“Well, I’ve messed up your day now, so I better get going. Did you get any, other than what I saw you both getting?” Mr. Jackson laughed again.�...�We sure did, show him Will.”I held the stringer up and showed him the fish.“I caught the two Bass and three of the Crappie.” Jeannie bragged, and smiled at me.“You got a license, Jeannie?”“Uh No. Shit, Will, I forgot to get one at the store, Damn.” Jeannie was crying again.“Jeannie hush crying will you, just get your license when you get back.” He told. Auntie Bev and Auntie Jamie hadworked hard with our outfits and we had come nowhere in the heats. EvenNancy had come above Janice and me, and she had only had Delilah andsome other classmates to help each other. I was of course ignorant ofthe hidden agenda behind the pageant, the 'Naughty Sissy Auction'factor. For Juliet to have reached the finals was no small feat!The back stage area was just like the dressing rooms of the chorus linein a big variety show. All the finalists were in various. It was only a dance, and these were only small gestures, but to a man like me who’d harbored wife-sharing fantasies for most of his life, these small gestures were pored over and analyzed in microscopic detail.If I thought I’d been experiencing high and lows earlier in the evening, Sue’s text sent me onto a totally new plane. And just when my heart had just about returned to normal, I received another text. Only this time it wasn’t from Sue’s number. It was from Francis’ number and my hands. ”“What?” Liz exclaimed. “Isn’t that workplace discrimination?”“Well, it is, and it isn’t,” Sarah said. “We don’t have anti-discrimination laws for LGBTQ people here in this state.”“What about HR?”“They’ll probably just shrug and say they can’t do anything about it. My manager is fine, and he will tell people off, but HR doesn’t care, really. They just want to make sure no lawsuits happen, and guess what, I can’t file one here,” Sarah said bitterly.“Oh, sweetie, I’m so sorry,” Liz said.“It’s ok..