{"id":97,"date":"2013-11-06T23:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T23:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2013-11-06T23:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T23:31:30","slug":"layers-chapter-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Layers Chapter 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine stands at the door with a small bag of various things.\u00a0 I smell salt and vinegar chips, beef jerky and the aforementioned condoms.\u00a0 Mostly those because the chemical latex smell is somehow mocking my lack of foresight.\u00a0 Goddamn these hormones and Stephen&#8217;s body.\u00a0 That sexy, sexy body.\u00a0 Elaine smells slightly anxious and something close to jealous but not quite that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a complex thing and I\u2019m not sure how to untangle it just yet.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s entirely bad.\u00a0 Probably.\u00a0 I like her outfit and a small piece of me quickly wonders if I&#8217;d look as cute as her in it.\u00a0 She&#8217;s got a loose knit dark green cap covering just the tips of her ears.\u00a0 A light black wool pea coat covers a green top that dips down to show a bit of her cleavage and there&#8217;s an intricate pattern woven along the top of it.\u00a0 Well-worn blue jeans disappear into stylish black boots with an ample bit of heel to them.\u00a0 The tip of her nose is red from the slight cold outside and the freckles along her cheeks hide like startled animals amongst the blush rising there.<\/p>\n<p>All of that and my immediate thought is:\u00a0 <i>I like her shirt.\u00a0 Would it look good on me?<\/i>\u00a0 I blame the recent shopping trip and all the clothes I tried on.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen is on the floor, propped up on his elbow and hip.\u00a0 His face is stubbly and I don&#8217;t have to close my eyes to feel the way it scratches against me when we kiss.\u00a0 His eyes flicker to Elaine before settling back on me.\u00a0 He&#8217;s more relaxed now.\u00a0 His control has set in and the emotions from earlier are swept under the rug again.\u00a0 I know they&#8217;re still there.\u00a0\u00a0 I know he still worries.\u00a0 It&#8217;s who he is.\u00a0 The thick hair on his chest is matted from our&#8230; activities from earlier.\u00a0 There is dried cum (both of ours) on his penis and it lies down and across his right thigh.\u00a0 His testicles are somewhat baggy but hidden behind a thicket of pubic hair.\u00a0 I should be laughing at his penis right now.\u00a0 It&#8217;s small and just kind of lying there.\u00a0 He&#8217;s huge when he&#8217;s hard so it&#8217;s kind of like a comically deflated balloon.\u00a0 A penis balloon.\u00a0 Nice.\u00a0 But, no.\u00a0 I ache inside this woman&#8217;s body.\u00a0 A good ache from that penis.\u00a0 Deep inside of this woman&#8217;s vagina.\u00a0 From the little experience I have with being fucked, I know I&#8217;ll be sore for a while.\u00a0 And he&#8217;s owning it right now.\u00a0 Stephen is just lying there, watching me. Knowing that he <b>took<\/b> me.\u00a0 Letting that go was more difficult than I imagined but I want it again.\u00a0 I want him to take me again.\u00a0 So, no, I don&#8217;t giggle at his penis.\u00a0 I crave it.<\/p>\n<p>And now, me.\u00a0 Standing like a naked female wrestler.\u00a0 I can feel Stephen&#8217;s cum in me.\u00a0 His cum in me.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an interesting thing.\u00a0 If you take it just as that then it&#8217;s just his cum inside of me and it&#8217;s going to leak out by itself (in fact, a little bit of it is now that I&#8217;m standing up) or it&#8217;s going to do it when I sit down to pee.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s just another liquid.\u00a0 Sure, that&#8217;s one way to think of it.\u00a0 But, being wholly new to this experience, I take it a bit further because I sometimes overthink things.\u00a0 This man took me and fucked me and came inside of me.\u00a0 I shiver a little at the memory of his thick cock pulsing deep inside of my vagina.\u00a0 The memory makes me warm and hungry for him yet again.\u00a0 How do I explain it beyond that, though?\u00a0 I am a woman and as Elaine pointed out earlier, I could become pregnant.\u00a0 Probably.\u00a0 I mean, I assume everything is there and works just like it should.\u00a0 So, my mate mounted me and filled me with his cum and I could get pregnant from it.\u00a0 I still don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m explaining how it&#8217;s different.\u00a0 Before, I took him.\u00a0 This time, he took me.\u00a0 I relaxed my control and he took it from my hands.<\/p>\n<p>I submitted to Stephen sexually and he mated me.\u00a0 The trace feelings of submission run through my body and I blush slightly at the touch of them.\u00a0 I blush like a shy maiden on her first bedding because that&#8217;s basically what this was.\u00a0 It&#8230; <i>softened<\/i> me temporarily and for the first time, I think I felt more in line with my feminine side.\u00a0 No, I&#8217;m not saying that all women are weak and should submit and yadda yadda.\u00a0 Listen to what I&#8217;m saying.\u00a0 I&#8217;m saying I think for the first time, I accepted the feminine side of who I am rather than being a man in a woman&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll attack from another direction before I sound like a misogynistic pig.\u00a0 Even before all of this, I understood that, okay, women are not just supposed to be barefoot in the kitchen and men aren&#8217;t all out punching bears and slugging back cases of beer.\u00a0 Well, most aren&#8217;t.\u00a0 Gender is fluid.\u00a0 Sexuality is fluid.\u00a0 I&#8217;m learning this more and more these days.\u00a0 But, take masculinity and femininity.\u00a0 They&#8217;re layered in thousands of years of socially acceptable norms forced on people.\u00a0 But, ignore a lot of that and we&#8217;ll boil it down.\u00a0 Feminine is the nurturer.\u00a0 The loving giver.\u00a0 The bottom, sexually.\u00a0 The&#8230; gatherer rather than the hunter.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to get into all the yin and yang or Jungian psychology but let&#8217;s put it at that.\u00a0 Biology and evolution has forced women into that role but let&#8217;s separate it from women and just leave it as that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a male or female in that role.\u00a0 Masculinity is the hunter.\u00a0 The sexual top.\u00a0 The dominant taker.\u00a0 That&#8217;s also a role both men and women can play.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s never so simple as that and people can flow between one to the other or find a happy place inbetween.<\/p>\n<p>And then society gets in the way and we&#8217;re suddenly forced to think that real men are the bread winners and have to be tough and take care of the poor fragile women.\u00a0 That shit&#8217;s hard to shake off, even when you <b><i>know<\/i><\/b> deep down that it&#8217;s ridiculous, years and years of growing up with that around you makes it instinctive.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t call myself an outdoorsman at all or a man&#8217;s man but I still feel the pull of the whole &#8220;A man should take care of a woman.&#8221;\u00a0 And then, holy crap, you add in this Alpha wolf stuff and that boosts it by an incredible amount.\u00a0 I am the masculine hunter.\u00a0 I take.\u00a0 I prowl.\u00a0 I kill.\u00a0 I give the fucking orders.\u00a0 Becoming (I feel a slight gag at the thought) Hannah did me no favors in getting in touch with my feminine side.<\/p>\n<p>But, that&#8217;s just what I did with Stephen.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I just felt for the very first time in my life.\u00a0 I purposefully let go and embraced that other part of me.\u00a0 The feminine part.\u00a0 No, not because I grew breasts.\u00a0 I mean I let go and I surrendered myself and I let Stephen take me and guide me.<\/p>\n<p>I submitted to him and it went beyond the sexual part of it.\u00a0 At the moment, sure, it was completely sexual.\u00a0 But, I opened myself completely to it.\u00a0 I trusted and loved him and it did something to me slightly.\u00a0 I just gave him a very, very large and scared part of myself and trusted him to handle it gently and he did.\u00a0 It was, in hindsight, terrifying.\u00a0 And, I think, very important for me.\u00a0 I see the edge of something that I want to explore more with him.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to be submissive always but I feel like I made an important discovery &#8211; just the tip of it.\u00a0 I want to know what it means for me.\u00a0 I want to see where it takes me and how it changes me.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, dammit.\u00a0 In a way I&#8217;m furthering stereotypes about women and femininity because I feel like I just embraced my womanhood in an important manner.\u00a0 And for some reason, the whole &#8220;I could get pregnant&#8221; thing adds to it and I can&#8217;t exactly yet put my finger on the reason why that makes a difference.\u00a0 For the other parts of it, what the difference is to me is that I refuse to see it completely like that.\u00a0 What I&#8217;m going to try to set in my brain is that having this body gave me the opportunity to let the control go.\u00a0 Having a penis does weird things to your thoughts and I&#8217;d never thought before that I was bisexual or gay.\u00a0 Perhaps&#8230; perhaps it was in me to one day have a man or woman take control sexually in some way &#8211; with a strap-on or anal sex or just submitting in some way to them.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just that until this point in my life, all I knew was that I had a penis and I was the one doing the fucking.\u00a0 Great fun for all around but I had no idea what I was missing and this woman&#8217;s body gave me a shortcut to the process.\u00a0 I took a step from the rigid society-enforced male heterosexual dominance game and into the wide world of gender and sex fluidity.\u00a0 A toe in the water.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m learning an immense amount lately and it feels like sometimes it&#8217;s a bit too much.\u00a0 And there are so many more things to worry about and think about.\u00a0 Where do you even start?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re me at this moment, probably you do something about the sudden goop of cum cold-creeping its way down your thigh.\u00a0 So, I grab Elaine.\u00a0 &#8220;Us girls have to use the bathroom.\u00a0 Back in a bit.\u00a0 I have to dispose of this love juice.\u00a0 And pee.&#8221;\u00a0 Elaine makes a funny &#8220;ew&#8221; face but puts the bag down and follows after me, kicking her boots off as she walks.<\/p>\n<p>My bathroom is tiny and with two people in it, I feel like a clown packing in other clowns in an attempt to break the circus clown bathroom packing record.\u00a0 With a sexy lady circus clown.\u00a0 That&#8217;s acceptable to me.\u00a0 I unceremoniously sit down on the toilet and kind of hunch forward with my arms under my tits.\u00a0 I sometimes forget how soft and, yet, firm they feel on me.\u00a0 I kind of love my boobs.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll save the details of the sound of cum glooping out of me but it basically gloops.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not exactly sexy.\u00a0 Elaine straddles the edge of the bathtub and politely looks at the ceiling while I don&#8217;t at all grunt to get cum out of me.\u00a0 Oh, huh.\u00a0 My breasts are covered in Stephen&#8217;s chest hair.\u00a0 His curly chest hairs.\u00a0 Hah.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 That&#8217;s kind of a weird juxtaposition.\u00a0 I add &#8220;picking chest hair off of my chest&#8221; to the cum expelling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So,&#8221; I tell Elaine.\u00a0 &#8220;Hi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elaine grins at the non-existent spider in the corner of the ceiling.\u00a0 &#8220;Hi,&#8221; she says back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t use a condom.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a terrible woman.\u00a0 I should just be popping out babies left and right and wading through a sea of them right now.\u00a0 I mean, seriously, Stephen gets all sexy with me and all I can think about is his cock and how great it feels.\u00a0 Oh, by the way, as a previous man I can tell you one benefit to being a woman.\u00a0 I can sit here on the toilet and think about cocks and vaginas and sex and be all turned out but not have to worry about getting a sudden boner.\u00a0 Let me tell you, as a man, it sucks ass to get a boner on the toilet.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t want your dick touching the inside of the toilet lid.&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m rambling.\u00a0 I know I am.\u00a0 I need to just carefully and gently get my actual thoughts off my chest before I change my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine laughs and looks at me.\u00a0 &#8220;Ugh, seriously?\u00a0 That&#8217;s gross.\u00a0 But, yeah, isn&#8217;t it great?\u00a0 You can stare at a guy&#8217;s ass or the bulge in his pants and all that happens is a bit of happy dance in the pants but no evidence of it.\u00a0 That&#8217;s part of the trick because then you can continue to be all serene and queen-like and regal while your vagina is slobbering away at the thought of dancing on some guy&#8217;s cock.\u00a0 They never need to know.\u00a0 One of the many, many tricks of being a woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s my turn to laugh.\u00a0 &#8220;Oh my god, I always knew it.\u00a0 Women are assholes.&#8221;\u00a0 We giggle together a bit and, well, that&#8217;s good because it helps to, ummm, cleanse.\u00a0 &#8220;Are you mad at me?\u00a0 Or jealous about something?&#8221;\u00a0 Oh Jesus.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Careful and gentle.\u00a0 Good job, you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wha- no.\u00a0 What in the world?\u00a0 Why would I be mad at you?&#8221; \u00a0Elaine looks genuinely puzzled and I&#8217;m relieved about that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s my nose.\u00a0 I smell something around you sometimes when I&#8217;m with Stephen and it smells like jealousy.\u00a0 Or something.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t want you to be jealous because I don&#8217;t want to get between\u00a0 you two and I don&#8217;t want to cause problems.\u00a0 And because it&#8217;s confusing as well.\u00a0 During the walk earlier I couldn&#8217;t even decide where to stand.&#8221;\u00a0 Why am I sitting on a toilet while having this conversation?\u00a0 Why am I dumb like that?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No no no.&#8221;\u00a0 Elaine is waving her hand in front of her face and there&#8217;s a slight blush in her cheeks again.\u00a0 &#8220;No.\u00a0 I&#8217;m&#8230; I&#8217;m not jealous.\u00a0 It&#8217;s, I think it&#8217;s possessiveness.\u00a0 And happiness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s weird.\u00a0 No, that&#8217;s not quite it, either.\u00a0 I have a place with Stephen and I know how strong that is.\u00a0 I know how much he loves me.\u00a0 Then there&#8217;s you suddenly.\u00a0 Suddenly my head is filled with you and I know Stephen feels the same.\u00a0 But, umm, I feel like we all belong together.\u00a0 I feel like we&#8217;re all in a triangle holding onto this rope but your pull is so much stronger than mine or Stephen&#8217;s pull.\u00a0 Well, so, maybe I&#8217;m a little nervous.\u00a0 And maybe I&#8217;m a tiny bit jealous when you&#8217;re with him because I want to be with you.\u00a0 And with him too.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s just silly because I am with both of you.\u00a0 So&#8230; so&#8230; maybe a tiny bit of jealousy?\u00a0 But not in a bad way?\u00a0 Maybe?&#8221;\u00a0 Her voice is down to nearly a whisper and she&#8217;s not looking up at me by the end.\u00a0 So it is bothering her in a real way.<\/p>\n<p>What am I supposed to do about this while on the toilet?\u00a0 Why did I decide to have this conversation while Elaine&#8217;s husband&#8217;s cum is leaking out of me?\u00a0 Ah.\u00a0 I think&#8230; yeah, I think it&#8217;s finally done.\u00a0 Holy shit he cums a lot.\u00a0 &#8220;Gimme a sec,&#8221; I tell Elaine.\u00a0 Standing, I grab a bit of toilet paper and oh, crap, still sensitive.\u00a0 Still a little sensitive.\u00a0 I gently dot myself off.\u00a0 From the front.\u00a0 Showing my wizard&#8217;s sleeve off to the world.\u00a0 Or, well, Elaine.\u00a0 I cough a bit and then straddle the tub next to Elaine.\u00a0 It&#8217;s colder than a witch&#8217;s titty but I run pretty warm these days so it&#8217;s easy to ignore.\u00a0 I mentally chortle at the whole &#8216;wizard sleeve&#8217; thing.\u00a0 I used to have an email with a list of euphemisms for women&#8217;s vaginas and that was my favorite one.\u00a0 I never got around to trying to refer to any of my girlfriend&#8217;s vaginas by the name but, hey, look, I have my own now.\u00a0 Well, but not the drooping actual wizard&#8217;s sleeve kind.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Mine&#8217;s actually tucked in like a Photoshopped porn magazine model&#8217;s vagina.\u00a0 Very compact and cute and sexy.<\/p>\n<p>I could tell Elaine that it&#8217;s all okay and she&#8217;ll be fine.\u00a0 She&#8217;d believe me and trust me.\u00a0 I know she would.\u00a0 It is a very unfortunate side effect of this whole werewolf stuff.\u00a0 Which, by the way, holy shit, werewolves.\u00a0 Sometimes I forget that too.\u00a0 Fucking werewolves.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 I am her Alpha and I could tell her to get over it and she probably would.\u00a0 There&#8217;d be some emotional pain but she&#8217;d drop it.\u00a0 Of course I won&#8217;t do that.\u00a0 But, I&#8217;m also not just going to tell her it&#8217;s okay.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been doing that.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been pushy reassuring people.<\/p>\n<p>I reach out to touch her leg and then just look at her.\u00a0 &#8220;What can I do to help, Elaine?&#8221;\u00a0 Look at the big bad Alpha asking for opinions now.\u00a0 Watch out, soon I&#8217;ll be begging to be tied out and used.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s surprised again.\u00a0 Slightly.\u00a0 Her hand closes around mine and she smiles her crooked little semi-fragile smile.\u00a0 I want to hold her tight against me.\u00a0 &#8220;No, I&#8217;ll be fine.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard for me to talk about because I want everyone to be happy but just nudge me and get me to talk about it if you see me shutting down a little bit.\u00a0 New relationships always come with issues and this is a pretty different new relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll never get between you and Stephen.\u00a0 Not in that way.\u00a0 Seeing you two together in the way you both have together is the thing that drew me to you.\u00a0 Stephen needs you to pull him out of the dark space he has around himself.\u00a0 And he grounds you so well.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never seen such a strong love between two young people, Elaine.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll never break that.&#8221;\u00a0 God.\u00a0 I sound sappy as hell but it&#8217;s true.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the main reasons I love them &#8211; they&#8217;re disgustingly in love with each other and fit so well with each other that it makes me cringe some times.\u00a0 &#8220;Hell, I don&#8217;t think I could.\u00a0 Consider me your cheerleader.\u00a0 Now, do&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a solid knock on the front door that&#8217;s followed by a massive crash that almost sounds like my door being broken.\u00a0 I hear muffled voices and Elaine is already up and at the bathroom door.\u00a0 She&#8217;s almost too fast.\u00a0 I follow her out and then stop at the scene in the living room.<\/p>\n<p>That sound that sounded like my door being broken?\u00a0 It was my door being broken.\u00a0 The doorframe is splintered around the top and bottom where the door was hung and the door itself is on the couch.\u00a0 There is a trail of splinters from the doorway to the door&#8217;s final resting place on my couch.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping the door can use them to find its way back onto the hinges.\u00a0 Somehow.\u00a0 Stephen is &#8230; ah.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the man from earlier this morning.\u00a0 The second one &#8211; the one that backed off.\u00a0 He&#8217;s currently on his stomach on my living room and trying to talk.\u00a0 Except he can&#8217;t because Stephen is trying to crush his skull into the carpet.\u00a0 Stephen is still naked but looks a bit more hairy than when I left him.\u00a0 He&#8217;s growling and pressed against the man with one hand holding the other man&#8217;s left hand out and to the side and his right hand playing trash compactor with the floor and the man&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine gasps.\u00a0 &#8220;You&#8217;re that guy!\u00a0 From before!\u00a0 What the hell are you doing here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s left eye flicks over to her.\u00a0 It&#8217;s red and watering from the pain I&#8217;m sure Stephen is causing him right now.<\/p>\n<p>I stand a little in front of Elaine, between her and the man.\u00a0 &#8220;Stephen, you&#8217;re going to kill him and I&#8217;m not entirely sure you should right now.\u00a0 Why don&#8217;t you ease up a bit?\u00a0 Stephen?\u00a0 Ah, fuck.&#8221;\u00a0 Stephen is drooling from the corner of his mouth.\u00a0 The muscles along his spine have doubled in size and his tailbone is expanding.\u00a0 Claws on his feet are tearing into the floor and his bare cock is fully sheathed in thick fur.\u00a0 He&#8217;s growling louder now and ignoring me.\u00a0 &#8220;Stephen!\u00a0 Get the fuck off of him now.&#8221;\u00a0 My voice has dropped a bit and I feel an anger from the wolf at the back of my mind.\u00a0 Anger at the disobedience from the male.\u00a0 I crouch down to catch his eye and the muscles in my legs bunch more than they should.\u00a0 A line of heat traces from my shoulders down to my hands and I see fur growing in waves down my arms.\u00a0 My right hand is clawed and my teeth ache.\u00a0 My pussy feels hot for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stephen, listen to her.\u00a0 Let him go, honey.\u00a0 Stephen?&#8221;\u00a0 Elaine is anxious behind me and I can hear a hint of fear in her voice.\u00a0 She knows he could easily kill this person.<\/p>\n<p>My voice rumbles with the change.\u00a0 &#8220;Stephen.\u00a0 NOW!&#8221;\u00a0 He looks at me and growls, brow furrowing with extra skin as his jaw cracks under the pressure of larger teeth growing in.\u00a0 Stephen&#8217;s right arm is a furry mass of muscle and the man under him has his eyes closed against the pain.\u00a0 Stephen&#8217;s not there and the wolf in me is practically begging to cause pain.\u00a0 So, I hit him.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not as hard as I could do since I&#8217;m crouching and the stance is awkward but I&#8217;m fast and he&#8217;s not expecting it and, well, I&#8217;m a fucking werewolf.\u00a0 Stephen&#8217;s head snaps back and I follow him with it, leaping to grab him around the throat.\u00a0 He&#8217;s quite strong but this isn&#8217;t like earlier with the two men.\u00a0 I&#8217;m half-changed myself and it&#8217;s accelerating.\u00a0 Something feels different.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if it was from this morning or this afternoon meeting with the crazy man or from the revelation after sex with Stephen but I can feel the change happening way more quickly.\u00a0 I embrace it and I feel my tail push out of my body while I bear down on Stephen.\u00a0 He&#8217;s yowling and scrabbling at me with his claws.\u00a0 I feel him twisting and trying to get out of my grasp as Elaine pulls the man away from him.\u00a0 Stephen is feral and frenzied and it takes everything I have to hold him in place.\u00a0 My legs are wrapped around his thighs and I lock my forearm across his thick throat while he sputters.<\/p>\n<p>And then I let go and hit the back of his head.\u00a0 This time I&#8217;m in a good position and it hits him hard.\u00a0 He yelps like, well, a struck dog.\u00a0 I hit him again and he stops reaching for the other man in order to protect his head.\u00a0 His long, wolf-like ears are laid flat and he&#8217;s whimpering slightly so I stop hitting.\u00a0 Instead I grab the thick fur at the base of his neck and press him down hard.\u00a0 I try to tell him to stop fucking moving but it comes out as a growling grumble.\u00a0 Regardless, he goes limp as he looks away from me and to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>I stand and relish in the power of Hannah&#8217;s werewolf.\u00a0 My werewolf.\u00a0 I feel huge.\u00a0 I&#8217;m standing on the thickly padded balls of my feet and I can feel my long tail lay flat against the back of my furry thighs and slightly between my round, furred ass cheeks.\u00a0 I thought my hips were amazing as a woman but as a female werewolf, I think I could birth a full litter.\u00a0 <b>THAT <\/b>thought makes me want to blush again.\u00a0 My heart thrums in my chest and I want to run hard.\u00a0 I want to claw and run and jump and use every single expanded muscle in my body.\u00a0 My enormous breasts lay heavy against my chest but the weight is nothing on me.\u00a0 I stand unashamed in front of everyone, including the stranger.\u00a0 Even if I were slightly embarrassed, my sex is hidden behind a thick brown tuft of fur that spreads to my belly button.\u00a0 I&#8217;m somehow slightly wet and I&#8217;m sure everyone here can smell it.\u00a0 We&#8217;re all werewolves here, hey?\u00a0 But, I&#8217;m still me.\u00a0 Still conscious.\u00a0 Still rational.\u00a0 Just, well, more angry.\u00a0 More ready.\u00a0 To do anything.\u00a0 Something funny, though.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what to do with my hands.\u00a0 Do I put them on my hips and strike a cocky pose?\u00a0 Do I just put them at my side and ignore them?\u00a0 I settle for crossing them under my large, soft, furry tits instead.\u00a0 And then I stare at the man kneeling by Elaine.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine&#8217;s eyes are huge.\u00a0 Has she seen me transformed while she was still human?\u00a0 She looks over at Stephen (still on the floor) and then back to me.\u00a0 Her cheeks are flushed and there&#8217; s a slight sweaty sheen to her face.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s,&#8221; she swallows.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s&#8230; you&#8217;re beautiful.\u00a0 And Stephen&#8230; It&#8217;s taking everything I have not to follow you two.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really&#8230; it&#8217;s really hard to ignore your smell and the urges.\u00a0 Really hard.\u00a0 Both of you.\u00a0 Oh my gosh.\u00a0 I never knew.\u00a0 Is that what I look like?\u00a0 How come you&#8217;re still okay?\u00a0 How come you&#8217;re not freaking out?\u00a0 Oh my gosh.\u00a0 You&#8217;re magnificent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I step to her and cradle her cheek with the raspy black padding on the tips of my paw.\u00a0 She&#8217;s so tiny right now.\u00a0 So small.\u00a0 I can smell her struggle.\u00a0 She smells vaguely like sour sweat and her pupils are dilated.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine how hard it is for her right now.\u00a0 How hard it is to ignore me and Stephen at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The man looks up briefly before bowing his head again.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; he tells me.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sorry for coming to your home, Alpha.\u00a0 It&#8217;s against everything I was taught but I didn&#8217;t know what else to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8230; woof at him and he continues as if he understands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re&#8230; Jesus, you&#8217;re big.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever met another wolf like you.\u00a0 Fuck.\u00a0 This was such a bad fucking idea.\u00a0 I thought the big guy there was bad enough but, Jesus.\u00a0 I have to talk.\u00a0 Can you&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 The man swallows and peeks up at me again for a moment.\u00a0 &#8220;Can you change back so I can talk to you?\u00a0 Please?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, shit.\u00a0 Can I?\u00a0 Maybe&#8230; maybe there&#8230; I relax.\u00a0 Somehow.\u00a0 In a not-exactly-relaxing kind of way.\u00a0 The wolf growls in the back of my mind but I let something go and relax and the change follows behind it.\u00a0 In reverse.\u00a0 It hurts.\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0 Enough that I find the nearest wall and press my forehead against it.\u00a0 The fur pulls back into my body and then goes god knows where else.\u00a0 Muscles hum and twist in my body in sickening ways, snapping bones as they go.\u00a0 Joints pop out of sockets that no longer fit them.\u00a0 I think my jaw is the worse one until my spine does something that makes me drop to my knees.\u00a0 I almost pass out at that one.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sweating all over and shaking.\u00a0 My tail hangs limply on my bent leg and it looks kind of gross without the fur.\u00a0 Very gross actually.\u00a0 Just wrinkly skin and bones.\u00a0 But, soon, it pulls back into my spine and I can&#8217;t hold back the moan that escapes my lips.\u00a0 My breasts shrink with my chest as if they were being pulled tighter.\u00a0 Finally, the changes stop and I dry heave next to me.\u00a0 My stomach is in knots and I feel like I just did a million sit-ups.\u00a0 And pull-ups.\u00a0 And ran 20 miles barefoot.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine looks even more wide-eyed.\u00a0 &#8220;Where does all the hair go?&#8221;\u00a0 She asks.\u00a0 &#8220;Is there like a layer of hair under your skin?\u00a0 Oh my god.\u00a0 Is there a layer of hair lurking under MY skin?\u00a0 Oh my god.\u00a0 Oh my god.&#8221;\u00a0 She&#8217;s not really freaking out but I can see that she&#8217;s intensely curious about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I,&#8221; I gasp.\u00a0 &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to do that again soon.&#8221;\u00a0 I stand on shaky legs and head over to the bathroom closet to pull a beach towel from the bottom. \u00a0\u00a0It fits around me nicely and I stumble back into the living room.\u00a0 Stephen is still a werewolf and is glaring at the man from the side of the couch.\u00a0 &#8220;Elaine, why don&#8217;t you go sit with Stephen.\u00a0 I think he could use some calming down and his wife should be perfect for that.\u00a0 Just don&#8217;t get frisky, yeah?\u00a0 We all know where that goes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elaine nods and goes to sit by Stephen.\u00a0 She pulls his head into her lap and idly caresses the top of his head while whispering to him about how much she loves him even if he smells bad right now.\u00a0 And how she&#8217;ll get him a good little doggie bed for the bedroom and a water bowl and a collar and call him Spot.\u00a0 I think there&#8217;s something wrong with her but I wouldn&#8217;t ever want her to change.<\/p>\n<p>I look at the man by the open door and then nod toward the chair opposite the couch.\u00a0 &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you sit?&#8221;\u00a0 I tell him.\u00a0 &#8220;Gimme a second with this door.&#8221;\u00a0 I either have really thick feet now (possible) or there&#8217;s no tiny slivers as I don&#8217;t feel little tiny stabby things as I bring the door back over to the doorway.\u00a0 I kind of just lean the door against the frame and it stays there.\u00a0\u00a0 I look at Stephen and sigh.\u00a0 Elaine is scratching him under his furry chin and he&#8217;s drooling slightly while she coos at him.\u00a0 When \u00a0I sit on the couch, I spread my legs scandalously far apart under the towel.\u00a0 &#8220;So,&#8221; I tell him.\u00a0 &#8220;How about you start over?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man nods and brushes black hair away from his eyes.\u00a0 He&#8217;s got patchy stubble on his cheeks and looks way younger than he probably is when he cleans up.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m, well, I&#8217;m Tyler.\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s bad shit to break in on an Alpha&#8217;s territory but I didn&#8217;t even know you were here and it&#8217;s a really small community.\u00a0 I thought I knew all of us.\u00a0 And Alphas are, well, you guys don&#8217;t exactly hide usually.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m really fucking sorry to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wave the stuff away.\u00a0 &#8220;Right, okay, there&#8217;s time for questions later.\u00a0 Why are you here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8230; there&#8217;s a wolf I follow.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have a choice.\u00a0 James and I grew up together on the streets.\u00a0 Ran away from our parents when we were young and kept running because if your parents are wolves you have to run fast and long to get away from them.\u00a0 James is fucking retarded but he used to not be as bad.\u00a0 He&#8217;s the one that hit you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember.\u00a0 I remember very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah.\u00a0 Yeah, I bet you do.\u00a0 You&#8217;re lucky to be alive.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why you didn&#8217;t change but he wouldn&#8217;t have stood a chance if you had.\u00a0 Anyway, he used to be okay but a little while back this new guy shows up and finds us.\u00a0 He just takes over.\u00a0 Not an Alpha but he&#8217;s not the kind of guy you cross.\u00a0 He&#8217;s scary as fuck and out of his mind.\u00a0 Mostly I just try to stay away and it&#8217;s been us stealin&#8217; shit for him but he&#8217;s got some hold on James or talks to him different or something because he&#8217;s all fucked up talking about how we got this power but we don&#8217;t use it right and all that shit.\u00a0 How we always runnin&#8217; and hidin&#8217; when we should be standing up for ourselves and taking whatever we fucking want.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not right.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not right but James ain&#8217;t as smart as me and this other fucker has his claws deep into him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stephen is slowly changing back and I can see it out of the corner of my eyes.\u00a0 He&#8217;s moaning and grunting from it while his body shifts.\u00a0 &#8220;All right,&#8221; I tell Tyler.\u00a0 &#8220;So?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, whatever.\u00a0 I&#8217;m used to people like this.\u00a0 Like my parents.\u00a0 Do this.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t do that.\u00a0 Do what I fuckin&#8217; say or I&#8217;ll break your head open.\u00a0 But, listen, I was a dumb kid when I ran away.\u00a0 My parents were assholes but they wasn&#8217;t like this asshole.\u00a0 He&#8217;s&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 The kid stops and looks at the hands in his lap.\u00a0 I wait.\u00a0 And wait some more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s killin&#8217; kids.\u00a0 Girls.\u00a0 I caught James with this girl, couldn&#8217;t be more than sixteen.\u00a0 He was bringing her to the guy.\u00a0 We had it out but he&#8217;s stronger than me and I left.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know what to fuckin&#8217; do.\u00a0 Stealin&#8217; is one thing but killin&#8217; people?\u00a0 Killin&#8217; fucking kids?\u00a0 No way.\u00a0 No fucking way, man.&#8221;\u00a0 His hands are gripped tight enough that they&#8217;re purely white.\u00a0 He&#8217;s still not looking at me.\u00a0 I can smell salt before I see tears leaking out of his eyes and dripping into his lap.\u00a0 &#8220;It ain&#8217;t fuckin&#8217; right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Little girls.\u00a0 Why does that ring a bell?\u00a0 And what kind of sick&#8230; &#8220;Why?\u00a0 Why&#8217;s he doing it?\u00a0 And why come to me and not the police?\u00a0 What do you want me to do about it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He looks up and his eyes are red from the tears.\u00a0 &#8220;You know we don&#8217;t go to the cops about this shit.\u00a0 Ever.\u00a0 And what do you mean, what do I want you to do about it?\u00a0 You&#8217;re the Alpha.\u00a0 You take him down.\u00a0 It&#8217;s what you guys do.\u00a0 There&#8217;s not another one of you within a hundred miles at least.\u00a0 I go back and I&#8217;m dead.\u00a0 James ain&#8217;t no friend of mine anymore and Scott is out of his fuckin&#8217;-&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on my feet before I know it.\u00a0 &#8220;Who?\u00a0 Who did you say?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyler shrinks back in his chair before me.\u00a0 His eyes are wild with fear.\u00a0 &#8220;S&#8230; Scott.\u00a0 The other guy is Scott. This new guy.\u00a0 Came into town almost five months back.\u00a0 Scott.\u00a0 Big crazy fucker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I look at Elaine and she looks scared as well.\u00a0 Stephen has his eyes closed in pain and whatever else happens when those two change back.\u00a0 He&#8217;s trembling slightly and his lips are dry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scott?\u00a0 Does he have an accent?\u00a0 Canadian accent?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Y&#8230; yeah, it could be.\u00a0 He talks funny sometimes but I never asked.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t ask guys like that where they&#8217;re from.\u00a0 The weak just listen and do what they&#8217;re told.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how it&#8217;s always been.\u00a0 You know that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I growl and step forward.\u00a0 &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t fucking know and that&#8217;s now how I do things.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve only been a wolf for a few fucking days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You-&#8221; Tyler swallows.\u00a0 &#8220;You&#8217;re fucking lying.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s impossible.\u00a0 That&#8217;s impossible.\u00a0 Alphas are born, not made.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t&#8230; you can&#8217;t&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I look over at Elaine and she nods.\u00a0 I sit again.\u00a0 And I tell him.\u00a0 I leave out little things but I tell him about Thomas and the box and the suit and everything that happened.\u00a0 It takes longer than I thought it would and the man gapes at me the entire time.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s the bigger surprise for him &#8211; that I was a man or that I wasn&#8217;t born a werewolf.\u00a0 An Alpha.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That,&#8221; he pauses.\u00a0 &#8220;That&#8217;s some crazy ass shit.\u00a0 Are you fucking with me?\u00a0 Tell me you&#8217;re fucking with me.\u00a0 Please tell me.\u00a0 I know I ain&#8217;t smart but that&#8217;s just&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I shake my head.\u00a0 &#8220;The reason why I didn&#8217;t change to fight this morning is because I don&#8217;t know how to do it.\u00a0 It just happens and I go with it.\u00a0 Something feels different now but this isn&#8217;t me.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t even think this was real stuff a week ago.\u00a0 I was just a simple guy a week ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyler is shaking his head back and forth.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m screwed.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so fucked.\u00a0 Oh my god.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so fucking screwed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A quiet voice gasps from Elaine&#8217;s lap.\u00a0 &#8220;Y&#8230; you said little girls.&#8221;\u00a0 Stephen&#8217;s eyes are open but he&#8217;s in pain and his voice is soft.\u00a0 &#8220;Was&#8230;&#8221; Stephen&#8217;s swallow is painful.\u00a0 &#8220;Was one of their names Alanna?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyler looks at me before answering.\u00a0 I cock my eyebrow and nod.\u00a0 &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, man.\u00a0 I think James said something about a Sarah but I was so fucking mad that the change hit me before I could say much of anything and then we were fighting it out.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember nothing about an Alanna.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know how many times this sick fuck has done this.\u00a0 But, I know I can&#8217;t go back to him.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t go back to him now.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll die before I do anything else for that fucker.\u00a0 I&#8217;d run back to my pack on the East Coast but that&#8217;s my parent&#8217;s pack and it&#8217;s a toss-up whether they&#8217;d kill me or take me in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott.\u00a0 The Scott.\u00a0 Right here.\u00a0 Possibly the one murdering the little girls around the area.\u00a0 The one that murdered Hannah and started this whole thing.\u00a0 Scott.\u00a0 And now this guy shows up and wants me to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>I look at this Tyler guy.\u00a0 &#8220;Did he bring the little girl straight to Scott?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, Scott stays out until way late.\u00a0 He won&#8217;t be back until like midnight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I sigh.\u00a0 I ponder.\u00a0 And weigh options.\u00a0 And, then: &#8220;There is a coffee shop two blocks away.\u00a0 Go get yourself something to drink.\u00a0 Come back in about thirty minutes.\u00a0 I need to talk to Stephen and Elaine.\u00a0 But, be back or I&#8217;ll come find you.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not Scott but I&#8217;ll fucking hunt you down if you run tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyler&#8217;s face goes white.\u00a0 &#8220;Y&#8230; yes, ma&#8217;am.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll come back.\u00a0 I will.&#8221;\u00a0 And, with that, he goes.\u00a0 Stepping around the door and then putting it back into place as he leaves.<\/p>\n<p>I pull the towel off as I stand and then I go to the kitchen to grab a large glass of water.\u00a0 I bring it with me and hand it to Elaine.\u00a0 It takes a bit of arranging but I insert myself under Stephen so his hips are on my lap.\u00a0 And then I realize what a stupid idea that was because I&#8217;m still naked.\u00a0 We&#8217;re both still naked.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen sits up partially and sips at the water from the cup Elaine is holding.\u00a0 She sets the cup down and then strips down to nothing before laying her head down on Stephen&#8217;s hip.\u00a0 I feel her small breasts against my thigh as she snuggles into a comfortable position.\u00a0 Her hand finds Stelphen&#8217;s hand and they twine their fingers together.\u00a0 A happy, warm little puppy pile.\u00a0 I stroke both of their backs quietly for a while and the effect is incredibly soothing.\u00a0 My mates.\u00a0 I feel complete with them.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, I speak up.\u00a0 &#8220;I have to do this, I think.\u00a0 Even if it weren&#8217;t for the little girl, I&#8217;d have to do it.\u00a0 I think I can control the change so I&#8217;ll be okay but I have to go to this guy and finish this.\u00a0 And pray the little girl is still alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m coming,&#8221; Elaine tell me, without hesitation.\u00a0 &#8220;We both are.&#8221;\u00a0 I can feel Stephen nodding his head against me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m feeling better already,&#8221; Stephen tells me.\u00a0 His voice does sound stronger.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m not letting there be any chance for that little girl to be hurt.\u00a0 Or for you to get hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Me to get hurt again, you mean?\u00a0 For Hannah to be hurt again?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; he rasps.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s you.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not Hannah.\u00a0 You never were Hannah.\u00a0 I want to protect you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stephen and Elaine unfold around me and Elaine sits off to the side.\u00a0 Stephen sits on his knees and my eyes are quickly drawn to his dick.\u00a0 His pubic hair is dense but short and his penis looks even slightly more wolf-like.\u00a0 The head is definitely tapered a bit more like a wolf&#8217;s penis than a human&#8217;s penis and there&#8217; s a very, very slight bulge where his wolf&#8217;s knot would be.\u00a0 I feel my insides loosen as I grow wet at the memory of being knotted by him and I wonder if that lust will ever go away.\u00a0 His arms and chest look stronger than when I first met him.\u00a0 And his shoulders &#8211; his shoulders are lined with muscle.\u00a0 I guess the transformations have at least some lasting effect.\u00a0 His eyes shine quietly in the light as he stares at me and my heart skips a beat.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen leans in and his lips brush mine.\u00a0 I grip the back of his hair and pull him in harder for an actual kiss, my mouth parting for his tongue.\u00a0 My male brain is all quiet on the &#8220;You&#8217;re kissing another guy!&#8221; front.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t care.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know when I stopped making excuses about having a woman&#8217;s body.\u00a0 I just love the guy.\u00a0 And he kisses like a raging fire and it makes my cheeks burn and my pussy wet.\u00a0 I try to pull him down to my breasts but he pulls away and shakes his head.\u00a0 I whine slightly and then do feel the male part of me get a bit embarrassed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; he tells me. \u00a0&#8220;Not right now.\u00a0 I want you badly but we have to do this thing now.&#8221;\u00a0 He stands and catches his breath.\u00a0 His dick is pounding and hard in the air before him.\u00a0 I want to reach for it.\u00a0 I have to physically restrain myself from reaching for his dick because I want to put it in my mouth.\u00a0 I want to run my tongue along the length of him and cup his balls while playing with the head of his dick.\u00a0 And, again, the male part of me is silent.\u00a0 And eager.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a male and female part of me anymore.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine reaches for my face and turns it to her.\u00a0 Her kiss is light and sweet and full of unspoken words.\u00a0 I lose myself in her kiss and, for some reason, I feel tears starting.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Why with her?\u00a0 Because of our conversation?\u00a0 Because of this morning?\u00a0 We hug and her nipples press against the inside of my heavy breasts.\u00a0 My desire for her is only muted by the strange sudden flood of emotions.\u00a0 She&#8217;s warm and soft and I want to lie with her for hours.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even care if we talk about scrunchies or clothes as long as we&#8217;re touching and talking.<\/p>\n<p>She stands as well and I notice Stephen has left the room.\u00a0 I hear him rummaging around for clothes and Elaine goes to join him.<\/p>\n<p>I stand alone and consider the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the scene. 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