He was handsome, but didn’t know it. He was clever, but didn’t know it. He was burning with desire, yet for what he wasn’t sure. He had heard of...the visits of the old ones, the wine that some still left out for them, but he wasn’t sure it really happened any more. This year, as the season came around, he decided to venture out into the forest to see for himself.As luck would have it, these two met not far into the woods.“Oh! My! I thought you were a deer!” the young man exclaimed when he caught. It was probably in the wording of Ian's remark, she knew, but thatdidn't help her shift her subconscious away from this mundane acceptanceof her situation.She was, simply put, a woman. She knew logically that she was meant tobe a man, that her name was meant to be Joel, and that she should feelfreaked out and terrified at being stuck in this body, but she was nolonger able to feel these things to be true.But eventually, fatigue got the best of her and she collapsed into herbed. At least, she. Every other staff in the department had left and the security also made two rounds inside to see if everyone had left to lock the doors. It was about 8pm in the evening and we were about to finish of our work that day. We were chatting with each other on general topics alongside our work cracking jokes and giggling at each other. As we were about to close down she suddenly told me “I wanted to ask you something for the last one month when you are alone but I never got an opportunity.” I did not. If Derrick was surprised by this sudden turn of events he sure hid it well. Maybe this happened to him all the time. I don’t know. I was a little shocked though. She meant right now! With that sexy hint of a smile again, Melanie took my hand and the three of us skirted the lobby, heading for the elevators. It was funny what was going through my mind as we rode up. I was thinking, not only was I going to add a new number to my bracelet, but a megaphone or a pair of pom-poms too! I was.