Friendshipping

Story by AbaddonFanboy

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This was going to be a series, but I barely have time to finish my other stories, and i was going to discard it but decided to upload what I got. Comments and criticism welcome.

OK, just play it cool, Terence thought to himself as he opened the front door to let in his best friend. Well, he wasn’t even sure if Genjuro was his best friend anymore. As kids growing up on the mars colony, the two boys had been inseparable. Both their parents had been wealthy business leaders, who had largely left their kids upbringing to a succession of butlers and governesses in the plush earth style mansions meant for the colony’s business leaders. With so few other kids on the exclusive colony, surrounded by so many adults, it was no surprise they became best friends, especially as they attended the same school and classes.

Then, at age 14, startling revelations had been made concerning Genjuro’s father, who had been revealed as having sexually abused his son for years. Genjuro had confided the shameful details to Terence whilst they had been in a slumber party in Terence is ‘treehouse’ a plastiform construct manufactured to look like a real earth tree. Genjuro had tearfully begged him not to tell anyone, as his father had threatened to kill him if details got out, but the angry kid had immediately blabbed to his own parents. The resulting scandal had seen Genjuro’s father arrested, and later commit suicide. Genjuro and his mother had left the colony for Earth after Genjuro had experienced a nervous breakdown, leaving Terrence stricken with guilt. Two years of sending e-mails that went unanswered had followed, until a week ago, when to his delight, his friend had replied that he and his mom were moving back to their old house and Genjuro wanted to visit. Reading rest of the e-mail, however, had left Terence shocked.

The door swung open and Terence gave his best smile, trying to hide his misgivings. The… person he saw before him had changed.

“Hi.” He (she? God he didn’t know what to call him or her) said shyly, a basket ball held in front of his shorts. Just like Terrence, he wore a white t shirt, shorts and sports shoes.

“Hi” Terence replied a strained smile plastered on his face as he held the door open.

The two of them stood there a minute, awkwardly unsure what to say. Invasive sex change operations had long been a thing of the past. With the development of gene therapy, it was a slower, but much more effective process. Genjuro had always been rather elfin, a good five inches shorter than him with effeminate features. Now he looked like a really cute, if flat chested, brown skinned girl, with large green eyes, a consequence of his mixed African Japanese heritage, greyish brown hair done up in a ponytail. This contrasted with Terence is blue eyed, blonde haired and taller frame. Most unnervingly, his hips were quite wide and his butt was considerably plump. Under his scrutiny, Genjuro dropped his eyes and scuffled his sneakers shyly. Somehow, the sight of his friends familiar old gesture broke the nervousness in Terence is heart as fond memories came back and he laughed.

“Dude, you just gonna stand there or we gonna play?”

Genjuro looked up with a grin of his own and the two of them went through the kitchen to the basketball court behind the house.

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“Remember, Genjuro is probably still quite… fragile after the whole business. You’re going to have to be quite understanding and patient with him.” His mother had explained to Terence before she and his father went for an off world business trip, leaving him by himself for the week.

It turned out, after months of therapy, Genjuro had divorced his mother, on highly favourable terms, considering she had known and hidden the abuse, inheriting vast shares in the solar system wide business of his family. Space ship manufacture, plutonian oil futures, banking, large scale gas extraction, banking, while Terence’s family was well off, Genjuro’s could have bought and sold them 40 times over before even putting a real dent in their wealth. While not eligible to control his shares directly until his 21st birthday, it still left him with insanely huge funds and plenty of free time, which he had spent going from self help guru to self help guru, trying to find peace, pursued by a small army of paparazzi vultures following the richest kid in human history for more scandal.

The vast majority were terrible fraudsters who, despite his family lawyers who ran his trust, had taken him for vast sums of money. Still it was like trying to drain an ocean with a thimble, though from what they had heard it had caused the poor boy further trust issues. After a period of silence, it came out in the news that he had changed his gender identity and had the finest gene therapists work on him, before dumping his hangers on and disappearing from the public eye. While the paparazzi still hunted the wealthy

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