Morgan


Morgan wasn't terribly happy about his role in the school play. Although his was the role of the central character, he didn't have all that many lines. Instead, all the other characters would be talking about him, or reacting to what other characters had to say.

But that wasn't the problem. The problem was that Morgan would make a brief appearance near the end of the first scene dressed in normal clothes. For the rest of the play, he would be wearing a ballgown. He wasn't too keen on dressing as a girl; however, he fit the costumes that they had available, so he got the part.

Most of the rehearsals involved learning the lines and going through the motions that the actors would have to do on stage. Morgan learned his lines quickly enough, and spent time helping other actors who had larger roles to learn theirs. Eventually, however, the rehearsals became more serious, with props and scenery being put in place and moved as needed between scenes. Costumes had to be tried on and fitted, and actors had to make sure they could perform their scenes in costume. One scene required Morgan, wearing the dress, to change from high heels into tennis shoes. In another, he had to change back into just one high heel, which would leave him walking in a circle around the stage, which in turn would set up the next few of what one hoped would be some very funny lines.

During rehearsals, Morgan kept on his regular clothes and wore an old robe in place of the dress. He had been told that the dress would be a bit of a tight fit (it was supposed to be). He had seen it a few times; it looked like some of the dresses the girls at his school had worn to the junior prom last year. During the play, he planned to wear his gym shorts underneath, since any other clothes would be too bulky.

Dress rehearsal would be the first of four times he would have to be in costume. The play would be performed three times for audiences. The first would be a matinee for the school--effectively a second dress rehearsal. The play would be performed again that same day but in the evening, as well as the following evening.

The opening of the play called on all the actors to appear on stage and sing a short song announcing the play and thanking the audience for coming. Morgan would be in regular clothes, and would appear very briefly in the first scene before showing up in the second in the dress. For the rest of the play, the only thing that would change would be his shoes--first, out of the high heels and into tennis shoes, then out of one tennis shoe (the right) and into a high heel, giving the effect of a limp, then barefoot for the finale.

The dress rehearsal went pretty well. There were a lot of mistakes made by the actors, but they covered them well, and most of problems were minor and easily fixed. Morgan was a bit surprised that he had to wear a petticoat under the dress, but it fit well, though it did mean he had to take off his gym shorts, as the petti was rather bulky and the dress was already tight enough. At least he didn't have to wear a bra or some of the other stuff girls had to wear. One would have to say it was when he said, "I need some help here," that it became apparent something was wrong.

"What's up?" said Mr. Allison, the drama teacher.

"I need someone to unzip me," said Morgan. How did girls manage to zip and unzip their dresses?

"Oh, Morgan, there's no zipper on this. You just lift it up and slide it off."

Morgan could have sworn the dress had had a zipper when he put it on. Where had the zipper gone? Whatever. He tried to pull the dress up and pull if off over his head. After about two minutes of this, the dress was no more off him than it had been during the rehearsal.

Mr. Allison and Mrs. Brundy, the drama coaches, tried to help Morgan take off the dress. Finally, Mrs. Brundy said, "Can somebody take him home? He'll just have to live in it the next couple of days, then we can cut it off of him. We won't need the costume anymore."

"Wait a minute!" said Morgan. "I have to be out of this costume for the first scene."

"We'll have to rewrite it so you're not all the way on stage. That shouldn't be too difficult. You can wear a sweatshirt to cover the top half, anyway," said Mrs. Brundy.

Morgan went home in his costume. The coaches explained to his parents that there was some problem with the costume, but that he would be able to tear it off, if need be, after the last performance. Morgan's dad was not happy, but his mother calmed him down and assured him that MOrgan would be fine. Morgan got one of his friends to bring his homework from school, so Morgan stayed home the day of the first performances.

The matinee went fine, with far fewer mistakes. The rewritten scene where Morgan first appeared, but not all the way onstage, was a bit awkward, but it worked. Morgan's inital appearance in the dress drew a big round of applause, as did his curtain call at the end of the play.

The evening performance went fairly smoothly. One of the girls flubbed a couple of lines, but nobody remembered it once they saw Morgan in his evening gown. The second evening performance went even better, with everybody making their cues and only a couple of times did anyone have to improvise. Nobody noticed the problems, and Morgan took a bow with the rest of the cast at the end. Morgan couldn't wait to get out of the dress, however, since the cast was all going out for pizza once they'd changed.

"As much as I like this old dress," Morgan said, "it'll be good to be wearing pants again." He laughed, and grabbed a pair of scissors to begin cutting away at the dress. He pulled at the hem and began cutting. However, nothing happened. He decided to try cutting at the neckline. No luck there, either. He tried cutting the waist. The same.

He pulled up the dress and tried to untie the petticoat. There was no string. He pulled the petticoat down. It wouldn't move. He tried to pull it up. Nothing. He couldn't believe it. He took the scissors to the petticoat. He couldn't cut it either. Mr. Allison came and asked what Morgan was doing, and Morgan explained his problem. Mr. Allison's efforts to help Morgan out of his clothes were just as unsuccessful, and Mrs. Brundy came to offer her assistance. Soon, other cast members were offering aid--and suggestions. But half an hour after the play ended, Morgan was still in costume.

Morgan found he had another problem--his wig, which he wore only during the end of the second scene and all of the last scene onstage, would not come off. In fact, he couldn't even figure out where his own hair ended and the wig began. So, after another fifteen minutes of fruitless efforts to change his clothes, Morgan had little choice put to go out for pizza in his dress.

During the evening, Morgan found he could almost pass for a girl. He enjoyed his pizza, and found himself being careful not to let it get his dress dirty. "It is kind of fun wearing this thing," he said to his friends, "though I won't miss it when I take it off." It was a bit awkward for him when he went to the restroom, but he decided to use the girls' potty, since it would be awkward in a wig and a dress in the men's room. He sat down on a toilet, closed the door to the stall, and took care of business like a girl. At first, he didn't look at his underpants, assuming they were the same ones he had put on a couple of days ago, but then decided to check to make sure they were still clean. They were clean--and pink, with little blue and white polka-dots.

An hour or two later, Morgan and everyone else left the pizza parlor. Mr. Allison and Mrs. Brundy drove him home so that they could discuss his problem with his parents. Theyd didn't know about Morgan's underwear, however. "Morgan was wonderful," Mrs. Brundy said. "Unfortunately, we can't get him out of his costume. We tried everything--cutting, tearing, you name it. Nothing worked. He can't take off his wig or petticoat, either."

Morgan was able to take off his shoes, the high heels worn for the one scene, but the knee-highs seemed to be a permanent part of his legs now.

Morgan's dad was furious. "I don't know what's going on here," he growled, unsure of what to say next. Morgan went to bed, equally uncertain of what to say or how to feel.

The next morning, Morgan felt somehow different. The dress was changing him in ways he couldn't control. He wasn't just dressed as a girl, he felt he was becoming a girl. It didn't make any sense. In the play, his character wore a dress, but not to become a girl, but rather to tease the other characters. Morgan didn't want to be a girl, yet here he was, stuck in a girl's dress and underclothes.

Should he go to school today? It was a Friday, and most Friday lessons didn't amount to very much, but somehow Morgan wanted to go. He threw on a sweatshirt and jacket over the dress, and got a ride with his best friend, Andy. "I still can't get this thing off," Morgan said, though he hadn't tried to take off the dress since coming home.

Morgan's mom picked him up after school. "I didn't think you'd go to school dressed like that," she said.

"I had a couple of tests today," Morgan said. That was true, though he would have gladly skipped school to miss them.

"I think there's somebody who can help us," his mom said.

"Really?" said Morgan, once again anticipating wearing pants again.

"She knows about curses associated with old theatre props and costumes." They drove for about an hour into the country, finally stopping at a house that looked like a barn. "Here's the place . . . I think," said Morgan's mother.

Knocking at a door on one side of the barn, Morgan and his mother soon found themselves sitting down for coffee and cookies with an old woman who looked like a witch, though she wore a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. Morgan told the woman about his problem, and even added that he was now wearing girl's underwear.

"Your problem is easy to solve," said the old woman. "Just repeat after me the following chant, then say what you wish you were wearing now."

Seeing the old woman in jeans, Morgan's answer was obvious. He repeated the chant twice, each time ending it with "blue jeans!"

"That is all," said the old woman.

"How much do we owe you?" said Morgan's mom.

"Whatever you think is right," said the woman.

Morgan's mom gave the old woman a twenty. "I hope this is satisfactory," she said.

The old woman laughed, though it was not a witch's cackle, as one might have expected.

Morgan got home and tried to remove the dress. It still would not come off. Morgan went to the bathroom, and saw that the underpants had changed. They were now blue, though still of a girl's style. The petticoat and the knee-highs were the same, however.

That night, after a light dinner, Morgan went to bed and dreamed of growing breasts, losing his penis and developing a vagina, and having rounded hips. Then he dreamed of being a boy again and wearing blue jeans. He awoke the next morning sure he was back to his normal self, and able to wear boys' clothes. He ran out of his room and into the bathroom--and saw a full -figured teenage girl in the mirror. She was wearing a T-shirt and a long blue-jean skirt.

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