"What does he know?" Elliot asked intrigued at how she maintained theruse."He knows I'm transgender but I've always been his big sister. I wasalready...presenting as female when he was born. He's smart enough toknow not to talk about it." Poppy shrugged."What about the holidays, surely you can't bring him home?" Elliotpressed on."I'm an enterprising young woman. I visit him once a month and we stayovernight at a nice bed and breakfast near the school. During the bigholidays I take him away. "Feel like a race?" Mike grinned. She grinned back. "Name it."Being on the college volleyball team had really honed her physique over the past year. She was certain it would give her some kind of competitive edge in their everlasting sibling rivalry. She always loved putting her brother in his place, but it was only occasionally that she got to be the victor. Today, she was in an energetic mood. Confidence was flowing through her blood. Yes, she was up for any challenge."Let's see who can swim. I moved quickly, but not quickly enough to avoid the cushion that whacked me round the side of the head.‘You are impossible’ she said laughing. ‘I think you are a bad influence on me’ she said primly but the smile at the corner of her mouth gave the game away as I rolled on top of her and we kissed passionately.Later that evening I was talking on line with Susie who was still going out with Rob and enjoying a similar renaissance in their relationship.‘What are you doing for your birthday this. I dried myself off as best I could with the little golftowel that Jenny had also bought and then pulled on the MinnesotaUnited FC T-shirt. I had been planning to buy one for our friendNatalie, but now I guess I was getting on too. Jenny gave me a quickkiss on the cheek and whispered, "Better." We returned to the boothand did some more shopping.As we were walking away from the United area and heading over for theWild area, the two of us received a few boos on my new shirt. We bothgiggled a.