No one should be awake before the sun.

Aiden was about to walk to the bedroom when his own words echoed in his mind. ‘Well then I guess I better go to the interview.’ This was crazy, he had just agreed to pretend to be a woman.

“Vicki, is there any other way? It has only been a few hours, did you even try to find me a real job?” the words didn’t come out hard like an accusation, but one of pleading.

“Aiden James Arwain, how dare you accuse me of such a thing! Do you think I want you to dress up like some pervert! What would happen to me if you got caught, do you even think of anyone beyond yourself?” Victoria was yelling like in anger, but it was all for show. Aiden took a few steps away from her, running both is hands through his hair, holding his head tight as he shook his head. Of course, he thought about other people, but the accusation hit a lot closer to home than he would have liked. It was hard to think, with how he thought the **** was hitting him, but he was in **** need, in a bad place. Of course, he was thinking about himself. The way Vicki was yelling at him had surprised him, she hardly ever raised her voice, let alone to him.

“While you were gone, I checked your references. Do you know what happened when I called your old law firm’s HR department? No, you have no idea, do you?” swallowing hard Aiden shook his head.

“They aren’t just saying you got fired for cause and they would not rehire you, they are saying they cannot go into details about why you are fired as it is company policy to not discuss allegations of ****.” She lied.

“I didn’t... You know I didn’t, she was willing and...” Victoria waved her hand as if to brush his words away. “I lived through this too you piece of shit, I know what you did and didn’t do. But now you know why you can’t get a job at your level or any level for that matter. I made two more phone calls on your behalf, one at a technical recruiter that their entire company's job is to find people jobs. Do you know what he told me?” again Aiden shook his head. “That you would make more money living on the streets begging than working, because no one would touch you. That sounds bad, because it is, but it gets worse dear.” she let that last phrase sink in before continuing.

“My last phone call was to a day labor location I know someone at. They take drunkards and the like and give them manual labor paying minimum wage. Do you know who they won't touch? People that had **** allegations. Their advice, go apply for a job somewhere and say you have zero work experience and zero education and pray they don’t have someone who does background checks. That is just how fucked you are.” Aiden took a few steps closer to the couch, feeling his knees weaken he dropped down onto the sofa.

“Okay, okay, I'm sorry. I shouldn’t have said that, but if we are making up a person why can’t I be a male? And why does my education matter?” he asked, rubbing the back of his neck feeling like the walls were closing in.

“Who is going to believe someone with your education doesn’t have work history? No one and creating a person out of thin air isn’t magic and this isn’t a movie or some fiction story Aiden. I’m not a criminal mastermind that creates documents for people to run from the law. No, I talked to Heather and...”

“Heather knows!?” Aiden looked up from the spot on the floor he had been looking at, the idea she talked to her sister about his personal business was upsetting. It was something they had fought about before and hearing it now kindled some of that fire.

“Getting tired of your shit Aiden, don’t interrupt me. Jesus why am I even helping you? Besides, we already talked about her part in this. Has your lack of real food turned you into some airhead?” He looked like he was ready to cry, the question of why she was even helping him felt like a physical blow. His life fell apart a year ago really, he still took little credit for his own downfall. Aiden had been clinging on as long as he could and now, he might even be losing his masculinity. “Now as I was saying, I talked to Heather like we talked about earlier, you may recall she works at a county clerks’ office, and I asked what we could do to make a new persona for you. She was not willing to help you at all after what you did, but because I do love you. I talked her into doing it for me, that should tell you something right their buster.” looking up and making eye contact with his ex-wife, hope springing into his muddled mind.

“She was able to tell me how not everyone gets a social security number at birth, as odd as it is some parents decline that so that if she can make a birth certificate, we can work our way up from there. The next fly in the ointment is that hospitals do everything digital and have been making progress getting everything into the computers, making it so she could not make something for someone that is twenty-nine, almost thirty. The best she could do is make you around twenty-four or twenty-five and the last issue was that would only be true if you were a female. Even when converting records men seem to go first, so all the records she can have access to are complete for men. It might be a different story if she worked in a different state, and before you ask, she wasn’t willing to call in a favor for you. One that would get her fired if someone found out. So that my dear is why you are now going to be Amber Lynn Aurum, it was one of the girliest names I could think of and figured you might appreciate the last name. It's Latin for gold.” The perplexed expression on his face told her what she needed to know.

“For someone so educated you can be dumb sometimes, the way you are acting you just might fit right in with some of the ditzy girls we hire. Well, your good friend Max as in Maxwell Argyris, his last name means silver. The two of you used to compete with just about everything, figured if you had to give up your gender and name you could at least have one that beat him. So now you have the full story buster. After all of that, I still had to call in a favor. Only the head of HR Mrs. Gunther can get someone hired without going through someone at manager level to interview. So, I pulled some strings to get someone I trust to do yours. That doesn’t mean he will even give it to you. I am getting you in the door and I swear Aiden if you fuck this up out on the street you go.”

“This is all so unfair.” he wasn’t directing the statement to Victoria, just letting the thought out into the world. “Suck it up, you know what is unfair?” Victoria had her hands on her hips glaring at the man she was actively trying to get **** on. She wasn’t sure if he didn’t answer because of the medication making him think slower or if he was too self-centered to think about what he had done even now. “Being a loyal spouse for years to someone that cheated on them from the start of their dating relationship. Unfair is being so in love and trusting that I didn’t even consider it to be something that could happen. Do you know how clear it is to me now? Fuck you Aiden, suck it up. It isn’t like this is forever.” Not forever, those words were like a lifeboat to his soul.

“Yeah? How long do I have to pretend to be a woman at work?” he asked with hope returning to his voice.

“No sweetie, not at work. You have to act like a woman everywhere. If you try to change from man to woman you are going to slip up, and if you slip up in front of the wrong person, Jesus. You could go to jail; I could go to jail and now Heather could go to jail all because you couldn’t keep it in your pants and I for god knows why still have a soft spot for you. I will not let you drag me or my sister down. You are going to live and breathe being Amber and that starts tomorrow. We have a few days till your interview on Wednesday morning, but we need to get you passable Monday so you can take your GED. That fancy degree you have better not be for show, because I swear if you can’t pass a high school exam, I will be beyond pissed. Now I’m going to bed, and so are you.” With that she walked past him on the couch and into the master bedroom closing the door behind her. Aiden watched her go, taking a little comfort in seeing her rear in the work outfit she still had on; he had always loved it when she wore those tight pencil skirts. He then let out a long sigh. She had stood up to him, yelled at him like she had never done before. His Vicki had changed, but she had still shown she cared for him and right away his libido wanted to take action on that.

“How did I even get here?” Aiden let out another long sigh before he got up, getting a glass of water and heading to the guest bedroom to get ready for bed. Today has been an emotional rollercoaster and it didn’t matter how early it was, he felt exhausted.

No alarm woke Aiden up, in fact it was still dark out when he was gently shaken. “Aiden honey, take to wake up. Come on, sleepy head, you are going to have a long day ahead of you.” groggily he opened his eyes to see the outline of Vicki above him, the sight brought a smile to his face. She had been mean to him lately, but it was earned. The fact that she took him in, showed him that she did still care for him still. Maybe when all of this nonsense was over, they could try again, maybe if he could figure out how to be content with a single sexual partner. “I’m up, I'm up.” he said with a long yawn.

“Good, get up and take your clothes off. We are going to the bathroom in my bedroom to take care of all that body hair, the shower is bigger in there.” Aiden sat up on the bed wearing only a pair of boxers, looking down at his legs seeing his dark brown hair on them with the light coming from the hallway. “Oh... Didn't think about that. What time is it anyways?” he asked as he stood up and followed her to the master bath.

“Four in the morning, not a time I want to be awake, but before I laid down, I was able to book you an appointment at a spa for today. It being Saturday, you are lucky I could find any appointments. Yours is at seven, just as they open the doors. Now try following directions today and the two of us will get along much better than yesterday. You can start by doing what I said and taking off that underwear.” Nodding he removed the boxers and looked for the hamper to throw them into, but Victoria just took them and tossed them in the small trashcan next to the toilet. “You will not be needing those. Now here rub this Nair all over your body, I will help but get started.” Taking the pink bottle, he squirted some of the gooey contents into his palm.

“I thought you said this wasn’t permanent, why are you throwing away my boxers?” Putting on a pair of yellow dish gloves, Victoria gave him a flat look, wondering if she could get him to take a few more pills so he would just stop asking questions. She knew he was aware that she was not a morning person, yet he just kept asking questions. Squirting Nair from another bottle into her own glove covered palm she started to rub it on his back and down to his ass.

“They have a hole in them Aiden, your clothes are threadbare. Before you ask, I don’t know how long you will be playing the part of Amber, my friend and roommate. If I had it my way the answer would be not at all, but that all depends on you, I guess. You need to earn up enough money to afford to buy a new male wardrobe, moving expenses and to get a properly work reference, not to mention pay me back for what I will have to spend on you to get you started.'' The cream made him feel all slimy and before long it started to burn a bit.

“How am I going to pay for all of that on a secretary's salary and get a work reference when I am working as a woman.” Aiden grimaced at the tingling and burning sensation across his body, Vicki had even rubbed the cream over his balls, and he was not enjoying the sensation in that region of his body.

“I’m not setting you up Aiden, secretaires do not make much money, at least not at the start. What you don’t know because you never listened to me about my work, is that at Mega Corp all positions have a starting pay range. When you walk in the door you may make a low wage, but within the first thirty days you can increase that significantly if you get kudos from coworkers or managers, and whoever you will be put under for your first thirty days has a large influence at that. Of course, that is up to the cap, but after that you still get performance reviews and get a percentage increase based on job performance.”

Victoria thought for a second, tilting her head to the side. “Then you have over time, something many people at your level work a significant amount of. Sometimes because they have to, other times because things need to be done and they want the extra pay. Now as far as your concern of a work reference for Aiden when you will be working as Amber, the answer is a reference service. I have already been talking with one of you overseas and started the ball rolling.”

I took the liberty of having you, Aiden land yourself a job in Spain, we have to work out the details with them. The higher the job title and the longer you want the employment history to go the more expensive it is, they can either be paid all at once or monthly. So, if you want to be the VP of technology over there or even give yourself a promotion to CTO you can, it will just cost you.” Victoria said as she walked over to the shower and turned on the warm water. “Now give it another minute for the water here to warm up and get it and rinse off. The Nair is not perfect, but it will make the waxing you are getting today less painful.”

Looking at the man it was clear he was getting uncomfortable standing there with the Nair covering him. The substance wasn’t going to get him smooth, but it was going to help. “Oh, and if you need to make more money, we can always work on getting Amber a part time job too.”

“Wow, that really doesn’t sound so bad. The reference service thing, not the being a girl part. I only have to toughen it out for so long. I can do a little hard work and work extra hours; I have done that before. This may be a crappy road I have to go down, but you have given me a light at the end of the tunnel, thank you Vicki. Wait... Did you say waxing?”

“I did, now get in the shower.”

Once the hot water hit his body and he ran a cloth over his skin he could see his body hair falling away down the drain. It gave him a twinge of mental anguish, seeing part of his manhood wash away, while knowing this was only the start. When that was done, he was handed some body lotion and separate facial lotion, the same brand he used except this one had the scent of lavender.

“Hope you like the smell; Amber is a lavender girl, I think. Now come dry off and pat don’t rub.” Aiden did so before following her into the master bedroom.

“Even at the same height or close to it, no don’t start Aiden.” she warned the second she saw his mouth open when he saw the clothes. “You could not have fit into my clothes before, but it looks like you have not only stopped going to your gym, or even the pool at your apartment you have been eating junk food. You never did achieve a six pack, but you had some definition before, now look at you. That muscle has faded away leaving a small amount of fat, not a lot of it, but enough to give you a rump. I swear if we put you in a corset and a little dieting you will be perfect. I think we could get you down to one thirty-five.” Aidens eyes bulged.

“One hundred and thirty-five, that is way too much, I’m already skinning Vicki. That would put me just below the average weight for a man my height!” he said, panicking a little.

“That Amber is close to the target weight for a woman of your height, but now that I think of it we do have to go overboard on the femininity to help disguise you. So our goal is to get you down to a fit one twenty-five. Don’t worry girl, we cut out the junk food, no more meat and some exercise we will get that waistline down. Then you will weigh less than me, you skinning bitch.” she said, holding up a pair of silky thong panties. “These are for you. After today you can keep them, they are yours, I will pick you up a few things while you are at the spa and put them in the drawer for you when you get home. Then I will pick you up later for some shopping together.”

“Shopping?” He cringed a little just thinking about as he took the offered pair of underwear.

“One of your favorite activities, Amber. Nothing helps you relieve stress more than shopping; well I guess that and sucking dick.” Victoria laughed while Aiden gave her a sour expression at her joke.

Putting the panties on Aiden felt the silk material slide across his dick and it started to stiffen. Come on, don’t do that! Aiden thought to himself, turning away from Vicki, hoping she wouldn’t notice before it went away. The next thing was a bra, with a trick he was shown to clasp it in front and then spin it around his body. “We can stuff the bra for now but will need to get something that looks more natural, I will see what I can find while you are getting pretty. Oh and don’t worry about anyone recognizing you, we are driving two towns over, and they think you are transgender finally coming out. The manager said she admired you for being so brave, so try to play along. They already know what you want, or in this case what I want. So, if they offer you any options just tell them to do whatever they think will look best. Now for pants, here are some of my black yoga pants and a loose cotton blouse.” Victoria looked at her watch, it was only five in the morning, so they had another hour before they had to leave.

“We do need to do something about that thought…” Victoria pointed to his crotch that Aiden had been trying to hide. She shook her head, surprised to see he was getting excited by this. “We want them to think you are transgender, not some pervert.”

“I’m not a pervert!” Victoria rolled her eyes, pointing at his crotch. “That is because… ahh.” Aiden wasn’t sure what to say, his embarrassment causing his mind to falter.

“Because you Aiden are a pervert. For now, in my apartment, while I’m helping you. If I say you are something, just accept it.” She patted his smooth face with her hand. He looked at her hard for only a half second before looking away, giving her a sense of power and control she hadn’t really felt before, it was thrilling.

“When we go Amber sweetie, you will wear a pair of simple flip flops of mine, but when we leave you will be wearing something like this.” she said, holding up a pair of three-inch simple black glossy heels with open toe.

“Vicki... Could you please not call me that, not yet and maybe not in private and… Why do I want to wear those?” tapping the man on the tip of his nose Victoria smirked. “No, because you are a woman now, you have to think like one and as a woman you have a woman's name. Lastly, you are going to wear heels for three reasons. One, at the office this is the only thing you will be wearing and considering your position, something higher than these three inches. Two, because we have to lean more on the girliness as this is a disguise. Lastly three, because I said so and like the idea of teaching you that us women have to suffer for beauty. Now sit down and put them on, I will teach you a little bit about walking in them.” Aiden complied with the orders, putting on the shoes that he was sure wouldn’t fit. He remembered borrowing a pair of her flat shoes once when he was just running out to put away the trash and they were tight on him then, but now the heels fit. He guessed he had lost weight in his feet too, much to his embarrassment.

Aiden was tired, it was still too early at six in the morning as they drove off to the spa and salon where he was being dropped off. It didn’t even occur to him why she was driving, only that it was early, he hated everybody right now, and after the little practice session his feet and calves hurt. He had felt ridiculous during what Vicki called his first lesson in heels, not that he didn’t feel that now sitting there feeling the bra straps on his shoulders.

When they pulled up in front of the building titled “Transforming You.” he sighed, they were still about ten minutes early but still Vicki made him get out of the car to let him wait for them to unlock the door, making sure he knew to not worry about the bill, how it was already taken care of, but he would be paying her back later.