James assured his brother that he wasn’t ‘teasing’. “Why would I do that?” he asked.
“To get me in trouble,” John replied.
“It wouldn’t be the first time.”
“But I’d be in just as much trouble.”
“Not if you made sure it was just me wearing Mother’s clothes,” John said as he looked at his reflection;
his long slim legs clad in expensive silk stockings,
held in place by a suspender belt that’s hidden by a pair of champagne French knickers.
From his shoulders hangs a matching satin camisole,
trimmed with lace and decorated with a tiny satin bow.
James assured his brother that he wasn’t plotting anything of the sort.
“It’s up to you what you’re wearing when she returns,” he said.
When their mother did return from her trip, both James and John wore their own clothes.
John made sure that they’d left her room and wardrobe exactly as she left it three days previously.
This was because part of him didn’t believe that the endeavour was his mother’s idea.
After a warm welcome, she sent James upstairs with her cases.
She then asked John if they’d been having fun and asked what they’d been doing whilst she was away.
“Er… not much really.” he guiltily replied.
“No?” she replied.
“I was hoping that James might have shown you some of the things he’s been learning at school?”
“Er… what kind of things?” John hesitantly asked.
“Oh you know.” his mother casually replied.
“Things like, shaving your legs and shaping your eyebrows…” she said. “
…wearing my makeup, my lingerie, that kind of thing.”
John gulped. “Is that what he does at school?”
“You haven’t answered my question yet.” she replied.
“…and if I’m not mistaken, it does look like you’ve at least shaped your eyebrows.”
“Oh er…” John sheepishly stammered. “…yeah… James did it.”
“And the rest?” she asked.
John gulped and nodded.
What felt like a silly, impulsive and maybe even naughty bit of fun now feels shameful and deeply humiliating in the cold light of day.
John reiterated his question about what James does at school.
“I think you’ll find that he does lots of different things at school… pampering, preening and enjoying nice clothes is just a small part of it.”