A Feminine Look

Chapter Six: Juliette's First Party

Annie totally played me, but I'm kind of glad she did. I had to 'perform' under the utmost pressure while pretending to be Juliette in front of her mom. Sure, I had my face concealed by a sheet mask, but I still had to fake a girl's voice, move femininely, and make sure I gave off zero male impressions. Looks like I passed.

And thank God I did, because otherwise I definitely wouldn't be confident enough to meet Scotty in person and convince him that I'm a girl named Juliette, rather than a boy named Jamie.

Chris got a huge kick out of my frighteningly stressful encounter with Annie's mom, but he too was glad I'd be prepared for my first of three promised interactions with Scotty.

"Dude, I still can't believe you got away with that," he said in the middle of munching on Cheetos.

I rolled my eyes, even though we were playing video games and he couldn't see me. "Chris, it was a week ago. Why do you keep bugging me about it?"

"I'm not bugging you," Chris insisted. "I just think it's hilarious that she didn't recognize you. I mean, how many times have you talked with her mom? How many times have you been in that very house? And she still thought you were a different person – a freaking girl, even!"

Annie never even told her mom that it was actually me. In fact, we didn't even give Chris all the details about girl practice. Sure, he knew that I was practicing walking, talking, and acting like a girl, but I conveniently left out that I was wearing panties on the daily underneath my boy jeans. Annie thought it'd be good to 'always keep a bit of Juliette with me'. I actually kind of agreed, as much as it scared me that someone might notice a frilly yellow band poking out of my jeans if they looked at me from the wrong angle.

But to this day, still only Annie, Chris, and Juan knew about our plan to get popular. Juan, of course, being the catalyst and one who'd actually be getting us into these parties. And as it turns out, it looks like this weekend would be the time.

It was Saturday, and Annie had just arrived at Chris's when he read out the text from Juan.

"Ben Grumman is having a party tonight. Can we make this a Juliette night?" Chris read from his phone. "Well, Jamie... is it gametime?"

It didn't take much discussion. I was ready to debut publicly as Juliette and get one of my three parties out of the way.

"Tonight's the night! Yes!!" she squealed. "What do you think you're gonna wear?"

"I haven't thought about it," I replied honestly. "I was just gonna defer to you."

Annie scoffed. "That's right, you haven't been a girl long enough to figure out your own style."

We decided to meet at Annie's at 7:30 to get ready for the party.

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As we've done in the past, Annie scooted Chris and me up to her room without her parents noticing. But now that 'Juliette' has been established, if we ever got caught, she'd simply claim I'm somebody else.

Annie had already laid out three complete outfits for me to choose from.

"Damn, dude! You're gonna look smokin'!" Chris joked.

"What's the easiest one to walk around in?" I said, brushing off Chris's weird remarks. "Comfort should be prioritized for the first night.

Annie stared at her selections for a bit, then settled on the middle option. "I'd say the leggings and top."

She was referring to a pair of black leggings and a slouchy sweater. It wasn't too girly, which I liked, and looked far more comfortable than the other two options, which looked like tighter skirts.