Tranquility

by Jennifer White

 

The first time that Maria found out that her husband was having an affair, she was heartbroken. She made him go to couple's counseling with her, and things seemed to be all right. Until she caught him a second time. This time, she threatened divorce if he didn't change his ways. He swore that it was a mistake, and it would never happen again.

Things were fine between them for a few years. Until the day that Maria found out that once again, he was cheating on her. Three times! He would always swear that it was a mistake, it was "just that once", or something. But now it was clear: Andy just could not be faithful to her.

Maria's heart was past broken by now, and it had hardened. No longer did she feel that she could make things work between them. She was way past trying to patch things up. Now she wanted something else: revenge. But how? She didn't want to go and have an affair of her own. That just wasn't right. And she wasn't the type of woman who would sleep with just any man. She had to be fully in love. But she couldn't do that, as long as she was married.

She decided that she could divorce him, but she knew it would be a long drawn out process. She sighed. What had she done wrong to cause all of this?

 

Maria thought back to the start of her marriage. At first, they had been young and foolish, but they were in love. The future was wide open for them. They had seemed to be the perfect couple. They had a wonderful honeymoon. They bought a picturesque house together in the suburbs. Andy was rising in his company, while Maria made the home and the yard look beautiful.

Right away, they had two children, and Maria devoted herself to raising them. The children were too young to know what was going on the first time that Andy had an affair. Maria was crushed. She had become very sensitive about her body, ever since her pregnancies had changed her figure, made her put on weight in the hips and thighs, and make her boobs get bigger. Now she wasn't attractive enough to satisfy her husband, and he had to go elsewhere.

She felt that it was all her fault, and she became depressed. But when Andy came back, she immediately forgave him, and was grateful for another chance. Things went well for a while... until the children were in highschool, and Andy had his second affair. This time, they were old enough to see that their parents were having problems, and it pained Maria that they could see what was happening.

Now Maria was getting older, and her insecurities about her looks resurfaced. She felt 'matronly', as her upper arms lost their tone and started to sag, as well as the extra weight that she just couldn't seem to keep off. It was as if her body was conspiring against her. Her self opinion was very low, until Andy came back again.

 

Now the children were out of college, and Maria was going through another tough time: menopause. She was on hormone replacement therapy to help with the terrible hot flashes she felt, as well as the other symptoms. She hated it that when she made love with Andy, she was getting too dry between the legs, and she needed to put something inside her, since she wasn't lubricating like she used to.

Along with that, she had been afraid of having a surprise child late in life, as her mother had done. When she was 17, her mom had a baby boy. Maria was terrified of that scenario. She didn't think she could go through motherhood again. So she was also still on birth control pills, which had the added benefit of reducing the symptoms of her periods.

With the swirl of changing hormones in her system from menopause, the emotional upheaval of Andy cheating on her for a *third* time, and everything else going on her life, she had reached the breaking point.

 

This time, she wasn't going to blame herself. This time, she wasn't going to just take him back. This time, she was going to have revenge on him, so that he would learn how she felt.

Maria had a plan now. She bought books. She bought videos. She studied. She prepared things, so that when he did come back, she could start her work...

 

* * *

 

When Andy came back, Maria pretended it was like all of the times before. She pretended to be grateful for his presence in her life. She pretended that she didn't feel whole without him. She was extra kind to him, bringing him his nightly drink (or two) of brandy. She cooked his favorite meals. She took care of him in the bedroom.

Andy didn't realize that it was all an act this time. She wasn't doing this out of the kindness of her heart. She was doing it to set him up. He didn't know that the brandy he was drinking every night wasn't straight out of the bottle; Maria had first dissolved one of her estrogen pills and one of her birth control pills, after crushing them into powder with a spoon. She added the estrogenated water into his glass, and stirred it in. With the strong taste and smell of the brandy, he never noticed the difference.

For one entire week, Andy unknowingly took in high levels of female hormones. In time, they would start to alter his body and his mind, all without his being able to detect what was happening to him. Maria replaced his real vitamins with supplements for women, with high concentrations of natural plant estrogens, from soy, black cohosh, and other similar sources.

Now she was ready for the next phase of her plan. She started to slip tranquilizers into his nightly drinks. This caused him to go into a stupor. A state where he was really "out of it". He was in a state where she could start to make suggestions into his mind, ones that would go deep into his brain, but which he might not remember the next day.

Slowly, Maria began to reprogram his mind. It was a tricky thing to do, and she had to be careful not to start giving him anything to radical at first, which might make him want to fight it, and come out of his trance. She needed to start with tiny steps at first, before he would be ready to run.

And so, over the course of the next month, Maria gradually took control of Andy's mind. With enough of the sessions, she would be able to reshape him. Now, she had him to the point where he was putty in her hands.

The first and most important thing for Maria to do, was to start to build Andy's new personality. She switched off his conscious mind for the time being, and gave full control over to his new personality. A personality she could mold and shape to her liking.

Andy would continue to live and to exist, but it would be his new personality that was in full control. It would only be when Maria used a key trigger phrase she had implanted into his mind, that his former self would rewake. He wouldn't notice *any* of the changes in his life, until she told him "Take a look at yourself".

 

Andy was fully under Maria's control now. If she told him to take an estrogen pill every day, he did. If she told him to be sure to take a birth control pill each day, he did. If she told him to be passive and submissive to her, he did so.

The new personality she created within him was completely different from his old one. For starters, his new personality was *female*. He wasn't going through his days as Andy anymore; now he was Andrea.

Andrea was a female personality, so she *wanted* to dress like a woman. She *wanted* to be pretty and wear makeup. She *wanted* to wear high heel shoes, keep her hair long and pretty, pluck her eyebrows, and paint her fingernails.

Maria didn't have to tell Andrea to shave 'her' legs; 'she' wanted to do it, because that is what a woman does. Maria didn't have to urge her to get her facial and chest hair permanently removed with laser therapy; she *wanted* to get rid of all that icky hair.

Andrea felt inadequate because her chest was so flat. The estrogen was causing 'her' breasts to bud and to start growing, but her chest was so flat compared to Maria's. Not even a padded bra helped. So Maria helped her take steps to rectify the situation. She didn't force Andrea to do it; it was Andrea's choice.

 

Andrea was a close girlfriend of Maria's. They shopped for pretty clothes together. They went to the hair salon together. They got their nails done together. They went to bars together, to let men buy them drinks, and sometimes they'd dance with the guys if they were cute.

For three months, Andy lived his life as Andrea, with *her*, his new female personality, firmly in control of his mind.

 

* * *

 

One day, after eating breakfast together, Andy was sitting across the table from Maria. He looked so much like a woman now, and acted with such a feminine manner, that it would be virtually impossible for someone to detect that he was actually a man. Maria decided that it was time for the last stage of the plan.

"Why Andrea, you look so pretty today" she said.

"Thank you!" replied Andy. Andrea's female personality was in charge. It was a compliment for *her* to be told that she was pretty.

"Just look at yourself" said Maria, causing Andy to smile. But then, his face became frozen for a moment, with a blank look. Maria knew that his former personality was coming back into his mind. He blinked a few times. He was back.

"What did you say?" asked Andy, in a voice that was deeper and more assertive than Andrea's. It was *him* taking to Maria, not *her*.

"I said you look very pretty today" she said.

"Why in the h*ll would you say that to me?" he asked, still not realizing what he had become. He had been living as a woman for months now, and it felt normal. He didn't realize the extent of the changes yet.

"Do you even know who you are?" said Maria.

"Of course. Why are you being so stupid?" said Andy.

"No dear, tell me who you are" insisted Maria.

"I'm your husband, Andy" he said.

"No you're not" replied Maria, smugly.

Andy looked up and rolled his eyes. Clearly, Maria was having some kind of breakdown. He needed to get away from her. He couldn't take this crap from her. He stood up, but immediately, something felt wrong: the brush of a skirt against his knees.

Andy looked down at himself, and screamed.

 

"What did you do to me!!!!" he yelled.

He looked down to see a pretty skirt wrapped around him. Bare legs showed below the hem line, with his feet in pink shoes with pointy toes and two inch heels. He was wearing a sleeveless top. A top that was poking out in the front, because of his chest.

Andy put his hands on his chest. He wasn't expecting for there to be something there, but now there was. He was wearing a bra, which he could feel constricting him. It wrapped around his chest, with straps going over his shoulders. But the worst thing was that the bra's cups were full; it was holding something up.

Andy's hands were full, as he cupped them over his chest. And his chest could *feel* his hands. It wasn't that his bra was stuffed with something. No, instead it was his chest that was filling it out. He felt a shiver go through him, from the base of the spine, all the way up to his head. There was one inescapable counseling; he had boobs now.

And then he caught sight of his hands. Why did they have long fingernails, painted a bright pink color? Why was he wearing rings? And a bracelet? He could feel a necklace dangling down into the crevice between his new breasts. And as he moved, he realized that he could feel earrings dangling down from his ear lobes.

He reached up to feel the earrings, and his hand brushed against the long hair coming from his head. He rushed over to the mirror, and gasped as he saw himself. He had long hair now! It was long, straight, and dyed blond. The long hairs from the front were pulled back over his ears, while the rest of them went straight down. His hair was down below his shoulders. How was that possible?

And his face. It was pretty! His nose looked different. He was wearing makeup. A lot of makeup. His eyelashes were covered with mascara. He had on lipstick! And blush. And there was color on his eyelids, and in the eye sockets. He looked like he was a woman now.

"Maria?" he said, as tears built up in his eyes. "What have you done to me?"

"You did it to yourself, Andrea" she said. "You were the one who took female hormones every day. You were the one who wanted the breast implants. You were the one who wanted the nose job. I just helped give you what you asked for."

Andy ran to the kitchen table, and looked at the newspaper for the day's date. It was *months* since the last thing he could remember. Months!

"Today is...." he started to say.

"For the last few months, you have been living as my *girlfriend* Andrea. You have lived a woman's life."

"No...."

"Oh yes, it's true. Don't you remember going with me to buy yourself dresses and skirts? Don't you remember our trips to the spa?"

Andy's memories of the past months were fuzzy. But with great concentration, he could remember it now. Shopping with Maria, laughing and giggling as they went from store to store, buying a new wardrobe for him.

He ran to their bedroom, but then realized he hadn't been sleeping there for months. He went to the guest room, and discovered that it was all redone, as a girl's room now. The closet and dresser were all full of clothes for him. Dresses, skirts, blouses, pants, shoes, bras, panties, slips.... everything a girl would need to dress in.

He looked at the nightie hanging from the door knob, and realized that it was *his* nightie. That was *his* bed, with the lacy pillow cases. Those were *his* stuffed animals on the foot of the bed. This was the room that he slept in. This was his room now. It was his copy of Glamour on the bed stand. He had bought the flowers in the vase, and had cut them, then arranged them artfully. This was his room.

"No...." he said, as the memories of the past months started to flow back into his mind.

"Yes" said Maria, who had walked into the room behind him. "You are a woman now. You are Andrea. You are past the point of no return. The female hormones you have been taking have altered your body and your mind. You'll never go back. You are female now."

"Please, stop this!!!!!!" said Andy.

His life was shattered, and he was beyond upset.

"Now you feel what I feel" said Maria. "Just as I have issues with my body, not feeling adequate for you, you now feel inadequate for me. How could you ever turn on a woman, now that you *are* one?"

Andy was frozen, unable to respond.

"And just as I feel crushed, because you don't love me anymore, now *you* are crushed, because I've turned you into a woman."

Andy started to cry.

"With you as a man, we were doomed as a couple. I'd never be able to trust you again. But now that I've turned you into a woman, you'll never have another affair. And now, we can truly be friends. We'll do everything together, just as we have been for the past few months. You'll live out the rest of your life as my girlfriend. You are Andrea now. Now, and for the rest of your life."

"NO, please!!!!!!!" cried Andy.

"It's too late my dear. I know right now is a difficult time for you. You've just woken from a long sleep to find that you've become a woman. In every way."

Andy reached down between his legs, and when he felt *nothing* there, he almost passed out. The room started to spin, and he had to sit on the bed. It was extremely alarming to notice that his legs automatically crossed, like a girl's, as he sat down.

"How could you do that to me? How could you get *that* removed?"

"You *wanted* to get it removed, Andrea. I just helped you get what you wanted. Once you had your operation, we filed the paperwork, to get your new gender registered with the government. Now you're officially a woman, even on your driver's license."

The tears flowed fully now from Andy. His life was ruined. But Maria smiled. This was just what she wanted. She had totally crushed him, taking away his very manhood. It was the perfect revenge for what he had done to her.

But she wasn't the type to gloat. She had built up to this moment for months, but she didn't want to just leave Andy dangling in the wind, suffering. What fun would it be living with a man in a woman's body, who moped around all the time? Andrea was a lot of fun to be with, even if Andy was a bore.

So now it was time to end Andy's suffering.

"I'm going to help you now" she said.

Andy nodded his head sadly. He felt beyond help.

"I'm going to turn off the 'Andy' inside you, and let Andrea take over, once and for all. 'He' will still be there inside you, but he will never bother you again. Your female side will completely take over, and you will again become whole. You'll become a woman on the inside too; forever."

With those key words, Andrea started to come back, as the inner 'Andy' within her became suppressed. Andy could feel himself slipping away. Everywhere, he felt a tingling. He was losing control. He could hear Andrea's thoughts in his head now. She was getting louder, and it was becoming difficult for him to hear himself over her.

Andy felt completely weak and helpless, as he slipped away forever, and Andrea took back over his mind. Now he was completely cast out. He was crushed, gone forever. And all that was left was Andrea.

 

"So" she said, "Don't we have a hair appointment today?"

"At 10:30" replied Maria.

"We had better get going so we're not late. Let me fix my makeup. I don't know why I was just crying. I'm such a silly, emotional girl."

Maria came over and gave her a hug.

"That's what makes you so wonderful" she said. "You're the best girlfriend that I could ever ask for."

Andrea cried one more tear. But this time, it was a tear of joy.

  

  

  

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