" So your superpower is to turn into a girl and back again?" Pete asked."And you can't even control when it happens? That kind of sucks." Yeah, but i... you haven't noticed, in the real world most superpowersare kind of sucky. Caz Lipton's an exception, and even he can't keephis force-field up long enough to battle a supervillain." There aren't any supervillains," Colin pointed out."Give it time," I said. "I expect you'll see some in a few years."We found out later -- it was hushed up at the. And then things changed."Hey, enough of this, let's play another game, okay?" Okay, what game" I said thinking he had another video game in mind but I was very wrong."Let's play doctor. I'll be the doctor and you'll be my patient, okay?"I didn't know how to play "doctor" but he soon taught me having me lie down on his bed while he ran his hands all over me "examining" me. He seemed to be bolder and more into it than I was and then things really began to happen. He unbuttoned my shorts and. I had held to the hope, no matter how irrational a hope it was, that her lover would somehow disappear, and I could make a second run at her. I'd have done different the second time around; I'd promised myself that. Well, it was time to cut myself loose from my irrational hopes. No better place to do that than my old haunt: The Lonely Hearts Bar and Grill. I was sitting there now, at the bar. I had a drink in front of me, but I wasn't really drinking. I was cruising. The bartender was a. Nausea threatened as vertigo struck. He fought back his gorge, his mind seeking a level plane in the swirl of alien thoughts that assailed him.With an abruptness that was in itself startling, something surrounded him, but there was no projected danger, rather a feeling of ... protection combined with an intense feeling of love. Darkness swirled to light, then dark, then light again. The vertigo mostly faded away. The alienness of the situation remained. He seemed to be inside the Ship, standing.