A Wonderful Awakening

A half hour later Lucy was just finishing the final coat to my fingernails when she said:

"Why haven't you pierced your ears, if you don't mind me asking?"

"I don't really know" I replied, "I thought it wouldn't suit me I guess" I continued truthfully.

"Rubbish, with a neck like that an attractive pair of danglies would set it off and draw attention to it perfectly!" She took a deep breath and continued, "I could do it now in minutes, there's no pain – well not much anyway" she blushed.

"Ummm" I hesitated a bit and then remembered my regret earlier and chucked my caution away: "yeah, go for it! I would love you to, Lucy!"

She fussed about with her things for a bit, tidying up the varnishes and preparing a needle I guessed when she pulled her chair closer to me and leant over my face. I could see her cheek and hair pulled back over the top of her ear and feel her shallow breaths on my own cheek. She had a delicate fresh smell and her with my heart thudding in my chest I realised I fancied this girl like mad and wished she would move inches to her left and just kiss me. Suddenly I was disturbed in my thoughts by a sharp pain and she exclaimed:

"There. That wasn't so bad was it?" A moments fussing and shifting over and the other side was done. She had swabbed the holes with alcohol wipes and affixed a couple of studs in place, I wandered if the holes would still be there when (if?) I reverted back to being a man. Having tidied up Lucy then walked over to the cashier at the side of the room, hidden from the window behind a Chinese-style screen; realising it was all over I hid my disappointment and followed her. She punched a few numbers in and then hesitated, saying:
"I should really charge for the ears but..." and with that she turned around, caught my eyes with hers and leant quickly forward to plant a lingering kiss smack on my lips. Astonished by the unexpectedness (I had assumed her friendliness was just a woman thing) I blinked a few things and must have looked mortified, an expression she then copied as she imagined she had read me wrong. "Oh, sorry Alex; I thought...never mind please forget that," she blushed.