliding over skin. I remember brushing my hands down the sides of it, the way a woman might check the flow of her gown before going out.

And the strangest part?

I felt beautiful.
In the dream, I looked at myself and smiled. Genuinely.

I woke up sweating. My chest was sore.
Like something had been pulling at me from the inside.

Lisa was still asleep, curled up like a cat under the covers.
I sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the faint outline of my silhouette in the full-length mirror across the room.

Would she be disappointed if she knew what I dreamt?

Or would she… smile?

Later that week, she offered to do my skincare. “Just for fun,” she said. “It’ll relax you.”

She lit a candle that smelled like vanilla and almond milk. Wrapped a soft towel around my neck.
Her fingers were warm as she applied the cleanser in slow, soothing circles.

I tried to laugh it off. “You’re treating me like your little spa client.”

“Is that so bad?” she whispered, close to my ear. “You need pampering too, babe.”

Something about the way she said that word — you — sent a shiver down my spine.

Afterward, she pulled out her jade roller and rolled it gently across my cheeks.

“God, your skin is incredible now,” she said, tracing my jaw. “So smooth.”

I looked at myself again in the mirror.

She wasn’t wrong.

I started noticing how certain textures made me feel.
Silk. Fleece. Satin.
One morning I accidentally grabbed one of her old tank tops from the laundry. It was pale blue, tight, and almost translucent.
It clung to my skin like a second layer — and something about that made me… still.

I didn’t want to take it off.

I didn’t.

That night, I laid in bed wearing it under my sweatshirt. Lisa didn’t say anything.
But she kissed the back of my neck a little slower. A little lower.

My emotions were all over the place.

I started tearing up during music. Soft ballads. Commercials. Even an old voicemail from my mom.
There was this ache in my chest — not sadness, not happiness either — just… rawness.

Everything was closer to the surface now.
And I didn’t know if that scared me or freed me.

One night, Lisa turned to me after brushing her hair and said:

“You feel things more now, don’t you?”

I looked at her. “What are you talking about?”

She paused, tapping her brush on the vanity.

“I don’t know. I just feel like… you’re becoming more you. Like your real self is showing through. It’s beautiful.”

I swallowed hard. My throat burned.

I didn’t have an answer for her.
But deep down, I feared she might be right.

And then… something happened that shook me.

I was in the shower, running conditioner through my hair, when my hand slid down my chest —
and I felt it.

A tiny bump. Right beneath the nipple.

Not just soft flesh — but something more.

I froze.

Ran my hand across the other side.
The same.

My heart was pounding. I rinsed quickly, stepped out, and wiped the fog off the mirror.

There was a curve there.
Not big. Not obvious. But new.

I wrapped the towel tightly around myself and stepped into the bedroom. Lisa was lounging on the bed, legs crossed, painting her toenails.

She glanced at me.

Paused.

And smiled.

“You noticed, didn’t you?”

My mouth went dry. “What are you doing to me?”

She tilted her head. “Helping.” I didn’t talk to Lisa much the next day.

I wasn’t angry. I wasn’t even scared, exactly. Just... numb.
There was this quiet buzzing in my chest — like when you’ve forgotten something important, but you can’t name what.

The curves were still there.

Tiny. Barely visible under my T-shirt.
But when I leaned forward in the mirror and looked… they weren’t my imagination.

Lisa didn’t press me.
Instead, she handed me my vitamins like always, kissed my cheek, and whispered:

“You don’t have to understand it yet. Just trust the process.”

What process?

I almost asked. But the words stuck in my throat.

The next few nights, I couldn’t sleep.
Every time I closed my eyes, I could feel the faint swell beneath my chest.
The slight tingle. The warmth.
And the softness — oh God, the softness.

My skin felt unreal.
When I brushed my arm, it was like touching silk soaked in lotion.
Even the sheets felt different.
Like my body had become this strange, velvet thing I barely recognized.

And then it happened.

Late one night, I got up for water and caught a glimpse of myself in the hallway mirror.
No shirt. Just boxers. The kitchen light behind me was dim, golden.

I looked... beautiful.
And that terrified me.

That same week, Lisa started casually mentioning clothes.

“You know, that old gray hoodie of yours? It’s so baggy now. You’d look great in something more... fitted.”

I shook my head. “What, like your cardigans?”

She shrugged. “Why not?”

She smiled as if it were nothing. But she said it again the next morning.

And the next.

Until one day, she laid something out on the bed.
A pale lavender V-neck. Soft. Stretchy. Thin fabric that draped, not clung. Feminine — but not overtly.

“Try it,” she said. “Just for around the house.”

I hesitated.

But then my hand reached out, slowly.
And the moment the fabric slid down over my skin — I felt a rush.

Not arousal.
Not shame.
Something else.

Relief?

I wore it. For hours.
I forgot I had it on.
Until Lisa walked past me, kissed the back of my neck, and whispered:

“You look adorable.”

That night, she brought me a folded pair of leggings.
Soft charcoal-gray, high-waisted, buttery fabric.

“Just for lounging,” she said. “They’re addictive.”

I laughed. “You’re dressing me like your little sister.”

“No,” she said softly, almost too soft to hear. “Like who you really are.”

I slipped them on.
And it was like they hugged me back.

The waistband pressed gently at my hips.
The fabric stretched over my legs like liquid.
I caught myself smoothing my hands over the thighs… again and again.

The next morning, I found a new tank top in the laundry.
Peach-colored, with lace trim.
Lisa didn’t say anything. She didn’t need to.

I wore it.

And then… I saw them.

Photos.

On her phone.

Of me.

Standing in the hallway, wearing the lavender shirt.
Washing dishes in the leggings.
Curled up on the couch with a blanket pulled just high enough to show the lace edge of the tank top underneath.

She’d been taking them… quietly. Secretly. Lovingly.

Or was it manipulation?

I didn’t know.

I stared at myself in the mirror again that night.
My hands went up — not in fear, but gently, cupping those tiny buds of flesh under my shirt.

They were real. And they were mine.

And I wasn’t sure if I wanted them to stop growing.

It was a Sunday morning.

Rain tapped gently on the windows, the house was still, and Lisa was humming softly in the kitchen — something old and French.
I lingered in the hallway longer than usual, barefoot, that peach tank still clinging to my skin like a second layer.

The scent of cinnamon and fresh coffee drifted through the air.
And on the bed, neatly folded, was something new.

Lingerie.

Not just a tank top or leggings this time.
No. This was deliberate.

A sheer black camisole, trimmed with delicate lace…
And beside it — matching satin shorts, smooth as water, the waistband scalloped with little roses.
They shimmered faintly in the low light, as if whispering "touch me.”

My breath caught. My fingers hovered above the fabric.
I told myself it was just a joke.
Just one of Lisa’s little provocations.

But inside me — somewhere deep — I wanted it.
Not for her.

For me.

I don’t remember making the decision.
It was one of those moments where the body moves before the mind catches up.

I slipped the camisole over my head.

It kissed my chest.
The lace brushed gently along my nipples — which had grown so tender now, I winced and… smiled.

The satin shorts glided up my thighs.
They clung softly to my hips. No resistance. No friction. Just fluid, yielding surrender.

That’s when I heard the voice.

“Well well…”

I spun around — startled.

Lisa stood in the doorway, holding two mugs of coffee.
No smirk this time. No teasing.

Just silence.

Her eyes scanned me slowly, calmly. From my bare feet to the curve of the camisole strap on my shoulder.

“You look… right.”

I opened my mouth, but no words came out.
The heat in my face felt like it could melt the floor.

She stepped inside, handed me one of the mugs.

“I was hoping you’d try it. But I didn’t want to push.”

I swallowed. Hard. “Then why leave it out?”

She sipped her coffee, gazing out the window for a long beat.

“Because I thought maybe… if you touched it, you’d feel what I see when I look at you.”

Later that day, she asked if I wanted to go out.

“Just for groceries,” she said. “You can stay in the car.”

I hesitated.

“Wear the leggings,” she added gently. “They look amazing on you.”

I did.
And when we pulled into the parking lot, Lisa brushed some hair out of my eyes and leaned close.

“You should come in. No one’s watching.”

That was a lie.

Because I was watching — myself.

In the car window reflection.

Leggings. A soft hoodie. My hands resting daintily in my lap.

Inside the store, I followed Lisa closely, heart pounding.
It was just a few aisles.
But every step felt like I was tiptoeing across a frozen lake, afraid of the cracks forming beneath my feet.

Then I passed a mirror. Near the freezer aisle.

And I stopped.

The person in the reflection… wasn’t Mark.

Not really.

She was softer. Smaller. More careful in her posture. Her lips looked fuller. Her eyes wider.

I stood there for a long moment.

Until Lisa came up behind me and whispered:

“You’re beautiful, you know.”

That night, something changed between us.
She didn’t ask me to wear anything.
She didn’t leave anything on the bed.

But when I came out of the shower, towel wrapped around my chest — not my waist —
she looked up from her book and simply said:

“Welcome home.”

And that’s when I realized...
I wasn’t just wearing these things anymore.
They were wearing me — reshaping me from the outside in. The mirror became a friend.
And an enemy.

Some mornings, I’d stare for minutes, gently touching my chest with the back of my hand, tracing the delicate curves that were undeniably growing now.
Other times, I couldn’t even glance at my reflection without a flush of shame rippling through me.

But always — always — I looked.

It was like watching a new person take shape inside my skin.

The slope of my shoulders seemed narrower.
My jawline, softer.
Even my eyelashes — how had I never noticed how long they were?

Lisa never said much, but she watched me too.

She’d brush past me in the hallway and smile, or let her fingers linger on my lower back just a little too long.
Once, while folding laundry, she held up a pair of my boxers and whispered:

“I think we both know you’ve outgrown these.”

That night, she handed me a small drawer organizer.

Inside were panties.

Not cheap, tacky ones — but delicate lace, subtle colors, soft cotton trimmed with ribbons.
Nothing loud. Everything pretty.

“Try them,” she said gently. “Just around the house. I think you’ll love the way they feel under your leggings.”

I hesitated.

“I picked the kinds I’d wear… if I were starting over,” she added.

I chose a lavender pair with little floral embroidery.
I held them against my thigh first — the fabric cool, fragile, inviting.

When I slipped them on… it was like a sigh escaped from deep inside me.
They didn’t just fit.

They belonged.

Later, Lisa asked:

“What did it feel like?”

I answered without thinking.

“Like the clothes knew I was supposed to be inside them.”

She didn’t laugh.
She reached for my hand and said,

“Then maybe they did.”

One evening, I caught myself alone — standing in front of the mirror in just panties and a camisole.
The same one from before.

My hands slid over my body slowly, not in lust, but in… wonder.
The curve of my waist. The softness of my arms.
Even the tiny bit of roundness in my hips.

I tilted my head.
Pursed my lips.
Tried a smile.

And for the first time…

I saw her.

I didn’t have a name for her.
She didn’t speak.
But she was there — in the way my eyes lingered, in the way my breath hitched when I adjusted the strap of the camisole and it slipped perfectly into place.

Lisa walked in.

She froze for a second, then smiled.

“You’re not Mark in that mirror, are you?”

I didn’t answer.
I didn’t need to.

That night, we lay in bed without touching. Just breathing together.
And she whispered:

“When you’re ready… I think you should try makeup.”

I swallowed. “What if I’m never ready?”

“You will be,” she said softly, “when the reflection stops scaring you.” I don’t know what made me do it.

Maybe it was the growing pressure in my chest — not physical, emotional.
Maybe it was the way Lisa had started watching me more closely, her eyes softer… but guarded.
Or maybe it was the moment I realized I couldn’t remember the last time I felt like Mark.

Not completely.

It started with a phone call.

Just a regular check-up, the nurse said.
I hadn’t been in for blood work in over a year, so I agreed.

Lisa offered to come with me. I said no.

Her face barely flickered… but something tightened around her smile.

At the clinic, the doctor frowned when he looked at the results.

“Your hormone profile’s unusual,” he said.

He flipped the paper toward me.
I couldn’t make sense of the numbers, but one word stood out:

Estradiol.

High. Way too high.

“Have you been prescribed anything new? Estrogen supplements? Testosterone blockers?”

I shook my head. “No. Just vitamins.”

He looked at me. Hard.

“Mark… are you transitioning?”

I felt everything inside me go silent.
No words. Just heat behind my eyes and a tremble in my fingers.

“No,” I whispered. “At least… I don’t think so.”

When I got home, I waited until Lisa was out walking the dog.
My hands were shaking.

I went to the kitchen cabinet, pulled down the little tray she used for my daily pills.
One by one, I opened the bottles.

Multivitamin. Magnesium. Omega-3.
And then… a small dark blue bottle.

Unlabeled.

Just a sticker on the bottom.

It read: V-16-RX.

I typed it into my phone.
Nothing.

Then I added “hormone” to the search.
Still nothing.
Until I tried the letters again… V16RX.

One post.

A small thread in a buried online forum.
Experimental hormone analog.
Originally tested for emotional regulation therapy.
Later reclassified as a feminizing compound.
Unofficial name: Velurex.

I sat on the floor.

I don’t know how long.
Maybe an hour. Maybe three.

It all clicked at once.

The softness. The emotions. The growing curves.
The dreams. The cravings. The mirror.

Not just me.

Her.

Lisa.

When she came home, I was waiting.

The bottle was on the table between us.

She looked at it. Then at me.
And for a long, stretched-out moment, she said nothing.

Finally:

“I was hoping you wouldn’t find it until you were ready.”

My voice cracked. “What the hell is it, Lisa?”

“It’s what helped you feel like you. What helped you see.”

I stood up so fast the chair nearly toppled. “You drugged me.”

“No,” she said softly. “I… freed you.”

“You looked so lost, Mark. Always restless, always angry, like your skin didn’t fit.”

“The first time I saw you touch that satin — you didn’t even know I was watching — I saw you exhale like you’d been holding your breath your whole life.”

“I just… gave you a nudge.”

I couldn’t speak. My hands were shaking.

“I didn’t mean to force anything,” she whispered. “I just wanted to help you bloom before you buried it all again.”

“Tell me you didn’t feel something. Tell me you hated it — the leggings, the mirror, the panties, the way you looked when you smiled in that camisole.”

Her voice cracked on that last word.

I opened my mouth to yell.

But what came out was a whisper:

“I don’t know who I am anymore.”

She stepped toward me, slow, careful.

“Maybe that’s the first honest thing you’ve said since this started.”

And for a long time… we both just stood there.

The silence after the confrontation was the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.

Lisa didn’t push.
She just… gave me space.

But everything around me felt different now.

Even my own clothes.

The camisole in the laundry basket wasn’t just fabric anymore.
It was evidence.

The leggings in my drawer? Proof.
And the tiny bump in the center of my chest — the one that throbbed gently when brushed —
felt like a question mark branded onto my body.

Was I still Mark?
Or had she quietly erased him?

I moved into the guest room that night.

No fight. No words.

I just gathered my things — what little I had that still felt “his” —
and shut the door behind me.

The next few days passed in a haze.

I didn’t take any more pills.
Didn’t shave. Didn’t moisturize.

And I didn’t wear the clothes she left folded near the dresser.

But I didn’t throw them away, either.

The mirror in the bathroom became a battleground.
Each time I passed it, I tried not to look.
But I always did.

And the more I looked… the less I saw Mark.

His sharpness was gone.
His edges dulled, rounded out.
Even my voice, when I muttered to myself, was quieter. Gentler. Like someone dialing down the volume from inside.

Lisa knocked once, three days later.

She didn’t come in.

She just left a single item at the door:
A simple silver chain, with a tiny pendant — the letter M.

No note. No explanation.

But it made my throat tighten.

Because she didn’t know if it stood for Mark…
or something else.

That night, I sat on the edge of the bed, holding it.

And I whispered a question that made my whole body ache:

“Did she do this to me… or for me?”

The next day, I went for a walk.
Alone.

It was chilly. I wore a zip-up hoodie — one of hers.
I told myself it was practical. The soft lining was warm, that’s all.

But the way it fit my body?
Close. Snug at the hips. Lightly brushing my chest with each step…
It didn’t feel accidental.

It felt… chosen.

I stopped at a small café.

Ordered tea.

When I reached for my wallet, the barista smiled and said,

“Sorry — I just love your nails. That soft pink? Super cute.”

My heart stuttered.

I’d forgotten.

I still had Lisa’s sheer polish on.

I should’ve been embarrassed.
Should’ve explained, maybe even lied.

But instead, I smiled.

“Thanks. My girlfriend picked it.”

That night, I found Lisa in the kitchen, barefoot, scraping burnt rice out of a pot.

She looked up, startled.

I held out the silver necklace.

“What does M stand for?”

She hesitated. “Whatever you need it to.”

I nodded.

“Then maybe it’s for me. Not him. Not Mark.”

Her eyes welled up, and for the first time, she couldn’t speak.

I reached for her hand.

Not because I forgave her.

But because… I wasn’t ready to lose her, either. The days after that were quiet.

Not cold — just… careful.

Lisa didn’t ask questions.
She didn’t lay out clothes, or bring vitamins, or press her soft suggestions against the edges of my comfort.

She simply existed beside me.
Like she was waiting to see who I’d become.

And honestly?
So was I.

I kept to myself more.

Mornings were slower. I’d spend them wrapped in one of her robes — a plush gray one that smelled like her conditioner and the faintest trace of lavender.

I told myself it was temporary.
Comfort. Familiarity.

But then I started reaching for it without thinking.

I cleaned more.
Cooked dinner twice.
And I started using her skincare — not because I felt I had to, but because… I liked the way it made my face glow in the morning light.

Something inside me had softened.
Not just my skin.
Not just my body.

But the constant tension — that quiet war between who I thought I was, and who I might be — was finally starting to settle.

Then one night, I opened Lisa’s closet.

It was late. She was asleep.
The only light came from the hallway, casting shadows across her dresses, her shoes, the lace-trimmed tops that fluttered like whispers in the dark.

I reached for a blouse — champagne-colored silk, barely-there sleeves.

I held it up to my chest, like I had in the dream.
The one I’d been too scared to tell her about.

And just like in the dream, I smiled.

I tried it on.

It glided over me like warm breath.
Clung to the curves I hadn’t asked for, but now… couldn’t imagine losing.

I twirled once, slow.

And for a moment — just one soft, suspended moment —
I liked myself.

Not as Mark.
Not as Lisa’s project.

Just as someone I was starting to see clearly for the first time.

The next morning, she found me in the kitchen.
Wearing that same blouse.
Tucked into a pair of her high-waisted jeans.

I froze.

But she didn’t speak.
She just walked over, gently tucked a strand of hair behind my ear, and whispered:

“You’re beautiful when you stop trying to be anyone else.”

We sat on the floor together that night, sipping wine, wrapped in mismatched blankets.
I told her everything.

The mirror moments.
The dreams.
The shame… and the want.

“I hated you,” I admitted, eyes glassy. “For taking that choice away from me.”

“I know,” she said. “And I’m sorry.”

“But… I think I would’ve hated myself more for never knowing what this felt like.”

That night, I went back into her room.
Not to hide.

But to be seen.

And for the first time, Lisa asked:

“Do you have a name?”

I didn’t answer right away.

But I thought about the M on the necklace.
And how maybe, just maybe… it wasn’t short for Mark anymore. It happened quietly.

No dramatic reveal.
No makeover montage.
No sudden moment where I threw away every pair of boxers and declared myself reborn.

It was slower.
Softer.

Like the way sunrise spills across a room before you’ve even opened your eyes.

I started calling myself Mia.

Only in my head at first.
Then on an anonymous support forum Lisa recommended.

“Just a name,” I told myself.
“Doesn’t mean anything.”

But every time I typed it, I felt like I was standing a little taller in my own skin.

I bought my own makeup.

Nothing bold — just tinted balm, some brow gel, a concealer that made the shadows under my eyes disappear like magic.

Lisa offered to help, but I said no.

This time, it had to be mine.

I spent hours watching tutorials, dabbing highlighter across my cheekbones, learning how to blend blush so it looked like I’d just been kissed.

There were disasters.

There were tears.

But there was also joy — quiet, trembling, honest joy — when I finally looked up and saw a softness in the mirror that didn’t scare me anymore.

Lisa and I had changed too.

We weren’t… together. Not like before.
But she was still there.

Supportive. Gentle. Proud.

Sometimes she’d leave little notes on the bathroom mirror:

“You looked radiant yesterday.”
“That lip color? Yours forever.”
“Mia suits you.”

We found a rhythm.

I’d get dressed while she made tea.
We’d talk about politics, movies, nothing.

And one night, she said something I’ll never forget.

“You were never a man, you know. You were just waiting.”

I didn’t argue.

Because she was right.

I got fitted for real bras.

Walked into a boutique alone.
Heart hammering. Palms damp.

The clerk smiled.

“Let’s find your shape, sweetheart.”

And just like that — I had one.

A body that made sense.
A wardrobe that reflected it.
And for the first time… a name tag that read Mia at my new job at a local floral shop.

Not everything was perfect.

There were awkward moments.
Wrong pronouns. Stares.
Phone calls where my voice betrayed me.

But every time I considered hiding again… I remembered how heavy it was to wear someone else’s life.

I didn’t want that weight back.

Lisa came to visit me at the shop once.

She bought tulips.

Then leaned across the counter and whispered:

“I never thought I’d fall for someone… and end up finding a sister instead.”

I laughed, eyes stinging.

“Life’s weird like that,” I said. I take Velurex by choice now.

A real prescription.
My name on the bottle.
No more secrecy. No more slips into my coffee. No more hiding behind care disguised as control.

This time, I signed the script myself.

It’s been six months.

My reflection is… me.
Still changing, still softening. But no longer a stranger.
The girl who used to only exist in dreams now meets me in the mirror every morning with mascara-smudged confidence and a half-smile.

I wear crop tops in summer now.
I tan with friends on the weekends.
Sometimes, I let a bra strap show just to feel the sun on my shoulder.

Lisa moved out.
We hugged when she left. No tears.

Just peace.

We don’t talk every day, but we talk enough.

She sent me a birthday card last week.
It was hand-painted — soft pink brushstrokes and gold lettering.

Inside, she wrote:

“You were always Mia.
I’m just glad I got to see her bloom.”

I kept the necklace. The silver M.

I wear it now and then.
Not because I need to remember — but because I like who I’ve become.

There’s no big secret anymore.
No pills hidden in vitamins.
No shame in lace.

Just me — standing in the light, wearing a fitted blouse and a lip tint I picked out myself.

I still get nervous sometimes.
At the DMV. In dressing rooms.
When someone asks if I’m sure I’m in the right bathroom.

But the fear doesn’t control me anymore.

Because the girl who used to hide?
She’s learning to stand.

Not in heels — not always, anyway.
But in her truth.

And maybe she did.

But the person I am now —
The softness. The strength. The silk. The courage.
The aching moments where fabric felt more like a mirror than glass ever could —

All of that?

That’s mine.