I had finished my lunch just as the bell signalling the end rang. Being a boi, Julianna grabbed our trays and emptied them into the bin for us before hei returned to our table. Hei was grinning at me.
“Come on, Nathen. It’s time.”
May blinked for a moment before recognition came across hir face. Hir face lit up in a grin as well.
“Oooh, that’s riiiiight. Nathen has home economics.” My face turned red with embarrassment as all three gurls laughed at the idea of me having to attend a bois’ class. Julianna however, was more caring. Hei took my hand and stuck hys tongue out at the gurls.
“Now, gurls. Be nice. You know how embarrassing it is for hir. The least you could do is be more supportive.”
“I suppose you’re right, Jules. But we can’t help it. I think that Nathen would look great in a pink apron.” Even Julianna couldn’t help but crack a smile at this, but hei simply patted me on the shoulder.
“Ignore them,” hei said, smiling at me. “Not that they would admit it… But any boi would kill to have a woman who could help around the house.”
“Really?” I asked. I kind of found that hard to believe. I mean, what else is a boi good for if not the housework?
Julianna nodded. I gave hym a weak smile.
“That’s better. Now come on.” Hei took my hand and gently led me out of the cafeteria, leaving my snickering friends behind me.
Home economics was in the bois’ section of the school. Of course, being a gurl I had never been in the bois’ section before and so I was overwhelmed briefly by the sight of pink walls and scented hallways. I started to feel uncomfortable as we walked down the hallway. I nervously rubbed my arm as we passed boi after boi, all of them stopping in their tracks to stare at me as I walked past.
Julianna paused before we entered the classroom. Hei turned around and took my hands in hys. Hei looked down at me and smiled.
“Don’t worry, you’ll be fine. Like Zane said, it’s only for one term and besides, you’ll have me with you the whole way.”
I nodded.
“Thanks Jules, I don't know how I’d be able to cope if you weren’t in this class with me.”
Julianna bent down and kissed me on the cheek. I blushed. Hei wasn’t that much taller than me but hei still had to bend down to perform that act. Hei squeezed my hand as hei pushed the door open gently, I gulped as I prepared for the worst.
It wasn’t as I expected. The classroom was located in one of the old gurls’ gym halls before the government began merging the high schools back in the 80s. There was a large model of a house in the center of the hall. The walls were cut out on one side so that you could see what was going on inside. In fact, it reminded me of a dolls’ house.
In front of the house was the main classroom: tables and chairs were set up in front of a teacher’s desk, much like any othe rroom. The rest of the class was all settled in. Unsurprisingly, the students were all bois. Well, except for me.
When Julianna and I had entered the room everyone was sitting and chatting but then, one boi decked out in pink noticed me and hei squealed.
“Ooooh, Mistress, there’s a gurl at the door.”
The teacher looked up from hys desk. Hei smiled as he recognised who I was. Hei stood up and, after smoothing out hys dress, walked over to me. Hei wore a vintage styled yellow dress with matching heels. Hys brunette hair was done up in a beehive style and hei wore a white pearl necklace around hys neck.
“Ah, yes,” hei began as hei placed an arm around my shoulders. Julianna remained by my side holding my hand for support. “Bois, we will be having a very special guest with us for this term. This is Ms. DeVries. Shi is joining us under special circumstances.”
The bois began cooing all over me, I think I spotted one of them licking hys lips at me. I shuddered. The teacher looked at me.
“My name is Mss. Charli Wilcox, but that’s Mss. Wilcox to you.” I nodded and Mss. Wilcox indicated that I take a seat before hei returned to hys desk.
Since the class had already started this year, the bois were already in their assigned desks. There was one empty table at the front, so I sat at it, disappointed to be separated from Julianna already.
“Seeing as we have a new student with us today,” Mss. Wilcox began, glancing in my direction. “I know that we already have our assigned partners, but I thought that it would only be fair if we started fresh for this term.”
I gulped, preparing myself for what was about to come.
“So why don’t we all select a new partner before we begin?” Mss. Wilcox had barely got the sentence out before there was a stampede of heels behind me. I turned around in my chair only to be faced with a sea of bright colors and long hair. You’d have thought that they had never seen a gurl before.
One boi dressed in pink and with blonde hair had beaten the others to me. Hei smiled as hei got to me first, jumped quickly up onto the chair next to me and then, like a referee in a boxing match, held up my arm in victory.
“Yes!!” Hei cried triumphantly. “This one is mine.” Hei stood there smiling while a few of the bois stuck their tongue out at hym.
Mss. Wilcox chuckled as hei watched the exchange but quickly gathered hymself.
“Alright class, that’s enough. Thank you, Ramona.”
I was bewildered as I watched the rest of the class file back to their seats. I managed to catch Julianna’s eye and hei gave an apologetic smile. I shrugged my shoulders. There wasn’t a lot that I could do.
I looked up at the boi still standing on the chair and I realised that I recognised hym. It was Ramona from gym class. That pink outfit was unmistakable. I groaned.
Ramona insisted that I help hym down from the chair, “like a proper gentlewoman”, and so I took hys hand and helped hym hop off hys chair. Hei gently patted hymself down before hei settled down in the chair next to me.
Mss. Wilcox began the lesson. Apparently, today we were supposed to be demonstrating how to properly set up the house for the arrival of our wives. A few bois giggled at my expense and Mss. Wilcox corrected hymself.
Thankfully, Mss. Wilcox decided that because I was new, I should watch the rest of the class and try to take notes before it was my turn. I wholeheartedly agreed. Unfortunately, that turned out to be a bit of a mistake.
Because of how the tables were set up, the house was on our left and I was seated on the furthest side with Ramona next to me. I tried to watch the bois go through their paces but it was hard once I kept noticing that Ramona was staring at me.
“What!?” I asked finally, and rather irritably.
“You’re a gurl.” Ramona stated bluntly. Hei leaned on the table with hys head in hys hand. I rolled my eyes.
“Congratulations. You’re very observant.” It was rude, I know, but I was annoyed.
“Why is a gurl taking a class for bois?”
I sighed and looked around. At the table behind me there were two bois, both blonde, like Ramona. Also like Ramona, they were leaning towards me with their hands in their heads staring dreamily at me. I let out a small frustrated noise as I began to explain.
“Aww, you poor thing,” one of the bois on the other table said as I finished my story. I looked over to hym, hei was staring at me with puppy dog eyes. It was only then that I noticed the matching pink outfits.
I blinked.
“Oh, these are my brothers by the way, Savanna and Tareena.”
Both bois gave me a boily wave as I let out a sigh but nodded in acknowledgement. Oh great… Triple trouble. I glanced over to the house as the current pair of bois finished their assignment with a curtsey. They were met with a polite applause and I quickly joined in to make it look like I was paying attention.
Ramona, however, was still staring at me. I groaned.
“What now?”
“You’re a gurl, and you’re in a bois’ class.”
“So?” I replied, failing to see where this was going.
“You need a boi’s name.”
My mind momentarily flashed back to lunch and Zane’s comment about me turning into a boi. I shuddered. Well, at least I wasn’t a boi. Yet. I tried to focus on the lesson, trying to ignore them but the bois continued anyway.
“Good idea, Ramona!” one boi almost squealed. Ramona glared at hym and told hym to hush, fearful that they’d be spotted by the teacher. Once hys brother had settled down Ramona returned hys focus to me.
“Hmm… How about... Theena?”
“Oohh, that’s perfect!” The other brother exclaimed, clasping hys hands together excitedly.
“Ramona Birch and Nathen DeVries!”
I snapped my attention back to the teacher and hei was looking at me. The whole class was actually. I was like a deer being caught in headlights until Ramona nudged me.
“Come on, dummy, it’s our turn.”
I gulped. Already? I searched the classroom for Julianna; once I found hym, hei gave a thumbs up and a warm smile.
I thought that with me being a gurl and all that, I would be able to breeze through this session easily since I was going to be playing the wife. Ramona, however, had other ideas. By the time I had made it across to the makeshift house, Ramona was already standing in the “outside” section waiting by the door.
Not for the first time, I gulped, wishing that I had paid more attention to the class. I nervously made my way into the house as I felt the eyes of the whole class on me.
