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Chapter One: Birthday Party
"Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Hermes! Happy birthday to you!" everyone shouted.
Hermes counts silently in his head to three, breathes out, and then finally wishes and blows out the candles. Silently wishing that he could be free to be a girl, to look and act like a girl.
Hermes's dad cuts through the big confectionery 6 on the cake and starts to hand out slices. Hermes and his family gather around, and eat the cake. This party was only with his parents, and some aunts, uncles, and cousins. Hermes was only six, and still he didn't really have any friends at school to invite. They all thought he was weird and in turn he spent most of his free time sitting close to the school's entrance instead of running around the playground. His teacher wouldn't let him bring a book out to the playground; so unfortunately he couldn't even do what he had started to fall in love with. He loved to read, and was getting very good at reading the books in his classroom. Hermes sighed to himself and wished he didn't have to open his presents. His family always got him toys that were so uninteresting. He hoped that he'd get at least one or two books this year, as his teachers have been sending home reports that his reading skills were one of the top in his class.
After cake, was presents time, and just as Hermes had predicted. His aunt and uncle on his mother's side got him some GI Joe figurines and a small toy gun. His aunt and uncle on his father's side got him a fire truck that he could actually sit in and ride around in. His other aunt on his father's side got him some button down polo shirts, that were in his schools colors. His parents got him some more clothing that he knew would feel scratchy and not like on his body. He did get one book from his parents, "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" that looked interesting. After a polite thank you to everyone who came, Hermes went back into the house and to his room. Hermes floped down on his bed and started to cry. After a good ten minutes of crying he gets up and locks his door; he then goes to his closet, where there's a floor length mirror. He undresses himself and scowls. First he puts his hand over his penis and looks in the mirror, smiling.
"Stupid penis," Hermes says softly to himself while looking down.
He starts to get very angry again and with his emotions heightened he sees out of the corner of his eye something happen to his GI Joe figurine that he just got as a present. There's some swirling lights that surround it and several seconds later GI Joe becomes a woman figure, and instead of a gun that the GI Joe was holding the now woman figurine is holding a necklace. Little did Hermes know, but this was his first accidental magic - and somewhere in Hogwarts a magical quill was writing down his information; name, date of birth, parents, and address. The book that this was entering in is a magical book that will change and update as circumstances arose, such as if the young wizard or witch moves residences.
"Wow! How'd that happen?" Hermes asked quietly. "I love it now. I wish something could happen to the firetruck thing I got, but that's probably too big to change."
Still being naked, and trying to tuck his penis he starts playing with his new figurine - which Hermes names Alicia. He knew since the party was around dinner time that his parents wouldn't disturb him for the rest of the night. His parents still cook food for him, but other than that, for the past six months he's generally been on his own and had to fulfill his time by himself. Occasionally Hermes would spend time watching tv with his parents, but he didn't really like to be around them just as much as his parents didn't want to be around him.
He already knew that he was an unplanned pregnancy but with his parents' religion they didn't have an abortion. Afterwards, however he knew his mom got a hysterectomy - although he couldn't quite pronounce the word, he knew what it meant. He'd always be an only child - a somewhat unwanted child. Because of this, he always tried to get everything correct on his first try at school, despite him only being in kindergarten. He was one of the oldest in his class, since his birthday was September 19th, and the cut off for first year at kindergarten was that he had to be 5 on or before September 1st. He also always rushed to finish the few chores his parents assigned him and tried to make his bed with crisp lines in his bedsheets and always have a clean room.
Hermes looked at the clock and realized it was already 8pm, with school the next day he had to get some sleep. After taking a quiet trip to the bathroom, he got back into bed naked, with his arm around Alicia. Smiling to himself he drifted off to sleep.