New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day:
New Year’s Eve, Piper manages to leave the restaurant early. They closed by midnight, and she joined a few of her coworkers at the park for the fireworks display. She watches as the fireworks shoot up into the air and explode, creating beautiful showers of color.

Piper spots some of the people she goes to school with enjoying the fireworks with their loved ones, or their boyfriends or girlfriends. She feels lonely when she notices how close the couples were. She stays till the end and makes her way home.

When Piper finally makes her way home. She goes up to her room and enters. She shuts the door behind her and locks it. She walks over to her bed, removes her work shoes, and takes off her socks.

She rubbed her feet and was happy she could finally get off them. She strips out of her work clothes and tosses them into her dirty clothes hamper. She notices she needs to wash her clothes. She rubs under her breasts to relieve the red lines that form when she wears a tight sports bra to hide her breasts. She needed to hide them because she had to appear like a boy even at school.

She wiggles out of the bikini-style panties she wears under her pants when she works and goes to school. She tosses them into the hamper and heads to the bathroom for a nice soak. She was glad she had a private bathroom and didn’t share her room with another boy.

She remembers the first time she went to a boy’s group home. She shared a room with three other boys and had no privacy. The foster parents she had before she was put back into the group home. They gave her her own bedroom. They had their own bathroom, so she had to share.

After soaking and nearly falling asleep in the tub, she gets out and dries off. She brushes her hair out, so it doesn’t tangle, and puts her favorite nightshirt on. She doesn’t bother with putting on any panties. She was going to allow her private area to air out.

Once Piper was dressed for bed, she crawled under the covers and fell asleep instantly. She was so tired and worn out that all her body wanted to do was sleep. Since she didn’t have school, she doesn’t bother turning her alarm on.

Piper sleeps in late, and when she wakes up, it's ten in the morning. She knew either Freddy or Mr. Deir would have checked on her to make sure she came home last night. The two of them were good at making sure all the boys in the group home were accounted for.

Piper grabs a Pop-Tarts from her hidden stash and eats it. Since she had the day off from work, she was going to go out and do some shopping while her laundry was washing. She gathers up all her dirty clothes and puts them into the military duffel bag she bought at the army-navy surplus store.

She puts on some warm clothes and a new bra she bought. She wanted to see if it was as advertised on television. It didn’t have any underwire, and it should make her chest look flatter. Not that it mattered, because she was wearing it under a heavy sweater, which she bought to stay warm.

She checks her appearance before leaving to make sure she doesn’t look too girly. Her facial features had softened, and it didn’t take much for her to look like a teenage girl. She signs out with the security guard on duty and heads towards her favorite laundry mat to do her laundry.

It only takes her a few minutes to arrive at the laundry mat. It was cold outside, and she could feel her nipples harden. It was good she was wearing a heavy sweater, or people would have seen her nipples poking against her bra. She walks over to an unused washer and separates her laundry into three loads. One had her work clothes in it; the washer next to it had her underwear, bras, nightgowns, and socks. The one on the other side of the first one had her sweaters, school clothes, and her normal relaxing clothes.

She puts the laundry detergent into the three washing machines and gets them going. Instead of leaving the laundry mat, Piper sits down and starts reading an eBook on her Kindle. She liked to stay and watch as her laundry was being washed.

Every time the door opens, she watches as people enter either to drop their laundry off for washing or to do it themselves. Some were women with small kids in tow or single people like her who didn’t have washing machines or dryers at home. Sure, she could have done her laundry at the group home, but she didn’t want to take the risk of the other boys discovering her secret.

After a few hours, her clothes are washed, folded, and put back in the duffel bag. She makes sure everything is safely put away and doesn’t forget anything. She leaves the laundry mat and stops at Wendy’s to pick up a late lunch.

Once Piper has her lunch, she heads back to the group home and checks in. She makes her way to her room, puts away her clothes, and then enjoys her lunch. Piper turns on the television and watches a random show. She had nothing else to do.

As Piper was sitting on her bed, her cell phone started ringing, and when she looked at the number. She notices it was work. She presses accept “hello?”

“Piper, it's Barbara. I need you to come in and work tonight.”

“Okay, I’ll be there in thirty minutes.” Piper ends the phone call.

She changes out of her normal clothes, puts on her work clothes, and grabs her heavy work jacket. According to The Weather Channel, the temperatures were going to drop tonight, and there might be snow that would turn to ice. She hopes it doesn’t ice up, because riding a bicycle in the snow was difficult enough, but adding ice makes it even harder. It became even more difficult.

Piper uses the motorized motor to get to work as fast as she can. She noticed there was a bunch of dishes piled up. She gets started right away, and just as the dishes are getting lower, more dishes come in to be washed. She works through her break time and dinner time. There were just too many dishes to stop.

Piper loses herself in doing her work, and by the time she was down to the last load, it was time to clock out. She finishes the last load and puts them away. When she steps outside after cleaning her work station. She notices it's snowing, and it's coming down heavily. She bundles up and starts making her way home.

She has several accidents on the way home. The first accident was a car that slid toward her when the driver stepped on the brakes at the stoplight. She tries to avoid the car and runs right into a pole. The second time, she lost her balance after hitting a slick surface and fell forward off her seat. The third time, as she entered the driveway of the group home, there was a layer of ice, and she lost control of her bicycle, hitting the ground hard on her right side. She knew she was going to have a bruise from hitting the ground.

She was in pain as she rode her bicycle to the entrance to check in with the guard on duty. It was hard for her as she carried her bicycle up to her room. She could feel the pain from hitting the icy parkway.

When Piper starts removing all her clothes, she notices a large bruise forming on the side of her right hip and thigh. Not only that, she felt her abdomen starting to cramp up. From everything she learned, she was starting her period.

Piper strips out of her work clothes and makes her way to the bathroom, where she fills the tub with hot water. She pops some Pamprin into her mouth and lowers herself into the tub. She leans back in the tub and relaxes as the hot water soaks into her skin.

Piper stays in the tub until the water starts turning cold. When she gets out and notices the bruising on her hip is getting darker. She dries off and heads towards her bed. She throws on her nightshirt and crawls into bed.

During the night, the pain pills she took for her period helped with the pain from the bruise on her hip. Piper has to be careful as she sleeps, because every time she rolls onto her side, the dull pain from the bruise wakes her. She fell back asleep and was going to enjoy having tomorrow off.

When morning arrived, it was snowing again, and there was at least two feet of snow outside. There was no way she could make it to work. She sends a text to Barbara letting her know. She receives a return text, letting Piper know she understood and to stay safe.

Piper puts on her cold-weather gear, grabs the broom she keeps in her bedroom, and starts cleaning the landing outside her room and the others'. She makes sure the whole landing is cleared and the steps leading down.

Piper is careful as she clears the steps and the walkway towards the main entrance. She changes out her snow-soak broom for a snow shovel and another broom. Several more boys join her in clearing the landing and the parking lot. At least the staff and the other boys, especially the younger boys at the group home, could enter the main building, which includes the restaurant, washroom, main rec/group room, and reception area.

Some of the boys who had kitchen duty made soup from scratch for everyone and hot chocolate with marshmallows. Normally, Piper tries to avoid socializing with everyone, but after being outside and removing the snow. She sits down, enjoys lunch, and watches some of the guys play games on the PS4 someone donated to the group home.

After lunch and socializing for a while, Piper walks outside and stands there, watching as the snow plows plow the roads and spread salt on them. They should have done that last night, so there wouldn’t be so much snow to melt.

Piper makes her way back upstairs to her room with her broom. What areas she missed originally, she sweeps those areas again. She puts the wet broom in the bathroom, in the tub, to drive out the smell.