’ ‘What are you trying to say, I’m stupid are something.’ ‘No nothing like that but you have no idea what it is like to be me. For instance ... saw how your boyfriend acted when you introduced us. He couldn’t get away from me quick enough. He didn’t was to have anyone think that he was dating the ‘fat girl’, but that he was with the other.’ ‘Oh so that’s why you left so abruptly.’ ‘I thought that I had stayed long enough so I left.’ ‘Well I don’t care I think that you should come anyway, you. The Principal fouls out..."What's this I hear, you don't want to go out for the basketball team, Smokey?" I'm sorry Sir, but I can't take a chance on jamming up my fingers." You know, Smokey, we don't often get a guy with your height. That's why we'd really like it, if you'd come out for the team." I'm sorry, Mr. Burkett, I like to play basketball, but I don't want to run the risk of injuring my hands." Did you know I played basketball against your Uncle Clifford back when I was in High. Hold still."This last was entirely redundant. She had been almost a statue for nearly five minutes. I would be willing to place a sizable wager that she had never been topped before, at least not in her own studio, but she was playing her part like a seasoned professional. I was rather proud for her.Reflecting on this for a moment, I decided to test her. Rather than release one hand and pull the coat over the cuffs, I unlocked both. Once I had both hands free, I instructed her to "Step forward.. For a week, I could be someone else if I wanted. Someone who lived an exciting life. I didn't have to be Rachel, assistant lecturer in classics at a second-rate college, I could be a fun girl, a girl who partied, a girl who guys paid attention to. I might even get laid. God, it had been so long. It's not that I'm bad looking. On the contrary, I'm quite pretty, and I have a smoking body that I work on every day. It's just that I spend too much time worrying what people think about me; I miss.