An Unforgettable Sissy Summer

The Photos

The rest of the week was quite uneventful. It was just Claire and Michael in the shop for the rest of the week and they were getting on well. The events of Monday (i.e the photo shoot) had been a good bonding experience for them, even if neither of them had explicitly mentioned it.

Since Monday Michael was getting slightly more involved with the customers. Instead of directing them to Claire, he tried to give advice on some dresses to one or two customers, and it didn't go unnoticed by Claire. He even had the confidence to assist a customer in the lingerie section! Michael usually winced just by hearing the word bra or panties. She could have sworn that she even caught him looking longingly at a dress one time, but perhaps he was just bored and staring into the distance.

Friday came around and Claire came out from the back of the shop with the photos from Monday. Michael was strangely nervous. He hoped he looked good, although he tried to show his mum that he didn't care.

"Let's see them then I suppose".

Claire opened the email from Maria and started scrolling through. As promised, Michael's head had been cropped from all of the pictures which was a relief. Another relief was that he looked good. In fact he looked kind of great. He'd be mortified if his mum found out, but he was quite proud of himself. If he didn't know that it was him he'd be convinced that it was a woman's body. His slender frame was hugged tightly by the dresses. His thin arms looked feminine as he held a bouquet of flowers in one photo. It was quite jarring to see himself like this, but it was not unpleasant. 

"Yeah not bad" He said, trying to play off how impressed he really was. "Saved us the money on that deposit so that's something".

"Oh come on, these are great! You are great! Thank you so much for helping me out, it means a lot. In fact, why don't you leave early today. I'll give you some money and you can catch a movie or something".

"Ummm, I could, sure. But don't we need to pick out which photos to use?" Michael said sheepishly.

"Sure thing honey, let go through them properly and have a look. We can upload them to the website tonight." Claire detected a sparkle in her son's eye as she said that. Was he really enjoying this? Earlier in the week he was mortified at the idea of taking the photos. Now he seemed to relish the idea of them being on the internet. She thought better than to question it, so instead they spent the next hour choosing which photos should go on the website.

After they had selected the photos, Michael asked Claire to make sure to keep this a secret.

"Please don't tell Chloe about this mum. She'll only get all weird and annoying about it. Lets keep it between us ok?"

"Of course Michael, of course".

With Chloe back next week, Michael would probably retreat back into his shell a bit. She was such an extrovert that it rarely left room for Michael to shine. Still, even if things went back to normal, Claire would always have this lovely week spent with Michael, where they shared an unlikely passion for wedding dresses.