Vesper tosses pieces of bread towards the pigeons that have landed to pick up the pieces. She didn’t know what to do to solve her current situation. She looks up at the leaves in the trees, and a smile appears on her solemn-looking face. She has always loved fall, not because she was born on Halloween night, but because she loved when the leaves changed. She loved the bright colors of the leaves.

She recently discovered some news that she had long suspected about herself and her family. Her family has finally made it clear that she no longer matters to them. It all started early in the morning when she was fixing breakfast for everyone. She thought it would be a nice gesture and might relieve some of the tension that’s been in the air lately. Her older brother wanted to borrow some money from her. The thing was, the money her older brother wanted to borrow from her was meant for the new SUV she’s been wanting to get. Her old SUV, the transmission went out in it, and it would cost more for her to replace it than it would to buy a new certified used one.

Her brother wanted to uses the money she worked hard to save to invest it in another opportunity that always failed. Her parents were still recovering from the last time he asked for money. They were willing to loan her brother a large amount of money, which he said he could triple their investment.

The investment was a bust, but that didn’t stop him from taking more money from them and investing it again in another bad investment. She had to take the money she set aside to buy new equipment for her part-time job and pay their mortgage, bills, and buy food for the house.

The thing is, she doesn’t mind helping her parents out, but when they keep giving money to her older brother for bad investments, she draws the line. She told them she wasn’t going to give him the money and she wasn’t going to bail them out again, if they did. Her mother called her ungrateful, and her father said she was no child of his. If she were his child, she would put family first, instead of being so selfish.

Her brother had mentioned how she wasn’t even blood-related to them. He told her that she was just some stray that her own mother didn’t want. She didn’t believe him, but later in the day. Her father said that she wasn’t his or her mother’s child. They adopted her because her mother wanted another child. Plus, no one wanted to adopt her because of her medical problems or her unusual looks.

She couldn’t believe what her family told her. When she went to bed and got up the next morning. She wanted to go car shopping. Her friend Clare from high school picked her up and took her to several trusted used car lots. They ended up going to see Clare’s father, who worked at a used car lot. He treated her nicely and didn’t try to convince her to buy something she didn’t want.

When she had Clare take her to her bank to draw money out. She found out that her account had been drained of every penny she had saved. When she asked the cashier when this happened, the cashier informed her that it happened at six this morning. The money had been
electronically transferred from her account to another account.

Vesper was given the account the money was transferred, but didn’t recognize the account. She informed the bank manager, and he started the paperwork to recover her money. She suspected her brother of accessing her account, but how did he get her password or login information?

She had to go and inform her friend’s father about the situation and would have to get back with him once she has the money back. She was pissed when Clare dropped her off at the house and went to find her brother, he wasn’t in his home office. Clare suggested she take her laptop to the computer shop and have it scanned.

Clare was willing to take her to the computer store to have her laptop scanned. She was informed that tracking software was found on her laptop and that it recorded all the websites she visited and her login information. Vesper was mad as hell when she found out her laptop infected and had her laptop cleaned.

It wasn’t until later when her brother finally showed up at the house that she found out that he was the one responsible for stealing the money out of her account. When she confronted him, her parents took her brother’s side and suggested she needs to move out. They gave her two days to move out of the house.

She rented a storage unit to store what little she owns. Some guys she knew from high school helped her move her stuff, and she had enough money on her prepaid credit card to rent a motel room for four days. She had to figure out what she was going to do without a car and without a place to live.

Once the bread was gone, Vesper stood up and started walking back to her hotel room. She knew a few employers who were looking for workers. She calls them and asks them if they are still hiring. When they say yes, she asks them if she could apply for the job and gets an immediate yes.

One of the jobs was a salesperson job for a furniture store. She was good at interior design and managed to get the job. She was an independent photographer, so she managed to create special advertisements for the furniture store.

When the four days were up, Vesper managed to find a studio apartment to move into. The place wasn’t very big, but she at least had enough room to set up her photography equipment. She had to use some of her saved money for a new vehicle as the deposit for the apartment.

Vesper covers up a yawn as she walks into her apartment. She was tired and sore. She helped the guys in the warehouse move a few things around. The warehouse manager was surprised at how strong she was.

She strips out of her work clothes and removes her bra. She wonders who her birth parents are and why she was born with a fucked-up DNA. Technically, she was born male, according to her birth certificate, but was developing like a girl. When puberty started for her, she started developing breasts.

Her voice sounded more like a girl’s voice, and her body developed like a girl's does. She had wide hips and a small waist. She also had long, full red hair with a wide silver stripe running down the middle of it. Her ears were pointed like an elf, and her eyes were different colors. Her left eye was blue and her right eye was green.

If that wasn’t strange enough, her buttocks were shaped like a woman's, and her penis is about the size of her thumb. She couldn’t even stand up to pee, unless she leaned forward into the urinal. She had to squat to pee like a girl does if she is outside; inside, she has to sit on the toilet like every girl does.

The family doctor her adopted parents took her to said her body never developed testicles while inside her mother’s womb, and that she was allergic to artificial and natural testosterone. As for the other strange things about her, he said that some of her genes were abnormal. It was unusual for a person to be born with so many defects and conditions. She shimmies out of her panties and tosses them into the dirty clothes hamper.

She rubbed under her DDD/F size round breasts and knew she needed to buy a new bra that was more appropriate for working in the warehouse. She had red marks under her breasts where the band of the bra rubbed and pressed too hard on her chest.

Her adopted mother was surprised at how big they got on her five-foot, one-inch frame. Her adopted mother was five feet eight inches tall, and her breasts weren’t as big as her own. Her mother wore a standard D cup bra.

Vesper walks into the bathroom and takes a nice, relaxing soak. She used muscles today that she has never used. She wonders why her adopted parents waited until she was eighteen years old to tell her the truth. She could have handled it when she was younger.

Vesper closes her eyes and listens to the music on her cellphone being played through the Bluetooth speakers. She had several photographic jobs coming up that she had been hired for. One was a family rejoin and the other was a wedding.

She’ll go back to the dealership where Clare’s father works and see if he can work some magic for her to get that SUV she wanted. There were places where the Four Wheel Drive ability of the SUV would come in handy. Vesper loses herself in the music playing.

When the water starts to turn cold, she refreshes it and soaks for a little bit longer before getting out and drying off. She slips on her favorite sweatpants and oversized high school t-shirt she sleeps in and orders some dinner. She didn’t feel like cooking.

Twenty minutes later, the delivery person arrives with her dinner. She tips him nicely and watches as he drives off. She sits down in a recliner she bought at a thrift store, because the furniture at the store was a little expensive for her.

After dinner, Vesper watches a few television shows and finally heads to bed. She needs to get up early and take a few pictures of the sunrise. She lies down after setting her alarm clock.

The next morning, Vesper makes her way up the mountain path in the dark. She had her camera and tripod with her and was using a flashlight to light her way. She inhales the morning crisp air and shivers from it. She finds the perfect place to take her shot and set up her equipment. She checked her watch and saw she still had ten minutes before sunrise.

She watches as the sun starts rising and shoots every second of it. She loved the purples, pinks, and orange colors as the sky became some sort of canvas full of colors. Once the sun was completely up. Vesper packs her equipment up and walks back down the path she came.

She walks over to an old Ford Pickup truck that was from a different era than all the brand new ones were. This one had character and had been rescued from deep in the forest by her friend Gus. He was a retired Marine whom she met at a church auction. She had been displaying some of her work at the auction, and he bought several of her pictures. He was into photography like her, and the two of them would get together on his farm.

He taught her things she never knew and helped him learn some of the advanced techniques she learned in the photography club at school. He also taught her how to drive a stick shift, since neither of her parents knew how. She spent the weekends at his house and farm, helping out wherever she could. Gus’s wife had been a nurse, but retired when her husband did to make up for the time they missed while he was serving.
Vesper pulls into the dealership where Clare’s dad worked. She waves to him as she parks the old truck in customer parking.

“Hi Keith, I’m here to see if something can be worked out for that SUV I want to buy.” Vesper was smiling at Keith as she approached him.

Keith hated to inform Vesper that the SUV she wanted had been sold by another salesperson. He waits until she stops in front of him. “Vesper, I hate to say this, but another sales associate sold your SUV. I know you wanted that one in particular, but I might have something else to make up for it, and I’ll give you a fifteen-hundred-dollar discount on it.”

“Man, I really liked that Ford SUV.” Vesper was disappointed because she really loved that SUV.

“Look, we just took a trade-in on a 2000 Discovery Range Rover. It’s black and has low miles on it.”

“Can I test drive it?” Vesper follows Keith over to where the Range Rover was parked.

“Sure, let me get a tag and the keys.” Keith heads into the dealership to grab a tag and the keys.

Vesper spots the black Discovery Range Rover Keith was talking about. She walks over to it and checks it out. She looked under the Range Rover to make sure nothing was leaking. She was also checking out the undercarriage to make sure there wasn’t any rust.

When Keith walked out of the dealership and over to Vesper, he noticed she was on her hands and knees from behind. The pants she was wearing showed off her tone and firm ass. She had a perfectly shaped ass that was better than his wife's and daughter’s. If he weren’t already happily married, he might try hitting on her.

“Here we go. Let me put this on the back and we can go for a test drive.” Keith walks around to the back and attaches the tag.

“Cool.” Vesper stands up and brushes off her knees.

She walks around to the driver's side and waits for Keith to unlock the door. When she hears the Range Rover beep, she opens the door and buckles up. Before doing anything, she checks everything to make sure it all worked. Also, to familiarize herself with where everything was.

“Let's go for a test drive.” Keith hands Vesper the key.

“Okay.” Vesper starts the ranger up and slowly pulls out of the parking space.

She heads out onto the road and follows the directions Keith gives her. Vesper was enjoying herself as she drove. There was plenty of space for all her equipment, and she had the roof racks where she could secure items.

The test drive didn’t take long as they headed back to the dealership. Vesper parks the Range Rover back where she got it from. She turns and looks at Keith. “I’ll take it.”

“Good, and I’ll throw in a full tank of gas as well.”

“Thank you, Mr. Wells.”

“You’re welcome, Vesper. Do you need the car today? Or can you come back tomorrow after I have it checked out?” Keith wanted to make sure Vesper got a safe car from the dealership.

“I can pick it up tomorrow. I’ll have Gus bring me down.”

“Alright, let’s go and do the paperwork and put the car in your name. I’m going to give you the same warranty I gave my daughter when I bought her car.”

“Thanks, Mr. Wells.” Vesper couldn’t wait until tomorrow.

Vesper does all the paperwork right there in the dealership, and everything Mr. Wells promised is included in the purchase. After paying for the Range Rover, Vesper drives back to Gus’s house to see if he can help her tomorrow. She can’t wait to get his opinion about her new vehicle.

Vesper was excited as she drove to Gus’s farm. She was thinking about the things she was planning on doing with her new/used SUV. There were places she had been planning on shooting; she pulled into the driveway that led to the barn and carport where Gus parked his truck and his wife’s SUV. She leaves thirty dollars in the ashtray for gas.

The gas gauge said the truck still had three-quarters of a tank, but when she borrowed the truck. She always leaves Gus, gas money or fills it up before returning the truck. She spots Gus out in the field on his restored tractor. She doesn’t see Stacy, Gus’s wife, anywhere around.

She waves to Gus to grab his attention. She watched as he drove towards her on the tractor. When Gus stops the tractor, she walks up to it.

Gus looked down at Vesper and could see she was happy. “I take it you bought your SUV?”

“Nope, I bought a different one, Gus. Another salesman sold the one I wanted, so Mr. Wells sold me a different one with a fifteen-hundred-dollar discount.”

“Oh? What SUV did you buy from him?” Gus knew Mr. Wells was a good salesman. He has heard a lot of nice things about himself.

“I bought a black 2000 Discovery Range Rover, with fewer miles than the SUV I originally thought about buying. According to Mr. Wells, it was a trade-in, and he was willing to give me the same warranty as his daughter.” Vesper couldn’t wait to show the SUV to Gus.

“That was nice of him. When can you pick it up?” Gus dismounts from the tractor.

“I was planning on picking it up during lunch tomorrow. He said it should be ready by then.” Vesper figures she could catch an Uber from work over to the car lot.

“You should bring it by for me to take a look at it when you get it.” Gus wanted to make sure Vesper wasn’t being taken advantage of.

He knew Vesper trusted people, especially people who were close to her friends. He trusted Mr. Wells to stick to his promise, but he still wanted to check the SUV out.

“I will. So, where is Dorothy hiding?” Vesper was curious where she had gone.

“She went to the grocery store. She’ll be back in a few minutes. Why don’t we sit on the porch and wait for her?”

“Only if I can grab a glass of sweet tea?” Vesper knew Dorothy made the best sweet iced tea.

Gus just smirks as he heads towards the front porch. He sits down on his chair as he watches as Vesper goes into the house to grab them glasses of sweet tea. If he had a daughter, he would want her to come out like Vesper. He and Dorothy knew all about Vesper, and it didn’t bother them.

They did wonder how her genes got so messed up. They have never seen anyone like her at all. She was a unique person, and I wonder if Vesper had children, would they be like her? He leans back in his chair and waits for Vesper to come back out.

Vesper fixes two glasses of sweet tea and heads back out towards the porch. She walks over to Gus and hands him a glass of tea. “Here you go, sir. One glass of iced tea.”

“Thank you, Vesper.” He accepts the glass.

“You’re welcome, kind sir.” Vesper sits down in the other chair.

Gus takes a sip from his glass. He was hot and thirsty from being out in the field. After a few good gulps, he looks at Vesper, “So, do you have any jobs lined up?”

“I have a family rejoin coming up and a wedding. I was planning on going to the antique car show in a few weeks and maybe seeing if the police and fire department wouldn’t mind me taking a few pictures of them for a calendar next year.” Vesper knew most of the people she spoke to about doing calendars didn’t mind, but they wanted part of the proceeds to be donated, which she didn’t mind doing.

“I still have a copy of the most beautiful animals calendar you did,” Gus remembered when Vesper published that calendar.

“It took me almost a year to put that calendar together. Luckily, I can do it a little faster this time around.” Vesper takes a sip from her glass.

“Well, I hope everything works out for you, Vesper.” Gus knew Vesper was going to stay busy to pay her bills.

“I’ll still be coming over for our weekend, work, and meals. I need those more than ever now.” Vesper saw the look on Gus’s face.

“You know Dorothy and I enjoy having you.” A smile appears on Gus’s face.

After a while, Dorothy arrives home. A smile appears on her old motherly face, “Vesper, it's good to see you, dear. Did you get the SUV you wanted?”

Vesper gets up and walks over to help Dorothy with the groceries. “Unfortunately, no, Dorothy. Another salesman sold it, but I did get a good deal on a Discovery Range Rover. I checked the undercarriage like Gus taught me. It drove nicely, and it has four-by-four capability.”

“That’s good, considering where you and Gus go.” Dorothy knew Gus loved teaching Vesper about different birds, flowers, and other things that people take for granted.

“When are you going to get it?” Dorothy leads the way into the house.

“Tomorrow during lunch. As soon as I get off, I’ll bring it here for you and Gus to see it. I trust Gus’s opinion a whole lot, considering what has been happening with my family lately.” Vesper was glad she had Gus and Dorothy in her life.

“Well, dear, you know you are always welcome here.” Dorothy loved having Vesper around. She was like her and Gus’s daughter.

“Thanks, Dorothy.” Vesper places a daughterly kiss on Dorothy’s cheek.

The rest of the afternoon, Vesper helps Gus put away the yard tools and helps Dorothy in the kitchen with dinner. She used to do these things with her own mother, but doing them with Dorothy felt different. She grabs a beer for Gus and hands it to him. Vesper knew when Gus wanted his beer.

After dinner, Vesper sticks around for a while before catching an Uber back to her place. She gives the driver a nice tip and heads upstairs to her place. Since leaving home, she hasn’t had any other interaction with her family. After she brought charges against her brother for stealing her money. The family has cut off all contact with her.

She gets undressed and takes a shower, instead of a bath like she normally does. She so wanted to have her birth defect removed and be able to enter a relationship like a normal girl. Even when she was in high school, she didn’t have many boys who wanted to date her. Sure,
they didn’t mind being her friend and having her hang out with them, but none of them wanted to be serious with her because of her birth defect. One of the queen bees of the school had spread rumors about her birth defect.

If it wasn’t her birth defect that turned boys off, it was how smart and talented she was, or the fact that she had elf-style ears. She was popular with the LARP groups; several of them tried recruiting her for their groups. She puts her sweatpants and old high-t-shirt on and lies down in bed. She had so many things she had to do tomorrow.

Vesper had a hard time sleeping because of how excited she was about getting her new SUV. She managed to finally fall asleep around two in the morning. When her alarm clock goes off around six in the morning, she is dragging herself to get out of bed.

Once she takes her shower and gets ready for work. Vesper couldn’t wait to pick up her SUV. She looks at all her camera equipment and will be happy to put it back in her SUV like before. She grabs everything and walks to work. She was enjoying the slight chill in the air and couldn’t wait for the Halloween parties that would be at the end of the month.

Vesper already informed the store manager that she was working only half a day. So, there wouldn’t be any problem with her taking the rest of the day off after her lunch break. She works her butt off until one in the afternoon. Vesper was so excited that she almost forgot to clock out.

One of the delivery drivers for the furniture store gives her a lift over to the car lot. She looks at him, “Thanks, Vernon.”

“You’re welcome.” Vernon watches as Vesper exits from the delivery truck and heads towards the main entrance.

When Vesper walks into the business, she spots Mister Wells right away. He had a folder in his hands and escorted her over to his desk.

“Is everything alright, Mr. Wells?” Vesper looks at Mr. Wells because of the look on his face.

A smile suddenly appears on Mr. Wells' face, “Everything is fine. There’s just one thing that we couldn’t do. There’s a recall on your Rover for a bad part. You’ll need to take it to this dealership and have it done.”

“Will I have to pay for it?”

“Nope! It’s a factory recall, and since we aren’t a Range Rover dealership. We can’t perform the work, but I made an appointment for you to
take the Range Rover to this dealership, and they’ll handle everything for you. I’ve included a full tune-up and a new inspection sticker. Plus, the full tank of gas I promise. If you bring the Range Rover here for your inspections and tune-ups, they will be free.” Mr. Wells knew these were items the dealership was offering with every vehicle they sold.

“Thanks, Mr. Wells.”

“You’re welcome. Now, here’s the remote and your temporary registration for it. You’ll get your permanent tags in thirty days.” Mr. Wells hands the folder with everything in it to Vesper.

“Thanks, Mr. Wells.” Vesper hugs Mr. Wells.

Mr. Wells returns the hug. “Now, let's go and see your pretty SUV.”

Mr. Wells escorted Vesper out to the front of the parking lot, where the SUV was waiting. It had been completely cleaned and polished.

“Wow! Your guys did an amazing job on detailing her.” Vesper couldn’t believe how nice the outside and interior of the SUV looked.

“I’ll let them know how much you approve of their work. Well, enjoy and remember, you have an appointment tomorrow to have the factory recall done.”

“Thanks, Mr. Wells.” Vesper gets into the SUV.

“You’re welcome, Vesper. Have fun with your new SUV.” A smile appears on Mr. Wells' face.

He watches as Vesper drives off the lot with the Range Rover. He turns and walks back into the dealership to finish up some paperwork.

Vesper was enjoying her new Range Rover. She links her cell phone to the radio system and plays her favorite music list. She was enjoying the sound coming from her speakers as she drove. The first place she heads is to Gus’s house to show him the new SUV.

After spending an hour or so with him. Vesper drives around for a while and picks up her favorite pizza from her favorite pizza joint. By the time she arrived back at her place, it was getting dark. She decided she would wait until the recall work was done before putting her camera equipment into her new SUV.

Vesper parks her SUV and takes the pizza she bought up to her apartment. She couldn’t wait to start going places to take pictures. She hangs the remote to the SUV by the door and hangs her purse on her computer chair.

Vesper takes her shoes off and sits down on the sofa. She puts the pizza box on the coffee table and turns on the television set, and watches a television show while she eats. She relaxes as she enjoys the pizza.

The next day, Vesper wakes up and takes a shower. She gets ready for the day. She checks the time and heads downstairs to her new SUV and gets in. She had plenty of time to arrive at the other dealership to get the recall work done.

When Vesper arrived at the dealership, she was the first person there. She checks in with the service desk and grabs a cup of coffee, and waits while they do the work on her SUV. Vesper didn’t mind waiting as she sat and enjoyed her cup of coffee.

Two hours later, Vesper is heading back to her place after stopping by a store to buy some storage bins to put in the cargo area. She parks her SUV close to the building where her apartment is located and starts bringing down the photography equipment she kept stored in her old SUV.

Vesper arranges everything the way she wants it and secures the totes, so they don’t move around in the cargo area. Vesper shivers when the breeze blows. She was planning on attending a few Halloween parties this month.

Vesper shuts the hatch and makes sure everything is locked. She goes back upstairs to her apartment and checks her email, while heating some Chinese food she bought at Walmart. It was the frozen kind, but it was good for lunch.

The emails she received were work requests. So, far from the request, she had at least two weeks of work lined up. They were jobs that wouldn’t take too long to do. She also spots a few Halloween job offers. One of the offers was for a hunted forest. She went to one last year and had fun taking people's pictures. She books it and lets the other offers know she accepts them as well.

After arranging them on her calendar, she saw that she would be putting in twelve to sixteen hours a day. Between the two jobs, she’ll be able to save money and maybe build up the funds she needs to have her birthmark change to a woman’s vagina.

Vesper stands back and takes pictures of the Halloween crowd as they go through the trail that had been created to scare people. She loved taking pictures and preserving the moment of surprise or event. She had come dressed as a Starfleet officer from the Star Trek Discovery show. She had her hair done back, showing off her Vulcan-style ears.

The costume itself, she made from scratch. She even disguised her camera, so it looked like something from the 32nd century. She combined the idea from Babylon 5 when a bunch of reporters came to interview Captain John Sheridan and Delenn.

“How are the pictures coming, Vesper?” Marcus came walking over to where Vesper was standing.

Vesper turns her head when she hears Marcus Morris, the organizer of the haunted forest. He was dressed as a Klingon along with several guys and women who decided to do a Klingon death ritual.

“It’s going well. Your people scared a group of kids, but other than that. The other customers loved the scenes and monsters on display.” Vesper loved how everything looked.

“I saw. Those kids were too young to know about Klingons. I love your costume. Are you a Trekkie?”

“I love Star Trek, Star Wars, and Babylon 5. Not to mention Firefly as well.” Vesper watched all the different shows on her desktop computer because he mother and father didn’t like them. She has never been to any of the cons when they are in town.

“Well, you look good.”

“Thanks, and so do you. I can say, if I didn’t know you. I would be scared.”

“Well, we can always see what Vulcan meat tastes like.” An evil look appears on Marcus's face.

“Let’s not and say we did.” Vesper waves as she walks off to take a couple’s picture who were waving her over.

Marcus smirks as he goes to check on the others. He loved dressing up as a Klingon. He joins the others to scare some kids.

Vesper ends up staying until two in the morning, taking pictures and joining the actors afterwards for a little party. She puts her gear away and heads home. She had another appointment tomorrow morning.

Vesper slept like a log throughout the night, and when her alarm clock went off, she slapped the snooze button. When the alarm went off a second time, she slapped the alarm again and dragged herself out of bed. She walks into the bathroom and does her morning business, and takes a semi-cold shower to wake up.

Once Vesper is dressed and made up. She leaves and grabs a cup of her favorite coffee on the way. Today’s assignment was taking pictures for a real estate friend of hers. They were going to stage several homes and take pictures of them.

Vesper meets up with her friend and some of her assistants and gets to work. Every time Vesper takes a picture, it appears on her tablet, so her friend can see how everything looked. If it didn’t look right, furniture and pictures are rearranged. A second shot is taken, and the furniture is rearranged again.

By four in the afternoon, Vesper and her friend had finally shot their last house. Vesper looks at her friend Estraya. “I think we did a good job today.”

“I think you're right, Vesper.” Estraya loved how the four houses they shot today came out.

Estraya pays Vesper in cash for her services. The two women hug each other before leaving. Vesper heads towards the bank to deposit the
cash. So far she has been doing good.

The money she had to spend on her apartment and her new SUV was slowly being replenished. Between her freelance jobs and the job at the furniture store. She should have enough money to have her birth defect removed by the middle of next year.

Vesper stops at the local diner near her place and has dinner at the place. She was tempted to take a picture of her plate of food, but she wasn’t a foodie poster. She had friends who were, but she wasn’t.

After dinner, Vesper heads home. The temperature had dropped, and she wanted to get inside her warm apartment. When she walked inside her apartment, she relaxed and took her boots off.

Vesper downloads all the pictures to her server and stores the images. She pulls the memory card out and puts a new one in. She also changes out the 35mm film from her other camera and puts fresh film in it as well. She’ll develop the film tomorrow.

After taking care of everything, Vesper strips out of her clothes and lies down. She had to be at work early tomorrow. The store was getting in some new furniture, and the manager wanted to take pictures of it in a formal setting.

The next morning arrives, and Vesper finds herself helping the warehouse crew arrange the furniture in a mock-up living room. It takes them at least four times to get the furniture set up right. She takes several pictures and shows them to the manager of the store.

“Let’s take one more and let's move the end tables to a different position.”

“Okay.” Vesper adjusts her position as the guys move the end tables.

“Good. Did you get that, Vesper?” Robbie looks over towards Vesper when he asks.

“Yep, I got it.” Vesper got several good shots.

“Good. How soon can you have those shots for me?” Robbie wanted to get started on the ads.

“By lunch.” Vesper sits down and starts working on the pictures.

Vesper shivers as she walks around the city square, taking pictures of the Thanksgiving decorations, the town is putting up. Since Halloween, she has been kind of busy with small jobs. Several shops in town had her come by and take pictures of their decorations.

She managed to sell several of her pictures to the local newspaper and online to several news agencies as well. The town she lived in was nice during the holidays when it put up all the decorations for the different holidays.

The local car show takes place every third Saturday of each month. They hired Vesper to come in and take pictures of everyone’s vehicle so they could create a yearlong calendar for their club. She didn’t mind doing that and showed them each a picture she took on her tablet so they saw how the shot looked.

After getting paid for taking pictures of the cars, she deposits the money in the bank. She was going to have Thanksgiving with Gus and his wife. She already knew how her adopted family felt about her.

They sent a picture of them skiing at some location. It was one of the places she wanted to go for her sixteenth birthday, but never did. Now that she was older, she might think about going to the ski resort she wanted to vacation at.

She was glad that the manager at the furniture store where she worked didn’t mind her taking so many days off. Vesper knew the winter months were going to be slow for her. However, with all the winter concerts coming up and activities the town does every year. She’ll have plenty to do until New Year's.

Vesper walks around thinking about what to buy Gus and his wife. Gus was hard to shop for, because he had particular things he liked. She walked by the ABC store and knew there wasn’t anything in there he would want. He stopped drinking hard liquor before she met him.

As for Gus’s wife, Dorothy. She knew what Dorothy would love. Dorothy was the person whom she wished were her mother, instead of the one she had been raised by.

Vesper steps into an antique store she knew Dorothy liked to visit and looks around at what they have on display. She spots several items that she knows Dorothy would love and pay for. Vesper makes arrangements to come by later with her SUV to pick up her purchase.

She leaves that store feeling proud of herself. As for Gus, she was going to have to spend more time looking for a gift for him. She had some idea what he would like. She stops by the local church that does Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas dinner for the homeless. She signs up to help serve the meals.

After signing up will be informed when to show up. She leaves and does some more shopping. She stops at a pawn shop to see what cameras they have. She knew Gus had been looking for a certain type of camera, but he hadn’t been able to locate it. She doesn’t find anything at the pawn shop that she might like.

She continues to walk around and does some window shopping. Afterwards, she gets her SUV and drives over to the antique store to pick up the item she bought for Dorothy. After Vesper is loaded up, she drives back towards her place. On the way home, she stops and picks up some dinner. She didn’t feel like cooking.

After taking everything into her apartment, she sits down and enjoys her dinner. Vesper looks at the images on her tablet and selects a few that would be good to blow up and display. She moves them to a special folder to do later.

All the genetic anomalies about her body were things that only affected a small percentage of people. She does wonders who her birth parents are and how she inherited everything. She wonders if anyone else in her true bloodline has as many unusual genetic traits as she does.

She traces her ears and how they go pointy at the top like Vulcan ears. She could pass as an elf as well. She dressed as an elf for Halloween. People who encounter her wonder how she got her ears.

After working for several hours, Vesper puts everything away and goes to take a shower before she goes to bed. By the time she exits from the shower and puts her night clothes on. She lies down in bed and falls asleep.

The next morning, when Vesper woke up, she could hear the rain hitting against the windows of her studio apartment. The temperature was a little cooler than normal in her place. She turns the valve on the radiator that heats her studio apartment.

She wishes she had a thermostat as she had at home, but she didn’t. So, she was still learning about how to maintain the temperature in her studio apartment. Vesper moved the curtain aside and saw that it was raining cats and dogs outside.

“Well, that sucks.” Vesper brews some coffee and sits down at her computer desk and check her email while the coffee brews.

Vesper ends up clearing out a bunch of junk email. She couldn’t believe how much junk she got. She had her filters set to block most of the junk, but some kept getting past her filter. She checks her schedule and notices she has the day off from work.

Instead of getting dressed, Vesper stays in her nightclothes. She didn’t have much to do, so Vesper did an eBay search to see if she could find the camera that Gus wanted. It takes her a while to find it, but she finally does. It was expensive, but Gus was worth it. He’s been like a father and a friend to her.

Vesper places the order and pays a little extra to have it delivered faster. Once she was done with that, she browsed some of her favorite websites. On one site, she submits some of the pictures she had taken. She wanted people to see some of the unique things that were interesting to her.

She notices, she has a doctor appointment. They needed to check her estrogen levels. Since her body didn’t produce any testosterone. Nor could she take testosterone pills or shots. Her body didn’t like them at all.