"Rory... it's family time..."The voice coming through the speakers--the laughter that followed--my mother's laughter, was suddenly interrupted."I'm so...ry, Rory," Luke said quickly, stopping it as he looked over at me. "I didn't know..."I was shaking. And, I'd stood up at some point. Couldn't remember doing it. Or dropping my mom's diary. I looked down at it for a long moment, feeling like I'd just broken a family heirloom, and picked it up carefully as I slowly took my seat again."Rory?"I met. She whispered to me, "Jamie gave me some great presents last night."I said to Jamie, "What about Jennifer?" She's tonight," he said with a smug smile."You are going to spoil them and they won't want to have anything to do with me." Don't worry Jeff. I'll share."Angela hid her grin but not that well.Sunday we relaxed a bit and I got Carm to drive Madeline and I around the town. I showed her what the town was like and then drawings of what I wanted it to be."You own all that?" The bank and I do.". I feel drunk with pleasure and passion. The worries vanish—my entire mind is gone—all that is there is you and your incredible kisses. The elevator doors open and you guide me to the room, leaning me on the wall as you open the door. I start to get my bearings back as you swing the door open. We walk into the room and you lock the door. We stand looking in each other’s eyes and you cross over to pick me up in your arms and carry me over to the bed. As we lay next to each other, my heart is. I really was an HR Manager now and I knew thatthe intricacies of the female condition would not be a mystery to meeither. Feminine hygiene; hair; make-up; the ongoing beauty routine:none of this held trepidation for me. It was all going to come asnaturally as being a manager was.I pushed back my chair and gripped my bare knees, lifting my lower legsso I could look down the length of them.Surely I wasn't considering really staying this way?I didn't want to be a woman. I didn't want to be....