Girls Don't Grow On Trees

Shelly grabbed my hand, then hugged me before we sat at their kitchen table, "Oh my god, it is so great to see you. You and Nicole sort of disappeared."

"Did we? I mean, don't you see her?"

Trevor gave me a look, "Never, years ago. Not since the last incident."

"The what?"

"Well, maybe you didn't realize, but Nicole is a, well a trollop, for lack of a better word." He looked at his wife and she agreed. "I don't know how many times she came on to me, she was getting a little exhausting, Zhang and Clarise could vouch for us too. It wasn't just me."

"Did you not know?" Shelly asked surprised.

"Mmm," I thought, I tried to remember, "Well she always had lovers, always." I made a face and they both shook their heads, "I didn't think she was trying to sleep with my friends."

"Hmm, heh..." Trevor grabbed my hand. "Well, she did, all the time, I'm sorry you had to hear it from us."

I felt my pink lips move around my face, I was thinking, I was thinking hard, I didn't care. "She divorced me and threw me out of the house," I shrugged, I didn't really care at all anymore. "I hardly ever see her and when I do she is NEVER happy to see me."

"You know, we haven't heard anything about the two of you, it has been years. You are divorced? Well obviously, that is great news, can I make some calls later? Tell the others, you know our friends?"

And I nodded, and I wondered what they would think, not just the end of Nicole and my relationship. What would they think about everything, my long nails included? I wondered where was Ray. I turned around expecting to see him, expecting him to have a smirk on his face, a finger poking into my back. He must still be outside, I was slowly forgetting about him.

Trevor poured me some more water, "Is that guy your boyfriend, or husband?"

My eyes rolled, "God no, ha. He is actually one of Nicole's many lovers. He sort of kidnapped me." I ran outside to collect my phone, then I showed them pictures, shots of Mark, Alice, even some from the modeling I have been doing. "My life is quite different now." The last picture I showed them was me in my green dress.

"We can see. You look great, you look so happy." Shelly grabbed my hand again, my eyes started to mist. I wished I had never lost contact with the two of them. I walked back outside, ready to start shopping and Ray took my phone again. The three of us watched him walk back to the car.

"I was wondering..." I invited them to the party, I told them how much I loved my new place. They invited me back into their life, it was nice. I would see them in a couple of hours, I will never tell Nicole, but I had a feeling Ray was telling her right now. He was on my phone, I watched him put it in his pocket after I hugged the two of them goodbye.

His smirk returned. "Done?"

"Mmm, thank you for taking me here." I smiled, he smiled back, he seemed happy for the first time. I don't think I had ever seen him smile, usually, it was just a sneer.

*

Back in the car, Ray got a little chatty. I had to admit I wasn't used to it.

"That was fun, right?" I watched as he shook his head. "See I told you it would be okay, I'm not always a nasty guy, you know." I watched him drive. He still gave me a bad taste in my mouth, but I wasn't a good judge of character.

"How do you know them and know where they live?"

"Whenever we drove by their house Nicole would tell me stories. Not good ones, heh. By the way, I put a couple of new numbers into your phone." He placed a finger on his front pocket. "She told me she wouldn't let you call or talk to them for some reason, I never asked. She brought them up yesterday when she was throwing me out of her house, well your house."

"She threw you out?"

"Yeah, last night. I didn't live there anyway, I just showed up. Nicole didn't really care who she shared a bed with ya know. I didn't want to break it to her that I was just a visitor, just like you when you were there."

"Ha, I love that the two of you considered ME a visitor. I loved that house, but surprisingly right now I officially don't miss it at all."

"Well, doesn't matter, we can both move on. Nicole just wanted you around to fund her. You HAD to go, you were making her fat and distracting her boyfriends, heh. You know I only stayed with her because of you. I loved our little get-togethers. I loved watching you move around that kitchen in all those short skirts and colorful heels."

I gave him a quick look, I didn't believe him and I wasn't flattered. "Oh really?"

"Yeah, ya think I stayed this long for her? She's a fuckin' maniac and she gave lousy head. Plus I never ate so good, you always had something in that oven. I loved going there just for the smell of you baking. I'm gonna miss that. Oh, and that guy Mark called back, so did someone named... Alice, she called a bunch of times."

He took my phone from his front pocket, and I took it and texted them all, I even texted Gee and Mike, my new lawyer. He told me he had all of the documents from the divorce and all the papers involving the house. I liked having a lawyer, I loved having friends, I loved that they were looking for me. I was wiggling and bouncing in the passenger seat, nervous because now I was going to be late. Late for my own party. Ray ended up taking me to the liquor store for more wine, more mixers. Next, I ran into the supermarket, more beer, some salads, bags of chips, the usual. I didn't even have time to be nervous.

By the time we got back to the condo, shopping bags in our hands, everyone was already there, even Shelly and Trevor. Everyone was in the saved spot by the pool. I waved, my pink smile bigger than ever. Mark ran over, kissed me, helped us unload the car, he seemed a little confused, but I didn't want to say anything yet.

"Everything good?"

I just smiled, I felt a little embarrassed being with a man most of the afternoon that I didn't even like. "Mmm."

"I will let Alice fill you in on what you missed."

My smile shifted. "Okay."

We went into my condo, then the three of us took the food I made from my kitchen. I felt so unremarkable, I was a little shy going over to the pool to see everyone in my ratty denim skirt and messy hair. Everyone else was in bikinis and swim trunks, well except Alice. As I got closer they all watched me, rubbed my bare shoulders, said hello.

Alice ran over and took the tray of deviled eggs, hummus, and finger sandwiches I was holding. "Let me help." I made room on the table as she laid down the tray, she was giving me a sideways glance. She folded her arms. "So, everything okay? The party started quite weird."

"Did it?"

'Subdivisions

In the basement bars

In the backs of cars

Be cool or be cast out'

Alice's music was playing, it suddenly got a little louder. She grabbed my hand, she started to move. She was picking the worst time to dance with me. I took so long before I mimicked her, copied her moves, shook my rear. She laughed as I copied them almost perfectly, as the others started dancing around us. Soon the entire section of the pool area was up and moving to an eighties progressive rock song, a song not built for dancing.

"Have you been practicing?" She called over the bass of the music, her eyebrows low.

"Mmm maybe, I am worried what grade you are going to give me." And then I spun, using what she showed me, floated around, and wiggled my hips, she would never know how much I appreciated everything she had done for me.

I felt hands on my waist, and a kiss on my cheek. "Hi, you look amazing." It was Gee, I could tell Alice was getting jealous.

"Really? Then Alice must look thirty times as amazing."

"Heh, I am sure she does." The three of us danced as I watched Mark and Mike put the beer in coolers, set up the wine and liquor. Watched all my friends dance amidst the lounge chairs, tables, and potted trees. The entire crowd of them.

*

We were in my kitchen, Alice and I were getting more food together. We could hear the music, we could hear lots of voices.

I handed her a carrot stick as I found the new gold plastic cutlery. Her red lips surrounded the orange. "So while you were having fun with the dog walker, Nicole's lawyers brought everything over to Mike, here, right at the beginning of the party. He said they gave him all the files and various papers from the divorce, the house, even the cars."

"Really? That was quick, Mike must make them nervous."

"Then the lawyers left, and guess who showed up? I didn't even know who it was at first, Mark told me."

"Wait, who?"

"Ha," She giggled, drowning out the music, "Who do you think? Hurricane Nicole is small but feisty she was pretty loud too. I can't wait to officially meet her so I can write her biography, ha..."

"Aww, I will bring her over to the salon, you two can bond."

"Ha, whenever you are ready, I will wear some armor." She giggled some more as we got the rest of the food ready to take to the pool area. "We all watched her bang on your door, she was so mad. I giggled, I was having a whale of a time." Alice was STILL giggling and chewing. "She was looking all over for you, then she must have noticed Mark and Mike. She ran through the little garden and broke one of the lounge chairs, she tried to push Mark into the pool. She was screaming at everyone. She noticed a couple of your guests and she got real quiet, it was even weirder than her yelling. She whispered that she never wanted to hear from you again. Then she gave us this intense glare and left, stomping away."

"Oh god, I'm sorry. I wish I was there for that."

"Um, no you don't, it was good you got kidnapped. C'mon, let's get back to the pool and make sure he doesn't kidnap anyone else."

*

"Sabrina! Excellent party. Thanks for inviting me!" Ray was obviously enjoying himself, he lifted his bottle and performed a hand gesture I didn't understand for Alice and me. He was the only one fully dressed, ironically, and he stood out because of it. He was talking to Shelly and Trevor.

I was quite happy as I served the crowd, more than a dozen, I was glad I bought the extra wine and beer. I was trying to talk and mingle with everyone, trying to appear as the great hostess I assumed I was.

"Hi, would you like another drink?" And I poured or I fished in the cooler, things were working out quite well.

Mike was busy, he was pointing to X's for me to sign, while my hands were frozen from being in the ice. "We gave Nicole an extension, on the house and the car. Thank god you missed it. She was livid."

"Aww, I don't like it when she's upset, I wish I could call her, tell her I moved farther away."

"You would still be able to hear her yell."

'Drawn like moths, we drift into the city

The timeless old attraction

Cruising for the action

Lit up like a firefly

Just to feel the living night'

***

When I was young, you know, really young, about nine or ten. I was standing in front of my mother's mirror. Gold trimmed, had post-it notes on it, had menus and pictures stuck into the corners of the frame. I felt I wasn't alone, I was with a crowd.

"Dinner's ready!"

"Okay!" I yelled toward the door. I was in a daze, I was in a dream, I was wearing my mother's sheer purple robe, her purple slippers with plastic heels.

"I said dinner's ready, come on." She stopped, she watched me from the door. "What are you doing?"

"Um, being you. Is that okay?"

Turns out it wasn't. I told Nicole that story. I told her with one of her boyfriends waiting in her bed. I was in a purple robe, I wanted her to know I had been like this for a long time. She thought it had something to do with her.

"You live with me and then start becoming a woman." She shook her head, disappointed. "I know quite a few guys who could have helped with that. These little scenes you make could have all been avoided." She didn't understand, I certainly didn't, but I felt better. I realized I didn't care who she was sleeping with anymore.

***

Everybody was gone, the music was lighter, the fridge and coolers were quite empty. Trevor and Shelly were the last to leave. They invited Mark and me to dinner, a dinner with all my old friends, maybe some new ones too.

"That was so much fun." I was leaning against him, his shirt opened, he smelled like the pool, he tasted a little like Florida again.

"Mmm, I didn't know you were so popular."

"Ha, neither did I."

I gave him a long kiss, our tongues danced, and my fingers were all over his chest. I let him caress my ass as I stood, let his nose graze my back, his lips making me slightly wet under my yellow tank top. I went to clean up and change.

Moments later I clicked out, my six-inch clear stripper pumps making noise, drawing his attention. I posed, I was now a model, I knew how to pose. I did a spin, a move I learned from Alice, I had a nonchalant look on my face, pursed lips, mysterious smile. I never stopped moving, I never stopped my expressions from shifting. I waited for his reaction.

"Hi, I remember you." He stood, he moved closer.

"Do you?"

"Mmm,"

"Would you like an autograph, maybe a picture?"

I giggled as I unbuttoned his shirt. My hands, my long nails back on his hairy chest. My fingers marking my territory, ready to visit places I have never been to before. My nose was firmly against his scratchy lips. His arms around me, pulling me closer, feeling the green dress that brought us together, that sent me into the world, that introduced me to Gee and Alice. I felt that I looked better inside it now, more femme, more sure of myself. Especially with my new hair, I was more confident. This dress used to be for me and me only but now I realized it was for him, Mark, my new lover. Funnily enough, I never felt like Nicole, never felt like some tart who needed sex and cock constantly. This instant I felt like me, the me that was hiding in the trees, the bushes, the mirror.

"Thank you for finding me."

In one quick move, I slipped down his sweatpants, his moist swimming trunks. I kneeled in front of him, his cock hard and pointing at my lips. I kissed him, licked the length, sucked his balls. I looked up, a half smile on my face.

"Mmm..."

"Ahh, Sabrina, I am so glad you moved into my life."

"I didn't even know the people who lived in the condo before you."

His hands went into my hair, messing it up, while my fingers messed up the hair surrounding his manhood. Once again he entered my lips, I let him hit the back of my throat, and I sucked lightly but steadily. His cock slipped out of my mouth. "They would have warned me about you."

I squinted, then winked. Was I always this cute? Was I always a flirt? Was I always so sure of myself, my sexuality? I didn't know, and at that moment I didn't care. I was a transgirl who had a penis in her mouth, two strong thighs in my grip and my knees and stripper heels dipping into the rug. I had no time to ponder anything but my lover's pleasure.

"Mmmm..."

I let him inside me deeper, I relaxed my tongue, my throat, felt him rub against the roof of my mouth, felt him push against my cheeks. I started to suck his head, taste the little bit of pre-cum he was leaking, it started to excite me, made me lose my breath and shiver. I took his cock inside of me even deeper as I held my breath, imagining he was getting harder and larger with each thrust. I let him mess up my blondeness some more, I let him finger my hoop earrings. I tried to control myself as his cock started to throb and move on its own, I tried to make it seem like I was used to having some hardness on my tongue.

"God, baby this feels so good."

"Mmm," I loved that he called me baby, I loved that he was watching me. I put my hand on his cock and started to rub, then pump, then my lips slipped off. I put my fingers on my thighs, moving down, getting more comfortable as Mark took over the pumping. My tongue sticking out waiting for his semen, just waiting for another taste of him. His two hands bounced his manhood against my tongue, my chin, as I watched his eyes. I wanted him to know, I was looking forward to pleasing him, not just now but maybe forever. "Mmm..."

"Ahh, I'm gonna cum baby." One more sigh and he did, landing some on my lips, more on my chin and cheek. I started to orgasm, I didn't even touch myself, just a little friction from my stockings, my legs. I was tucked and I felt my panties becoming so wet as his cock went into my mouth again, I sucked him some more, tasting the perfect saltiness he produced. I pulled off to show him all his sperm that he let me have, which he presented to me. My smile was huge.

I played with his cum in my mouth, put on a show, then swallowed. "Mmm, so good." My neutral lips showed a huge smile.

His cock grazed my cheeks, nose, I felt his wetness against me making me excited again. He watched, a look on his face I had never seen from a lover before. It was a look of complete satisfaction. His fingers were on my face, moving the little bits of cum into my mouth, my tongue out as we kept eye contact, as I let him feed me his man juice. Slowly he cleaned me up and I gave his fingers one last tentative suck.

"Come on up." He helped me stand, my knees burning. I held onto him as we kissed, tasted each other. We fell back onto the couch, we fell asleep, my hair in his mouth, his arms wrapped around me. The music slowly faded away.

***

"Hello, good morning." My lawyer was calling me. I loved having my very own lawyer, did I tell you that? My lover was caressing me, I loved that too. I was a very easy 'girl' to make happy.

"Good morning you..."

It only took a couple of weeks. Just two showings to sell the great house near the lake and next to all the children. Just two showings to two different couples. One from Yorkshire, from the UK, the other from a town just north of San Diego.

"Everyone loves that room with the tiles, the mirrors, the one next to the kitchen." He told me. "They all love those wood slats on the wall."

Soon the price was going higher and higher as they bid against each other, I was getting embarrassed, I wanted someone to be happy to start their life in the house I used to love. I didn't want angst, I didn't want nervousness, I didn't want competition, I didn't want one of the couples to be upset. I told Mike and the realtor and in three days the two of them found another house close by. Soon both houses were sold and the young couple from Southern California were moving in. I sent champagne, a basket of fruit, muffins, and a record called Signals by RUSH, with Alice's favorite song.

I was hoping they owned a phonograph.

They didn't, I sent one of those too.

'Subdivisions

In the high school halls

In the shopping malls'

***

I was making eggs, I was baking muffins, my hips were so sore. It was a soreness I wasn't used to, but I kind of liked it. It brought back all sorts of memories.

The music was on really low, when I moved closer to my slightly open bedroom door I could hear breathing, I could hear the slight shifting of the bedsprings. I loved listening. I loved knowing that I had a visitor in my midst, in my bed. I was sore in other places too.

Ring...

"Good morning Sabrina, I hope you didn't wear out my brother I need him today." Alice was calling, she was quite awake, quite happy for a Saturday morning.

"I'm sorry, I think I did. Oooh, maybe I broke him, I don't even know. What does a broken boy even sound like?"

"Well, you better go ride him a little. I want him up and rip roarin' to go. We meet at twelve, and Gee is so excited he has been planning this for months."

"I can't wait." I lied.

"You especially are going to love it. Make sure you bring that green dress the guys love, they do nothing but talk about it." And she was gone, hyper, probably dancing and running around like a crazy horse getting her things together. Me? I had something to do, I was going to go on a little ride. Again.