chapter 2

I got to the iron gates again and the guard recognised me this time. He said hello and congratulated me on getting the position. Again I got a lift to the house and once more my new boss was standing there waiting to greet me.
She let me in the house made me coffee and told me what she wanted doing. All the chores I had to do were all pretty easy.
For the first few weeks I really only did light dusting and making sure everywhere looked ship shape.
After a month of working there everything started to be looking a bit brighter for me. The extra money was really coming in handy; I always had a bit of money and for the first time in my life I was beginning to save a little too. The job was becoming fun too. I would usually arrive and start doing my chores but I became friendlier with my boss and we ended up just chatting a lot of time that I was there. She told me a bit more about herself. Her name was Sarah; she was 32 and had no family. She told me that both her parents had died in a car crash when she turned 18 and they had left her all of their worldly goods and possessions hence why she had the house.
She had been working as a scientist for the past 10 years and had an impressive CV to go with it. She started off working for the government and made her way to be one of the top research scientists in the world in only a matter of 5 years. She told me a few years back a few things went wrong and the government had decided that they didn't want her services anymore so she decided to buy the mansion and work from home. She had a partner for nearly 8 years and apparently she was engaged to be married but after she was sacked she got depressed and started to put weight on rapidly.
By the sounds of things her partner was really mean to her, the more weight she put on the more abusive they got with her until eventually they split up and went their separate ways.
I couldn't believe it, how could somebody be so mean to her, I mean she was kind, caring and funny not to mention stunning looking and she didn't really have to worry about money again for the rest of her life.
A few more months went by and we ended up getting closer until one day I plucked up the courage and asked to see if she wanted to go out on a date with me.
What she told me next crushed me. She said that she really started to like me over the past few months but I just wasn't her type. She said that she only liked women and although she had feelings for me she had never been with a man before and wasn't about to start then.
Looking back at the situation, the awkwardness you would have expected wasn't there and we both seemed genuinely upset that nothing could happen between us and my day went as it usually did when I was there. I would end up neglecting my chores and end up spending my day talking away to her.
One Saturday I was there Sarah seemed a bit nervous. She asked me to have a drink and we preceded our normal talks about life and putting the world to right. The day went quickly and my usually coffee turned into an alcoholic drink and before I knew it we were both pretty drunk.
Looking back on it, I think this was the moment my life began to change. Sarah explained to me that she kept on thinking about what I had asked her and the fact that she felt really bad turning me down but the fact of the matter was that she had never really been attracted to any man before and although she liked me as a person she didn't fancy me. I told her again that I was gutted and I would do anything to be with her.
With this her face lit up, she grabbed my hand and took me to a door in the house that I had never been through before. She explained that this was her own private lab and that was where she worked from these days. As to be expected I was impressed with the lab. The place was so clean and clinical looking that even a speck of dust would look out of place there. There were loads of different machines of all shapes and sizes and different bottles filled with liquids bubbling away. She walked me round and tried to explain what the different things were. Once again I tried to look sophisticated and pretend I knew what the hell she was talking about but I think she knew that I was just trying to impress her. Eventually we stopped at her desk and immediately she sat down and looked nervously at me.
I remember clearly her voice took a new tone when she started to speak. She told me that when she had been working with the government she ended up working on a new drug. The government put her in charge of creating a new drug that would be able to alter humans DNA for people that had terrible accidents that caused traumatising disfigurements. In theory if somebody lost an arm they would be able to regrow their old arm as if nothing had happened. The research was apparently going well but when a new government got into power they decided that the research could prove too dangerous if it got into the wrong hands and decided to sack everyone working on the project.
For the past 3 years she had been trying to redevelop the drug but it wouldn't work properly. The drug itself did its job but it had some serious side effects. The problem was that whoever took the drug would be healed but less than 24 hours later they would change gender and would put on a lot of weight.
As she was telling me this my head started to go in to overload as I knew what she was trying to get at. She wanted me to take the drug so that I would take the female form and we could be together.
At first I remember being pretty angry with the whole situation. I mean, why did I have to change just to please somebody else? I had always been a firm believer in being proud of whatever assets I had. And what if our relationship didn't work out? Then I would be female and penniless!
I told her that I needed to have a think over of what she said to me and promptly made a move back home.
The walk from the lab to the front door was filled by an awkward silence between the two of us. I looked back to say goodbye and saw Sarah looking utterly miserable. Just that look on her face made my stomach wrench. She told me that she was sorry for mentioning it to me and wanted me to forget everything she had said and above all she just wanted things to be the way they were between us. I told her that I needed to have a think and I would give her a call in the next few days.
The next morning I woke with a stir. Although my head was hurting a little from all the previous night drinks, I was really upset what had happened between us. I had a lot of thinking to do.
Sarah sent me a text apologising again and she said that she would understand if I didn't want to speak to her again.
I stared at the text and tried to think of my reply for hours before I plucked up the courage and called her. I told her that no matter what happened I couldn't bear the thought of not seeing her again and told her that I was pleased she told me what she did. We agreed to meet again that night for more talks.
I think it was then I realised that I really loved her and, I'd never felt that way before about anyone. All I could think about was spending my future with her in any shape or form that was possible.
I got round there at around seven. I rang the bell at the gates and after a little while a car pulled up and Sarah got out of the driver's side door. She told me that she let everyone have a night off so that we could spend the night alone.
She opened the gates and we jumped in the car and returned to the house. As I walked in, the air was filled with the smell of food, my mouth was watering. She said that she decided to make a meal as a sorry for the previous night. She was obviously happy at my reaction of it all and said that she was happy for me to be me and not to have to change into any other form just to please her. I reassured her again and told her that I had been thinking a lot about the drug but I had some questions.