Josh was amazed with how quickly Gym Bro was able to research everything and alter his schedule. He was a little intimidated as he flipped through the binder, but he trusted that following the instructions would be as easy as before. Plus, Gym Bro told him the biggest changes were increasing the difficulty of the workouts and adding specific things for Zoe practice beyond the voice. His days started off more or less the same way. He woke up and did some basic hygiene things, made breakfast for the two of them, ate, cleaned up, and then got ready for his workout. His new diet pn did noticeably feature less food, but Gym Bro insisted he could make up for the missing calories by eating nuts for snacks throughout the day. The new workout included more time on the bike at the same intensity. The new stretching routine was way more intense and involved more dynamic movements over static poses. Thankfully, the resistance training was much easier and simpler to compensate. After showering, there was a new section called “beauty routine.” Most of the stuff was simir to what Josh did before, but Gym Bro expined the change in name was to get Josh used to female vocabury and really put himself in the mindset of Zoe. One part of the beauty routine involved Josh giving himself a breast massage. Josh initially hated this part even though he understood the logic behind it. Firstly, the massage would help stimute blood flow in his breasts and Josh needed blood flow to see changes faster. Secondly, Josh needed to stop avoiding his breasts and learn how to live with them. It would be really suspicious if a woman like Zoe had zero experience touching her breasts. At least, that’s what Gym Bro said. Josh did as he was told and started to feel better about the addition by the second week of following the schedule. He was able to get into a sort of mechanical routine of massaging each breast, and he’d gotten used to referring to them as breasts. The massage itself wasn’t too difficult since Gym Bro provided him a special massage gel that helped Josh’s hands glide over his skin. The big changes in Josh’s schedule came after lunch time. Instead of simply practicing Zoe’s voice for an hour and then having some free time before running errands or cleaning up, Josh now had some feminine skills to practice. First, Gym Bro helped Josh with figuring out specific things to say when practicing Zoe’s voice. He found some books that were popur with women so Josh had the doubled effect of learning what was going on inside women’s minds while he practiced speaking. He even got Josh some professional grade recording equipment so that he could hear what he sounded like and change things. Apparently, women were much hornier than Josh realized. Most of the books Josh had to pick from involved some pretty steamy scenes. Gym Bro encouraged him to get into character, at least when reading the women’s parts, which meant Zoe’s voice slowly evolved into sounding a bit breathier and way more sultry. After the first week, Josh pointed out that reading only a few chapters all while needing to constantly make adjustments to his voice meant he progressed through the books rather slowly, so he wasn’t learning much about feminine culture. His goal was to get out of reading altogether, but Gym Bro simply added a new task to the schedule: watching chick flicks. Josh had to admit watching movies to study how women interacted with each other was more fun than reading the books. Some of the chick flicks ended up being better than expected. Sure, some of them were sappy love stories like The Notebook or Titanic. But other ones like Mean Girls, Clueless, Easy A, The Devil Wears Prada, and House Bunny were all really enjoyable. Josh’s next activity involved fashion studies. He read different fashion magazines and watched videos of women doing try on hauls for about thirty minutes each day. Gym Bro pointed out that Josh needed to know how to comment and discuss feminine topics with women in case anyone ever approached him in the bathroom or out in public. After all, women were the ones most likely to call the police if they ever thought Zoe was anything other than a real woman. Josh was surprised when part of him started to enjoy learning about the different styles of clothing and all the different words for fabrics and patterns. He reasoned it was because it reminded him of studying weapons and csses for a video game character except, when he was done, he could actually use all his knowledge in real life. After fashion studies, Josh would practice makeup and nails. As Gym Bro pointed out, makeup was the fastest way to make Zoe look feminine while also making her look drastically different from Josh without surgery. The first thing Josh learned was that his makeup supply was woefully pitiful, so he spent the whole first week specifically pnning a rger shopping trip specifically to buy more makeup and nail polish. While at the mall shopping for better makeup supplies, Josh also got some storage compartments for his vanity, pierced his ears (Gym Bro pointed out that all women had pierced ears and the holes were easy to hide ter), and tools for doing his nails like a UV cure light, different kinds of polish, and different files. During that trip, Josh found something pulling him towards looking at new clothes. He figured it was some sort of residual effect from reading about fashion every day and simply ignored it that first week. Besides, he was stunned enough with how much everything cost, so he was very thankful when Gym Bro paid for everything without question. Within his second week of practicing makeup, Josh was proud of what he was able to accomplish. He would take photos of his face and send them to Gym Bro to show off his different looks and styles. He even learned some extra hairstyles. This inspired a new task for his schedule starting in the third week: Outfit of the day photos. Josh had trouble getting started at first. Most of the clothes he had avaible were either bnd and pin or hyper sexual. It was also clear that he’d outgrown the tops from Gym Bro’s Ex thanks to getting back into a consistent workout schedule. This meant another shopping trip and a new task: tucking. In order to increase his options for Zoe’s outfits, Josh had to buy some pants and shorts in addition to the plethora of skirts and dresses. This meant learning to do the same tucking trick Gym Bro showed him during the tournament. Gym Bro even bought him some special underwear that was specifically designed to help Josh stay tucked all day every day; including during workouts. Josh was pretty uncomfortable with tucking at first, like he was with most of the new activities, but he got used to it with time. It was also nice to be able to wear pants without the fear of his bulge being spotted festering in the back of his mind. Not to mention that there was no point to compining. Josh had to tuck to look like Zoe, and there was no way to remove his penis and balls temporarily. Armed with his makeup skills, fashion knowledge, and a few more clothes Josh felt compelled to buy, Josh could prepare an entire look each afternoon and take photos of Zoe in a few different poses. Gym Bro insisted Josh needed to take photos since they gave him the ability to see Zoe from different angles. Initially, Josh was nervous about creating photographic evidence of himself doing such girly activities, but, after seeing what he was able to make Zoe look like, he realized nobody would be able to connect the girl in the photos to the guy Josh was aiming to be. In order to come up with new outfits Josh started considering what the character of Zoe would want to wear. In his mind, Zoe was the ideal woman. She was quiet, feminine while still being mature, she loved all things girly but also knew how to take care of a home. She cared about her health and loved pying video games. She loved hanging with the bros as much as she enjoyed watching her chick flick movies. Josh quickly became to able to autopilot most of Zoe’s activities. He thought about being Zoe and how Zoe, as a woman, would actually enjoy doing all the makeup, nails, skin care, hair care, dressing, and posing that Josh had on his schedule. Josh didn’t enjoy any of that stuff since he was guy, but Zoe could be happy expressing her femininity since she was a woman. Josh did enjoy sending the daily photos and seeing Gym Bro’s reaction since it was often the most he ever got out of the guy since starting the new routine. Technically, they’d hung out on weekends when Josh went to the mall, but that was really Zoe going out shopping. And after being dropped off back at the house, Gym Bro would drive off somewhere else and not show up until much ter in the evening. He also stopped giving Josh his weekly massages. Josh told himself it was totally fine and that Gym Bro didn’t owe him anything considering how much he was helping already. After all, anytime Josh had a compint or comment about his new routine, Gym Bro would quickly provide a solution. Early into the new routine, Josh compined about needing to shave all the time so Zoe was properly hairless like other women. Gym Bro found a cool device that allowed Josh to slow down his hair growth over time. Basically, the device sent out fshes of light that told his hair follicles to stop growing for a little bit. Josh was skeptical at first; after all, how could light do anything to his hair? However, he quickly saw the benefits after only two weeks. The hair on his body grew in lighter and lighter to the point that he only needed to use a small electric razor to tidy up certain areas instead of going all out with a normal razor and shaving cream. Josh eventually noticed that he was definitely eating less food and felt hungry all the time. Breakfast was always a bunch of grains, veggies, and fruit. Lunch would involve be some lean meat like ground beef or chicken, but the bulk of his meal was always more vegetables, fruit, and either potatoes or rice. To top it off, Josh barely ate anything for dinner. On a few occasions, his only pnned food for dinner was a protein shake or smoothie. Josh tried snacking on nuts and grapes throughout the day like Gym Bro suggested, but he never felt satiated from a handful of nuts or a bowl of grapes. Not for long anyways. When he compined again, Gym Bro provided him a new solution: a waist trainer. Starting in week four, Josh would squeeze himself into the terrible contraption every day after working out, and he wouldn’t take it off until going to bed. It did have a nice little bonus effect of changing Josh’s shape in Zoe’s clothes to look even more feminine. And it did help him feel less hungry during the day. By the second week of wearing it, Josh had to admit the waist trainer was a great solution. Gym Bro wasn’t the only one who had great ideas though. Josh had figured out his own solution to the problem of not getting massages every week from Gym Bro. Since Gym Bro was out of the house more often on weekends, Josh started using his toys more often to release all the tension from the week. After twenty to thirty minutes of writhing around on his bed, Josh would feel the same calming effect he’d gotten from the massages. Which is why Josh started doing it every day. Because who wouldn’t want to be rexed as much as possible? Of course, this presented another problem where Josh ended up getting too comfortable with the small butt plug. Which he solved by ordering a kit of progressively rger plugs that provided him the nice feeling of being filled up that he liked. The problem then was that the new plugs couldn’t vibrate, but Josh found another solution for that. He was able to get the same kind of electric sensations to flow across his body by pinching and squeezing his nipples after putting the plug in. He initially felt some shame about enjoying pying with his breasts. But then he realized the truth. They weren’t his breasts at all. Not really. He was pying with Zoe’s boobs. And, of course, he would get turned on by pying with a girl’s boobs. Josh’s solutions went beyond the physical. To help him get into the right mindset, he’d started reading the same romance novels he had for Zoe’s voice practice while masturbating. The scenes and imagery in those books were as intense and stimuting as any porn Josh had watched. Plus, he felt this weird extra connection to the characters after reading several chapters about their lives, emotions, and ideas. When he wasn’t pying with Zoe’s body, Josh solved his loneliness problem by pying Minecraft with Devon. They would strategize on what to build next in their growing vilge. Devon would talk to Josh about his job and about the different nerdy ideas flowing through his mind. Josh still felt guilty about building his friendship with Devon on the lie of Zoe’s existence, but he tried to remind himself that, even though he used a different name, he was still the same person underneath. The Zoe who hung out with Devon was different from the Zoe that Josh had to pretend to be for his schedule and errands. Of course, since Zoe was supposed to be a woman, Josh couldn’t express a lot of his history with Devon since it was explicitly tied to his masculine roots. Instead of dwelling on those crappy feelings, Josh simply put more effort into his daily rituals. He didn’t even compin when Gym Bro had a treadmill delivered and added walking in heels to Josh’s training program. Or when Gym Bro added singing to Zoe’s vocal time. Josh enjoyed that his day was filled with activities picked for a purpose. He took everything in stride and told himself everything Gym Bro had him doing was going to pay off. Sure enough, Josh had no problem becoming Zoe for the next video game tournament. All the practice of being vocal as Zoe during workouts, the slimming effect of the waist trainer, his better sense of fashion, and his ability to do makeup and hair came together to make Zoe a perfect creation. She never slipped in her voice despite all the adrenaline pumping in her body from pying the game and the shameful memory of her st performance. Of course, Josh didn’t actually win the tournament; Gym Bro did. And since Gym Bro picked Freak Speed 3 for next month’s tournament, Josh knew he had no chance of beating Gym Bro, so next month was already a loss. The only chance he had at winning the whole year would be if he won every month after that. Josh didn’t like those odds. Maybe he could figure out a way to work more video game practice into his schedule. ———————————— One Saturday, Josh woke up a little ter than normal since he didn’t need to worry about making Gym Bro breakfast on the weekends. After doing some basic care, taking a shower, and getting dressed, Josh made himself some food. It didn’t seem like Gym Bro was home, so Josh sat on the couch and pulled up a new show that he’d gotten into watching recently. He couldn’t remember why he’d started watching it in the first pce, but he found himself choosing to turn it on when he had free time. It was about this woman who was magically sent back in time because of some rocks. Overall, Josh thought the concept was pretty dumb, but it did have some pretty cool action scenes and the main guy character was weirdly attractive. Because of how strong and capable he was. As a man. Josh was still sitting on the couch, absentmindedly pying with his hair while watching the show, when Gym Bro came in through the front door. Josh paused the show and turned his head over the couch to say, “Hey dude.” Gym Bro paused and looked over. He smiled and walked over. “Hey Zoe,” he said, “It’s a nice surprise seeing you around.” Josh blinked. “Huh?” Gym Bro continued, “What are you watching? Some kind of history show?” Josh shook his head. “No, it’s about time travel and war or something. I’m sorry, did you call me Zoe?” Gym Bro smirked and said, “Duh, it’s your name.” “But I’m Josh right now. It’s the weekend.” Gym Bro walked to the front of the couch and looked Josh up and down. He said, “You sure about that? You’re wearing makeup and a dress and everything.” Josh’s hand went up to his face. He felt the familiar sensation of foundation on his fingertips. “When did I do that?” he thought to himself. He noticed the slick covering of lip gloss on his lips and the weight of mascara on his shes. “Or that?” he thought again. Gym Bro continued, “I get it if you were doing some extra practice, but if you look like Zoe I’m going to call you Zoe, you know? I don’t want to get in a bad habit and end up slipping when it counts. You wouldn’t want that, right?” Josh pulled himself out of his trance to reply, “No, I don’t want that.” Gym Bro shrugged. “Cool. I’m going to take a shower. You wanna watch a movie or something after?” Josh felt his head nod. Josh watched Gym Bro strip off his shirt as he walked to his room. He watched the door close. Then he sat silently for a few moments before jumping off the couch and running into their room. He stood in front of the full-length mirror Gym Bro bought for him st week to help him feel better about losing the tournament. He saw saw Zoe staring back at him. She had her everyday makeup on with her hair in a half-up half-down style. Josh turned from side to side and watched Zoe’s skirt spin and swish across their legs. He lightly grazed his fingers across the tops of her breasts. He watched Zoe move her mouth around and py with her hair. As he watched Zoe move around in the mirror, Josh started to remember getting dressed, styling his hair, and putting on makeup. Vaguely. He must have gone on autopilot because of all the practice he’d been doing tely. Sort of like how he didn’t even think about shaving, brushing his teeth, or washing his face in the morning. Or how he always remembered to take his pills without setting arms or checking his schedule. Zoe bounced up and down so Josh could watch her breasts jiggle. The thought popped into their head that they should take a photo considering they’d gone through the effort of getting all done up anyways. Josh snapped a few quick selfies and then set up his phone on the tripod Gym Bro bought them to get some full body shots. They carefully scrolled through the photos on Josh’s phone; making sure to use the ft side of their finger to keep their longer nails out of the way. A small part of them wondered when the st time they took a photo of Josh was. They put their phone away and walked out of the room to go wait for Gym Bro on the couch. “Why am I on the couch?” Josh thought to himself. He could’ve sworn he was doing something important in the room. He stood up and floated back to the room and stood in front of the standing mirror. He turned Zoe’s body to look at it from different angles. She looked nice in her bra and panties. Except. Josh didn’t take their clothes off, did he? He turned around and saw the dress he’d been wearing id neatly on his bed. He walked over to it and grabbed the fabric as if to confirm that it was really there. Right. He took it off because he didn’t want to be dressed as Zoe today. It was Saturday. He could be Josh. He’d only dressed up like Zoe on accident because he was used to being her most of the week. Which… Josh scrunched his face and felt his brain straining to think of something. There was something important he needed to know; he could feel it. He felt himself turn around and look back in the mirror. He saw Zoe’s face analyzing their body critically. Face. Josh snapped his fingers as the puzzle pieces clicked into pce. His face. He’d done Zoe’s makeup and must have come into the room to take it off. Or to take the dress off before going to the bathroom to take the makeup off. Either way, it all made sense now. “Hey Zoe,” Josh heard from behind him. He turned around and saw Gym Bro staring at him. Part of Josh knew he should be uncomfortable being seen in his bra and panties. Another part was trying to figure out when they’d started feeling so comfortable being in a bra and panties. Overall, they were shocked to be looking at a shirtless Gym Bro. Before any part could complete a thought, Gym Bro spoke. “Oh wow, I haven’t seen you without clothes on in a while. You’re looking good.” Josh felt pleased and confused. Gym Bro walked forward and took a closer look at Josh’s body. Josh obediently stood still. Gym Bro pced his hand on Josh’s belly and slid his hand across Josh’s skin. This sent shivers across Josh’s body. A thought popped into his head: this was the first time in what felt like forever that Gym Bro touched him. Internally, Josh smiled a sad smile. Suddenly, Gym Bro pinched part of Josh’s tummy in his hand and pulled at the extra skin. “Hmm,” he said. Josh looked down and saw how much fb Gym Bro was able to grab. Josh said, “What?” “It’s nothing,” Gym Bro replied. He grabbed and pinched at Josh’s arms and back. He continued, “I can see the progress you’re making. These things take time, you know?” Josh nodded his head. He knew he had a long way to go to lose weight if he wanted the boobs to start shrinking. Gym Bro removed his hands from Josh’s body and stepped back. He said, “Why are you changing clothes by the way? I thought you looked fine before.” Josh snapped himself out of staring at Gym Bro’s abs and replied, “I, um, well I’m not sure.” He walked over to the bed and picked up the edge of the dress in one of his hands. Josh continued, “I don’t even remember putting it on in the first pce. I mean, I know I put it on. I remember that.” Josh dropped the fabric and turned to face his friend. “But, I don’t know why I would dress up like Zoe on the weekend without pnning to go out somewhere.” Gym Bro responded, “I’m sure you had a good reason and just forgot it. You have been pretty forgetful tely.” “I have?” Gym Bro nodded his head and smirked. “I bet you totally forgot about tidying up the house today like you said you would.” Josh stared at Gym Bro bnkly. Gym Bro continued, “To get ready for tomorrow” More staring. “For the tournament.” Still staring. Gym Bro sighed. “See?” he said, “this is what I’m talking about. Tomorrow is this month’s video game tournament. Everyone is coming here since I own the game and have the awesome set-up. You said you would tidy around the house and prep some snacks for everyone.” Josh scrunched his face and tried to remember even a part of the conversation Gym Bro was talking about, but he came up empty. He said, “I don’t remember that at all.” Gym Bro chuckled and said, “I figured. But don’t worry. There’s still plenty of time left in the day. I’ll help you out and then we can still have time to watch the movie. Deal?” Josh nodded his head. Gym Bro said, “Cool, I’ll run out and grab a few more things for snacks. You get started with undry, vacuuming, clean the bathroom, and whatnot.” He turned and walked out the room. Josh took a moment before sliding his dress back on and starting on the cleaning. As he worked, Josh thought more about what Gym Bro was saying about the memory gaps and forgetfulness. The more Josh thought about it, the more he realized there had been several occasions over the past month where he had weird forgetful moments. He recalled entire days that seemed to slip away from him. He would wake up, take a shower, eat breakfast, and then zone out until the evening. He figured he was getting better at doing things automatically as Zoe, but maybe it had something to do with this memory problem he was developing. When Gym Bro returned, Josh helped put the snacks and drinks away before finishing up with the cleaning. Thankfully, Gym Bro had also picked up a pizza, but Josh wasn’t very hungry. Which made him realize that, at some point, he’d put on his waist trainer. He sat down next to Gym Bro on the couch as Gym Bro pulled up a cssic action movie for them to watch now that the chores were done. Weirdly enough, Josh wasn’t finding much joy in watching the giant buff man shoot all the random henchmen on his way to save the hot girl. Part of him knew they should be happy since they were finally hanging out with Gym Bro again. Instead, all Josh could think about was the weirdness of this morning and the gaps in his memory he’d been experiencing. His concerns only grew stronger when he found himself picking up garbage after everyone left from the party. Josh blinked his eyes and stared at the red pstic cup in his hand. He noticed the weight of a trash bag in his other hand and stood up. Memories started flowing through his mind. He’d dressed up as Zoe because of the party today. The guys showed up for the video game tournament. No, before that, he’d been watching a movie. Then he must have eaten dinner. He didn’t recall leaving the house again yesterday. So he ate dinner; the leftover pizza. And then they went to bed? Josh started moving again and continued to pick up trash as he repyed events in his mind. This morning, he woke up and got dressed as Zoe. Then he set things up for the party and people started showing up ter int he afternoon. Zoe was primarily the host since they’d given up on any chance of winning. Gym Bro won the tournament. And he’d gone out drinking with the other guys. Josh stopped cleaning and took a moment to listen. Sure enough, the house was empty except for him. He let go of the trash bag and wandered over to the couch as the emptiness settled against his body. He dropped onto the couch, leaned forward, and put his head in his hands. “What’s going on with me?” Josh asked himself aloud.