It was after midnight and my ankles were starting to hurt from walking in those spike heels. So I sat down crossed my legs smoked a cigarette and fell...asleep.The phone was ringing and it woke me up. It was 9am. I was still dressed. I saw myself in the mirror as I answered the phone. It was a guy asking if I was Laura. I said I'm sorry you have the wrong number and hung up. I noticed I've been speaking like a female since I went to the salon yesterday. I never really had a masculine voice. Not much, she said I know you wouldn’t,” ho is that what you think” what makes you so sure, you just wouldn’t go through with some thing like that, by the way she was saying things it really sounded like she actually wanted to go for it. By the way she was right, I normally wouldn’t dream of going through with something like that, but every time I changed the subject she got back on to it, she got up to go to the toilet and I got the glasses and went to the bar, as I was been served I got. She knew, as well as I did now, that if I did anything slightly incorrect, I'd be out of the house and could even end up flat on my ass in a prison cell before I could blink twice.I steeled all my courage, and left Patty's room, walking down past Kristen's brother's room and stood facing Kristen's door.I knocked on the door, hoping that I didn't fuck up."Patty, I don't want to talk about it," Kristen's voice said. I could tell she was crying."It's not Patty. It's me... Jim. If you want me to. ComLan was the interstellar language of business. ‘This court will come to order!’ A bailiff in red Renaissance garb hollered from the center of the floor and thumped his partisan. His words were instantly translated into a dozen languages and issued from speakers placed around the wide hall. He stood upon the United Nations of Earth seal, a mosaic circle of colored tile forming the flags of every member nation around a four-pointed star, inlaid beneath the witness stand. Lillith Trevor, Lilli.