“We’ll see,” she said. “There’s just something. You know?”“Yeah. Don’t I know, though.”School rules get bent a little on Halloween. ... missed it last year, but it seemed like half the students wore some kind of costume. The only thing we couldn’t do was wear a mask. Makeup, however, was taken to extremes. Desi and her mom had measured everyone in our pod and since she and I were preparing cosplay for Fort Wayne PopCon, all the other girls got custom High School DxD school uniforms. Beca made the. I grabbed it and kept my head down, hurrying past the booth toward the back hoping she wouldn't spot and embarrass me in front of all her friends. But of course, that was wishful thinking. "Oh, Stephen! Sweetie, come here for a moment!" she called. Great I mouthed as I turned and walked over. "Stephen, these are some of the ladies from my new yoga class I've been taking. This is Linda, Cynthia, Melanie. Of course you know Soken, Mrs. Wethel, Staci's Mom." I said hello to each of them and. I admit that such an option had never crossed my mind before Louisa told it. So she was really a trailblazer in gender thinking. Having come to her surprising conclusion, the main difficulty that Louisa then faced was trying to prove it. By chance or possibly not, I came along and provided her with an opportunity to test her idea. The deep sense of well-being that she felt while wearing my clothes confirmed her suspicions that she could, in fact, be a boy in a girl’s body. It strengthened her. After all, this is modern times. We're all pretty liberated, more or less."OK."So, there I was on the following day, Thursday, outside the main post office, standing on the sidewalk in the rain dodging women with their umbrellas, half-convinced she wouldn't show.She did.No kid had a car there, so we all walked everywhere. Sometimes a bus, sometimes a taxi if it was late at night, but otherwise it was walk or forget it. In her case, it was at least a 30-minute walk from downtown to her house,.