I woke up groggy. The last thing I wanted to do was get up but I had to get ready for work. Riley lay half on top of me, her left arm wrapped around my chest. I smiled. I was lucky to have met her and to be inducted into a life I never knew could exist. A year ago I never even thought I could bring up the fact that I needed to be an amputee to friends or family but today I was through the thick of it, and thanks to my new friends, I felt happy!

I pulled back the covers and got...oh...right. I forgot about that one bit. I looked down at myself. My breasts fell to my side with Riley's arm over them. They aren't huge, but they filled a space where my arms would have been. Now they kind of just...hung there. I looked down at my shoulders and I could see the end of my collar bone. I always had great definition in my clavicle and the bump it made at the termination of my shoulder was...cute. I tested my new empty left shoulder. It shrugged. I could roll it--but I felt nothing past my shoulder blade and collar bone. My shoulder sat atop my rib cage and gave my upper body definition, but that was it.

I reached my legs from under the covers and used them hanging over the edge of the bed to pivot out from under Riley. I struggled but I finally got out and ended up in a squat on the floor after slithering out from beneath the covers. My balance was off but now it was at least symmetrical.

Waddling to the bathroom, I sat down to pee. Shit. I won't get into the details but five whole minutes later and almost a complete roll of wasted toilet paper later, I was finally cleaned up. I hope I never have to take a shit again for the rest of my life! I laughed at myself.

I looked at my naked body in the mirror. I was narrower than before. The musculature of my arms started at the very top and now they were removed. It made my head look a little bigger, and my breasts as I saw them hang outward, past my sides, adding more curves to my shape. My hips now looked bigger too. I was very much a pair shape now with a narrower upper body. ....I wonder what time it is...

Usually, I would pick up my phone first thing in the morning but today was different. I was so distracted by my armlessness that I completely forgot that I had a job! I hadn't found my phone back in my room where I usually plug it in. Oh, right. Riley and I got into each other the night before. I was surprised by many of the positions we could get ourselves into. One moment Riley laid on top of my hips massaging my breasts. Another she worshipped my sensitive empty shoulders. My favorite was being beneath her legless hips. Her stumps resting on my shoulders like soft pillows as I ate her out. I could tell exactly how close she was to orgasm by how much her leg stumps twitch. Shit, distracted again!

I looked around the room hurriedly for my phone. Where is it?? I kicked through dirty laundry and accidentally knocked over my lamp after my toe caught on to the cord. The crash finally woke Riley.

“Mmmm, Megan, what was that?”

“Oh, sorry, I uh, I can't find my phone and I didn't even know what time it is.”

“Mmm, ” she groaned tiredly, “did you check your pants?”

“Duh, I'm looking through my pants right now...” I was frustrated.

“You took your pants off in the kitchen, remember?”

I scoffed threw my arms in the air in frustration. Well, I tried to at least. The scoff was there but I didn't make much more of a shrug. Riley was looking at me and giggled, knowing what I was trying to do.

“You are so cute when you're frustrated, ” Riley mused.

“Not now, I'm probably late!” I ran into the kitchen and saw my pants lying in the middle of the floor. I felt with my toes for my phone and found a lump. The pants were inside out and the lump was tangled up with everything else. “Aaagh!” I leaned against the wall and slumped to the floor and cried out again in frustration.

“Hold on, I'll help you, ” I heard from the other room. I heard a thump as Riley managed to get out of bed. Thump. Thump. Thump. The sound was getting closer and Riley peeked around the corner right at eye level as I sat against the wall.

“Hey, cutie! Still frustrated?” Riley mused.

“Aaagh!” I pointed with my left toe at my pants. Riley hand-walked over to them and fished out my phone. She held it out for me to take.

“You've got to be kidding, right?” I said with an offended tone.

“Oh! Right!” Riley burst out laughing, “Sorry I completely forgot you don't have your arm anymore!” she almost fell backward from her belly laugh.

“Just tell me what time it is?”

“Oh, right. Let's see...9:30.”

“Shit!” I scrambled to get up and face-planted at least once. Finally regaining my balance I ran to my room and tried opening my dresser drawers unsuccessfully. “Help! I'm so late for work!” I can't get dressed on my own!”

Riley made her way into the room using one arm to walk. In her other hand, she carried my new robotic arm, “First we need to get you strapped in.”

Riley helped me get my arm in and helped me with my clothes. The new right arm wasn't bad but it wasn't the one I was used to using. Kind of like switching from being right-handed to left-handed writing. Thankfully the learning curve for arms this nice wasn't too bad.

The trip to work was hard but not impossible considering my current experience with one arm. On the bus to work, I fell into a daydream and began to feel up my newly armless shoulder like I had the first time around.

At work, I guess I didn't realize I never quite stopped when I heard...her... “Hey there, sweetie! Looks like you're having a good time!”

I was startled and almost fell from my chair! “Oh! Umm, sorry...?”

“Haha, you sweet thing no need to be sorry! But I swear the last time I saw you it was the other arm that was missing.” Mindy pondered quizzically. She seemed genuinely confused.

“Yeah..about that...it was my other arm last time.”

Mindy's eyes opened wide, “You little lynx! Is that a replacement arm? You're....” Cindy leaned in and whispered, “you're armless?”

Annoyed now, I leaned back in toward Cindy, “Yeah.”

You could see the gears turning in Mindy's head from a mile away, “What does your husband think of all this? Did he have you get your arms removed for (whispering) sex?”

Whispering back, “I'm not married and it's not for sex.” I leaned back out with what felt like newly found confidence, “I just like it! It feels right. You know?”

“I don't know--but I want to, ” now Cindy looked almost ashamed at what she said.

“Well well well! Cindy!” I was in shock that it seemed Cindy might also want something removed. That must be why she's been so talkative with me lately. “What do you..you know...want to do?”

“I'm not sure but I've always been into, you know, like bondage. But it's always just so bulky. I can't really have fun unless I'm all tied up so it might be nice to have something more permanent done.” Mindy looked shocked at what came out of her mouth.

“I absolutely know what you mean. When I had my first arm off I couldn't wait to have the other one off. My replacement arm couldn't have come soon enough.” I thought I'd stretch the truth of my own story just a bit to make Cindy more comfortable. In fact, I had lost my other arm during an alcoholic blackout and the fact that my new arm was delivered the next day was pure luck. So was Riley.

“Wow! Before we know it were gonna have to start calling you Limbless Megan!”

I blushed harder than ever. And I was confused by my reaction. Did I like that Mindy mentioned me being without limbs? I had only just had my second arm removed. How could I now be getting turned on by being completely legless too?!

“Oh honey, I am so sorry! I didn't mean anything by it.” Mindy reached out and patted my empty shoulder.

“No uh, it's okay. Here...” I got out a post-it and wrote down the number for my counselor who helped me get the approval to have my first arm removed, “call this number. She can help you work through things if you feel serious. I have to, uh, get back to work.”

“Of course, honey. And thank you! You might have just changed my life. We will see!” Mindy had already turned to walk away and yelled her last few words.

More confused than ever, I don't think I actually got anything done that day. I thought about the practicality of having replacement limbs for each arm and leg, and having the choice to shape shift into whatever kind of amputee I wanted to be. My face felt hot and my mind screamed YES! But my intellect was still not convinced. I wondered what Riley would say.

In going to need to give my counselor another call too.