Frank came over, and I told him my brother wasn't home. "I know," he said, "Can I talk to you?" He goes to school with him, and sometimes comes over to play, or do homework together, but he never really talked to me before.
"What about?"
"Well, it's private. Can we go talk in your room? In private."
"Oh, kay?" I'm not supposed to have boys in my room, but I didn't see mom, and dad, so I snuck him in, then he busted out crying right away. "Oh, what's wrong?"
"I'm sorry. I stole your underwear, I just didn't know what else to do!"
I was so shocked, and felt really weirded out all of a sudden. "Why?" I heard about it, mom warned me about boys trying to get in my underwear, and I always wondered why they'd want to do that, but it never happened to me before.
"Uh!" He just sat down, and shook his head. His arms crossed, like he was mad, but instead, he just kept crying. "Snh! I can't."
"Here." I got out a tissue, and gave him it. "Wipe your nose."
He blew it too, and threw it away, but that ment uncrossing his arms, and before his shirt fell down. "Did you stuff socks in your shirt or something?" I didn't think anything about it before, it's just his style. Wearing button-up shirts all the time, like some boys always wear teeshirts, or some girls would rather wear pants.
"No, uh. I guess it's all right, if you're a girl." He got up, and pulled the drapes over my window first. "If you promise not to tell anyone."
"I can't." I shook my head. Mom told me about this too. Boys that want me to keep secrets, especially weird secrets, about my body. Like a boy that took my underwear, but then he lifted up his shirt and showed me.
"Oh, hahah?" I covered up my mouth, when he started crying again, and sat down on my bed. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to laugh, you just surprised me. When you said my underwear, I thought you ment my panties." Mom always said underpants.
He shook his head, "Why would I want your panties?"
"I don't know," she never explained that part. It's gross, with pee, and poop residue, and butt sweat. Ew. "Why did you take my Camisole?"
"What's a camisole?"
"You know, the undershirt, you're wearing?"
"Oh, that. I thought it was a training bra."
"It is, that's just another word for it." I don't want to say bra, is all. It's like panties, I don't know why I said panties earlier, instead of underpants. It's dirty, and I guess I was thinking about how dirty it is. A boy, who wants to get in my underpants. "So what's with boys and underwear, anyway?"
"I don't know," he shrugged. "Huh! I guess it's not the underwear so much as what's in them."
I giggled, "Buts?"
"No, boobs."
"I don't have any, yet."
"Then how come you got training bras?"
"To get used to it? That's why it's called a training bra." It's funny, but all this talking about underwear made me feel a little less weirded out about talking about underwear. Which is weird, because he came in here because he stole my underwear. Did I forget?
"I, uh. Well, I don't yet, but I'm starting to."
"What?"
"Grow boobs."
"No." I thought he just stuffed something in there. Like I did, when I first got my camisole, since they're supposed to get me used to it when I have some, to hold in them. I used socks, and a bunch of my friends tried them on, and stuffed socks in there. Giggling, and prancing around like grownups with boobs.
"Huh!" He took off his shirt, and my camisole. To give it back, but also, he showed me. Sure enough, they were small, but even his nipples were swollen, and he rubbed the lines under them, where the tight top dug in. Crossed his arms, and said he was "Sorry." Again, for taking my underwear, but. I didn't know what was going on. It was just weird, weird enough that a boy stole it in the first place, but who ever even heard of a boy getting boobs in the first place?
He sobbed again. For a long time, but I just said it, was "Okay. Huh, it's okay, you can keep it. If it means that much to you, go ahead and put it back on."
"It hurts." He shook his head.
"Then why do you wear it?"
"To hide them. To make me flat, and normal, like a boy again." He sobbed, "I just want to feel normal again." Well, that explains why he always wore button up shirts. To hide them, just like he said, it was just so weird, doing something so weird as stealing my underwear to feel normal, but mom warned me about that. I didn't understand it, but at least I expected that. Now, thank goodness he was putting his shirt back on, so he looked like a boy again. Instead of a short haired girl, topless on my bed. I had friends, with boobs like that, and saw them changing before, but they're girls. I never even imagined a boy sitting topless in my room, with the marks from wearing my camisole, and when he left I couldn't stop thinking about them.
The tight elastic around my chest, and back, and shoulders. I did get used to it, by now. That's what it's for, I'd been wearing them long enough I just forgot it was there. Like my underwear, you don't think about your underwear, it's just there, but it felt uncomfortable again. So, when he left I took it off, and put my top back on. Not like I need it, being so skinny, and flat, you can barely even see my nipples unless you look for them, because they're so tiny, and the same color as the rest of me.
I got a good look though, and they even bent around them. His boobs, it just makes me feel so weird. Seeing his boobs, and the lines bent around them, instead of in straight lines, like I've got from wearing it. I think I understand him hiding them, though. They already call him freaky Franky, and they don't even know he's got boobs, do they? I don't know, boys walk around topless all the time, and I bet they change around each other too.
I just hug my chest, imagining what they must be like. No wonder he cried, that must be horrible!
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