"I don't remember," Jon said. "I think my mom mentioned it to me at some point, but I'm drawing a blank. I know that one of my relatives suggested the name 'Rufus' and fortunately his suggestion was summarily rejected, but I don't remember what the girls' names they were considering."
"How about an androgynous name. Not something super-duper female like Tiffany of Beth, but maybe something like Christy, or just Chris for short, or Sam. How do you like those?"
"Chris. Yeah, that's not so bad. We can use Chris..." Jon broke down crying, sitting down on Karyn's bed, bawling.
Karyn kneeled down in front of Jon and cuddled him close in a gentle hug and said, "it's not the end of the world, we'll make things work out."
"No, that's not it, it's just that right now, it... happened. I can feel it. It's... all the way."
"Oh." She continued holding Jon. "Try to be calm. Don't despair. Even if you're stuck like this, even if it's forever, let me tell you, from experience, it's not so bad being me, or a girl, or at least I'd like to think so. Having a period is no party, but, well I guess I don't have anything to compare being a girl to from experience. But there's basically nothing you can't do now that you could have done before. You can even build up your muscles by working out, you can be stronger than you were before. I'm actually pretty athletic myself naturally, I just haven't put the effort into it. I'll even go to the gym with you and we'll be workout partners if you want. In fact, we don't even need to do that much, we can just wish to be top athletes without any of the hard work. For that matter, you could probably use a wish to get another girl pregnant with your child, even with you like this."
Jon chuckled weakly between crying hics. "Oh my god, I can't believe you were thinking about that. You really are such a nice girl, putting up with me, thinking so much about me and what I'm going through, trying to help me, to comfort me, in the weirdest ways."
"Of course. I'd like to think I'm your best friend. Aren't I?" Karyn asked. "Wouldn't you say that's fair?"
"Yeah. A real friend. And that's all."
"And that's all? Wait a minute," Karen backpedaled. "Are you saying you want to be more than friends?"
"Well, I'd like for the option to be there at least. That's part of what I've lost here. I want to be me again and that's top priority. But also, you were wrong, I can't do EVERYTHING I could do before."
Karyn thought for a moment. With a shoulder shrug, she stunned Jon by doing more than just embracing him, or rather her. She couldn't hold back any longer. Her friend was suffering, she desperately wanted to alleviate that suffering. And truth be told, she wasn't disgusted by her body, she was pretty darned cute actually, no homo. It wasn't so gross. Karyn kissed Jon hard, pushing her to the bed. Jon was paralyzed in surprise as Karyn slipped her tongue into her mouth. "It's the same, teeth, a tongue, maybe a little taste of what he had for lunch, it's the same way either way, kissing a guy or a girl, she even smells nice," Karyn thought to herself. They kissed for about 10 seconds. Karyn was a little surprised herself by how much it set her heart beating, she originally was motivated to do it mostly out of pity and trying to comfort Jon, but she was unbelievably thrilled by it. Ok, maybe a little homo. It was also a bit alluring knowing that this girl was Jon inside.
Karyn pulled her head back, Jon remaining silent and still, speechless. "EVERYTHING you could do before. Yes, it's still an option. If you want it." She winked at Jon. "But we'll consider that when we get back. Assuming you still like girls, yourself. The ball isn't entirely out of your court. But for now, let's go bowling."
"Wha wow," Jon said. "Yes." Jon got up as Karyn got off her, also excited by what had just happened. "Yes, I still like girls," Jon said blushing. "Including you. I mean, you're a girl. Which you already know. I mean, I could like you, and..."
"You silly guy, see? You haven't been affected that much by it. Still able to enjoy the electric rush of attraction, and to a girl. I wish you had said something earlier though. I never made a move before, or brought it up, because you never seemed to show the slightest bit of motivation and I thought you just wanted us to be friends, but I guess sometimes the girl needs to make the first move after all."
Karyn locked shoulders with Jon, or perhaps we're calling her Chris now, and walked stood side by side, squeezing her hand, enthusiastically locking shoulders and swinging her arm. "But I think at the moment it's better for you to have some enjoyment, something that would be the same for a boy or a girl, so you can let it sink in that even worst case scenario, things can still be the same, nothing is ruined.
Unspoken between them, they were both giddy. Neither could overcome the embarrassment of forming into words and admitting how excited they both were at being arm in arm like this. Settled on the clothing situation, they went off bowling. They played 4 games. Karyn won all 4 handily, only scoring under 200 once, while Chris only managed to top 100 on the last game. She wasn't weak, or clumsy, exactly, but still wasn't exactly used to her current body as it was, and bowling is a game where precision is needed, or else it just goes in the gutter. Chris was not really feeling that emasculated by losing the games though, because she was too excited about what they might be doing when they got back for that. The feeling was a little different, but Chris was feeling a lot like a guy again, in certain ways. Like when a certain part of her was frequently aroused and felt a lot like it had before. So similar in fact that she kept patting at her crotch while bowling, because several times she was almost convinced it had changed back to normal. Maybe it not only wouldn't be so awful being like this, maybe it wouldn't even really be all that different.
When they got back, Karyn asked, "so, what do you want to do now?"
"I don't know," asked Chris. "What do YOU want to do now?"
"Are you trying to pass the responsibility for the decision to me because you're afraid of how I might react if you say you'd like to do something too CRAZY?"
Chris thought for a moment. "Could we kiss again?"
"Oh my god, you're such a girl!" Karyn laughed. "I was ready to stick my tongue in a different place, or at least have a naked bath with you." Before Chris could object in words and address what had just been said, she found her mouth occupied.
"This is nice too though," thought Chris.
This went on for several minutes. Then once again, Karyn made the initiative for going further. Karyn decided afterwards that maybe she was a little bit so tiny bisexual. Or maybe it was just because Chris was so damn cute, or a guy inside, or both. They both were questioning what they thought they knew about themselves a little bit that night.
"Yeah," Chris thought. "Maybe this isn't the worst day of my life after all. In fact, now that I think about it, it might be one of the best."
Karyn on the other hand at that moment was thinking about hypothetically how to talk Chris into bearing the first child. You know. If they ever decided to. She pushed the thought out of her mind, it was a thought for far in the future, and maybe they'd find a way to turn Chris back to normal anyway. What a pity that would be, Karyn was surprised to catch herself earnestly briefly thinking to herself.
