It still being before 2 PM the Expo seemed to be closing up at this point and there were not a lot of people still heading for the parking lot. I took my time walking to the car and then let the car air out before I got in it. As I got in, I received a text from Cindy asking me if I would consider meeting her for a glass of wine at a lounge adjacent to the mall where I was now parked.

Thinking that it might have something to do with her remembering me I was hesitant to acquiesce to her request but then I decided why not. I texted her I saw the place while I was looking for a parking space and would meet her there. She replied with a thanks and said she would be there in about 15 minutes. It only took me less than 5 minutes to get there. With it still being early afternoon, I was able to get a table near the entrance where she could see me.

I ordered a glass of white wine and sipped it to relax me a bit for any questioning that might be coming my way. It took Cindy the full 15 minutes to show up and by that time I had half emptied my glass and already felt relaxed. I waved at her as she walked in and she apologized for being a bit late due to finishing up some work. The waitress then arrived and took her order.

After the waitress left, she started with thanking me for providing her with some of my time. She went on to say that I could have a contract position with her firm if I wanted it. I was actually thrilled to hear this and told her I was almost ready to accept, I just needed the details on what the job required and what compensation would be given.

Cindy went through a few of the details stating the big one that I could work from a remote location and only have to visit the client every now and then. I really wasn’t expecting this when I took off from Sam’s this morning but I could see how I could easily move Barbara into this role.

She asked if there were any other considerations that might be needed to be discussed and thinking about it, I told her I would present them once I had conferred with one of my friends on this. She accepted that and paused to sip her drink. She then went on to say that wasn’t the only reason she wanted to meet.

At this point I knew what was coming and I had already decided to share with her a bit of my secret. Continuing she said that she was being bothered that she couldn’t place where she met me. At this point I asked her if she could keep a secret for me. She replied as a HR person she would respect my privacy, and she will absolutely keep this information confidential. She finished with your secret is safe with me.

I then reached into my purse and took out my wallet and pulled out my driver’s license and slid it over the table to her. She picked it up and I saw her jaw drop as she looked at. She kept moving her eyes from the license to me and back again. She then said OMG it’s you, and I said yes.

She then said that she was truly amazed at my transformation, and added I was a woman in all respects. She said that there were some indications that I might be trans but my voice kept telling her I was a woman. I told her that at this time I was in a cross-dressing phase and was just experimenting with a transition. I told her that I wanted to find out how it felt being a woman full time and if I could pass as one.

I then asked her then what kept bugging her about remembering me. She said it was my birthday on my resume since we had the same day and month. She knew there had to be some connection but she couldn’t place where she had met the female me. She said she just couldn’t figure out where she knew me and it bothered her.

She then asked why I decided to share my secret with her. I told her because of the shared experiences we had and the way you handled them in the past, and I needed to tell someone who seemed to care about me as a woman. She then thanked me for confiding in her and that she really appreciated the trust I did in sharing my secret with her.

I asked her if there was anything that suggested that I might not be a woman, anything showed through as my male self. She thought about that for moment and she said there were a couple of small things that gave an indication once she started looking for them. She said that once I showed her my license she looked closely and could see the faint male characteristics in my face and hands.

Going on she added that taken at first glance without an in-depth scrutiny of my face, I appeared as any other woman. What again further reassured her in her mind that I was a woman was my feminine voice. She admitted that while first talking with me she had no hint of me as being nothing more than another woman.

She then started to ask me the questions about my cross-dressing and when I started. She asked if I was already doing it when we first met. I confided in her that I had been doing it a lot at that time but I limited myself to just a few excursions alone at night. I told her that I had already accumulated a sufficient amount of feminine clothes to present myself as a woman.

She then added that she now understood something that had puzzled her while we were intimate. She had wondered about the assortment of women’s clothes she found in the back of my closet. I remembered that I told her at that time that they were my sisters who visited every now and then. Since she didn’t ask anything more about them, I thought she took that all in stride at that time.

She added she couldn’t understand why any woman would leave such an assortment of clothes of various types at her brothers and now understood that they were mine. I confessed yes that they were mine. She replied that she thought that there was another woman and has now confirmed her suspicions by meeting her. With that we both laughed

She then asked me if I felt a change in my perceived gender when I dressed as a woman and which sex I was attracted to. I told her that I was attracted to some men when I presented myself as a woman and although I looked at other women while dressed it was mostly in awe and fascination at how they dressed and displayed themselves (a lot of time in envy).

Our conversation had lasted an hour when she looked at her watch and said that she was probably holding me up but loved our conversation. She also stated that she treasured learning about me as a woman and felt a genuine warmth towards me. Pausing for a moment she then asked if I would like to go out for a casual dinner at a local brewery with her and meet her spouse.