Home and a promise

Lauren looked back in the direction of the man she was talking to. “That was Marcus... he said he would get us into the bar without a cover charge saying the more pretty girls there the better. It is called Howl at the Moon, he is their accountant or something.” looking back to the two other girls she had a shy smile on her face. It felt good to be chatted up by a cute guy, but after being dumped she didn’t feel like she deserved it.

“Oh, that place is like so much fun. They have two piano’s and they play both in fighting with each other over like who is better. That sounds like so much fun... OH I know we can invite Janet she is like a serious type of girl, but so pretty!” Tiffany said excitedly, already pulling out her phone. “Lauren already has her man tonight, after we all get done up for a night out I’m sure the rest of us can get laid too!”

Tiffany: Jodie, Lauren and I are going to dress up and hit Howl at the moon at seven. You coming?

Janet: Seeing our pretty Jodie all dressed up at a bar, I’m there!

Janet: Is Lauren another secretary?

Tiffany: Thought you might know her; she is sleeping on Jodie’s couch.

On the other end of the phone Janet wondered if Jordan couldn't sleep in his room from the water damage and someone else was on the couch, where was he sleeping.

Tiffany went her separate way after making sure Lauren picked out something sexy for Jodie to wear so the three of them could cut loose. Coming back into the apartment with hands full of bags Lauren and Jordan saw Eric standing in the open doorway to the second bedroom. “Hey come over here, they finished up the room early to make up for some mistakes...” his voice trailing off seeing the vision Jordan had turned into. Standing there was wearing a long sleeve black top that left her flat midriff bare, a mauve skirt and thin matching belt, black stockings that he could just tell were thigh highs when he watched his friend walk in swaying his hips and taking a large step across the threshold, on her feet with a pair of five inch peep toe heels with a thick ankle strap. The outfit was eye catching, but what really made Eric stop was how his friend had their makeup done perfectly, eyebrows now a thin arch and lasty the hair. Jordan now had long full cinnamon red hair with gentle curls throughout. “Wow.. What a change.” the expression on Eric’s face told Lauren everything she need to know and she elbowed Jordan. “See Jodie, told you he would like it.” Eric’s focus breaking for the first time at his sisters' words. “I mean umm yeah, but with all that and what you bought how expensive was all of that?”

Lauren let out a giggle “The outfit that you are enjoying your girlfriend wearing was sixty for the shoes, were twelve, the skirt was twenty-six I think, belt was..” Lauren took the time to think of the rest of the costs. “About fourteen, blouse was seventeen, bra and panties were somewhere around seventy, but the panties came in a pack of three. Then the works was that has Jodie looking so appealing to you was around seven hundred and fifty. Even with all the other things we bought we came well within the budget you gave me with the money you told me to take from your wallet.” Lauren smiled at her brother, she was proud of herself for getting so much today and coming in under the generous budget her brother gave her.

Not realizing how much that all cost Jordan started to add that all up. “Sixty and twelve and then seventeen, no wait and then fourteen and...” His mind still a little addled from the tranquilizer he had taken this morning Jordan was having a hard time adding it all together, and even started to count on his now much girlier fingers, but had to start over and then had to stop to think of the last few numbers. “Nine hundred- and forty-nine-dollars Jordan, and that is before the rest of the bags.” Eric said placing his hands on top of Jordan’s to stop him from counting. Lauren just smiled at her ditzy friend, before taking the bags to the master bedroom. “Jordan.. Or should I call you Jodie?” Eric said holding his friend's hand. Biting his lower lip Jordan averted his gaze, but didn’t pull his hand away. “Umm, it might be easier to call me Jodie, until all this is over at least. The name has kind of snow balled out of control, kind of like my life right now.”

“Okay, then Jodie, about that snow ball... all that money Lauren took from my wallet only a little bit of it was for the shopping. The rest was the money for all of your lost possessions.” as he said this Eric face cringed a little bit and he squeezed the now feminine hand in his expecting his friend to start to tell. Jordan wanted to yell and rage, but with the **** still in his system the fire for such an emotion just wouldn’t come, so instead Jordan just laughed. Head tilted back full-on laughter, of course the money that was used to transform him into a hot red head woman was his own. It was the type of laughter that could turn into crying and sensing what could come Eric pulled his friend by the held hand into an embrace. Hearing the laughter Lauren peeked out of the bedroom to see the couple holding each other. The sight brought a smile to her face, she knew her brother would love the red headed looking remembering some posters from his room when he was younger.

Pulling free of the embrace Jodie looked to the room that was once his own now having new carpet, fresh painted walls but completely empty. “On the bright side when your sister leaves in a few days we will be taking the first steps to getting back to normal, though I’m not really sure what that would look like right now.” Eric went to interject, but Jordan stopped him. “I still owe you that money and with all your help through this, so much more. I need some sort of control in my life, Eric I need to do something right. I will pay you back, I promise.”