They were so shook up about it!’ ‘Fascinating.’ I paused, trying to make sense of it all. It still wasn’t coming together. ‘Anything else yo...’d care to tell me?’ Greta shook her head. ‘No, I think that is everything I know. I’m so worried for Mrs. Helmsley.’ ‘Tell me, do you think Mrs. Helmsley shot her father?’ Greta hesitated. ‘I don’t know. I really don’t know. Mrs. Helmsley has always been so wonderful to me, such a nice lady. I couldn’t imagine her doing something like that. But, she has. It started after she watched a film that involved a woman being spanked, and that set her thinking as to whether, like in the film, it was sexually arousing rather than a punishment. The selling points seemed to be that pain and pleasure went together, in effect the pain causing and creating the pleasure. She had tried it herself, with a spatula, and did find it quite painful, although fingered herself afterwards to a pretty good orgasm. That led her to spank herself with a spatula pretty much. Eileen had had a crush on her sister's boyfriend almost from the first day she'd met him, but had kept it very quiet ... it was her sister, after all, and they were five years apart in age, so Eileen was quite young then and rather insecure. The insecurity hadn't diminished in the intervening years and she'd had no dating experience over that time; no one noticed the quiet, skinny, studious girl except to comment on her flaming red hair. Being placed in close proximity to Paul hadn't helped. I read anarticle that said that in the next couple of years, transgender is goingto be the new 'gay'. Lots of people are going to come out, and there'sgoing to be a lot more acceptance. I bet you'd be pleasantly surprised.Finally, there's training you can do to make your voice more feminine.There!" she finished up, "All your fears laid to rest!" She grinned.I took a long pull on my beer. "Well, that may be so, Allie, but itstill scares the crap out of me. I just don't think I'm ready."We danced.