Maddy's view - one
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*Friends*
Hi, I'm Maddy, Maddy Peters. I guess either Rhod or Drew has mentioned me before. Oh yeah, Rhod and Drew, well along with Ally and Bernie, they are my best mates. We all live around Warsop, that's a small town between Worksop and Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England. We go to the same school and we've known each other from nursery school, so I guess that's about eight years?
We are a pretty close knit group, we do loads of stuff together and I guess we don't have many other friends. I suppose at the cusp of our teenage years this can't last, but at least for now we're still all together.
Anyway I thought I'd tell you about some stuff that happened in the last few weeks to our gang. I've sort of just put down the highlights from my diary (which I'm not very good at writing!) as the guys have told you stuff I'm just sort of filling a few gaps?
Well I guess it all started not long after Drew's thirteenth birthday, I was looking at some Anime sites on the web when I got an idea. Our school Easter dance cum disco was fancy dress and seeing pictures of cosplay cons, I reckoned we could all go as Anime characters.
Well I talked to the girls and showed them some pictures and in principal they were both in agreement. Bernie pointed out that there weren't many male characters and I don't know why, but I just came out with it, 'the guys can dress as girl characters too!'. Well the other two weren't sure but warming to my theme, I pointed out that at the cons, guys often wore girl costumes.
Well decision made, we just had to convince the guys!
I guess we expected more of a fight out of them but they didn't turn the idea down flat. After some discussion they said that if us girls could make them convincing enough to go shopping without being found out, they'd do it. What a challenge! So Bernie, Ally and I started working on how to turn our mates into passable girls, what fun!
As neither of them is exactly big or butch, it wasn't as difficult as you might think. We got them both dressed up and I have to say they both looked pretty good, amazing what a bit of padding and makeup can do.
Pippa! Gaby!
We did a good job on them eh! That's Rhod on the left and Drew on the right.
I never thought we'd get the guys to go out dressed up but I guess a bit of machismo must have got to them as they agreed to go to Meadowhall over in Sheffield all dressed up! We even named them, Rhod was now Pippa and Drew picked out Gaby like in Xena, go figure.
Well we got there on the bus ok and things were going, like really well? We went round loads of shops and stuff and the guys did their best to join in, anyway no one took any notice of our group of mall bunnies. That is till we got lunch.
Of all things, Drew's sister, Juliette, and some guys from school, Paul and Clive spotted us in the food hall. Well I thought the game was up but I came up with a plan, I would introduce them as my cousin and her friend! It was worth a try. As Drew was wearing a blonde wig he got to be my cuz and Rhod 'her' friend. I introduced them and amazingly they were not immediately found out! However things got dangerous when they all decided to join us at the cinema. Well I could see panic in the boys eyes with real reason, I mean close up they were sure to be exposed.
I grabbed Drew and pulled him into the girl's room and found a cubicle. Drew / Gaby was a bit shocked by this and sat down not saying anything. On the spur of the moment I took out my studs and before he could argue, I pierced his ears, well it might help throw his sister off the trail! I guess it must have worked, none of them twigged that we had two boygirls in our midst.
We got back to Warsop and the guys had to agree that we had managed to pull it off and they agreed to go to the dance 'en femme'! Our respect for the guys went up a notch, I mean they could have quite easily told us to forget it but instead they agreed to go to a school dance, as girls!
That's when things started to get weird. Drew told us on the following Monday that his sister had recognised him, so us girls had a chat with her. Well it seems, and don't tell Drew we know, last Christmas he did a fancy dress with his mum, dressed as Xena's Gaby! We were even more surprised when she volunteered to help sort out the guys for the dance. Seems she was convinced she knew when she saw Drew's freshly pierced ears next day. Although I took the studs out I managed to leave the tiny plastic keepers behind! Yikes. Jules reckoned Drew didn't know and when she cleaned his weepy ears she left them in!
The die was cast I guess, Jules was really helpful and in the end we all picked out new costumes and Jules agreed to join us. Rhod got a quite demure sort of Geisha outfit but Drew got a quite revealing outfit, part of a pair with me wearing the opposite costume! I thought he would duck out then but Drew is made of stern stuff. There was quite a bit of sewing and stuff to do but we got Drew to organise shoes and stuff, while Rhod got to make other props. The guys were being really good about the whole thing although I know they must have been embarrassed as hell at times!
I guess it was a couple of weeks before the dance, we agreed to meet Drew in Mansfield. When we caught up with him he was in a bit of a state, seems that a girl in one of the shoe shops thought he was a girl, a tomboy, but a girl nevertheless! Well he was a bit freaked and had gone along with it but by the time we got to him he was quite upset. What was worse was that he was just wearing his normal stuff, jeans, trainers and sweatshirt. Freaky!
I was surprised that he didn't just say 'no way' right then, but Rhod has since told me that they had a sort of support pact going and it was all or nothing. Well anyway we finished the costumes and even gave the guys some gurl lessons! You know, like how to dance, walk, sit and stuff, I mean they would be in front of the whole school!
Well the night of the dance came and we had to fool my mum too as she was expecting Drew and Rhod to join us at the house. It was great, mum had booked a limo, one of those big wedding type things and we even convinced mum that Drew and Rhod were school friends, girl friends! Mum took a load of pictures before we left, she never twigged the guys were there!
We had to pose for mum before we got the limo to the dance, that's me on the right!
Party costumes!
The dance was way cool. Drew and Rhod looked absolutely brill and we even won some spot prizes, best of all Drew won best costume! He was well gobsmacked I can tell you!
Well at the moment we're trying to work out how to cash Drew's prize cheque, it's made out to 'Gaby Thomas' his pseudonym for the night!
Have to go now, I'll tell you more next time.
Maddy Bell 23.04.03
Copyright 2003
Maddy's view - two
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*Gaby's Back!*
We all agreed to meet to go bowling the morning after the dance, I just so didn't want to get up! I guess all of last night's excitement took its toll, I still can't believe that Drew won all that money. Any way I think Ally and me have got that little problem licked. Ally is going to pretend to be Gaby and open an account at the bank so Drew can get the money after all I can't see him dressing as a girl again in a hurry. Worst luck! Drew was really relieved when I told him the plan and when I told him that he and Rhod could have ducked out of last night he looked a bit pissed.
It was Tuesday before we all met up again to go biking. Drew looked gutted when Ally told him that she'd not got to the bank yet but other than that we had a good time. Well except for me getting a puncture that nearly wrecked my wheel on the way back, so we ended up walking for a fair bit. Jules eventually rescued us after Drew, the sweetie, had pushed my bike for miles while I rode his.
We met at Rhod's to play his PS-2 next day, Ally and Drew arrived together I presumed after sorting their 'business'. How Kewl! We got our pictures in Chad (that's our local paper), me, Drew, Rhod, well everyone really. It wasn't until Drew and Ally told us what happened at the bank that I realised there was a down side to fame. The long and short of it was that one of the women at the bank had seen the pictures and accused Ally of stealing Drew's cheque! As you can guess Ally freaked but she did manage to put off the police by promising that 'Gaby' would go in herself next week. Poor Drew, he thought Gaby was gone for good, now he's going to have to dress up to get his prize money!
We agreed to meet at my house on Tuesday morning, Drew was going away with his parents for the weekend and the rest of us had family stuff too over the weekend. The plan was to do the bank thing in the morning then hang out for the rest of the day.
I had a really great weekend, even if I did have to sit with Great Grandma all of Sunday afternoon, but I was cool with that, I mean she is 70, which is like really old!
The girls and I sorted out a 'Gaby' outfit for Drew so we were ready for him when he arrived. Mum had to go out for a while so we soon had Drew dressed in a Betty Boo t-shirt and a long denim skirt. By the time we had finished no one would doubt he was Gaby. Bernie put a choker on him and I gave him the little gold hoops I bought him at the weekend. Before we left we had him practice signing 'Gaby Thomas' until he started to do it nearly the same each time and in a suitably lady like hand.
I don't know whether Drew noticed but the rest of us had jeans and stuff on, we thought it would make him seem more girly. I think it worked. We got to the Bank about eleven and nervously shuffled in. Give him his due, Drew didn't hesitate when he asked for Mrs Jenkins the head teller. When she came out she greeted 'Gaby' by name! That is just so spooky. Ally introduced the rest of us and Mrs Jenkins apologised to Rhod, she thought we were all girls.
Gaby acquired a new account, a Walkman and some cash by the time we left, perhaps this wasn't the end of Gaby?
Anyway Drew sprang for ice creams which we ate in the churchyard. Drew seemed to have forgotten about what he was wearing and no one else mentioned it either. We decided to do a bit of 'surfing' on my computer as it was looking a bit like rain. Drew got changed but I don't know why, he left the make up on and the gold hoops in. perhaps he just forgot.
I was a bit surprised to find that mum had posted some pictures of us in our costumes to my favourite con site. Drew went into panic mode, but we convinced him that no one would recognise him. Dad got a copy of 'The Sims' last week so we started a game and got well engrossed; we didn't even hear mum come in.
Everyone was staying for tea, mums special spaghetti tonight, yum yum, so we only broke off when she called us to eat. Afterwards we resumed playing 'The Sims' until just gone six when Drew left to go to his race. Mum was obviously more observant than I thought.
"Maddy?"
"Yes Mum"
"Why was Drew wearing makeup and earrings?"
"Oops! We were practising make up on him earlier, I guess he forgot he had it on"
Her look said she wasn't convinced but she didn't pursue it so I rejoined the others at Sim central. Ah well tomorrow is another day.
Maddy Bell 23.04.03
Copyright 2003