This choice: Diana does well at work for David • Go Back...Chapter #4Diana does well at work for David by: Jenny Amara   Diana stepped into David’s office building and immediately felt the pressure to perform weigh on her shoulders. This would be a make or break situation for David’s career and Diana was going to have to be masterful in her impression of David. She looked the part just fine. Now all she had to do was give the acting performance of her life. “David! Good you’re here. I was getting worried that you might be late. We’ve got to get these slides under control. The whole presentation is a mess right now and Tom is not happy. He told me that we either fix it or we don’t come back tomorrow,” a worried man said as he grabbed Diana’s wrist and pulled him into a meeting room.
Diana started at the man’s face intently. So hard she could barely think of anything else. The faintest glimmer of a thought manifested and Diana said, “Ok, calm down Brian. We’re going to handle it.” Brian looked back at Diana and his whole demeanor changed. “Oh shit, I got his name wrong,” Diana worried momentarily. “Thank goodness you’re here today. I couldn’t do this without you man. You’re my savior,” Brian said as he released the tension from his body. “Thank goodness, I almost blew it right away,” Diana thought to herself feeling grateful that she had managed to remember David’s coworker’s name. She tried to remember when she had met Brian to be able to recall his name, but the memory of their meeting eluded her. “Huh, must have been a long time ago I guess,” her thoughts lingered momentarily before diving into the challenge at hand.
The pair worked straight through lunch, ordering and then reordering slides. Making notes about who would present what parts and what they would say. Diana brought her unique and new perspective to the presentation and ended up changing significant portions of the slides to have them make more sense to a broader audience. Brian was in awe. Each suggestion seemingly leading to more easily digestible content. Brian kept bringing in more colleagues to test the slides out on and everyone was impressed with how the slides conveyed complex topics with ease. One man said that they had never understood a product as well until they had seen Diana’s slide.
Diana was on cloud nine. People were respecting her opinion immediately. The things she said were accepted as though she was the authority on the subject. Her experience at the school she worked at was the polar opposite. Her gruff stuffy old principal routinely dismissed her suggestions for improving results at the school. Now, she was truly feeling empowered for the first time. Not just empowered. She felt powerful. The combination of her male body, the testosterone, the adrenaline, the experiences she had encountered preparing this presentation, they were all combining to make her feel the best she had ever felt in her entire life.
*****
Back at the house David was tenuously making his way through the day. He had gotten dressed in some of Diana’s clothes, but nothing too feminine. He couldn’t stand the idea of wearing something frilly or with lace. So he put on the pair of pants that he found in the closet and a shirt that Diana had bought on a vacation. It was just a cotton shirt, nothing special about it, but David couldn’t help but be annoyed by the fact that it clung to his body so much. He had closed his eyes putting panties on. He completely ignored the fact that he should wear a bra.
David found a spot on the couch to sit down and decided he would just watch daytime television to pass the hours until this misery could be over. David had never been a fan of soap operas, there was too much drama or maybe it was melodrama. He could never get those straight. The episode for the day was about a long lost lover being reunited with his partner. David laughed at first at the absurdity of someone being gone for a year without any trace. As the man recounted what had happened to him, David felt his feelings soften. The poor man had been kidnapped by a rival for the woman’s affection. The rival knew he had lost, but was so desperate that he sent the man away to a remote island. The man had to scavenge, forage, and fight to survive. He told her how the thought of getting back to her was the only thing that kept him alive. David felt a tear form as the man recounted this point.
David found that he was getting really engrossed in the story now. So much he hadn’t realized that he was now sitting with his legs curled up next to him on the couch. He had seen Diana do the same when she would watch something she was really enjoying. On realizing he was unconsciously acting like Diana he promptly stretched his legs back out in front of him so he was sitting on the couch regularly. “How did I end up like that?” He wondered to himself.
Around lunch time David set to task to make something to eat. Looking through the fridge he started to reach for some leftovers he had from a meal earlier in the week. “Too heavy, I don’t want to feel all bloated later,” a stray thought sparked to existence in his mind. “Huh? Why would I worry about that?” David was confused by the seemingly errant thought. As he tried to pull the leftovers out of the fridge, again he felt another compulsion to just put the food back and have a salad instead. “It will be easier and you’ll feel better later,” another thought appeared seemingly out of nowhere.
*****
Diana returned home at the end of the day feeling triumphant. “I’m home! Also, you’re the hero of the office. The presentation is amazing and everyone is fully onboard!”
David walked out of the bedroom to greet his wife. “That’s great Diana. I’m so glad things worked out. Hopefully Brian took the lead enough so you weren’t overburdened.”
“Brian helped, but it was mostly me to be honest. I just found a groove and got the job done! I was on fire!”
“Oh… well that’s good then. I’m glad you had a good day,” David said but his posture betrayed his feelings. He demurred as he seemed to feel even more uncomfortable by the role reversal that had inadvertently occurred.
“Don’t be sour David. This is something to celebrate! I bet you’ll get a promotion if this presentation goes as well as people were saying. We should go celebrate! Come on, go throw a dress on and we’ll dance and drink and have a great time until this whole situation ends.”
“A dress? Really? I don’t want to be seen out wearing a dress. I’m a guy.”
“Not today you aren’t. Everyone will see you as 100% girl. Come on, trust me. You’ll find it liberating. I promise.”
“I don’t know.”
“Please… for me?” Diana drew out her words to emphasize how much it meant to her.
“Alright, but nothing too short. I don’t want a bunch of guys staring at me all night.”
Diana helped David get into a dress which required a strapless bra to help support the dress. David was just glad it wasn’t digging into his shoulders. Looking at himself in the mirror he couldn’t believe how nice he looked and how nice he felt. Though, he did rationalize these points by thinking it was, “how nice his wife looked”. His own memories of his wife wearing this same dress were helping to ground him in the role play.
“Let me put a little mascara on here for you,” Diana said as she moved the pen straight in to David’s face.
“Hey, what’s the deal?”
“We’ve got to complete the look. Don’t be a baby, you’ll look great”
“Ugh, fine. Just be quick about it.”
Diana applied the mascara, dusted David’s cheeks with some blush and then helped him apply some lipstick to finish the look.
“There, you look perfect. If you play your cards right maybe you’ll get lucky tonight,” Diana said teasing David.
“I cannot express to you how impossible that is. I’m a guy Diana. I’m not going to get ‘lucky’ as a girl. Never going to happen. Period.”
“Alright, alright. I was just teasing. You’ve been a good sport. We’re good to go get dinner now. I’ll tell you all about my day and if we feel up for it we can dance a bit and then come home. By the time we’re in bed the changes will be staring to reverse and we can put this day all behind us.”
“Thank you, that sounds good.”
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