Dreams and Reality

Bailey minced up to the massive mansion that was painted pink with white accents. Each of his heeled steps felt off. The sway of his hips was normal, how he placed one heeled foot in front of the other hadn't changed, though the steps were short in the dress with a tight short skirt. As his hand went up to rap lighting on the door the answer to what felt off came to him and it was terrifying. He didn’t think about knocking, his arm had moved on its own as if someone else was controlling him. Terror ran through his mind and he wanted to flee from this house, but still he stood motionless with a wide smile waiting for the residents to answer. When the door opened standing on the other side was Mandy in a lovely white dress that hugged her body, she towered over Bailey even in his own heels. Glancing down he saw she wore the cutest white and black pointed toe stilettos. “Hi, I’m Barbie! She said, tilting her head slightly and giving a large smile. The name was wrong, but even as he looked at her he saw a silver necklace that said the same name. “Hi, I’m Bailey!” He said back mimicking her same movements. This was wrong, this house… he knew he recognized the property. This was the house from the tv show he was watching earlier. Once he realized that he knew why he felt like some unseen **** was controlling his movements, he was a doll.

“Hi, I’m Skipper!” A new face appeared in the doorway, it was Candi. “Hi, I’m Bailey!” He wanted to scream as this repeated again when Derrick showed up saying his name was Ken and again Bailey replied back. “Don’t you look lovely, you will fit right in here.” Derrick or Ken said and right away the girls rushed to give Bailey a hug. “Welcome home!” They said in unison and without letting go of the hug Candi looked Bailey up and down. “Bailey you can be my little sister Chelsea, wouldn’t that be fun!?” Before he could answer his clothes began to change to a pink dress with a thin white belt, his heels melting down to white ballet flats. A second later his body shrank to fit the image of the young family member. The horror never showed, just a smile as Bailey looked off into the distance as if looking at a camera, to talk to an audience. “Hi, I’m Chelsea and I’m home!”

Sitting up in bed with a jolt, Bailey looked around the dark room. He was laying in bed under the purple comforter on Becky’s bed. “Just a dream.” He said to reassure himself of the truth, not no he wasn’t really turning into a child in the world of Barbie to fit in. For a moment he just sat there in the silence of the dark house before getting up to go to the bathroom. As he got to the door he turned to look back at the bed as the fog of sleepiness drifted away he recalled, or rather did not recall how he got in bed. Last thing he remembered was laying his head on Aunt Megan’s chest and watching a movie. Not wanting to dwell on the mental image of her carrying him to bed he went about his task. After washing his hands and stepping out of the bathroom he kind of expected Aunt Megan to be… no just Megan, he corrected himself. He expected Megan to be there waiting for him to swat his bottom for not staying in bed, but her bedroom door was still closed. If he wanted to get away this could be his chance, maybe… Bailey stopped himself as he walked into the living room, ending his thoughts on escape. There would be none for him until the PI cleared his name and even if that wasn’t the case he would be just another homeless man on the streets. Being Bailey Ann Best was like being locked into a nightmare, but it was better than prison or being homeless in the Nevada heat.

With a sigh he sat down on the couch to try and cool his head and maybe get tired enough to fall back to sleep and hope it didn’t bring him back to his Barbie adventure. Sitting there he saw the flowered case on his cell phone right there on a coffee table. Picking it up he smiled, at the piece of fortune that the witch had left it out. Opening it up he looked to see what she had been up to and did not like the answers she found. He first clicked on a conversation with Mandy.

Bailey: Things are going like super great here!

Mommy: I was really worried, I wish you would have told me, but I understand why you didn’t.

Mommy: Are you sure you are willing to do this?

Bailey: Mommy I like totally want to do this for you and for us

Mommy: I know this is not easy for you, pretending to be a girl and seeing me with Derrick.

Mommy: We can find another way if you want.

Bailey: Stop that, this was all my idea remember? Besides, I like gave you permission and want you to be happy. Open relationship was about being happy and that is what I want for you.

Bailey: Now I need to stay in character, so like remember I’m your daughter to be spoiled and punished as I deserve. ;) I love you and I’m happy to be helping you, lets make it through the summer.

Bailey: I’m like super sleepy, so see you tomorrow night! Ttyl

Mommy: Okay honey, thank you. I love you.

What a load of shit, I don’t want to do this and I sure as fuck don’t want to spoiled or punished. Bailey was fuming. He didn’t really see many options to get Mandy out of this situation, but fuck why did she have to be with a guy like him. There were more messages to go through and he hoped they didn’t get worse than that one, though he wasn’t sure how it could.

Candi: Hey Girl! How you feeling?

Candi: The boys and I are having fun by the pool.

Candi: Wishing you were here, but like I just had boys take turns giving me a massage.

Candi: Not the same as like when we paid for one, but like it was super hot.

Bailey: Still like not feeling great, lots of like sleep and stuff.

Bailey: Gosh I wish that was me instead of you!

Candi: Well you need to get better so we can double date again this week.

Bailey: I can’t wait

Bailey: So did like either of them get hard while rubbing you?

Candi: You are so bad!

Bailey: That did not answer the question!

Candi: Well nothing like that lifeguard, that was so hot

Bailey: Yeah it was! Tell me like your favorite part.

Candi: IDK maybe like when he called you my name while he came.

Candi: Is that weird?

Bailey: Not at all, I liked it too

Bailey: Aunt Meg made me like some soup and then I’m going to go to bed.

Candi: Love you sis!

Bailey: <3 big sis :)

She now knew about what happened or at least she would have a really good idea of what happened at the water park. Bailey closed his eyes, squeezing them tight as he briefly relived the traumatic event. Needing to move on he clicked on the conversation with August and turned the phone off right away after he saw the image of his dick on a video that was sent. “No, nope, no.” Bailey said shaking his head without reading any of the messages before or after the video was sent and ignoring the ones from Liam completely. Seeing that he wasn’t sure if things got worse or if that was on par with the conversation with Mandy. Bad for sure and fuck he was not going to mentally go over this and think about comparing a video with a man’s dick on his phone to him reassuring his girlfriend it was okay to be with another man. Putting the phone down back on the table Bailey went back to the room, vowing tomorrow he was going to have a talk with Aunt Megan about having some boundaries. If she wanted him to be a good girl then she needed to stop this shit.

Laying back down in bed Bailey looked up to the ceiling fan and the popcorn ceiling covered in faintly glowing star stickers. Well that was two things he had in common with Becky, they both hated the wicked witch of the west and they both liked stars. Bailey lay there just looking up until his eyelids started to get heavy with President under one arm. It was childish, but he didn’t care. The bear was a symbol of his love for Mandy and it gave him some comfort and he would take any of that he could right now.