In Death We Shall Cry For You

The Tears In My Eyes

(this is a gender bent frerard)

Gee stood in her small bedroom, standing in a plain black bra with some black panties, looking in her full length mirror. Biting her chapped lip, she reached behind her to unclasp the bra, and pushed it from her body.

A lump stuck in her throat as she saw the rough skin patches on her breasts, and twisted her hips to see the large lump on the back of her right shoulder, the smaller lumps trailing to her breast. What would her mother say? What would Frank say?

"Gee! Frank's here! Should I send him up?" Mikey, her baby brother called up the stairs.

Gee wiped a hand under her eyes and a bit of foundation came off. "In a sec please, Mikes!"

Gee hastily tugged her bra on, grabbing a baggy hoodie to pull over, and a pair of short shorts, just as the bedroom door opened.

"Hey, princess," Frank said, wrapping his arms around his girlfriend and kissing her head. "You okay?"

Gee hesitated before nodding. "And you, Frankie?"

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A few days later Gee was in town with Mikey, in a shop looking at some make-up, when the room began to spin.

"Mikey!" She whimpered, throwing an arm out to clutch at her sibling, but failed and fell to the ground, blacking out.

She woke up in the hospital, her mother half asleep in an uncomfortable looking chair.

"Mum?" She whispered. "Mum why are we here?"

Her mother jumped. "Gee!" She looked flustered before leaping to the door and shouting for a nurse or a doctor.

A nurse and a doctor walked in, and the nurse busied herself by checking Gee's pulse and temperature and blood pressure.

"Miss Way, Mrs Way, there isn't any way to put this nicely. Gee has breast cancer, and we're still determining if it's possible to operate on. The marks are on both the breasts, and if it's possible to operate, we're suggesting a double mastectomy. It only takes about two to three hours, and no need for overnight stay. If you do choose this, we'd like to operate as soon as possible, tonight or early tomorrow morning."

Tears welled up in Gee's hazel eyes, and mirrored in her mother's. They agreed on the operation, and told it would be tomorrow morning at 8:30. After being discharged, Gee was walked to her mum's car and they drove home.

"What do I say to Frank?" She whispered softly, even more tears escaping her. Her mother didn't seem to notice, but was silent, driving through the darkening streets with tear stains breaking her make-up.

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The next day Gee was taken to the hospital early, at 7:00am. Mikey had been told about this and had been told to tell Frank that Gee and their mother were out in a few towns over shopping. Her Mum was even ordering some clothes that Gee wanted and had it on 1 day delivery so Frank wouldn't be suspicious, even though Gee told her he would probably forget.

But hey she got some new skirts.

She was put under anaesthesia for the surgery, and as the doctor had said it did only take a few hours. By the time she had woken up, it was late afternoon. The hospital discharged Gee later that night near closing time to keep an eye on her.

Gee felt a bit funny about the operation, her breasts had been removed how strange, but this was for the best. Would she have to wear a bra now? Could she get fake boobs?

Her Mum was leafing through a small pack she had been given about her daughter's operation. "It says here you could still wear a bra, but have to talk to a doctor about it. And have to come back in twenty four hours, but we knew that."