Virtually Me, Chapter Five

Key stared straight forward through the windshield. She was silent for several minutes.

“When I woke up in my real body and realized I didn’t really have that strong physique, those strong hands, and that magnificent cock, that was it. I started to moan, and felt my real voice, but it didn’t feel like it could possibly be real! I broke down right there in the chair.” She glanced at Vic, then stared out into the street again. “Thank god Ella had debriefed a whole bunch of testers before that. She helped bring me back down. But I just couldn’t get over that not being real.”

Vic choked back the lump in his throat. Key’s story hit him hard. It was so much like his wake-up earlier tonight, even if she wanted the opposite change.

The silence stretched out. Vic spoke: “So… What have you… Have you managed to start…”

“I saw my doctor the following week.” Key looked at Vic. “Turned out that was a bad idea. When I told him I wanted to see someone about gender transition, he acted like I wanted to go to Mars. First he laughed. Then he got flustered and couldn’t seem to say anything. Finally, he said he couldn’t help me, and that I should leave. It was fucking embarrassing.

“I called in sick to work for the rest of the week. I didn’t want to see anyone or anything outside my apartment. I felt like my life was wasted, and the...