I waved goodbye and dragged myself into myapartment and fell asleep as soon as I hit the bed.Chapter 36My mom let me sleep in the next day and then af...er that she took meschool shopping. It turned out to be more than just a school shoppingtrip; it was also a new wardrobe shopping trip as well. Apparently my dadhad said that a teen girl needed lots of options when it came to clothesand had given my mom a lot of money to get me setup. We spent all daySaturday shopping at a three different. "What's it like being Steve?" Not that bad actually. I'm lucky I'm not stuck in some weirdo's body. At least I'm someone I know" True", I added."So what do we do know?", Tommy asked us."Well I think that it would be to hard to live the lives of the bodies we now where. I mean Paul has no idea how to work, drive, and all that parent shit. How would he take care of the family? Especially when I'm now the daughter, Sam is a brother, and my father is the youngest daughter", I explained."You mean. Finally, their lease was up and we mutually decided they would move back in with us.From the very beginning, Monique seemed distant and cold towards me. I don't think she really trusted me especially when it was just the two of us in the house. Eventually she began to warm up and even allow me to give her a friendly fatherly hug. When they moved back in with us, she started getting friendlier."Pop," Jim was saying to me one night. "Monique and I were talking the other night and she told me she. ?Very good.? Marcia could hear a pen scratching on paper, so quiet had the room become. ?Mr. Lockwood, will you report her height.? Marcia opened her eyes slightly, peeking through to see the first boy stepping back and a new boy with dark hair come toward her. ?Stand up straight girl,? he said in what she could only think of as an order. She jumped a little and brought her feet together. ?Head up, look straight ahead.? She did as she was told, trying to ignore the chuckles from the boys at the.