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The Little Girl

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"I want to change back" a squeaky little girly voice declared with an intonation filled to the brim with seriousness.

I stared at the little lady, her lavender eyes wide open, looking back at me with a glimmer of doubt and maybe a little bit of dissatisfaction, "It can't be undone" I told her, I had to, no matter how futile it would be, it was a dance I had done so many times, I would have to go through the motions as usual.

Her clear little face turned red in anger as she growled, she clenched her fists tightly and shook her head in frustration, "Lies!" she yelled as if she wanted to say something else, something more profane, "You made this possible, don't you think I know the magnitude of the changes you did? You can't really expect me to believe you can't undo it!" she said angrily and then she pouted at me.

I shouldn't chuckle at this display, I really shouldn't, I am a professional after all, but I would lie if I said it wasn't funny, her black hair was done in a cute ponytail tied up by a lovely white colored ribbon, she wore a one piece light blue dress with white borders and a pink coat on top of it; the difference between her outfit now and the one worn the day I granted the request contrasted so much.

"Turn me back!" she once again yelled at me, it was going to be one of the annoying ones. I stared silently at her for a little while, the only noise in the room was the angry tapping of her little sandals as her right foot spazzed angrily.

"Tell me now, who was the one who came to me with a request?" I asked rhetorically, as I usually did when this sort of thing happened, "I was" she told me, "I came to you with my request..." she lowered her eyes as she spoke.

"Indeed, you came here and you told me..." She interrupted me, again, like they usually did, "I want to be the little girl" she said. I smiled with that Know-it-all expression that always bothers everyone, she looked at me and felt shame as she realized everything was of her own doing.

"You told me life as a man was horrible, you told me it wasn't the life you wanted for yourself, you wanted to escape..." I could feel the shame and the regret hitting him the hardest, "You said you wanted to be the little girl, and I granted your request, it's what I do" and I am quite good at what I do, I must add, "I made you the little girl you wanted to be, I changed the world to fit your new life, your family, the people around you, everything was fit for a little girl such as you and now you come back requesting me to undo it all, why? Was this not what your heart most desired?" again, this was a rhetorical question, because they never know what they most desire.

"It's complicated" she told me, "I have the freedom I desire, I no longer feel the shame for doing the things I could not do as a man, I thought I had everything I longed for..." she sighed, here comes the important part, "...But this body, it feels so alien to me, I don't feel like myself at all, I'm trapped in this body" she looked at her little hands as she spoke, "it does not feel like I thought it would, it's like I still remember what my old body feels like, I miss it, the familiarity, I miss me" she declared.

"I thought this was the true 'you', wasn't that what you told me?" I had to keep going on, let them realize their own mistakes, "Didn't you wanted to run away from your past life? Why do you want to turn back now?" she interrupted me again, "I don't want to turn back!" I just glared at her.

"But you told me you wanted to change back, you just said you feel trapped in this body, what is it then?" she knocked her head gently a few times with her hands, "I don't know!" she cried, "Being the little girl is not what I expected to be like..." she began explaining, "...But deep down I know I don't want to go back to my old life, it was unbearable..." we were close to a breakthrough here, "...if only I had put more thought on this..." I knelt before her so our faces were on the same level and gently held her shoulders.

"Why did you ask me to turn you into the little girl if that wasn't what your heart desired?" I asked her softly, she took a moment before replying, "Because this is what I thought I wanted, but I was wrong" she explained, "Then, what is it? What do you want deep down?" I asked one last time, this time she would see the truth.

"I..." don't be shy, I know you see it clearly now, "...I wanted to be a child again, I had strange feelings in my head and curiosity, it was what made me think I wanted to be the little girl, but I should have known better, what I really wanted was to be a kid again and relieve my happiest days" bingo! She was enlightened at last.

"So, can you do it? can I be the little boy this time?" she asked me, sadly I had bad news for her, "What I have done I cannot undo, you are the little girl now and that's something that can't be reverted in any form..." her eyes were tearing up already, "...however, there is something I can do, I can free you from your prison, so to speak, you won't feel remorse over your decision, you won't be haunted by your former self, your body will feel natural to you and you'll finally be able to experience being a child again..." I could see it on her face, she knew what had to be done, "...You understand what is going to happen if you agree, right?" I asked as a final warning.

"Yes..." she said stuttering a little, "I get it..." her heart was agitated, even though we both knew her mind was made, she still was scared, so I felt I had to ask her one more time, "Should I do it then?" she didn't said anything, she just nodded and closed her eyes as I worked my magic on her.

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"I'm coming!" a voice quickly replied to my knocking on the door.

The little darling by my side smiled radiantly, filled with happiness and expectation, like she somehow knew she was coming home to a new life, it in turn made me feel happy myself, because I could see it in her adorable little face, she finally had left all her worries behind, she finally had what she wanted the most, in the end it wasn't a body that imprisoned her, but memories of being an adult, the burden of knowledge that had driven innocence away, which I was more than happy to clear and finish this job once for all, with her mind as a clean slate, I finally delivered what she was looking for.

"Hello my sweetie!" the nice woman greeted her daughter as she opened the door, not a moment to lose, they embraced tightly, it was a thing of beauty, "She's a good girl," I said, "I had no trouble babysitting her, I wouldn't mind doing it again, so you can call me anytime you need", the mother looked back at me, holding her little girl on her arms, "You're an angel, and a life saver! Thank you very much!" she showered me with gratitude, I just replied with a smiled and left quietly.

As I faded into the background of the neighborhood, I could still hear their whispers.

"How was it sweetie? Did you have fun?"

"I did... I think..."

"How do you feel?"

"I feel Happy."
This is a short story i wrote on the spot, literally, directly into the text submission window (tho i copied it to a text file for backup and to show my beta reader), I even wrote it directly into English, so sorry if it reads awkwardly.

Enjoy this, i actually have another one in reserve, but it is in need of a severe tuning up towards the end.
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Vert-Exis's avatar

“I can use this kind of magic but only once for no reason other than melodrama”, don’t you just love plot-convenient magic? Also, does this story vaguely implies that the man-turned-girl chose what essentially could be called suicide? This guy would let his mind be erased and be placed in a new body. I mean, isn’t wiping out your memory to almost zero and starting anew basically someone dying (worse… cease to exist)?

 

Anyway, this was very well-written despite my constant nagging about victim cruelty in your novels.