"I'm afraid this is another lesson you need to learn as part of yourgender-swap week" Mrs Harris said sadly. "Being a girl isn't allsweetness and ligh.... Sooner or later you need to learn how to deal withunwanted advances. In your case it was "sooner" but maybe that is no badthing. You got away lightly and have learnt a valuable lesson. Now go tosleep my darling; I'm sure you will see everything will be inperspective in the morning." So saying she gave Bobbie a goodnight kissand quietly exited. Why don't you go get dressed and we'll go toss this around."May and Luis ran upstairs and got into their winter clothes and went outside with Kenny. While dad made their Christmas meal, the three boys tossed the ball around, then they had their meal and both of the younger boys crawled into bed, too tired to keep their eyes open.************It was the first day back to school from Christmas break and Michael was on the playground playing with his doll with some of his friends. He didn't even. Still, it pained him knowing that he wasn’t going to be able to go with her. It was a journey she’d have to make without him. Both of them hoped and prayed he’d be able to join her soon.In the meantime, he enjoyed watching her. He was trying to memorize every gesture, every nuance, every feature of her face.She slowly scanned the once loud and bustling saloon. At this time of the morning it was as quiet as a church on Monday. She knew that later there would be signs of life, however, it would. If you told your mother, she’s probably told a dozen people already...” I got punched again for that one! “ ... so you’d better figure on an official announcement sometime tomorrow or the next day.”“Uh, yeah, okay.”“Here’s your mother.” I handed the phone to Marilyn.She took the phone and told me, “You are a rat!” Then she spoke into the handset. “Molly? I just told your father he’s a rat!”They started running me down, and I simply waved over one of the stewards, who was grinning. He must have.