So, when you followed me, I freaked out." Sam laughed and thensaid, "I really am sorry, Blossom."Madison (I think) pulled her dad's shirt and said, "...hat's transgender,Daddy?" I could see Sam struggling to find words a child could understand,so I said, "Madison, imagine you had been born a boy and had a penis andeverything. How would you feel about that?" Madison said, "Yuck!" andMorgan chimed in, "Double Yuck."I said, "Yes, but if you were born a boy, you might think like a boy. So,it. At first is was a minor distraction as the lines of boys in their school uniforms passed in the hall. Her furtive glimpses usually led to a reddening of his cheeks and a secret shame that she had done to them what she knew they all did to girls: undressed them in their imaginations.Shy glances led to gawking when some cute guy bent over or had to stand on a chair and stretch up to reach something. On occasion, Brenda's mouth actually dropped open and her heart raced. Looking and reacting was. Shari asked him if he wanted to get drunk. “What do you mean?”“My sister has an apartment on Fifth Street. She’s outof town; she said I could use her place. Whaddaya say?”Terry hesitated. Shari drove them to her sister’sapartment.Shari made them margueritas – he didn’t know what theywere – and they sat on the couch. Her eyes never lefthim as he sipped. “Weren’t you once in a fight, Terry?”“A fight?”“Back. Sat where you told ‘em to sit. Prob’ly peed in a bottle too, huh?”“Well, I didn’t ask, but...” Mac countered.“No sistahs in the crew? Or I guess they just paused the game and went, huh?” Chris asked. “Or hit restart when she had to go. You sure didn’t have no preggos in there. They have to go, like, every twenty minutes.”“No, we didn’t have any women testers. We were just working on the software.”“Listen,” Chris said. She doubted that this was even a beta test. More like a pre-alpha test. “Most.