. fuckin’ ... bad.My being small is not a medical thing. I am not a dwarf or a midget, though my school nickname of choice (not my choice) has becom... ‘Midge’. Mom has asked Dr. Wombaugh, my pediatrician about it, and I am just, in the doctor’s words, “a late bloomer.” As I’ve said, life sucks.Maisie, on the other hand, is all normal. She is only a year older than me, but she has had boobies for a couple of years, literally years. And now she is all big head because this past year they have. "Why inthe world would you want to do something like that?" All my friends are doing it." If all your friends jumped from a cliff, would you jump too?"I was seriously tempted to tell her how I would have liked to havejoined the cliff diving one of my friends had done when she spent twoweeks of her summer vacation with her family in Hawaii, but I decidedsarcasm probably wasn't the best way to go at the moment. Instead Isaid, "But you did it."I knew it was a bit of a low blow, but we were already. She smiles. I really hate her when she smiles. She motions me to sit at the table. There doesn't seem to be any reason why I should not. I look at her steadily. I want her to be quite clear about how I feel. I want her to know how angry I am, at what she has done to me.As I sit to face her, I have my first really good look at my abductor. Its just her and me. There are no distractions from the bustle of a street in London or the terror and fatigue of the interrogation they put me through. She. She decided that she would set her alarm and get up earlySaturday morning, then go to one of her girlfriend?s houses and spend theweekend there. In fact, it would probably be better to leave Friday evening,maybe even Friday afternoon, right after school.She ate idly at her food as she considered the possibilitiesof what might happen if she stayed. It would lead, she was sure, to a weekendof lewd, filthy, perverted sexual depravity.She wasn?t sure if that wasn?t something worth staying.