Home base

Jason's return home was uneventful. He carefully avoided his parents and sister, retreated to the limited sanctuary of his bedroom, and settled in at his desk the way he would on just about any other evening. He then quickly set himself to the task of creating a new folder seven layers deep in his computer's files. "MU-Assrtd" he labeled it. In his 'makeup, assorted' folder he created additional folders to cover the topics Nichole had talked about. Skin care, cleaning, foundations, mu-cats. The folder for makeup categories was quickly filled with folders labeled for additional groupings. Lips, eyes, and face-gen.

What Jason was doing was a kind of brain storming. He didn't think he had much chance of using most of the folders he was creating, but it was helping him to organize his thoughts. He went back up to the MU-Assrtd folder and started another path with the leading folder labeled "Chrictrs." He knew his spelling for some of his folders was way off, but if anybody started looking in his computer, he didn't want them to be make things too easy for them to find.

In the characters folder he added Lon_Chny, M-face, F_face, and Mon_Face. Going into the F_face folder, Jason connected his phone to his computer. He copied over all the pictures he had from his time with Nichole. He moved the split-face makeup pictures over to the Lon-Chny folder, then settled in to go though all the rest.

It was strange to look at the pictures. He felt like there should be a lot more of them. Of the ones that he did have, they were batches of repeats with only small changes in expression or angle. He realized that he could delete some of the repeats, but put that off until he had a better idea of what was worth keeping.

The he found himself looking at the girlfriend pictures. The pictures of Jacey, or himself as Jacey, and Nichole together. Looking at those pictures, with Nichole in her sexy robe and underwear, Jason found himself getting aroused all over again. A part of him was embarrassed about how he had lost control during that kiss.

Jason realized that he didn't have any pictures of when things really started getting exciting. He very carefully typed out a text message to Nichole asking her to send him her pictures from their time together, so he could have the complete set to study. By the time he had those pictures saved to his computer, Jason had most of his clothes off and had already gotten himself off once.

After organizing the pictures, Jason created a document file for a shopping list, and another for a to-do list. He didn't have much for either list, but it was all about setting himself up for doing more later on. Unfortunately, he really didn't have a plan in place for what to do next. He settled on doing some random internet browsing until he went to bed.

He took a break for a fast shower and some dinner, then it was back to the computer for a while. When it was finally late enough to go to bed without worrying about waking up early, Jason did just that, but not until he revisited his picture collection to get pleasure himself one more time.

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Monday morning Jason found reason to be glad he had slipped out of the house early on Sunday morning. He was walking into the kitchen for breakfast when his Mother threw an unexpected question at him.

"Why did you go out yesterday?" She questioned him.

"Because I wanted to study and see my friend," He answered honestly.

"You were supposed to be helping your sister."

"Why?"

"You said you would."

"No," Jason said in a flat voice. "I never offered to help her. I got forced into doing her work for her so she could go shopping with her friends on Saturday."

"She..." His mother began.

"She went to a party in high heels Saturday night," Jason stated as he got his breakfast ready. "So you know she could walk around yesterday selling candy if she wanted to."

"It wouldn't hurt you to be more supportive of your sister," His mother scolded.

Jason stopped talking. He wasn't going to be taken seriously no matter how right he was, so he wasn't going to bother trying. It did leave him with a feeling of how his week was going to go.

Since he and his sister did not share social circles, school for Jason was the same old thing Monday morning. He went through his daily routine in mostly his normal way, with only two exceptions. He spent a little more time looking at the pictures he had chosen to keep on his phone, and he spent a little more time looking at the girls around him. He was aware of the time he spent looking at his phone. He didn't realize how much time he was spending looking at girls and checking out how they did their makeup.

It was during lunch that something unexpected caught his attention. Like most students, he knew where the dead corners of the campus were. The places students were encouraged to not go, either by school policy or by one social group or another. One such, near the back side of the cafeteria was marked 'Staff Only.' Jason saw a couple, a boy and a girl come out of that back area looking a little nervous, and not looking at each other.

Jason was able to put the pieces and details together in his mind over the rest of the school day. The couple had clearly been acting like they had been doing something they knew would get them in trouble if caught, and had been trying to hide it. With his current interest in makeup, Jason had observed, and later realized, that the girl's lipstick was mostly rubbed off, and a little smeared on the sides of her mouth. It was while waiting for the last bell of the day that Jason realized that there had been no lipstick on the guy's face, so he had not been kissing the girl, raising the question of what they had been doing.

The only real blessing of a school day, as far a Jason was concerned, was the freedom from his family that it brought. He got home, had a snack, and disappeared into his bedroom before his sister got home from cheer squad practice. He used his brief time alone, usually, to get started on his homework. Which he did do, after a brief return to his pictures of kissing Nichole while he stroked himself to relief.

Mean while, deep in the back of his mind, words and images were moving around. It wasn't until Wednesday afternoon that Jason's mind and some seemingly random google searching brought things together for him to consciously think about. The mystery of the guilty couple and the messed up lipstick had been solved when Jason realized that the girl had given the guy a blowjob. That thought was an exciting one. Thoughts of sex always were.

Jason then had a flash to a mental image of himself as Jacey, looking in the mirror with her lipstick a mess, and a happy Nichole behind her, looking excited about it. Jason found himself getting excited about that scene in his mind. He wondered if Nichole had been aroused by it as much as he thought.

Such thoughts sank back into the deoths of his subconscious as Jason turned his attention to more practical things, like homework and watching anime.

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Thursday night there was a football game at his school. For Jason, this had no real impact on his daily life. But it did mean his sister would not be home until late. This meant a little more privacy and freedom at home for a few hours. Instead of going right home after school, Jason went to the discount dollar store for some shopping.

When he arrived at the store, he was happy to see Halloween decorations on the shelves. He had more than a month to go until the holiday, but stores were notorious for getting merchandise out early to make every penny they could. Jason explored the store for the cheep costumes that he knew would be left overs from the year before. Not that he was that interested in them, but where there were costumes, he figured he would find the makeup for doing vampire faces and the such. When he didn't see any, he went to the checkout counter and asked the clerk. The middle aged woman told him to look in the cosmetics section.

That was where Jason found a special treasure. Right there beside the little Halloween kits of grease paints for three dollars each, he found makeup kits for fifteen dollars that had everything a young teen girl could want, according to the packaging. He realized that it was really a gimmick kit for a preteen girl to play dress-up with her friends, but that was fine with him. A three dollar kit would give him all the green and black he needed for a zombie, but the gimmick kit would give him everything he needed to practice what Nichole had been teaching him.

Jason spent most of his pocket money in that one shopping trip. He not only got the monster face paint, and the gimmick kit, but he had hit the cheep costumes for a black 'witch's' wig and a vampire cape. He was thinking of another of Nichole's lessons, of how to hide things in plain sight.

With his sister out for the football game, Jason had hours of free time to use the bathroom. He took his new makeup kit and cell phone into the bathroom. He had an opportunity to see what he could do with makeup on his own, and he wanted to see if he could pull off some of the things Nichole seemed to do so effortlessly.

When it came to putting a look together, Jason really only had two ways to go. He could do the simple monster makeup, or the equivalent, campy, face paint approach to woman's makeup. His other choice was to do what he could to recreate the look of being Jacey.

Jason quickly learned that quality was important when it came to makeup. He also discovered that quantity counted. The gimmick kit he had picked up was all trial sized amounts of makeup. By the time he finished his first full attempt to turn into Jacey, Jason noticed a significant amount of the makeup from the kit had been used up. On the positive side, he discovered that he could do a passable job at doing his own makeup.

Looking at the mirror, Jason eyed his work carefully. He had aimed to keep it simple, and while it wasn't as smooth and even as what Nichole could do, he felt that his end result was less clownish than how he had been painted up when forced to help his sister sell candy. He used his phone to take pictures of his work. He tries smiling and making kissing faces, and tried to get some profile views as well.

Once he was satisfied with his pictures, Jason wiped away most of the makeup and started another application. He had better blending with his second try, but his lips were too bright and his eyes too dark. He took a picture for the sake of keeping track, but quickly set to try again. After two more tries, Jason looked into the mirror to see Jacey looking back at him.