My Super Secret Life-20

Chapter 20

I was more than ready for the shower after my time in the gym with Terry it had helped actually helping her and helping out Shane with her friend Kyle. Shane gives me something to really think able other that my break up with Matt.

I mean I’ve always had this bit of a suspicion that there was a sort of a street vibe to Shane like she’s from some really messed up colony or something with just all these things she doesn’t get and then there’s body language and there’s me seeing her actually praying for her friend Kyle and she wasn’t doing any of the oriental religions She was real old school catholic praying with the crossing yourself thing and the “father who art in heaven” stuff.

All in all very Hmm stuff, plus she can really, really fight. You don’t fight like that unless you’ve fought like that. And she’s so small and cute you’d totally miss it.

And helping terry in the gym helped me get a little clarity too. she’s taking all the hurt and angst and stuff going on inside of her and she’s pushing it all into her being a better Girl-terry than Guy-Terry and I’m feeling kind of bad that I really didn’t even have terry on my social radar both before and after that whole Titan thing started.

I love having my own place and I really need to get some stuff here for myself and for myself as Titan on this shopping mission.

But this is going to be mostly about Terry but I should get some stuff for Kyle since he looks like he’s dropped about forty pounds of muscle and has longer arms and legs at a glance.

I actually scrub hard thinking, I do that as harsh as it feels sometimes harsh can be good and I’m one of those people who get upset and I’ll do that fingers into claws hard fast scrubbing my scalp as I’m shampooing. I tend to either do that or swim or run when I’m upset and needing to think and since I’m going out…I’m doing this. It’s like if I scratch my scalp enough the blood will flow more to my brain just by default.

Yeah…okay…yeah…

No time like the present.

I shift and dry off and walk over to the phone and I dial Sasha’s number.

I get the machine.

“Hey, this is me, if I’m not the me you’re looking for than sorry but if it’s me please leave a message after the…” Then there’s this odd sound cut that goes “Meep, Meep!”

“Okay…” God I’m still sometimes a bit freaked at this. Like my guy voice.

“Uhm Sasha it’s Ty I mean Titan…I think we need to talk…see each other….Call and leave a message or I’ll…No just call me please I’d really like to talk to you.”

I hang up and hit the switchboard and get them to set it up so my call from her will get forwarded to my phone and but for the operator to call me first because I’ll be in civilian ID.

I shift back and get dressed. I’m going for sporty hot. Nice Vicky C’s underwear lacy and black and a black v-necked lycra soccer style t-shirt that shows a little mid drift with black short clingy skirt and a red Adidas styled jacket to set it off an few adjustments and some running shoes and I’m comfortable.

The key to shopping in a marathon style is that you’re going to be changing so I’m in a tee-shirt and a skirt really easy to take on and off.

I go and see Steve.

He’s in his office going over things and there looks to be a lot of files and paperwork to this job as much as the hero thing.

I knock. “Hey…can we talk, I’ve got some things to ask.”

He looks up and me and does the whole pinch the bridge of his nose, rub at his eyes thing. “Sure come on in.”

“Thanks, I’m taking Terry out shopping for feminecessaries.”

“Huh? I….”

“Girl stuff…feminine necessities…y’know feminecessaries.”

“You just made that word up.”

I shrug. “Yeah but it’s still accurate. Uhm anything on that whole making restitution thing over shroud being a sociopathic misogynist?”

“Sunny…” he give me the look, that he’s the boss and old enough to be my dad or granddad look. Ha! I’m a teenaged girl I’m immune to those looks. He sighs and passes me this mini-pdl or tablet that’s the size of a credit card and looks at me. “This is an expense pass, just try and to keep things reasonable okay.”

“Sure, I’m not a complete shopaholic.”

“Good to here and this is yours and Terry’s.” he passes me two debit cards keyed to thumbprints so you can check your balance. I check mine.

……………. “Holy shit? Uhm how much do I get paid here?”

“Junior members get fifty dollars a day inactive duty, and on dispatch or observation or tower duty it’s fifteen an hour with combat/action pay running the rate up to fifty dollars an hour.”

“Fifty?”

“Look at high powered lawyers and other high value trades we’re putting everything on the line sometimes so we’re actually not paid a huge amount when you really look at it.”

“Uhm okay why’s this so big though?”

“You put a lot of hours in there in the apartments after the fight with Magog plus there threat bonuses.”

“Threat bonuses?”

“If we take down a Meta level threat we are given a bonus from The department of Homeworld security.”

“Like a bounty hunter?”

“Like that but less.”

“Well this made my day a lot better, is Terry’s pay back dated?”

“Actually yes, Liz thought you’d be the one who’d ask that and since this started she’s been put on the payroll ever since she made the call about the serum buy.”

“Good, that’ll give her some mad money that she won’t have to be responsible about using. Can we take a mini-van from the motor pool?”

“Oh yeah weight issues.”

“I was thinking room but yeah?”

“Can you drive a hover?”

“Hover but not aero.”

“I’ll call Bodi to get something fixed up.”

“Thank Steve, of and Steve?”

“Yes Sunny?”

“You guys actually need anything while I’m out. It’s not like you and Liz get out that much.”

“Uhm…I don’t know let me check? Thanks for asking.” He looks like he’s shocked and that no one really bothers to ask them. He calls Liz that’s Mrs. Champion and he writes a few things down and passes the list to me. “Are you sure this isn’t a bother?” he’s reaching for his wallet. I wave him off.

“Not as long as you’re not in a hurry. No, I’ll treat just let me know the next time you’re someplace really far off doing something like on the other side of the colony and you can pay me back then.”

“Deal.”

I leave and head over to meet Terry and buzz at the doors. Her father answers the door. “Sunny right?”

“Yes sir. Is Terry ready?”

“She’s…she’s in with her mom getting ready. Uhm right through there.”

I go inside and Terry’s in track pants and a tee-shirt and a zip front hoody. “I thought I’d meet you here but you need a bit of help huh?”

“Help?”

“Yeah, we’re going shopping and that means a lot of trying things on so you’ll want something you can just slip in and out of plus…”

“Plus?”

“Terry this is Paradise City, if you don’t look like you know what you’re doing when you’re shopping they’ll either ignore you and you’ll get shitty treatment or they be all predatory and push you into things that you won’t want or need.”

She blinks and her mom looks embarrassed. Okay she’s got a bit of weight on her too and I’ll wager she’s had some pretty crappy treatment too. I look at both of them. “Okay first thing’s first we get you too fixed up.”

I get them into their best underthings and then both into skirts and easy tops for what they have with them. I help both of them with their make-up and Terry’s mom…Joyce is all nerved up. “Joyce relax, look it’s not a big deal.”

“But I have done this in forever and I’m going out with you two and I feel…”

“Self conscious?”

“Yes, I’ve never been one of the good looking girls even when I was your girl’s age the best that I could manage was cute.”

“Balls to that woman you’re a damned good looking woman and I’m sure that…here. Terry you watch me and start picking stuff up and you can help too.”

“Uhm okay…” Terry looks apprehensive but she’s grinning at her mom.

Now Joyce is five foot five maybe weighing about a hundred and seventy or eighty pounds and honestly yeah she’s carrying extra weight but she has wide hips and she’s very well endowed as a woman. Let’s just say that not all of Terry’s bust line is from the stuff done to her. I’ve got really nice almost breasts too and I’m the smallest out of the three of us and Terry is actually firmer than I am with her molecular density and stuff.

Anyway’s Joyce has mousey brown hair and the first thing I do is get some hair dye. She’s got these fabulous brown eyes so I get some stuff from my parents guest room and come back and give her a very quick wash and wear dye job with two layers of brown and a little hint of red and then I keep away from the whole perm or the hard to do stuff and use some straightener solution and get her hair into this nice simple fall just that simple, just to her shoulders with the perm and stuff out of it. It’s not poker straight but it’s softly straight…pretty university student mature kind of straight.

I re-do her colors she was using too much and I show her a really nice concealer that blends in and moisturizes some eyeliner and shadow in a nice earth tone and this decent lipstick that’s this ducky red coral.

I get her to put some earrings of mine it that are actually little gold Egyptian crosses or Ankh’s and a v-necked tee-shirt to show some cleavage and I give her the hoody that terry was wearing and get her to fasten just the bottom zipper like three or four inches. Good shoes to walk in and a denim skirt and I turn her around.

Then it’s a quick grab for the tissues before she messes with her make-up. Thank god I decided against the mascara.

“Oh…oh girls I…I’ve never looked this…”

“No, you’ve always looked this good Joyce it’s just maybe you just didn’t get the chance to learn some of this stuff.”

“No…I mean my mom taught me what she knew but this…this is like one of those makeover shows.”

“Well, I am from Diamond Hills and my mom is in the entertainment business and before my enhancement my life was pretty much all about hair and clothes and make-up.”

Terry’s nodding. “Sunny’s been always one of the undisputed hottest girls in our school and our school is full of very hot girls. But I didn’t know there was so much too this.”

“Oh there is, your turn girly.”

“Okay cool!” She hops into the chair with enough enthusiasm that Joyce and I share a look. “What, you made mom look awesome, I want to look good Sunny, I’ll learn…but I just want to…I’m just sick of being looked down on.”

“Right, I can get that.”

“You can?”

“Oh yeah, the valley girl thing me being all giggly and vapid and all that stuff before my enhancement…it wasn’t and act. I hate the fact that there are people who will always see that part of me instead of me…and the fact that I wasn’t really…picky who I slept with doesn’t help.”

“Before Matt?”

“Yeah…I guess that kind of stuck huh.”

“Sunny…stop that stuff. We’re not perfect, hell I’m sure not even like this I’ve…”

Joyce is still looking at herself but watching us too. “Yes we’ll have to stop at a pharmacy and maybe one of those Sapphic closet places.”

Terry looks confused.

“I haven’t shopped for a little buddy either my mom bought mine.”

Terry’s like. “Little buddy…?...Oh…OH!...Mom!”

Joyce starts laughing. “Terry I came into your room this morning and there’s just a certain smell…a mother knows.”

“Mom!”

I can’t help it I laugh so hard I had to go pee. I mean as girls there are things that we go through sometimes as these little milestone markers like this the sex talk stuff with our mothers. It’s embarrassing, it was for me but…a girl sometimes needs a little buddy.

But it’s absolutely hilarious when it comes to your friends.

I hug Terry and her Mom. “Thanks girls I really needed this.”

Terry is actually hard to do much with. Her hair has this desire to remain straight and you can’t cut it with scissors but there’s this color of blue-grey with hints of shimmer like sort of highlights to it that looks so different and unique. I pull it back and make this long ponytail with it holding it together with this round hair clip. I let these long bangs hang down to frame her face while everything else is pulled back and it makes her look kinda bad ass. Her lips have this dusky grey color naturally so just some lip gloss and a bit of blue eyeliner and eye shadow.

Again no mascara I’m figuring on some tears this trip and stuff so I’m eliminating that danger immediately. I go with the t-shirt she was wearing simple grey cotton with a v-neck. I think it’s one of her dad’s but that’ll give her this dressed down bad assed look that I get looking a bit more high styled by pairing it with a mid length black lycra skirt and a wide belt and fasten in over the t-shirt so that it draws away from her little bit of extra weight.

Again with the wow’s….and the tissues.

“We’ll fine tune this as we go right girls.”

“Right!”

It has and immediate effect. Terry’s dad stopped what he was doing in the kitchen that smelled good by the way and stared at Joyce and he walked over and smiled at her. It was one of those stare at her deeply and there energy behind the smile just got deeper and more love filled he took both of her hands and he kissed them and then let go of them and held her face in his hands and kissed her.

Okay, Terry’s dad might be one of those big heavy set guys too. They’re not a small family but doing that kissing her like that. That’s just…that’s how it’s done guys.

Oddly there’s a part of me soaking this in and taking notes.

But Terry and I both. “Sigh.” Along with Joyce as she exhales. “Have fun Corazon…I love you…” he tells her and we actually leave taking Joyce with us but she walked backwards starting at her guy all the way out of the apartment.

And actually the rest of the day only got better really.

Like as much as I’m used to getting looks when we got to the van Bodi had waiting for us we were being checked out. I’m used to it and Terry’s shy and just sort of bashful and embarrassed enough that its wood raising really and Joyce is a milf. She’s not dressed too young but casual and sexy. The nice bra with the v-neck gives her great cleavage and the hoody fastened like it is and yet being loose on her hides some weight but it mostly being open frames her breasts. Use what you have ladies right? It’s been a long time for Joyce since she’s had that kind of attraction and Terry’s picking up cues from the both of us.

I stopped into Bodi’s office. He’s a Meta with this increased body symetrics and pheromones and stuff basically one of his super powers is that he’s a super hottie. And as cool as that sounds it’s kind of a social disease too. He’s another person on the team that doesn’t get out much.

He was pleasantly surprised when I asked him if there was anything that he wanted. I got a small list from him and waved off the money too. “Naw, you can pay me back in work on my rides and stuff or just hanging out seeing as Titan doesn’t have a lot of guy friends.”

“Deal, my quarters are actually pretty well set up. You play pool?”

“Never, but that sounds like a right guy thing to learn.”

I left and sent off e-mails since I’ve been asking for other members of the team if they needed anything and we go shopping

Honestly its better already than most times I went shopping with the girls I used to hand out with and we’re just pulling out from The Tower.

I turn the radio onto a girl-rock channel and grin and Terry and Joyce.

“Alright let’s go I’m in need of my therapist.”